Breaking Bad… Eating Habits
You want to stop drinking soda or eating potato chips (or, insert other indulgence you know is not helping your fat loss endeavors), you sincerely do. But you’ve tried so many times, and while [...]
What Most People Are Still Getting Wrong About Goal-Oriented Versus Process-Oriented Fitness
I recently read a book about mindfulness and being "present." The premise was that by learning to love the process, you'll avoid self-judgement, eliminate impatience, end boredom, reduce stress, feel calmer, experience self-discovery, enjoy [...]
A New Fitness Challenge For The New Year: Goal Setting In The Technology Age
When you pause and reflect on the past year as you look ahead to a new one, it really makes you think. It makes you appreciate how short life is, how valuable time is and how [...]
The 7 Biggest Weight Relapse Mistakes
There’s a price you must pay to get the body you want. There’s also a price you must pay to keep it. As Thomas Jefferson said, “eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” Once you [...]
How Long Does It Take To Form A Fitness Habit?
It takes 21 days to form a new habit right? Everyone knows that. Well, hold on a minute – recent research suggests that this isn't quite accurate. Can a simple habit be formed in 21 [...]
Your Brain Is A Jerk: 5 Cognitive Biases That Are Sabotaging Your Fat Loss Goals
One of the curses of being human is that we are hard-wired for delusion. The good news is that not only is it perfectly normal, but our misbeliefs are the very thing that have, in [...]
Taking The Motivation Pill
Shawn Phillips, author of strength for life and Absolution knows a thing or two about the body as well as the mind and motivation. In this post you'll learn the three strong steps to hooking up to a literal "drip line" of motivation
30 Things I Learned From 30 Years of Bodybuilding
I started training in the early 1980’s and right from the start, I was engrossed with the bodybuilding style of training and eating. I think it’s always valuable to take time for reflection, and realizing [...]
The Bad Attitude That Kills Diet And Exercise Programs
Self-improvement speaker and author Earl Nightingale described attitude as “The angle or bearing, including actions, feelings and moods,” from which you approach a problem or situation. That’s a great definition. I like to say something [...]
How I’ve Stayed Motivated To Work Out Consistently For 30 Years Straight
I recently took part in the Elite Body Seminar, where I was interviewed by Jim Katsoulis, a hypnotherapist and fitness coach who, rather than just training clients in the gym physically, he specializes in using [...]