Industry-wide, we complain that certification organizations are out-dated, take all our money and don’t give us anything back of value in return.   Plus, we struggle to earn a living and have one of the highest attrition rates of any profession anywhere in the world.   You are confusing the heck out of me!   [...] read more

I’ll just come straight out with it.   I wrecked my car last weekend.   Something I likely won’t forget anytime soon.   I was driving from Chicago to Minnesota in order to present at a seminar in St. Paul.   Scheduled to speak at 10:40 in the morning on Sunday, I opted to leave [...] read more

The IYCA International Summit DVD’s are almost ready.   I’m about 4 or 5 days away from being able to let you get your hands on what has been called "one of the greatest fitness events ever."   And that’s why I’m able now to show you this short video.   25 year industry vet [...] read more

Leadership is something that gets spoken about quite a bit in the fitness and sport training world.   But what is a leader?   What are leadership qualities?   I found it interesting when thinking about the tone and content of this article to realize that we often completely misunderstand the word as well as [...] read more

"It felt more like a family gathering than a conference"   Carlos Alvarez, one of the tremendous speakers from my Summit two weekends ago in Louisville, wrote that on his blog just three days after the Summit concluded.   And he’s right.   Nick, Pat, Sara and myself go out of our way to create [...] read more