I was infuriated today reading this article. Tara Parker-Pope, a health writer who is 60lbs overweight, produced a diatribe supporting her belief that losing fat is basically hopeless and impossible. I have no answers for Ms. Hope, but I do have questions for her and others wondering if it’s possible to lose body fat. Have you
The Internet is both a treasure trove of information, and a confusing hornet’s nest of contradictory and downright bad information. While you could spend years trying to untangle the mess, I think I’ve done a pretty good job of culling to find some of the best. The following sites are great starting points for you
This time of year people are thinking about how they’re going to completely turn their life around as soon as the calendar flips over to January. Besides joining a gym, many people embark on a nutritional challenge. For a set amount of time, usually 21-30 days, people will strictly adhere to a strict set of
I won’t lie to you, it happens. Someone comes into the gym with a big hairy audacious goal. They want to lose 50lbs and completely transform the way they look (and feel). Naturally, since I’m very good at helping people achieve big hairy audacious goals so we map out the training and we talk about
I had to choose the title of this post carefully. If I had called it The Problem with Obesity in America I would have had to delete it myself. Obesity is too big of a problem for a blog post, a book, or a lifetime of PhD research. It’s an enormous problem, and multi-faceted to
We like numbers. Specifically, we like numbers that help us measure and quantify our training progress. An oft-paraphrased Peter Druck maxim that we live by is, “If you can‘t measure it, you can‘t manage it.” Something that a lot of people won’t know about The Movement Minneapolis is that we have a custom, proprietary tracking system that we use to
