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The Strava Glitch

This is some niche runner shit. Like, this is niche for runners who use a specific app. Anyone else can keep reading out of curiosity but I’m not explaining everything for you so if you’re lost, you’re lost. Strava has a GPS glitch problem. I went out for a run a while ago and a few feet down the block the kilometer signal went off. And I thought couldn’t be, or maybe… then the kilometer marker…

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Fat Loss Tips

I tell clients, and even just people in general, early and often that fitness has to come from a place of self-care and be a celebration of what your body can do rather than a punishment for how you look or what you ate. Having other fitness priorities and letting fat come off as a by-product is going to lead to better commitment and more likely success.  buuuuutttah….. I have a new client who…

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Fitness Is Not A No Risk No Reward Situation

You actually get a tremendous amount of reward from fitness at no risk. You play it safe, consistently, for a year and you know what? Deeply rewarding. I told people this as recently as last week and yet what did I just do…? I got a new piece of equipment so I could go up in weight for one movement and, when it didn’t feel great in the second of three sets, I thought “well, you gotta dig deep…

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The Fragile Eggs Conversation

I worry about being off-putting in customer service situations. And for good reason. I’m really off-putting in customer service situations. When I worked at the running store people would throw fits about rude I was and I’d be like “I’m just being casual, I’m just not being totally over-friendly sickly sweet fake salesman guy.” but people, some people, really want that in a shopping…

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Masculinity - A False Dichotomy Within A False Dichotomy

I’m gonna do some Bona Fides on this topic even though doing so could be seen as buying into the illusion I’m trying to dispel. The thing is, I know that who is speaking on a topic can cause a listener to dismiss a whole premise out of hand. I’m a cisgender, heterosexual dude. Look at this guy. Two sides, both guy sides. I know when someone who isn’t masculine-presenting talks about…

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Bicep hypertrophy is so goddamn easy

Repeating something I said at the start of the year – I never gave much of shit about biceps. They’re always the biggest muscle in the arm for aesthetics and the back is more important for strength. But with all the chest focus I did last year I wound up with pretty meaty triceps aesthetically and it’s possible that biceps are a limiting factor in pull-ups so I decided I’d take two months and…

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On the concept of Bad Food

I wanted to say “There’s no such thing as Bad Food” but I immediately thought of the exception to that – if you go to a restaurant and the food sucks, it’s bad food and it’s okay to call it that. It’s food that’s poorly executed. But what I want to talk to about is how I hear from clients and friends talk about Bad Food. Because what they mean is Food I Enjoyed. The thinking is – food which is…

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2024 Work Out Stuff

Most of my work out life I’ve been very well rounded. In fact, every year my goal is to get more specific and in the second half of last year I caught some advice about how to specialize in hypertrophy for muscles you feel are lagging in your overall development. So I prioritized my chest and brought it up and up and up. But you can’t specialize forever and I had to think of what to do next. And…

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Forgive Yourself For Struggling To Adopt Good Habits

Giving up bad habits is difficult. We all know that and, mostly, we accept it. We don’t get too down on ourselves when we struggle, we don’t think I’m a bad person because I failed to quit smoking or cut back on ordering delivery or whatever. We’re disappointed sure, but we don’t shame ourselves for it. We compartmentalize it well, say it’s not the end of the world, say we’ll keep trying again…

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Just A Dude And His Rope

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Things People Will Find Attractive Are Ultimately Unknowable

Being desirable. It’s a huge part of fitness culture and it’s a motivation a lot of people are scared to articulate. Which is fine because fear of being seen as vain is valid; people won’t take you seriously if they consider you vain. It takes some vanity to not want to be seen as vain. Nevertheless it’s part of what’s being sold. No, It’s the main thing, it’s essentially the only thing being…

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Making Exercise Feel Necessary

I’m reading Exercised By Daniel Lieberman. Subtitled Why Something We Never Evolved To Do Is Healthy & Rewarding it’s pretty much up my entire alley. It’s essentially about why people don’t exercise – which is much more useful and interesting to me. I exercise all the time and I love it, I don’t need to be told it’s good or why or how or anything about it; I need to insight into why people don’t,…

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Trainer Notes

I make note of ups and downs after every session. Really it’s just that highlights will stand out and if something is a low-light I’ll be thinking of why it happened and what to change. And I thought I’d share some: I’ve got 3 clients now and I feel spoiled with how great they are. With one, they’ll dig so deep for a rep that it gets me hyped up just as someone who loves working out – I fully…

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I've Already Learned So Much From My First Client

I haven’t said anything online yet so here you go – I’m a real personal trainer now. I got my cert (which I might have mentioned idk) and now I have my first real client and a second starting next week. I have bought beer with money I received for my personal training services. Real. I’m constantly thrilled to be finally teaching the things I’m meant to teach and I’m also excited for the things…

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What's Hardest Isn't Exercise Or Nutrition But A Secret Third Thing

I was seeing a few memes about how Nutrition is more complicated than lifting, about how nutrition is the secret weapon behind training, about the effort of eating being so much greater than the effort of lifting… And I was thinking about how I don’t find either thing difficult and therefore the memes were stupid. But of course that just means I don’t find either difficult now. Once you have…

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The Thing Overlooked In Every Discussion Of Home Workouts Vs Gym

It’s just are you gonna fucking do it? If you keep falling off your work out plans then you have to try something else. Period. If there are lots of reasons you want to do at-home work outs, and you’ve read-all the articles about how they can be great and how to optimize them, and then you don’t do them then it doesn’t matter that you made your wee little pro/con list at all. And that goes for…