January 4, 2017

Accountability, Reverse Bets, & Making Motivation Stick

When it comes to getting shit done, I consider myself to be pretty efficient...With focus, and without distractions...I can bust out between 1,500 - 2,000 words an hour...I never miss article deadlines...I’m in and out of the gym in 45 minutes...I’m the first one done eating, cause you know, I got stuff to do...Ladies always come first...All the important stuff.
December 31, 2016

Big, Shitty, Important Lessons From 2016

Perspective is a funny thing. If you’re reading this then you lived through 2016. We all had the same 365 days; the same 8,760 hours. But for some, those days and hours we’re great. For others, they were a fucking nightmare.
December 12, 2016

Testosterone 401: Testosterone In Women

While the information we’ve discussed up to this is important for everyone to know, most of it has been geared towards men, and maintaining optimal testosterone levels. But testosterone is equally important for women as well, and in today’s post, we’re going to take a look at the role testosterone plays in the female body, and why it’s just as vital for women to live a healthy life.
December 6, 2016

Testosterone 301: TRT and Steroids

Over the last few articles in this series, we've been exploring the very important topic of testosterone. In Part One, we talked about what testosterone is, what it does, and why low T can be so detrimental to a man's health. And, in Part Two, we discussed how to treat low testosterone with varying methods, one such being Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT). Today, we're going to dive a bit deeper into TRT, because many who haven't been exposed to it or read much about it, get confused about what it actually is. In fact, a common belief is that TRT is akin to taking steroids.
November 29, 2016

Testosterone 201: Treating Low Testosterone

Due to its numerous health benefits we discussed last time, you can see why maintaining healthy levels of testosterone is important. Thankfully, low T is not a life sentence. There are many treatments and methods available for dealing with low testosterone.
November 22, 2016

Testosterone 101: Sex, Health, and Everything Else

Testosterone is the most important hormone in the male body, and is responsible for regulating everything from sexual function, to overall health and performance. In the first of four articles about testosterone and it's importance, we discuss exactly what testosterone is, and the role it plays in almost everything...
May 18, 2016

To Hell and Back: My Battle With Depression

We’re all human, even us fitness professionals. We make mistakes. We have struggles in our personal lives that we deal with daily. We portray ourselves a certain way on the Internet because we are our brand, but offline most of us are just live everyone else.
April 25, 2016

52 Tips for Fat Loss, Muscle-Building, and All-Around Awesomeness

Everyone claims to have that one things that works better than everything else. The "one simple thing" you can do to burn more fat or build more muscle. Something that somehow only they know, and are now finally going to share it with the world...Bullshit.
March 30, 2016

Las Vegas Luck

I just recently returned home from an annual trip to Las Vegas. Each year me and a group of friends make the pilgrimage to Sin City for March Madness, gambling, and most importantly, buffets.
March 2, 2016

Action, Art, and the Art of Success

Creating success doesn’t happen overnight; nor does it happen by accident. To be truly successful, you need to find what’s unique about YOU, and how you can use that to create success. A few days ago I returned from trip to the beautiful city of Austin, TX, where I spent the weekend eating, training, and pow-wowing with the RFS Mastermind crew. First, let me say that of all the BBQ I’ve had in my life, Texas BBQ is the best, hands down.
March 1, 2016

9 Characteristics of Successful Fat Loss Programs

“What’s the best way to lose fat?” This is by far the most common question I get as a fitness coach. Everyone wants to know about the best diet, the best workout plan, or the best supplements. And while I’d love to tell them what those are, I can’t. Because the truth is, there is no “best” anything. Every program or plan is going to work differently for each person. That’s how it goes. But just because different plans work for different people doesn’t mean they don’t share common characteristics. It’s these characteristics that make those plans success. In my latest guest post for MyProtein, I break down the nine characteristics of all successful fat loss plans. How does your program measure up?   Read: “9 Characteristics of Successful Fat Loss Programs” on MyProtein    
December 29, 2015

New Year’s Reflections

We’re at that point on the calendar again. The time when people start looking towards the new year, thinking about their resolutions, and what they want to accomplish. They make resolutions, and vow that this year is going to be different. Some succeed, many fail. Many people view the calendar turning from December 31st to January 1st as a new start; a clean slate. They look at the new year as an opportunity to start over and chance forget all the bad stuff from the past year. But that’s not me. Was 2015 the best year ever for me? No. But it was pretty damn close. It was exactly what I made it. And it’s what I will build my success upon in 2016. It’s easy to look at the sum of your year and think “Oh, I didn’t make enough money.” or “I didn’t accomplish this goal.” But if you break it down you may find that a lot of good things actually happened. And you can use these things to build upon. I’m not ending 2015 as successful as I had hoped to be by this time; but reflecting on the year that was made me realize that a lot of really awesome stuff happened… Coming into 2015 my main focus was building Jorden Pagel Fitness into something that paid me a livable income, allowed me to help as many people as possible, and let me work on my own terms. I was basically starting from nothing. I could count on one hand the number of clients I had. And if I lost three fingers on that hand in some freak accident I could still count how many clients I had. I was learning the business, learning how to work with people, exploring my writing style, and figuring out […]