Training
The cost of doing nothing
I received an interesting comment on a post about exercise that can summarized into :Too much exercise or poorly executed exercise can hurt more than ..
Industry feelings
Shilling for mindfulness
Sport analogies can apply to the act of eating too. When you are done drawing leadership lessons, learning to manage people and sell stuff from watchi..
Not so great expectations
I have been glib with the use of the term ‘quality of life’. I do believe training consistently improves it. But what are the different things that co..
Activity for leisure vs activity for necessity
Do you enjoy brushing your teeth? How about cleaning your car? Using the rest room? There are things we do not because we want to. Not ..
Rant about town
Why you do what you do
We tend to think that knowledge, once acquired, is something permanent. Instead, even holding on to it requires constant, careful effort. Maciej ..
Nutrition
Relationship with food
Our interaction with the food we eat every day is romanticised to our collective detriment. A food can taste good, it can make you feel good and it ca..
Clarity of purpose
Probiotics can’t make up for a calorie deficit Exclusion diets alone can’t do for joint health and arthritis what movement can Quality of fo..
The right stuff
There is such a thing as the right amount of crazyright amount of intensityright amount of convictionright amount of intensity right amount ..
There were no gyms in ancient India
A recent comment thread discussing low penetration of gym memberships produced some polarising interpretations. This isn’t uncommon given almost every..
Sweet nothings
Corporations excel at the art of saying a lot without meaning anything. All their talk will not stop them from taking our money. Nor should it. Apps t..