Shawn Phillips | Start Strong Monday

Super-Compensation: How You’d Get Stronger if You Were a Muscle

Let’s say you are a muscle. Okay? Yes, a good looking muscle with a great smile and terrific personality, but a muscle nonetheless. Oh yes, and you’re also a muscle belonging to a strong, healthy person who trains you. First, you undergo intense stress as you are trained—with great focus and intensity. On a cellular [...]

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The Seasons Are Changing… Are You?

Football is here. There’s a crispness in the air. The kids are back in school. The leaves are turning, the apples are falling from the trees. I’m sure you’ve noticed. The seasons are changing. Summer is fading, fall near. How about you? Are you settling back into an old routine in life and fitness? Or [...]

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The Only Way to Lose Fat is To Be Thin (Too Many Fat-Loss Clowns)

I don’t know why I take this crap so personal. Why does it matter to me? So, some “Fat Loss Clown” (my favorite term for this sort of BS marketing practice) decides the only way to make himself significant, the only way to concoct a fresh pot of thick, sloppy, syrupy crap and deliver it in a video that makes reality TV look like high production value–and real. And it bothers me?

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