You can do all the best drills and follow the routine most diligently – but if you don’t address what’s happening in your mind, you’re going to struggle with long-term success. There are two kinds of mindsets you could deploy when it comes to your body. One is highly common, but not very helpful. The[..]
Whether it’s achy wrists at the end of a long day at the computer, or the onset of carpal tunnel seemingly out of nowhere, hand and wrist pain is still often dealt with in a very old-fashioned way. Put on a brace. Stop doing whatever you were doing before. Maybe get a prescription for physical[..]
It took me several years, but I finally got tired of bashing into the same walls over and over again…trying so hard, feeling like I wasn’t trying hard enough, sometimes feeling both at the very same time. Eesh. This is Part Two of my post on effort, force, and how much “try hard” you need[..]
I didn’t always have an easygoing relationship with my body and my fitness routine. That’s putting it nicely… To be blunt and judgmental: I used to be a real asshole to my body. And I could feel the effects of my choice. Recurring aches and pains. Feeling like my back muscles were perpetually as tight[..]
The process of getting from ‘goal’ to ‘goal achieved’ is often long. Have you ever abandoned goals because it just seemed like you were never going to get there? Or perhaps you persisted forward to your goal – but felt heaps of frustration with your slow progress. In fourteen years of coaching, I feel lucky to have[..]
