Emotional state during exercise can affect benefits from it. Instead of embracing this four decades old discovery, the idiotic “rise & grind” culture of fitness where you must suffer to be buffer is doing no one any favors.
Emotional state during exercise can affect benefits from it. Instead of embracing this four decades old discovery, the idiotic “rise & grind” culture of fitness where you must suffer to be buffer is doing no one any favors.
When it comes to fitness, motivation is often missing the ‘e’ it needs to be successful. When motivation is lacking, you will also find a lack of emotion.
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.
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.
My random Human Lily Pad workout was “effortless effort” and somehow burned almost 500 calories while I felt like I was playing. The world is your fitness playground.
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.”
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.
Die later or enjoy now? Our brains prioritize short-term threats and opportunities and discount long-term ones. What does this mean for motivation and exercise? 3 Key Questions on fear and negative reinforcement answer that question.
Two brief sections to this post: the conceptual part and the neurobics (practical) part. Conceptual: Norway won the most gold medals at the Olympics. Again. Buried deep in the Olympics coverage was a story about how Norway often wins the most medals at the winter Olympics because they don’t worry about success. There’s a cultural […]
Prevention needs a ribbon. An ounce of prevention appears to not be heavy enough for many people with too many waiting to act until they need to carry several pounds of cure.