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Please leave a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Click To Download Home Workout Templates or text the word, "lifting," to 33444 to download the templates. As we announced at the beginning of the month, August is Strong People Are Awesome Month and this week we're sharing our fourth week of tips. This week, Devon and I are sharing with you How to Balance Strength Training with Multiple Strategies! At Open Sky Fitness, we believe that it's important to create a focus on building strength. Not just for now, but throughout our entire lifetimes. We also know that it can be difficult to get into a habit and pattern of adding strength training exercises to your workout routine. That's why we're dedicating this month to talk about a different strength topic during each podcast to help you get strong:   Strength Week 1: The Importance of Building Strength  Strength Week 2: How to Build and Maximize Home Workouts Strength Week 3: How to Build Your Own Gym Workout Strength Week 4: How to Balance Strength Train

Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Click To Download Home Workout Templates or text the word, "lifting," to 33444 to download the templates.  As we announced at the beginning of the month, August is Strong People Are Awesome Month and this week we're sharing our third week of tips. This week, Devon and I are sharing with you How to Build Your Own Gym Workout! At Open Sky Fitness, we believe that it's important to create a focus on building strength. Not just for now, but throughout our entire lifetimes. We also know that it can be difficult to get into a habit and pattern of adding strength training exercises to your workout routine. That's why we're dedicating this month to talk about a different strength topic during each podcast to help you get strong: Strength Week 1: The Importance of Building Strength  Strength Week 2: How to Build and Maximize Home Workouts Strength Week 3: How to Build Your Own Gym Workout Strength Week 4: How to Balance Everything with Multiple Strategies 

Free Home Workout Templates! As we announced last week, August is Strong People Are Awesome Month and this week we're sharing our second weeks of tips which includes how to build and maximize home workouts! At Open Sky Fitness, we believe that it's important to create a focus on building strength. Not just for now, but throughout our entire lifetimes. We also know that it can be difficult to get into a habit and pattern of adding strengthening exercises to your workout routine. That's why this month, we're dedicating this month to talk about a specific topic during each podcast that helps you build strength: Strength Week 1: The Importance of Building Strength  Strength Week 2: How to Build and Maximize Home Workouts Strength Week 3: How to Build Your Own Gym Work Out Strength Week 4: How to Balance Everything with Multiple Strategies  Strength Week 5:  How to Use Recovery to Your Advantage   It's Easy to Build and Maximize Home Workouts It may seem difficult, but building and maximizing home workouts is actu

Please click here to leave a review: http://openskyfitness.com/review Are you ready for August!? Because we sure are and to kick it off we're announcing that this month is Strong People Are Awesome Month! At Open Sky Fitness, we believe that it's important to create a focus on building strength. Not just for now, but throughout our entire lifetimes. We also know that it can be difficult to get into a habit and pattern of adding strengthening exercises to your workout routine.  So throughout this month, we'll be taking the time to talk about a specific topic during each podcast that helps you build strength: Strength Week 1: The Importance of Building Strength  Strength Week 2: How to Build and Maximize Home Workouts Strength Week 3: How to Build Your Own Gym Work Out Strength Week 4: How to Balance Everything with Multiple Strategies  Strength Week 5:  How to Use Recovery to Your Advantage Speaking of building strength, on this week's podcast, I talked with Kettlebell Instructor, Karen Smith. We spoke about a

Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review When it comes to our dreams and goals, we can sometimes feel a bit uneasy about them because we're afraid of what other people may think of them. Hopefully you know people in your life who are supportive of your decisions. If people are negative, you shouldn't let that get in the way of who you want to become and what you want to do with your life.  On this week's podcast, Rob shares with us why it's okay to be different and why you shouldn't hold back on what you want to do with your life. If your goal is to become a healthier person, you shouldn't worry whether it's "normal" or not to pick healthier options. Don't let society and unsupportive people hold you back just because what you're doing with your life is different than what other people do. Rob and Devon love to answer any of your health and wellness questions! This week, Rob took sometime to answer one listener's question on how to gain muscle fast. Check it out! How to Gain Muscle One of

