Having spent several years of my life doing countless hours of running, swimming and cycling alongside professional athletes, certain things became clear in how they operate. One of the things that stood out for me was how they set up routines and the nature of their routines. For a lot of these guys (some of...

After working with hundreds of individuals, you start to see some patterns that work to get results. While it seems like there are a huge number of factors that come into play, really, we can boil it down to just a couple things. Well, even one thing, with a couple of supporting attributes that really,...

When we start down any new journey, we find a trend that “seems” right. Our conditioning veers us in a certain direction, whether it’s with diet, our training or otherwise. We are naturally drawn into a particular way of thinking, a particular leader or guru and, a particular dogma. The hard part is to stand...

When we engage in a task, we are occupied. The more we have going on at once, the more we multi-task, the busier we are. Very quickly, we have no resources available. The sun rises, it sets, the moon rises, the tree blows, the kid grows up. We miss it all. The more we make...

This week my wife Ruby just returned from her first solo-silent meditation retreat. These are epic and occasionally frightening events. They leave a significant impact. However, this post is not about these retreats. (perhaps another time!) One of the biggest and most unexpected things I noticed from the first time I did  one of these,...

In training, health, fitness, movement, we want to get from where we are, to where we want to be. Usually, we have a time frame associated with this. It could be consciously and announced (like a goal), unspoken, or even subconscious. It’s not that we set the timeframes too long or too short, it’s often having...

Whether we are just starting on our journey, or have been on it for some time, we will inevitably be in positions to compare ourselves with others. This way of thinking through comparing and competing has been instilled into us since we started school, if not before. In the health industry, this is exacerbated through...

Ultimately, I believe in practices that help to increase awareness: meditation, various sensory shifts, silent practices or retreats.  Through these, we can (with practice), decrease the gap between our conscious mind and subconscious. Become more aware of the patterns that are running in the background as well as heighten our experience of reality. However, on the...