What Shoes Should I Buy?
In my last 12 years of gym ownership, and last 21 years of coaching health and fitness, I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked this question. I’ve written about this several times in the past (https://coachingforglory.com/shoes-shoes-shoes/ – I apologize for the lack of photos, they got lost when our website was […]
CFG Monthly Newsletter, Vol. 3
Welcome to Volume 3 of our Monthly Newsletter! If you missed our last one, I encourage you to go back and check it out here! Happy Happy Birthday! Our October babies at CFG are: Alejandro Mansilla Angelina Sancevererino Brady Gaffney Alex Farrell Cooper Gaffney Krystal Fowler Fabian Serville (If we missed your birthday, please know […]
How to Be Your Own Nutrition Coach, Part 4
Today we’re going to wrap up our series on ‘How to Be Your Own Nutrition Coach’ by breaking down how you’d make decisions for the design of your own program. Before we dive into the details, it’s important that you’ve read the prior posts as they provide the necessary foundation for our recommendations that follow. […]
CFG Monthly Newsletter, Vol. 2
Welcome to Volume 2 of our Monthly Newsletter! If you missed our inaugural one, I encourage you to go back and check it out here! We talked about the reason behind its inception, introduced a few topics like what shows we’re watching and how to get music added to our playlist…an always popular topic of […]
How to Be Your Own Nutrition Coach, Part 3
Up to this point, we’ve done a few noteworthy things: in Part 1 of this series, we defined nutrition, it’s function, and gave folks a beacon to strive for. Part 2 of this series was all about assessment, because without a clear understanding of where you’re starting, there’s no way to know what step to take next. Today we’ll […]
How to Be Your Own Nutrition Coach, Part 2
In the opening post of this series, I made a bold claim that my intention behind this blog series was to move toward the vision I have for the health and fitness industry: a world where health and fitness professionals are no longer necessary. In that post, I started by defining nutrition, it’s function, and […]
How to Be Your Own Nutrition Coach, Part 1
I know some folks will think I’ve fallen off my rocker in teaching people how to be their own nutrition coach, but this is really in service of my vision for the world: a place where health and fitness professionals are no longer necessary. This means that it is my duty, my mission, to teach […]
Learning and Using New Skills
I was talking with a client last week during a training session, and they mentioned that they’d really like to be able to do double-unders more consistently. Perhaps that is a goal of yours. Or perhaps it’s something else like pull-ups, or running one mile without stopping, or doing five really good push-ups. For the […]
Expand Your Time Horizon
When I sit down to write a new blog, I do it with pen and paper first. Then I have to type it out before it makes its way to your field of vision. Productivity and efficiency experts would likely tell me how much time I’d save if I cut out that first step. And […]
CFG Monthly Newsletter, Vol. 1
Hello out there and Welcome to the very first issue of the CFG Monthly Newsletter! Before we get into the fun, I thought I’d quickly explain how this came to be: This past weekend, we held a staff meeting at the gym. The highlight of the whole thing (for me anyways) was an exercise our […]
