We all have different goals when it comes to what we are trying to accomplish with our workouts. Some of us desire to run long distances. Some of us want to get as strong as possible. Some of us want to be well-rounded and generally fit for life, and some of us want to grow bigger stronger muscles. You might have to goal to get bigger muscles and not even know it. Many of our clients want to look more “toned”. Toned is code for having larger (not massive) muscles, that you can actually see because they’re visible under low body fat percentages.

If you want to make your muscles grow, your training needs to be biased in that direction and it needs to have a few key components and considerations which we will dive into today.

Have you every started down the path of a workout or project or good intention and the ‘work’ you are doing is tough so you do something to make it a little easier on yourself?  

Maybe you are doing curls and you swing the bar a little instead of struggling through the rep.

Maybe you have food ready to eat at home but you pick up something up that seems better instead.

I know I am guilty of these things. And then after some time I realize the ‘temporary relief’ I am experiencing while taking the easy way out is not helping me accomplish anything so I then begin to put in the real work.

I do the movement or task like it was intended, I get up earlier, I turn off the TV and pick up the book, I eat the food I’ve already prepared… all of the things I should have been doing the whole time. 

Even then, when I’m done, instead of being proud of myself and feeling awesome and accomplished, I’m disappointed in myself and regretful of the time I wasted.  

What I take away from times like these is that hard work is hard for a reason. 

You get something out of it. 

What is the common theme of the sentences below?

People who have money have saved more often than they’ve over spent.

People who are lean have eaten well more often than they’ve eaten bad.

People who have muscle mass have lifted weights more often than they haven’t.

If you guessed ‘consistency’ you are correct!

They’ve saved, eaten well and/or worked out with weights more often than they haven’t… consistently.

Don’t let one more day pass before you start being consistent on that thing that you’ve been waiting to start and trying to start and reaching for.

Start with us. Start today!

Everyone has their own reason for wanting to get in shape. It could be after a major life event, in anticipation of a special occasion, or sometimes people come to us for help because they are just plain fed up with what they see in the mirror.

The motivation is often rooted in an unhappiness with themselves and what they’ve allowed their physical body to become. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to improve your health so that you are happier with the way that you look. It’s not the answer to fulfillment in life, but it is a noble effort.

The main reason that we want to take people on a journey that results in them changing their physical body is because their lives could potentially count on it.

Being overweight or obese is a life threatening condition.

Our bodies were not made to carry excessive levels of body fat. Buckle your seatbelts because here come some shocking statistics.

According to the CDC (Center for Disease Controls), 72% of adults over 20 years old are overweight. Read that again.

We have news.  Big, exciting, scary news.  We are all in.

How many diamond push-ups can you do in 1:00?

Six weeks into the new ‘YOU’ and your summer vacay hits. You’ve been hitting your workouts consistently, eating well consistently and not giving into the sweet temptations that you used to.

Don’t let a vacation destroy you and cause you to return further behind then when you left.

INSTEAD… vacation like a pro by having a blast all the while using self control along the way.

Think about this…

YOU! A Digital Barbell Client.

What is it like to work with Digital Barbell?

Are you tired of feeling tired? Are you tired of not having the energy to play with your kids or clean out the pantry or walk the dog? Have you had enough of feeling this way?

So much of not feeling like your body is operating at 100% has to do with our nutrition. And not only what we eat but how we eat. Good nutrition starts with energy balance.

Let’s take away all of the excuses.

Let’s not blame our genetics, our schedule, the weather, our gym (or lack of) schedule, the food we have on hand, the food we ‘like’ to eat, the food our friends are eating, eating for comfort, eating socially, not liking to eat the same meal twice in a row, not wanting to count our calories, not wanting to understand how many calories are in a donut, not wanting to stop drinking cokes, not wanting to remove sugar from our coffee....

Instead let’s change our mindset.

Let’s make more good choices more often than bad ones.

Let’s erase the negative self-talk and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to do.

Let’s decide right now that our body and our life matters enough to understand good nutrition.