Coach Brian Paquette joins Jessica in the basement studio for a great show on the 6 character strengths that you can elevate which will help you see successes in every area of your life – in finding your purpose, increasing your prosperity, and leveling up your relationships.

For a full list of these character strengths, visit our show notes here. 

Don’t miss it!

- Sam and Jess

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P.S. This is your chance to win March 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT (again) love those guys. They're giving one of you a 40# Iron Man Kettlebell. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 4/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;) 

This is a great show for all of you physical therapists and aspiring PTs.

We've traveled down to Orange County from LA to visit with our friend Dr. Quinn Henoch to discuss bringing the PT and strength/performance world together. He has a great website that should be a massive catalyst for helping athletes find the right physical therapist in their area. 

He's a great guy with a ton of knowledge and he was a total pleasure to talk with. Definitely a "don't-miss" kind of show. Huge thanks to Dr. Quinn for giving us his time and knowledge. 

Click here to watch the video version. 

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P.S. This is your chance to win March 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT (again) love those guys. They're giving one of you a 40# Iron Man Kettlebell. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 4/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;) 

We're back with Break Down Series 2: Forged in Fire.

It’s all about elevating your passion, resilience, determination, and focus.

We’re going to figure out what allows a person to maintain the discipline and optimism to persevere in their goals even in the face of discomfort, rejection, and a lack of visible progress for weeks, years, or even decades.

It’s a tough love series.

1. Character strengths and weaknesses. Fixed mindset vs growth mindset
2. The reality of perception. Explore how you perceive everyday life and how that impacts the way life happens to you.
3. Affirmations. Learn the 2 types of affirmations that you can use to change your state instantly and for the long term. 
4. Deliberate practice. How can you systematically elevate a strength or level up a weakness? 
5. Grit. Measure your personal character strength of perseverance and learn how you can improve it.
6. Embrace the suck. Learn ways to forge grit through certain types of intentional discomfort. This is going to be a fun one >:)
7. Craft your story. An exercise in looking at your life with appreciation and learning how to share it.
8. Gratitude. A lesson in appreciating the present and how working more gratitude magic dust into your life has exponentially positive results.

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Lastly, don’t forget to visit our website to enter into our monthly fitness industry night giveaway. This month of March 2018, Our friends at ONNIT are giving one of you an Ironman Kettlebell weighing in at 40#s.

To enter to win:

1. Go to fitnessbreakroom.com and fill out the prize form with your name and email and you're in!
2. Get extra entries by sharing the contest on facebook, emailing it to a friend, or tweeting the contest.
3. Leave us a written review and email a screenshot to me at [email protected] or you can send us a DM on our Instagram account @fitnessbreakroom and I will manually give you an extra entry to win this prize.

Enjoy the show!

Sam and Jess

This is a great show for anyone who's looking to start a smaller boutique style gym or studio. Smaller community = bigger impact. 

This is also an awesome show for people who have experienced challenges and are finding their way again.

This week, we start our LA tour kicking it off with this inspirational interview with Cody Story. Cody is the owner of Storey Fitness, a boutique style gym in Los Angeles. In this show, he discusses how he got to his current state of helping others free themselves on an inner personal level and liberating themselves from the current limitations of their bodies.

Cody isn't your typical gym owner. His story is one in a million and he's truly a one in a million man. From being on top as one of the top snowboarders in the world, to hitting rock bottom living on the streets, to completely reinventing himself, to finding his way and enjoying life's more subtle pleasures as he contributes to the health and happiness of his community. . . You're not going to want to miss this show. He gives some amazing insight into how challenges can birth some seriously awesome growth and success.

Enjoy,

Sam and Jess

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P.S. This is your chance to win March 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT (again) love those guys. They're giving one of you a 40# Iron Man Kettlebell. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 4/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;) 

This is a great show for anyone in the fitness industry. Seriously.

Dr. Andy Galpin is our special guest for this episode of Fitness Break Room and we couldn't be more stoked to be able to co-create this awesome conversation about the industry and how to get where you want to go in your career.

Dr. Andy is a tenured Professor in the Center for Sport Performance at CSU Fullerton, an author, a regular guest on the Barbell Shrugged podcast, and also offers a ton of other free and valuable content for us to learn from on his website and other podcasts in the industry.

