How “Myths” About Fitness Can Get in the Way

It’s hard for anyone who is just starting along a pathway to better health and fitness to be entirely realistic. There are a lot of distortions out there, to begin with: glossy diet ads, people hawking fake diet pills, and a whole lot more in our media world seems to promise results that are not actually completely accurate for the “regular joe”. Then there are also “myths” that we make for ourselves; not traditional kinds of myths that circulate in a community, but assumptions that we make about fitness that aren’t entirely moored in reality.I Can Make Myself Thin in X DaysOne of the...Read More

Fitness Planning for Type A and Type B

You may have heard the tale of two personalities: for many of us, the idea that there are two basic kinds of people resonates based on personal experience. Others consider a “spectrum” between two polar opposites when thinking about how these two fundamentally different types of personalities affect our lifestyles and life choices.Classically speaking, Type A is the organized, controlled decision-maker: or what some would call the “control freak”. This kind of individual always seems to have everything together, but often, when we look closer at the situation, we see that there is no magic...Read More