Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Burn by Herman Pontzer. What’s unique about these two books and authors? The association for behavior analysis international (ABAI) invited both authors to speak at their annual convention and they offered conflicting messages. Gary in 2014. Herman in 2022. I attended both. I made sure I arrived 5 […]
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My brain wants to think I’m drinking a beer, but I’m not
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Physical activity and public health researchers are now publishing literature concerning a dose/response relationship for steps counts. That is, what is the best “dosage” of steps that yields that best “response” or health outcomes?
Is 10,000 steps per day the best? Can I get by with only 5,000 per day?
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Think about any new skill or movement that you want to learn. Do you learn that skill from scratch? How would you start? Where do you begin? You can always google instructional videos, or ask a friend. To methodologically build, refine, and master a skill, there’s another strategy suited for this purpose. Skill development follows
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The WHOOP fitness tracker is an incredible fitness tracker. Maybe you’ve seen them, maybe not, but WHOOP is a top player in the wearable fitness space. Compatible with any phone, your data syncs continuously and feeds into WHOOP’s algorithms to deliver interesting insights related to sleep, recovery, and strain. After a 6-month minimum membership plus
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When targeting health or fitness behaviors, they are many variables to consider. Following any assessment, you should be ready to define, measure, and intervene upon any health and fitness behaviors In my new BehaviorFit academy course, Measurement 101, I cover 4 lessons integral to measuring any behavior. 4 Lessons When Targeting Health and Fitness Behaviors
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I am presenting my latest work at the 48th annual Association for Behavior Analysis International conference in Boston, MA over Memorial Day weekend. I am excited to present an updated version of a previous ORABA 2021 and MOABA 2021 presentation on the same topic: Addressing Health and Fitness During A Pandemic: Lesson Learned From The
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The Premack principle comes from behavior analysis and it leverages the IF, THEN statement. If I complete Activity A, then I have access to Activity B. The principle works like this: By completing Activity A FIRST, Activity B should reinforce Activity A…and in theory, you should do activity A more often. However, there’s one important
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I am humbled to share that the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) accepted my recent paper submission for the next annual conference in 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Here are the submission details: Submission ID #75907 Submission Title: Addressing Health and Fitness During A Pandemic: Lesson Learned From The Field The conference schedule will
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A client and I are targeting when she wakes up in the morning. This is a meaningful goal for her as she wants to rise early in the morning and have a better start to her day. (I will focus on behavioral sleep measures and not the intervention in this article.) At the core of
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