I recently wrote about My 7 Personal Principles of Training. Here I'd like to talk a little more in detail about each one. I hope you get something out of it. If so, let me know in the comments below. In the last principle, we talked about how disconnecting from your day can have a profound … Continue reading How to Get Better Results From Visualizing Your Workouts
I recently wrote about My 7 Personal Principles of Training. Moving forward I'd like to talk a little more in detail about each one. I hope you get something out of it. If so, let me know in the comments below. Principle number one is all about clearing your head. Every day we seem to … Continue reading Clear Your Mind Before Your Workout
Early in my lifting days, I created a set of seven training principles to take with me to the gym every day. I was in my mid-teens and deep into exploring this new world of lifting and reshaping my physique. These aren't specific in the sense of sets, reps, and exercises. It's more of a … Continue reading My 7 Personal Principles of Training
There is a hidden message out in the world which is: There is a common thread of kindness. We are inundated with negativity from the news, social media, and that one dude who cut us off in traffic. We tend to focus on the negative far more than the positive. That's why social algorithms will … Continue reading The Common Thread of Kindness
Motivation to workout isn't some new problem to solve. Just do a quick Google search about how to get motivated to train and you'll get a little over 28 million results to date. Of course, you'll get the canned "5 Secrets to Workout Motivation" among others. These templated, generic listicles may work for some, but … Continue reading How to Maintain Workout Motivation
As I write this I've spent (I think) way too much time sifting, shifting, and flipping through too many media sources. From email newsletters and RSS to YouTube and podcasts, I feel like I'm trying to keep up with something that's been mandated. A constant feeling of keeping up. I don't really "do" social media … Continue reading Too Much Media?
Being home is in right now. Remote work is the default "want" and "need" of more and more of the workforce--or so we're told. Short commutes sans pants are the so-called ultimate goals to shoot for. Once we get there, we're set, right? Let all the rest of those poor saps decay in their frustrating … Continue reading The Downsides of Remote Work and At-Home Gyms
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
Daily writing promptDescribe one of your favorite moments.View all responses It's tough to find any spare time in today's world. We are overscheduled and overloaded making us feel endlessly overwhelmed. Finding moments that will stick out, stand the test of time, and ultimately be branded firmly in the "favorites" file in our brains seems fewer … Continue reading What is a Good Moment in Life?
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
Brad Borland 