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Definitive Guide to Fitness Reps, Sets, Tempo, & Rest

Becoming an expert can be a serious time commitment and both physically and mentally draining. However, being Expert Enough means your smart enough to know that all you really need to understand are the most valuable or key concepts in a given area. Whether that be rapid language learning, nuances of the tango, or honing [...]

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Are You a True Expert in Your Field?

What is the color of the central square? This is a guest post by Maria of Fitness Reloaded. Look at the picture above. What if I told you that the center square in the top face (the brown square) has the exact same color of the center square in the face standing in the shadow (the [...]

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How Ari Meisel Beat Crohn’s Disease Through Experimentation

This is a guest post by Ari Meisel of Less Doing.  Back in 2007 I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, which is a horribly painful, supremely embarrassing and most importantly, incurable disease. At the time I was about 30 pounds heavier than I am now, incredibly weak, in pain pretty much every day and spending [...]

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Renaissance Fitness: The 3 Essential Bodyweight Exercises

This is a guest post by Vic Magary of VicMagary.com. When considering the vast array of choices for spending your time and energy on becoming an expert, there is one quality that is the bedrock of all other pursuits: your health. Everyone knows that regular exercise is important for health, but maintaining consistent fitness habits [...]

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4 Necessary Habits You Can Learn From Mountain Biking

This is a guest post by Bryan Weller of The Bryan Project. About a year and a half ago, a co-worker and friend introduced me to mountain biking. I’ve been hooked ever since. There is an exhilarating feeling whistling through nature on a well-tuned bike. Your blood gets pumping and your mind quickly focuses on [...]

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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting – How To Get Good At Wing Chun

This is a guest post by Kenton Sefcik. 17 years ago, as a teenager in my parents’ basement, I was watching late-night TV. A commercial came on in the wee hours of the morning showing an elderly white-haired gentleman walking along a bridge. He was approached from both sides and was attacked by ninjas. I [...]

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How to Bike a Century: 4 Steps to Survive 100 Miles

This is a guest post by Lindsay Hunt of Women Cycling Tips. Sometimes the fastest path to becoming an expert is to implement quickly and perfect as you go. That’s the approach I took when I signed up for my first century bike ride (100 miles) last spring. A cold and snowy winter in Boston [...]

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Facing Fear: How to Explore One of the World’s Largest Skycaves

This is a guest post by John Falchetto of Expat Life Coach. The first time I learned how to rappel down a 600 feet rope and climb back out was there, the Majlis Al Jinn (the meeting room of the spirits). My friend Steve had invited me for a weekend of adventure and although I [...]

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How to Become a Racquetball Playing Machine and Look Good Doing It

Learning to play racquetball can be one of the most intimidating things you will ever do. The sheer speed of the game, from the outside looking in, can leave even the most athletic person wondering if they are capable of stepping inside the court. Perhaps, the most challenging parts of learning racquetball are mental. Unlike [...]

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Pushing Your Body to Physical Limits: How to Train Like a Fitness Badass

This is a guest post by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. Recently in the space of six days, I completed two of the most fun and most challenging physical events of my life. The first was the Urbanathlon, a 9.75-mile race that included 7 obstacle courses along the way, including running up 389 stairs in [...]

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15 Probing Questions to Help You Bust Through Limiting Beliefs

You have great intentions, but you don’t follow through. You tell yourself you want change, but you’re too afraid to [...]

10 Uncommon Habits That Will Make You a Better Writer

If you’re the student that got highest marks in writing and composition in school, you learned to please a very [...]

3 Tips To Help You Create Great Looking Videos

Learning how to create great looking videos is a skill that will prove to be insanely useful during your life. Whether [...]

Adopt This Mindset On Your Road To Expertise

Golf is fantastic sport. You’re out in nature and socializing with friends and new acquaintances. You might even be using [...]

14 Tips For A Great Business Plan

Think of running a business like taking a trip. You have a great vision for where you want to take [...]

11 Steps to Decode the Creative Process

Imagine passing through a metro station in Washington DC at rush hour. Imagine watching a violinist with an open case [...]