Workout progression is the key to building muscle, strength and performance. All of the other stuff, like your routine, exercises and equipment you use are merely details. It’s the progression of your exercises and routine that gets you what you want. There are a number of myths surrounding workout progression that I wanted to address today. These myths can create …
How to Be Fit and 50 With Laurence Codd
Have I got a treat for you this week! I just finished sitting down with Mr. Fit and 50 himself, Laurence Codd. For those who don’t know, Laurence is the man when it comes to real-world practical information for staying in shape past your 20s, 30s and even 40s. In fact, Laurence got his start in fitness fairly late in life …
Overcoming Diet and Exercise Resistance
Diet and exercise resistance can make achieving your fitness goals very difficult, if not impossible. It’s just like riding a bike with the brakes rubbing. It makes you work much harder while gaining little benefit. This week’s episode fo the R.D.P Podcast is all about the 3 biggest sources of resistance that can hold your potential in check. The first …
The Link Between Your Muscle and Health
Muscle and health go together like peanut butter and chocolate. In many ways, it’s very hard to have much of one without the other. However, a recent comment on my YouTube channel got me thinking that the two may not always be linked. In some ways, the artificial pursuit of muscle could be even an unhealthy pursuit through the abusive use …
How to Finally Reach Your Fitness Goals in 2018
2018 is the year you finally reach your fitness goals once and for all. Whether you want to burn fat, build muscle or improve performance, 2018 is your year. This isn’t some New Years motivational garbage either. This week’s podcast is all about the essential principles that will bring you the results you want. The more you satisfy these principles the …
Top Fitness Myths in the Media
Fitness myths abound and many of them are fueled by the media that’s all around us including the internet, TV, and magazines. Many of these myths are not created as a way to purposely scam or con you. Most of them are the by-product of years of subtle, almost subliminal, messages you’re told about how losing weight or getting in shape …
How to Use Peak Set Training for Optimal Workouts
This week’s topic is something I like to call peak set training. The benefits include improved recovery, less stress on your joints decreased nervous system fatigue and ultimately, more muscle growth. Sound good? Then let’s get started. How does peak set training work? Phase 1: Warm up sets Peak set training uses the natural bell curve that occurs when you …
Get Smart About Fitness Information
We live in the age of enlightenment. Fitness information is everywhere and more is being created every day. Even this post is a good example of that. Despite the value of learning, I’ve come to question if swimming in all of this fitness information is all that great. There are several problems that can come from overloading on it. The …
Is Your Healthy Lifestyle too Stressful?
The Red Delta Project was created from the belief that a healthy lifestyle should improve your quality of life rather than compromise it. Unfortunately, the common belief is that you must adopt stressful diet and exercise habits to get in shape. There are a lot of memes out there portraying the idea that you’re supposed to suffer for your results. it’s …
How to Find Reliable Fitness Information
Despite having more diet and exercise information than you’ll need in 10 lifetimes, it can be pretty hard to find reliable fitness information on the internet. Even simple questions like how much protein you should consume or the difference between split and full body routines can lead you down an endless rabbit hole of debate. How are you supposed to comb …
Is Sitting Destroying Your Knees?
Sitting just may be creating the modern plague of something called neuromuscular amnesia. In simple terms, when you don’t make a habit of putting tension through a muscle, your mind starts to “forget” how to use it. Then, when you do need to use it, in an exercise or activity, you can’t use it as nature intended. The result is …
The Trap of Over Qualifying Exercise
Over qualifying exercise is one of the biggest reasons why you may be struggling to get the results you want and it’s easy to fall into this trap. At first, you learn about the “best exercises” to reach your goals. Then a buddy tells you about the “optimal rep range for muscle growth.” Then the pro body builder in the …
How Much Muscle Can You Build?
