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A Victory a Day: How Small Actions Cause Big Reactions!

11th October 2016 by Colin Murphy Leave a Comment

A Victory a Day: How Small Actions Cause Big Reactions!

Feeling good is highly underrated! We don’t bop around the place constantly thinking about how good we feel, but maybe we should. It only takes the winter months to deliver you a head pounding flu or super tender throat to get you to appreciate how well you felt the day before. Sometimes we get excited and actually inflict [Read more…]

Filed Under: Challenge, Choices, Goals, Ideas, Personality, Strength, Success, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Victory a Day, cold shower personalities, Compliments, conversation, Dance, decisions, discipline, discomfort, experiment, focus, Friends, Hugs, strength, Struggle, time

Beating the Dark Months when Hibernation sounds so Appealing!

4th October 2016 by Colin Murphy Leave a Comment

Beating the Dark Months when Hibernation sounds so Appealing!

This morning I could see my breath in my bedroom as I lay all wrapped up in four layers of blankets. The alarm went off, I happily switched on my bedside lamp, but the thought of stepping out of that warm and cozy bed had me mind wrestling myself for a few moments. Getting those blankets off me was like a bench press as they warmly squashed [Read more…]

Filed Under: Challenge, Choices, Exercise, Mindset, Nutrition, Success, Uncategorized, Workout Tagged With: Challenge, decisions, discipline, discomfort, focus, Food, Hibernation, momentum, morning, routine, Swimming, Winter

Just Stick with it! Avoiding the trap of instant results

26th September 2016 by Colin Murphy Leave a Comment

Just Stick with it! Avoiding the trap of instant results

We live in a “I want it now!” society where instant gratification is rampant. If we only think back to our own childhoods, such a lot has changed. I used to wake up on Saturday mornings to watch the one channel that had cartoons on it. My brother and I actually had to sit through cartoons we didn’t like because [Read more…]

Filed Under: Challenge, Choices, Exercise, Nutrition, Social Media, Success, Uncategorized, Workout Tagged With: decisions, discipline, distraction, Fitness Journey, focus, Instant, momentum, options, Pay the price, routine, scales, time

6 Exceptional Bodyweight Exercises for Serious Shape and Tone

19th September 2016 by Colin Murphy Leave a Comment

6 Exceptional Bodyweight Exercises for Serious Shape and Tone

Mastering yourself can be one of the hardest things to do. Doing the things you know you should do consistently is just so tough! Getting up early, working out and eating well are usually at the top of most people’s list. All three things make our body feel good so you’d wonder [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bodyweight, Challenge, CrossFfit, Exercise, Strength, Uncategorized, Workout Tagged With: bodyweight, Bodyweight Blast, circuit, core, discomfort, Fast workout, focus, lunge, muscle, Pain and Pleasure, Plank, Power Jump, Push-up, Recovery, sweat, Travel workout

The Psychology of Injury and the Importance of the Three Ps

12th September 2016 by Colin Murphy Leave a Comment

The Psychology of Injury and the Importance of the Three Ps

Ouch! That didn’t feel good. Immediately we sense that something isn’t quite right. For me, it started with a stiffness in my back. Nothing too unusual. I blamed the heavy deadlifts I had done the day before. It was the DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) kicking in [Read more…]

Filed Under: Challenge, Choices, Exercise, Health, Injury, Mindset, Strength, Uncategorized, Weight Training, Workout Tagged With: decisions, discipline, discomfort, Intensity, muscle, Patience, Pivot, Productivity, Properly Built, Recovery, Reps, routine, strength

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