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Boost your health with Vitamin D

You know how when you recently learned something, you start to see it everywhere? It’s called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (yes, I absolutely had to Google it). And it’s happening to me right now with Vitamin D. I started to go down the rabbit hole a few weeks ago. Now, it’s

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“It’s not your job to disappear”

So yesterday, I was posting the new podcast episode to our Facebook group. And an interesting ad caught my eye. It was for a clothing line designed for 40+ men called Y.Chroma. I’d never heard of them. I’m not a customer. And we don’t get paid to promote them. So,

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Time was never the problem. THIS is…

Last night, I watched the trailer for Arnold on Netflix – I’ve seen the entire series, but I was surfing around and stopped to check it out again. If you haven’t seen the series, it’s pretty darn fascinating. So, when it comes to time management and working out, Arnold Schwarzenegger has some

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The brain battle keeping you down

Alright, you know my feelings about Mondays…they are the perfect days to start something new. Today, let’s talk about the internal struggle in our brains when we set off on a new workout plan. “Learned Optimism” vs “Learned Helplessness.” Learned Optimism – feeling confident that we can complete a task or

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Momentum > Willpower

For the past 4 years, we have run a grueling 8-mile (not to be confused with Eminem) trail race about an hour north of St. Louis through a really, really hilly forest. That race is less than a month away. And how many times have I gone out and run?

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How to get 37 times better, 20-minutes at a time

Welcome to the Saturday edition of my favorite thing I do at 18STRONG. My cousin Gio is playing in the state quarter finals for soccer this afternoon, so I don’t have much time, which… …if I gave you the next 20 minutes to get better what would you do? Here

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