Michael Easter—author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain—published an article on his Two Percent blog yesterday exploring whether exercise is actually effective for improving
5,649 steps. Not 5,000. Not “roughly 5,500.” Five thousand, six hundred and forty-nine. There’s some authority to a number that specific. A round number sounds
Four years ago I wrote a tip about the American history class I took my Freshman year in college. The short version: it was a
Just after 11 PM on Tuesday night, the three of us tied into our rope and started up. It was dark—obviously—and cold. The route we
At some point, we’ll all encounter a hectic season in which aggressive fitness progress just isn’t realistic. There’s an important, time-crunched project at work. Kids
In last week’s tip, I suggested that putting training sessions on your calendar and treating them like appointments would help to improve your consistency by reducing decision
Most of us already use a powerful tool for staying consistent with things that matter: our calendar. Doctor’s appointments, kids’ events, work meetings, and coffee
In my years of coaching, I’ve heard the following statement uttered explicitly a handful of times—and conceptualized a lot more: “I’m an adult… I should be
Spend five minutes online looking for information about improving health and fitness and you’ll learn that: Carbs are the problem. Carbs are important. You need
Last week when discussing how sometimes what looks healthy on paper can become unhelpful in practice, I mentioned that the high point on the inputs-vs-results