Four Short Words
That’s all it is. Four, short words. When others inquire as to why I began this new entrepreneurial venture, my mind keeps coming back to those four, short words. Losing weight is easy. Everybody and their brother (or sister, or cousin, or mother……) has lost weight before. Everyone. We’ve all been there. We promise to […]
Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable – And Reap The Benefits
It’s the dad of a toddler who runs to his child’s every whimper, cry, and whine and tries to fix it. It’s the out-of-shape soccer mom who runs for the fridge at the slightest twinge of hunger. It’s the 13-year old on the soccer team who seems to have an “asthmatic attack” every time the […]
Do Nothing and Benefit From It……..and My Redemption
Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of times where doing nothing is a TERRIBLE idea. A student yells, “SHUT UP, IDIOT!” at me in the middle of my Algebra lesson. Your arm catches on fire at a bonfire. An intoxicated friend decides to try to drink a fifth of Jack in one huge gulp. […]
IIFYM vs. “Clean Eating” – A Regular Guy’s Thoughts
You may notice a theme in most of my posts. Weightloss. It’s mainly what I’ve been focusing on. This is for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, there are very, very few people out there who are truly at a place, physically, where they don’t want to lose any more weight. Perhaps the chronically […]
Lesson 6 – Things To Adjust While Dieting – And Things To LEAVE THE HECK ALONE,
Patience is fleeting for all of us. When we want something, we want it now. Our society has become inundated with the me-first style of thinking which practically infests our mind with the idea that we should have it all. Right now. Not in ten minutes, or ten weeks, or ten months. But now. Fitness […]
Exercising Your Willpower Muscle
I read up on the internet as often as I can. Nutrition fascinates me. I’m genuinely interested in food and how it enhances or inhibits certain processes in the body. Trying to find the right amounts of nutrients and make the proper food choices to improve my body composition is a passion of mine. […]
Dieting Myths Even Dietitians Fall For
Oh my goodness. Just got back from an appointment with a dietitian. Not for nutritional advice; I wanted to get a DEXA scan done to test my body fat. I’m gonna be doing a little self-experimentation this summer with pre-workout nutrition for a future blog post. I needed to get my baseline levels measured. I […]
How To Eat All The Bacon You Want. Aka – “Man Up.”
This is a call. A call to all men. I’ve heard some pretty messed up things lately. Coming straight out of the mouths of men. I think they are men. I guess I’m not quite sure. The things I’ve been hearing are shocking, appalling, and repulsive: “No, I don’t want any ice cream. God knows […]
Lesson 4 – Minimalist Training
I know I’m really beginning to sound like a broken record, but I want everybody to notice something: Training is LESSON FOUR. The FIRST THREE LESSONS are on proper nutrition. There’s an old adage in the fitness community: Abs are made in the kitchen. That saying is 100% accurate. Abs are not made doing crunches. […]
Lesson 3 – Making Macro Counting And Leangains Simple And Easy
At first, I thought Lesson 3 was going to be about training. I was going to explain what everyone was doing wrong, how to do it right, and how to maximize your ROI in the weight room. (Return-On-Investment. Basically, you don’t want to do a single thing that’s not worth your time. That’s how my […]