As more and more research on depression and anxiety comes to the forefront it's interesting how much we can help ourselves with improving our wellbeing. Case in point, I came across an interesting article by Dr. Eva Selhub posted on the Harvard Health Blog by Harvard Medical School entitled Nutritional Psychiatry: Your brain on food. … Continue reading How Food Can Affect Your Mood
Daily writing promptWhat are you passionate about?View all responses One of the cardinal principles in Cal Newport's book So Good They Can't Ignore You is that following your passion is bad advice. Instead, he posits, one should develop and cultivate a specific skill set and then see how that skill set fits into a career. … Continue reading One of the Most Important Things to Be Passionate About
The word diet can be a dirty word these days. Everyone is in their own dogmatic corner preaching their doctrine of choice. And anyone who isn't a fellow believer is flat-out wrong. I'm not here to preach a specific "diet plan." I'm just a huge believer in keeping things simple. I've dieted for bodybuilding shows … Continue reading Diet Plans: How to Build Muscle and Lose Fat
Sometimes we get inside our heads without even knowing we've spent too much time in there. We start innocently enough, but before long we are ruminating over the tiniest, trivial things that would make an onlooker justifiably cringe. It's easy to do and I'm just as guilty as the next person. Without fail, I tend … Continue reading Getting Out of Your Head
I was a typical skinny kid who naturally wanted to build muscle and get stronger. At 14 I started with a basic iron barbell and dumbbell set in my backyard. I used my father's homemade freestanding picnic table bench to perform numerous exercises from Arnold's The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. Armed with just those few … Continue reading The Overnight Transformation of Fitness
Burned out was an understatement. I had been writing for several websites in the health and fitness world along with a few magazines (remember those?). I was consistently churning out around 15 to 20 articles per month. it felt as though word count requirements kept creeping up, they wanted more cited sources, and an increasing … Continue reading The Moment I Knew I Had Written Enough
It's been a while since I posted anything. To spare you one of my personally most hated words (busy), I have been focusing my attention elsewhere lately. Specifically on writing fitness/bodybuilding articles and YouTube scripts for several sites. Still, no excuse. Recently, however, I've combined both of my sites into this one. BradJournals.com has now … Continue reading The Site Direction and What’s New
Here are a few articles I've written for Fitness Volt lately. In them, I go over how to really train after 40, bigger legs after 40, and 5 changes you can make right now for better results. Check them out below. Over 40 Training Always wonder if you need to change things up after a … Continue reading Bigger Legs and 5 Changes to Make After 40
I wrote a new op-ed on Fitness Volt talking about the advantages of the old school mentality without the technological gadgetry that purveys our lives. Check out the article here: Get Back to Old School Training Without the Tech In it, I list out several ways to boost your training results, nutrition, and motivation without … Continue reading No Tech Old School Training Tactics
Check out my latest interview from Average Bros Fitness. We talk about training, nutrition, motivation, the fitness industry, and competition. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxGEAsroarg&t=1s ***
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