Cain Trains LLC

Pack your plate with food, get full and lose weight at the same time. And it's delicious! 🍴🌟👌

My family is eating big tonight. Steamed rice, asian salad mix from Kroger w/added baby greens, leftover homemade japanese curry w/cabbage and carrots and a tofu scramble w/broccoli, baby greens, onion and garlic.

Small tweaks to diet can make a BIG IMPACT on health and performance.

The idea of measuring something is fundamental to reaching certain types of goals in life. The phrase "What gets measured gets managed" is often misattributed to the management theorist Peter Drucker. However true it is for business management, this concept is true when designing and adjusting a program for my clients.

Fitness is kind of like finances. If we don't bother to look at how much we are spending and earning, we likely won't be able to effectively save for retirement or retire early. The same thing applies to following a diet or exercise routine. This is why I recommend that if the goal is to gain or lose weight, you need to measure your calories and macronutrients at a minimum. If the goal is to get stronger in a certain exercise we need to measure how much weight we can lift on that exercise and use information about our progress over a given time. We have to measure empirical, physical realities like mass and velocity just as much as we have to measure conceptual realities like fatigue. Fatigue, both general and specific, is an incredibly important aspect of any exercise or diet program. So I will be communicating with you regularly and asking questions during sessions to determine how to best adapt your program to fit your needs.

This is the "Strategy" component of the Cain Trains slogan "Strength Meets Strategy". I am dedicated to analyzing what you want to achieve and developing a program that fits you. This is done by listening to you and believing you when you tell me what your goal is without judgement. From K-pop dancing to bodybuilding to looking good for the summer months, I am here to take the guess work out of getting however fit you want to be. Please contact me if you want to start measuring your way to success.

One of the best feelings as a personal trainer!

I make the program, the diet recommendations and the adjustments as we learn more about your physiology and goals.

You make everyone do a double take and ask how you did it. 🏋️‍♀️💪🔥😊👍

I often encounter clients that struggle with weight loss because they don't eat enough. I know it sounds crazy but check out my most recent blogpost on my website. I created the basket analogy driving home a couple days ago, not a perfect analogy but hopefully it helps some of you with your weight loss goals.

Maximize Your Basket: Why You Should Enjoy All Your Daily Calories Imagine you have only one chance each day to gather food for yourself and your family. You walk to an orchard with a basket and have exactly five minutes to fill it with as much fruit as you can carry. Would you fill your basket with just a few pieces, or would you take as much as possible to nouris...

Lunch went off today!

Some studies show 80% of New Year's resolutions fail by mid-February! Not for my client Dee! She is down another pound from this check-in, so 195 now.

We're also resolving hip pain that's been present for months. Now pain-free!

When you have a system of accountability, progression and diet strategies that work, you get what YOU want.

This is what I offer at Cain Trains LLC.

Sweet potatoes are a blessing to us all. Containing antioxidants, carotenoids, anthocyanins and minerals, these tubers can provide a modest amount of calories for an incredible diversity of health promoting compounds. So next time you're considering which carbohydrate source to buy at the store, look to the humble sweet potato. 🍠🍠🍠🤤🤤🤤

Roast em, season em, enjoy em!

Eat your calories everyone! Only YOU can prevent catabolism! Not me, not Hermione, YOU!

Being able to auto-regulate a program based on feedback from your body is an important part of progressing through a training block. I noticed that my 'A' leg day was causing my hamstrings to be sore for 4-5 days but my quads were already recovered. So I made my 'B' leg day a quad and side delts workout since the side delts recover VERY quickly. Little tweaks like this can allow you to get the most bang for your buck while also allowing for proper recovery. 💪🏋️‍♂️🔥👍

Also, giant sets are insanely fun and they burn like crazy!!!