“What’s the best way to head back into the gym? After a vacation, illness, heavy workload, etc. you can sense you are gonna hate it at first but you gotta start back up. How do you do it the right way?”
What a Video Game Taught Me About Leadership
For decades all around the world, however, video games have been used as teaching tools, educating kids on a plethora of subjects like history, pattern recognition, critical thinking, and more since the early 1990s. (Think Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, Tetris, SimCity, Starcraft, etc.)
If games can teach us how to recognize patterns, develop plans of action, think critically, manage resources, problem solve and more, could a game you play online help you develop leadership skills that you can apply in RL? (that’s real life for those who don’t speak gamer)
You Don’t Have to Be a Gym Rat To Get Fit or Lose Weight
As odd as it may sound coming from a gym rat like myself, I totally understand where she is coming from.
For those that lift heavy weights, they know how empowering it can be, not to mention its numerous health benefits. For some, the gym can be more terrifying than a tornado full of sharks.
When I mention lifting weights to someone new to a workout regiment, sometime I see this weird look of fear in their eyes. A fear that if they lift weights, they will become some behemoth who eats his/her weight in red meat; a Situation wanna-be who spends six days a week at the gym and only talks about his abs, or a woman who shoots up testosterone and now wins Tom Waits karaoke contests on Saturday night.
How to Find Your Why
Implementing a new consistent behavior that you hope will lead to a life changing habit can make you feel like a salmon swimming upstream. You are constantly fighting the current of your own mind as you work to establish this habit.
In all honesty, most of us would rather the habit fairy show up and magically leave the habit under our pillow. We want it all and we want it now!
What is the Most Accurate Way to Measure Body Fat?
Most people gauge their weight loss success with the bathroom scale. Step up, stand still, and boom instant feedback. However, your common household scale is about as reliable as a drunk plastic surgeon at Mardi Gras.
Scale weight can fluctuate throughout the day depending on numerous variables and they also do not provide any measurement of how much body fat you actually have.
There are a few ways to measure body fat specifically for those who are trying to reach a certain level of “leanness.”
We Can Be Heroes (The Fascinating Reason Why Heroes Matter)
Heroes connect us with the humane powers inside ourselves, guiding us to through the trials of perseverance and leaving us with the understanding that anything is possible; so long as you decide to commit to one-hundred percent self-responsibility in this moment in time
We are all looking for a power, a power to overcome our greatest obstacles, that will provide us the strength to live a better life.
Deload to Reload: A Tale of Two Deloads
Your body does not make its gains from all the barbell crushing you do in the gym. Your gains are made when you rest and give your body time to recover. Thus the Law of Supercompensation.
Things I Learned Over 50 Podcast Episodes
You will have to make sacrifices, i.e. time, food, Netflix marathons, money, etc. Unlike trying to fly a space ship to Mars if you are looking to lose fat, add muscle, get in better shape, or eat better your biggest obstacle is going to be you. So you have to hustle harder than your inner negativity. Hustle so hard that you leave the negativity in the past. If you can hustle and make this a real commitment for 6 months and give it the majority of your attention, you can turn your life around completely.
What an RPG Can Teach Us About Life
You can’t always choose what life throws at you, but you can choose how to react to it.
Fighting a dragon in Skyrim is one thing, but if your daily automated response is to react in a negative manner how are you supposed to find the strength to fight your own inner fire breathing dragon of doom?
No Meat? No Problem: 5 High Protein Vegan Options
I realized there are things out there other than tofu that are fairly high in protein content for vegans or those who choose to go “meatless”.