When you go down the path of movement, whatever that might look like for you, it’s kind of like falling in love. There is the rush at the beginning when you start and then the inevitable times of difficulty or frustration. In a relationship, often, these challenges allow us to grow While we wouldn’t walk...

“Stronger and Harder to Kill” – I see this every once in a while on a fitness T-shirt. Adaptability and resilience are interesting areas. While physical strength, mobility and of course lean muscle mass do seem to have significant benefits for longevity, we also have aspects such as CO2 tolerance and tone of the parasympathetic...

Sometimes in conversation the topic of stress, meditation or this “down-regulation” comes up. While there are a number of ways to go once we choose to do something about it, there are a lot of people who either aren’t sure where they are sitting on the spectrum (once we are familiar with living in a...

“Down Regulation” – the calming of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), or in a way, the “conditioning” or “toning” of the parasympathetic arm of the ANS. When we train at the gym to get stronger, we notice that we carry this “strength” with us. We have physical potential to use in all aspects of our life, not...

Instead of the “training,” “fitness,” “movement” or the health journey as a whole being the thing, What if it’s not about the movement? Or, if you prefer, what if it’s about more than the movement. What happens if we use the movement, training and maintenance and development of the physical body as a tool, or...

Even at the highest level, in any physical effort over 4 or 5 minutes, the pace is not overly fast. Or, at least it is consciously controlled – effort is placed carefully, in particular for the first 95% of the event. This is not the case in single lift efforts, or sprints. Here, while there...

Last December, I began writing this blog.  One post per day. Something I notice, or “see” – usually in the “health” culture, often related to ways of thinking or approaching the concept of “high performance.” First and foremost, this was as an experiment for myself. To see if and how it altered how I “look”...

A few days ago I wrote about the Solar Plexus chakra. In a gym environment, as a coach, I often witness the moments where people are breaking into a new level of strength, learning a new movement, or attempting to break some other plateau. ALMOST ALWAYS, they are more than capable of doing the movement...