Without A Gym

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  How to Win a Race (Without Running)

  She was ahead of me for 99.9% of the race. It was a 5k and despite only having one run under my belt in the past 6 months, I was sitting in second place and 1 minute behind her at the half-way point. I am not really a competitive person but I felt the urge to [...]

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  Death of the Over Exerciser

  So you want to know how often you should be hitting the gym if you want to reach your fat loss goal? The answer is way less than you think. We live in a society, however, that thinks that more is better. We think if we can just get to the gym 6 times a week, then [...]

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  Why Chasing 6 Pack Abs May Make You Fatter

  Fitness is the easy part. Not sacrificing your health in the process — that’s harder. It’s often this sacrifice that makes many of the goals we set unsustainable and short-lived (such as trying to get unnaturally lean and/or vigorous “running everyday” type training). When we go against our health and own well-being by chasing crazy [...]

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  The Most Important Thing About Building Muscle

  Question you must ask yourself before attempting my following advice: Are you comfortable with your current leanness? No?  Go back to the fat loss drawing board and read the first part of this series. Yes? Get ready for fun. Sending the Muscle Growth Signal With muscle (and unlike fat),  there is a limit to how [...]

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  The Most Important Thing About Fat Loss

  sig·nal Transmit information or instructions by means of a gesture, action, or sound. At the heart of our efforts to transform lie signals. These signals (or behaviors) are what make our mind and body what they are. When we lose fat or gain muscle, it is because not only did we send the signal(s) that corresponds [...]

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  Turning On The Machine (and the Art of Activation)

  Our body is machine. Just like a car, it runs on fuel, needs maintenance once in a while or else it breaks down, and has a set speed it can achieve. It also has buttons that you can push (like cruise control) that help make the trip easier and more efficient. These buttons (or switches), in our own [...]

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  How to Start a Yoga Practice at Home: The 5 Lessons

  Yoga snuck up on me. I was a somewhat reluctant beginner 5 years ago, and it wasn’t until I started my yoga home practice that it really grabbed hold of me. I was an off and on yoga practitioner until last year, when, on a whim, I bought and read the book The Heart of [...]

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  What I Have Learned From A Decade of Pain

  If you choose to embark on the fitness game, you are going to get hurt (there is no doubt about this). But even if you don’t exercise, you are still going to get hurt (life is its own workout). When you do, this is what you will need to know: The Basics Injuries can be [...]

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  How To Beat The Clock (And Get Your Body Back)

  {This was originally posted at Comeback Momma- A website dedicated to helping mothers stage their own comeback.} As newborn mothers and fathers (and busy people in general), time to yourself is extremely limited. With this, however, the big question will still remain: “How will you get back your fitness and body?” For most, trips to [...]

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  Do We Have To Run To Get In Shape?

  Running sucks. I’m sorry, but it does. As a mental pursuit, I hold running marathons with the up most respect.  Physically, however, it takes us further away from our aesthetic and performance goals and, in the process, makes us hobbled and wobbled earlier in life. I don’t know if we do it because we think [...]

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  The 4 Indicators of Health (Or Disease)

  What is healthy? The interwebz is filled with about a zillion people who are not afraid to answer this question for you.  They claim Paleo is the only way to go or that msg/apartame will give you cancer or that if you ain’t eating raw you’ll die a early death or whatever (there is a [...]

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  Playing the Happiness Game

  We all play it. We may not talk about it, but our actions talk louder than our mouths ever could: We buy, eat, act, believe, … all in the name of  happiness. Makes sense then that we want to pay attention to both what delivers it (different for everyone) and what prevents it (almost the [...]

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  Warm Up or Die

  Okay, well, not really. You won’t die if you skip the warm up, but your results will. And your goals will. And your joints and muscles and performance will. And if you skip it long enough, you’ll no longer be able to work out. Wouldn’t that suck?             So please [...]

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  The Rise of The Exercise Machines

  The 2 most common complaints/excuses I hear from people who know they should exercise but don’t are:  I have no time.  I am in pain. A close third is “I don’t know what to do”. Just subscribing to one of these beliefs is enough to derail someone, but a lot of us actually have all [...]

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  You Can’t Spell Investment Without “Vest”

  The following is a short convo I had with a friend recently: Girl: So I started exercising at home and it’s been going really well. ME: Oh yeah? Girl: Yeah. I starting out not even being able to squat now I can do it 30 times without breaking a sweat. ME: Awesome! Girl: Yeah. That’s [...]

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  The Science of Awesome

  Knowing about myelin changes the way we see the world. The Talent Code In short, talent (and inherent awesomeness) is bogus and research into myelin (pronounced just like it reads) is proving that. Myelin, insulation that wraps neural circuits, is showing us that when this grows (such as with practice), our skills grow as well. [...]

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  How To Poop In China

  Could you poop in that toilet? If you are like most North Americans, probably not. To be able to would require us to squat. But you we can’t squat. Unlike the Chinese, we don’t do it anymore. We have lost contact with “all things squatting“. And because of this, we are getting terribly immobile (which [...]

• GYMS: Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That!

  Having to decide on appropriate clothing to wear… Driving there… Waiting for machines and exercise areas to open… Battling off interruptions and distracting behavior… Driving back…. Traffic (shit!)…. AIN’T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!

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  MOBILITY: Where It Begins

  This may go without saying, but first and foremost, it begins in the mind. We have to want it and we have to prove it to ourselves that it’s what we actually want (with an investment). After that (and where the exercise journey begins), is moving. More specifically, the ability (and capability) to move well. Most [...]

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  4 Reasons People Fail Without A Gym

  For a lot of people, learning how to exercise without a gym is there only shot at becoming and staying fit (and maybe healthy too). Still, there are a lot who fail at this. Some give it a go and can’t get it to work while many others never start. Here are the 4 reasons [...]

Mind and Energy

Simplify (with these)

We must learn how to simplify. If we are not striving for this, then there is a good chance we are only adding more noise, confusion, and distraction to this already complex world. Life is too short to be confused. When it comes to health and fitness, however, many of us are. Let’s put an [...]

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Embracing Your Nerves

I am nervous right now. Scared as hell. Initially, when Bethany asked me to write this post for her, I was excited. Now I am left wondering how it will be perceived. Will people like it? Will anyone even read it? Will this boost me to the top of the blogger ranks? Will Bethany ask [...]

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My First Big Red X

Confession: I haven’t wrote in over 30 days. Nothing. Zip. Nodda. Despite it being a goal of mine and something I love to do, I fell off track. I can try to justify it with excuses such as the influx of new clientele sucking up my time or that I spilled coffee on my PC and [...]

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The Truth About Depression

Depression. Sadness. Unhappiness. Whatever you want to call it, this “down” state of mind is something that we all dread and hope to avoid. Oddly, however, it’s often something that most of us recognize as one of the greatest drivers of our lives. Stuff like bad relationships, working jobs we hate, and making stupid decisions [...]

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