The First Step To Permanent Fitness
A beautiful body doesn’t begin with a diet and/or a gym membership. It begins in your head. And that beautiful, mindful you then finds its way out for everyone to see. It begins with self-respect, love and understanding that your mind and your body are…
Breathing during exercise: nose or mouth?
Physical activity requires oxygen so the muscles can work properly. We all think we know how to breathe because we do it every day, yet just like we have to learn to optimize the way our bodies move so we can become more powerful, so does our breathing…
How To Make Any Workout Easier
How you feel during training is not always a reflection of how fit you are. If you know just how to manage it and use a variety of mental tricks you don’t just get to feel better than you would otherwise, you will be performing better, doing more and…
Post-Workout Soreness and How to Deal With It
Pain experienced by the body is always a signal. Yet, never has there been so much discussion and confusion over what the pain signal exactly means than when it comes to the experience of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS for short). There’s so much…
Why we lose or gain weight
Social psychologist, Erich Fromm, made a career out of divining that our bodies are incredibly smart. We are now learning that they are also incredibly responsive, although it may not seem like it at first glance. They respond to our lifestyle, what we…
Muscle Memory Explained
Fitness is the outcome of many different factors that work together to achieve it. Nothing quite shows that complexity more clearly than “muscle memory”. Because the term “muscle memory” is used in two different types of context it is worth looking at…
Play Games & Stay Fit
You can be a gamer and you can be into fitness, if you know how to find the balance between the two. More than that, one can complement the other quiet beautifully once integrated, there has been plenty of gamification in fitness and plenty of fitness in…
The Myth of Non-Responders to Exercise
We live in a body that has evolved to respond to environmental stimuli in order to survive. Now that we no longer need to run away from fast animals with big claws and teeth and no longer have to physically hunt for our food, we use this evolutionary…
How to Train Your Brain Using Circuit Workouts
Most people think of circuit training as a way to push the body – raising the heart rate, building endurance, feeling muscles burn. But there’s another layer hiding in plain sight: when you study a circuit, set the poster aside, and try to complete…
The Science Behind Microworkouts
All physical performance requires efficient energy management. Efficient energy management comes with adaptive responses to the human body that promote specific aspects of fitness, typically metabolic endurance or strength that enable the body to perform…