coaching meet the 4 types of people 1/4 The Dabbler approaches each new sport, career opportunity, or relationship with enormous enthusiasm. He or she loves the rituals involved in getting started, the spiffy equipment, the lingo, the shine of newness.
coaching do we strength train to the exclusion of everything else? Strength work need not be done to the exclusion of everything else. But done smartly, if you are struggling for bandwidth, it is a good one-stop shop.
quotes 3 quotes for May 14, 2021 Learning to name an emotion is powerful. Learning to not run away from negative emotions is empowering.
coaching a fool-proof system to lose weight 3 meals a day. Nothing between meals. Nothing outside of meals. Nothing before or after meals. If you are eating it, it happens in that thirty minute window that you are eating. Try it out for a week and get back to me. Oh, don't forget to measure yourself today and after one week.
coaching an email from a student on 6 months of progress You taught me how to eat, instead directing me on what to eat. ... Well that's what [has] allowed me to now maintain a mostly consistent diet for half a year now.
quotes 3 quotes for May 7, 2021 If information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs. – Derek Sivers
Getting Started 30 minutes to start the change Start small. Start today. Don't waste time figuring out the best method. Pick something. Do it daily for 30 minutes. Don't second guess yourself. Don't pick something that yells fad.
diet on the endless cycle of gaining and losing weight It is easy to lose 5 kilos in a few weeks. It is even easier to put it back on in a few weeks. Get out of that cycle. The slower the gains, the better.
quotes 3 quotes for April 30, 2021 Mastery, consistency, and meaningful markers. Brilliant quotes from Shane Parrish, George Leonard and Derek Sivers to get you to think.
discussion on keeping score If you could go back to school and tell yourself, would you seriously tell yourself to score MORE marks? Or to learn some skills that you did not know needed to be learned back then?
framework the 8-fold path I was reading my favourite philosopher, Bruce Lee, and he talks about Buddhism's eightfold path. Well, can we use that to think about our fitness and health? Absolutely!
coaching on skill work and exponential progress Skill work is fun. You immerse yourself in the process, constantly trying to improve. But without being super critical or an ass to yourself. You try to figure things out, you ask for outside perspective, you assess and see if you are moving in the right direction.
coaching on zero-sum thinking Most sports are zero-sum games. If you win, I lose. That thinking does not bode well for folks who are looking to improve their health and fitness, especially in group settings.
coaching on useful binary thinking The issue arises when you tell yourself it is just one bite of cake, or just a few bits of chips and what-not. You are not skilled enough or responsible enough to do that. So, just stop with it!
ArvTraining on impatience and trying to create efficiency This was the time when I felt like a kid in a candy store. Suddenly, an entire universe was accessible to me.
quotes 3 quotes for April 9, 2021 Not every thought that pops into your head needs to be taken seriously. The stupid ones, the random ones, the ones that make no sense, the ones that make you question yourself and the ones where you wonder Do I really think that way - mull it over and if it doesn't feel YOU, discard it.
coaching on not feeling like going to the gym When you lose motivation, it generally is a sign of stress. Things elsewhere are adding up. If you are someone who loves going to the gym and are suddenly finding it hard to wake up and move your ass out of bed, it is almost always your body telling you to chill out.
dont quit on being a bit angry There's that clarity that comes from being pissed. Being angry at yourself and yelling/criticising is you acting. Instead, be productive with it. You'll immediately stop with the act. And move on to action.
coaching on calling out bull**** Instead, he took it personally. He was affronted that a smart person such as himself was questioned on what he was doing.
coaching on the shape that will actually make you happy Do you look at an old photo - from 2-3 years back and not old college/school photos - and wish you were in that shape today? Well, here's a question for you - were you happy with that shape, at that time and place?
coaching stick to it, at least for 6 weeks Stick to one course of action for a good chunk of time and then you can re-visit whether you should do something else. At least 6 weeks, going on up to 12 weeks seems to be the right amount of time. So, next time your friend with an opinion on what is better tells you ....
discussion on shoving things under the carpet In New York City, by one estimate, horses left behind 2.5 million pounds of manure and sixty thousand gallons of urine every day.
