I love throwing in conditioning circuits into my programs.  You get the effect of metabolic resistance training  using primarily body weight, and because of the short rest periods (incomplete recovery), your body burns a ton of calories. Cool. But unfortunately, people just sporadically throw in mountain climbers, jumping jacks and burpees at random will.  Don’t get me wrong, that’s great, but you can burn more calories if you structure your program better. Let’s break it down: You want to use the 3 big tools for fat loss.  You will want to incorporate strength training, conditioning and using finishers or intervals. But you don’t just put them in a blender and hope for the best.  This is how I structure my workouts as well as my clients when I use conditioning Continue reading…

I think I made a mistake.  Honestly, I think this could be a series of workouts to either bust a plateau or definitely jump start a fat loss program.  But I’m lazy and I don’t feel like changing the title. If you need to catch up.  Here you go… => Plateau Busting Workout 1 => Plateau Busting Workout 2 Alright, today is more good times.  Let’s do this… 1A) Deadlift (8) 1B) 1-Arm DB Chest Press (6 per side) Rest 1 minute and repeat 2 more times 2A) Chest Supported DB Row (10) 2B) Close-Grip Pushups (1 short of failure) 2C) DB or KB Swings (15) Rest 1 minute and repeat 2 more times Arms Superset (for K and G – that stands for kicks and giggles) 3A) DB or Continue reading…

I just took a client through one of the new Bravheart 2.0 bodyweight programs last week.  I can’t wait for you to try it, too.  You’ll have to let me know what you thought of the “Conditioning Chaos Circuit”. And if that wasn’t enough, I also threw in a finisher after the conditioning circuit.  The last workout of the program has the “Up By Tens” workout finisher.  It’s a progression type of finisher… it’s short, but it gets tougher as you move along.  Good times. And don’t worry, I even added the original Braveheart program if you never saw that one.  I certainly don’t want you to miss out on the bodyweight epic battle. You’ll be challenged, and possibly transformed into a bodyweight sadistic something something (I couldn’t come up Continue reading…

Pull ups are brilliant for fat burning. Did you check out the workout that our mutual pal, Mikey and I did?  It was chalk full of  ‘awesome sauce’ as Mike would say, although I think the ‘awesome sauce’ sort of turned Mike’s stomach by the end of the finisher. By the way, I love Mike’s Workout Finishers. Clearly they’ve done wonders to help him drop over 100 lbs. I’m sure you’re enjoying the same benefits of his workout finishers. I love them for my own workouts and inflict them on my clients regularly in my fitness boot camps. Adding pull ups to your workout finisher will really increase intensity and torch fat. All fine and good. But what if you can’t do a pull up on your own steam? Is Continue reading…

A really nice couple came into the gym last week and was asking me about gym membership prices.  They were both wanting to lose weight and they had a look of “it’s time”.  I’ve been doing this now for years, and that particular look never gets old.  It actually excites me. They proceeded to look at my before and after photos on my business card and started asking me questions.  But their mindset wasn’t right.  How do I know?  The first few questions that were asked were about supplements, especially “fat-burners”. This is where it bums me out.  Because honestly, when it comes to losing fat, accepting that it’s going to take hard work and perseverance is one of the biggest pieces to the puzzle of losing weight permanently.  Some Continue reading…

While in Vegas, I got to hang out with some very cool people, including  John Romaniello.   We got to discuss workout finishers, intermittent fasting and even hormonal training to help with those trouble  spots (like the love handles). I had it filmed (before we were told NOT to film there… whatever). On top of that, I filmed some finishers for you with Liz Dialto, Shawna Kaminski and even Romanz  himself.  I actually dropped some weight just watching Roman and Shawna going back and forth between pushups and jump roping.  Good times. I’ll be posting the finishers soon, including the one where Shawna whoops my butt in pull-ups.  I felt defeated.  We did a countdown of goblet squats and pull-ups (well, she did – I did a countdown of goblet squats Continue reading…