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We introduced the topic of breathing and performance in this recent blog (Link February 2019 #10 blog). Today, we’re going to take it a little further and talk about improving your endurance [...]

Exercise and diet are a bit like the chicken and the egg argument: While we know both are important for overall mental and physical health, and healthy body composition, it’s hard to know exactly [...]

When a gymnast learns a new skill, she doesn’t just throw it into her competition-ready bar routine. After weeks of timers and drills to prepare her for attempting the new skill, she then [...]

Alcoholism = bad. One glass of wine a night = OK, even helpful? That tends to be the general thinking about booze: Getting hammered all the nights of the week is bad, bad, bad for your liver, for [...]

Have you ever done something you knew what a bad idea, but did it anyway? Do you ever wonder why we continue to do things we know are bad for us—be it eating sugary food, drinking too much booze, [...]

Shopping for eggs has become a mind F*** these days, hasn’t it? You get to the egg isle and stare at all the options—free-range eggs, organic, cage-free eggs, Omega-3 fortified eggs, [...]

As a coach, one of my biggest challenges—along with getting clients to change their diet—is getting them to remain consistent with their fitness. I, as many others, have often assumed it largely [...]

Fat used to be sinful, and now it’s not. Sugar was never great, but now it will kill you. And then there’s salt. Salt has always been moderately evil—it has been thought to cause high blood [...]