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Jan 12 2018

How to Create Smart Goals: Get Healthier & Fit

Now that we’ve determined your why, it’s time to create some goals for yourself. These goals are a reflection of the “why” you discovered in the assignment from Week 1. However, it’s important to understand that some goals are more powerful than others. This lesson covers the following in order to help you create powerful, effective fitness goals: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Goals, Connecting your goals to your why, and SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, & Time-bound)

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Week 1: Finding your motivation; uncovering your WHY.

Jan 1 2018

How to Get Motivation to Work Out: Your Why

Here is lesson 1 of the Be The Better You Program: Finding your motivation; uncovering your why. It’s time Figure out your real reason for wanting to be healthier. This motivation is a source of energy that helps you overcome fatigue, lack of willpower, or a bad day. It’s the personal trainer standing next to you telling you to do one more rep. It’s your own version of a pre-workout or caffeine. But in order for it to work, you’re going to have to be honest with yourself, and you’ll need to dig deep to get the real answer.

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Nov 16 2017

WTF does empowerment even mean? – Off The Mat

I’m sure you’ve seen this buzzword almost everywhere. Self-development groups. Sales pages. Speeches. Life coach advertisements. But if you’re like me, empowerment doesn’t really mean something specific – it’s more of a vague reference to something to do with self-development. Broken down, it would mean “to give yourself power”, but in what context? Until recently, I was still unclear about the meaning of “empowerment”, or even what it was. Tools? Information? A concept? It wasn’t until last week that the concept of empowerment finally clicked

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Nov 14 2017

Exercises to Improve Balance: Active Engagement

Yoga is fantastic for many reasons. But one critical aspect of fitness mainstream yoga tends to forget is STRENGTH in the end range of motion aka active range of motion. They include plenty of exercises to improve your balance like one-legged balances, but many of these poses don’t work on your active range of motion. What is this referring to?

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9 Muscle-Building Secrets from the Strength Sensei

Nov 7 2017

9 Muscle-Building Tips from the Strength Sensei

A few weeks ago I attended the Bulletproof Conference in Pasadena, to learn about the most cutting-edge habits, practices, and technology to help improve your fitness, increase your performance, and keep you healthy in an incredibly unhealthy world. The most relevant talk I attended in terms of what I do with Man Flow Yoga was by far the open discussion Q&A session by Charles Poliquin, aka The Strength Sensei, one of the world’s most recognized strength training coaches. Poliquin has trained professional and olympic athletes, and has often been far ahead of the curve when it comes to designing effective training routines. Training principles that are just now in 2016 becoming mainstream knowledge have been part of Poliquin’s training programs since the 1970s. Ready to learn something that will change the way you approach your workouts?

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Oct 25 2017

The Easiest Way to Counter Sitting

You probably know that sitting is bad for you, but it’s tough to avoid sitting – after all, it’s almost impossible NOT to sit.

Think about it – work meetings, driving, the office, waiting rooms – not to mention that people look at you like you’re a crazy person if you stand up in some of those situations. Therefore I think it’s reasonable to accept that you’re going to be sitting for a significant amount of your life.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t do something about it!

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