mindset

It’s the old familiar story. You know you should do the thing—eating real food, getting to the gym, mobility work, and yet you fall back into old habits, giving it a miss. Again. You tell yourself you just ... Continue Reading

You’ve been training hard and eating clean for some time. You have a thirst for knowledge and absorb every bit of information you can find. But look back to a year ago, do you truly see a difference in how ... Continue Reading

The word ‘motivation’ originates from the Latin word ‘movere’—meaning “to move.” Motivation itself is, broadly, a force that activates or arouses a person into pursuing goal-directed efforts. I ... Continue Reading

Flow. An elusive idea, one that evokes images of people lost in a moment, completely immersed in the task at hand. Time falls away, the world disappears, and there is only you and the activity. ... Continue Reading

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then there’s a whole lot of crazy going on out there in sport and the health and fitness industry. If ... Continue Reading

Allow me to break the fourth wall for a moment, and take you inside what it means to be a coach and a writer. When I first started writing, I thought it was my job to take the thoughts that were inside my ... Continue Reading

Photo by Bev Childress Photo by Bev Childress For a majority of the nation, 2018 brings goals of self-improvement. Whether that means getting a promotion at work or quitting your current day ... Continue Reading

According to Google, the most commonly sought topics for health and fitness last year included Tabata workouts, burpees, the “Murph” CrossFit routine, and even the “Tom Brady” diet. While these searches ... Continue Reading

The first instance of January 1 being celebrated as the first day of a new year goes back to the time of Julius Caesar, in 45 BC. Prior to that time, the Romans had used a lunar calendar. The first day of ... Continue Reading

Motivation is a tricky subject. People are motivated by different things—money, good grades, material objects, and adoration from peers. Motivational images, videos, and quotes are put on social media ... Continue Reading

On October 8th, 2016, I competed in my first physique fitness show. A physique show, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is a bodybuilding-type event where you are judged on stage (in either board shorts ... Continue Reading

As a competitor, coming off of competition comes with a mix of emotions. It could be regret for not competing or preparing as well as you could have, it could be pride for performing well, it could be ... Continue Reading

Source: Erica Robinson Source: Erica Robinson Ask yourself: do I want to stay the same, or do I want to be different? I have no doubt that the universal answer is that we want to be ... Continue Reading

Source: Bev Childress One of the more useful conversations sparked by the rise of CrossFit is the very definition of fitness. For better or worse, CrossFit has planted their flag on quantifiable work ... Continue Reading

Have you ever noticed when you learn a new exercise, it’s hard? Not just a little bit hard, but a lot hard. It’s awkward, requires a lot of effort, and generally feels like it’s never going to get ... Continue Reading

Type “fitness motivation” into any search engine and you’ll soon be drowned in quick fixes to get you gym-ready. Piled on in #fitspiration memes, gym posters, and endless articles with titles like “The 15 ... Continue Reading

Source: Bev Childress Sometimes you read a single sentence and it sticks with you for life. I remember one such sentence from the early days of my own reading on meditation, mindset, and mental ... Continue Reading

It has often been said that mental toughness is a key ingredient to true fitness. Some of what weighs us down in the weight room or the track is not ours to carry. Here are seven steps to achieving mental ... Continue Reading

Source: Bev Childress Every one of us has experienced frustration in the gym. Some skill or weight goal seems somehow beyond our reach, and we’ve all but given up on trying to achieve the milestone. ... Continue Reading

It’s a safe assumption that any regular consumer of this site has no aversions to reading. Mark Twain is credited with saying, “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ... Continue Reading

For many of us, our relationship with stress is a lot like this classic example of something known as the "ironic thought process"—the very act of trying to avoid something seems to manifest it, and the ... Continue Reading

Even with the resurgence of functional fitness over the past decade, there seems to be an arms race when it comes to equipment. Where many CrossFit boxes ten years ago were aggressively minimalist, today ... Continue Reading

No matter how minor, an injury always feels like a major set-back. Even the most benign of ailments can bring significant mental turmoil. Doubt enters our mind in the form of: "I allowed this to ... Continue Reading