Welcome & Happy New Year To KSBJ Listeners!

Welcome to those of you who listened to my fitness tips on the KSBJ evening show with Jen Driskill. Bookmark this page as I will be posting a more detailed article with the tips I shared on the air on Monday January 5th. I will also be sharing tips on how to build momentum in the new year, what to do when you start getting a little lazy and how to get started on a running program. Check back in on Tuesday January 6th for more info here. Thanks for stopping by and I also invite you to check out my free fitness and nutrition tips at my other fitness websites, http://www.merlinofitness.com/ and http://www.inflightrunning.com/. Happy New Year!

With Fitness & Life...Time Can Be On Your Side

Been thinking a lot about time lately. Maybe because it seems like I have less of it every week to do things that I really want to do and accomplish goals much quicker. Maybe because I want to free more up to spend with wife and my 21 month old son Max. Maybe because lack of time is the biggest reason I get from fitness clients and the runners I coach on why they are not reaching their fitness goals. Goals I know they are capable of triumphing over.

Like the many friends, family, fitness clients and runners around me I seem to hear the lack of time excuse way to much and I seem to use it way too much myself. God gives each of us 24 X 7 or 168 hours a week and what we do with it and how we manage it everyday has a lot to do with the quality we can squeeze out of life and where we end up years down the road.

So I am challenging myself and I would challenge you to minimize the "lack of time excuse" especially when it comes to exercise. Kind of a lame excuse nowadays anyway. After all, who doesn't lack time?. We are all on an even playing field in this area. Cell phones, palm pilots, The Internet and all of this new technology available at our finger tips and we still can't seem to free up more time. Generally I see many people over committing to their exercise plan and instead of trying to just keep getting on base many are eager to try to knock the ball out of the park every time.

This week outlaw the "I don't have time" excuse when it comes to exercise and other things in your life that are important to you but you don't spend enough time doing. Spend this week mapping out your fitness like you do your job and your clients and the rest of your life. Put it down on paper and execute it. Don't over commit yourself to time robbing events or things that you don't get much out of and make sure you fit your exercise in. I have found that you come out way ahead on this deal because your brain and body seems to work much better when you do and you feel much better about yourself after you knock down each workout. When your week is over reflect on what worked and what you need to fine-tune and then reset for the next week. A few weeks of that and you will be surprised where it can take you.

Time can be on your side if you let it.

"If You Build It...Will Will Come"?

Thanks for visiting my new blog. Two of my favorite loves in life, beyond my wife Christina (Hi Honey!) and my new son Max, are fitness and a strong Starbuck's latte. Some recent research has proven that caffeine in moderate doses may improve brain health and reduce your risk of Alzheimer's. I just love studies that allow me to justify spending 5 bucks for my daily Latte. Unfortunately, Starbuck's does not allow trade deals or I would be trading fitness training for Lattes resulting in very fit Bistros at the Houston, West Gray/Shepard drive location.

When caffeinated I can actually collect my thoughts and write pretty descent so my caffeine addiction is also a bonus to you my reader. As long as I have enough cash to keep my Starbuck's card loaded this blog may actually work. Not to mention, I am not at the mercy of an editor who miss quotes me or makes my material look worse than it is.

I am hoping this will be a place where I can share fresh, realistic and practical advice to visitors to help get in shape and stay in shape from a fitness trainer's perspective. I have tried adding message boards to my website, feedback forms and other ways to answer web site visitor questions but they were all too tough to manage. So I am hoping this Blog will allow me to easily share information and write about fitness topics that interest you the most.

Please join this Blog and stay tuned. If you have any fitness, running or nutrition comments or questions please post them to this blog so I have some material to respond to.