October is just flying by and there is a lot of stuff brewing in my world. I have done several interviews on other people’s podcasts (more on that in the coming weeks), Monica and I just ushered our latest cohort into the Weighless program, and I am scheming on some other very cool plans.
One of those cool plans being a break from the toxicity and manipulation of social media. But more on that at the end of this newsletter. For now – on with the digest!
If any of the following topics happen to tickle your fancy, click the underlined text to read or listen.
Podcasts:
Change Academy – How to Use Stress to Your Advantage
Our guest on this episode is Dr. Nicole Byers. A self-proclaimed neuroscience nerd, mom, and leadership/productivity coach, Dr. Byers helps busy professionals build confidence and get more done. I spoke with her about the best ways to use stress.
Change Academy – What to do When You Lapse
Everyone has lapses – small slips, moments, or even brief periods of time when you fall back into old habits and old patterns. In this episode, Monica and I give you some concrete steps to learn from your lapses and avoid self-sabotage.
Scientific American (ICYMI) – Going Barefoot and 8 Other Ways to Improve Balance
Balance is something we don’t think much about after we learn it (as a child) or start to lose it (as a senior), but balance is crucial to healthy living. Learn how you can build and maintain your balance now and into your later years.
Blogs:
Brock Armstrong Fitness – Does Curcumin Work on DOMS?
Recently, there were a few more studies that looked into how curcumin supplementation affects both exercise-induced muscle damage and post-exercise muscle soreness. And, not surprisingly, the results were mixed.
Videos:
If you happen to have access to a bench (or can find one in your neighbourhood) these seven movements can be combined into a great little workout.
The exercises in this video are:
- Step-ups
- Bench Push-ups
- Toe Taps
- Dips
- Box Jumps (down)
- Box Jumps (up)
- Knee-ins and Scissor kicks
There are more exercises that you can do on a bench, of course. But if you do these seven, you will pretty much have your bases covered.
Read more about this workout at BrockArmstrong.com
Social Media:
Last week, Facebook and Instagram went down for a few hours and it was mayhem on the net! But if I am honest with myself, I actually felt a sense of relief. Move over, I found myself hoping for this to be a permanent outage.
I honestly felt a sense of relaxation in the thought that I would never again have to go on Zuckerbeg’s evil machine. So, over the next while I am going to be experimenting with different ways to spread my message and using all of my social media channels as sparingly as possible. Don’t worry, I will continue to publish my Workout of the Week videos on YouTube.
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