Shawn Phillips | Start Strong Monday

Reason #9: Why You Fail at Fitness

This is reason #9 (of 10) from a New Years Day Post: Top 10 Reasons You Fail at New Years Resolutions. As we the new year gives to spring, I re-discovered this post and really enjoy it. It’s real, compact, clear and inspiring and it’s the freaking truth for most people, be it Jan or [...]

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#WINNING at LOSING (Weight)

In fitness, as in life, there are two basic approaches to self improvement and success: there’s losing and there’s gaining. There’s the person who’s sole focus is “losing weight.” Content, they are, to weigh less and be smaller. A noble goal, for sure. But there’s an inherent limitation here in that losing comes to an [...]

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In Defense of a Man’s Life

This day, like all days, awaits your best. It’s on your side—pulling for you to show up strong and seize it.

Carpe Diem!

But rather than stoke your body and mind for a day of noble dragon slaying, you rush out the door under assault by a cesspool of stress hormones.

Your day of super-hero like performance is not to be. Rather than a gripping, “Boom, Zap, Kapow…” your day is more, “Fizzle, snizzle, flip, flop.”

Let the follies begin.

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