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10/22/2023

Each stress you expose your body and mind to offers its own unique challenge.

The shock of the cold is a distinctly different feeling than the stress of the heat.

Gasping for air during breath work or high intensity cardio is highly distinguishable from the hunger that comes with fasting.

Pushing yourself through the last mile of an ultra marathon feels different than lifting heavy weights.

The unique stress of each means that all of these sources can provide their own unique opportunity for growth.

Cold exposure tends to feel dark and isolating, like you are alone, stranded outdoors at night in the middle of winter.

Heat stress tends to feel crowding and overwhelmingly claustrophobic. Like you're in a small room full of people that you can't leave from.

Fasting feels physically and mentally draining, while the stress of cardiovascular exhaustion feels like you're trying not to get sucked into a giant vacuum that's slowly getting more powerful.

Wouldn't it make sense then that these unique challenges would offer their own unique benefits beyond the physical?

Take the cold as an example, facing that dark and isolating feeling every day forces it to become expected, or even borderline mundane.

This results in a few things:

1. Darkness and isolation outside of these voluntary practices are no longer challenging or overwhelming since you've made it an everyday occurrence.

2. It lowers the threshold for peace of mind by facing discomfort so consistently that it becomes status quo. Anything outside of that is now filled with feelings of gratitude, appreciation, and empathy.

What used to be uncomfortable is now tolerable.
What was tolerable is now enjoyable.
What was mundane is now peaceful.
What was peaceful is now bliss.

Everything gets shifted up towards the positive.

Peace and contentment have to be earned, and engaging in a full pallet of unique challenges has the potential to provide you that and more.

As long as you're willing to take it.

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04/16/2023

Like it or not, our ability to interact with this reality relies on the physical.

Our ability to influence the world is directly tied to our physical capabilities.

You can't move very far without the use of your limbs.
You can't speak without the movement of your tongue.
You can't manipulate much around you without the use of your hands and fingers.
You can't even breathe without the use of your muscles.

The unfortunate truth is that the less physical ability you have, not only makes your day to day life harder to live, but it also lessens the potential impact you can have on the world around you.

But here's the cool side of the pillow.

Devotion to improving one's physical self beyond the norm provides more tools to devote towards your purpose, regardless of that purpose may be. It can be as simple as making you a better husband, grandchild, or mother on any random tuesday, or it can be the difference in the survival of you and the people around you in times of crisis.

From helping a senior citizen carry their groceries to being a vital asset in war and everything in between, someone with incredible physical capability is a more valuable asset across many areas of life.

Someone who is very strong will be less reliant on tools, equipment, and other people, which can ultimately save time, money, and stress. They also provide a great asset to the people around them by getting lug nuts off and pickle jars open.

Someone who is very fit has more energy and resilience to devote towards their purpose. Even if the purpose itself is not physical.

Someone with martial arts skills has the option of keeping the peace or initiating chaos.

Improving your physicality can make you a more attentive parent, a more dangerous opponent, or anything in between. It will improve your life and provide an opportunity to improve others' lives, which ultimately makes the world a better place.

In other words, for the bro-scientists, bicep curls can save the world!

Prioritize fitness, and use it for what matters to you.

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03/09/2023

What is your proudest achievement, and what did you do to earn it?

Achievement is the ultimate example of letting actions speak louder than words. A track record of success that validates your competence. Proof that you are creative enough to devise a plan, dedicated enough to follow that plan, and smart enough to make it work successfully.

The pride that follows achievement can be a powerful source of confidence.

True confidence.

Earned confidence.

Earned confidence is an underrated tool for mental health and can have a massively positive ripple effect into all areas of your life.

Your attitude towards hard work.
Your willingness to accept challenges.
Your relationship with failure.
Your ability to take criticism.
Your respect for greatness.
Your leadership skills.
Your whole demenor can change, including the way you present yourself and interact with others.

Fitness can be your vehicle to achievement. The path to a new and improved you.

If you want it to be, that is.

