Automated Muscle - breakthrough happening today.
A theoretical framework that specifically uses techniques to improve exercise performance and outcomes using the science of motor skill learning and attentional focus in a proprietary manner.
Based on over 20 years of experience.
Seeing obvious shortcomings in the way that high intensity strength exercise has been taught, Al and Nicole set out on a new course to change to way exercise is taught and delivered to the exercising public and hence Automated Muscle was born.
Latest Blogs
Free Will, Fatigue, and the Strange Religion of “Trying Harder”
People don’t usually say it out loud, but a lot of training advice is rooted in an unexamined assumption: there’s a tiny captain sitting ...
Nov 28, 2025 / Read More
Balance as a Verb
People talk about “balance” like it hides behind a secret door. As if life rewards the disciplined with some stable middle point where ev...
Nov 19, 2025 / Read More
The Power Of Ritual
Before any client begins training with me, they get this document. It’s part of my onboarding and part of my upcoming book. I use it beca...
Nov 17, 2025 / Read More
Tolerance as the First Adaptation
Most people approach exercise backwards. They spend years shopping for the “perfect program” that “fits them” — the right schedule, the r...
Aug 24, 2025 / Read More
Exercising vs Practice
Historically, in the early days of physical culture, no one said they were “working out.” They were practicing.
Aug 15, 2025 / Read More
Meditation Is Just Balance (Don’t Overthink It)
True meditation isn’t a self-help technique — it’s the end of self-help. It’s physical. It’s stillness. It’s the art of not flinching whi...
Jul 24, 2025 / Read More
The Pump Is a Behavior, Not a Feeling
When most people think of “the pump,” they think of a swelling sensation — veins rising, skin tightening, and maybe some ego inflation. B...
Jul 22, 2025 / Read More
Teach the Phonics First: Why Personal Training Must Become a Course, Not a Crutch
Unfortunately, the key to a client’s success is teaching the white-collar or knowledge worker a blue-collar mentality. If you are a train...
Jul 17, 2025 / Read More
More Powerful Than a Locomotive, Yet Bowing to a Flower: Superman as a Bodhisattva
The new Superman movie opened this weekend, and while I haven’t seen it yet (I will), I’ve been sitting on this piece for a while. It jus...
Jul 12, 2025 / Read More
The Myth of “Good Enough”: Why Skipping Warm-Ups Is a Symptom of a Racing Brain
Let me say something upfront: this isn’t about the warm-up. This is about your attitude toward effort. Your relationship with time. Your ...
Jul 08, 2025 / Read More