Podcast time! Allow me to present Episode #68: The End of Fat Shaming for your listening pleasure:
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What happens when shit hits the fan?
When the going gets tough, do the tough get going? Or when the going gets tough, do Ben and Jerry and a host of old bad habits come marching in?
No matter what you thought you knew, when shit hits the fan, you will know how committed you are to change.
Tough times provide the perfect excuse not to change. They’re unexpected. They’re at least mildly disconcerting and at most they shake the ground you stand on. They stir up all sorts of old stress coping mechanisms. Continue Reading
It gets easier. It really does.
When beginning a fitness push, you inevitably sacrifice something. Remember, there is a balance between action pattern sacrifices and physical results. To improve the physical results, you must alter your action patterns.
The sacrifice may be extra time in the gym. It may be less sweets. It may be extra vigilance when out with friends for the second night in a row. It may be extra preparation time in the kitchen. It may be less tv time on behalf of improved sleep. You get the idea.
These sacrifices require initial focus. Initial effort. Initial difficulty.
It’s important to understand that the hardest part of going from 0 to 60 is going from 0 to 1. Going from inertia to forward motion. Continue Reading
33% of my Relentless Transformation is complete. Done. Gone. Over.
I both can and can’t believe it. It feels blink-of-an-eye short and grind-your-nails-on-chalkboard long, all at the same time. I’m comfortable I have plenty more weeks to achieve my vision and terrified that they’re not even close to enough, all at the same time.
That is the transformation rollercoaster. Put more broadly, that is the positive change rollercoaster. It’s simple, but it ain’t easy!
I’ve written about the absolute importance of periodic reflection, so let’s reflect, shall we? Continue Reading
Take time to reflect.
If you are just starting out on your fitness journey, more frequent reflection helps. If you are a fitness veteran, periodic reflection is sufficient.
The big takeaway: schedule your reflection on the calendar.
During some of my most haphazard, unsatisfying fitness stretches, I stopped reflecting. I began living on autopilot. Day-by-day on autopilot, I drifted further away from my overarching goals.
Exactly what does reflection mean? Let’s break it down into 3 steps: Continue Reading
Set a goal.
Set a goal that lights your world on fire and makes you want to be better.
Set a goal that is inspires a healthy dose of fear and nerves, because you know you want it badly, and you know it’s the right time for it.
That is the single best thing you can do for yourself. Right. This. Second.
If you conduct a study of everyone that I’ve ever worked with, you’ll find the following to be true:
- There are many different exercise approaches in practice. Yes, there are common fundamentals, but there is also disparity in workout quantity (2-6 workouts/week), type, and intensity.
- There are many different nutritional approaches in practice. Again, there are common fundamentals, but I’ve worked with vegans, vegetarians, pescetarians, and meat lovers alike. There is disparity in meal number (2-6 meals/day), frequency, timing, and type.
Above all you’ll find this to be true: strength of current goal is the single biggest determining factor of ensuing progress and success. Continue Reading
“Often vilified and once bastardized, fat has gotten quite the bum rap over the last century. It is an injustice that dietary fat shares such a crucial word with the fat on your body…Thankfully you have an opportunity to end the days of fat avoidance. It’s time to bury the hatchet. It’s time to make friends with fat.”
That’s a quote from Relentless Nutrition, written in early 2013. It followed up on (at that time) about 3.5 full years of well-rounded eating, fat inclusion, and positive health results from hundreds of individuals.
“For decades, it has been the most vilified nutrient in the American diet. But new science reveals fat isn’t what’s hurting our health.”
That’s a quote from Time Magazine a week ago. Continue Reading
A new post-workout equation: Vitamin D + heat = ?
Pictured above is the post-workout scene at the apartment building, as well as the new laboratory for testing this proposed equation. I’ll use the laboratory after each and every strength workout, spending 30-minutes in the sun and summer heat.
Now what’s the equation all about?
For starters you’re likely familiar with Vitamin D, aka the sunshine vitamin. Bone, skin, heart, and immune health are all conditions for which Vitamin D is administered. Relevant to the Transformation at hand, I’m most concerned with its muscle promoting properties. This study supports a link. So does this one. And this one.
But why heat? What does that have to do with anything? Continue Reading