Going from that left picture to the right isn’t that complicated. I have and will do it time and time again. I am one of the few trainers to admit that there is a difference between training men and women. Some may not like it, but the truth is that it is a real thing, [...]

*New Article up at Figure Athlete.com* I was in the grocery store the other day, and in the checkout line in front of me I noticed a guy reading an issue of Men’s Health while chewing on a Double-Stuffed Oreo he took from the box but hadn’t yet paid for. I found the irony of the visual quite excellent. I have a [...]

Q: Dear Leigh, I have been following some of your personal clients logs. Seems to me that you are anti- training, what is up with that? Do you even train people at all? (Signed Jerk in Arizona…okay maybe they didn’t sign it that) (edit: Oh and for the record they did sign it “being a jackass” and found [...]

I feel like I keep doing these important blog pieces during horrible weather. What’s up with that? Right now I am held up in a corner at my local Barnes and Noble because yet another tornado/bad storm has affected our area. This time I was actually a little wigged by it. It was a “Hail gave us a [...]

Seriously guys, those new Weight Watchers commercials are brilliant, aren’t they? I mean from a marketing perspective anyway. That soothing voice, the talk of having to read a long book, the women reading her short little weight watchers pamphlet with her 500 calories Starbucks muffin and 300 calories latte. Brilliance. The claim is that “Diets don’t work, Weight [...]

When I first spoke with Jamie Hale I was instantly at ease. It could have been his welcoming nature or perhaps it was that darn southern accent that made me feel right at home. Regardless I was excited to have some swapping of words on various subjects. We talked about perspective, skepticism, and the importance [...]