Give Me Strength: The fountain of youth.
It's not a game-changer. As the precursor to all other qualities - power, speed, endurance and skill, strength is the game. Despite this, it's pursuit has been denied to half of us. If they train, men, will sooner or later try to pick up something heavy. Being men, it's likely to be sooner, and heavier, than it should be. Women, conversely, are lead away from this and those that do cross the divide - usually through high-level sports coaching - have been the exception.
Movement Literacy: The alphabet with which your body speaks.
If mobility is restricted, this sensory capability is dulled, affecting the quality of information passed back up the chain. Every joint beyond that point in the chain then operates on only part of the story - best guesses and rumour over the full facts.
Breathe Easy: When you're doing something 20,000 times a day, you want to do it right.
As with our quality of movement - for whatever reason, whether through injury, posture or habit, even with fundamental flaws in our patterns, the body will find a way around things - a compensation. For breathing it is no different, and our posture and daily habits can also be feeding subtle breathing pattern disorders.
Comfortably Dumb - part 2: Cold Comfort for Change.
If this degree of discomfort presents an insurmountable barrier, how do you think that type of self-limiting thinking will play out in your everyday life? Your brain is a learning machine, and this becomes a practised and ingrained behaviour - catastrophising anything that doesn’t fall inside your neatly drawn parameters.
Comfortably Dumb - part 1: The misery of eternal comfort
Comfort and convenience cocoon us but this is a reverse chrysalis, transforming us from butterfly to caterpillar. Instead of stepping outside your comfort zone - the mantra of all personal development - it's become far more likely you'll leave it only on a stretcher.
Everything In Its Right Place: Learning to switch off.
Soon enough, after repeated practice at ignoring our bodily cues, we lose all subjective measure of our true state of being. Any reference point to help us gauge what stress is, and isn't, has become skewed - as has our response to it.
More or Less: How recovery determines your fitness
When people talk about 'overtraining', what they really mean is 'under-recovering.'