Train Bold | Live Wild:
The Blog
 

This blog is your trail map filled with stories, strategies, and wild tips for building strength that lasts far beyond the gym. This is for the BOLD ones. The early risers. The log-flippers. The ones training for life, not just looks.

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Strength is a Journey, one grounded step at a time.

This isn’t just a fitness blog-it’s a call to the untamed. Train Bold. Live Wild is where strength meets terrain, sweat meets sunrise, and grit is forged in the raw outdoors and the real work inside. We talk wild workouts, grounded recovery, mountain-fueled meals, and the mindset it takes to push limits-indoors or out.

Whether you're just lacing up or halfway up the mountain, you're on the path. Not to perfection, but to power. To presence. To the kind of strength that changes everything. So wherever you are - just beginning, rebuilding, rising or thriving-welcome. This journey is yours, but you're not alone. We're walking it with you.

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no, you can’t target fat loss - but you can do this instead

If you’ve ever been told that holding planks will flatten your stomach or squats will slim your thighs, you’ve been sold one of the biggest fitness myths out there: spot training.

The idea sounds great — do enough exercises for one body part, and you’ll shrink the fat around it. But here’s the truth: you can’t pick and choose where your body burns fat.

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my new favorite high protein energy bar - and here’s why it’s a game changer

If you’ve been around me or here for a while, you know I’m all about real food first. I’d rather grab eggs, chicken, veggies, or Greek yogurt than tear into a wrapper. But sometimes life gets busy, and I need something quick that still fuels my training — without tasting like chalk or leaving me hungry an hour later. Enter my new favorite: the G2G Bar.

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breakfast will fuel your day - here’s why it matters

We’ve all heard the saying: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But for too many people, breakfast is either skipped completely or replaced with something quick, processed, and loaded with sugar. If you’re serious about training bold and living wild, breakfast isn’t optional — it’s the foundation that powers your movement, your mindset, and your results.

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  • Leave the road, take the trails.

    Pythagoras

  • In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.

    Alice Walker

  • I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

    Henry David Thoreau

  • A walk in nature walks the soul back home.

    Mary Davis

  • In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

    John Muir

  • Nature is not a place to visit, it is HOME.

    Gary Snyder

  • Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Hiking is a bit like life. The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other.

    Andrew Larsen