The Canadian 2025 Report Card on Physical Activity for Adults, and how only 32% of us are hitting the recommended MINIMUM of 7500 steps per day for health and wellbeing. That's a scary stat eh? 68% of Canadian Adults are NOT meeting the MINIMUM daily movement for health.

As of this morning, my body has done 690 pushups (and counting), with next to NO effort or brain power

The change YOU need to make in this case, in order to get MORE movement in CONSISTENTLY during busy times (and non-busy times alike) is to do the following things, that come from your MINDSET....

We "should" be striving for something. Wait... Isn't "striving for something" another way of saying "making progress"? Isn't "making progress" still moving forward? ... I KNOW it is! And moving forward is creating positive change!

Mel Robbin's shared this quote; "You'll never feel ready because ready isn't a feeling - It's a decision." Clients and I have this conversation often when they're waiting until "next week" to "get back to their routine" or waiting until things "calm down" before they're ready to make a change. The "perfect" time to start/do something WILL NOT happen!! You will be MORE ready once you START vs when you're "waiting to be ready". This is common in health and wellness. Here's m

Ok, let's get right to this... Disclaimer: You don't "have" to do pushups. You don't "have" to do this number. Read on to see what 'Coach D' is going on about now 😂 The point of sharing this post is to REITERATE the absolute AWESOMENESS of "Tiny Habits" (as BJ Fogg calls them) or using the approach of Strength Coach, Dan John; "Little and often". It's also to share how it can make you FEEL and how it can move you from NOTHING to SOMETHING with little to no energy or thou

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