When it comes to needing dumbbells to work out you can either go and get a full set of dumbbells or get a set of adjustable dumbbells.  I have over the years of trying to get in shape purchased many pieces of workout gear such as a bench press, squat rack, set of dumbbells from 3 lbs. to 35 lbs. and...

You do it before and after each exercise routine, but do you know why you are warming up and cooling down? I mean it takes a little time and I see people blow off their warm up and cool downs all the time.  What are they risking or is it not a big deal? The Warm Up The main reason for warming up is to...

I have never been a big fan of running.  I think it comes from my being an athlete when I was young and every time you messed up or the team was being punished for not playing well we had to run for what felt like days. I also am the type of person who loves to lift weights.  I really enjoy getting in the...

As I go into my 8th week on Wake Island it has occurred to me that we are going through an experience that is a lot like Survivor the TV show and also some of the same characteristics as The Biggest Loser TV show. We have all been put on a small island with limited resources and have been asked to perform a...

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about how to help take you from the couch to fit in nice easy slow steady steps.  The reason for that was that it seemed that I had a lot of customers “overwhelmed” by all the  changes coming to them at once so I broke it down to help them make progress and stay on...

The dictionary describes momentum as: mo·men·tum/mōˈmentəm/ Noun: The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. The impetus gained by a moving object. The impetus gained by a moving object.  This means that as an object (You) starts to move...

So I get the message.  For a lot of you it is just too much change at one time for you to start working out six days a week and to also change all your nutrition habits at the same time.  You feel overwhelmed and you quit shortly after you started because it is just “too much to handle”.  I know...

I have always been a “glass half full” kind of guy and tried to find a way to make any situation work to my benefit even if it was a bad one.  Point in case is the situations that my family and I currently find ourselves in. I am deployed overseas for at least two months, my son has just gone off to...

Just because you’re logging hours on the treadmill and embarrassing Arnold in the weight room doesn’t mean you can put the cast of Jersey Shore to shame in the bar and not have consequences. One does not cancel the other. There are some major side effects, including packed-on fat, slower...

You hear people talk about it all the time, you are in your comfort zone but what does it really mean?  Your comfort zone is that place where we all live in the routine of our lives.  We like doing things that we are familiar with and that way there are no surprises or any chance of something “bad”...

I hear it all the time. I don’t have time to work out. My schedule is too packed to get in a workout. I’ll start working out when I get back home from travel. Once my kids stop playing sports I’ll have time to work out. My job makes it impossible for me to have the time. You get the idea as I’m...

Why are you working out? Why are you here on the GooBurner’s team page reading this? Why are you pushing play? Why are you studying P90X, Insanity, Pump, and watching YouTube videos to decide if you even WANT to push play? You can do all the research and planning you want, but if you haven’t asked...