On this week's Open Sky Fitness Podcast episode, Rob had a great talk with Jay Campbell about testosterone replacement therapy. Jay the best selling author of The Definitive Testosterone Replacement Therapy MANual, a 16 year TRT patient and respected thought leader on Hormonal Optimization. Jay recently launched TRTRevolution.com and the TRT Revolution Podcast which promise to be the definitive resources for all things Testosterone, Anti-Aging and Life Optimization. Jay along with his mentor Jim Brown consult with aging men and women and soon will be offering a unique line of supplements (Optimized Life Nutrition) essential for living a hormonally balanced life. Rob and Jay had a deep discussion about why men can experience a loss of the testosterone hormone, what are the symptoms, and how to replace the hormone with therapy. To prepare for this interview, Rob even took a blood work test, a Pre TRT Wellness Panel, to see where his hormones were at and how healthy he is. Challenge of the Week: Think About Wher

Rob and Devon kick off this episode by sharing their experience of attending last week's Podcast Movement conference in Chicago. One thing that Rob took away from the conference is how we create specific structures, strategies , and timelines for goals that we want to accomplish. Being specific with our goals is key if we truly want to reach them. Sometimes we struggle with getting tasks done, but then other times we find that we can be extremely productive because we're specific with our goals and with our timelines. To help you set and reach your goals, Rob and Devon have put together the S.M.A.R.T Goal System. The S.M.A.R.T Goal System S-Specific Goals M-Measurable Goals A-Attainable Goals R-Relevant Goals T-Time framed Goals What's Important to You In Life? Along with understanding your goals and creating a specific timeline, make a Top 10 List of the most important things in your life. It may include nutrition, relationships, mediation, your career etc. During the podcast, Rob and Devon will explain what

We love answering your questions and knowing what you think about the show! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review At the beginning of the show, Rob was joined by one of our previous guests, Josh Trent from Wellness Force Radio, to talk about the Ketogenic and Paleo diets as well as how to live a healthy lifestyle. If some of you remember from awhile ago, we had another guest on the podcast, Kristen Mancinelli, who shared what the Ketogenic Diet is all about and her experience of getting to the state of Ketosis.  The discussion on how diet, fitness, and a healthy lifestyle go hand in hand continued with our special guest, Drew Manning. Drew is a NASM personal trainer of the Dollar Workout Club and storyteller of his Fit2Fat2Fit journey.  Drew's story is how he went from going from being obsessed with being fit, to fat in 6 months and how he planned on showing everyone how to get back to fit again in 6 more months. His diet was unrestricted and he refrained from any exercise during his f

Please leave a review at http://www.openskyfitness.com/review   From time to time, we all face different struggles whether it be with exercise or food. This week, Rob and Devon share their top 5 tips to stay motivated to workout while special guest, Nutritionist Julie Daniluk explains how people with inflammation and autoimmune diseases can still eat delicious foods by eating powerful anti-inflammatory foods. Julie has had a personal relationship with the healing power of anti-inflammatory foods ever since she was a little girl. After her mother switched her from artificial and high sugared foods to natural foods, an immediate change was noticed in her behavior and energy levels. However, this wasn't Julie's only encounter with food affecting her body in a negative way. After returning back to sugar and experiencing a horrible bout of food poisoning, Julie learned once and for all to listen to her body and began eating anti-inflammatory foods to heal it back to normal health. Continuing with these foods, Juli

Please leave us a review at http://www.openskyfitness.com/review You've probably heard of the P90, P90x, and 10 Minute Trainer  programs etc., but you may not know the entire story of how the creator,Tony Horton, was inspired and came to devise these programs. With his workout programs, books, and more, he has completely changed the face of fitness as we know it. On this week's podcast, Rob had a lively one-on-one with Tony about his background story, commitment to fitness, nutrition values and more. It's incredible how far Tony has come as a fitness trainer since the days when he used to work a variety of different jobs just to get by and before he came to Los Angeles to pursue acting. If Tony's story doesn't inspire you to commit yourself to living healthy, have fun enjoying the activities that you love to do, and pursue your dreams, we don't know what else will.   About Tony Horton Tony Horton is the wildly popular creator of the best-selling fitness series: P90X®, P90X2®, P90X3®, and Ten Minute Trainer®,

