Category: Periodize Your Schedule

Trying to Better All the Time. Meet Burnout!
Oct 12

When Better Is Not Better and Really Burnout

I just posted a reply to my friend and Performance Lifestyle Adviser Shawn Phillips recent post When Getting Better Isn’t: The Endless Improvement Trap. Here's what I had to say. Shawn, Great post, what you are talking about is the probably the biggest most overlooked aspect of personal performance and lifestyle (and training for ...

Oct 11

Time Vs Energy

We all strive to be successful in life; however, sometimes our lifestyles hold us back from fulfilling our dreams and pursuing our goals. This guest post by John Allen Mollenhauer proposes several key points as to how we can all take the initiative to change our story and move forward, leading healthier and happier lives. ...

3 Steps to Increase and Manage Your Energy
Aug 21

3 Steps to Increase and Manage Your Energy

A few days ago, I did an interview with Shawn Phillips on The One Thing Fitness, Health and Lifestyle Wisdom Show. Shawn and I have been leaders in the emerging field of lifestyle performance and I love doing events with him. In this this insightful 5 minute interview, Shawn asked about the one thing people can do ...

Aug 10

Recovery – The Ultimate Attribute of a Performance Lifestyle

A performance lifestyle has many attributes but none is more important than recovery, or most accurately stated regeneration. There is no force more fundamental to your sustainability and longevity than regeneration, which quite simply means your body will repair itself and recast itself and regain it's strength when you recover or regenerate vital energy, feed ...

Jessic Rucker Teaching Kettle Bells
Aug 8

Day 2 at the MBG Intensive. It happened.

When I first got an invite from Jon Hinds of the Monkey Bar Gym and Jessica Rucker his lead trainer to come to the current MBG (Certified Natural Trainer) Intensive back in June, it wasn't even a question that I wanted to be there. After just meeting up with Jon at couple local events in NJ ...

How Do You Know You Are in Personal Energy Debt – DET
Jul 25

How Do You Know You Are in Personal Energy Debt – DET

By John Allen Mollenhauer and Catherine Pastille PhD You can’t see it. It’s difficult to describe. It’s rather like being stuck in one spot. It’s a feeling of discomfort or lack of well-being. There’s a sensation of exhaustion or inadequate energy to accomplish usual activities. It’s the hidden variable that’s holding you back. It’s called Personal Energy ...

JAM and Rosie in San Diego - Biking at Dr Fuhrman's Health Getaway
Jul 11

The Ultimate Secret to Peak Performance

JAM here, I am here in San Diego taking a quarterly vacation, that is "much needed" to say the least. On day one, it felt like I was withdrawing from crystal meth, as I started to pay back my accumulated energy debt from prior months and the past couple weeks. Paying back energy debt ...