Mindfulness practices are activities that increase your awareness of your thoughts, feelings, senses and how they impact your actions. Many people give up on their fitness goals because of negative biases. Addressing these biases can drastically improve your performance in the gym, which can cultivate improvements in your overall life. In a similar way that writing something down helps you to remember it more effectively, pairing mindfulness practices with physical activity creates longer lasting adaptations that allows for a higher level of both learning and execution, resulting in deeper mind-body connection.

Functional Fitness is a training style that prepares you for all daily activities by emphasizing compound exercises and proper biomechanical movement patterns. Compared to other styles of resistance training, functional fitness focuses more heavily on proper posture, control, and synergistic movement. This approach to training enables you to build a solid foundation by developing both your body and understanding of proper movement patterns. As a result, your risk for injury decreases and your performance of any and all activities increases.

You can practice mindfulness anywhere and at anytime. Any intentional action that helps you to focus attention on your own Awareness, Perceptions or Perspectives is practicing mindfulness. Some popular techniques are focused attention or reflection, journaling, meditation, and stoic practices. These techniques can be done while at work, as a part of your morning routine or while watching your kids. Through consistent use of these techniques, actionable steps will become more obvious and easier to implement in the ways necessary to see lasting self-improvement.