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Maintenance Isn’t Sexy, But Necessary For Meaningful Outcomes.

Exercise, Physical Activity Recommendations

It’s fun and exciting to start an exercise program. You hit new goals, contact fresh reinforcers, and acquire those “noob” gains. But what happens when the honeymoon wears off? Enter Maintenance Mode When working with clients, I delineate between two distinct teaching phases of intervention — acquisition and maintenance. During the acquisition phase, my clients […]

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Optimizing Your Workout: Using Reversal Designs to Fine-tune Exercise Minutes and Heart Health

Reversal

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

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Physical Inactivity Costs $27 Billion Per Year – WHO Update 2022

Physical Activity Recommendations, Research

Do you need an (updated) reason to get moving and stay moving? The World Health Organization just released their updated report on the topic. Global Status Report on Physical Activity 2022 Among the key findings are: Almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to physical inactivity,

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Exercists, Fitness Shaming, Longevity and Contingencies: Reaction To Michael Shermer and Daniel Lieberman Podcast Interview

Ergonomics, Physical Activity Recommendations, Sedentary Behavior, Standing

Dr. Daniel Lieberman, professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University, published “Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding” on January 5th, 2021. I previously read Lieberman’s book “The Story of the Human Body” published in 2015. This book provided much of the foundation for my understanding how and why modern

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