Ricky Magana

You made it. You are now in the final month of 2020. A year you probably hope you’ll forget, but never will.  If life were a video game, you’ve come to the […]

In my relatively short life, I can honestly say 2020 has been the most difficult year for many of us. The more people I talk to, it seems everyone pretty much agrees […]

A while back, I saw a post that I thought was fake because of how unbelievable it was. It was a picture of actor Kumail Nanjiani, the nerdy actor/comedian from Silicon Valley. […]

One of the most consistent frustrations I see people have is not their ability to lose weight but the ability to keep it off. Most people can, for short periods of time, […]

I was watching a stand-up comedian one day doing a bit about people at the gym. He was not a particularly in-shape guy, and he was talking about how he can’t stand […]

A while back, I was talking to a client who had just lost 100 pounds. As we were chatting about his own fitness journey, he kept saying, “If you saw me at […]

One evening, my phone buzzed. It was a text from a friend and longtime client, and she was ecstatic. “Been taking pics of myself every Friday from the front and back. OMG, […]

Imagine if you will, where one day you wake up and gas is cheap, traffic has evaporated, and you have been given six weeks off from work. Sounds like a dream come […]

You would think that by the time a star basketball player arrived at UCLA to play for one of the most legendary teams in NCAA history, they’d already know how to put […]

Back in 2003, I was a young pup, barely 16-years-old, just starting out in the gym. I was completely lost among the rows of machines, treadmills, and weights. I wandered the gym […]