Every January millions of people make the resolution to improve their health either by exercise, diet changes, or both. I often hear people say, “This is the year I’ll lose 20 pounds! This is the year I’ll exercise 3 times per week! This is the year I’ll eat better!” The list goes on and on [...]
Rarely in the history of mankind has anything had as high a failure rate as New Year’s Resolutions. (Is there anything out there that fails more? Sure, but they’d have to be pushing a 100% rate of failure … say, for instance, financial advisors, spam email, and possibly this season’s Cleveland Browns). So what is [...]
This month marks the 100th Anniversary of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, and that means PARTY TIME! But before you begin your celestial celebration, keep in mind that aspects of the theory of general relativity (or rather, where the theory is weak (that’s a joke in itself)) could mean that eating too much party food [...]
Why do you exercise? Or more importantly, if you don’t, then why DON’T you exercise? When you don’t exercise the reasons are almost always excuses. When you do exercise you are motivated to do so. This is the reason, or reasons, why we exercise. What motivates one person does not necessarily motivate another, which begs [...]
A few weeks ago, in his post “Focused Intensity”, Brian mentioned that - “…the idea that 30 minutes of cardio a day will reduce your risk of heart disease has been proven to be inadequate”. This caused a number of people to ask “Wait, working out 30 minutes is worthless?” Hardly. Thirty minutes is certainly [...]
How do you define fitness? If you are like most people, fitness means belonging to a gym or fitness center, but not actually being FIT. True FITness is a lifestyle of unwavering commitment, a lifestyle that focuses on the ultimate goal, which is your health and well-being. Designing your lifestyle around your health and well-being [...]
Think about the concentrated light beam of a laser. Visualize the pin-point accuracy focused on a single area; all of that energy focused on one location. Now, imagine what you can accomplish if you possessed laser like focus. What would you accomplish at work? What would you accomplish with your family? What would you accomplish [...]
FIT / FAT Grammatically speaking only one letter differentiates the two words. But in the physical world the difference between fit and fat cannot be taken lightly. Two-thirds of the US population age 25 and older are either overweight or obese according to a recent study published this past summer in the Journal of the [...]