Muscle building potential can vary greatly from one person to the next. Some people can build a lot of muscle fairly easily. Other’s are going to have a hard time putting on just a little bit. So the big question is, how much can you hope to gain? More importantly, how much can you also hope to maintain? Also, …
How to Avoid Common Fitness Traps
Traps and snares abound in diet and exercise. These traps lure you into their jaws with promises of results and security, only to snap shut and limit your potential. One of the most common traps is the cardio trap where you find yourself eating a lot because you workout, and you workout because you eat a lot. This creates a …
Do Weighted Calisthenics The Smart Way
Weighted or loaded calisthenics seems simple enough. You just take a classic bodyweight exercise and add some weight to your body to increase the resistance. It seems like a great way to build muscle and strength, but it’s fraught with risk. Part of the reason for this risk is weighted bodyweight training can jeopardize your technical convergence. This is the unique way …
Why You Should Build a Custom Routine
Fail to plan and plan to fail. That’s what they say, and for good reason. You’re not going to get very far without a well thought out diet or exercise plan. Unfortunately, many good plans turn into a rigid dogmatic approach to how you should “eat right” and exercise. While any plan is better than no plan, super strict approaches …
Easy Fitness Part 2 Exercise
In the last post, I talked about the virtues of seeking the path of least resistance when it comes to diet and exercise. The basic idea is the path of success is forged by finding ways to make the necessary work easier to accomplish. In this post, we discuss strategies on how you can apply this philosophy toward your workouts. …
Easy Fitness Part 1
Easy is not a word commonly associated with a successful diet and exercise program. If anything, many experts will decry the very mention of the word and insist there are no short cuts. I sure used to be such a person, but I’m learning my lesson. Not only is striving for the path of least resistance possible, but it’s also possibly …
The Missing Ingredient in Your Flexibility Routine
I’ve been trying to improve my flexibility and mobility for most of my life. Most of the classic methods, like stretching and foam rolling, never did anything more than provide a tiny bit of relief that lasted a few moments. Now I’m facing the very real possibility that I’ll be turning 40 in less than 2 years, yet I’m feeling …
How to Improve Every Hanging Exercise
Hanging is a staple in calisthenics. From pull ups, leg raises and even levers require a lot of hanging ability. Unfortunately, we don’t hang from trees or ledges as our primal genetics are designed to do so our hanging muscles are weak. Not only do we have a weak grip, but the muscles that transition tension from the arm to the torso …
Is it Important to Feel a Muscle Working?
Many experts claim that focusing on how an exercise feels is a waste of time. I used to believe this too. I fell into the idea that the numbers you put in your log and your program was the key to success. After many years of frustration and injury, I started training smarter rather than just harder. This meant the numbers …
3 Best Strap Exercises for Bigger Biceps
I love doing biceps exercises on suspension straps. I even preferred them over free weight curls back before I was made the switch to progressive calisthenics. There are many biceps exercises you can do on suspension straps. Over the years, I’ve found 3 moves that work a lot better than all of the others. These include the scoop curl, the …
Fit After 40 w/ Tommy Rembiszewski
I’m not one of those “age is just a number” kind of guys. Believe me, age and all of it’s demons is a very real threat to your fitness and health. It’s a very serious threat that you’ll have to face sooner or later. That’s why I invited super bad-ass Tommy Rembiszewski bad for another interview so I could pick …
Break Free of Diet & Exercise Dogma for Good
Fitness dogma that dictates how you should eat and exercise is ever prevalent within our fitness culture. Most of the time these dogmas start out as simple ideas but grow into a mini-religion by the time they hit the masses. The issue I take with them is they both limit your freedom of lifestyle and results. It’s like locking both your …
How to Burn More Fat & Build More Muscle
While writing my second book (Check out my first book here) I stumbled upon the 3 key principles that govern your success towards any form of exercise. That was pretty powerful in itself, but I’ve learned something even more powerful about these 3 principals. It’s something that can help you unlock a lot of muscle building and fat burning potential. …
Integrated Activity vs Working Out
A super successful businessman once told me; “I don’t want work/life balance. I want work/life integration.” How novel. Wouldn’t it be great it we could do the same with exercise? Instead of having an exercise/life balance we strive for exercise/life integration. I think it’s possible and I’ve been doing just this sort of integration for the past few months. Check …
Street Workout Wisdom w/ Danny Kavadlo
2 wonderful things have happened over the past week. 1) Al and Danny Kavadlo released their latest calisthenics masterpiece, Street Workout and 2) Danny Kavaldo was kind enough to share some of his best thoughts on training and life in the Red Delta Project Podcast. In this podcast Danny covers: 1:00 Danny’s training history. 2:46 The street workout “movement.” 5:00 …
When Are Diet & Exercise Details Important?
