The Tabata Myth

With all of the talk about interval training for fat loss in recent years it was only a matter of time before someone stumbled across a couple studies conducted in the mid 1990’s by Dr. Izumi Tabata and his colleagues.  In fact, these studies created such a rage that now hundreds of thousands of trainees.. Read more →


Being a Slave to a Diet or Your Emotions?

People have been convinced that maintaining some sort of dietary control is “being a slave to their diet” and that eating whatever they want is freedom. True freedom comes, however, when you realize that when you are not IN CONTROL of your diet, your emotions and circumstances are in control of you.


The Power and Necessity of Self Control

There are a lot things in life you can’t control – other people’s behaviour, some of life’s circumstances, etc. But you DO have control over yourself – the decisions you make, the thoughts you have, they’re yours, all yours. Here’s the thing, almost all of one’s success is determined by the things you CAN control,.. Read more →


Are Some Exercises Dangerous?

Yesterday I made mention of the fact that I don’t think that upright rows are necessarily a bad exercise for everyone’s shoulders. Rather, I think that they are a bad exercise for SOME people’s shoulders and those people specifically should not do them. As a rule of thumb, I like to think of exercises in.. Read more →


The Curse of Rapid Fat Loss Programs

Any short-term rapid fat loss program will almost invariably kick you back to where you started or worse. These create all or nothing mindsets, black and white thinking, and don’t teach true lifestyle change. Some might suggest that these types of programs launch some people forward onto a longer-term balanced lifestyle approach to fat loss,.. Read more →


How to Accept Correction

Pride, stubbornness, and offense can get in the way of accepting correction that was only meant for your own benefit. Once accepted, laziness and carelessness can stand in the way of actually applying the things that are actually meant to help you improve. Work diligently to eliminate pride, stubbornness, offense, laziness, and carelessness in your.. Read more →