Set a goal, make a plan, and stop looking at others for a while. Focus instead on outdoing your former self—you vs you. If you can be a little bit better than last week, you are making progress. Do this for a couple of years, and you have made an enormous change.

Look at your life—your stuff and your aspirations—and assess them well. What will enhance me as an individual, and what will enhance and support my life going forward?                     

What we have been testing lately is to go all-in on the frequency—which means that we train every single day. This may seem a bit stupid in writing but bear with us for a moment.

I am a vegan.  

And I can’t stand vegans.  

Is there a support group for that?  To be fair, I also hate carnivores, Paleo fanatics, the Low Carb cult, etc., etc. Well—I don’t hate them all—but I really hate the fanatic ones—the ones that are just perched there in cyberspace somewhere, just waiting to pounce on you if you make any statement about nutrition whatsoever.

Most of us know the feeling. The motivation is there–you’ve found the perfect workout program and diet plan. You craft it into the perfect “get fit” strategy, and you wait until Monday to come–because we all know that the perfect program needs to start on a Monday to provide the greatest effect and health benefits. And you’re off… no sugar, fasted cardio in the morning, and the perfect scientifically-backed push, pull, leg routine for maximum gains. Three weeks later you're back to doing nothing and eating like shit. So… “What went wrong?” and “Why do we keep doing this?”

We have all been there. You feel like shit, you’re tired, and your body is aching. This can be because you have been neglecting your body, or on the other end of the spectrum, that you have been overtraining--and you just broke your body. In my experience, 90% of aches and pains are muscular in nature. You can address most aches and pains yourself with this system: Release - Lengthen - Activate - Integrate. Even joint pain is very often because of muscle tightness above and/or below the joint.

Find the discipline that you always wanted to master or use our go-to strategy – find a good and competent teacher close to where you live, and listen to what they have to say. What he or she is teaching is not so important, remember form follows function – and almost all disciplines are more enjoyable than the repetitiveness of a standard “Globo Gym” program.

Bodybuilding and cardio machines have their place and are fantastic tools to develop your body’s ability to exert more force and move for longer periods. Stronger and fitter is always better, but these attributes are a foundation for other things and not end-goals in and of themselves. In our opinion, the body is a complex machine that can do all sorts of fantastic things, and if you are reading this, you also can enhance your body’s movement patterns and characteristics — so, the question is “What should you be doing?” And is this lockdown period preventing you from reaching your goals?

“I don’t get it; I haven’t made any progress in the last 15 years. I’m 47 years old, I sleep 5 hours a night, I argue with my wife, have three kids, I’m stressed out and I’m angry and tired all of the time.”  

I had a lot of conversations over the last years with people trying to better themselves and the quote above sums up the problem beautifully. It can look like a joke when you see it from the outside, but this is the reality for many people – and they cannot see it themselves.

When making a training program or when accessing your training, it is useful to have a vocabulary that can separate our overall training structure into distinct sub-modalities or different ways in which your training is stressing your body.

When you want to go somewhere, two questions are critical – “What is the destination?” and “How are you going to get there?”