overcome o·ver·come [oh-ver-kuhm] Show IPA verb, o·ver·came, o·ver·come, o·ver·com·ing. verb (used with object) 1. to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy. 2. to prevail over (opposition, a debility, temptations, etc.); surmount: to overcome one's weaknesses. 3. to overpower or overwhelm in body...
Last week I was on a plane home from a seminar in London I was thinking about how good my back was feeling after all the traveling I had been doing recently. Long story short, I hurt my back over 10 years ago training, and ever...
I have had to take a big step back in my life over the last week, and it has been one of the hardest things I have ever done. If you know me, then you know that I LOVE fitness and I LOVE helping people. It's...
I love music. Music makes me happy. Music makes me productive. Sitting on the plane home from London for 7 hours, I did 2 things: wrote articles & programs and listened to music. It made me happy and it made my work so much better. Music just makes everything...
"Took quite a fall, didn't we, Master Bruce?" "And why do we fall, Bruce?" "So we can learn to pick ourselves up." The last few months have been some of the most demanding on me physically and mentally. It seems that it's one stress, after another, after another. I...
It's a funny story that I haven't talked about all that much. I am not a big fan of the past, I am a much bigger fan of the future. Who we were is not who we ARE or who we CAN be, so I think about...
It has been an amazing week. I'm working on something BIG for Heavyweights Training Center (which I will announce formally this week). Along with that, our 'Rippedin42' members in their first week are over 400 lbs LIGHTER in just SEVEN days. Last but not least, my blog that...
I am not big into having letters and numbers after my name. Back in 1997 when I started out as a Personal Trainer at the YMCA. (My parents lived across the street, that was my dream job then...
At my gym Heavyweights Training Center, one of our mottos that we train and live by is "Raise The Bar". What this essentially means is to always raise your standards, always try to do better, and always demand more of yourself and your team. During the last...
Tonight one of my clients asked me to do up a document or another meal plan for their group (The Iron Butterfly's; some crazy-fit girls). It got me thinking that everyone is looking for the newest, hottest thing with nutrition and I honestly find nutrition to be...