True Confessions lead to Transformation
Ever had chip cereal? Don’t know what that is? Well, let me explain it, chip cereal is when you are down to only the watery bits of salsa and chips that are either too small to be considered chips, too big for crumbs and you pour the chips into the salsa and eat it with [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Fit For 2012
December is almost here, the parties, eating and drinking, socializing have started. This time of year can be a serious challenge to your regular routine, especially if you work in an office with all the extras that show up during the season. The cookies, cakes, chocolates, biscuits they seem to appear everywhere. It is easy [...]
Read More5 Exercises Men are Doing Wrong
Okay guys, you are not off the hook, here are things that are men are universally doing wrong wherever I go. 1. Do some leg exercises. Whenever I go to a gym the men doing leg exercises are the athletes. The ones that understand that just because they run or cycle doesn’t mean you [...]
Read More5 Exercises Women Are Doing Wrong
It doesn’t matter where I am, what city or country, what time of day it is, I can go into any gym and I can see someone doing one of these five things they could be doing differently and getting results. Get fit, faster and avoid these 5 traps that may be keeping you [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: 5 Tips for Winter Exercise
It’s November and that means it is colder, darker and increasingly unforgiving outside. You can still exercise outdoors comfortably and safely with a little preparation. These 5 tips will help to keep you comfortable and fit all winter long. 1. Dress in layers. Wearing technical clothing with a base layer, a jacket, gloves, toque and [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Literary Inspiration
Get a jump on your holiday shopping or curl up and get inspired to live healthy. To continue in the end of the year list theme here are 10 books about sports and human endurance to help you get out the door on those dark, wintery days. Born To Run, Christopher McDougall. If this doesn’t [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: A little inspiration
It is the coming to the end of 2011, not sure where this year went, but it is almost over which means everyone, everywhere will be listing their best of 2011. I love top 10 lists, movies, books, whatever, I am a top 10 junkie. Maybe because they inspire and motivate me. Here are [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: November Challenge
November 1st is approaching and I have a challenge for you. November is kind of a dreary month, not much going on. It gets dark early, it is dark late, it is colder, it is wetter. Unless you live in the south or the Southern Hemisphere (where it is summer) it can be a [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Be here now
Do you think about the future? Your future? Your health and fitness future? Well, maybe you could stop thinking about it. Think this is a bit crazy, like sticking your head in the sand and painting on a smile? I am going to tell you it is not. You don’t own the future. You only [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Unprocessed Halfway
The Unprocessed Challenge has almost reached halfway. How are you doing? I have been mostly successful. The “rules” from the official site are first, to consider how many ingredients are in food and second, can you make it in your own kitchen. So far so good. I had tacos last night though and this got [...]
Read MorePeter
Congratulations Peter! What a fabulous success story! All the big rides Peter accomplished this year (6) would have qualified him for a Performance Success Story too – ESPECIALLY since Peter took 95 minutes off his time from the RBC Granfondo Whistler 2010! Congratulations! Even though Peter loves to ride his road bike, and enjoys all [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Willpower
Feeling like your motivation to stick to your plans is fading? Would you say that having the willpower or the motivation to change is holding you back from success? North Americans are not known for their self-control. Debt, obesity, drug abuse, all signs of a society unable to be able to control their impulses. It [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Unprocessed Part II
Happy Thanksgiving Canada. How is your unprocessed challenge going? I often find when I make the effort to eat better the cravings for the other stuff subsides. It is getting over the first few days that is always the challenge. Then there are the holidays, birthdays, special occasions that are most likely celebrated with food [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Goal Setting 101
Do you have a goal you want to achieve? How about a vision of how you want to be in the future? While you may think these are the same things, they are different. Goals are specific, measurable, have a time frame, are attainable and are realistic – and so is your vision for the [...]
Read MoreLiar, Liar…
Pants on fire, we know how that goes. Or do we? I was thinking about this recently when I was listening to a “health expert” basically telling lies. That might sound a bit harsh, but this is what I think. You tell me how you feel about it – you are the consumer – so [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Unprocessed
So I committed to the October Unprocessed Challenge, it should not be that hard. Most of my diet is unprocessed. It should be easy to take out those few extras that have crept in to my usually good diet. Right now it is easy. It is October 3rd. I have been away from my [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: You First.
Often people tell me they have no time for exercise. I find that hard to believe. Some of my fittest client’s have the busiest lives, CEOs, business owners, working parents; people who travel, have family, are engaged in their community, people who know that to run at optimal capacity they need to keep fit and [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Eat Real
Did you know that every year almost 20,000 new foods are added to grocery store aisles. Foods that didn’t exist before. All of these are processed foods, foods manufactured and marketed to get you to try them, buy them, have them. We get very emotional when discussing their food choices, but so often our choices [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Where are you?
Paying attention, on purpose, without judgement are key components of being mindful. Easy to say, but hard to practice. Being aware of what you are doing and when you are doing it, is a skill that can be practiced with success to improve many aspects of our lives. Mindfulness has been shown to calm the [...]
Read MoreEvolution Fall Health Challenge: Making it Stick
Negative emotions are sticky. We remember them, just as we remember negative events and we need them. They are like the keel on a sailboat, the roots of a tree, they keep us safe and teach us about life. On the other hand, positive emotions lift us up, they are the wind in our sails, [...]
Read MoreFall Health Challenge: Food For Thought
Food For Thought The first day of the Evolution Fall Health Challenge and I want to talk to you about food. Did you know most people spend more time watching television than they do preparing a meal? Does that surprise you? One of the most common questions that I am asked is why I choose [...]
Read MoreThe F#$@ It list and the Bucket List
You have probably have heard of or have one yourself, the bucket list. The things you really want to do, achieve, try at least once. I think they are great they help us realize goals, focus on what is important and celebrate when we check one off the list. All very important and fun. But, [...]
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