If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you probably know that I am a big proponent of two aspects of fitness:
- Doing fitness-stuff outside of the gym
- Doing fitness-stuff inside the gym to be better at the fitness-stuff outside of the gym
Category: Life-Long Fitness
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Three Days of Non-Gym Fitness
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Good vs Bad Fitness Hacks
Anything you say, I believe. We love hacks. The quick fixes, the shortcuts, the simple solutions that promise to solve our most complex issues. Most hacks give us a false sense of hope that we can skip the long road ahead. They lure us away from the actual work in hopes of an easier way. (more…)
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When You Feel Unmotivated
We all have times when we are on the verge of stopping because the goal just feels too enormous and intimidating. Maybe the goal looks like a small dot in the horizon. Maybe it feels like an unbearable mountain with vertical walls, jammed with barbed-wire and razor blade obstacles. And manned machine guns.
Most people stop before they get anywhere. I like to call them the start stoppers. They don’t stay on the same route long enough to see results from the work they put it. (more…)
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Game Changers for a Better Health
I got the idea for this week’s post after scrolling through Dan John’s online forum. Someone posted their five game changers that have given them the biggest boost towards a better health.
As I’ve written in the past I don’t always see health and fitness part of the same goal. You can be very fit but in poor health. On the other hand, you can’t be healthy without being at least somewhat fit.
Here are five game changers I’ve done that have made me a healthier human. (more…)
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The Silent Disease That Will Destroy Your Independence
Call me a Doomsday Douglas but we are in the middle of a dark patch of ignorance as it comes to human body. Although medicine is taking giant leaps forward helping us to live longer, other advancements are making us comfortable of letting go. (more…)
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The Fitness Excitement Rollercoaster & How To Deal with It-ish
I barely have the stomach for un-turbo rollercoster, let alone TURBO. If you are just starting with your health and exercise routine, this post will give a peek a into the future and what to expect. And if you are a more experience trainee… well, this might act as nice reminder. So you’ll remember not to forget.
When down the track you feel disheartened remember that 99% of folks who start a fitness routine go through these same steps. It’s almost as common as the urge to fart after drinking milk. Yet nobody talks about it because it’s not cool. Unless you are part of the special lactose intolerance – circles (or SLIC for short).
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Set Your Own Standards for a Perfect Body
#nofilter (yeah, right) This is going to be controversial coming from a personal trainer whose income is tied to being fit and showing others how to achieve the same. But bear with me, it’ll make sense in the end.
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The Health and Fitness Skill Deficit Puzzle
Live and Loud. With skill. Once we decide that we want something we usually want it now. Not tomorrow or ten week from now but now, dammit! Obviously it’s ok to want something now. But the issue with now is that we seek for instant gratification and it clouds our rational thinking as we only focus on the short-term solution. (more…)
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Know When To Stop
Stop in the name of love The world is plagued with the mindset of more. Work longer hours and sacrifice sleep so you can make more money to buy a bigger house. Buy more stuff to fill up the empty space. Owning more shit doesn’t mean that you are doing better in life. It just means that you own more shit.
We have the same more is better mindset with exercise too. But more is not better, better is better. If exercising hurts, or if you are sick and run down, it’s your body telling you to either stop or to slow down. It’s a safety mechanism to protect the body. It’s not a weakness leaving the body, or no pain no gain. It’s the warning light is on, slow the fuck down because your wheels are coming off. (more…)