There’s no shortage of detailed information concerning diet and exercise information. It seems everywhere you look some expert is suggesting the smallest details concerning you habits can make or break your success. It can all be very confusing. You can get lost in the maze of details around what to eat after a workout alone. Should you drink a protein …
How to Break Free From Your Work Out
Have you ever considered just how artificial and confining a workout is? How about how it seems to require that you put your life on hold so you can go and exercise like it’s some sort of a chore? What if you could break free and never have to “work out” ever again? How would your life be different? It …
How to Make Fitness Simple and Easy
Many of the struggles to build muscle or lose fat come from the needless obstacles we place in front of ourselves. We are making this whole diet and exercise stuff far too complicated and difficult. It’s not supposed to be so difficult it requires a herculean degree of motivation and will power. You also don’t need to become an expert …
How to Balance Out Emotion and Logic Dominance
Most folks are either emotion or logic strong in their philosophy and approach to fitness. You can check out this post to learn about emotion and logic dominance but here are the cliff notes: Logic dominant individuals: Keep looking for the best and latest science and information. Over-rely on knowing the “right” way to do things or the right program …
The 3 Most Important Exercise Rules Ever
I like to keep things simple when it comes to exercise, especially when it comes to building muscle and fat loss. It’s such a relief to take all of the fluffy information out there and distill it down into the basic principals. Not only does this greatly improve your chances of success, it also gives you the freedom and flexibility …
Diet vs Exercise for Long Term Fat Loss
Many claim diet is more important for fat loss, and it may be in some situations, however, fat loss through diet is a temporary scenario. Regardless of what diet you follow your body will find a way to return to calorie balance one way or another. This is why physical activity might be a stronger, more potent variable towards your …
Is Walking the Best Fat Loss Exercise?
I believe the best fat loss exercise isn’t done in the gym or sweating your sock off in some sort of class. It’s simply walking out your front door and continuing to put one foot in front of the other. All of the high-intensity stuff is still great, but when it comes to long-term, lasting fat loss walking just might be the …
Is Core Training Upside Down?
For the past several years I thought I was optimally training my core and abs. My primary strategy has always been to move the lumbar spine since that’s the collection of joints moved through an abdominal contraction. While this movement is important, I’ve come across some new information suggesting the primary movement should be in the hips which flips my …
Your Most Important Core Muscle for Fitness and How to Work it
Sure the abs are sexy, and the obliques earn you street cred, but neither of them comes close to your TVA (Transverse Abdominis). Mostly because it’s the foundation to your entire core which means all of your hopes for a strong, functional and even sexy six pack depends on how well you train it. You won’t find many magazines with …
Is Modern Fitness Ridiculous?
I came across this super cool video showcasing some of the fitness trends of the past century: I’m really fascinated by the history of our modern fitness culture and videos like this are both educational and highly entertaining. Despite its entertainment value, I can’t help but ask myself “How did people back then take this stuff seriously? I mean, why did …
Pull Up Combo for a Thicker Back
They say that if someone has large biceps from pull ups they will suffer from a skinny weak back. This is because of what I call elbow domination which is when the mind if more focused on flexing the elbow as opposed to extending the shoulder. That’s why I love this funky little pull up combo that involves twice as …
How to Turn on Your Abs
All of the core training and scientifically proven workouts are worthless if your mind has trouble turning on your abs int he first place. Our modern society has created an epidemic of “sleepy abs” and no amount of leg raises or sit ups are going to save you until you improve your abdominal engagement. Thankfully, it’s not difficult to wake …
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The great thing about calisthenics and bodyweight training is you can train anytime you like. You’re not restricted to a gym and you can jump into a set of push ups or squats anywhere you find yourself. The bad thing about calisthenics and bodyweight training is you can train anytime you like. You run the risk of quickly doing too much, …
Is “Follow Your Passion” Bad Advice?
