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The Fitness Existentialist: It Starts With You
Actively limit the amount of jive turkeys that you allow into your process of self-improvement. Change starts with you.
Shannon Khoury
Use Motivational Interviewing Techniques to Create Positive Change
These techniques can provide an effective way for people to make big life changes and can be used by coaches and athletes alike.
Craig Marker
How Success in Exercise Is Like Success in Investing
These two endeavors come down to the exact same working principles - hard work, discipline, determination, and focus on a long-term goal.
Eric C. Stevens
This Is Fitness: Move Beyond Instinct and Get Uncomfortable
When we feel discomfort our immediate instinct is often to run in the other direction. Do that, and you'll never grow.
Patrick McCarty
The Violence Conundrum: 11 Lessons Learned Through Fighting
Man is wolf to man, and violence results. What can we learn from it?
Eric Auciello
Can Exercise Make You Happy?
Money makes you happier - but according to science, only to a certain point. Is exercise the same? Is there a a perfect amount that creates happiness?
Eric C. Stevens
Why All Coaches Need Courage
Personal trainers may not need to run into burning buildings or work in a combat zone, but working with clients requires a certain kind of courage.
Andrew Read
Squats Now, Facebook Later: Stop Dreaming and Start Doing
It's the CrossFit New Year. Here's how to stop dreaming about being better and start doing it every day.
Vanessa Bennington
Using Youth Psychology to Your Advantage
Teach children weightlifting while they are in their early fearless stage and you will watch them become quickly accustomed to the lifts.
Rich Kite
Build Competitive Teamwork, Not Just Competition
The social psychologist in me always wants to point out that context is really what makes people work as a team versus stab each other in the back.
Craig Marker
Fitness Lessons Learned: The Essentials From Expert Coaches
This week's picks are all about the valuable lessons learned by athletes and coaches. And thank goodness they're sharing with us.
Becca Borawski Jenkins
My 5-Step Program to Rehab Your Competition Addiction
For years I always thought wanting to do more and move forward was always a good thing. But on the inside, I was pushing myself down.
Becca Borawski Jenkins
Valerie Worthington: On BJJ and Life - Breaking Muscle Radio, Ep 1
In this inaugural episode of our radio show, we discuss BJJ, the learning process, taking risks, and living your passions.
Breaking Muscle HQ
Your Mental State vs. Your Success
Exercise is healthy. But sometimes our approach to it is not. Our mentality when we walk into the gym can do more damage than junk food ever could.
Becca Borawski Jenkins
Are You Addicted to Exercise? The Tell-Tale Signs
Is there such a thing of too much exercise? And if so, what are the signs that you are taking it too far? Check this list.
Eric C. Stevens
5 Steve Jobs Quotations and How to Apply Them to Your Training
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Katie Chasey
Coming to Terms With Being an Aging Athlete
Your joints are achier, muscles tighter, and injuries more frequent. The thought creeps into your mind, "It's not that I can't, but should I?"
Bret Hamilton
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