Build Your Body It’s easy to overlook how much your small, daily choices matter. This works both ways: Shortcuts in the smaller things will cut short your success in the bigger things. Avoiding shortcuts might be the one thing that finally gets you where you want to go. The bad news? One shortcut can trigger…
Build Your Body Energy balance (fat loss and gain) occurs over weeks, months, and years – not in a 24 hour period. If you need 2,000 calories to lose weight, you don’t start gaining weight at 2,001. You also don’t start losing it at 1,999. The body is smarter than that and plays on a…
How I Trained Hard for 20 Years and Still Missed What Mattered The cost of action can be high, but there is an overlooked cost that is much higher: the cost of inaction. Most overestimate the consequences of action while underestimating the consequences of not taking action. Working out has never been difficult for me….
Build Your Body Adding lean muscle is the number one thing, within your control, to improve your metabolism. More muscle means more calories burned at rest. More calories burned at rest means less time wasted with extreme diets or excessive working out. More muscle is the easiest and most enjoyable path to looking better and…
One simple shift in my thinking transformed my body forever. There was a key mistake I made over and over again, for almost two decades, that kept me from seeing the results I desired in my body. You’ve probably made this mistake too. There’s a flawed pattern of thinking that believes addition is better than…
How To Stop Holding Back I’ve succeeded at a few things in my health and fitness career: But that list pales in comparison to my failures. I could bore you with the list of things I’ve tried and failed at, gave up, or didn’t see all the way through. Maybe that’s one of the reasons…
It took me over 20 years to finally reach single-digit body fat percentage. Thanks to sports, I fell in love with fitness at a young age.I’ve been seriously training since age 14.I’ve been strong. I’ve been fast. I’ve played sports at a high level. But I never cracked the code to getting lean — even…
Why Willpower Fails Have you ever relied on willpower to accomplish a goal? How long did it last? When I rely on willpower, I’m good for maybe a week or two.A month tops. If you’re anything like me, you’ve learned this lesson the hard way:Willpower alone doesn’t work. You’ve played that game.You’ve had some short-term…