Whether getting into shape for the first time, maintaining gains, or peaking for competition, attaining fitness involves lots of rest and recovery too. As athletes, we do tend to focus more on the active aspects of training. Intensity, duration, equipment. Rest and recovery are on the list but not usually highly ranked. I often thought…
I was wondering whether cultivating healthy screen relationships could be an interesting choice for a post. So much of our daily communications are with these apps and nothing seems to be broken. Everything in social media paradise is hunky dory. At least, that is what our screen relationships tell us anyway. Let’s go question some…
The marketing of fitness in the United States is booming. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent yearly participating in exercise activities, as well as supplying equipment needs, buying nutritional supplements, and using fitness oriented services. Funny though how we are still unhealthy as a national population. Did we not spend enough money or is…
I know it sounds like the latest in adventure exercise but plateauing is just our body’s built-in way of defining optimal function. We, of course, think we know better but Nature still asserts its dominance in our physiology. Or does it? “I’ll Take Plateauing for $200, Alex” I was introduced to the experience of plateauing…
Keeping with an exercise plan, or any healthy lifestyle choice for that matter, is difficult. For every reason we have to do something good for ourselves, we can always come up with loads of reasons to not do it. The weather is too hot/cold/rainy to go outside… I ate a carrot stick yesterday, so I…