I’m pretty sure I have heard every health and fitness goal in the book at some point or another. I love when someone comes in with their goals and as they get a better understanding of what we do at ANCHOR it switches to more of a performance goal. Performance goals are a ton of fun, which leads to more consistency and therefore will lead to improved body composition which is usually the top goal that is always listed. One of the top coaches in the industry, Bobby Maximus who

I began the 10,000 swing challenge on Friday, April 2nd after some talking back and forth with Coach Cali and what our training should look like after our powerlifting meet. Seems like anytime I open my mouth, Cali jumps and somehow I am in as well. The next thing I know, she tells me that she did 500 swings and so the challenge begins. I have until May 1st to get these 10,000 swings in. Last year, all of us coaches did this challenge. However, I failed it by 1 day! Yep, ONE

It is finally here! In ONE week...Coach Cali will be in Chicago for her StrongFirst Level 2 Certification and Brian Matlock (you will see him mainly at 6 AM class during the week) will be in Chicago for his StrongFirst Level 1 Certification. What does this all mean and what does it all entail? The StrongFirst Level 1 certification is a teaching certification that has a 30% FAILURE rate! (I hope Brian doesn’t read this any time soon :). But, I wouldn’t have given him the green

I am so glad I didn’t bail on my first powerlifting meet and leave Cali hanging! On the Monday before the meet, I had probably one of the worst training sessions in over 8 months. My “light” squat day felt heavy, I was exhausted, squats were horrible and half way through I knew I had to walk away for the day because I probably would have hurt myself. It was that bad. Then, I noticed that it was going to be beautiful on Saturday and I kept thinking to myself that I didn’t wa

We all have our favorite lifts in the gym (usually our strongest lift and what we are good at). But, if someone told you that you had to come to the gym and could only do 1 of these lifts/movements every day, what would you choose? Even though I am absolutely obsessed with the deadlift and it is my strongest lift (compared to a bench or squat), I would choose the Turkish get-up. It is an amazing movement that works on full body strength, shoulder stabilization, core stabiliza