by Bryan Krahn | Nov 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
A popular analogy is to see your body’s ability to recover as a bank account. In other words, recovery is finite, so every stressor you’re subjected to (both exercise and lifestyle) is like writing a check — you only have so much cash before...
by Bryan Krahn | Nov 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Wanna know the secret to effective program design? It’s always fitting the program to the person, not the other way around. Sure there are best practices (and best arm training programs; disagree with that and I’ll fight you after school) but for the most part, a...
by Bryan Krahn | Oct 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve worn my share of hats in the fitness industry. But if I had to distill what I do down to a clean & succinct elevator pitch it would be “I help people reach their physique goals.” Yet that’s not entirely accurate. What I really do is help solve...
by Bryan Krahn | Oct 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Nobody wants to maintain. Everyone has a goal, and it’s always to “get somewhere” — get leaner, get bigger, drop a dress size, hit a new PR. If anything, periods of maintaining are seen as down time, even negative time, the empty gap between...
by Bryan Krahn | Oct 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Learning the calorie counts of your favorite foods and tracking them is a highly effective fat loss tool. However, for sustainable, life-long success you need to learn to differentiate between what’s true hunger and what’s merely cravings, boredom, habit,...
by Bryan Krahn | Sep 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
A high school friend who chose a more conventional career (finance) loves to take good-natured jabs at what I do for living. “Dude, writing training programs? You might as well say you work in the toy department.” In a way, he’s right. I love writing training plans –...