Following your passion is common advice in the business world, and it’s something I’ve stood behind for years. After all, that’s the “red” in Red Delta Project with red symbolizing passion and desire. While passion and desire is still a critical component to your success recent lessons I’m learning some new information that’s turning the idea of “follow your passion” …
Body Weight Neck & Upper Trap Training
Today we explore what Paul Wade calls “shotgun muscle” in Convict Conditioning 2. These muscles are the supplemental muscles in the lower arms, legs and neck that complete your physique for both show as well as go. In this video I’ll focus on neck training. Training the neck is very important for both athletic performance as well as appearance. It …
The Great Biceps Exercise You’re Not Doing
When I started playing around with this move I had no idea it was such a great biceps move. To my surprise my biceps were sore for a week! I like using it as a warm up before pull ups, or as a finisher after a pulling workout. Try 2-3 sets of 3-4 reps holding the tucked position for 3-5 …
The One Thing Holding Your Fitness Back
A sound fitness plan requires many pieces and part. There’s diet, exercise, sleep, hormones, nutrients, technique and a host of other details. It can be confusing to keep track of all of it. Despite the complexity, there’s a very good chance that your current rate of progress is being held back due to one single tiny thing. Most importantly, all …
Body Weight Inner Thigh Exercise
I spent years scoffing at people working hard to strengthen their inner thigh muscles. Turns out I was the crazy one for avoiding those muscles for so long especialy after discovering the inner thigh muscles are a critical part in all lower body training. Single leg squats are almost impossible if your adductor muscles are weak. I was right about one …
Programing Supplemental Calisthenics Moves
Just like traditional weight lifting methods, calisthenics includes both basic compound movements as well as single joints moves like curls, shoulder raises and grip work. Even though you may not need these moves, they can shore up a few weak points and round out your physique. The trick is knowing how to fit them into your program so they don’t …
The Missing Link in Your Fitness Success.
The massive explosion of diet and exercise related information available is proof that we are not lacking for knowledge nor motivation. We know far more about countless fitness methods now than we did a generation ago. The very fact that people are searching, for and buying a ton of fitness products is also proof that the motivation to get in …
Why Fitness Will Never Be Easy For You
Fitness will always be a challenge to some degree. You’ll never reach a point where you’re on easy street and you have it all figured out. There will always be some sort of challenge standing between you and the results you want. But that’s not a bad thing! The whole point of getting stronger isn’t to make your fitness effortless, …
Build a Stronger Back With Table Bridges
The table bridge is one of the first bridge progressions people attempt in progressive calisthenics and for good reason. It places more stress on the posterior chain, especialy in the upper back compared to the lying bridge where the back is done on the floor. It’s also a great way to loosen up the shoulders and improve the muscle activation …
9 Reasons Why You Should Train Every Day
Training every day may seem a little extreme, but it may just be the ticket to making progress much faster and easier than if you only pursued your goals a few days out of the week. Here are a few reasons why training every day can super charge your strength and muscle training. #1 At the heart of all training …
Why Quality Diet & Exercise Habits are Cheaper
Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. -Steve Jobs The idea that fitness is expensive is highly prevalent within our society. People complain about the price of healthy eating, the cost of a gym membership and even the time it takes to warm up. It’s a darn shame, because fitness doesn’t …
4 Fitness Struggles You Can’t Win
Fitness Shouldn’t Be A Constant Struggle. If it is something is wrong. Our current fitness culture is in love with struggle and fighting the good fight. Facebook is filled with people showing off their blood sweat and tears. There are pictures of torn hands, and people laying on the floor in exhaustion. People love to tell their friends how hard they …
When You Should Skip A Workout
There are very few times when you maybe should skip your planned workout. being tired, bored, or low on motivation sure isn’t one of those times. If anything that’s when you really should workout. That said, there are times when you should skip out on your workout. Here they are and what you can do about them. #1- When …
A Fitness Rant From Mother Nature
Hello there, Mother nature here, you know, the gal who’s running this whole show. I just thought I would drop you a line and get a few things off my chest. Don’t worry, this isn’t about how you’re filling the seas with garbage or anything. No, this letter is just to clear up some confusion you humans have towards this …
The Very Best Place to get in Shape
Without a doubt, I believe the very best place to get some exercise is outdoors. It saddens me that fitness has slowly become an indoor activity. When I was a kid my mother always used to tell me to get outside. It didn’t matter what I did, just as long as it was out of the house. Turns out mom …
A Simple Exercise to Switch on Muscle Growth
Muscle growth and strength is always limited by how well you can engage your target muscles. Engaging your chest, arms, shoulders, back and every other muscle in your upper body is heavily dependent upon your scapular alignment. This exercise is one of the best ways to condition your back muscles how to “set” or tuck your shoulders. If you can …
How to Kill Workout Boredom
Boredom kills your ability to progress and advance your workouts. No matter how hard you’re pushing yourself, a boring workout is only slightly better than worthless. It kills you mental edge. It kills your drive and desire. It kills your focus. Not to mention it’s also a total bear to get through. So I say it’s time we got …
Muscles Are Dumb
Muscles are dumb. Dumber than Dumb and Dumber even then some. I don’t mean having muscle is dumb I mean it literally. The actual tissue of your muscles is dumb. But you wouldn’t think so with some of the muscle lingo going through out fitness culture. – Muscle confusion – Muscle memory – Smart muscle training and so on. …
Is Exercise Better than Diet for Long Term Fat Loss?
