The difficult thing when dealing with your environment as you try to reduce stress is that your environment is usually the thing that causes the stress that you’re feeling. My advice is usually to control those things that you can control, but it’s the things around us that we can’t control that are causing us …
Why Stress is Unhealthy
You may be thinking, “Look, I’ve lived with stress for a long time. So long, in fact, that it’s normal to me. I’ve learned to live with it, and I think some stress is just a part of life.” Well, I’m here to tell you that you’re right on all accounts. But, our lives today …
Your Environment Gets a Vote
When it comes to dealing with stressors and managing stress, we can have a great plan. We can have great motivation. We can have all the tools we need at our disposal. But if we ignore what’s around us and how our environment affects us, we are ultimately doomed to fail. With everything that we …
Less Stress Part 1 – Lower Stress Through Your Outlook
This is Episode 109 of the TD Fitness Podcast, and Part 1 of my Less Stress Series. Chronic stress is unhealthy. It affects our mood, hormones and causes us to retain weight. But, a productive and positive mindset is the first step in overcoming the mental challenges that come with positive change, and it’s the …
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Your Past Is Not Your Future
As a personal trainer, I know that the greatest predictor of injury is past injury in whatever part of the body we’re talking about. But physical injury and mental efficacy (your belief in yourself that you can do a particular thing) are different. The problem on the mental side is that it’s easy to look …