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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?
“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.
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.
Food has no morality
Thinking of food as good/bad behaviors, winner/loser choices, clean/dirty, honest/cheating actions only serve to perpetuate extreme behaviors with food that aren’t necessary or helpful
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.
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.
Food is more than fuel - Part II
It IS fuel, AND it’s so many other things too. There is no good or bad, right or wrong. There are efficient and inefficient actions towards the goals you have right now.
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.
Nothing changes without action
Start by taking action and watch what happens. Experience how much easier it is to keep going than to stop after a few “reps”.