We are split personalities, almost two beings living in one body. Biologically we have evolved to communicate to get our point across and make our intentions clear. To express where we stand, what we want or why we do something we only have to speak up… or so we think. In order for another person…
We can’t talk about fitness without mentioning cake, as in having your cake and eating it by wanting to look fit and be fit. Let me explain this a little further: Looking fit and being fit are not always the same thing. Because the body is a system made up of individual modules looking fit…
Managing extra weight is a fairly new to us, several generations back it was not as widespread as it is today and if you did want to get slimmer at one point or another you just dieted and tracked your overall weight loss. That’s where the “weight loss” term comes from but today it’s more…
When it comes to fitness our minds are the greatest weapon, we’re told. But what does that even really mean? Obviously we all know that part of what we become depends on our ability to keep on going, to will ourselves not to give up, to simply exercise when we don’t feel like it, to…
What if there was a mental exercise you could do that would increase your brain size, make your thinking more efficient, reduce your anxiety levels, increase your productivity and help your body remain younger, longer? With these kinds of claims, if this was a product, we’d all be buying it, but because it’s an activity,…
After the “eat less and exercise more” mantra that’s trotted out every time someone asks about the secret to getting fitter, comes the equally meaningless and overused phrase “listen to your body”. To show just how contradictory that last admonition is consider that we only get fitter, stronger, faster if we put our bodies under…
Everything we do physically is first modelled in the brain which, ultimately, controls the body. So really there is no training the body without also training the mind. New studies are now adding greater weight to the mind/body connection by revealing the complex biofeedback loop through which exercise helps the mind get tougher and the…
We all know that exercise is good for us so why aren’t we all super-fit already? Because no one can sustain their enthusiasm for exercise forever. No one. Even the best of us who manage to go through life and remain relatively fit have our low points, breaking points and the points when we feel…
The brain is housed inside the body. The two are connected through the central nervous system and share a complex neurobiochemical messaging system that allows one to influence the other. In order for the body to do anything the brain has to first model it in its mental computations. This is why exercises with complex…
Staying sane during a lockdown is a matter of strategy and planning. Having a structured approach to your day, adding some exercise, nutrition and proper hydration doesn’t just happen. Normally there are external rhythms that dictate these things for us or, at the very least, they make them possible to happen. When we stay at…
