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 interconnected. The path to a better physique doesn’t lie through…
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 technique have to be an acquired rather…
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 work out harder. Fitness is, mostly,…
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 about DOMS that science yet doesn’t know that it’s best to…
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 eat, how much we eat, what we do to them and what…
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 each one in turn to better understand what is going on and what…
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 gaming in recent years. The two have a…
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 adaptation to get fitter. So, when popular…
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 a specific athletic task well. Adaptive responses (i.e. the building up of muscular strength or increased efficiency in handling metabolites…
Here’s a simple truth you already know: No amount of motivational posters will help you if you are not in the right place in your head, if you push yourself too hard, never let off steam and fail to manage your expectations. This begs the question: how do you get to that right place inside…
