Our philosophy towards physical activity is pretty simple: Perform and Play

Perform:

If you perform better, you will feel better and look different because your body will have to make the physiological changes to improve performance, from a cellular level to what you see in the mirror.  With a focus on performance, you necessarily see results. Period.

Play:

Engaging in activities that stimulate and excite you is just way better and more enjoyable than activities and exercises that are boring and not challenging.  We can agree on that, right?  Well, we want to give you an experience that you look forward to enjoy, every time.

The Perform and Play philosophy has a place in all of our personal training and coaching sessions because they build the best possible foundation and plan for sustainable long term success.  Results and engagement/enjoyment are simply the best predictors of how well you’ll stick with a program and healthy habits.

In an ideal world, you’d have a nice mixture of both Performance and Play in your activities.  Sports, for me, have always been a nice blend of performance and play: I love playing basketball and ultimate frisbee because there’s competition and play, and it also includes skill that I can get better at with practice.  Plus they have great health benefits.

But I don’t always play sports because it’s hard to schedule and make them happen with friends and my schedule, and you may find the same thing. So focusing on Performance when you can’t play - working out to develop certain performance markers for your health - is a great option that will yield good results.  Just work on getting better at a skill that has impact on your health and fitness goals, whether it’s a type of cardio or specific sets of exercises for strength or posture. Just make the workout engaging and at least a little playful so that you leave feeling better.

On some days, depending on how you’re feeling, you may need to just start Playing and not think about performance, just be active in a way that you enjoy.  Not everything has to be about improving performance.

So, how do you Perform and Play?  If you don’t, how can you?

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