I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again and I’ll probably say it for years to come - If vanity is the main motivating factor that gets you into the gym and exercising regularly, then I see nothing wrong with that. However, in my experience, vanity alone will only take you so far with both your health and your physique.

Unfortunately, most of us are not wired to be motivated 24/7. And this is why I stress the importance to clients of setting other health and fitness goals that have absolutely nothing to do with their physical appearance. I mean if you look great on the outside but feel like crap on the inside, how long will it take until you start resenting your workouts and your diet? And then how long after that will you become frustrated, give up on those workouts and quit that diet altogether?

I believe that by being realistic with your expectations and timeline, along with working towards accomplishing both short-term and long-term goals, a person can set themselves up to succeed at almost anything they set their minds to achieve.

This week’s blog is most likely going to be one of my most controversial blogs to date. As someone who has worked in the fitness industry for over two decades now, I’ve learned quite a bit about the human body as a whole. As a Personal Trainer/Coach it’s obviously important that I know my basic human anatomy and physiology. And I do. But I also need to have a general understanding as to how our bodies operate and function on a daily basis if I’m going to help a client build muscle, lose fat and become overall more healthy and fit. And again, I can say with the utmost amount of confidence that I do.

With that being said, I will admit that when I first started training clients I was fairly ignorant to what it truly takes to help someone transform their physique and improve their quality of life through diet and exercise. I had always just assumed that most people would be self motivated to want to make a positive change in their lives and would do anything and everything I told them to do in both the gym and the kitchen in order to help them achieve their goals. However I was wrong. I was very wrong…..

Last week I sent out a question to you the reader for your thoughts and feelings on the effectiveness of Hybrid Workouts. I received quite a few comments and replies through email and direct messages that I have shared periodically in my IG stories over the past few days. For the most part, I agreed with many of your views and opinions on how effective home workouts truly are. However fortunately there were a few opinions that I respectfully disagree with and thought I would address them directly on this week's blog.

So let's get started!

This week’s blog is not a blog at all. It’s more of an open ended question that I have for all of you.

Do you believe hybrid workouts are the way of the future? And if they are, do you believe that they can offer the same benefits that a person would achieve with their health and physique if he or she was training in a fully equipped gym with licensed and trained fitness instructors/coaches?