The truth is that any pursuit you deem worthy has the potential to lead you there.

So explore your interests, follow your fire, and go get anything you want to get!

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02/06/2023

Uncharted Territory.

Your body has evolved many layers of protection between life and death. Warning signs that encourage a reaction to take place based on what it is threatening your survival.

We often feel discomfort before pain, pain before injury, and severe pain before death.
We get hungry, which encourages us to eat and thirsty to drink long before we starve or become dangerously dehydrated.
We feel the shock of the cold water several minutes before hypothermia or frostbite sets in.
We feel the suffocating urge to breathe long before we pass out and pass out well before we die.
Even if we accidently lean our hand on a lit stovetop, the automatic and instant reaction of removing it occurs long before anything beyond a mild burn happens.

The fatigue from exercise is no different. The immense discomfort and borderline pain of high intensity conditioning is recognized long before it becomes a threat to your life.
This means that what you perceive as your threshold for exhaustion is just a projection of your mind trying to enact this survival mechanism to convince you to stop, conserve its resources, and return to a resting state.

But this is where the juice that fitness provides is really worth the squeeze. The buffer zone that dwells between the first voice in your head telling you to quit, right up to the brink of death. Where every step you take forward is farther than countless others who gave up before you did. Bodies that stopped. Spirits that broke.

The further you get into this buffer zone, the fewer people have had the opportunity to experience what you get to experience.

Uncharted territory.

You get to prove to yourself the true power your mind can have over your body and learn the lessons one can only learn through persevering through what was once perceived impossible.

So you can do one more lap. One more set. One more interval. One more rep. See how far you can push yourself and reap the benefits of proving to yourself how strong your mind can be.

There is a treasure buried deep, you just have to dig for it.

10/24/2022

We are all harnessed to existence by a handful of delicate threads. Threads that when cut, instantly and unforgivingly remove you from everything you have ever known.

The availability of food, water, oxygen, and shelter we have today allow us to be so far removed from a survival based lifestyle that the threat of impending death is reduced from a daily occurrence, to so infrequently that we almost forget it exists. But if one thing in this life is guaranteed, it's death. One of those delicate threads will snap, and you will be cast to face your fate in the hands of the unknown.

When these threads get tugged upon, their existence gets forced to the forefront of your brain and acts as a primal reminder of your own vulnerability. It brings you back to your primal self, where simply having access to food, water, shelter, and oxygen is precious, and anything beyond is cherished opportunity.

The result is a recalibration of your values, priorities, worries, fears, and passions. A shift in perspective that enhances the positive and suppresses the negative.

What used to be mundane is now enjoyable.
What was boring is peaceful.
What was uncomfortable is now comfortable.
What was stressful is now laughable.
What was just a moment, is now a cherished memory.
Fitness, temperature stress, and breathing practice are all tools that can be used to tug on these threads just enough to refresh our perspective in a way where we view the world with gratitude, optimism, appreciation, and love.

You can't see the light throughout life unless you look through the shadow of death.

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07/18/2022

The human body and mind are still widely a mystery. Yes there is a lot of research done in the world of health, fitness, nutrition, and wellness, but due to the seemingly infinite nature of physiology, the diversity of individuals, and the limitations of a laboratory setting, it's a difficult field to formulate universal conclusions.

But here's the fun part, this lack of full understanding can be used to your advantage. What is unknown or unprovable in a research based setting leaves a lot to be explored with your own individual experience and instincts.

Take a specific workout, cold water immersion, or a breathing practice for example. When you pursue an endeavor that is scientifically accepted as beneficial, but you instinctually believe that the reach of those benefits is much more than has been clinically tested, you develop the mental edge of knowing that it could provide an advantage in any given situation due to the unexplored nature of the habits you practice that others dont. This results in confidence to accept new challenges, and try new things.

You now have wild card in your pocket that may just be the card you need to win the game, or at the very least gives you enough confidence to play in the first place. Even if you've never played before.

