Fit’s annual (2024) Holiday shopping Guide
Welcome to the best Holiday shopping list for the fitness nut in your life.
Three gifts; Three levels of commitment:
Stocking stuffer- show someone you care but don’t break the bank
Mid level- when you want to show you care with little more oomph.
The Grand Gesture- you’re either in the dog house, or looking to make an impression.
Cures for muscle soreness
It’s never free. Like famed leg breaker Rocky Balboa used to say ‘If you wanna dance, you pay the band, understand? You wanna borrow you gotta pay the man.’ Anything of value comes with a price. You want to get fit? There are costs. One cost: muscle soreness.
Live to be 100
For the uninitiated Blue Zones are, in essence, places where life expectancy and quality of life are on a different level. People routinely live over 100 years and additionally stay mentally sharp for the entire ride.
Kenny G, Balance, and the Mundanity of Greatness
‘Listening to Kenny G’ is a documentary on HBO that made me love Kenny G. Not so much the music (SongBird is great) but the Man: He’s inspirational. Kenny, like Baltimore’s famed stick up man Omar Little, has a code, and his code is practice.
I’m at the gym, now what?
Fit pros have all heard of something called the 80/20 rule: take a random sample of 100 gym members; 20 of them use the gym; 80 sign up and never return. Actually, I dispute that 80 never come.
Supportive shoes?
Once upon a time sneaker engineers tried to outsmart millions of years of evolution and fix our feet by adding a raised heel, air blown rubber, increased cushioning, thick tread, and support (via dual density foot bridges and rigid soles).
And by and large the rate of foot and leg injuries stayed the same.
The Best Way to Lift
Researchers reviewed 192 different studies featuring 5,000 different participants to find the best way to lift.
Their findings:
3 thoughts, 2 quotes, 1 question (fitness version)
Alright then, borrowing a page from the World’s most read blog by James Clear, here are 3 fitness related thoughts, 2 ideas, and one question…
Why won’t the weight come off?
You’re dialed in. You see your trainer 2 x’s a week. You run 3 x’s a week. You do yoga 2x’s a week. Your waistline is NOT shrinking. Why won’t the weight come off?
Facts no longer work
Indeed, as the book ‘Pain neuroscience education’ points out, if someone is not convinced something will work they’re right; and it won’t. The most important factor in the success of any drill, any workout, any diet, any proposed change to your physical/mental state is this:
You have to understand what you’re doing and believe it will work.