Coach Ken Wall

There’s an old saying in sports that says, “Offense sells tickets but defense wins championships.” I know.... I sound like your grandfather watching a football game. It's pretty old school but it's totally true. Nobody enjoys watching a football game  that ends in a baseball score buuttttt  if your defense can't stop the other team, they have no chance of winning I see this in fitness all the time. The latest, greatest, coolest fitness gizmo, workout program, fad diet, or new fitness franchise in town will all sell a lot of "tickets". They’re exciting.  They’re sexy.  They scream fast results and "the thing" they've been missing all their life. It's easy to understand why people flock to these programs in droves. But do they help them win?  Will they keep you safe? Will they keep you from getting hurt? Will they make you feel better? Will they make it easy to stick with it? Or will you be so sore that the mere ...

One of the best things about being a fitness coach is the conversations you get to have with people. If you start having enough of them, you start to see some pretty consistent patterns and a few you are even forced to recognize in yourself. Whether the goal is committing to a fitness program, eating a little better, or even chasing a dream, it's staggering the number of people who will rattle off a bunch of great benefits to their life by making a change but will end the sentence with but. Then automatically, they will proceed to tell me all the reasons it isn't possible. Time, money, knowledge, etc. There's a reason for that famous motivational Speaker, Les Brown, likes to say we are wired to be negative with our thoughts on things we'd like to do. Isn't human nature kind of mean? The interesting thing is that if you ask those same people why something is possible, they, completely on their own, come up with solutions for the barriers they first mentioned...