I am seeing social media as a huge potential dampener to progression in a lot of people’s health and fitness journeys. Yes, it allows trainers and coaches to showcase their work and advertise, potentially helping you “find” a place to train. Yes, it has possibly allowed greater connection (in a false, often fleeting and virtual...

When we work, commute, live our daily lives, we have momentum. Conditioning of the past. A rolling view of reality. One day built on the next. We stand on a freight train, looking out at the landscape. When we decide we want to shift something in our health, movement or nutritional journey, we attempt to...

There’s a lot around morning routines. “How it starts is how it ends” is a popular one. Well, that’s the full story for some Here’s why I find it to really be more like half the story The morning routine is often touted as the “productivity tool.”  Well, when you are prioritising Connection as well,...

The body and nervous system doesn’t operate linearly. Our heart rates, brain waves and even stride-lengths are governed by non-linear dynamics: they are “fractal,” or “chaotic” in nature. In fact, when our heart rate or brain wave variability decreases, or becomes MORE linear, then this is a sign of overtraining, sickness (or even a pre-cursor...

There is a philosopher, writer and mystic, Jiddu Krisnamurti. He would often write about unconditional awareness – become the watcher of how you are actually living your life. Not how you think you are, but in actual reality, each moment. Many people don’t have time for exercise, eating well, starting a business, being creative, meditation....

You may be on a diet, a path, a journey which is serving you well at the moment. If it is based on a fixed idea or model it will eventually of course come to a point that it won’t work. It will falter. There ultimately is conflict between any fixed model and actual reality,...

Not everything is visible.  Exercise, skill development, in work/business, these all have a lot of “behind the scenes” progress which can be made. On our journey then, after training, or a days work, rather than look at how many hours or time spent, or look for only visual outcome, we can ask ourselves how much...

The chef brings creativity to their cooking. They create recipes. When I cook, I generally follow, or stick to recipes. I could try to create, but my knowledge of base level things such as matching ingredients, flavours or cooking methods is limited. To really make it worthwhile – to be able to improvise, would require...