Ideas for Lifelong Health

Find Your Motivation: What are you training for?

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long...

It’s time to finally move past “no pain no gain”

I encountered the Japanese word "Karoshi" (過労死) recently. It's a specific word they use to talk about someone who works so hard that they...

The Principle of a Minimum Effective Workout

There's something in medicine called the "Minimum Effective Dose." That's the smallest amount of a medicine that will produce an effect...

How I'm Learning to Trust my Inner Athlete

In his book “The Inner Game of Tennis,” W. Timothy Gallwey talks about how our bodies are amazing, learning machines. When it comes to...

I'm brainstorming some principles for lifelong fitness

I shared in a previous post how I have been feeling discouraged because of my nerve injury (that continues to persist until now). I was...