This week's Open Sky Fitness Podcast was extra special as Alek Lev and Jeff Meacham joined Rob for our 100th episode!! Alek and Jeff were there with Rob from the very beginning and they've taken the 100th podcast as a great opportunity to look at their own health and fitness progress over the last three years up to now. Thank you all for listening to our episodes and especially those of you who have been with us since the very beginning back in the Fall of 2013! We're very proud of our milestone and for being able to help you become a healthier you. By  interviewing excellent guests on the show and by providing you with the best information about fitness and nutrition, we've all learned a lot over the years about good health. Some of our favorite topics included Paleo, Time Mangament, Importance of Health, and The New York Times article about The Biggest Loser. A blast from the past, here's our first podcast episode! Ep.1-Introducing the Open Sky Fitness Podcast: http://openskyfitness.com/podcast/introducing-

Please leave a review at http://www.openskyfitness.com/review   We had two special guests on this week's episode of the Open Sky Fitness Podcast. One of our previous guests, Evan Dollard, teamed up with Rob to talk to fellow extreme obstacle athlete, Hunter McIntyre. Evan was the 2008 male winner of American Gladiators and also competed on American Ninja Warrior 2. Hunter is Spartan Race Athlete and has been featured on the TV show, Boundless. Next up in both of their careers, they are participating in NBC's Summer Spartan Ultimate Challenge which begins airing on Monday, June 13th. Evan is the Field Reporter of the show while Hunter leads on one of the teams through the race as a Spartan Elite. We had an amazing time on the show while learning more about Hunter and his story about how he came to be a Spartan Athlete. It's a wild journey of how he evolved from being a mischievous high school kid to a logger and how that path eventually led him to become one of the world's best short course and long course ex

This week, Rob and Devon talked with their friend and Ketogenic Diet expert, Kristen Mancinelli. Not only is she highly knowledgeable about Ketogenic, but Kristen also has a solid background in Paleo and has written about both diets in various publications including LIVESTRONG.ORG , Paleo magazine, and her own book, The Ketogenic Diet: A Scientifically Proven Approach to Fast, Healthy Weight Loss. Kristen shared a lot of good information on the Open Sky Fitness podcast with us including her own experience with the Ketogenic Diet; what it was like to reach the stage of Ketosis; how many carbs a person should take in on a daily basis; and what are the right and wrong foods to eat while on the diet. We were also able to answer some of our listeners' questions about the topic such as: Can an athlete or active person follow a Ketogenic Diet? and Can you follow a Ketogenic Diet with a busy schedule and still try to consistently workout? Can carbs be included? When beginning a new diet, workout regime, or goal; the

Leave us a review at http://www.openskyfitness.com/review This week's podcast is all about good nutrition with a focus on discussing the Paleo Diet with Dr. Loren Cordain. But before our interview with Dr. Cordain, Rob and Devon took some time to talk about the difference between emotional hunger cravings and actual hunger when our stomachs are grumbling for something to eat.  We've all been there when all of a sudden we're craving ice cream, chocolate, chips, or Mc Donald's etc. out of no where during the day. Tune in as Rob and Devon give us some personal tips and answer questions such as: What causes us to emotionally eat? What are our triggers to begin emotionally eating? How can we avoid it and make healthier choices?   If you listen often to the podcast, you may remember that we talk a lot about Paleo on the show so it was an amazing experience for Rob to talk to Dr. Cordain directly about the diet. Dr Cordain is considered to be the Founder of the Paleo Diet and we learned so much from him as he explai

Leave us a review at http://www.openskyfitness.com/review On this week's Open Sky Fitness Podcast, Rob  had the chance to sit down and talk with John Allen Mollenhaur about how we can end our performance anxiety and begin living a performance lifestyle. For anyone who compares themselves to other people; has an addiction to becoming the best without giving themselves a rest; or is constantly fighting a mental battle about who they are- this is a great interview to listen to today. It's a great reminder of the importance of taking care of ourselves: it's great to have goals, but you need to be gentle with yourself and take care of your body and mind. Known as “John Allen” or by his initials “JAM,” John Allen Mollenhauer is the founder of Performance Lifestyle, Inc., a transformational education, training, and coaching company that helps entrepreneurs and business professionals recover from burnout and adopt the lifestyle mindset and skill set all balanced and healthy, high-achieving people know and live by. As

