Fitness – Evolved Habits

Change Your Environment For Success

One of the easiest ways to make good habits stick is by altering your environment in a way that makes them more conducive, or by making the old bad habit they are trying to replace harder. This is one of the reasons why people can lose so much… Read More Continue reading »

July 2, 2020 change psychology / Fitness / health / philosophy

Stop Trying to Make Your Workouts Fun!

A popular piece of advice when it comes to fitness is to make your workouts fun so you stick to them. A common topic on forums for personal trainers is how to make workouts as fun as possible for clients. And while gamifying your workouts might… Read More Continue reading »

June 22, 2020 change psychology / Fitness / health / philosophy

Self-Care Isn’t Selfish

Growing up we are always told to think of others first and put their needs before our own. We’re told that if we put our needs first we are being selfish and that that is a bad thing. Of course if you always put your own desires first that kind… Read More Continue reading »

April 23, 2019 Fitness / health / weightloss

Why is My Diet Not Working Yet?

View video here: https://youtu.be/eZkXLVKz7PM So you started a new diet a couple of weeks ago intending to shed a few pounds. You made a few lifestyle changes to get the ball rolling, but having stood on the scale again today you… Read More Continue reading »

March 27, 2019 Fitness / health / philosophy

Don’t Overlook the Basics

https://youtu.be/Yk-QzkvHdvM A lot of the time when we are trying to improve ourselves we overlook the basics. We think can just skip over them, that they are too obvious, or that they are just too simple to get us where we want to go;… Read More Continue reading »

March 8, 2019 Fitness / health / philosophy

How Quitting Turned My Life Around

https://youtu.be/U0fckrBjf6M We are often told that we should “never give up” on our dreams because “winners never quit”, yeah right, total BS. I used to follow this advice, I really did, but giving up on one particular dream… Read More Continue reading »

February 19, 2019 Fitness / health / philosophy / weightloss

What to Do When the Time’s Not Right

https://youtu.be/dfuAzDPL76Q “The best time to start is now” is a pretty popular saying, but sometimes the time is really just not right. Sometimes the demands and responsibilities of the rest of your life are just too much to start… Read More Continue reading »

February 12, 2019 Fitness / health / philosophy / weightloss

When Big Changes Actually Work

https://youtu.be/bXP4GjvxqTA In my previous blog I explained how small actions are able to create larger change than big ones. But can big actions ever bring about larger lasting change. Of course they can, but mostly through changing… Read More Continue reading »

February 6, 2019 Fitness / health / philosophy / weightloss

Small Change Big Result

https://youtu.be/dXSgSi1CqoE One of the most common dismissals of habit based lifestyle changes is that they are just too small to make any significant differences. People think that big problems must require equally large solutions to… Read More Continue reading »

January 9, 2019 Fitness / health

Dish Washing For Weight-loss?

https://youtu.be/hHjm7qXASA4 Can washing the dishes really help you lose weight. Yes, it did for me, just not directly. Washing the dishes is what I like to call a support habit, it’s not going to create much movement towards your… Read More Continue reading »