Thanks for the reader-submitted question: what exercise produces the most weight loss? The exercise that helps you lose weight best is the exercise you actually do. I could say, wow, free-roping up the side of a cliff is a very fine exercise, but likely you and I do not have access to that, for many [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Exercise’
31 May
How to restart weight loss after a relapse
It eventually happens. Some of that precious lost weight is going to return, and you’re going to have to repeat those pounds of weight loss before you make further progress. It’s ok. Re-losing those pounds IS progress because it helps you reflect on what happened and make sure you only fall over that same way, [...]
18 May
The principle of the beater bike
I’m really a fan of the principle I call the Beater Bike Rule. Basically, I have a nice bike that only goes riding in places where it’s going to stay nice, and also a $25 yard sale special that’s intentionally a rain bike. When I ride it, I stop at the manual car wash [...]
2 May
Grace and Compliance
Here’s a little dilemma. People typically follow a plan much more faithfully if the plan is not full of grace and forgiveness, but people like to live under a grace perspective more than they like to live under a law perspective, and it’s the only long-term approach we can ever hope to comply with. As [...]
21 Apr
Action Friday
At the suggestion of a very perceptive physician friend we’re going to implement somthing a little out of the ordinary for a blog. Here it comes, wait for it: Action Friday. Every Friday we’re going to kick it into the weekend with an action step for you. Something to not just read, but to do. [...]
19 Apr
Motivate yourself
Ever know exactly what you need to do, but just don’t feel like doing it? Here’s what that means. You have a theoretical need but you don’t have enough want, to make it worth the effort to move on it. I love encouragement. I love being cheered for, prayed for, and supported. But [...]
11 Apr
My knees!
Not sure if it’s the spring weather or what, but here’s a question that’s come up to me twice this week already. You’ve been doing your exercising, your knees are crazy painful, and you’re going to have to do something. What? First let’s discover the source of the pain if it’s undiagnosed. Go see [...]
