I normally do some sort of activity every single day. If I’m not lifting I’m doing yoga, or at the very least I’m doing some type of cardio. I like to move and sweat every day. Perhaps I’m a little crazy, because there’s this little voice inside me that whispers of the universe imploding if I happen to take a day off. Alas, the body sometimes needs a break. As much as I like [...]

Remember being a kid and the holidays meant time off from school, hot chocolate and the countdown to lots of toys? As adults, it feels a bit different. While the holidays are commercialized to be a warm and fuzzy time of year, they can also turn out to be a mixed bag of feelings and stress. It’s easy to fall under the pressure of year-end work, finding the right gift for that special someone or [...]

Your mind can play tricks on you, especially when it comes to nutrition, working out, and your efforts to build a stronger, leaner, and healthier body. You Must Keep Things in Perspective. Let’s delve a little deeper into this topic of perspective, and why it’s so vitally important. Completing a single workout, no matter how productive it may be, won’t improve your physique over night. Just because you dominated a tough training session with squats, [...]

I used to get sick a lot. Being somebody who loves to move an inevitable case of cabin fever would always kick in and I would start to go crazy. Every time I found myself holed up I would always wonder how could I possible get sick so much of the time? I train intelligently and I recover appropriately. I take vitamins. I eat a very nutritious diet. I drink lots of water. I go [...]