Is exercising less not an idea that sits well with you? To do less won’t bring that same sense of achievement. It won’t be as rewarding. How would things be for you? if it where not a big deal not to exercise. ​ What this comes down to is that you are worried that you will fall off the wagon if you do less, you will lose your hard-earned fitness, scarred of gaining weight, a mindset of either you do it properly or you don’t do it at all. ​ None of these things will happen. If you look at a lifetime, you want to have a foundation that you can rely on for a lifetime whatever happens. So if you ..read more

I will give you some guidelines on how to know, when perfection becomes an excuse. Why is wanting to exercise and eat exactly the right way prevents you from being healthy, strong and resilient? Here is how you know perfection becomes an excuse. You are aiming for perfection or you aim for the right way or you want to do more, you want it to be hard you want it to be all or it’s nothing. ​ That is your expectation, you want to do your best, otherwise there is no point. ​ What kind of mindset do you put yourself in? When you have those expectations. ​ Well, first of all, you will defend yourse ..read more

I was thinking about a couple of things last week. Main thing was why so many are thinking how we look will make us healthier. Thinking how we look will make us feel healthier. How come when we think of health we focus so much on looks and so little on how we feel? How come we think how we look will make us feel healthier? And little on how we feel from doing certain things for our health? Some comments I have heard this year when it comes to health, and performance. Why are women so vain? She could lose a bit of weight and probably perform better. To look attractive. This was an answer to a ..read more

Can your health goals be to just feel good? ​ Of course it can. You can also have smaller goals like running more frequent, or a certain distance, lifting a certain weight or being better at a sport. ​ What drives me a lot is my anticipation of how I will feel from doing a certain activity. ​ I have also experienced how anticipating how hard things will be can dampen the whole experience. ​ I have also seen how anticipating the uncomfortable feeling can lead to not taking action. ​ To just switch the switch is not realistic. ​ But you can learn how to use anticipation as your best form of mot ..read more

Is the though of scaling back on exercise a bit unsettling to you? What will happen to my fitness Strength. Weight. Will I lose momentum and fall of the wagon? It won’t be as rewarding. I get these concerns but they are thoughts and fears that can hold you back. And can trigger you to do too much. Now, I’m also talking about having a balance between exercise and recovery. More is not better when it comes to exercise by default. But if you are someone who relates to the though examples above or similar then this is a post for you. The concept of working smarter not harder works well here. An ..read more

Do you need to warm up before a run? ​ Yes! Always. ​ There is no question about it. ​ You might think that if you are walking some parts of your run it’s not as important. ​ Or if you are planning on doing an easy run it’s not that necessary. ​ Or I’m not that serious about my running. ​ Everyone needs to warm up. ​ Maybe you have been running for some time and you haven’t warmed up before most of your runs and that seems to be going just fine. ​ Sure, but in all cases, this is what warming up will do and improve for you. ​ Reduce the risk of injury and niggle. ( huge one ) Improve your runn ..read more

I will just come out of the gate and say that as a health professional, I don’t support pitching Cardio or Strength for weight loss against each other. You need both for health and both cardio and strength contributes with important benefits for weight loss. ​ Pitching cardio vs strength for weight loss is old school by today’s standard! But yes, it does still happen. ​ Putting them up against each other gives the notation there is only one option if weight loss is a goal for you. Or that you can do other things but they are not as effective. So that contributes to the somewhat extreme attitu ..read more

You want to prioritise your health, you want a 2.0 lifestyle where you feel healthy and do the habits that will create that for you. But something is not working still, consistency is lacking and you don’t have enough time and you deal with lack of motivation. Thinking and being adamant that work, family and friends take up your time is a fact that just is. You make it a priority over the healthy habits that will get you your 2.0 lifestyle. Why? There can be many reasons. Sometimes what needs to be prioritised right now does not need to be prioritised always. (I will do a separate post about ..read more

How important is strength work when you are starting out? It depends of course but the main thing when starting out is to increase your activity level. Strength work is highly important for your long term health. But what’s more important is to find a physical activity / movement that you like the experience of and value the benefits off. The main thing is to be consistent. So whether strength work is part of the initial strategy or not is not a big deal. But eventually I would recommend introducing strength work in to your strategy. Introducing strength work. What should you think about when ..read more

​ How important is warming up? really? Do you tend to skip the warm up? It’s important. It might not feel important because isn’t necessarily hard and what impact will it have if it’s not? Also, many of us find it quite boring and if we are short of time it’s easy to push that priority to the side. However there are no questions about it, warming up is really important to get the most out of the activity you are set out to do and for a healthy, strong and resilient body in general. What will warming up do for you? Activate muscles that are going to work Activate muscles that have a tendency ..read more