5 things you need to do, to stop sabotaging your fitness and nutrition progress.

I recently logged in to my website to write and was blown away to see that my list of 32 lessons learned in 32 years became the most read article on my website.

If you missed that sucker, click here to check it out. And if you read it, a huge thank you for checking it out!

In an effort to give the people more of what they want, I’m going full list-mode in this week's newsletter to itemize the five things you need to do, to stop sabotaging your fitness and nutrition progress.

Sounds good? Cool. Let's rip it.

3 Thoughts on Fitness & Nutrition (August Edition)

It’s that time again. Every month I look at my list of topics, ideas, and thoughts and see what didn’t have the horsepower to materialize into its own blog or newsletter. It’s not to say these three things are any less, they might even be more impactful in a short tense.

Either way, I’ll let you decide that. Here are 3 Things that have been bouncing around my head for the past month...

Enjoy!

Inputs vs. Outputs: What matters in your nutrition, fitness, and health?

Wearable technology, Usage apps, live time streaming, and even food and nutrition apps all have categories that itemize and register your projected exercise outputs. As all of these avenue’s have become more and more popular (what up, COVID) I’ve noticed a dramatic shift in the attention to what these devices and platforms are telling you.

“Why was my calorie output lower today from the same workout I had last week when it was 150 calories higher?”

“{insert nutrition logging app here} told me my 40 minute workout burned 300 calories, should I eat extra today?”

“My apple watch had my highest movement score, but why is the scale not moving?”

The above are examples of questions I get, from friends, family, clients, and social media acquaintances alike. Don’t get me wrong when I say this, they’re all awesome questions, and I want these questions. But the answer typically pisses people off.

A Birthday List: 32 Lessons in Fitness and Nutrition

Normally I’m not a birthday guy. However, since the birth of my daughter, I now have a 2 and a half year old cheerleader who hypes me up for any and every holiday or event that happens.

Shout out to Sauce… it’s nice having a cheerleader…

So NOW I’m a birthday guy. In honor of turning the big 3-2, I wanted to create a list of 32 thoughts geared towards fitness and nutrition. Some are short, some are long. Some are factual with real science behind them, and some are anecdotal n=1 from 32 years of life.

Without further adieu…

New Years Resolutions Are AWESOME. Let Me Tell You Why

In my 10 years as a Personal Trainer, I’ve never understood why those in my industry knock New Year's Resolutions and the Resolutioners that come with them.

Change is fickle S.O.B. in that some days you want it, and others, you want to beat it away with a stick (probably when you want to change most).

The five stages of change are precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.They’re important to know, even more important to understand, but for the purpose of this newsletter, and from what I gather about the audience that reads this, you're probably either at the contemplation or preparation stage.

Let's take a quick sidebar to see what those two stages look like...

Getting Started with a Fitness Program? Read this.

Growing up, my Dad, a General Contractor by trade, always told me “Bud, there is more than one way to skin a cat”. Always referring that there is more than one way to get to an end result.

Fast forward a few decades and I am knee deep into this lovely world of fitness and my Dad’s classic quote has never been more true. Sure, the choices you make along the way dramatically speed up or slow down the path to get there, but all in all, there is more than one way to skin a cat.