diet What is a calorie deficit? Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.
coaching Your fitness journey as a mass movie It does require a hero's journey to make it here. You have to conquer your demons. You have to solve your problems and solve them well. You just cannot keep running away from them and hope it will go away. And so, when you step up, you find that you can beat it.
coaching To heck with before-afters If you are not able to keep off the darned weight, if you lose all the strength you worked hard for, if you are back to square one ... what a waste!
coaching find your "me" time 9 times out of 10, you don't go to the gym. You don't do much about your nutrition. You don't get those results. You fail. You get angry with yourself or the gym. Or both. And you give up. You set yourself up for failure from the start.
daily9 My eating is out of control Know that the real issue is not your food. But something else in your life where you have relinquished control. But need to take control back.
framework Do you want it simple? Or easy? There's value in understanding what the toll of a task is. Some demand more time or more energy or both, and they form a barrier to entry. Calorie counting for me is impossible and D9 is second nature, but for a lot of folks, it is the other way around.
framework the endless game Fitness can be an infinite game, and I strongly believe it should. Because it is a great vehicle to grow, and push yourself, and also have a great quality of life.
coaching why kettlebells and the story of Daedalus and Icarus Everything a dumbbell can do, a kettlebell can do. Plus, there are ballistics with a kettlebell. So, that's simple. Barbells vs KBs is a bit harder. But knowing what we wanted to coach and offer - GPP - meant there was only one clear winner.
coaching the ever-expanding universe You realise that some things were scarier in your head than in the real. But now, with more years under the belt, you see better. And when you were bored, you were just not challenged enough.
framework solving it yourself vs using an expert Meeting a tax consultant meant paying more money. And interacting with people. And answering questions that I didn't want to answer - about savings, about financial planning, and about questions, I didn't know existed.
coaching failing a diet is your comfort zone Looks like you went on a diet last January as well. Oh, you lost 8 kilos then. Brilliant. And how much did you put on over the year? All of it. And then some. stop repeating the same pattern
coaching thrash your arms about like you just don't care You jump into the pool and you start to flail your arms and legs in a wild fashion. With frenetic quantities of thrashing, you manage to stay afloat. Or so you thought. You sink to the bottom. Panic ensues. Someone kindly pulls you out of the water where you gasp and cough and hack your lungs out.
coaching just hold your nose and get through it Instead of hating driving, I can drive. I don't have to love it. Instead of hating your physical activity routine, you can just do it. Armed with the larger theme of you taking care of yourself, you can just do that.
framework lift more next week than you did this week In one year, you will be squatting 270 kilos. In two years, you will have the world record in your sights. In three years...
coaching on subbing out rice We try a shortcut or a flawed method due to multiple reasons. One of them is a flawed mental model. We have the wrong conception about how something works and so when we try to implement that method, we don't get the desired result.
coaching a fun night and a sucky morning-after You wake up. And you start thinking about the weighing scale. Should you? Should you not? After a bit of back and forth, you just cannot take it. Everything you do is distracted by the thought of going and checking your weight. The more you try to push it away, the firmer it comes back.
coaching meet The Hacker 3/4 After sort of getting the hang of a thing, he or she is willing to stay on the plateau indefinitely. He doesn't mind skipping stages essential to the development of mastery if he can just go out and hack around with fellow hackers
coaching on hard and fast rules You've broken the rule. You are angry. Mostly at yourself. At this repressed way of eating and dieting. You are angry you need to diet. You feel guilty. And somewhere you decide to order a few scoops of ice cream
coaching meet The Obsessive 2/4 The Obsessive starts out by making robust progress. His first spurt is just what he expected. But when he inevitably regresses and finds himself on a plateau, he simply wont accept it. He redoubles his effort. He pushes himself mercilessly.
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.
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.
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?