We love getting feedback from you, our listener, so if you have any suggestions on guests that you think would be great to have on the show or if you would like us to answer any of your fitness/health questions, just email Rob at rob@openskyfitness.com or leave us a review at www.openskyfitness.com/review. On this week's Open Sky Fitness podcast, Rob and Devon sat down to discuss the New York Times article, After 'The Biggest Loser,' Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight. The article is quite one-sided and both Rob and Devon have given their input on what they found was wrong with the diets and workouts on the show; how the reality TV show's contestants were not taking the correct approach on continuing their new healthy lifestyles after the show ended;  how we should be approaching new diets, workouts, and lifestyles to healthfully lose weight and more. We'll be having a webinar about how to burn fat while building lean muscle on Thursday, May 19 at both 4pm and 7pm PST. To sign up for the webinar, just text

Leave us a review at http://www.openskyfitness.com/reviewSince our book raffle for the copiesof Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies toSleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and BiggerSuccess by Shawn Stevenson was such asuccess, we're going to have another book raffle for JoelHarper's book, MindYour Body: 4 Weeks to a Leaner, HealthierLife! Joel is Dr. Oz's personal trainer and has alsotrained many other celebrity elites including Olympic athletes,movie stars, and super models. We have one copy of this book so thevery first person to do the following steps will get thecopy:Go to our shownotes and click on the review link (openskyfitness.com/review).Leave us areview.Take a screen shotof what you wrote in the review.Email the screenshot along with your mailing address to Rob(rob@openskyfitness.com).Good luck!On this week's podcast episode, Rob and Devon discussed good gymetiquette such as how to keep the gym organized and clean; how towork in and share equipment with follow gym users; and how to sho

Leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Last week we talked about our raffle to win a copy of Shawn Stevenson's book, Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success. We still have three copies of the book to give away and all you have to do is leave us a review, take a screen shot, and email the screen shot with your US home address to rob@openskyfitness.com. On the Open Sky Fitness podcast this week, Rob and Devon had a motivating discussion about how important it is to stop being your own enemy by limiting yourself from thinking positively and from reaching your goals. Even if you don't think you are limiting yourself, you probably are without even realizing it. Both Rob and Devon give great, personal examples and advice on how to better understand yourself and overcome any mental obstacles that are getting in the way of you becoming who you want to be in life. Today's podcast is about swimming and Rob spoke with one of the top athl

Leave us a review at http://www.openskyfitness.com/review On the Open Sky Fitness podcast we talk a lot about getting a good night's rest and one of our favorite sources is the book, Sleep Smarter: 21 Proven Tips to Sleep Your Way To a Better Body, Better Health and Bigger Success by Shawn Stevenson. Rob begins the show discussing three great tips from Shawn's book. If you like what you hear and want to learn more about how to sleep smarter, we're giving away three of his books in a raffle to USA listeners. Just leave us a review, take a screen shot of it, and send it to Rob with your home address.  Today, Rob talked to Franz Snideman who is a former collegiate sprinter and the co-owner of Revolution Fitness. Franz believes that sprinting is key to becoming healthier and stronger. He's an expert at running and sprinting for beginners and shared his tips and insights with us on the show including: how to learn how to run properly; where to run; what shoe to wear; and how fast you should sprint on speed days. I

Do you ever feel that the days goes by and you spend all your time on what needs to “get done” but have no time left for the things that you feel are actually important.  In this week’s podcast, Craig Ballantyne, author of the “The Perfect Day Formula”, will transform you by helping you to discover what is truly important and how to create an empowering and healthful life. First, host Rob Dionne, and his wife, Devon Dionne, discuss clean eating and how the 80/20 rule can either be a tool towards a balanced life or used as an excuse to prevent you from achieving what you truly desire.   Then, fitness expert to Men’s Health Magazine and co-owner of EarlyToRise.com, Craig Ballantyne gives you simple steps on how to find a sense of internal freedom.   Having once been admitted into the hospital for debilitating anxiety attacks, Craig realized he need a huge change in his world.  Once he found a sense of internal peace,  he wanted to share and bring his knowledge to others.  You will learn the skills of how to org