“I know what I need to do. I’m just not doing it.”

Here is a fun fact. Almost everyone who hires my coaches and I know what they need to do.  They want to get in shape and they know what to do.  And yet, they are hiring us to help them.  It’s a little weird to hire someone to tell you what to do when you know what to do isn’t it?

“Whats” are easy.  “Why’s” and “How’s” are where good coaches shine.

If you want to get in shape, you roughly know what to do.  Eat better and move more. Read More

Big Messes Require Big Clean Ups, So Start Small.

We’ve all heard “you can’t expect to lose weight that took you a decade to put on in 21 days”.  Whether it’s excess weight, or some other mess we need to clean up, the same holds true.  Big messes require big clean ups, but small starts work fine.

I’ve had the opportunity to learn from having hundreds of conversations with prospective clients as we make a plan for them to lose weight, eat better, and find their strength.  I’ve never talked to anyone Read More

Want to Put a TON of Work in and Never Get Results?

Want to put a TON of work in the gym and NEVER get results?  Have you tried drinking?

I anticipate this being my least popular article ever lol!  Drinking undermines results.  I’m sorry.  This bourbon enthusiast wishes it weren’t true, but it is.  I am not here to nag.  You can still enjoy a nice drink sometimes while still moving towards your health and fitness goals but to do so requires that we not kid ourselves.

I am going to give you several ways that moderate drinking undermines Read More

Book Learnin’ for Young Marines (and the curious)

Book Learnin’ for Young Marines (and the curious)

(December 13th, 2016) Last Saturday the Marine Corps Recruiting Office in Dover was kind enough to come to the gym with over 35 young men and women who are interested in joining the Marine Corps.

When I have the opportunity I like to point potential future Marines in the direction of good sources of knowledge in their future endeavours.  It usually involves me flashing a book in front of them when they are completely exhausted and don’t even know where they are.  I promised the last group Read More

How is that New Year Resolution Holding Up?

How is your Resolution holding up?

It takes most only a matter of weeks for their New Year’s Resolutions to fall apart.  Its the time of year where people get pumped up about changing their lives, start, and inevitably end up back where they started.

Why does this happen every single year? My most successful clients don’t have this problem because they changed their mindset, and took a different approach.  .

To absolutely crush your new goals this year, you’ll need to understand why “Resolutions” don’t work the Read More

Lose Fat for Good!

It’s easy enough to lose a few pounds for a short period of time, only to gain it back. It’s much harder to achieve long-term fat loss.  This begs the question: how can you lose the fat for good?

The answer to this quandary is actually kind of simple: Don’t do things to lose weight that slow down your metabolism.

 

The Old Way

​The old way of doing things is to do a ton of cardio and to follow a starvation diet.  Go to the gym and treadmill / stair climber / elliptical / stationary bike yourself Read More

3 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself

3 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself

When making positive changes in our lives we all face a difficult balance.  At times we need to cut excuses and be honest with ourselves.  We also need to balance that with being kind to ourselves.  I think part of achieving that balance is with self honesty.  Honesty to see through what excuses you are clinging to as well as the honesty to know that you do not need to be perfect.  Every once in a while it is good to take a step back and ask yourself some questions.  Here are 3 that I hope Read More

5 Secrets of Fit Parents

5 Secrets of Fit Parents

Finding the time in your schedule and the money in your budget is easy when you are young and single.  Once you’ve started your family, you are lucky if you can find a second to breathe, much less sleep, cook some healthy food, or workout.  It is so easy to get sucked into a vicious cycle: you’re too exhausted to make healthy choices, and as you get more unhealthy, you get more exhausted.  It’s understandable and it’s not fun.

Fortunately, there are lots of fit parents who have figured Read More

The Road to Business Owner of the Year

On November 9th, 2018 I enjoyed the thrill of winning the Results Fitness Business Owner of the Year award! I want to share with you what that was and how we got there.

First, what is Results Fitness? The Results Fitness University Mastermind is an exclusive group of some of the best functional training gyms in the country and world. The group is run by Alwyn and Rachel Cosgrove who are the best known authors, speakers, business coaches, and gym owners in the industry. Attending their business Read More

Core Values

A gym with Values?  

Even when it existed as nothing more than ideas in a notebook, On Target Fitness has been a different kind of gym.  From concept to founding to its current existence, On Target Fitness has been a VALUES driven endeavor. In an industry fraught with sleazy marketing, pressure sales, and low standards of conduct, being driven by values makes us a little odd.  How we conduct ourselves, how we structure our services, our policies, who we hire, how we market Read More