24 years. It took me 24 years to give a squat a try. I mean a real try. I was told as a freshman in high school that I couldn’t squat. Thanks for nothin,’ Coach. I couldn’t be more pissed, to be honest. Due to tight hips, back, and ankles I was unable to maintain [...]

The 2013 Whole Life Challenge was a raging success for our community. With the challenge wrapped up this past Saturday, we’re all back to our regularly schedules lives. One could argue, however, that these next few days are more critical than any inside of the last 8 weeks. As a fitness school, Functional Fitness on [...]

Rather than view the intricacies of health and fitness as if they are reserved only for the PhDs and subject matter experts of the world, let’s see if I can convince you with logic that you’re more of a master at this stuff than you think. Let’s start with a very basic idea. Technically, it’s [...]

As most of you know, we as a community are going to be participating in The Whole Life Challenge. I am not sure where you stand with this as far as your participation, but I would like to tell you my story in case you don’t already know. It was last year when my life [...]

The nature of this beast is that incredible results take a substantial amount of due diligence. Almost universally, one could argue that every person wants something better for themselves to some degree. Along those lines, we can assume that such betterment could very well include fitness, aesthetic, and/or health improvement. Surely, very few people would [...]

I was talking to a friend the other day and he was telling me about an interesting study he came across. The  study is based on a test called “Teste de Sentar e Levantar,” or The Sit and Stand Test, and the European Society of Cardiology released the studies findings just this past month. “The test [...]

Just yesterday I was reminded of how easily we become observers in our own lives. “Oh, would you look at that? I got the flu…” We watch things happen to us and we react to them. Now, I don’t want you to expect me to explain to you how to live free of the flu [...]

Sure, this place is fun. It’s personable, loose, and light hearted. Under all of that, however, we couldn’t be more serious. This is our passion. You and this community are our greatest concern. It’s what we fall asleep thinking about and waking up thinking about. Keeping that in mind, there’s nothing I’ve shared with you [...]

I have noticed a lot of parallels between lifting weights and the experiences of life. Weights are always heavy and life doesn’t always care what you think. I have seen very accomplished people be beaten into the ground by light weights and simple movements, and I have seen people that don’t seem as accomplished move [...]

Macro and micro points of view are critical in their own right. Being able to toggle from macro and micro points of view is, by nature, known as scope. Scope then gives us perspective. I’d like to argue that our passion and lifestyle influence, though powerful, can give us blinders.   An engineer who’s fully [...]