Trashing the Word Can’t: Why It’s Either You Will, or You Won’t

Saying you cannot do a behavior is like saying you cannot ask out a person you like. You can, but for any number of reasons, you’re just not going to.

In fitness, there are outcome goals and there are process goals. Process goals lead to outcome goals. Deadlifting, the process goal, leads to the 600-pound deadlift, the outcome goal. Reducing calories, the process goal, leads to a lower body fat percentage, the outcome goal. Processes cause outcomes.

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The Power of Sleep: Nature’s Greatest Health and Performance Enhancer

Adequate hours of high quality, uninterrupted sleep is just as, if not, more important to your health and fitness than all of the hours you put into your workouts and your nutrition. Despite what the great street poet, Nas, or your favorite #hustlelife Instagram influencer has to say, sleep is nature’s greatest enhancer of physical and cognitive health and performance. 

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Write Your Training Programs Like A Book

Do you remember your high school English class? When your teacher first taught you how to write an essay, they probably began first with how to create an outline. Once you format your outline, it will be easier to organize and fill in the details. With a framework to guide your thought process, you can write an entire essay from beginning to end. This same method can be applied to your workouts.

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What You Need To Know To Start Working Out After 50

Age ain't nothing but a number, and it has never been truer than it is today, with many people starting exercise programs later in life. If you're new to exercise, or coming back to it after many years of a layoff, it is very challenging. You don't have the same sense of fearlessness that you had in the past. You may lack confidence for many reasons.

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Dan Wells' Adventure with Intermittent Fasting

As a former competitive wrestler, when I heard about intermittent fasting my first thought was, “No way, never!”  Too many years of starvation had trained me to avoid food deprivation at all costs.  When it came to weight management through nutrition, my sole focus was quality over quantity.  So as long as I stuck to fresh vegetables, high-quality meats and fats, minimal starches, and little to no sugars, I would be fine.

The thing about nutrition though, is that one size does not fit all.

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