How this Russian proverb applies to our health and fitness.

Our environment plays a big role in our behaviors, desirable and undesirable.

5 more practices that can make your efforts stick long term

Having a Plan B rarely means that you aren’t committed to plan A. It means you are realistic in your expectations when something outside of your control happens, you’ve thought of ways to pivot.

If you recently vowed to improve your diet then these 5 skills can help you adhere to your efforts.

In a recent conversation with my big brother, I said the phrase “you can’t ride 2 horses with 1 arse mate!” …Here is why

We’ve all made a new year’s resolution that didn’t stick. Why? Because we don’t allow ourselves to be bad at it at first.

We fail a few times and then give up. Here’s how to avoid that mistake this time

Are you wasting time in these areas?

If you've been reading my emails and seeing my posts but you're not sure whether the program is right for you yet, then this is your chance to get a taster to see whether you're ready to commit or not.

Your daily habits like taking the stairs, batch cooking some food, and skipping the next episode of The Office in favor of more sleep, might not feel like they’re creating change because they are hard to detect when compared directly against your outcome goal. But here is how they add up…

Is your fitness tracker fooling you into NOT working out?

If we can only operate when things are optimal, then it stops being a useful tool and instead makes us fragile.

If you don’t have a plan, you can't make changes to it. Which means anything is possible, including all the things you don’t want to happen.

It’s walking. Let me explain…

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there”.

The thing the business gurus keep telling us that actually keep us stuck.

Do you do much general activity that you spread yourself thin, making your ability to achieve a specific goal, limited?

Which one should you actually do? This is a nuanced topic and requires the fundamental understanding that both mindfulness and automation are simply tools and both can benefit different people and different situations.

It can be easy to conflate hours worked with productivity (I know this firsthand from my years as a brick and mortar gym owner). This is a fallacy. Long hours DON’T always equal success, and more often leads to burnout at work and in the gym.