Fitness Goals Are Accomplished By Fitness Systems
Everyone has goals. Goals are nice. They make you feel good about yourself. You can write down your shiny, little goal and put it in your pocket. Every time things are going bad, you can pull the piece of paper out and read it. You’ll feel fuzzy. You have a goal, and people who have […]
Podcast: Life Lessons From Working The Worst Job Ever
When I was in college, I had the world’s worst job: I worked retail at an Old Navy. Although this wasn’t my first job ever, it was the first time I was forced into a working situation. I was 20 years old, my college scholarship had just disappeared, and I couldn’t ask my Dad for […]
Discipline Trumps Willpower Every Time
Most of the things that I have become good at, I actually don’t like doing all too much. I’m an adequate writer. Adequate enough to attract online clients from it, anyways, so that has to count for something. Our free online course has been used by thousands to shed fat effectively, so my words are […]
The Nutritional Hierarchy For Fat Loss – Jason Helmes Podcast (Ep. 2)
When it comes to losing fat, we often miss the forest for the trees. There aren’t too many “ifs” in the world of nutrition. There are things which you must master/conquer in order to lose fat as you wish. There’s a hierarchy for what is the most important factors of fat loss, and what matters […]
Warning To Parents: Beware Of The “Positive-Negative” Feedback Loop
Everyone has memories that give them the “warm fuzzies”. The actual memories themselves may differ, but the main feeling these memories give you doesn’t change much. Usually these memories contain a whole, family unit. Spending quality time together. The feelings of safety and security. The belief that you belong to something bigger than just yourself. […]
How To Improve Your Skill Acquisition: The Jason Helmes Podcast
Have you ever tried to learn a new skill? Remember when you learned how to tie your own shoes? How about when you learned how to ride a bike? Every new skill you try to develop will cause you to recoil in fear. Fear of failure, fear of exposure, fear of……well, fear of sucking at […]
7 Simple Habits To Trim Your Waistline
Your overall habits are going to trump any specific, in-the-moment decision you make. There’s a few reasons you see “fit-pros” on social media sharing pictures of decadent ice cream sundaes on a regular basis. One reason is marketing. What would you rather see, the one treat the fit-pro gets to eat each week or the […]
Are The Suburbs Making You Soft?
In 2006, my new wife and I purchased our first home in Canton, Michigan – a small, quiet town between Ann Arbor and Detroit. It’s been the only home we’ve ever lived in. We are both traditional, coming from two-parent homes without divorce. I was raised Catholic, my wife was raised Baptist. We both graduated […]
How To Survive Your Vasectomy
The first thing you need to know is that you’re not allowed to talk about how much it hurts. Which is a total farce, mind you. Since us men don’t have to go through the process of childbirth, any bitching and moaning we do as a result of a vasectomy puts us firmly into the […]
A Simple Reason To Stop Testing Your Body Fat
This will not be another article about how body fat analyses are inaccurate. Those articles are everywhere. If you wish to read one, use Google. Or, I can give you the “tl;dr” They are inaccurate. Some are wildly inaccurate. The handheld deals are god-awful. The scales might be worse. Calipers are often used by untrained […]