So if you’re 30-years-old, and workout five days a week, you need to do 15 minutes of maintenance at least five days a week. — Maybe I’m delusional. Maybe every year we age, things really do just fall apart. Bones crumble into dust, muscles tear into pieces, and the mind dwindles into … I don’t know — pudding. Or not. Perhaps we can keep our strength, speed, coordination, and intelligence. Or at least most…

If you’re not where you want to be, check the habits you’re reinforcing first. Then, and this is the hard part … — There are certain behaviors we coach. These are active habits that may or may not be good for us. Then there are behaviors we allow. These are passive and often far more dangerous. To illustrate, we may coach ourselves and others to sit up straight, shoulders back, and neck…

The whole routine takes less than five minutes. — You’ll get out of bed tomorrow, creak and crack, and pop and snap. Stumbling forward, you’ll make coffee. Or tea. Or, oddly, nothing. Then you’ll make a choice. One of more than 30,000 for that day alone. What will you choose? 1) Ignore the creaking and cracking and get…

The first two reasons are enough. The last one is profound and by far the most practical and effective. — Movement is medicine That’s why we feel great when we take a walk, swim a few laps, lift weights, or just play with our dogs. It’s also why the more we move, the more we want to move, and the very reason we should move as often as possible. …

The best way to eat bad food — Psychologist Alia Crum wanted to know if what we believed about food changed its effects once we ate it. So she made a milkshake. An unhealthy, sugar-laden, high-fat, delicious milkshake. Next, Dr. Crum organized two groups of people and had them both drink the shake. But she only told…

We greet each day with preconceived notions of who we are. Of a past that has tricked us into believing we’re weak, slow, uncoordinated, and void of discipline. — Practice Being The Fool Edit descriptionwww.youtube.com In the land of the expert, the fool is king. That’s why Socrates said, “all I know is that I know nothing.” And why, centuries later, Tyler Durden said, “we just had a near-life experience.”

Think of it like this. The goal of a plane is to fly. But to do that, it needs a runway and a mess of other things to get it airborne. — You’ll get results in the gym if you constantly vary functional movements. Adding intensity to that equation increases the return exponentially. Imagine easily deadlifting a decent weight a handful of times, then hitting a few lunges, a set or two of push-ups, then heading home.

It’s the truth with zero context — Coaches are filters. They navigate all the incoming info, so you don’t have to. Unfortunately, it’s not the blatant lies that get ya: It’s the truth with zero context. Say I’ve just started coaching an athlete who sustained an injury deadlifting. The truth is that the deadlift is precisely…

Skip the next six-week program. Ignore that challenge your buddy is doing. Forget fancy. — Fitness fails when it’s temporary. When we go in thinking it ends or one day “we’ll make it.” But we won’t. There is no summit when it comes to health. No Nutritional Superbowl. No single time when we decide that we’ve had our fill of feeling good and it’s…