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Are Limiting Beliefs Hindering Your Progress in the Gym?

A self-limiting belief is a set of assumptions about ones’ self, or about how the world works, which negatively affect the ability to maximise ones’ potential.

It is about time I shook mine off, particularly around lifting form, injury, and what is deemed as ‘realistic’ progression on my lifts.

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Fitness On The Road

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.

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Training Breaks and Deloads

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.

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The Unspoken Benefits of Fitness.

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”.

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Cutting for the Summer. Some Practical Tips

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.

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