Rare Breed Strength and Nutrition, 4830 W Chandler Blvd, Chandler, AZ (2026)

09/17/2021

Do the basics consistently, don’t complicate s**t.

Choose your base exercises for where you’d like to improve.

Progress them either in reps, sets, or weight weekly or bi-weekly.

Repeat.

02/25/2021

One of the first questions I ask my clients who have been tracking calories or macros and aren’t seeing results is: Are you measuring and tracking your foods? If so, are you weighing and tracking them before cooking or afterward? If you’re weighing and measuring after cooking, it is very likely that you are overeating by 500 calories or more per day than what you think you are.

In general, people are pretty bad at estimating how much food they are eating. So my advice is that If you don't already have a food scale - buy a food scale! Start using it and measure the foods you eat before cooking. Trying to eyeball your portion sizes before knowing what an actual portion size looks like is a lot like target shooting when you don’t know where the target is, what it looks like, and you’re shooting at it in pitch black darkness.

With that being said, one of the biggest concerns I hear when giving this advice is “I don’t want to be doing this forever.” Well, you wont, so quit your fussing. This advice doesn’t mean that you need to weigh everything you eat from now until you die. However, a food scale is an invaluable tool - especially when you’re actively trying to transform your body. I’m a huge advocate for using one until you get a solid grasp of portion sizes, especially if your goal is to cut body fat or you’re ending a cut and are returning to maintenance calories.

If you’re interested in learning how to track your intake accurately or you’re stuck in your fitness goals and need help troubleshooting then leave a comment or send a DM!

02/23/2021

Your “all or nothing” mindset is robbing you of your progress.

If you lost your wallet would you set your entire savings and retirement on fire? No. Right? So stop doing the same kind of things when your diet doesn’t go as you had planned. If you ate a couple of pizza slices you shouldn’t have, do not take this as a green light to eat your face off the rest of the day or week.

Allowing yourself to move forward in an unregulated fashion is flat out self sabotage. To avoid getting in your own way you need to make a decision about what you want right NOW vs. what you really want for your future self. After all, we are the product of the habits we most consistently perform, not one-off occasions.

The most successful clients I have worked with over the years are those who have avoided this all-or-nothing mindset trap.

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02/09/2021

Stepping out of your comfort zone is never easy. Your mind will actively fight doing so in self preservation. It will try to convince you the time isn’t right or that you need to plan more and the stars need to align perfectly for you to begin and be successful.

The truth is that there will always be a reason the timing or plans won’t be perfect. The only way to move forward is to act.

If you want to improve yourself then get comfortable with taking imperfect action. Try, fail, learn, adapt, and try again. Rinse, wash, repeat.

Having a general plan of attack and getting after it will build one hundred times more momentum and progress than letting your mind hold you hostage with the idea of a perfect time or plan.

If you’re stuck and need help in gaining some direction to act, that’s what a coach is for. With over a decade of experience successfully training both myself and hundreds of clients, I can help guide and focus the action you take, making it both more meaningful and time effective.

Don’t be a hostage to your fears, take imperfect action toward your goals, and start moving forward today.

02/03/2021

If you are tired of being average or feeling helpless and you REALLY want to change, it is time to hold yourself to a higher standard.

You have to make the choice to either be in control and accountable for your decisions or asleep at the wheel letting life happen to you wondering “why me?”

Instead of allowing yourself to go through the motions and making decisions based off how good your day is going - you need to learn how to check your emotions and make deliberate decisions with your long term outcome in mind.

This process is what puts you in control of your final outcomes: building discipline and allowing you to be consistent even when you don’t feel like it.

When you begin flexing your new awareness, life will no longer “happen” to you. Instead, you will exert YOURSELF against life, becoming more resilient and empowered.

You can stop feeling helpless.

Have you had trouble with making the same promises to yourself and not following through? If so what are they and why do you think you have been falling short?

02/01/2021

I can do these types of exercises because of my strength and coordination, however these are not the exercises I used in order to develop that strength and coordination.

When we see those who inspire us to improve our fitness doing complicated workouts and exercises on the Gram, it can give the wrong impression that this is how you should train all the time. People are led to believe that selecting from a buffet of different circus tricks, max effort exercises and training that focuses on very different things every single session, that they can one day look like their inspiration or be able to do the same things they do.

In most cases I can guarantee you that if you want to do what they do, they are not doing these workouts and exercises every day. Their training is most likely focused on the basics for 90+ % of time.

With a very high likelihood these people are doing some form of squatting, hinging, pressing, pulling and carrying + isolation work. They go to the gym and do the same or similar movements over and over again, putting down a new layer of blocks to their foundation with every session building on to the next one.

They’re focusing more on increasing the weight, reps, form and coordination of a handful of the same exercises and movement patterns rather than trying to make every single workout new and interesting.

If you’re thinking that you should be “confusing” your muscles to get results (not a thing) or going as heavy as you can every training session, then it’s making you leave some results on the table. It’s robbing you of the feeling of increased energy and has a higher chance of injuring you than making you stronger, building muscle and burning fat.

