A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (3/2): The only thing worth focusing on right now 🎯
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Mano Minute (3/2): The only thing worth focusing on right now 🎯 "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response." - Viktor Frankl There is a lot happening in the world right now. It feels heavy. Because it is not in our control. Whether you agree with what is happening or not, the reality is the same. We do not control the decisions being made. What we do control is how we react. Every day, we get to decide where we direct our energy. Toward the things we cannot change? Or toward the things we can? The most grounded people I know are the ones who have learned to turn inward during uncertain times. They work on themselves. They take care of their health. They invest in their relationships. They stay consistent. That is not avoidance. That is wisdom. When everything outside feels unstable, the best thing you can do is build something stable inside. TIP: This week, ask yourself one question each morning. "What is actually in my control today?" Focus there. Let the rest go. |
Mano Minute
A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (3/12): Why you get sore after a workout (and what it actually means) 💪 Soreness gets a bad reputation. People either chase it like a trophy or fear it like an injury. Most of the time, neither response is quite right. Here is what is happening. When you lift weights, you create tiny tears in your muscle fibers. These are called microtears. That feeling of soreness you get 24 to 48 hours after a workout? That is your body reacting to those tears. But here is the important part....
Mano Minute (3/11): Free weights vs. machines. Here is my honest take 🏋️ There is a gym snobbery I want to address. A lot of people treat machines like they are for beginners. Like real lifters only use free weights. Planet Fitness gets mocked constantly because it is mostly machines. I disagree with this entirely. Machines are excellent. Not just for beginners, but for everyone. Here is why. Machines protect your form. They guide your movement through a fixed range of motion, which means you...
Mano Minute (3/10): Eating carbs without the guilt 🍞 Carbs have had a rough decade. Low carb diets. No carb diets. Keto. Everyone treating bread like it is poison. Here is my take. Carbs are not the problem. The type of carbs is the problem. There are carbs that leave you feeling guilty, foggy, and hungry an hour later. Ultra processed snacks, white bread, sugary drinks, fast food. These spike your blood sugar fast and crash it just as fast. Your body does not get much from them. And you are...