Lift for muscle. Jump for bone density. Sprint for metabolic health. Things we hear a lot about these days. Things I’ve been emphasizing on this platform and in my work for over 4 decades. Doing those things is nothing new. It’s just the way we’ve been thinking about it lately which may have experienced a slight focus shift. Lifting weights,…
Exercise is Nourishment. Exercise should Nourish You. This is a concept we explore in today’s episode of The Lifetime Athlete Podcast. This podcast was brought to you by The Lifetime Athlete Coaching and Training Services. Our focus is helping you to achieve peak athletic performance in any sport or fitness pursuit…fine tune your body composition to get lean, healthy, shredded,…
Knowledge is power. But self-knowledge is ultimate power. Understanding how your preferences and tendencies affect your exercise choices is crazy good. Armed with this awareness, you’ll have more consistency and greater results in all your training endeavors. This podcast was brought to you by The Lifetime Athlete Coaching and Training Services. Our focus is helping you to achieve peak athletic…
Yesterday was WhipperSnapper Wednesday. That was the theme of the daily email (The T2 eBlast!) that goes out to our Training Tribe members. The message was Get. Younger. Today. That was no joke and the tips and motivation the members received related to the training we are doing this month. We are in the Strength Training Block and we’re working…
Discussing physical activity is something that I, and we, do all the time. There are myriad ways in which we can spin this topic. Today, I’m going to touch on just a few. First, I’ll review the definitions which I use at TLA. Then I will examine the way in which we frame our physical endeavors. And finally, I’ll mention…
Understanding muscle contractions is one of the keys to getting the most out of your exercises, training, and Lifetime Athlete Body. In this podcast episode, PK & I discuss the types of muscle contractions, ways you can leverage them in training, and even how you might prefer one over the others in a movement problem-solving strategy. Enjoy! This podcast was…
Getting the right amount of movement, or more specifically the proper mix of general daily activity and specific exercise — that research proves to support health and longevity — doesn’t have to be a mystery. In this episode, PK and I break down the movement requirements for creating an optimally healthy human beast. We provide a simple recipe that can…
I’m in the business of helping people to seek and achieve peak performance. I love training others and myself for the highest athletic outcomes. But a lot of my clients start their journey toward peak performance at a point where they just want or need to get healthy first. They have to learn to eat right, sleep well, and to…
Movement is important and we all need lots of it. What’s equally important to overall movement is how we perform that motion. Our technique and form matter so much! Movement should be a poetic, graceful art form…no matter what we are doing. Daily life activities, exercises, sports — all these things should be practiced as a skill and hopefully perfected…
It’s that time of year! Summer is just around the corner and maybe you have a wedding or a beach vacation coming up. In today’s episode, we share the secrets to looking great in your swimsuit, dress, or suit…and feeling awesome! PK & I go over how to use the Effortless Weight Loss System and specific body-sculpting exercises, along with…
The new Lifetime Body Program/ebook: AnimalFit, has just been released! These are exciting times, because now you can use the AnimalFit system to Unleash Your Inner Beast and Unlock Your Athletic Potential! AnimalFit is my 4th book to date and it’s not just the product of my 35 years of work and study in the field of human performance.…
Get ready to Unleash your Inner Beast with AnimalFit!
This episode is Part 1 of several in which we define and discuss common training terminology. Based on some great feedback from our audience (Thank You!), PK and I detail a number of key terms that can help you to make your training more effective and enjoyable. We look at different types of exercise such as aerobic and resistance training,…
In this exciting episode, PK and I answer some awesome listener questions. Marty from San Diego queries us about a number of approaches that can help mature athletes to succeed in performance while not compromising health or participation in other aspects of life. We get into the topics of workout parameters like frequency, duration, volume, and intensity and how they…
This episode looks at some Pearls of Wellness Wisdom as they relate to traveling. We all travel for business and pleasure, and it’s important to be able to not just survive, but to thrive while on the road (or in the air). PK and I discuss some simple strategies with eating, training, sleeping, and attitude that can help you to…
In this “People With Perspectives” (PWP) episode I take a deep dive on health, weight loss, nutrition, training, and LIFE with Project JACKED client Elliot Canfield. We discuss Elliot’s backstory and how he used TLB methods to lose 50 pounds (and keep it off), look and feel great, and inspire others! Elliot is a local businessperson, an avid mountain biker and skier,…
In today’s episode, PK and I tackle some frequently asked questions concerning the topics of movement, food, and sleep. Clients often ask things like “What is the best exercise I can do…how do training and eating fit together…and what can I do to make my bedroom more sleep-friendly?” We answer these questions and more as we share some simple secrets…
In this episode, PK and I take a dive into the 5 types of exercise that make up The Lifetime Body Training System: Aerobic, Mobility-Stability, Resistance, High Intensity Intervals, and Sprinting. To help create a better understanding of these methods of fitness and performance enhancement, we compare each form of exercise to a familiar and common cooking technique. In many…
Losing weight at the right pace so that you don’t lose muscle mass is very important for the health enthusiast.
In today’s episode, PK and I get into some great questions that commonly occur at TLB, and that were recently presented by a listener. We discuss the concepts of losing weight too rapidly, sparing muscle tissue, getting enough calories, understanding protein needs, and how much exercise is enough versus too much. All this, plus a little mojo on crushing it…
This episode really has a lot of power data in it. John just got back from the Ancestral Health Symposium and it was wonderful to see that the most recent science backs up what we do at The Lifetime Body. Making your body last a lifetime in this modern world has a lot to do with respecting your genes and their ancestral underpinnings.
