Lemons Into Lemonade: Using Stress to Jumpstart New Habits
Keystone habits are habits on which all other habits rely. Huge changes to these keystone habits are among the most stressful things that can happen in your life. But, this can create the opportunity to change yourself into a new person: the person you've always wanted to be.
Are We Finally Done Arguing About CrossFit?
When I started out as a coach, the only thing anyone wanted to talk about was CrossFit - thank god that's changed. A retrospective on the CrossFit phenomenon.
Why A Binge Can't Possibly Ruin Your Results
The holidays are a common time for going off diet and off your exercise program. It's also commonly believed that these periods can be disastrous to our overall results. Here's why that's mathematically impossible.
Even If You Don't See Any Results From Exercise, You're Winning
It's commonly believed that in order to be seeing results from exercise, you also need to be seeing improvements in strength, size, running speed, changes in body composition, and more. However, even if you're seeing NO RESULTS from your training, exercising is still a better option than not exercising.
Calories Matter, Even When You Think They Don't
It's common to doubt the validity of the calories in, calories out model by saying "well, this worked for me." The reality is that CICO is always in play, whether you realize it or not - it's a basic framework that explains how diets work, not necessarily a dietary approach in and of itself. Here are a few ways that the CICO model may seem less accurate than it actually is.