Train Your Body and Your Mind
TNT is a gym. But the physical aspect of fitness isn’t our only specialty. We also offer guidance on healthy and sustainable nutrition—which includes more than just food—and the necessary mental aspects of health and fitness that many programs overlook. That’s what we mean when we say Thinking, Nutrition, and Training for better living.
Thinking
Over time I have come to believe less and less that biology is destiny. It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.
Physical fitness begins in the mind
You have mental baggage just like everyone else (including us). That baggage—uncertainty, negative self-talk, and other unhelpful habits—can erode motivation, hinder discipline, and make setting and achieving tough goals seem like an almost insurmountable task.
But you weren’t born with your mental models. They instead developed over time, often without your conscious input or desire. The bright side of the story is that you can improve them with a little awareness, education, and intentionally focused effort.
Our approach to that process is heavily influenced by Heroic, a world-class personal development platform, and incorporates many of their practical tools for “moving from theory to practice to mastery”.
Nutrition
The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle.
Nutrition is more than just food
Nutrition science is inherently complex. That complexity, overlaid with the food industry’s marketing agenda, has led to pseudoscientific dogma and confusion about what to actually eat on a daily basis in order to feel energized and healthy — not to mention build muscle, lose weight, or enhance performance.
In order to improve your nutrition, even absent that confusion, you still need to consider engrained habits, cultural norms, and convenience. It also helps to recognize that nutrition—the act or process of nourishing—includes various aspects of stress, information consumption, and sleep.
In our nutrition coaching practices, we strive to follow Precision Nutrition’s pragmatic approach of balancing science-based recommendations with food- and habit-based experiments to determine what works best for your individual situation.
Training
What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
It’s a practice, not a workout
Cardiorespiratory training—more commonly known as cardio—is vastly overemphasized in today’s fitness landscape. That doesn’t mean it’s unimportant. It’s actually quite necessary for health, especially as we age. But as Theodore Levitt said, “Anything in excess is a poison.”
Differentiating your training days—and weeks and months—by adjusting intensity, volume, density, speed, exercise variations, and, potentially, training emphasis elicits far greater adaptations to both strength and endurance. Yet an excess of variation also becomes a poison. A fine line exists between the extremes.
We straddle that line when designing training programs by applying StrongFirst’s “same, but different” approach, along with numerous other principles of StrongFirst origin, our own experimentation, and other sources.
We offer programs for any situation
Whether you’re a fitness veteran who wants to step up to a new level, a complete beginner who wants to learn and progress safely, or someone who has tried every diet, exercise, or personal development program available and is tired of not seeing results—or worse, repeating the exact same gains and loses you’ve experienced for years—we can help you advance on your mental or physical performance journey.