Boost Health

It has been almost exactly one year since I put my foam rollers in the corner of my home gym to collect dust.  In March of 2017 I listened to an episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast and Jacob Schoen, of SHIFT Sport and Wellness, was a guest.  They discussed […]

I will admit I get excited about lots of “P words”. Processes, procedures, protocols, project management, and productivity are all wonderful! I like spreadsheets, organization, order, and systems.  I like things I can control and improve with knowledge and practice.  I get a little restless when things are out of […]

Defining the Wellness Dimensions Finding wellness balance is something I talk about a lot here at Boost Health.  It is certainly somewhat intangible and most definitely very individualistic.  Since it is so individualistic you can’t really put hard numbers in areas of wellness for folks to achieve, but we can […]

Food Journaling Keeping a food journal is one of the simplest, yet most powerful, methods of gaining insight to your overall health.  If done properly, it can uncover nutrition habits that may be negatively affecting your health, or possibly point to a particular food or tactic that is working in […]

Maybe Just A Little Passionate Those who have taken my fitness classes, done personal training with me, or attended some of my wellness presentations, are already aware how passionate I am about proper warm up.  The passion comes from my desire to rid society of the incorrect assumption that static […]

I Did Not Hear You Sometimes I don’t listen to my body.  Sometimes I push through pain that I shouldn’t push through to get that last rep done in the weight room or finish that last mile on a run.  Sometimes I finish a big workout and don’t save time […]

Split or Full? Is full body strength training or split muscle group strength training better?  This is a question as old as time, or at least as old as body building.  If strength training is a new concept for you than these 2 different training methodologies are probably pretty foreign, […]

            Fear of the Unknown “I feel like I have a basketball in my stomach”, I said to my friend Tanner as we jogged down the road.  We were on the second run of a bike, run, bike, run, double brick session.  It was the […]

The Game I was sitting at a table in a meeting room with four other work colleagues and we were tearing our hair out trying to solve a problem.  It was not a job related issue though and we were not working as a team.  Instead, we were individually trying […]