Author: Balance Guy Training
-
Starting Here And Now
Starting is the most crucial step toward accomplishing anything. Let’s dive into a few examples right off the bat. Starting with the first sentence is handy for writing a book. A good start toward running a marathon is to put on your shoes and go for a run. If you want to build muscle or lose fat, starting…
-
Stress + Rest = Growth Part 2
Part one explains what happens when too much or too little stress is applied, and the same with rest. Part two discusses how growth occurs between the two and how you go about finding it. Where Growth Lives Growth depends on both sides of the equation, since it is not driven by either alone. It…
-
Stress + Rest = Growth
Many people do one or the other but not both. Stress and Rest One side never quits while the other sits on the couch. The grinders and never-quitters see stress as a badge of honor, filling their days with hard workouts, long hours, poor sleep, and drinking enough coffee to make it all happen. The…
-
15 Minute Workouts When You Have No Time
Lack of time is a common excuse reason for not staying consistent with workouts. Some will find any reason not to work out, while others will make it work, no matter how little time they have. If you’re in the Make It Work camp, you’re in the right place. These 15-minute workouts are stopgap solutions…
-
4 Ways To Achieve Consistency
Consistency is your secret sauce for getting results in health and fitness. It’s all well and good for me to say you need to be consistent and show up to the gym and the kitchen to get sexy and live a better-quality life. You, in all likelihood, know that. It’s not the message you don’t…
-
4 Reasons For Exercise Variety
We’re all afflicted with shiny object (exercise variety) syndrome. We see something fancy come across our feed or a celebrity hawking a new toy, we often think. “Oh, yeah, that looks cool. I want that.” Then, if your partner reads your thoughts as mine does, they’ll give you the NO look. You know that look,…
-
Eat Slowly: The Science of Sustainable Fat Loss
Many people attempting to lose weight concentrate solely on their diet. They search for the perfect one: keto, intermittent fasting, or vegetarian, but there’s a huge piece that many overlook. How you eat matters just as much as what you eat. One of the biggest game-changers is a skill that sounds almost too simple: eat…
-
Unconscious Habits
“I can’t help myself…bad habits.” It’s a line from an old song that still rings true. You cannot help yourself; whether the habit is good, like drinking a glass of water when you first wake up, or bad, like reaching for the ice cream tub when your favorite TV show comes on. Either way, they…
-
Strength Training for Lower Back Pain
If you’re a lifter or athlete, nothing halts you like low back pain. When a limb is injured, you have another limb to rely on and can adjust your activities, but there is no sidestepping back pain. When it hurts, many movements become painful, and it sucks. Ten years ago, I suffered from three herniated…
-
Go Slow Before You Go Fast
We want to go fast from almost the moment we’re born. Once we’re through our newborn phase, we are on the move, fast. We roll to our bellies, learn how to crawl, cruise on furniture, stand up, balance, and then learn how to walk. Walking becomes running, running becomes sprinting, and then the fun begins…