Similar Posts
- Close the Gap | Coaching | Finding What Works for You | Fitness | How to be a learner? | Mindset | Smart Practices
Banzo's sword and metric fixations
Are you a victim of your metrics? Are you constantly trying to better your metrics, just to feel frustrated and unaccomplished? I have been there, it is awful. In this post I present to you a set of principles that will help you use metrics to serve you and not the other way around.
How hard to push?
This is a beefy video. I think it is fantastic. Rocky is in it, the world's strongest woman is in it, my cat Marta is in it. All the basics for awesomeness are covered. I receive the question of how hard to push often. The answer is not easy, and so it required some work. My objective is that you come out of it with a clear understanding of how to answer this question for yourself and your training.
Breakfast on the Road
The road can be a tough spot when it comes to good nutrition. However there are always options. The road is an excellent opportunity to apply the principles: do what you can with what you have where you are.
Exercise is a stressor not a stress relief
Exercise has a purpose in your life. It can give you so much. It can provide your daily moment of zen. And yet, it is still a stressor. Stress is not bad. It is just our body's response to stimuli. This realization can guide your exercise routine for the better.
Awareness is control
Paying attention might be the best thing you do for yourself. Observe yourself before you try to change yourself.
Eating in the car
My job as a fitness coach is to help people create the habits necessary to achieve their goals. Most of the time those habits go very much against traditional cultural practices, sometimes they go against my trainee’s very identity. This means there can be a great deal of resistance involved in changing habits. When I ask people to eat veggies for breakfast they usually look at me as if I were completely insane.
