High-Energy Emotions When talking about high-energy emotions such as anxiety and excitement, there is a specific state that is experienced in your body. We can thank the activation of your sympathetic nervous system for this. That’s the system that turns all the right things on for us to be alert and take action. What these… Read more: Anxiety vs. Excitement – Why Your Body Doesn’t Know the Difference

What is Sleep? “Sleep is not just simply the absence of wakefulness” – Matthew Walker. It is a deliberate, highly metabolically active state of the brain and body which is made up of distinct stages. These stages are broadly differentiated by one core feature, the movement of the eyes. Thus, sleep is majorly broken into… Read more: The Architecture of Sleep & Why Sleep is Critical for Mental Health

In this post, I will cover 3 ways to exercise in a week for overall health. Getting older doesn’t have to be as grim as some make it sound. There are specific forms of movement you can do to ensure you maintain overall health and wellness. Take action for the long run, so you can… Read more: 3 Ways to Move in a Week for Overall Health

CONCEPT: Want a quick test that will provide you with a real-time gauge of your fitness, recovery and stress tolerance? In this post, we will discuss how carbon dioxide (CO2) is vitally important to breathing. We will explain how to perform a simple, equipment-free, non-invasive test you can perform anywhere to determine your CO2 tolerance… Read more: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Tolerance: A Simple at Home Test

CONCEPT: The First Law of Thermodynamics is a fundamental principle that governs changing your body weight. Since energy can only be converted to another form, the balance of energy entering and leaving the body must change. Thus, losing or gaining weight can be simplified into an equation based on calories in versus calories out. What… Read more: How to Lose or Gain Weight: Calories In vs. Calories Out

Going Through Winter For the most part, the COVID era has well and truly passed. How lucky we are to all see the other side of it. Now, if you’re hoping for a heated opinion piece I would leave now, this truly isn’t where this is going. I’m here to talk about strong, resilient people.… Read more: Strong and Weak People Are Seasonal

CONCEPT: Sleep is a foundational component of health that allows numerous brain and body functions to be restored. With deliberate intention, we can utilize specific behaviours to optimize sleep in order better our health and quality of life. Sleep is a non-negotiable aspect of life. Without it, the human body cannot continue to function and… Read more: How to Sleep Better: 7 Behavioural and Lifestyle Tools

CONCEPT: Regular exercise is critical for health at all ages in order to maximize healthspan. Cardiorespiratory fitness, measured by VO2max, is one of the strongest predictors of all-cause mortality. By increasing VO2max through regular endurance exercise we can reduce the risk of chronic diseases and maintain physical function, thus extending both healthspan and lifespan. I… Read more: VO2max: Why You Need To Exercise

Have you ever felt your heart racing, or felt a knot in your stomach when you’re nervous or stressed? This is your body responding to the situation through your autonomic nervous system, the part of your nervous system that regulates things like heart rate, breathing, blood distribution, digestion, sweating, and pupil size. But did you… Read more: The most underrated skill: AWARENESS

Wondering what supplements can help boost your explosive power, strength, endurance, and recovery (within anti-doping laws, for our competitive athletes)? This list serves as a guideline for people looking to fuel, recover and perform better with the help of supplements. I will link the brands I tend to use below as they are all batch-tested… Read more: A Quick Guide to the Best Supplements for Athletes

So, here I am writing a blog post on a topic that gives me more frustration and more joy than most things on this earth. My Journey with identity starts just like everyone else’s, at a young age (maybe even when you’re born, you just don’t know about it yet) when you find out your… Read more: Identity: The truth about making a lasting shift

Breathing is the first thing we do when we enter this world and one of the last things we do when we leave. However, many of us don’t consider its true importance. The breath can be POWERFUL when used correctly, or it can be DIMINISHING when used incorrectly. The vast majority of modern society does… Read more: My Journey: Discovering the Power of the Breath