Life Performance Blog: Veg Consumption & Your Health

Feb 12, 2021
3 min

Life Performance Blog: Veg Consumption & Your Health

To improve on your vegetable choices, first aim for variety in colours Then, to keep levelling up, below are a few more criteria to consider on creating your own continuum for eating "better" vegetables. What's your current decision-making criteria for choosing vegetables? Vegetables can be assessed based on: What's nutritionally better What's personally better, for your lifestyle and deep health What makes a vegetable nutritionally "better"? Nutritional quality Better veget

Life Performance Blog: Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Exercise

Chris Deavin

Feb 8, 2021
2 min

Exercise

Life Performance Blog: Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Exercise

This question might make you squirm, but I’m going to ask it anyway... How effective are your workouts? Do you regularly push yourself to the limit? Do you work to fatigue with every set? Do you have nothing left to give when it’s over? Or would you describe your workout more like a comfortable trot? Do you coast along, breaking a respectable sweat while doing the same old routine? Since you are spending a portion of your valuable time working out, I assume that you desire t

Life Performance Blog: Sleep=Being Leaner, Smarter

Chris Deavin

Jan 19, 2021
2 min

Lifestyle

Life Performance Blog: Sleep=Being Leaner, Smarter

For many people, sleep time is whatever time is leftover at the end of the day. Life is busy. Sleep can easily become the last priority. The reality is, especially within a busy life, taking ownership of prioritizing sleep is vital. We can't be healthy and happy without it. What's so great about sleep? Sleep restores everything in our bodies: Our immune, nervous, skeletal, hormonal, and muscular systems. Sleep helps regulate our metabolism, including blood sugar and insulin l

Life Performance Blog: How Your Gut Protects You From Illness

Chris Deavin

Jan 11, 2021
2 min

Nutrition

Life Performance Blog: How Your Gut Protects You From Illness

There is a direct link between our digestive system and overall body health, and as we know, the healthier we are, the better we can fit illness. With most people, there is a lack of understanding when it comes to digestive health. In addition to, handling stress, and exercising, a commitment to good health includes eating responsibly and choosing the right foods. An improper diet can ruin a good digestive system. But perhaps you are eating quality foods in the correct ratios

Life Performance Blog: The Power Of Goal Setting

Chris Deavin

Dec 18, 2020
3 min

Mindset

Life Performance Blog: The Power Of Goal Setting

You see things, and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were, and I say, “Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw Setting Goals has been proven many times to be a fundamental aspect of achieving success. Goal setting works on various levels; big goals which are often called Visions, things that need to be achieved to ensure that you move towards the Vision which we call Outcomes and the small things that you need to be doing now, which we call Actions. These are all goal

Life Performance Blog: What Behaviours Get The Best Results?

Chris Deavin

Dec 18, 2020
3 min

Mindset

Life Performance Blog: What Behaviours Get The Best Results?

Focus on the process, not the product. In this coaching article, we're going to look more at the process of change. Making change is a skill. A skill you can practice. And improve. And if you want to make big changes, you have to take small, consistent daily actions. In fact, your behaviours are the only things you can control. So, make those your goal. Behaviours vs. Outcomes The world is pretty uncontrollable. Life happens. • If you want to sell your house for a good pric

Life Performance Blog: 13 Reasons To Keep Exercising

Chris Deavin

Dec 18, 2020
2 min

Exercise

Life Performance Blog: 13 Reasons To Keep Exercising

Let's face it, some days you just don't feel like exercising. You get too busy, too stressed and quite simply too tired. Here is a list of 13 of the top reasons to exercise. Pull out this list and read it when you're having one of those days. 1. To Prevent Disease Exercise has been proven to reduce the risk of just about every single health problem known to man, from stroke to heart disease to cancer and osteoporosis. Exercise is also a great defence against type 2 diabetes,

Life Performance Blog: Do you Have A Reason For Being Healthy?

Chris Deavin

Dec 14, 2020
2 min

Lifestyle

Life Performance Blog: Do you Have A Reason For Being Healthy?

What do you value? Dig down for a second. • What's most important to you in life? Why? • What kind of person do you want to be? Why? Are you living those values? Chances are not as well as you'd like. When we don’t do what we believe or feel in our gut to be "right", we don't feel good. And our bodies show it. Knowing what's important to us and why gives us direction and purpose. If we live according to those values, life (and often, good health) "flows" almost effortlessly.

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