Stephen Allison founded Fit, a private personal training studio in Boston’s South End, after more than 20 years of coaching clients one-on-one. He trains runners, lifters and everyday athletes, and writes the Fit blog on running, strength, mobility, recovery and nutrition.
I’ve made it to nearly the mid-point of my 110 days of eating no sugar challenge. Here are all the stats you want to know before you possibly embark on your own challenge.
Starting weight- 212.4
Weight this A.M- 201
Body fat %- down 3-4%
‘Judge a man by his questions, not his answers.’ -Voltaire. And Judge a Trainer by their questions too. Asking the right fitness question can change your life.
Your gait tells a story. Studying how you walk informs a lot about how to train most efficiently. The patterns of use emerge after the thousands of steps are breadcrumbs illustrating important clues on how to train efficiently. One such pattern: Cerebellar gait, may inform how to train balance, strength, even how to manage pain.
Why meditate in the first place?
When am I going to begin?
When I have more time… the start of next month… Why not today? Why haven’t I begun?
What the hell am I afraid of?
This is how we should think about fitness. Healthspan workouts (from Peter Attia’s book Outlive), focused on increasing your quality of life. This workout isnt designed to crush you; rather it’s purpose is to vitalize.
Although a quality of life workout looks completely different for just about everyone, common threads undoubtedly exist.
These are Boston’s best female Trainers: Megan Beck and Marcy Tillman.
Wait a second? Why do you have to qualify them by gender? Why Boston’s best Female Trainers? Can’t they just be two of Boston’s best Trainers? Period.
You’re right. They are two of the best trainers, regardless of sex. Their gender recommends them further, however, because let’s face it: trainers are dealing with the body. There’s certain things about being male or female that can’t be explained. They have to be experienced.
Tough week. How about a pick me up?
I subscribe to something called Notes from the Universe (TUT). Every morning they deliver a quick note (see above) to get your mind moving in the right direction.
Some days they are trite.
While some days they land in my consciousness like a sack of bricks.
There are so many things to think about when one becomes pregnant. Should I workout is probably pretty low on that list. However, when you consider that Prenatal workouts may prevent gestational diabetes, relieve stress, and build more stamina needed for labor and delivery, suddenly safe prenatal workouts become a priority.
How do we increase mind power? Let’s look at 2 experiments. In the first experiment school children were given two plants. They were told to compliment the first plant and to insult the second. A month later the compliment plant thrived, and the insulted plant was dying.
This is a blog about yoga.
It is also about failure.
Injury.
Learning to enjoy things you’re bad at.
And finally, this is about love: A love story.
Just not the kind you expect.
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