Strengthlab on Nov 3rd 2016 StrengthLab Thoughts
The majority of males get their health and fitness information from magazines that are full of professional bodybuilders and muscular models who use steriods, as well as other illegal chemicals to achieve their desired look. Not only are these fitness role models typically using drugs to obtain their facade of health and fitness they’re frequently pedaling strength training routines that are literally a figment of someone’s imagination. Choose your health and fitness information wisely.
Strengthlab on Nov 3rd 2016 StrengthLab Thoughts
Excited to get started with a “new” personal trainer?
How about building a long-term, on-going relationship with your “new” personal trainer?
Be careful here…
The personal-training industry has high rates of employee turnover, meaning that your newly found personal trainer is likely to be gone in the near future. One, because the definition of personal trainer is so loosely defined in the fitness industry today, setting a very low standard and two, because this position is frequently filled by those who are waiting for something better to come along with no real intention or capacity to be a professional.
Look for certifications from ACSM or NSCA, a degree in health and fitness and on-going participation in sports and athletics.
Your personal trainer should know how to stay motivated, year after year, as well as injury free.
If they can’t do that for themselves how are they going to do that for you?
Strengthlab on Nov 3rd 2016 StrengthLab Thoughts
Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking!
Self-help books don’t seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth―even if you can get it―doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can’t even agree on what “happiness” means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way?
Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it’s our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty―the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and ultimately uplifting, The Antidote is the intelligent person’s guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness.
https://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Happiness-People-Positive-Thinking/dp/0865478015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478201417&sr=8-1&keywords=the+antidote
