Tag: skills
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When We Make Excuses Changing the way we eat or move can be difficult for many reasons. Our environment is filled with obstacles to healthy habits, from time constraints to financial considerations to social pressures. This art, from a Nike campaign, shows excuses where they live: in your head. Nike’s answer is to “Just do…
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Exercise and food have both spawned dizzying gadget and gear industries, with product reviews in their millions all over the Web. Fortunately, you don’t require much gear to improve your eating and exercise habits, but a few things can help nudge you in the right direction and keep you accountable to your goals. How Does…
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Getting Comfortable with Gym Going You don’t have to join a gym to get more exercise in your life, but you may find it helps you by providing a “third place” with fewer distractions from the work at hand, access to classes or trainers, or just the external nudge of knowing you paid money so…
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Too Much, Too Soon This is the year! You’re going to get in shape, and you’re off to a running start! And the next day, ow, ow, you can hardly walk, and the stairs might as well be a fortress wall. It’s probably just benign soreness — common after doing a particularly tough workout or…
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Fitness Motivationals There’s a lot of crazy messages out in the fitness world, welcoming pain and restriction, claiming that you can’t get better if you stay in your comfort zone. Sometimes it helps us reframe our assumptions if we deliberately do “something that scares us,” but that may not be the best way to begin.…
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More Kettlebell Fun So you’ve got the kettlebell basics down, and you’re looking for more options. Check out this list from Greatist of 22 kettlebell moves. The list includes a mix of traditional kettlebell movements and other movements that are also familiar to dumbbell and barbell users. Kettlebells are versatile equipment — and easier to…
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New Year, New Resolutions Or the same resolutions again, as the case may be! Here are a few articles from the past year about setting goals in a way that helps you succeed. I’ll be running a couple of more collections like this in the coming week. Set Good Short-term Goals — concrete, simple, accountable,…
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“The Anti-Detox Diet” If you’re already comfortable in the kitchen and looking for something simple to start the year off with healthy eating, take a look at Julia Belluz’s Anti-Detox Diet. It combines a grocery list with meal-prep instructions to get you a week’s nourishing meals for a decent price. This plan works best for…
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Nine Simple Weight-Loss Tips People who are successful in making long-term changes to their bodies are different from other people. Mostly, they are more mindful — they are more aware of what they eat and their activity. Tara Parker-Pope famously argued in a New York Times aricle, “The Fat Trap,” that their diligence is onerous…