"1 rep max" @ 150kg or 330 lbs. Does anyone else think Ben has some more in the tank? Today I want to give you a glimpse into the journey that Remote Coaching Client Ben has been on for the past six months. Ben is a Chiropractor and family man in his late 20’s and became a Remote Coaching Client in June 2018. Before we started together Ben had been Crossfitting for a few years. He already had impressive strength numbers but had hit a strength plateau for the past couple years

To be honest, I have grown a little wary of changing locations every two or three weeks for the past five months while working almost normal hours (Kuta, Ubud, Canggu, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei). First world problems I know ;) I am blessed to be able to do what I do. However, my mindset coming to Australia has been to be a bit of a hedonist and enjoy my time here the way I like to. No collecting experiences. That can become an obsession too. With that in mind I dec

Right off the bat I am going to be honest with you. This post is as much a cathartic exercise for myself, as it is meant to be informative. Bits and pieces of this have tried to creep into almost every blog post I sit down to write, so I need to dump it and move on. Take it or leave it. My experience with over-training is a large part of why I became a coach. Experiencing first hand what over-training does to a body has a great impact on the kind of coach I am today, and why

I learned this one the hard way. When I first got into lifting weights at the age of seventeen, I wanted to get strong and I wanted to get big. Sound familiar? So, this lead to me lifting 5 sets of 5 reps for about 5 years. It is what dudes in magazines did so it must work. I got kind of strong and kind of big, but also spent about three of those years lifting the same weights. It wasn’t until after I learned about strength training through my education with Opex Fitness that

Introduction It is flu season, but hopefully it is over by the time you read this. Recently I had a couple of clients become quite sick, and had to miss training. They were both worried about losing progress, and one even had a competition coming up the next weekend. She was so worried she’d lose all her strength and get embarrassed at the competition. She even ignored me telling her to rest, and snuck to the gym to train one evening despite having a fever. I couldn’t really