CMFitness

Most programs get written before the coach knows anything about you.

I ask about your Thursday. And your Sunday night. What time you actually get out of work, which shoulder gets cranky, what equipment is really free at 6pm, whether you've got two good hours or forty honest minutes.

Then I write.

Because a program that fits someone else's week isn't a program — it's a document. You'll follow it for three weeks and quit, and you'll think that's a discipline problem. It isn't. It never was.

The primaries stay locked and you progress them. The accessories rotate so nothing goes stale. And every block gets a note telling you what it's for and what you should feel, because you deserve to know why you're doing it, not just what.

Twelve weeks from now you should be stronger. Forty years from now you should still be moving. Both of those get decided by the same choices.

DM me if you want that built around your actual life.

9.5 years in this gym for me now. Long enough to know this was never a phase for me — it's the career.

It was here before me, and it'll be here after whatever trends come and go. Door's usually open, floor's usually loud, and somewhere along the way this stopped feeling like a job and started feeling like a second home.

Thank you to everyone who's trained here alongside me for years, and to everyone still showing up now. This place is what it is because of you.

"The 'best' split question is the wrong one. A 2016 meta-analysis (Schoenfeld, Ogborn & Krieger, Sports Medicine) found training a muscle group twice a week beats once a week.

That's the real difference between splits. Bro splits usually hit each muscle once a week. Full body and upper/lower hit it twice. Pick based on your schedule, not what looks impressive.

What split are you running right now?"

Sources:

Effects of Resistance Training Frequency on Measures of Muscle Hypertrophy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Remote coaching isn't a lesser version of training with me in person. Same programming, same attention to how you move and recover — built to fit a week that doesn't have room for a fixed hour at a gym.

You get a program built around your equipment and your schedule, plus direct access to me when something needs adjusting. Train twice one week, five times the next — the program moves with you.

"I have gotten stronger and have kept going as he encourages me to power on! Totally recommend Cory as a remote coach" - Kathy. Remote client

If you're not in Calgary or your week just doesn't hold still, this is exactly what it's built for. Free 15-minute call if you want to see whether it fits

You can do everything right in the gym and still lose the wrong tissue if you're not sleeping.

A 2010 study (Nedeltcheva et al., Annals of Internal Medicine) put two groups on the identical calorie deficit — the only difference was sleep, 8.5 hours vs. 5.5 hours a night. The well-rested group lost mostly fat. The sleep-deprived group lost far more muscle for the same deficit.

If you're 40+ and already fighting to hold onto muscle, sleep isn't optional recovery — it's part of the program

Favourite part of summer.

Nothing fancy — just a container, a raspberry bush, and about ten minutes before I'm back to work.

F*️⃣ck your tired, unmotivated mood.

Most people who train more consistently aren't more disciplined than you -- they just stopped making it a daily decision. Bag packed the night before. Session booked. Nothing left to negotiate with themselves in the morning.

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