You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. Missing a workout, or missing a whole week of workouts. Struggling to select appropriate weights for exercises. Having to perform an abbreviated workout because time is limited. Having to work around an injury. Having to modify your workouts due to equipment limitations, or because someone was hogging the …
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How to Get Rid of Diet and Exercise Baggage
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. To progress from using exercise as punishment for overindulging or skipping workouts, to it being a form of self-care and empowerment. The transition from diet hopping, fearing entire food groups, or simply feeling overwhelmed by nutrition, to no longer feeling guilty for eating any food, not spending …
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Stop Being So Hard on Yourself
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. I’ve been lifting weights long enough that I’m confident knowing when I have another rep or two, or three, left in me (i.e., “reps in reserve” or “reps in the tank,” as it’s known) when performing a set of an exercise. But I can still be wrong. Like that time a few months ago when I got stapled by my …
Why You Need Short- and Long-Term Goals
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. Do you have short- and long-term goals you want to achieve? If not, perhaps this will convince you to concoct your own as I discuss why you should have both, and how to go about choosing them. Why Long-Term Goals? Because these take dedication, patience, and commitment to achieve. These are the hard …
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Coast Through Workout Slumps
Listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. This may be coming to you at precisely the right time. Or this may be something you’ll need at a later date. Either way, one thing is for certain: Workout motivation is finite. When was the last time you had a workout slump? When you didn’t have motivation to work out and your usual drive and enthusiasm wasn’t …
How to Handle Bad Workouts
Listen to this article using the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. More than ever people feel obligated to “crush” every workout. Many even think they must complete every workout utterly exhausted or experience soreness the following day. If they’re not totally spent or sore, they (erroneously) think they didn’t work hard enough. Social media contributes to this false notion …
You are Not the Problem
Use the player below to listen to this article, download the MP3, or use iTunes. “What is wrong with me?” Have you ever had that thought? Perhaps it was after you tried a new diet, and it came crashing to an unsuccessful end? Maybe the workout method your friend swore by didn’t produce the same stellar results for you. Similar experiences are had by many, and often they draw the …
How to Listen to Your Body When Strength Training
You can listen to this article: Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. Imagine for a moment you’ve been working out consistently for several weeks. You feel great, you’re steadily improving your performance with your strength training sessions and getting in cardio work a couple times per week. Things are moving in the right direction for once and you’re enjoying …
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