Improve your fitness. Preserve your health.
The longer I work as a Health Coach, the more convinced I become that we’ve been going about behaviour change all wrong.
We don’t need more information to change our diet and lifestyle, we need more support.
By the third week of January, most people are struggling with their New Year’s resolutions not because they don’t know what to do, but because they’re not doing what they know they need to do.
[Read more…]If you’re following the mainstream advice to “accumulate at least 150 minutes (2.5 hours) of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per week,” then you may struggle with feeling tired and hungry most of the time. You may even be carrying a few more pounds than you were last year or last decade.
Few things make my blood boil as much as mainstream health recommendations, and this exercise guideline is no exception.
Let’s break it down, shall we?
[Read more…]You may have heard that muscle burns more calories than fat and that building strong muscles through resistance training can significantly increase your metabolism.
But is it really true?
[Read more…]In the world of psychology, there is a well-known phenomenon – called the mere-exposure effect – by which people tend to prefer the things they are frequently exposed to.
In the dating world, this has led to memes like, “Has the mere-exposure effect” kicked in yet, or do I need to walk by again?”
In my world as a Health Coach, it means:
Now is the time of year many people set goals and develop new habits.
Did you know, though, that there are wildly different schools of thought on the best way to approach habit change?
We all love a good success story, complete with dramatic before and after photos and a story that reads something like:
“I trained for and completed my first marathon even though I haven’t run a single step for twenty-some-odd years. If I can do it, so can you.”
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