If you want to get started training with gymnastic rings, you’ve come to the right place! We teach many of our coaching clients how to incorporate gymnastic rings into their workout, and today we’ll share with you the same lessons! Have your Nerd Fitness Coach help you get started with gymnastic rings! Learn more here: Here’s what we’ll cover so you can get started training with gymnastic rings: The tutorials ahead are from our premium course Nerd Fitness: Rings, which I would encourage you to check out if you like what you see. It includes even MORE instruction, a skill-tree leveli ..read more

So you want to start working out, but you don’t want to leave the house? No problem!  In our coaching program we help lots of people who don’t have gym memberships: No gym? No problem! Let our coaches build a home routine for you: Let’s go over the 7 Best At-Home Workouts so you can start training today: no gym or equipment required! At Home Warm-ups and stretching routines No matter which at-home workout you pick, I want you to start with one important thing: Warm up! I cover why you should always warm up in an article found right here. It doesn’t have to be much though, give it ..read more

So you want to gain weight fast (and safely)?  You’ve come to the right place, because this is what we do! This guide covers the exact weight gain strategies I’ve used to go from my “before” (on the left above) to reach my “after” (on the right above). It’s also exactly how we help our online coaching clients: nutritional guidance and workout plans that line up with their goals. We’ll help clients gain weight quickly and safely. Learn more: Oh, and if you sign up in any of the yellow email boxes throughout, you can download our “gain weight and build muscle” shopping list and cheat ..read more

Things have gotten super busy at work, and I do not anticipate they will be slowing down anytime soon. Our Chief of Staff (my friend Lisa) accepted a position on campus as a Vice President for real (which is SUPER great for her) earlier this summer. Sadly, for me, this means she won’t be coming back to our office. I am taking this personally and selfishly. I am still down a second person and I have been so busy that I forgot to eat lunch and dinner the other day! It is CODE RED DANGER over here. Anyway, all of this is to say that I don’t like half-assing things, and I am barely making a ..read more

1. I am loving the Noble Blood podcast, but why is there so much time between the episodes!! I need MORE. 2. I am always surprised by how many people do not understand why this funding model is fundamentally flawed, but the rich white people get richer and everyone else gets screwed. Our public education system is one of the greatest bastions of white supremacy and oppression in this country. 3. “How to Make Restaurant-Style Chiles Rellenos at Home.” YES, PLEASE. 4. “To Cheat and Lie in L.A.: How the College-Admissions Scandal Ensnared the Richest Families in Southern California.” I am ..read more

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pre ..read more

One of my student assistants asked me yesterday what people “my age” did before Google. I explained the concept of encyclopedias and she was shocked. She looked at me and said with skepticism, “You mean that you had an entire set of books that you had to keep just to look stuff up? Weren’t they out of date the minute you bought them? Didn’t that take FOREVER??” I cannot get over that there are college kids who never lived a day of their lives without access to the internet. I probably spent most of my childhood trying to look shit up in the Encyclopedia. How DOES a starfish even get around ..read more

A gym without a medicine ball is like a basketball court with no hoops, yet often they get overlooked. Medicine balls are wondrously simple tools for improving your functional fitness. While there are plenty of medicine ball exercises to choose from, I’ve gathered my favorite 10 that can be peppered into your current routine to spice things up. You can even do them all together to complete one medicine ball-inspired workout! 1. Bicycle Kicks There isn’t a single muscle grouping that isn’t involved in this masterpiece of a movement, although make no mistake… your abdominals are the highlight ..read more

Earlier this month, the world lost an incredible woman, Ms. Sadie Roberts-Joseph. Sadie Roberts-Joseph was a beloved activist and founder of the Baton Rouge African-American Museum. She was born in Woodville, MS as the fifth of 12 children. Her parents were sharecroppers, and the children divided their time between school and helping in the fields. Ms. Roberts-Joseph worked for several decades as a certified respiratory therapy technician at the Earl K. Long Medical Center. Her sister shared that she was always a historian at heart and found ways to turn any family gatherings and holidays i ..read more

1. I am a HUGE fan of OB/GYN Dr. Jen Gunter and her efforts to debunk pseudoscience scams aimed at women. As many of you have correctly noted before, there is a reason women buy into the wellness movement due to a lack of understanding and attention from the medical community. I totally get the appeal, but it infuriates me that Gwyneth Paltrow is lining her pocket with harmful products aimed at people who are desperate for solutions to their health challenges. Keep it up, Dr. Gunter! 2. The new Harriet Tubman movie trailer looks FANTASTIC. 3. The Crown will allegedly return in November ..read more