Resources

I’m taking some lessons from my life and turning them into a series of fitness guides. This 10-page ebook kicks off the series my describing some of my own life experience with fitness and a few of the lessons I’ve learned.

What are the easiest concepts that get you the most bang for your buck when it comes to nutrition? I’ve broken it down into three simple lessons based on my own life’s experience.

This is a story from the early days of CrossFit, about one coach’s attempt to treat fitness as a martial art using a system called the, “Athletic Skill Levels.”  

This book is the first in a series of three focused on mental tools for fitness.  Remember, fitness is not just about the things you do with your body.  It’s also about the things that happen between your ears. 

Here are some more mental tools for your fitness journey: the 7 questions to set intentions.  These 7 storytelling questions will help you identify worthy goals and map out a path to reach them.

This third “mental tools” guide is based on something I learned from the OPEX Fitness Coaches Certification Program (CCP). I’m talking about the NEPA Framework, an acronym that stands for: Noticing, Explaining, Prescribing, Actioning.

I am a home gym guy, always have been. Years of experience have taught me more than a few things about home gyms. To start with, we’re gonna talk about the hardware: The physical, durable equipment that make up the basic essentials of a home gym.

Now I’m going to talk about the software. What do I mean by that? I mean you don’t just need physical assets like space and gear. To train effectively, you also need mental assets. These come from your own mind, from books, and from the expertise of a coach.

Here’s my guide to putting together your own DIY home gym.  DIY doesn’t have to mean you built everything from scratch, it also includes cobbling together items you found 2nd hand, inherited, or even bought completely new.  The home gym is your playground, so have fun with it and make it the way you like it. 

One of the easiest ways to understand what I do as a Coach is that I provide, “a balance of challenge and support”.  This free guide explains in detail how I use the tools of Lifestyle Coaching, Nutrition Coaching, and Exercise Coaching to help you reach your goals, while achieving a higher state of mental, physical, and spiritual fitness.

What is Coaching?  It’s a process, and it starts with information.  In Consultation, we ask important questions, and in Assessment we test and measure.  These first steps tell us what to do with your training program, and how to address nutrition and behaviors.  This free guide is the second installment in my “What is Coaching?” series that attempts to explain precisely what I do as a health & fitness Coach.  

This new free guide in my “What is Coaching?” series helps explain the process of Individual Design Coaching.  After learning about you and what your body is capable of, we go on to design and implement a program of exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle changes. It’s all about one client, one coach, one program. 

This is the fourth and final booklet in a series about Individual Design Coaching that I’ve called the “What is Coaching?” series. To best understand what coaching is, I think it’s just as important to understand what coaching isn’t.  

Saving the world one healthy lifestyle at a time. This phrase expresses the mission of Smart Fit & Clean, but to understand it properly, we’ll need to look at each component one at a time.  Does the world need saving?  And, if so, what can we do to save it?

There are a lot of big problems in the world.  In this free guide, I take on three of them: meaningless and dishonest living, minimal and insufficient movement, eating only for emotions and mouth pleasure.  It’s between-the-ears content for your mind, body, and soul to help you improve your whole lifestyle.

Are you being real about “fitness”?  Do you respect what you know, and acknowledge what you don’t?  Are you in touch with the things you love about fitness, and with your own goals and motivations?  Do you know if doing what you want to do is going to get you where you want to go?

In this free guide, I’m talking about one of the major problems in the world: people are moving minimally and insufficiently. I think we can do something about it. I think if we see a problem we can solve a problem. It’s just a matter of moral responsibility, reasoned strategy, self-discipline, and willpower. Read on to learn more.

We’ve got an eating problem. Humans, in general, are not eating the ways our ancestors did, or the ways that are optimal for our health and daily function.  So, what do we do about it? My solution is to teach people how to eat their own personalized diet. This is the principle of Personalized Nutrition.

I’m back with more to say on the topic of Personalized Nutrition.  This time I’m talking about Hydration, Food Quality, Meal Timing & Frequency, and Food Sensitivities. 

In the early 2000s, CrossFit.com proposed a definition of fitness. Hear what one of the first 100 CrossFit athletes has to say about it 20 years later.

In this free ebook, I describe my own changing definitions of fitness over the years and encourage you to develop a definition of your own. 

Fitness, in my definition, is being your best self, for yourself, for others, and for the future.  In pursuit of this ideal, I look at three integrated elements: Mental Fitness (Smart), Physical Fitness (Fit), and Spiritual Fitness (Clean). 

I define mental fitness as a state of positive mental health in which a wide array of intellectual skills are developed, and understanding is acquired. Looking for a smarter approach to fitness coaching?  Read this free guide to learn more. 

In my system, “Fit” is the realm of bodily health and physical fitness. This is pretty much what most people are talking about when they use the term “fitness”. This is what we endeavor to achieve by committing to exercise programs and nutrition plans.  

This isn’t just a novel concept, but one that reaches to your true core. Spiritual fitness is all about knowing who you are, why you do the things you do, and how you can live a more fulfilling and meaningful life.