No, not your physical location, but the way you feel. On most week days, when I close my laptop after a day’s work, I am a ball of anxiety, frustration, and everything in between. Just name a negative feeling, and I can find it’s home somewhere deep in my brain. […]

We often see frustration as the enemy, but focusing on the negative means we’re missing something significant. We feel frustrated when we hit a plateau, fail to meet our goals or face ginormous obstacles. These are opportunities for reflection and adaptation. They signal that it’s time to reevaluate our methods, […]

Reps and sets only tell a small part of the story. Building a strong body, not only for now but 15 years from now, takes so much more than x’s and o’s. It takes skills you can’t track. At least not day-to-day. Skills like: Patience to delay gratification. Resilience to […]

We’re almost two months into the new year. At the end of last year, you made plans. At the start of this year, you took action. At eight weeks in, how are you tracking? Are you still heading in the direction you want to go? Now, heading in the right […]

This one’s from Paul at PainScience.com, sharing examples of appalling and harmful comments healthcare professionals have made to their patients. The comment section has plenty more. Here’s one: “You’re all out of alignment. We’ll need to schedule ten weekly sessions to try to get things back in place…” Or how […]

Things happen. Often randomly. We make up the reason because we don’t like open loops. -J

In my teens and 20s, all I cared about was my looks. That’s all I trained for. Well, that and my ego. Trying to punish myself to be the strongest and fittest person in the gym (I never was). My early 30s were about the same. Although with less ego […]

I was at a fitness seminar years ago, and one of the speakers asked that question. Being a room full of fitness professionals, about 99.9% of the hands went up. The 0.1%? He was eating a taco and couldn’t raise a hand. The speaker saw the hands go up. “You […]

“I don’t want to squat because it fucking hurts.” That’s about the first thing Julie said to me when we first spoke. She’d had a few knee reconstructions and now ambled away with about zero cartilage in both knees. She was adamant that she would never squat again. And because […]

There’s a good chance you need to change your daily routine. Not overhaul your whole existence. But to reshuffle parts of your schedule schedule. Cancel a thing or two to make space for 30-45 minutes a couple of times a week. There will never be enough time for everything. You’ll […]