Selling vs Teaching

One of the criticisms I've seen mentioned of personal trainers, online trainers or anything that might fall in between is the idea of "selling fish vs teaching someone how to fish". That's a cliche way of saying, telling someone what to do instead of teaching them how to do it themselves, so to speak. I personally don't think it's necessarily an either/or case however. While without clients I'd be out of business, the goal is still to hopefully impart some degree of knowledge into a client over time. Enough so that should they decide to, they can take over the reigns on their own, and continue to be successful in their fitness/physique endeavors. For some, the decision to go... read more 8 comments

Before & After Transformation

I linked to these before and after pictures of LBC client Sunny Daye in the most recent newsletter, but I thought I'd also post them on the blog. Sunny went on to win three classes at the Pacific USA Naturals Bodybuilding and Figure Championships, taking first in Figure Short, Figure Masters Short and Figure Masters Overall. read more 5 comments

2008 North Americans Recap

So, the 2008 IFBB North Americans have now come and gone. We just got home from Cleveland a short while ago and we actually made good time getting home in just over 4 hours. Many of you already know the results from the forum updates, but in short we had two girls in the top 5 in their first national shows. Lisa Peper ended up in 5th place in a good sized D Class and Jennie Hamilton came in at a solid 4th spot in a smaller, but very competitive F class. The overall goal for each was a Top 10 placing, so a final placing inside the Top 5 is icing on the cake. All in all... read more 5 comments

2008 North Americans Update - Jennie Hamilton

Just a quick update here from Cleveland, Ohio at the North Americans. The prejudging rounds - both one and two piece are over and we're just back chilling out in our room (myself, Laura, Jennie and Will). Prejudging went pretty well overall. Class C was Neely's class, which had a whopping 35 girls in it (this is still my beef with these shows - the huge difference between class sizes - ranging from 9 to 16-20 all the way up to 35. Anyway, Neely was pulled out in the 16 or so range - 4th callout. Class D has Lisa Peper. Lisa looked great, eclipsing last year's conditioning. In the 2-piece round (which oddly enough was before the 1-piece here)... read more 8 comments