I gave a talk yesterday and a common question at the end was: “I simply don’t have the time for what you are saying.” Here’s the thing.  The discussion is in three areas: 1) How we utilise what gaps we do have. We all have spaces in our day/week/month. Some just fill them differently. What...

There’s a scientific paper to support most theories on why we should do one thing or another. There’s also a marketing campaign that will leave you wanting more of almost any product. If you want to engage, there’s an invitation to partake, improve in and compete in any sport, business or hobby that you can imagine....

People generally know a couple of things things: They don’t like to feel stressed (physically, or in a “stressed” state of mind) They are aware of some level of mind-body connection There’s some sort of connection in how we live our life and how we generally feel So, to go a bit further, here are...

“Breathe Deeply.”  “Take a deep breath.” We hear this all the time. Well, from my perspective we generally are being led in the wrong direction. Note, I’m not a doctor, I simply look at what I see, experience and the physics/biology of this as it appears to me. The instruction to “breathe deeply” seems valid...

If you exercise hard all month, but have no recovery and down-regulation strategy in place, did the training happen? Well, of course it “did,” the time was “spent” and the work was done, but what about the important part – is there a result? Is there the “super-compensation,” or the improvement*? Many like to blame...

To do the complicated, intense or advanced variation once or twice? Or to do the simpler variation consistently? Almost in all cases, the second is preferable. When the basics are done well and consistently, the acute highs will not feel as lofty. There is less gossip afterwards, less inflation, but, the long term progress is...

My focus is on the opposites – the down-regulation, awareness, breath awareness, meditation.  BUT, this is in the sense of restoring balance in an out-of-balanced society. When this is understood and is adopted into a lifestyle, then my focus is on the effort. The strength, the power, the speed, the catharsis. While I discuss the yin,...

Doug Hepburn was one of the strongest people around before the anabolic steroid wave hit the strength training world. He was born in 1926 and held records in various presses (including a 500lb bench press). He also had an extremely simple approach to training and was a strong believer in recovery principles to get results....