Being able to listen to your body and manage exercise intensity in an intuitive way takes practice.  So does eating intuitively.  But many folks in the intuitive eating and intuitive fitness space recommend against taking objective measurements and suggest we rely on our feelings instead.   In today's podcast I explain why they're wrong, and share some essential first steps to progress toward truly eating and exercising intuitively.

Going forward, Sunday episodes are going to be where I share my own current fitness journey, progress, and strategies with you from a personal standpoint. Right now, I'm working on fat loss and will be for a few weeks.  So, each week I'll update on my weight loss progress, what I'm doing to keep moving towards those goals, and any obstacles I face so you can avoid them. Follow me on Instagram for the occasional meal idea or workout I'm doing: https://www.instagram.com/starbuckfit/ Follow The Nerd Gym on YouTube to follow my wife's fat loss journey: https://www.youtube.com/user/QualityStrengthVideo

It's common for folks to have anxiety around their fitness and nutrition plan during the holidays. In this episode I discuss why a little extra food and a little extra rest is actually going to help you with your fitness goals. I also discuss how seasonal holidays from many cultures, and the pagan wheel of the year jive very well with the schedule you should chill out on. This episode is a follow up to episode 120, which you may want to listen to if you haven't already.

If fat loss is your fitness goal, then no exercise is more important than your nutrition plan. But, after more than a decade of helping folks achieve their goals, there is one exercise that has shown itself to be the most important for fat loss goals. Unfortunately, it's the hardest exercise to get someone to do regularly.   In this episode, I talk about that exercise.

It's one of the most common questions a personal trainer gets... What is the best ab exercise to burn belly fat?  Or Does this exercise burn belly fat?   In this episode I share the REAL answer.

If you've been training very intensely and consistently for a few months, you've likely accumulated a variety of types of stress.  And taking a week off is often just the thing to make your progress faster.  But many people get anxious about taking time off or taking a "deload" week. In today's episode I'm going to share why you need not worry about losing progress, and why deloading will help you to get stronger.

Organizing your training into goal focused blocks of time is an important part of long term progress with your workouts.  But there is one thing you should work on before starting a block focused on toning up or getting bigger, and it's backed by science. In today's episode I talk about the block of strength training you should be doing before your toning or hypertrophy work.

There's a lot of research that shows that a regular gratitude practice is useful for living a happier, healthier life.   In today's episode I talk about the importance of focusing on the small things when building a gratitude practice, as well as the easiest way I've found to get started or to re-establish a gratitude practice.

When we have a finite amount of time in which to accomplish a task, we focus on the most important and most efficient ways to do things. This is the case with our workouts as well as our productivity. In today's episode I talk about how to get a great workout in a short amount of time.

It's common for beginners to start getting bored with the fundamental exercises that will form the basis of their program for many, many years.  A common mistake is to relieve that boredom by introducing seemingly random and impulsive variety to the workout. In today's episode, I talk about how to add variety the right way, and discuss the value of working on those fundamentals with a stoic resolve. Get more coaching and support by becoming a patron on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/starbuckfitness