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A quick back story: I started running more distance type events and doing a LOT of outdoor activities after coming to Kinetx about a year and a half ago. In the time I have worked here I have run my first half marathon, climbed 2 mountains, started rock climbing….etc, etc, etc. My finance Misty loved the outdoor stuff, but never got the running. It’s wasn’t fun for her, and on top of that she had had a reconstructi

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One of the most important things to learn when strength training is that the only way to get stronger is to challenge yourself to do more, while not exceeding your limits. When increasing your weight and challenging your limits properly, you will gain more strength at a faster rate and accomplish your ultimate goal.
Here’s a couple of tips on how to increase your weights in order to keep the progress going and still maintain good form needed to protect joints:
1.) Find your capacity. Incr… Continue

I've written about my experience a few times on here as the Internal Challenge has gone on, but this is my official summery of my results and how it has affected me and those around me.

I originally started the this competition because I thought it would be a great way to learn more about the program that I make people do every week and see just how much of a change I could make in myself if I REALLY paid attention to my nutrition on a daily basis. I've always been a believer that I wouldn't ha… Continue

Well, if I was just to say that I learned a lot about the program and what I put clients through on a weekly basis that would be an injustice to the bigger journey I have taken over the last 8 weeks. So, I won’t just say that...I'll give you the good, the real good, and a bit of the "ugly" too!

1.) The Good: I started at kinetix at 195 lbs, in good shape relatively (I don't know that most people would say that I needed to change anything), but I knew that I wasn't where I wanted to be physicall… Continue

So, just as I've asked my group of Guinea Pigs (That's the name of my first team in case you were wondering) I've decided to give myself some long term goals to keep me motivated after the challenge is over.

I've realized that a lot of things that I have always said I wanted to do have slipped past me because I never made them happen, I never planned for them, and I never wrote them down. It's time to put some of my goals into writing so that I have to hold myself to them. Soooo, here we go!

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