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Year: 2021
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How to Stay Healthy and Sane in the Age of Back-to-Back Video Meetings
The other day a client asked if I had any thoughts on how to better cope with days full of back to back video meetings. Given the state of the pandemic, it is what every company has moved towards, to continue work while keeping safe at home. The unintended consequence of this working style has…
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Change in Position, Change in Scenery
Are you reading this on your computer screen? I bet you are! I bet you haven’t gotten up for the last several hours of Zoom calls all day long. Such is life in the pandemic…! So many clients are wondering how they can stop feeling so drained, leading to fatigue, anxiety, procrastination, lack of motivation…
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Your Battery is Below Zero
Every week I meet those who are, in normal non-pandemic times, highly functional and capable people. I hear their stories about what has changed between before pandemic and now, and it is filled with overwhelm and stress. Then our conversation moves towards what they want out of coaching and they wonder why they are stuck…
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All-Terrain Conditioning from StrongFirst, September 11-12, 2021
Adding to my collection of StrongFirst related workshops, I attended the All-Terrain Conditioning workshop this last September 2021. It is an excellent follow-on to the StrongEndurance workshop where I learned a lot of training concepts from Russian coaches and researchers. StrongEndurance had a ton of great principles about training, but applying them was pretty hard.…
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Animal Flow Level 2, August 21-22, 2021
Following on my Animal Flow Level 1 certification, and thankful for pandemic times to bring this workshop to us via Zoom, I hopped into the Level 2 certification back in August 21-22, 2021. It was a great experience and also raised the bar in terms of athleticism. There were many new moves to learn and…
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Calm Before Positive Shifts and Healing
I came across this research paper by Stephen Porges, et al, titled “Effects of Soft Tissue Mobilization (Rolfing Pelvic Lift) on Parasympathetic Tone in Two Age Groups,” published in the journal Physical Therapy in 1988. The significant finding of this research was that physical therapy was enhanced when a patient’s ventral vagal nerve was activated…
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Box Breathing for the Busy Brain
Many clients I meet have busy brains. There is so much going on up there; so much processing, so many thoughts, so many things to think about across many dimensions. Many of them know they need relief from this and are seeking help to calm their minds. Given how much has been written about mindfulness…
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A Brand Called You: Discovering and Aligning With Your True Self
A while back I attended an amazing workshop offered by my mentor coach and teacher, Tijen Genco, called A Brand Called You. She had created it for us beginning coaches so that we could better discover how we could best align our newly birthed coaching businesses with our own beings. After exiting our course, there…
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The 5 Stages of Becoming an Adult
The other day someone mentioned Adult Developmental Theory. That was so interesting I had to look it up! Googling around, I found these 3 posts on it: How to Be an Adult- Keegan’s Theory of Adult Development – Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I am sure there are many more resources out there,…
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Fasting Talk at PerformanceGaines
This last week I did a talk on fasting called All About Fasting. It’s a short and quick introduction to fasting and all its benefits. Note that I left out one item which is about when you come out of a longer fast, like more than one day of not eating. Sometimes it is good…
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Ketogenic Diet Talk at PerformanceGaines
Last month I did a talk on the ketogenic diet at my gym PerformanceGaines. Check it out here:
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The Complexity of Human Ailments
A year or so back, I read an excellent book in the area of functional medicine by Neil Nathan called Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness. It was the first time I was introduced to patients who have been suffering for years and often with…
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Envisioning the Post-Pandemic World
This last weekend I attended a group coaching session to envision the post-pandemic world. It was very insightful and I thought I would share some my insights from the session. Trying to peer into the future while still swimming, or floundering, in the murky waters of the pandemic can be really tough. We might still…
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10K Swing Challenge Done!
Well that was fun! Here are some notes about the experience: How long did it take? It took a little over 5 weeks, counting a multi-workout build up to 500 swings in a single workout. What did the week look like? I tried to workout 4 times a week. My schedule ended up being working…
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Starting Dan John’s 10,000 Swing Challenge
Hey all, we have finally put 2020 behind us and time to start anew with 2021! For me, I entered the year with my rib problem acting up again. I was doing 24kg snatch practice with Quick and the Dead protocols, plus heavy swings and Turkish Get-Ups. Coupled with some external stress I was feeling,…
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