Emotional state during exercise can affect benefits from it. Instead of embracing this four decades old discovery, the idiotic “rise & grind” culture of fitness where you must suffer to be buffer is doing no one any favors.
Of Course There’s No Time to Exercise
We need fun. Desperately. We invent endless time and money sucking stuff like gender reveal parties, promposals, and smash cakes while lamenting the lack of time to exercise. Ideas to add fun to fitness instead of creating more nonsense that keeps us from it.
When Hard Things Are Good Things – RMT Rope
Learning the RMT Rope had the right amount of frustration and progress to make it irresistible. The fun and the benefit is in the right amount of struggle.
Is it Fun or Fitness? (How you frame it affects you)
How you frame your activity can affect the quantity and quality of food you eat after and how hard you perceive it to be. Hint: framing it as fun makes things better for you.
Go Fun Yourself (or someone you know)
When your exercise is fun, you automatically work harder (without anyone forcing you to). We’ve always known this to be true intuitively, but now research shows it.
May Fun Forever Light Your Way to Fitness
Let’s stop forcibly cramming so much “fun” into every life event (holidays, births, weddings, pets) that life no longer is fun. Let fun movement be an essential part of your life.
Am I Fitter Than This 5th Grader?
Reflections on repeating the Presidential Physical Fitness Test of my youth in my 50’s and what this means for fun fitness.
Belief Creates Opportunity… Not Reality
Belief creates the opportunity – not reality. You can’t manifest things by thinking them, you still have to put in the work. The trick is to make the work feel less like “work.”
Better Together – Part 2
Brain and body are better built together – part 2. Low-tech and high-tech ideas for blending fitness training with brain training.
Better Together – Part 1
Brain and body better together. Low-tech and high-tech ideas for blending fitness training with brain training. Part 1 – Low Tech Options