habits

So you made it through thanksgiving. It's now mid-December, and we still have New Years, Christmas (or Kwanzaa, Yule, or other holidays you may celebrate), so your calendar is likely to be packed with family responsibilities, travel, and festive outings with a variety of delectable delights...

What REALLY Drives You? – Hopefully, everyone is motivated to train because it's a rewarding, life-extending, life-expanding experience. But if we really look at the behaviors and habits of successful people, we often find something very different: they're motivated because of some very negative...

by Matt Weik Many of us in the industry already know the ways bodybuilding can make you a better person. However, for those on the outside looking in, all they see are a bunch of meatheads who pick things up and put them down and who consume a metric ton of protein on a daily basis. We hear all...

<header class="entry-header"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2019-06-11T08:18:55+00:00" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">June 11, 2019</time> by Nia Shanks</header>How the health and fitness industry is causing harm by attaching morality-based judgments...

You'll always need to exercise some level of restraint, even after you lose the weight. ⠀ ⠀ It's not possible to go back to your old habits (never cooking, eating out all the time, mindless eating while watching TV, etc.) and keep the weight off... ⠀ ⠀ You cannot just have anything and...

Many of us have a tendency to eat a little bit more and possibly move a little bit less during the holidays, whether it be during the summer or during Christmas. This may explain why young adults in the US gain on average between 0.2-0.8 kg per year and adult swedes gain on average 3.8 kg during...

Never offer advice to anyone at the gym, except for two occasions: . • Someone asks for your advice. . • Someone's in imminent danger of serious injury or death. . So the next time you see someone squatting higher than what you deem acceptable, or smashing the bar against their sternum while...

<header class="entry-header">Disordered Eating No Longer Controls Me, But That Doesn’t Mean I Never Struggleby Nia Shanks </header> <!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');</script><![endif]--> I’m no longer captive to disordered eating. But that doesn’t mean I never...

Being consumed with guilt after overindulging, and then making extra restrictions with food for the next two days.Feeling like you didn’t work hard enough in your workout because you were unable to improve your performance, so you squeeze in an extra workout to “make up” for it. Feeling...

<header class="entry-header">Doing Too Much Causes Stress and Costs You Long Lasting Results by Nia Shanks </header>“What else can I do to speed up my results?” “What should I add to my routine?” “What additional changes do I need to make to my nutrition”? The answer is always the same: do...

<header class="entry-header">5 Books That Will Make Your Life Better by Nia Shanks </header>That three pound mass nestled securely in your skull is just begging to be used and challenged. There is so much your brain hasn’t learned yet! Stuff that can, you know, make you a smarter, better...

Breakfast – The Most Overrated Meal of the Day by Anthony Roberts For decades we’ve been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. To support this claim, study after study has been foisted on us, showing that people who eat breakfast have lower cholesterol, live longer, are...