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  • A Muscle Head Trusting the Process

    By Raphael | In Motivation | on April 27, 2016

    When my mom was battling cancer, I decided to shift gears from bodybuilding…

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  • Online Training: What Is It?

    By Raphael | In FBR News | on January 8, 2014

    What do you mean you train “online”? Online training? I don’t get it! That’s what some of my successful online clients hear from some people when they tell them they work with me. I’ve been a successful online trainer for 12 years, and sometimes I have to remind myself that not everyone knows what online […]

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  • The Solution to “I Hate My Diet”

    By Raphael | In Motivation, Nutrition | on January 28, 2013

    “I hate my diet.” That’s what people start feeling when they go on a traditional “diet.” Let’s be honest: Dieting sucks.  We think we have to eat foods we hate, starve ourselves and that it’s about getting from point A to point B (i.e., When I lose these 25 pounds this ordeal is over, and […]

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  • Show and Tell…the Truth

    By Raphael | In Fitness, Motivation | on January 14, 2013

    Perplexed, startled. That was my reaction when my friend Scot recently told me that I have to stop hiding. And that I have to start telling the truth. Wait, what?! Me, who prides himself on being honest and on having the utmost integrity, being accused of hiding out? Being dishonest? Sometimes it pays just to […]

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  • Is this you?! Over the past three weeks I’ve received several emails from people asking if I would assist them in losing 20 plus pounds as fast as possible. And some of those emails stressed FAST. Whether you’re trying to lose weight as fast as possible, lose weight without making any changes to your nutrition […]

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  • Losing Weight: Strength in Numbers

    By Raphael | In Motivation | on August 6, 2012

    On Saturday I had an experience that I’m not accustomed to on Twitter. I was tweeting with someone I had never had any previous dialogue with. She asked a question about her training and, after a series of exchanges she asked, “How are you doing today? I hate talking about me all the time.” I […]

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  • The Diet Hideout

    By Raphael | In Fitness, Motivation, Nutrition | on June 30, 2011

    Sometimes what you don’t say says more than you realize. The diet hideout. See if this sounds familiar. You courageously declare that you’ve had enough, and you’re going to lose those haunting, pain-in-the-a** pounds that have been teasing and calling you names for so long. Enough – you’ve had enough with the overanalyzing and excuses. […]

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