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Fitness professionals can be so enthusiastic about getting clients to their goals. We have all sorts of cool tricks, exercises, tips and habits to offer. Yes, eating more protein, drinking water, adding vegetables and getting exercise in are all pretty much indisputable habits to go after. However,...
By JC Deen JC Deen, also no stranger to the Coyote Point Kettlebell Club, has a hilarious style and a great system for keeping people on the path to health and fitness. His online coaching is all about “stacking the deck” to make healthy decisions easier to make until they become habit, which is...
One area of debate in the behavior-research community is the interaction between habits and goals. Wood and Neal (2007) proposes an interesting model (above) that depends on three principles that have been fairly well established in prior research: 1) “Habits are cued by context,” 2) “Habit...
Arthur C. Clarke, the famous science fiction author, is one of a small handful of people to have a set of laws named after him. Clarke’s Three Laws are simple, profound, and provide an excellent framework for understanding the the very edges of what is possible. 1. When a distinguished but elderly...
<blockquoteOne man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. </blockquote - Robert A.
<blockquoteBe who you want to be. </blockquote - JC
<blockquoteGet as fit as possible while nourishing yourself — truly, deeply nourishing yourself — as well as possible. </blockquote - Krista
<blockquoteIf… participants in activities and observers of the activities focused more on good performance than on winning, the results for the participants’ motivation is likely to be far more positive. </blockquote - Vansteenkiste and Deci
This month’s book is another rare gem in pop science reading, which is to say a book written for lay people by a scientist who did most of the research in the book and who is at the forefront of his field. Brian Wansink, Ph.D. directs the Cornell Food and Brand lab and was Executive Director of...