The #1 Key to Falling Back In Love with Physical Exercise & 5 Ways to Keep the Romance Going

Image by WikiImages Change your perspective and your expectations. Take a minute to consider what your relationship to exercise is founded on. Why are you in this relationship to begin with? Your weight? Long-term health benefits? Beacause you have to exercise (everyone else is doing...

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How to Become Fitter & SMARTER through your regular workout.

photo by Anja Osenberg I used to hateworking out. Really, REALLY hate it. It made me sore, it tensed me up, it made me feel inadequate when I couldn’t perform half the movements in class, while the person next to me seemed to breeze through the workout without even breaking a sweat. I quit going...

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How I learned to fall in love with high-intensity workouts (after a lifetime of hating their guts)

It took 3 things and none of them had anything to do with being a born and bred athlete (I’m actually more of the nerdy intellectual type). The 3 things (in sequential-but-overlapping order) are: 1. A fine-tuning of my body-map. 2. A re-learning of muscle activation sequences. 3. A re-framing...

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What a CrossFit training session taught me about Mind-Body Unity

Last week I wrote about how important it is for our health to learn the language mind and body speak toeach other. However, I forgot to mention a very important fact: when we set out to learn something new and totally foreign to us, we need to have an open attitude, an attitude of listening with our...

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The language no one taught you but is the key to your wellbeing

Did you know that your back pain, your chronic muscle tension and your bad posture could be products of your ignorance of a key language that is being spoken non-stop all around you, but that you somehow cannot perceive because you don’t know about it? What would you give to learn to speak this language? I’ve...

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