Do you have the focus to see and solve the problems that break your heart? The strength to help those who can’t carry the load on their own? The endurance to keep going when others fatigue? Your health isn’t only for you. The healthier you are, the more helpful you…

You might not know if the new diet, training program, or recovery routine will work. Will it yield great progress? Will it be a total waste of time? There’s probably good reason for suspecting either outcome. There’s only one way to find out. Try it and see how it goes. …

You can punish yourself in the gym. You can starve yourself at the table. You can stress over every pound and calorie. It won’t make you love your body. You’ll still battle the same underlying thoughts and emotions. Nobody ever hated themselves into loving themselves. You might think the problem…

Studies have shown dietary adherence to be a critical component of improving and maintaining health and body composition, more important even than relative amounts of dietary carbohydrate, fat, or protein (1,2,3,4,5). Yet, we seem to have a harder time keeping up healthier eating habits than we do giving up alcohol…

You might know to prioritize sleep. You might know to eat minimally processed food. You might know to enjoy regular physical activity. Knowing all this won’t make you lean, strong, and healthy. Only doing it can make that happen. It’s not what you know, it’s what you do. Not only…

Pessimism is easy. Never feeling the pain of hoping and being wrong. Yet, what’s a life without hope? Without a belief that things will be better? That kind of optimism calls for putting yourself out there. Holding onto hope in the face of fear. Optimism is courageous. It takes thick…

You may feel pressure to set goals and reach them quickly. To know exactly what you want and how to make it happen. To have it all figured out. But rushing may lead to a life you don’t truly want. Never learning who you are or who you want to…

It might seem like everyone else is successful. They’ve got the perfect lives. The jobs, the houses, the cars. The bodies, the families, the friends. All while we’re struggling to just get by. We see our mistakes, our losses, our poor decisions. Failure after failure. Yet, we generally only see…

Losing fat, building strength, and shaping your physique may be worthy efforts. Yet they often fail to silence that inner critic. That deep dissatisfaction. Is that dissatisfaction with your body driven by dissatisfaction elsewhere in life? Where else are you dissatisfied? Is it in your relationships? In your career? How…