It’s time to question yet another sacred cow in our fitness culture. Today I’m suggesting that exercise might be more effective than diet for long term weight loss. The popular idea now is that diet is a more potent vehicle for fat loss than exercise. Experts make claims like “90% of results are from diet” or “abs are made in …
The Perfect Diet and Exercise Program Myth
“And they lived happily every after……” It’s the ending of every classic fairy tale. Once the main characters have found each other, vanquished their foes and made everything perfect, they go off to a life of perfection. It’s an idea that saturates our modern day culture. If you can find the perfect mate, drive the perfect car and work …
Technique Isn’t Everything
“Technique isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” If I ever open a gym I’m putting that up on the wall in big BOLD letters. Everything you’re looking to gain from your training boils 100% down to your technique and how well you can maintain it. If your results are lacking, look to your technique. Never consider anything other than …
How to Be a Fitness Technician
If you have the skills, you can gain more progress in a 10 minute push up session than someone will who has little skill but cranks out 1,000 push ups a day. So the question is, how does one develop such skills? Is it luck or some sort of special education? Na, anyone can develop the necessary skills, all …
The Art and Science of Exercise Progression
Progression is the essence of success. It’s the very thing that causes your fitness to grow and mature. Without it you’re stuck. It doesn’t matter how hard you work or what your program looks like. If you don’t have progression, you don’t have……well…..progress. You just end up working your tail off to stay where you are. In this week’s …
How to Workout and Exercise While Traveling
Getting exercise and workouts on the road is always a challenge. Keeping fit habits can put a lot of stress on your trip, not to mention your traveling companions. Like most fitness plans, making the resolution to just work hard and stick to a strict diet or workout plan, no matter what, hardly ever works. You can’t charge into …
What Exercise Joint Pain Really Means
One of the things I’m learning is that stress or pain in a joint while working out usually means there’s less stress on the muscles you’re trying to work. One example is my right knee which has bothered me a little in the past month. Turns out my hamstrings are under-active so every time I go into a squat …
This TRX Shoulder Exercise Replaces 4 Dumbbell Exercises
When it comes to working the shoulders, nothing beats handstand work. That said, sometimes you want to target the deltoids. With dumbbells you have a lot of exercises to choose from which can target the shoulders from different angles. It can be very precise but it can also take a lot of time and energy. Not to mention it’s …
2 Twists on the TRX Rear Fly
The TRX rear fly is one of the best ways to target your shoulders and upper back. Use these two little twists to further target either the rear deltoids or the traps and rhomboids.
Don’t Do Weighted Calisthenics Until You Read this
Adding more weight to your body weight exercise may seem simple enough, but there are a few risks to be aware of. The first issue is that you shouldn’t sacrifice your technique in the name of greater loads. Using a shorter range of motion or different body position doesn’t always mean you’re getting stronger. Often times, it simply means you’re …
The Worst Reason To Workout & Exercise
There are many reasons to workout, but there is one reason that’s got to be one of the worst by far. A few years ago I came to the realization that progress is best made when focused on a positive and progressive ideal rather than avoiding negative consequences. If you want to be strong don’t fight weakness, focus on strength. …
How to Get Over Diet & Exercise Fear
Fear is one of the biggest barrier you face in your fitness career Unfortunately, much of our fitness culture is based upon fear. Diets are based upon avoiding foods that make you fat and cause disease. Workout programs are based upon preventing weight gain and destroying weakness. Almost every dietary or exercise dogma is based not so much upon what …
How to Avoid Junk Exercise and Workouts
We all know the pit falls of so-called junk food, but how many folks are standing guard against junk workouts or junk exercise? Junk food can leave you feeling satisfied, it can be enjoyable to eat, but the long term progress and benefits are negligible. The same can be said with junk workouts. They are fun, leave you feeling …
What 2 Do When You Can’t Do Much Exercise
Sometimes I get an email or comment from someone having a little pity party for themselves. They tell me they can “only do 2 pull ups.” or they can “only run 1/2 a mile.” They ask what they should do since they can’t do much. The first thing to do is ditch the poor-me attitude. No matter how little …
Plateau Proof Your Entire Next Year
I don’t believe in plateaus. I think they are completely avoidable and not at all the big looming wall that you’re sure to run into. In the past 5 years, I have yet to really plateau my training and thus my fitness. There are all sorts of reasons for this but the simple over view is this: – Aim …
Effective Fitness Plan Essentials
There’s no getting around it. You simply must have a plan on how you’re going to achieve your fitness goals. Without a plan, you’re just groping about in blind hope praying that your hard work will pay off. Lots of people place their bets on sticking to a few select diet and exercise rules. Other’s believe they’ll find success …
Why You Need a Mirror When Working Out
