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  • Fitness Advice Around The Holidays Is Useless

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    The holidays and health and fitness advice go together like peanut butter, jelly, mirrors, and biceps curls. Many fitness professionals don’t want their clients to backslide during the holiday season, and to help and get more clients, guess what they do? They get on social media and dish out advice on maintaining activity and moderating…

  • Gentle Confidence

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    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 the ability to handle life; overcoming adversity is an inner strength often overlooked. Confidence is…

  • 4 Exercise Mistakes Stopping You From Progress

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    Being in the gym trenches for over 30 years and training clients for over 13 is plenty of time for me to make many mistakes. And I have, but that’s okay because making mistakes is one way to learn. Now, my pain can be your gain. Making mistakes is part of the learning process; if…

  • Persistence: The Neglected Fitness Trait

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    There’s a fine line between persistence and stubbornness, but more on that later. Before going further, here’s a definition of persistence to get things straight between us. The two definitions you’re concerned with are. Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action despite difficulty or opposition. Or The continued or prolonged existence of something.…

  • Developing A Positive Mindset

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    Developing a positive mindset means you’re hopeful about the world and expect good things to happen. Conversely, a negative mindset indicates that you expect bad things (real or perceived) to happen to you and are less than optimistic about the world around you. Another way of looking at it is to see the glass half…

  • Anniversaries Remind You Of What Matters

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    I am taking a break from my regular stuff to talk about anniversaries and how each year it stirs emotions. Reading through Facebook, as I often do, people write about friends and family past, what they learned from them, and how much they miss them. I don’t know how they feel, but I can understand…

  • Enjoy The Journey (And The Destination)

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    An old saying has been bouncing around in my large noggin for a while: enjoy the journey. It’s pretty prevalent in the health and fitness industry because of goal setting and reaching goals that the client wants. There are a couple of things about this enjoy the journey saying that bothers me because I’m a…

  • Patience: Who’s Got Time For That?

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    Remember when you were a child, and your parents almost always told you to show patience? Mum, when is it dinner time? 6 pm, Shane, and for the love of God, show some patience. Who can be patient when they’re hungry? Dad, when are you taking me to the amusement park like you promised? Son,…

  • The Forgotten System

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    Odds on, you haven’t given much thought to this system when you’re crushing your 5th set of biceps curls while making faces in the mirror because curls don’t count unless done in front of a mirror. But without it, lifting and staying upright is a problem. Do you know what it is? It’s the Vestibular…

  • Take Action

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    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 what an exercise is? YouTube it Need help getting started in the gym? Google gym…