Want the best results? Avoid Failure
We know that strength training creates positive adaptations in skeletal muscle offering professional athletes, recreational athletes, and adults in general significant benefits including increased...
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Top Performance AND Work/Life Balance: How Thinking of Yourself as an Olympian Can Help
Professional athletes are talented, determined, physically and psychologically resilient. They identify and play to their strengths. They are expected to perform – win! – both despite...
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Exercise Like an Olympian
I have a confession to make: I’m going through a bit of Olympic withdrawal. So, I’m going to extend the experience a little longer by exploring a few of the many elements that make...
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Effective Strength Training for the Time Crunched
We’re realizing more and more that strength training is the gateway to a better life: being strong ensures we can thrive and continue to participate fully in all of things that make life...
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Gratitude
I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude these days. “I must have written about this topic before…” I mused this morning. Sure enough, I uncovered a post from April 2020....
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Your smart watch isn't always so smart
I love smart watches. From my first Garmin to my current Apple Watch, I often find the tracking and data push me – inspire me? – to do just a little bit more. Run one extra kilometer,...
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Interval Training Impacts Health Span
There’s lots of interesting advice these days on how to live longer. I’m far more interested in how to live better. A recent paper cites that while life expectancy has increased...
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Grey Days Don't Need to Make You Blue!
Less sunlight – less daylight also – is thought to be linked to chemical alterations in our brains that can create or exacerbate challenging feelings including anxiety, fatigue, social...
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