The best part of all this is that even if the habits you take part in don't actually translate to the task at hand, the lack of research to prove they don't, paired with the instinctual belief of overall positive benefits results in a placebo effect that provides benefits in and of itself.

We know the placebo effect to be a real phenomenon, if you believe something to be beneficial, that is often good enough to result in improvements. So the variety of attributes may be enhanced simply by the power of belief.

The belief that you have an advantage ends up being your advantage.

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05/20/2022

"I could if I wanted to" is a phrase that can mean vastly different things depending on the mindset of the individual saying it.

It can be a statement of pride, meant as a confident declaration that if I want something bad enough, I know I have the tools to find a way to get it. This mindset minimizes the size of the obstacles based on the worthiness of the pursuit.

On the other hand, it can be used an excuse to dismiss a task as unworthy, even when the final product is truly desired. This mindset minimizes the worth of the pursuit based on the size of the obstacles.

The difference is the confidence in dedication. Dedication itself is a skill that can be improved through practice, so start small and embrace failure so that you can apply what you learn towards the next pursuit and gain the confidence to aim a little higher.

When you continuously prove to yourself that you are capable of achieving your goal, you access a mindset of hitting the target every time you aim and fire.

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05/17/2022

What's yours?

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05/11/2022

If you discover passion in life, you bare the responsibility of sharing it with others.

Not everyone is lucky enough to stumble upon something meaningful enough to them that it provides a clear direction in life, and those that do often underestimate the impact of sharing their experience.

Of course, not everyone will relate. There's so much diversity of interests, personalities, strengths and environments within the human race that you can't expect what you share to be understood by everybody.

But even if your words and actions inspire one person, you might just set them on a pursuit of passion towards a life worth living. And if that one person inspires one more, you may have just initiated a chain reaction of fulfillment and meaning in a compounding number of lives.

Write down what you love, why you love it, why its important to you and what was unexpected. That way you can verbalize it in detail and communicate clearly so others will be more likely to understand and become inspired to take the leap of trying something new.

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05/09/2022

Pullups, because they led to an interest in other calithenic movements and changed the trajectory of my training.

Plus they feel oh so good.

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05/06/2022

When we think of play, we tend to think of fun, games, leisure, and friends.

But play plays (pun intended) an important role in the development of essential skills and abilities throughout the entirety of our lives.

Play is a natural phenomenon found not only in humans but throughout the vast majority of the animal kingdom.

Nature uses fun and excitement to encourage the practice of vital skills that prove essential to their way of life.
If you watch animals play, they run, they wrestle, they bite, they jump. All essential skills in gathering food or avoiding predation.

It's not so different in humans. Sports and activities require the development of physical attributes, strategy, teamwork, and creativity that carryover to our everyday lives. Not to mention our peace of mind.

Physical fitness is vital, but a traditional gym experience is simply not everyone's cup of tea. They don't find it fun, and therefore are less inclined to enjoy the process, maintain consistency, and reap the long term benefits.

The good news is, there are countless activities that provide a lot of the same benefits, or even more than a traditional "work out".

Following fun may seem counterproductive to some, but with the right outlet, it can be a powerful catalyst for success.

Mike Tyson once said that discipline is doing something you don't like doing like you love it. But what happens if you actually love it? Follow fun and reap the benefits of commitment without the need for discipline. 10,000 hours to expertise goes by a lot faster when you enjoy the process.

There's a reason that fun exists in nature. Fun promotes play, play promotes practice, practice promotes success.

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05/01/2022

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My fitness journey began 13 years ago as a means of training for football. Although I did not know at the time the impact that the lack of education had on my health, it was through consistency that exercising developed into a habit. As my interest in fitness grew, I decided to pursue an education in Kinesiology. This education is where my interest evolved into a passion. I applied what I had learned to my own exercise program, and began to develop a first hand understanding of what was happening throughout my body. This led me to a full time career as a Personal Trainer for a well known gym. Although the corporate lifestyle didn't end up being something I was interested in pursuing, the experience was invaluable and I consider it a major contributing factor to the service that I provide my clients today.