Great Interview Tony - I am / just finished apt. hunting myself. It is also annoying when the landlord thinks it’s easy to drop off your first months rent and application at odd hours of the day like 2p. Apparently the heat is too much and he can’t last until 6p - does this mean he literally shuts off at 3p…Robot?

Tony, I posted the comments below at Contreras’ blog as well, but wanted to make sure you saw them:

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I think you’ve succeeded in your goal of “entertaining while informing.” You’re maybe the funniest of the (respected) fitness writers out there (including TC), and you’re still young and growing as a writer. I see you as sort of the “Bill Simmons of Fitness Writers,” thinking of Simmons maybe 7-8 years ago before he had New York Times bestsellers.

As for you being an “elitist”: in your business as a trainer, you’re not going to be stating things with a lot of qualifiers. In your business as a writer (and being interviewed falls closer to the latter category), I DO think it would help to qualify some of the statements about “best” ways to train, as I think it would enhance your credibility.

I also think it would help to remember that your audience of trainees is probably slightly different than your audience of readers in a key sense: the trainees skew younger, higher percentile athlete genetics, are motivated primarily by performance goals, have really good social support for their programs, and are supervised by your handsome and motivating self, making program compliance less of a worry. Your reading audience will be a bit older than your trainees, have less good genetics than your trainees, be motivated primarily by aesthetic considerations, and less-than-ideal social support and the absence of your luminous presence.

At any rate…keep up the good work, Tony.