Author: Ben Crane

I never had any intention of becoming a personal trainer. I was never really even interested in taking classes about kinesiology, physiology, or even fitness. It was the shock I

1. Track. Your. Food! This is the easiest thing in fitness to do but 9/10 people won’t do it because it has to be done every day. Science has made

One hundred days and 22.3 lbs later, my Dad Bod to Rad Bod program is complete. My one and only true goal was to look better than my After photo

If someone asked you to create them an exercise program, what would your end product look like? I recently heard that someone said a paid exercise program isn’t worth doing

I will never forget December 7th, 2018. My wife was home because she had a dentist appointment that morning and didn’t want to go into work afterwards while her mouth

New Year. New Me! It’s time to lose that paternal pudge that we all (both men and women) tend to put on in the Fall after pool season ends and

Minimalist shoes started becoming quite the fad around 10 years ago. Those ridiculous-looking Barefoot shoes that looked more like a Bigfoot footprint mold cast with shoe material caused quite the

Cold and Flu Season is upon us! Every year I field questions from clients wondering if they should workout if they feel like they might get sick, if they are

Despite being quite popular for more than a decade now, I managed to make it all the way to this summer before finally giving Crossfit a try. A variety of

The dieting strategy known as “Intuitive Eating” is becoming increasingly popular, and it’s pretty easy to see why. Intuitive Eating promises successful weight-loss and management with no restrictions, calorie counting,

A common fat-loss strategy is to add or remove starches from dietary intake day-to-day depending on activity level, type of activity, and the anecdotal and possibly arbitrary schedule one creates

Meet Audrey. Audrey is the 1st Place Winner in the local Gold’s Gym Transformation Challenge. I first met Audrey in the summer of 2016. At the time, she was battling

Every year, Gold’s Gym hosts it’s annual Transformation Challenge. As an employee, I’m obviously not allowed to compete, but the staff usually arranges a competition amongst themselves to keep us

It has been just over a year since I became both fascinated with and an avid participant in Olympic Weightlifting. I recently returned from a 5-day semi-primitive camping trip and

Nationally Certified Sports Nutrition Specialist and Personal Trainer, Ben Crane, goes in-depth into the blatantly biased, vegan-inspired health claims against animal protein sources made in “What The Health”, the latest

Rather than follow the tune of the mass media and discuss only the negative occurrences of 2017 and what I hope changes this year, I would instead like to highlight

Humans have been around for a very long time. Our history goes back well beyond written historical record, including artistic and architectural expressions of cultural history and heritage. Times have

Gym intimidation, or “gym-timidation” is the core marketing concept of Planet Fitness, a popular North American fitness center known for banning bodybuilders because they intimidate other members. They ironically call

I have seen enough success and failure both from personal training clients and myself to know what makes for a successful endeavor, and what sets you up for failure. Below

I’m obviously not a religious ambassador, much less an expert on how to differentiate what is sinful for one person and not for another, but a friend of mine recently

I have had the pleasure of working with a young mother of two in her late 20’s who came to me looking to lose her baby weight from her last

Personal Trainers like myself who go through a formal certification process are educated during their coursework on a model of training that virtually eliminates any chance of a plateau occurring.

Most people desperately need to eat more plant-based foods (myself included), but just like any diet that completely excludes certain food sources, diets that completely exclude animal products put those