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Positive AF
No matter what healthy habits you adopt, you cannot and will not sustain long-term success if you feed yourself a steady diet of negativity and self-doubt. Here are 3 things you can do to get your mind right. Hand to G-d, your life will change once you stop being such a jerk to yourself. Counter …
Create An Environment For Success
Today we're going to give you a few tips to create an environment that supports your health and fitness goals. This environment includes Your Space (your home) and Your People (your support system) and once you have both set up properly it will make your journey easier and you'll be more apt to succeed. Ready? …
You Get What You Put In
When setting health and fitness goals, the SMART method is a great blueprint ; Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic or Relative and Timely. But there's one more important piece of the puzzle. Pat can I buy a vowel? I'll take an "e" please. As in Effort. When setting goals don't forget to identify and quantify how …
Workout Rule #3
Performance-based goals are deciding to run a race with a time goal, wanting to swim a mile, beat your time when you hike a specific trail, hit a PR in a dead-lift or do a pull up. When you set a performance-based goal you are taking away any decision about whether or not you want …
Virtual Healthy Happy Hour
Our Virtual Healthy Happy Hour group has been meeting every Monday night for 7 weeks now. Each week we hop on a Zoom call. We go around the group one by one and recap what everyone's goals were the previous week and how we did. Then we go around again and set new goals for …
How to Move the Needle
Maintaining your fitness level isn't that hard, you just keep doing what you've been doing. Back (waaaaay back) in the day, my fitness regime was to go to 24 Hr Fitness in Larkspur, sit on the bike for 30 minutes while I read a book or a magazine, listening to music on my Walkman (I …
5 Things in 5 Minutes or Less
Cheers to all of you badasses that are re-organizing and cleaning your houses. You are amazing! For the other 99% of us, here are some simple hacks. Each task takes 5 minutes or less and even if you accomplish ONE per day, you'll be able to pat yourself on the back with a self-satisfied smirk. …
Do This One Thing to Reach Your Fitness Goal in 2020
Today we are cutting to the chase my friend and I'm giving you the most important trick, tip and strategy I know to help you reach your fitness goals. Ready? Schedule your workouts on your calendar a month (or more) at a time. By putting your workouts on your calendar you are assigning them the …
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Tip #4 – Dance with the One that Brung You
Kiss your husband or significant other every time one of you leaves the house and tell them you love them. Even if you are angry at the time. Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary. At the time of our wedding (on April Fool's Day, no less) we had been together for …
