Synopsis
Achieve your health and fitness goals by learning how to customize your workout plan to fit your needs. Chris also talks about how the pursuit of health fits into the bigger picture of your whole life.
Episodes
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CB 175: Take Your Treadmill To Work
30/03/2015 Duration: 06minI'm not a big fan of treadmills, and I talk a little about why here. But I do like this new trend of the treadmill desk. If it's a choice between sitting or treadmill, take the treadmill.
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CB 174: Balance Your Body and Mind
29/03/2015 Duration: 07minSometimes we can get too "heady" and lose touch with our body. But we also don't want to be too much in our bodies and not our head. Here's a quick strategy to create some balance between the two.
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CB 173: Stay Safe When Doing Exercises
28/03/2015 Duration: 04minWhen you lose your form, you need to stop. This tip might save you from disaster. Bad form does two things: eliminates your results and puts you at risk for injury.
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CB 172: Fire Before You Aim
27/03/2015 Duration: 05minSometimes you have to fire before you aim, so you know how to adjust your perameters. In fitness, sometimes you have to try something before you know it works.
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CB 171: Do What Makes You Happy :)
26/03/2015 Duration: 06min"Let's be fit, let's be healthy, let's be happy." This is the reverse-order of importance when thinking about your life.
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CB 170: Living The Good Life
24/03/2015 Duration: 05minOnce you're able to move freely, you can truly be in touch with your body, and live the good life.
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CB 169: Much Too Young To Feel This Old
23/03/2015 Duration: 08minThe Garth Brooks song says it perfectly: "I'm much too young to feel this old." I remember thinking this way when I was young. In this episode I talk about how to change it to "I'm much too old to feel this young."
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CB 168: Your Mind Thinks In Positive Images
22/03/2015 Duration: 08minThe other day I heard a commercial that said "fight flab," and I instantly thought, "don't fight flab, just get rid of it."
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CB 167: Stop Smiling?!?
21/03/2015 Duration: 05minI heard someone say that you shouldn't smile so that you can prevent wrinkles. Really?!? That's saying that the outside is more important than being happy. Smile, laugh, be happy.
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CB 166: Enjoy The Journey Of Self-Discovery
20/03/2015 Duration: 07minYour goal is not the goal, the process of getting to your goal is the goal. Make sense? Seriously, you're going to spend most of your time on the path, look around and enjoy yourself!
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CB 165: The Right Way To Warm-Up
19/03/2015 Duration: 07minWhich way do you use to warm-up? Are you maximizing your warm-up, or are you wasting time?
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CB 164: The Exercise Isn't The Problem... YOU ARE!
18/03/2015 Duration: 07minSome exercises get a bad rap: "xyz hurt my back." But in reality it's not the exercise, it's the fact that your body wasn't ready for it.
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CB 165: The Right Way To Warm-Up
17/03/2015 Duration: 05minWhich way do you use to warm-up? Are you maximizing your warm-up, or are you wasting time?
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CB 162: Give It Time
16/03/2015 Duration: 05minFirst you need to get information, then you need to apply that information. Finally, you need to give it time. Your goals will come to you when you consistently apply what you learn over a period of time.
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CB 161: If You Can't Isolate, You Can't Integrate
15/03/2015 Duration: 08minWant to do Squats? Bench Press? Push-Ups? These are all compound exercises, and before you try doing them you should be proficient in isolation movements.
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CB 160: Gotta Move That Foot!
14/03/2015 Duration: 10minImagine it's you wore mittens all day everyday, what do you think your hands would move like? Now think of your poor feet, who are not only stuck in your shoes, but they have to support your body weight every day.
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CB 159: Workout In Nature
13/03/2015 Duration: 04minCar tires smell. Tires are made of rubber. Rubber is also used as the floor in most gyms. It's like exercising in a TIRE FACTORY!!! It's no secret that it's healthy to be in nature. So should you workout in nature instead?
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CB 158: How To Reach Your Goals... The Big Picture
11/03/2015 Duration: 18minMy Core Balance is a workout system that can help you get to your goals. In this episode I break down the whole system and show how you can apply it no matter what your goal is.
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MCB 157: Do The Best With What You Have
09/03/2015 Duration: 08minI'm back!!! After missing several days due to illness, I'm back on the mic. In this episode I talk about my fun recovery in the Buddha Land.
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MCB 156: Too Much Protein?
04/03/2015 Duration: 08minSeveral months ago I began eating more protein in my diet. Soon after, I began smelling like amonia. This scared me! I did more research, and found that I was way overdoing it.