Technique is everything. Your entire chance of success boils down to the quality and strength of your technique. The tricky thing is, technique is often an elusive quality. You can count reps and measure steps, but there are a thousand little details to track when it comes to monitoring technique. In previous posts, I’ve talked about using a camera …
Hard in Fitness Work Isn’t Scaleable
In the world of business, it’s often recommended to use strategies and models which are scaleable. It’s important to develop systems which can be replicated over and over with compounding effect so your business and success grows. This is how someone can start a small home business and turn it into a multimillion dollar enterprise. Just as in business, …
Only the Crazy Stand Any Chance at Getting In Shape
“Train Insane or remain the same.” It’s a saying that’s been on the internet for a while, but it’s so very true. Not only should you train insane, but you should eat insane, move insane, study insane and live insane. Insanity is very much underrated in our fitness culture. It’s only through going crazy that you stand any chance …
The Most Powerful Principals in Fitness (Delta Principals 2.0)
The information in this post is from a chapter in my book Fitness Independence which you can find here on Amazon. The best way to reduce stress and achieve better results is to understand the most powerful principles in fitness. Understanding these principals gives you the power to achieve incredible results in the shortest amount of time. It also frees …
11 Fitness Great Opportunities You Can Use Right Now
Today’s message is simple; Every minute of every day you are surrounded by loads of opportunity to become more fit. – Every time you eat you can choose to improve your healthy eating skills. – Your environment is filled with resources for calisthenics and body weight exercise. Even a simple flight of stairs can become a versatile piece of exercise equipment. – The Internet is saturated …
How Easier Exercise Makes Your Body Harder
I have a crazy idea when it comes to fitness. I believe that achieving success comes down to making it easier to do what is necessary to achieve that success. The easier you make things, the faster you’ll reach your goals and the lofty peaks of success suddenly are well within reach. This is why I’m such a big fan of calisthenics and the Triad …
The Best Fitness Smart Phone App You’re Not Using
The best smart phone app for your fitness isn’t a push up program or calorie counter. It’s the one that comes standard on your phone called “camera.” Few things teach you more than self assessment. Watching yourself through pictures and video removes much of the mental filter that distorts what you’re really doing when it comes to diet and …
The Pitfall of Relying on Others for Fitness Motivation
One of the biggest pit falls in fitness is relying on other people for motivation. This was one of the biggest reasons why I struggled to get faster on the bike for many years. When I would race, I needed people to help me focus and push me. If someone was behind me then I would try to keep …
Why Most People Fail Diet & Exercise in 2 Weeks
As a seasoned mountain bike racer, I’ve learned a very harsh lesson about racing that’s absolutely true when it comes to diet and exercise. The lesson is that no one ever won a race shortly after the start, but loads of people have certainly lost the race shortly after the start. The reason is simple. The racers come off the start …
The Best Way to Start Any New Diet or Exercise Program
Today’s post is for the beginner who wants to start a new diet or exercise routine. In other words, it’s for everyone. After all, we’re all beginners in one way or another. In order to grow and develop we need to keep trying new things. Anyhoo, I’m often asked for advice on how best to start a new fitness program. …
How Doing an Exercise Right Can Backfire
When I was younger I wanted to get everything right when it came down to diet and exercise. I wanted to eat the right food and have the right diet. I wanted to do the right exercises and use the right workout program. Getting it right was very important to me. I thought that’s how I would get the …
4 Tips on How to Achieve Umami in Exercise
In the last post I wrote about the satisfying and pleasurable idea of umami I thought I would dedicate a few words now to some ideas on how to increase your chances of umami with your exercise. After all, if exercise can bring about the sensation of umami more often you’ll gain far more pleasure from your workout and be …
Achieving Ultimate Workout Satisfaction
Umami is a term that doesn’t get nearly enough attention within our fitness culture. It’s a Japanese term and, as I understand it, refers to a sensation of pleasure and satisfaction from a physical experience. Think of when you slip into a nice hot bath and you issue a sigh of contentment. Or when you drink a great beer and …
Why Doing Less Can Lead to More Results In Fitness
The greatest challenge in fitness is figuring out how to best use your limited lifestyle resources to get in shape. Problem is, you’re already maxing out most, if not all, of your lifestyle resources as it is. For most people looking to get in shape is like trying to buy a new luxury car with bad credit while living pay …
Why Pleasure is More Important Than Pain in Fitness
In a previous post I wrote about how pain is weakness invading the body rather than leaving the body as some hardcore folks like to claim. As I’ve also stated in previous posts, every exercise you do is essentially a set of instructions you are “downloading” to the cells of your body. If we put the two philosophies together we …
What Books Bring You Results in Fitness?