On this show, he and Sam discuss:

• How not to get the attention of an industry leader
• Several things you should consider before you decide you want to work with top-level athletes
• How opening your eyes and staying endlessly curious throughout your life will bring your opportunities you could never have architected yourself

In addition to being a brilliant human, Dr. Andy is an amazing storyteller. If you're into learning massive amounts of helpful and useful info while also being entertained - follow Dr. Andy via every medium you can. You won't be disappointed.

See the rest of the show notes on our website here, and get his book "Unplugged" here. 

Enjoy the show,

Sam and Jess

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P.S. This is one of the last days to enter to win February 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT. They're giving one of you a pair of 35# Captain America Barbell Plates. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 2/28/18 to enter to win. Good luck. ;) 

OPEX is home to arguably some of the US’ most consistently great coaches. This week, on Fitness Break Room we interview Jim Crowell and Michael Bann who are a few of the men who run that operation.

They go into detail on how great coaches and trainers are born and how they themselves became leaders of this movement.

Click here to enter to win our monthly Fitness Industry Night Giveaway. This month (Feb 2018), you have a chance to win a pair of 35# Captain America Barbell Plates from our friends at ONNIT.

Enjoy the show,

Sam and Jess

Watch the video version of this VIP interview with Eric Dannenberg from EXOS on our website here. 

Want to know how the coaching experts at EXOS help top-tier performers execute at their very best for as long as possible? This is a great show for trainers who would like to know their ingredients EXOS prescribes to help the best of the best perform at a high-level day after day.

This week, we interview Eric Dannenberg, the Performance Manager for EXOS who ensures that everything that comes through their doors (methodologies, partnerships, products) are ready to be executed at a high level. "We do the simple things savagely well." That's their mantra.

If you haven't heard about this business, you're definitely familiar with the athletes, teams, business and military organizations they help operate at their very best. Don't miss this powerful insider insight into an organization that's making big things happen in our industry from our brilliant and humble friend Eric Dannenberg.

Click here to enter to win our monthly Fitness Industry Night Giveaway. This month (Feb 2018), you have a chance to win a pair of 35# Captain American Barbell Plates from our friends at ONNIT.

Enjoy the show,

"Strength is for everyone." This week we're blessed to have Sam Johnson founder of StrengthFarm and Betina Gozo Nike Master Trainer and Women's Health Magazine's Next Fitness Star (2017) as special guests on the Fitness Break Room.

They believe true strength is the emotional or mental qualities necessary in dealing with situations or events that are distressing or difficult. And they're people who've experienced a lot of life in a fairly short amount of time. Get your ego in check, people! These two are humble, powerful, and so empowering. We all have a lot to learn.

To see the video version, visit: www.fitnessbreakroom.com/strengthfarm

Please subscribe if you're enjoying the show. Even better, leave us a review! And don't forget to enter to win our Fitness Industry Night Giveaway. You could win for Feb 2018: Captain America Shield Barbell Plates 35# by ONNIT. Enter your name and email at fitnessbreakroom.com

Enjoy the show,

Sam and Jess

This is a great show for people who're looking to work with professional golfers, pro baseball players, or even the occasional WWE wrestler.

Dr. Jimmy Yuan has a pretty awesome job. He's a chiropractor who's built his practice to allow him to play around with all kinds of healing modalities which are sought after by professional athletes and grandma Bettys alike. On this show, he discusses his journey from confused-about-the-future young adult to where he is today and the guiding themes that have helped him make the right choices when "luck" brought opportunity his way. 

For more show notes, visit our website here. 

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Enjoying the journey is easier said than done. Even enjoying the completion of a goal or project can be a little underwhelming after the weeks or months of work and ramp up.

On this show, Sam and Jess realize while recording, they could really improve in this department. How do you celebrate your accomplishments? What have you done for yourself to say "thank you" for a job well done? 

Tag @fitnessbreakroom on IG with a photo of your style of celebrating to give recovering workaholic Sam some ideas on how he can gift himself for years of grind. The winner will get a free Passion Planner (Jessica's favorite task management tool).

Get our favorite reflection questions here to be more mindful of how your month went to celebrate the wins you might have a difficult time recalling. 

Don't forget to enter into our monthly fitness industry night giveaway here. This month's sponsor - LIFEAID!