There is only one place to lead from

When I began planning Garage Gym I didn't where to begin. One thing that I was clear about from the beginning was that I had to set an example for all my clients. I've always disliked personal trainers and if you want to piss me off call me a personal trainer. The reason why I don't like most personal trainers is that they seldom walk the talk. In other words, I've seen these guys and gals making their clients do exercises that they themselves could not or would not do. I've been in the fitness game for a very long time and this is a common occurrence.

Everyday I plan the days workout and every day I perform the same workout that my clients do. I will never ask a client to do something that I can't do, it just goes against my grain. I also require that any trainer that works in my gym do the same. If they can't follow the standard that I set, then they can't be a trainer at Garage Gym plain and simple. I personally follow and highly recommend a high protein, high fat, low carb diet. It works for me and the clients that follow the diet seem to be the one's that improve the most.

Here again I set an example for my clients. I can't recommend for someone to stay away from carbs and then I'm chowing away on carbs when no one can see me. Again, I can't do that it's not who I am. On labor day I opened the gym for 2 hours and to my surprise 34 clients showed up and went through a particularly nasty circuit. One client was watching me go through the circuit and said "Wow I thought that you doing the same thing we do was a myth". My only choice at that time was to smile and say some kind of sarcastic remark to my client which is one of my trade marks. There will always be a doubting Thomas and I offer this to any member that would like to join me for a workout.

Everyday at around 1pm I close the gym and I workout. Most of the time I'm joined by one of the guys that runs a group at the gym. Sometimes I workout alone. If any member of Garage Gym would like to workout with me your more than welcomed to do so. All you have to do is show-up at the designated time and lets get to work. Mark Twight the owner of Gym Jones and the lead trainer for the cast and stunt crew of the movie 300, told me that at their gym there's a policy. "If you wrote the workout you have to ride it".

Since I write the workouts I ride them everyday just like you and yes they kick my ass as well. Hard work, suffering, and a good dose of sweat equity can't be avoided by no body at Garage Gym including yours truly there is no other choice.

That's all I have to say about that...
see you at the gym.