The Age of Self Promotion
If you have to explain that you are an expert – you already lost.
We live in an age of self-promotion. To a certain degree, who can yell the loudest for attention. Yet, true mastery takes a lifetime. Coach Foreman of Catalyst Athletics states that this is the era of youtube masters - these people are jacks of all trades, party tricks, and cues, yet masters of none because they do not know the why, when, or thought process behind their use. They have not interned or put in the time in the trenches to have respect or know how to hold themselves in this arena.
Sleep When You're Dead?
In a recent Performance Podcast, Robert Dos Remedios asked himself the cliché question, “If you only had one exercise to do the rest of your life what would you pick?”
He said “Sleep.”
In our culture sleep seems to be synonymous with lazy. Yet, how many Americans under-sleep and are over-stressed, but hey they are chasing that dream. Get R Dun…but there will most likely be a price to pay at the end of your rampage.
The Power of Belief
Chad Wesley Smith of Juggernaut recently released – 4 Ways to Make Any Program Work. The first one was Belief.
Full Circle
Today I made the decision that after I graduate from UT I will not pursue an academic or university based position. I will continue to work in the private sector and just devote more time to the business of building health one client at a time. Some might ask what will you really be able to do with only a PhD and not an M.D? And to that I would respond – everything except hand out prescriptions – which I wouldn’t do anyways.
Change Your Passwords to Lifting/Fitness Goals.
Do you have passwords like Candy!, mittens, or some old person's birth day. Well, not anymore because you are going to change all of them to your lifting goals. This is the real deal and it has been the most annoying slash best accountability tool I have found in the last year.
What it involves is simply changing all your passwords to goals. For instance Mino Solomon may have the password SQTallTHEweight or in order for Kristin Bennett to access her bank information she would have to type DEADlift400.
Educated/Experienced Individual Nutritional Advice/Analysis – The Only Way.
I have been manipulating diets for over a decade. On this journey it blew my mind how once I got my clients eating the “right” foods, different folks would have completely different levels of success on very similar food items and macronutrient ranges. The problem is that as much as we are different on the outside we are also very different in the foods and ranges of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates that we need to build and support health on the inside.
A New Perspective on Training: The Sport of CrossFit
Everyone wants to know, “What is the BEST way to train for “Sport of Fitness” CrossFit?”