Training
Think beyond walking
Walking is good for you. And there are very few people who disagree with that assessment. Doctors, therapists, coaches, governments all encourage..
The sense of wonder
My daughter twirls and spins without inhibition and without giving a hoot as to who is watching or where she is. The kid next door jumps simply becaus..
Can't forget to forget training
The hardest game to play is to remind oneself that staying lean, packing on muscle and having good body composition matters.Now for some folks a combi..
When short on time, move for muscle
The less time you have to dedicate in a day to activity, it becomes crucial that you spend all of the little time you have in a day to build muscle an..
Introducing friction where it matters
You can get your favourite ice cream in 10 minutes to 30 minutes. But introduce a constraint. Make it that you need to travel 30-40 minutes to have th..
Something obvious that bears repeating
You don’t just squat to get stronger. Or gain muscle. You squat to be able to squat. You may go weeks without be able to lift a kg more than you are..
Walking is good for you. And there are very few people who disagree with that assessment. Doctors, therapists, coaches, governments all encourage you ..
Constraints
When you follow rules, it works. Be it exclusion diets, rigid volume or weight targets for food, training plans with progression and volume targets, b..
Sustaining a training habit
There are many things that it takes to sustain a training habit (training is exercising done with structure and purpose). And it's not money. Ti..
The moment I stopped lifting weights, all my muscle turned into fat.
Here’s another absurd belief that needs to be vanquished. Muscles exist to contract and produce force. Activity is the reason muscle ..
