If you were to look in the dictionary one of the definitions of habit states that it is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary. Acquired means your [...]
Helping clients identify and re-route impulsive behavior based on mood can be challenging. Humans have many learned set behaviors that come about as coping mechanisms through life experience. [...]
A friend trained a full year to do an Ironman triathlon. At the conclusion of her event she had a conversation with me about her depression, weight gain, irritability, and lack of energy. My [...]
Addiction and the brain Compulsive behaviors like compulsive shopping, pathological lying, shoplifting, gambling, overeating, over exercising or obsessions with sex can be trigger by genetic [...]
This is a two part blog series on exercise addiction. I’ve done a lot of work around people who deviate from exercise and now I am going to steer the conversation around people who are [...]
A few days ago I came up with a ‘saying’: in life it seems difficult to have (real) fun and almost fun to live a difficult life and it was suggested that I write a blog about this [...]
Listening as Julian Treasure defines it is making meaning from sound. He also said we retain about 25% of what we hear. How does this impact you As a coach or personal trainer a large part of [...]
As a professional athlete all you know is how to be an athlete! With the whirlwind speed of your life, training and competing there isn’t really much time to sit and think about a lot of other [...]
Motivation is the direction and intensity with which someone does something. If athletes and exercisers don’t have direction and intensity than the intention to follow through won’t [...]
I am writing another book and although it’s gear towards fitness professionals some of the principles could be used by coaches. It’s a step by step education & process for adding [...]
