Food Choices: Beyond Calories And Macronutrients

July 4, 2024

Food choices that can drive your fitness and health outcomes beyond their calorie, fat, carbohydrate and protein content.

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Gamify Your Exercises To Help You Stick With, Enjoy and Progress In Your Training

October 8, 2023

How you can apply gamification to your training sessions as a way to increase intrinsic motivation enabling you to get more out of and be consistent with your training.

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Tackling The Mental Obstacles That Are Holding Back Your Fitness Pursuits

October 1, 2023

How you can use techniques and processes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help your fitness pursuits.

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Does What You Eat Affect How You Sleep?

September 17, 2023

How the foods you eat (and at what time you eat them) can impact your quality of sleep.

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Free The Feet: Are Barefoot Shoes And Training Barefoot Helpful?

September 9, 2023

How performing some of your training barefoot and/or easing into some barefoot shoes can assist the way you move.

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Can’t Stick With It? Put Your Money On The Line

September 3, 2023

How you can use commitment contracts with a financial incentive as a strategy to stick with a new behaviour.

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How To Use A Kettlebell Or A Barbell ‘Landmine’ Setup For Quick And Effective Training

August 26, 2023

How you can use kettlebell or barbell landmine complexes if you're limited on equipment and/or time.

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A Simple Approach For Impressive Results

August 20, 2023

With limited mental and physical resources, adopting a simple approach will ensure your remaining energy and effort is put towards behaviours that will get you results.

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There's Much More To Matcha

August 9, 2023

Matcha is full of compounds that can improve how you feel and physically function.

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7 easy-to-implement strategies to improve your training, nutrition and mindset

July 29, 2023

A summary of actionable items from my last fourteen blog posts that you can easily apply to your health and fitness routine.

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Always Stopping And Starting Your Training? Here’s A Solution

July 23, 2023

Approaching your training the following way can be an effective strategy to ensure consistency and continual progress.

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Four Ways To Make Aerobic Training (Cardio) Less Boring

July 16, 2023

Four ways to reap more benefits from your aerobic training sessions while making them more engaging.

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How To Find The Motivation

July 9, 2023

Finding the motivation to begin and/or continue with a health and fitness behaviour.

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Season And Spice Up Your Meals For Improved Health And Greater Fitness

July 1, 2023

A simple way to leverage the health- and fitness-promoting compounds present in herbs and spices.

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Strategies For Strength Training Movements That Feel Better

June 21, 2023

Strategies to work around strength training movements that feel uncomfortable so that you can continue to train hard and progress!

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Good Health and Improved Exercise Recovery: The Power Of Polyphenols

June 10, 2023

How polyphenols can help your health, recovery & performance and the best foods to get them from.

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How To Use Exercise To Increase Your Productivity

June 4, 2023

Using exercise as a tool for increasing productivity and ways to help you successfully incorporate it.

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Collagen And Bone Broth: Useful Or Useless?

May 28, 2023

A look into whether collagen supplements and bone broth are useful tools for your health and fitness pursuits (and the best way to implement them).

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Short On Time And Training Feels Overwhelming? Here’s A Program For You

May 20, 2023

A program that will help you overcome common barriers to starting (and sticking with) a strength training routine.

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How Carbs Can Help (Featuring Honey)

May 10, 2023

How you can leverage your carb consumption for better training sessions and greater results.

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Exercises feeling stagnant? Here are a few ways to kick off further progress!

May 4, 2023

Methods to bring some life back into stagnant exercises and keep progressing.

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Try These Prior To Exercise For Improved Performance

April 23, 2023

Two strategies (one behavioural and one nutritional) to implement before exercise for improved performance.

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Nine Tips For Better Sleep

April 16, 2023

Improve your sleep (and your health and fitness) with these nine strategies.

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Four Set Schemes For More Engaging Training (And Great Results)

April 7, 2023

Four alternatives to 'regular sets' that can help your results, time efficiency, performance, and engagement.

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Training, Mindset, And Nutrition: A Summary Of Strategies For Your Health And Fitness

April 1, 2023

A summary of actionable strategies that will improve your health and fitness (from the last twenty-five blog posts).

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How To Experience More Enjoyable Strength Training

March 27, 2023

Strategies for experiencing more enjoyable strength training sessions.

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Fatigued? Try These To Speed Up Your Recovery

March 19, 2023

Recovery strategies to implement when training/life stressors are accumulating and you're experiencing fatigue.

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Four Tips For More Efficient (And Effective) Strength Training Sessions

March 11, 2023

Four strategies to promote efficient and effective strength training sessions and how you can easily implement them.

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Are Fruit And Vegetables Really That Important?

March 4, 2023

How increasing your fruit and vegetable intake will help you reach your health and fitness goals.

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Want To Train More Consistently? The Role of Positive Emotions (And Play)

February 25, 2023

How experiencing positive emotions plays an important role in keeping you consistently training and engaging in health behaviours.

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Protein: Are You Getting Enough?

February 19, 2023

Protein: The importance of consuming enough, how much you should have, and great food sources to get it from.

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Approaching Your Nutrition With Optimism: Fats Are Good?

February 12, 2023

All fats have a role in health and fitness – focus on what actually matters (the food source and how it benefits you)

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Should I Be Doing Cardio Or Strength Training?

February 4, 2023

How including both aerobic training and strength training improves different areas of your health and fitness (and how to go about it).

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Why You Should Include Fermented Food: Superfood

January 22, 2023

How regular foods become superfoods that enhance your health and fitness.

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Must-Do Exercises!

January 19, 2023

There are none. Here's why, and what's more important when it comes to exercise selection.

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Two Effective Strategies to Help Get You to The Gym

January 15, 2023

If you struggle to get yourself to go to the gym or engage in physical activity consistently, these two strategies may help!

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Creatine: Why You Should Consider Taking It

January 11, 2023

Why everyone should consider supplementing with 'Creatine'.

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How to Feel Great From a Light Adjustment

January 6, 2023

Improving the way you feel through small adjustments in your light exposure.

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Anabolic Steroids: Consider the Trade-Off

December 16, 2022

Understanding the trade-off you may be making if the anabolic steroid route looks attractive.

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Why Can’t I Stick to a Health and Fitness Behaviour?

December 11, 2022

Reasons why you may be struggling to adhere to a health and fitness behaviour and what you can do about it.

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Will Strength Training Help My Mental Health?

December 3, 2022

How Strength Training (and Aerobic Training) can transform your mental health.

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Coffee, good or bad for health and fitness?

November 24, 2022

The health and performance enhancing benefits of coffee and whether you should be consuming it if you're looking to improve your health and fitness.

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Will Strength Training Prevent Injuries?

November 17, 2022

The effectiveness of Strength Training for Injury Prevention and a way to get started from home!

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Better Health and A Better Body – Two Nutritional Considerations

October 26, 2022

Two nutritional strategies that will give you huge returns on your pursuit for better health, and a better body.

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Strength Training: a Meditation Tool

October 21, 2022

Using Strength Training as a tool to reap the benefits of both Training and Meditation.

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The Negative Bias Distraction

October 10, 2022

Our negative bias steals our focus, but there are ways to counter this distraction and stay on track.

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Wheres the Results?

October 5, 2022

Not seeing results is frustrating, but a perspective shift may help you see them.

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Sunlight – The Health and Fitness Enhancer

April 4, 2021

The health and fitness enhancing effects of sunlight.

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More Muscle, More Health?

April 4, 2021

How to attain more muscle mass and it's contribution towards good health!

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Mental Barriers

April 4, 2021

How to overcome common mental barriers on your pursuit for improved health and fitness

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