Easily one of the best habits I’ve started in a LONG time. — “If you’re losing that opportunity, post-exercise, you’re leaving gains on the table” — Dr. Andy Galpin Dr. Galpin recently said that on The Huberman Lab podcast. Interestingly, he wasn’t talking about supplements, hydration, or even nutrient timing. He was talking about breathing. “There’s a ton of variation with what…

It gives us a platform. It beckons followers. It provides us with the enemy we so desperately desire. — Humans have favorites. Favorite movies. Favorite foods. Favorite friends. And a whole lot of favorite beliefs. And if we’re not careful, favorites become little more than dogmatic prisons we can’t escape. Today we call this style. Simply take whatever favored methodology you can find and warp it into something…

What’s not ok is thinking that getting away for a bit literally means leaving it all behind — The road beckons some more than others. Even more so when the sun hangs high in the sky, forcing night to take a much-needed break. That’s when we want to travel most. When friends call, fun is inevitable, and the highway is blistering with potential. When it’s too nice…

If there’s even a chance you could help, and you don’t, you should be ashamed — It’s 2008, and I’m on the circuit. Each nutrition seminar I perform is a treat, a learning experience for both the crowd and me. And while the scenery changes rapidly, the people remain the same. Even the pricks. At least one human at every seminar gets all bent out…

MFP is a contract I make with my future self. One I’m unwilling to break. — Thinking of Myfitnesspal as a food diary is backwards. I don’t want to look back on what I did do so much as look forward to what I’m going to do. In this way, MFP is a contract I make with my future self. One I’m unwilling to break. …

Comfort is the enemy of strength, and the world is only getting more comfortable. — Strength isn’t the ultimate measure of health. Unless everything hurts. When you can barely sit up straight, your shoulders are stiff, and your feet bark so bad you want to ride one of those carts at the grocery store; strength matters most. When you feel weak. Strength training doesn’t…

When the day is done, ask yourself, am I proud? — I’ve spent more than two decades cramming behaviors down the throats of others. And it feels wrong. I’d rather talk ideas, concepts, and how to get each individual on their way to becoming who it is they wish to be. Some behaviors will overlap. And some will never go…

No agenda. No hurt feelings. Just results. — I eat the same two meals every day. Each feast contains lots of protein, very few carbs, and some fat. It’s what works for me based on my goals. And when it stops working, I make a small change or two and continue the pattern. I don’t get offended…

Denial is an excellent tactic if you want to immediately feel better without actually fixing the issue. — There’s this idea doing rounds that says a healthy relationship with food is totally permissive and accepting. That if you have a rough day and face dive into a bathtub of cookie dough, you must have needed it. Because you were stressed. Because you can get back on that…