Collected Fitness Wisdom #3

Treadmills are a great way to stay in your comfort zone, but a BAD way to lose body fat.

~Brad Pilon


People will do almost anything to end pain or cure a disease after they have it, but they usually won't lift a finger to prevent it. Only when debilitating pain or illness strikes them down or threatens them does changing their unhealthy ways even appear on their radar.

~Tom Venuto


Compound exercises recruit more muscle, allow you to use bigger loads, and burn more calories than isolation exercises. That's why you want to build your program around them, and why your workouts should start with exercises like deadlifts or squats, the ones that produce the best results on a rep-by-rep basis.

~Alwyn Cosgrove


It is how you fit into your clothes and look in the mirror that counts. NO ONE wears a scale around the neck or a t-shirt with their weight on the back. It's just a number. Don't get hung up on it.

~Craig Ballantyne

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