on forward progress
anything works for 6 weeks. Even most silly, nonsensical things. The jolt to your system is crazy. If you are going from eating a giant candy bar 3 times a day to once a day, we are talking 14 giant candy bars lesser a week.…
enjoy it
Most of all, it is important to enjoy the task. If I am not enjoying it, it means something's wrong. And I am going to stop doing this soon. Whatever it is. Even if it is a sport that I love playing.…
the where
where are we currently? where do we want to be? but where should we really be aiming for?…
the what
The hard part is not what to do. As I already told you, you know it. Heck, 10-year-olds know it. ... The hardest part of all is doing it, and believing in the process.…
de-clutter or else!
Strong and healthy people who set wrong/unfair benchmarks or yardsticks for themselves, and feel less positive than they should be. Doing short-term diets that are unhealthy, and see short-term results. But eventually the weight comes back on.…
pattern interrupt
We are used to our patterns, and it is a big deal to interrupt our pattern and make us do something else.…
Second Nature
Strength was not a quality that anyone, even my closest friends and family, would've associated with me until I was almost 30. I was a weakling growing up.…
Guilt and the uselessness of it
Listen to your body is preached by me to all my students. We need to be aware of what our body is telling us.If we are generally the type to love going to the gym to train, and are finding ourselves lacking motivation - that's a signal. Your parasympathetic…
Get out of the way
Well-designed products and services should not require (much of) an instruction manual. What does that mean in the more complex world of coaching Strength & Conditioning…