Start Your January Goals In September It’s late September. The kids are back in school. Summer travel is done. And your Instagram feed is aggressively suggesting a 30-day fall bootcamp, a 6-week transformation program, or a total lifestyle overhaul to “make up for” a season of drift. Don’t. Every fall, the fitness industry sells you the same story: summer was chaos, now you must atone with maximum intensity for as many weeks as possible. It’s the same guilt cycle that shows up in January, in...

Should You Run The Chicago Marathon? Why I Don’t Recommend the Chicago Marathon to Most of My Clients (And What I’d Do Instead) Every fall I get the same question from 3–5 different clients: “Should I train for the Chicago Marathon?” I love that they ask. It means they trust me to give them the honest answer instead of the answer they think they’re supposed to hear. And the honest answer, for most of them, is no. Not because marathons are bad. Marathons are extraordinary if running is...

How to Keep Training When You’re Traveling for Weeks Weekend travel is easy to plan for. You do one bodyweight workout on Saturday, you’re back Monday, no harm done. Weeks on the road is a different problem entirely. If you’re a consultant flying Monday to Thursday, an executive on a 3-week roadshow, a founder living out of hotels for a stretch, or in the middle of a project that has you in a different city every week — the “just do a hotel workout” advice doesn’t scale. What worked for a...