As someone who spends upwards of 5 hours per day at one of the local fitness facilities I run into all manner of people over the course of my workouts. Early afternoons tend to bring an elderly, retiree crowd, while the 5-6 power hour fills up like a Tokyo subway train with people getting off […]
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The Expectations You Have About Getting in Shape Are Unrealistic
The illusion is sold to us everywhere we look. So much so that it is hard not to fall for the expectation hook, line, and sinker. It is relentlessly hawked at us from infomercials, from the aisles and aisles of “health” products at the grocery store, from the glossy labels on our favorite supplements, and […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Power of Habit
Being successful in the gym (and in life) isn’t a result of having explosive amounts of motivation to workout (though that helps). And it doesn’t come about from flash-in-the-pan effort. It comes from the discipline to stick to a new habit. And it arises from the consistency that comes when you apply these habits over […]
The Only Supplement You Truly Need
Whatever your goals are in the gym, whether it is adding 25 pounds to your bench or squat, running a faster mile, or just dropping a couple pounds, it’s natural to always latch onto the shiny, glossy, and seemingly painless new ways to get ahead with your goals. It could be the brand new supplement […]
The Routine is the Goal, Not the Results
Goal setting is fun. Real fun. We get to think about all the cool stuff that we want to do with our lives, all the places we wanna go, the weights we wanna lift, all the radness we want to achieve. But if goals are so rad, why do so many people struggle with them? […]
How to Be More Consistent in the Gym
You see it all the time—the athlete and gym-goer who will go to the ends of the earth to find the hottest new supplement, piece of workout gear, or routine that is guaranteed to give them the results they so badly crave (but so badly don’t want to have to work for). In reality, the […]