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IKEA fitness
If you’re using IKEA style instructions to assemble your health and fitness, then there is a good chance you’re going to miss a step, lose a piece, or get frustrated with the process.
We advise you do this instead…
The power of environment design
Our environment plays a big role in our behaviors, desirable and undesirable.
“If you want what you’ve never had, you need do what you’ve never done”.
Is it actually necessary to do something completely different to get the results you desire?
Well, probably.
Flexible Nutrition Guide
This guide is designed to give you guidance on how to establish a baseline of nutritional intake, how to adjust your that intake when shit hits the fan with work/home/life, and how to deviate successfully and without too much mental gymnastics when their is a weekend birthday bash or late night partner schmoozing.
When you can’t control, influence.
Trying to control everything is a sure-fire way to suffocate the rabbit by holding on too damn tight. Instead, use your influence to get what you need without the added stress.
Series: Nutrition Coaching Recap - Part I
Learn how I and my client developed a plan to maintain a calorie deficit during an important and stressful work trip.
Bread from the bag
Food and in particular restaurant food is a “culinary experience”. It’s a huge part of enjoying your life, and simultaneously, if food is always an experience, then it becomes the norm and by default is no longer an experience.
The case for anecdotal evidence in training/nutrition
Anecdote gets very wishy-washy and problematic when we apply it globally generally.
Are your goals actually are holding you back?
Studies show that approach-based threshold goals are more advantageous and lead to longer-lasting results in beginners and intermediates looking to master a new skill in pursuit of a greater goal.
You’re probably right, you might “need to be ready for the gym”
Countless fit pros post something to the effect of “you don’t need to wait until you are fitter to go to the gym” every year. Though this point often has many merits, so does the opposite and here’s why.
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The red flag of moral obligation is health and fitness
Though there is an abundance of great information and coaching available, beware of those squeezing your morality and self-esteem to give you a piece of their pie. Here’s what to look out for…
Diets do work…and they don’t work too.
The health and fitness industry isn’t serving you, the people looking to improve your health and fitness, as well as it could be, and here’s why
Are you making these snacking mistakes? (and how to fix them)
The importance of environment design in behavior change can not be understated - here’s how to make it work for you instead of against you.
“Just tell me what to eat”
Why knowing what to eat isn’t the problem, how we can shift the narrative to being in charge of our own nutrition story, and some things we can do right now that have a significant impact.
Why do mainstream diets fail us long-term?
Drawing your own health and fitness map ensures you get to where you want to go in a way that matches you…here’s how to do it.
Tactical band-aids for emotional shotgun wounds
And yet, "keeping things in check" without considering how the tactics we use, match (or don't match) with our own personal values can actually make things much harder in the long run.
Your body doesn’t care - Part II
How to be flexible and adapt to your environment and demands whilst still making progress towards our goals.