Embrace Travel without sacrificing your health and fitness goals.
Whether it be a holiday, a work trip, or a move abroad, here are some guiding principles to maintain your physique on the road.

A common question in the fitness and training circles is one of training breaks and/or deload weeks. When should I take a break? How often should I take one? I recently packed my possessions and relocated to Sofia, Bulgaria. During what was a major change in my life, I averaged two training sessions per week, over a two-week period. I noticed no real degradation in my physique or in my performance. This prompted me to examine how one might think about training breaks and deload weeks.

There is a reason why super successful folk, the world over, post their gym selfies on Instagram, even though their career has nothing to do with fitness. Granted some are successful without much in the way of physical activity, but those people seem to discover a love for fitness sooner or later. Gary Vee and Jeff Bezos being examples. I think on some level of consciousness, we make associations between accomplishing health and fitness goals with whatever one’s definition is of “making it”.

Cutting is a regular ritual this time of year, to unleash abs that have been safely hibernating all winter. That is for the gentlemen. For ladies, it might be cutting some excess from the waistline, to achieve your desired waist:dump-truck ratio. Summer is mating season for us mammals too, so here are some practical tips to showing off the physique that you’ve worked so hard to build during the Winter.

Drawing parallels between the agile approach to project management, and achieving fitness goals. People over process.

Do you want the perfect diet, or do you want a balanced diet? Do you want more or less choice? There is no right or wrong answer here. If it works, it works. But understanding why it works will lead you to more informed decisions so you can accept the tradeoffs. This information, combined with self-awareness will lead you to an approach that works for you.

To look at me now, you would not think it, but I struggled with binge eating for quite a number of years. All the way through my childhood, my teenage years, and about two years ago I had a bad relapse at a time when I struggled with a chronic pain condition. When I was a child I was obese by the clinical definition (though my mother would argue that I was only a little chubby). But I am in and around the same weight now, as I was when I was 12. This in spite of actually having quite a fast metabolism.

I recall nights where my heart would be racing due to the sheer amount of food I ate, followed by 1-2 hours of broken sleep as a result of worsening acid reflux. It made me feel so ashamed of myself, but for some reason, I just couldn't control it. When I would binge, it was like I was possessed.