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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…
Can you solve this fitness riddle?
Where are your efforts best applied in your quest for fat loss and how long will it take to lose significant body fat with limited muscle mass?
Are you getting lost in your training? Part I
I’ve done some thinking and wanted to share with you, whether you are a trainer or a trainee, the 2 key most important aspects to consider in your training to be successful are
What do dynamite, fruit, jackhammers, and sleep have to do with one another?
So often we focus on the minutia when 80% of a task can be completed by 1-2 high-impact behaviors/adjustments. Are you making these mistakes in your health and fitness?
Why upgrading your mindset is the most liberating skill
The skills we use to get started likely won't be the ones we use to keep going. Always using the same practices regularly serves to perpetuate the stop-start/yoyo nature of training, nutrition, and lifestyle improvements.
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.
Programming for fat loss - Part II
Find out how your training might change when you are on a fat loss diet vs on a maintenance or muscle gain diet.
Is your goal YOUR goal?
We’ve all got our own limiting beliefs. Whether it’s that “your body needs to be kept guessing in a workout”. Whether it’s that “X diet is the only diet that works”.
5 key differences between a personal trainer and a nutrition coach.
Endorphins are the magic ingredient in a training scenario, whereas empowerment is the secret weapon to making a difference in nutrition coaching.
Fitness isn’t magic - please read that again.
Get “ripped quick programs” are someone else’s way of getting rich off consumers. Don’t fall for this.
Programming for fat loss - Part I
Find out how your training might change when you are on a fat loss diet vs on a maintenance or muscle gain diet.
Fat loss = muscle maintenance
Muscle is the “fire” that burns the “fuel” you throw on it. If your principal goal is fat loss, then you want to maintain as much muscle mass as possible.
Are you choosing your technique or is choosing you?
Driving to either end of the ROM curve is a choice we want to try and make, rather than a compensatory strategy we end up with.