From Great to Greater
Megan is using a continjous glucose monitor in an attempt to improve her already formidable fitness. I sent her some questions I had about the CGM. You can read her answers below.
The Best Nutrition Teacher
A few weeks ago I wrote about my colleague Megan’s amazing results using a Continuous Glucose monitor (CGM). She leaned out, improved athletic performance (WON her most recent race) and improved her sleep, anxiety & recovery. She went from great to greater. Naturally I had to experiment myself.
Get another Safety Guy
‘So I’ve been thinking about this shot (above) for 15 years and finally I had a chance to do it. So I go to the safety guy and I go, here’s what I’m gonna do. Safety guy goes, ‘you can’t do that.’
So I get another safety guy…’ -Tom Cruise (as told by Matt Damon)
Bad art, politics, and Training
Will copying the workouts of our fitness heroes and get as strong as they are?
Another Fit approved Holiday gift guide
It’s that time of year again. That time where you ask yourself, ‘what am I going to buy for the fitness freak in my life?’
Lucky for you I’ve got some ideas. But I have to ask…
How much do you love this fitness freak?
If I were starting from Scratch
“It felt like I stepped all the way back to square one. It got me thinking… if I were actually starting from scratch what would I do?”
Beauty defined
Want to be inspirational? Keep showing up.
Tools not Schools
You have to join their school, buy their stuff, Subscribe to their plan, program, coaching, website. That’s basically just commerce. They all have some good insights, recipes, workouts, breakthroughs but inevitably there isn’t a one size fits all system.
Sitting and smoking…
This phrase (Doc Levine’s) made us reevaluate sitting. According to Kelly Starret we should set our chairs at a height where “you can really use your legs to scoot powerfully back and forth” if you’re in an adjustable. Additionally we should sit upright, not leaning back “so you can turn on more musculature and build greater stability.”
How to Assess and Train Balance
I woke up sweating. 4 am. I sat up, stared out the window and the room swirled. Something was amiss.
My balance was gone. Any time I turned left I felt I was going to crash.