Workout environments ✅ help or ❌ hinder our progress. 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 Depending on your goals and preferred workout styles (e.g., group classes, free weights), you may bounce around different gym memberships to determine the best workout environment for you. Take this client for example. After months of tinkering with: 💼—Work schedules (🌞 vs. 🌚 ) 🎟️—Memberships […]
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Life happens. I get it. When targeting certain aspects of our health and fitness, significant life events are just another set of variables to contribute to or take away from our goals. Determining the extent to which each life event (e.g., marriage, graduation, a new job) affects our well-being can be left to guesswork, or
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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Exergaming is any activity that combines video game technology with exercise. Game developers integrated gaming and exercise into the Nintendo Switch, the Oculus Rift and Quest headsets, and the Playstation Move Controllers. You play a video game while enjoying the benefits of increased movement, heart rate, and perspiration. You can box, dance, and swing yourself
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Hi! Nick here. Just checking in the with any New Year’s Resolutions going on out there. How are they going? We are 3 weeks into the New Year. Successful? Not? (what a boring intro…let’s try something new) (Nick clears throat) Uh-hum… Before I jump into the life-changing lessons, let’s weed out a few readers right
I was sweaty. And couldn’t “swipe right” for the life of me. Did I hit end? Oh no, the time isn’t accurate! Ah, the woes of trying engage in a fine motor task after running around, lifting a bunch of weights, and trying to catch my breath. But I figured it out after a couple
How I Used The Apple Watch For Fitness: What I Liked, and What I Would Fix Read More »
Catch up on articles you may have missed this New Year.
2015 in Review: BehaviorFit’s First 5 Articles Read More »
We live in a very advanced, technological age. Humans have created electric cars and are planning a trip to Mars. It is incredible to see how people are getting fit and healthier with recent advancements in sport, science, and nutrition. This time of year brings us “doorbusters” and savings galore on the latest gadgets and
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There is a trend for many of us in today’s world to make a living by “knowledge work”. We work at a computer, analyze trends, produce meaningful documents, and click send. Work in the modern office environment looks a lot different than what work looked like 100 years ago. There are only but a few
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The benefits of exercise have been well documented. So don’t stop. However, research about we how spend the rest of our time not exercising paints a different picture. So, what I am I talking about? Each day we are given 24 hours. What we do with our time, related to overall physical activity, is very
Exercise Isn’t Everything: How do you spend the other 23 hours of your day? Read More »
