Why Is It So Difficult?

Why is staying or becoming healthy and fit so difficult (for some) when it’s right at our fingertips? There’s more information on it than you can poke a stick at, and most people can access it for free. It’s not … Read More

Do You Have Training Gaps?

Finding and working on your training gaps will improve you in and out of the gym. If you have ever been on the underground rail system in London, you are probably familiar with this prerecorded message. “Mind the gap. Please … Read More

3 Ways To Beat Procrastination

If Procrastination were an Olympic Sport, I’d be a perennial gold medalist; seriously, do you feel it? That would be the perfect opportunity to go all Jackson 5 on you because, you know, it’s the Jackson Five, but I’ll refrain. … Read More

Where Are Your Cheerleaders?

When talking about cheerleaders, let me clarify one thing from the start. It’s not the cheerleaders on the sideline at sporting events who are waving their poms-poms around and chanting. Here, I’m referring to your personal support network, which you … Read More

Fitness’s Secret Enemy

Health and fitness has a low bar for entry, but the secret enemy stops many people in their tracks before they even get started. Becoming or staying healthy and fit is simple (but usually challenging). Pick up a weight or … Read More

Go Against The Grain

During woodworking class at my high school back when the dinosaurs stomped around the earth, I was told to sand with the grain of the wood. Going against the wood grain would scratch the surface and leave it with a … Read More

Gentle Confidence

Gentle confidence is borne from being okay with the world and whatever comes your way, and it is a firm awareness of what is right and what is not. It is derived from a calm, quiet mind. Gentle confidence is … Read More

Overcoming Obstacles

Otherwise known as making it work, but I already wrote about that, so I went with overcoming obstacles. You have responsibilities outside yourself when you’re an adult or at least a partial one like me. Things like work, kids, paying … Read More

Take Action

You could say in the age of Google that, we don’t have a knowledge problem regarding health and fitness. We have an action problem. Because let’s face it, you have all the information you need at your fingertips. Don’t know … Read More

Make A Commitment

Let’s look at the definitions of the word commitment. An agreement or pledge to do something in the future. The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc. An engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action. … Read More