Bullet Points

If you have been reading about how to improve your health and fitness for any length of time some of the quickies I am writing out today are somewhere along the "duh" end of the knowledge continuum. Move on quickly.

There is a lot of good useful information out there, however unless you get it before it gets tossed into the commerce grist you will not get very much out of it. Good information, like Tabata style training, gets dumbed down or altered for the purposes of convenience and salability diminishing it's value, substantially.

So here is a quick list of basic things to have in your mental editor when you read about the next new product or training style, or as you start to put your own programs together.

* You lose FAT by creating a caloric deficit- Caloric deficit simply means using more calories than you take in. Burning more than you eat. For better or worse it's largely about the math. Don't get TOO caught up in the math.

* Train the way you are going to play - If you want to train for a sport, define the movement needs and design around that. If you are trying to get healthier define what your issues are and train to mitigate them. If you are trying to get fitter, define what fit means to you and look at the building blocks that will get you there. This is sometimes called Reverse Engineering.

* Big moves do more than small moves. The more muscles you move the more calories you burn. Multi joint big moves more reflect real life.

* Something is always better than nothing.

* Warm up and cool down ARE AS IMPORTANT as the workout.

* Warm up and cool down ARE AS IMPORTANT as the workout.

* Treat your training like a Dr. appointment. It's that important.

* Treat your training as a chance to play again. Find opportunities to nurture the playful.

That should do for now. Read, Think, Digest. Get back to me on it's usefulness

All the best,
Steve

Spectrum

Once, a long time ago a client came back to me a few days after our last session.  She was depressed.  She had stopped her walking program on my advice.


Shocked me because I never gave such advice.


The conversation was the merits, nay, the necessity of pushing the body past it's normal functioning.  As most of you know it is this push that causes adaptation.


She was an avid walker.  Walking was not a challenge for her, at least the way she did it, and so she reasoned that she should give up walking.


I then explained that there are a lot of good things to walking.  Health and balance in our lives is not solely tied to the growth and change of hardware and software.  It ties into, and stems from a lot of factors.


She was happy again.


The moral of the story.  Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.  Don't put fitness in a box.  We, all of us, have to strive to work out the blueprint of our minds and bodies until the very last day.


Stay tuned true believers.

Forest for the trees Part I

Been there done that?

Ever notice that when you have a sore tooth your tongue won't leave the spot alone. Keeps returning to it even though you already know it's there and sore?

Then throughout the day it becomes the background of everything you do and think.  Good news is a little less good.  Bad news a little worse, etc etc. The day takes a little more out of you.  You know what I mean, we have all been there.

So what does this mean to me?

Think about that and think about what that means insofar as counting calories. In you are constantly thinking about calories and food values, where will you mind be?  Where will you attention be turned.  What will be the color of you mood as a result of this?

        Something to think about as we move about in the real world