How you frame your activity can affect the quantity and quality of food you eat after and how hard you perceive it to be. Hint: framing it as fun makes things better for you.
Go Fun Yourself (or someone you know)
When your exercise is fun, you automatically work harder (without anyone forcing you to). We’ve always known this to be true intuitively, but now research shows it.
May Fun Forever Light Your Way to Fitness
Let’s stop forcibly cramming so much “fun” into every life event (holidays, births, weddings, pets) that life no longer is fun. Let fun movement be an essential part of your life.
Am I Fitter Than This 5th Grader?
Reflections on repeating the Presidential Physical Fitness Test of my youth in my 50’s and what this means for fun fitness.
Belief Creates Opportunity… Not Reality
Belief creates the opportunity – not reality. You can’t manifest things by thinking them, you still have to put in the work. The trick is to make the work feel less like “work.”
Better Together – Part 2
Brain and body are better built together – part 2. Low-tech and high-tech ideas for blending fitness training with brain training.
Better Together – Part 1
Brain and body better together. Low-tech and high-tech ideas for blending fitness training with brain training. Part 1 – Low Tech Options
Slacktivity Trackers
Trackers don’t stop slackers. If they create a sense of discovery that enhances the experience of being you, wonderful. If they reinforce the notion that you’re never doing “enough” then they suck. It all depends on you.
Wear Something Out
Get out there and just wear something out this year! Hiking boots, ice skates, bike tires, walking shoes…pick something in your life that needs to get worn out and get moving.
Cognitive Kindness (or Cruelty)
Cognitive Kindness is what we need, but Cognitive Cruelty is what we most often choose (especially in fitness) and have forced upon us by outside systems. It’s time to choose differently.