The year was 2002, big things were happening. We were safely past Y2K, Kelly Clarkson had won the first season of American Idol, Ben Affleck was the sexiest man alive, and the Spider-Man movie was a box office hit. During all of this a boy was lifting his first pair…
Are you trying to lose weight but it just seems like you are getting nowhere? This is a common, frustrating feeling for anyone that has started on their weight loss journey. Weight loss can often feel like a puzzle. You have all the pieces and you know what the end…
If you have never wrapped your five fingers around an inch thick length of rope and grabbed ahold of it like you would the horns of destiny, then you have never held a pair of battle ropes in your two palms. If you now find yourself looking at your two open…
There is this thought that weight loss automatically results in increased happiness and self-confidence. Well, sorry to be the rainy cloud on your sunny day, but this is not always the case. Gather around kids and let Papa Josh tell you a story about his journey of weight loss,…
I must first start off by saying this post was a collaborated writing. By my friend Stacie and myself. Ok, I have a client who just ran her longest distance ever in a race, who added 15 lbs to her sled push, so she’s now shoving 215 down the turf and who keeps…
You ever think about why you do something? The reason why I ask this question is because if you don’t know why, then why are you doing it. If you know why you are doing something then there is value in the thing you are doing. As you can guess,…
The past two weekends I have been away at conferences. There was the Elite Training Workshop at Cressey Performance and the NSCA Maine State Conference at the University of New England. Oh, and I was also an invited speaker for the UNE research symposium. Let me just dust my shoulders…