In the previous post I gave 3 reasons why most diet and exercise books may be a complete waste of time and money. Truth be told, I believe a single good book can completely transform your world. It can alter your awareness and give your fitness career a whole new life you never knew was possible. The only problem is that those books are …
3 Ways To Radically Improve Your Fitness Skills
Fitness is a skill. Actually, it’s a whole mess of skills that range from how you choose what to eat to the ritual you keep before you go to bed at night. I’ve been reading a great book all about how to improve your ability to improve your skill at anything, especialy diet and exercise. In today’s podcast I cover: …
Why Body Weight Training Builds Such a Sexy Physique #3
While progressive calisthenics is one of the most challenging of body weight skills, it’s also one the most rewarding when it comes to sculpting a killer physique. I credit this with the fact that progressive calisthenics requires your technical abilities to improve to reach higher levels of strength. If you want to advance to single leg squats or U-shape …
Theories on Why Body Weight Training Builds Sexy Physique #2
I must confess, I was one of those guys who believed that all I needed to do to build an attractive body was to either be as lean as possible or pack on muscle like crazy. All through high school and college I worked like crazy to bring my body fat levels into almost impossibly low levels. Then after I …
How to Learn the Most Effective Diet & Exercise Information on Earth
They say knowledge is power and nowhere is this more true than in the world of fitness. But some knowledge is more valuable than other knowledge. In fact, there is one form of knowledge that I would say is 100X times more important than any other. It’s so powerful that it will literally tell you everything you need to …
Why Body Weight Training Builds a Sexy Physique #1
When I first got into body weight exercise, I was surprised by the attractive physiques that many body weight enthusiasts possessed. They didn’t look like the big and bloated body builders nor did they look skinny with just a little muscle tone. Their physiques had that hard muscular “athletic” look that is so revered within our fitness culture. Not too …
Don’t Punish Yourself in Diet & Exercise
Is it just me, or is there just a little too much self abuse going on in our fitness culture as of late? It seems like everywhere I turn someone is admonishing themselves (either physically or verbally) for eating something or not doing something in their workout. All of this negativity is completely unnecessary and it’s also very damaging. You …
Killing Busy Work in Fitness
I’ve read more than a few books on productivity. Almost every book has at least a few pages dedicated to the idea of eliminating busy work during the work day. Examples include shuffling paper work, checking email, cleaning and organising things, getting coffee, chit chat and so on. If you can reduce the amount of busy work you do you’ll …
When Setting A Goal Isn’t Doing You Any Good
I’ve heard some folks refer to the practice of setting goals as an almost magical experience. Supposedly writing it down and reviewing it on a regular basis is part of the magic. The idea being that if you set a specific, realistic and time sensitive goal (and write it down) then motivation and inspiration is going to flow from you …
Why You Don’t Need a Custom Diet or Exercise Plan
A lot of needless and unnecessary fitness practices come from the idea that you’re like a snow flake, unique and different from everyone else. Such an idea once cost me loads of lifestyle resources as I constantly searched for “what worked for me. ” Once I understood that I wasn’t really all that different I was able to hack out …
Fitness Thoughts, Ideas and Beliefs That Keep You Average
I’ve always been into improving myself, but a few years ago I made a vow to do everything I could to fight being average. Average might be fine for everyone else, but when I’m opting out of the average club when it comes to being in shape. When I vowed to forsake average I quickly learned I had to shed a number of beliefs and ideas …
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