Don’t let yourself get caught in the trap spinning your wheels like this, if you’ve been feeling stuck reach out to me to schedule a free 15 minute strategy call so we can identify what’s holding you back.

I don’t think anyone reads this far down but if you’ve made it then I’d like to know, have you ever followed a consistent program? What was it? Did you see results?

01/31/2021

‘Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.’

“Invictus” - William Earnest Henley

Most people beat themselves before they even start cause they’ve already let the voice inside their head (or worse, an outside voice) tell them they can’t. They don’t know how to shut that voice down so they listen and allow themselves to be victim of circumstance rather than taking the wheel.

What needs to be understood is that your mind, body, and spirit are a reflection of your cumulative thoughts, habits, rituals, actions and reactions that have added up over days, months, weeks, years whether they are consciously executed or not.

So my question to you is this, are you living deliberately and with intention or are you letting life happen to you?

01/26/2021

Rhonda and I met about six months ago and I’m grateful to be a part of her fitness journey.

In the time we have worked with each other, both her muscular strength and cardiovascular strength have increased dramatically.

She is always prepared to work and because of that she is reaping the benefits; it’s even allowed her to pick back up on her tennis game!

I’m happy to have met Rhonda and I’m glad to have earned her trust in guiding her to furthering her fitness aspirations. She’s come a long way already but I’m excited to continue to watch her progress in her strength and fitness goals.

If you’ve been stuck in the same place with your fitness goals and are tired and frustrated with constantly spinning your wheels, let me help you break free. I can help you build a plan that will produce consistent results while giving you more energy and confidence along the way.

01/18/2021

One opportunity

We all only get one opportunity to live our best life.

When we don’t grow, love, take care of ourselves, and live to our potential, we are wasting this amazing opportunity we’ve been granted.

Comfort, fear, and scarcity rob us of what’s possible unless we consciously choose otherwise.

I bring this up today because what humans on their deathbed know is that REGRET is the most damaging thing.

So, look at your life today. If you had only moments left to live, is there anything you’d regret? Did you have true fulfillment in your life?

If the answer would be no, it’s time to change.

If that “no” has anything to do with your health and body, I’d love to know more.

Please reply, and let me know what is coming up for you either way!

To Your Success

01/04/2021

I get a lot of questions about intermittent fasting compared to other weight loss strategies so today’s post is related to that.

So to kick it off:

Do you hate eating breakfast? Skip it. Now you’re intermittent fasting.

Are you dieting and prefer to eat larger meals?

Intermittent fasting will probably help you adhere to your plan since it will allow you to consume larger portions when you do eat and feel fuller.

Do you hate feeling full, get light headed, cranky, or ravenously hungry and overeat if you don’t eat for extended periods of time?

Intermittent fasting may not be the best for you and eating at regular intervals will most likely suit you better.

At the end of the day what it all comes down to is it doesn’t matter what kind of diet you follow: keto, IF, paleo, mixed, vegan, carnivore, zone, cannibal or any combination of these.

It comes down to what you can most easily stick with for a long period of time. It’s what works best for YOUR preferences, YOUR schedule and YOUR goals.

None of these strategies are magical or better than the other. They all work if you do and they all work by the same premise which is calorie deficit=lose and calorie surplus=gain.

Depending on your specific goals some of these may be more OPTIMAL for you but that’s a conversation for another day.

Have you tried intermittent fasting? What diets have you tried in the past? Were you successful? Did you keep the weight off?

Let me know in the comments section or send a DM!

12/30/2020

KILLER ON THE LOOSE!

Seriously though, this woman is one of the sweetest people I know.

Laura has been training with me for a little under three and a half years and every session she brings it.

A little about her story, guys.

When we first met she had just given birth to her third child about two months earlier.

We spoke about her exercise history as well as how she’d dieted in the past but the plans she followed were always too restrictive and weren’t maintainable for her lifestyle.

She had been successful with weight loss in the past - just not keeping it off.

Sound familiar?

It’s a life story I hear all too often, especially with my female clients.

In spite of all of this, she was 100% committed to beginning an exercise and meal plan.

She was ready to do WHATEVER IT TOOK.

I explained to her that there would be a learning curve at first, but if she invested the time NOW that she wouldn’t get stuck in the trap of losing and gaining the same 10 pounds over and over again.

She trusted me and the advice I was giving to her and we began the process.

After a three month period and staying consistent she was down over 20lbs!

She did this while taking care of a new born baby girl, two boys (who at the time were both under ten years old), and organizing a household. Not only that, she is heavily involved at the school her children attend.

Honestly I’m not sure how she does it.

What I do know is every day Laura comes in, she leaves it out on the table.

The intensity and focus she brings is on another level and it’s a joy to work with her.

I’m not only proud of the progress she’s made, I’m also proud that since then she has maintained that original weight loss and has also lost another 12 pounds.

She has accomplished all of this while being able to live a pretty robust social life.

Ladies! If this sounds like something you’re interested in drop a 👊🏻 in the comments section.

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