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activity

How to Train Year-Round: Mastering the Art of Sustainable Strength Training

Achieving long-term fitness goals is a challenge faced by many. There's a common tendency to start a workout routine with enthusiasm, only to lose momentum and stop altogether. This start-stop approach can hinder progress

diet

Get healthier without missing out on your favourite foods

I'll help you eat lesser. This doesn't mean you will starve. Instead, it means you will eat the amount you need rather than overeat without knowing.

habits

You have a hydration problem

Your body is mostly water. Your body needs water for proper function. It seems simple. Trivial. And yet, do you know if you are drinking enough?

activity

Start with recovery: 7 strategies to feel amazing

When you are unwell, you feel like staying in bed for longer. You want to push work away and instead vegetate on the couch, watch some mindless TV. That's your body getting what it needs - minimal calorie expenditure and lots of rest.

life

Hustle Hustle Hustle

I think we get confused between hard work and application versus the constant craving and desire for more.

coaching

on Streaks and Cycles

The problem is streaks are not sustainable. It is not their job to be sustainable. Their job is to shake you up, to get you out of your rut, to get you way past your comfort zone and then some.

framework

The Boring Truth

But the truth of most matters has not changed in a long time. Most of the fundamentals about lifting and nutrition have been around from before I was born.

challenge

Challenge yourself. But what comes after?

You find something else that grows you and challenges you. Whether it is a path that forks off the main one or is tangential to it - as long as you connect with it. But one thing is clear - staying on top AND doing something else makes little sense.

challenge

The Goldilocks zone

And then, liberally steal and copy and chop and change from whatever you see to make your own perfect concoction. Keep doing it, keep tinkering with it and make your own special brand of awesome-sauce.

dont quit

Solving the maze

Do you remember trying to solve a maze? You start and then you come to a place that forks. You have a choice to make. You make a choice. More forks, more choices. You are deeper into the maze. And then, a dead-end!

diet

Hack portion control

Your appetite has been trained by you, more or less. Your stomach size is also developed over the years. So, come dinner time, you know what and how much of it is going in.

coaching

Smoke and drink and live to a 100

The world is full of exceptions. Most things though, tend to follow the norm.

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.

activity

is sitting the new smoking?

When we frame the problem differently - not as sitting too much but (a) being inactive and (b) sitting for an extended period at a stretch - we can sort this problem out

coaching

what is the game you are playing?

you and your goals and intentions are different. Do what works for today. Tomorrow, as you evolve, ideas that did not make sense will sound different. Sound right.

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.

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.

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?

coaching

on looking ripped and getting a 6-pack

What do you think is going to change? Why do you want to get into the shape that Instagram tells us is all around us, the shape that magazine cover models and celebrities look like? Join me on this discussion, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

activity

4 ways to supercharge your walk

Walking is underrated and underutilised. Because you don't know how to make it harder while retaining all the advantages. Well, not anymore! Try this out and see magic happen in 3 months.

Getting Started

on creaky joints and pain

As we get older, our joints hurt and simple things like sitting and standing become clunky. Is this how it is? Or is there an alternative?

daily9

5 things that you can get your parents to do

Getting old does not mean getting unhealthy. Creaky joints is not a mandatory side-effect of ageing. What are some things that people in their late 50s and 60s can focus on?

coaching

how do you make time for your fitness habit?

But before we even identify a training plan or what to do and all that, we need to nail showing up. Because if you don't show up, then how can you put in any effort towards your health or fitness habit? You cannot.