I literally JUST bought a pair of the now-infamous Vibram FiveFinger shoes. I was excited by the purchase. I brought them home and tore them out of the box with the same fervor that my 4-year-old son shows when opening Christmas presents. But by the time I had finally managed to wrangle my wayward piggies […]
I was recently dealing with a nasty case of medial epicondylitis (otherwise known as “golfer’s elbow”) characterized by tender pain just inside my right elbow. Those who know me are probably thinking, “but you don’t play golf!” And they’re right. I don’t. But apparently you can get golfer’s elbow from doing too many pull-ups and […]
“I don’t do fitness my friend. That’s not what I do. I talk about movement. Fitness is a small, small, small world, within the universe of movement. I view it as a limited world. A world with many problems. A polluted world. Gymnastics and yoga and boxing and mind-body methods and other martial arts […]
Strategies that don’t work: 1. Diet – Diets in and of themselves rarely work and cannot be sustained indefinitely. The longer someone is on a diet, the harder it gets. Dieters tend to stretch their willpower too far and eventually end up caving in to temptation usually ending up right back where they started. […]
Photo Credit: Tambako the Jaguar via Compfightcc Long-time loyal readers of this blog will be aware that I take a month off of eating meat every year. I do this for three reasons: 1) I think it’s healthier not to eat meat. 2) I think it’s better for the planet. And 3) I think it’s […]
Photo Credit: Carolyn Sewell via Compfight This is the way we have learned to talk about ourselves: “I want to quit smoking, but I can’t.” “I want to stop fighting with my kids every day, but they won’t let me.” “If only she would go out with me, then I will be happy.” “If only […]
Photo Credit: Fiona in Eden via Compfight We naturally assume that those with the greatest amount of expertise would make the best teachers. We hold this assumption across a variety of disciplines including guitar, language, sports, yoga, fitness, arts and almost any other domain you can think of. It seems only natural for beginners to […]
Photo Credit: Amancay Maahs via Compfight The other day, I went for a run on my lunch break. This is something I try to do regularly, but the reality is I can rarely pry myself away from my desk. So I was proud of myself for having finally gotten a run in. When I came […]
This article is also published on Positive Psychology News Daily. The American Psychological Association recently commissioned some research on stress and willpower in America to understand American perceptions of stress and the motivation to make lifestyle and behavior changes. Almost everyone that they surveyed (93%) had goals to change some aspect of their behavior in […]
The yoga blogosphere (yogosphere?) has been abuzz the past week debating two recent controversies that boiled up on the internet. The first one stemmed from a New York Times article written by William J. Broad, entitled, “How Yoga can Wreck Your Body” (which was excerpted from his soon to be released book on “The Science […]
