Frequently Asked Questions

Here's a little exercise to determine that for yourself:

1. Add up all the hours you need PER WEEK for sleep, work, and your family.

2. Subtract this number from 168 (the total number of hours in a week). What's left is your free time.

3. Do you have more than 10 hours? Either way the maximum amount of time you'll spend with this program is 4 hours/week. Most clients tell me its normally under 3.

I designed this program for busy adults. I use gymnastic rings and jump rope only because these can be used from home and eliminate travel time to the gym. 

Through a private app, I send clients workouts built from home exercises with video links they can watch. Everything is at their own pace. 

Clients may leave at any time for whatever reason. (I really hope they wouldn't but I will not force anyone to stay in the program)

All I ask for is:

1. $200 donation to a charity of YOUR choice
2. 3 -4 sessions of 30-40 minute workouts per week
3. Relatively sticking to calorie and protein recommendations
4. A killer testimonial at the end of 4 months if you think I deserved it

There's 3 pieces of equipment you need: rings, jump rope, and a place to hang the rings. I take care of the rings and jump rope. I just need you to find a place to hang the rings.

You can try multiple places:

• Monkey bars
• Garage rafters
• Stairs
• Trees
• Soccer goal post
• Basketball hoop
• Balcony Bars

Most of my clients (and I) use a mounted pull up bar that extends from the wall. It's the least hassle and works well.

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Guess what the strongest predictor of all-cause mortality is. Stop guessing—it's grip strength. 

Research has shown that resistance training (exercise that works the muscles) reduces the risk of injury, enhances joint health, preserves muscle mass and strength, improves physical performance, enhances brain function, and so much more to improve the long-term quality of your life.

Training in this way might be the reason you're able to move comfortably in your old age. The reason you can play sports with family well into your years. Maybe even the reason you're able to hold on to your thinking capabilities. Exercise is, in many ways, medicine.

1. Volunteering - I'm hoping to support people in need by asking clients to donate $200 to charity to work with me. I have the capacity to train people but not the resources to donate so this is my way of giving back.

2. On-the-Job Learning - While I know what works based on myself and one client, I would love to get more experience and find every problem people face with their fitness so I can make my program effortless and streamlined.

3. Killer Testimonials - I'm hoping that after I change people's beliefs of what's possible with their health and fitness that they would leave a great testimonial for my service.

One of my favorite questions. Scroll down to the next section. I've made an entire video to explain the intricate angles and movements that have allowed me to exercise my entire body using gymnastic rings. This process is the meat of the program and is mainly for building strength, muscle, and power.

For the final touches on explosiveness and endurance, I also include jump rope sets from time to time.

Natural & Holistic Training - Rings engage your entire body, not just one muscle. Their instability forces full-body activation, building functional strength and coordination—just as nature intended.

0 Travel Time - Hang rings up somewhere in your home or nearby place, and you can load your muscles with the same intensity weights do at the gym, except without the weights and without the gym.

Build An Athletic Physique - With bodyweight exercise, you build raw strength without getting bulky. You learn to move your body quickly, powerfully, and with stability. Your body is a side effect.

I have a couple answers to this:

1. Think about what actually matters: It's not the amount of fat you have. It's the proportion of that fat to your lean muscle. If you build more muscle, the proportion of fat goes down. Physically, your fat is distributed across a larger area.

2. Simply cutting fat leaves you skinny-fat which is not the same as the athletic physique you're thinking of. You need to build a lean muscular frame anyway.

3. Muscle requires energy to maintain itself. This means more muscle means you burn more calories 24/7. Over time, your body will take energy from your fat cells and you will cut fat.

4. Diet matters more. If you do 2 hours of cardio but eat more because you're hungry, you're either in the same spot or worse than before. The amount of calories you consume determines everything. By just decreasing the amount of calories you eat, you lose weight.

5. It is much easier on your body, mind, and schedule to build muscle than to lose fat. Building muscle only requires a couple sets and then you're out as opposed to hours of cardio, beating up you're body, and forcing yourself to push through. It's not sustainable in my opinion.

5 ways:

1. Change the angle. Most clients start by doing ring push ups at angle where most of the weight is placed on their feet by lifting the rings high up. However, as they progress, I have them lower the rings and lift their feet to put more and more weight on their arms.

2. Switch variations. Once clients have mastered the basic ring push up, they start working on an archer pushup which puts most of the weight on one arm. Again, the exercise gets much more intense.

3. Controlling the descent. When archer push ups get easy, I have clients take multiple seconds to lower their body to the rings. This keeps the load on the muscles for longer.

4. Explosion. The more explosive an exercise is, the more intense it is on the muscles. If controlled archer push ups get easy, I instruct clients to push up as fast as they possibly can for each repetition.

5. Bodyweight. On top of everything else, this program is built upon bodyweight exercise. If clients build muscle, they increase their bodyweight, which in turn makes every exercise more difficult. A more difficult exercise leads to building more strength and muscle. It's a never ending cycle.

Currently, I measure body fat using the picture below. However, I'm working on switching to the navy measuring method soon.