Posts Tagged ‘exercise’
DISCIPLINE EQUALS FREEDOM
I want to focus this weeks blog on a quote from a guy I respect enormously, Jocko Willink. A little back story, I was introduced to Jocko Willink after listening to the Tim Ferriss show, I bought and read Jocko’s books, I was an immediate fan. More recently, I was listening to Tim Ferriss’ podcast…
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Creating Consistency for Continued Growth “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle I don’t think any of us would argue that consistency provides direction, accountability, structure, and predictability. Understanding this concept is not the hard part; the difficulty lies in execution. To get up everyday…
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“No Fancy Quotes or Hashtags Needed” The FitOps Foundation is focusing our mental health efforts in the month of May on the “WORK”. There are millions of blogs, articles, and other forms of media at our disposal that outline the supposed recipe for success and joy. All of these share similar messages around the importance…
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Are the values that define us creating a leader worth following? At the core of every human lies some set of values. In some cases, it takes a lifetime of experiences for one’s personal ethos to form. In the case of a veteran, it takes 10 weeks. A young man or woman steps off a…
Read MoreA Long, Long Running Story for Change
A few years back I was a young strength coach earning my stripes in the new world of Military strength and conditioning. I entered as an outsider into a military unit that had, for several years, bought into the teaching and practices of a well-known “extreme” fitness program. This program was so integrated into the…
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