Raise the Bar - Practitioners

Injuries and Obstacles

Everyone faces hardship and when stress and life take priority over health, we can get stuck in a vicious cycle. Health is the single most important priority that should be placed above all because without health, the hardships in life become even more difficult. Alix outlines how focusing on health will increase resilience against life's challenges.

Work Stress Out

Recent studies find that exercise improves mental wellness. With a large segment of the US population facing mental health issues, this may offer a tool to help people deal with stress and improve mental wellbeing.  In this episode Alix presents the data and offers five tips to help make exercise a habit and a priority. When stressful life experiences limit time or money, often exercise gets pushed to the side, but the research is showing that these are times when we should stay committed to working out. Listen in and share the episode with someone you think may benefit from hearing this!

Raise the Bar - Practitioners

The last episode was for beginners, this one is for those who have some experience and success in working out, I call you practitioners. You might hit a plateau or get stuck in a routine just maintaining, but you'll never go wrong raising the bar and enhancing your strength, skill and endurance. Learn about strategic and tactical guidelines to help practitioners raise the bar!

Raising the Bar - Beginners

Have you wondered why you aren't achieving the kind of results you want to achieve? Do you keep trying different things to get on track with your exercise routine, but nothing seems to work, or nothing is working as well as you hope? Alix goes over some strategic and tactical tips for working toward your goals. Starting and maintaining workout habits can be tough. But if you have a general sense of some guiding principles, and key focus points for training, you can figure the rest out as you go. You won't know everything about working out and exercising, but focusing on a few key aspects that most experienced lifters know will help you be more consistent and effective.

Who Are You

When making changes in lifestyle habits, it's important to understand how your internal dialogue and habits affect your ability to make the changes you want. In this episode Alix talks about self perception, internal dialogue, neural pathways, and what it takes to create new habits.