I share my story in hopes to provide perspective of why Jolt exists and the reason we’re so passionate behind our methods. Many people assume, that personal trainers are the ‘health ideal’, that we never struggled with our health. Although the opposite tends to be true, many personal trainers pursue this career because of what they have been through. Your personal trainer has struggled, faced challenges, and continues to be a work in progress. No one lives a perfect life, but everyone has the opportunity to build their resilient and high quality life.

Calories are made up of 3 main nutrients; carbohydrates, protein and fats. All are important to healthy and resilient body. All three nutrients come in natural and processed forms leading to higher quality and lower quality options.

Carbs help give us energy, protein helps build us up, and fat helps regulate internal systems. If we look at these nutrients as a hockey team; Carbs are the hardest workers on the team, protein is your captain and leaders, and fat is your coach. You need all three to have a great team.

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re ready to get off the elliptical and take your fitness to the next level. Maybe you’re tired of doing endless amounts of fitness challenges and YouTube workouts that guarantee to “lengthen” and “tone” muscles?

If you went to the dentist and they told you that you have a cavity, would you go home and try to drill it out yourself?

We’re guessing you’d be more likely to rely on the dentist’s help, guidance and expertise. Fitness is the same way, it’s so much easier, more fun, and effective when guided by an expert trainer. If you have participated in fitness in the past and didn’t enjoy your experience in the gym or you’ve never felt like you would “fit in” at a typical gym, we’re here to change that. We’re revolutionizing the fitness industry by providing active health care rooted in education and integrity that improves your quality of life outside of the gym and builds a resilient body.

Sure, you could head to the gym on your own and push yourself through high intensity workouts, break a sweat, and lift some weights, but it’s not going to make you a better athlete. When it comes to off season training, there needs to be a structured plan that translates into your athleticism on ice. Your own gauntlet of bicep curls, box jumps, and back squats isn’t going to cut it if you want to be taking draws instead of taking stats in the stands next season.

The last thing the athlete needs in the off season is 3 months worth of brutal workouts that have no purpose other than to make the athlete puke and feel sore. Athletes know how to work hard and dig deep, they need to be taught how to work smart, efficient, and peak at the right time for the best season yet. At, Jolt we address structural integrity, injury rehab/prehab, nervous system recovery, sport specific stability, mobility and load transfer, and transferable explosiveness, speed and power. This isn’t about burpees, box jumps and bicep curls. This is about building athletes.

Keeping kids active through multiple sports is best for their long term development. However, sports are more expensive than ever and have an increasing commitment to travel. A child as young as 8 years old can be expected to travel up to 3 hours for a single hockey game and play multiple games per week. Both playing the sport and the travel commitment can cost parents thousands of dollars. This leaves parents with little choice in enrolling their kids in multiple sports. There’s just not enough days in the week to get multiple kids to multiple sports.

Early specialization can actually hinder an athletes ability to perform long term. A child needs to be exposed to…

Regular exercise decreases stress through the release of hormones and chemicals that make us feel good. Maintaining a healthy body weight contributes to restful sleeps by reducing snoring. A workout can help tell our body it’s day time (especially if we sit at a desk all day) and set our circadian rhythm to fall asleep at night time. People who exercise regularly are proven to have better sleeps than those who do not. However, if you are restless at night, try swapping out your late night HIIT session for some meditation and deep breathing or complete all strenuous workouts 2-3 hours before bed. Late night workouts can get us fired up and can deter sleep when completed right before you start to count sheep.

The most obvious step is resistance training, we need to lift weights to build muscle. When lifting weights, we need to be pushing close to failure and applying progressive overload. In simple terms, this means we are continuously working hard. At Jolt, we use our Lift class to build muscle. These professionally planned workouts are created by experienced and educated trainers who plan the perfect workout to build muscle. Our resistance training Lift classes include the following elements to ensure muscle growth.

Fat Loss Activation is the final phase of the Jolt Nutrition Methodology. This stage is completed after our Habits Overhaul and Metabolic Restoration phase. This is the phase of the programming where we enter into our caloric deficit, the most essential part of any weight loss program. However, at Jolt, we do things differently, so that you NEVER have to diet again. We build healthy and resilient bodies that do not need yo-yo dieting, extreme restrictions, or “magic” detoxes.

Thousands of sit-ups later and we know this isn’t true. What is true is that fat loss and gain is highly based on genetics. This means that the places you store fat and lose fat from first are determined before you step foot in the gym. The good news, we can target BUILD. All those sit ups can make our ab muscles bigger and therefore they will appear aesthetically when paired with healthy nutrition. Another example of this is the glutes (butt), squats, deadlifts, and hip thrusts are a great way to build the muscles of your glutes. Building the glutes allows you to shape your body up rather than trying to target it down. Consider the gym a place to BUILD rather than burn. 

You’ve tried it all, Weight Watchers, BeachBody, Keto, Intermittent Fasting, Juices, Low Carb, Vegan the list goes on and on. If you had an old diet book for every version you’ve tried you could start your own weight loss library. At this point, you feel like you have been dieting for the last 10 years to “lose the last 10 pounds”. You really can’t remember the last time you haven’t thought about your calorie intake, you feel like a failure every time you have to “start over” and for some reason that 10 “stubborn” pounds is still there. Reverse dieting is the last “diet” you will ever need.

The problem with most store-bought dressings is that they are highly processed, high in calories, include added sugar and sodium, and are made from a base of harmful vegetable oils.

When you’re looking for a great salad dressing, keep the following in mind:

When we think of being fit and “in-shape” we tend to picture men and women with shredded 6-pack abs. But did you know there are more millionaires in the world then there are people with 6-packs? That’s how difficult it can be to get that ninja turtle look. The fact that it’s so hard to obtain and worshipped within the fitness community could be the reason it’s so desired by many. I want to remind everyone, that we ALL have abs whether they are visible or not. If you didn’t you would be a noodle on the floor. However, abs aren’t always a sign of optimal health and fitness.