Sam Trotta
Exercise // Thinker: What Do You Charge?
Too often, this is simply the wrong question. People will almost always ask it when joining a gym or in entering a relationship with an...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: How Hard Should I Exercise?
Why are you asking this question? You might want to ensure that your exercise is as effective as it can be. Maybe it's a safety concern....
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Sam Trotta
Dec 11, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Rest Up
"Rest up" has always been an interesting phrase to me. I didn't get it at first, especially when it came to exercise. "Take time to...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 10, 20224 min read
A simple guide for seniors - get started with exercise and improve recovery after surgery
Going through surgery is tough on the body and the mind. Depending on the affected area, your medical professional and advisors may...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: New You (Part 2 of 2, Please Read Carefully)
Instead of you waiting until January 2nd (or 3rd, 4th, 7th, 17th . . . ) and me pontificating about how you'll quit your New Year's...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 9, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: A Well-Done Contribution
When it comes to good news versus bad news, bad news is always is always first for me. Here's the bad news: done badly, exercise is bad....
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Sam Trotta
Dec 8, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: New You (Part 1 of 2)
When fitness people write or speak about exercise-related New Year's resolutions, the tendency is toxic. Points made from the muscle...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 7, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: What's The Best Way for Me to Lose Weight?
Approximately 88 out of every 100 people that walk into a gym claim that they want to lose weight. So they say, at least. When I sit down...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 6, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Defining Exercise
Currently, I define "exercise" in the following way: deliberate physical effort aimed intentionally at improving one or more physical...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 5, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Sets, Reps and Time
Sets, repetitions and time are a form of emotional comfort in exercise because they answer the question: "How much exercise should I do?"...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 4, 20222 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Don’t Wait for “Why”
Starting with "Why" is a great idea. If you're not familiar with the concept, it was coined and made popular by Simon Sinek and speaks to...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 3, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Exercise Failure
In exercise culture, the word failure has a particular meaning: keep going until you absolutely cannot do any more. Without specific...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 2, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: The Single Action for GUARANTEED Exercise Success
. . . . . . . Start now. It's that simple. One action to guarantee your movement forward in exercise. I'm sorry if the click-baity title...
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Sam Trotta
Dec 1, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Exercising in a Rush
There are at least two things important things to remember when you are short on time for your exercise. The first is dependent on the...
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Sam Trotta
Nov 30, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Being An Exerciser …
… is simply a matter of showing up and exercising. Showing up to the gym, your living room, a specialty studio - in some sense, it...
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Sam Trotta
Nov 29, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Solving Problems
Remember: "problem" is not necessarily bad. We just tend to see it that way. You might be exercising to solve the problem of improving...
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Sam Trotta
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: International Chest Day
It is a long-standing meme in exercise culture that Monday is "chest" (and maybe biceps? or was it triceps?) day in gyms all around the...
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Sam Trotta
Nov 27, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Workout --> "work out"
The combination of "work" and "out" to form our common term "workout" is no accident. What are you trying to work out when you exercise?...
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Sam Trotta
Nov 26, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Effort bias
(Exercise) Effort is a continuum; a spectrum of choices. We tend to believe that the value of exercise lies at one end of that continuum....
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Sam Trotta
Nov 25, 20221 min read
Exercise // Thinker: Goal Discovery ("discovery" replaces "setting")
"I want to lose weight," says 88 out of every 100 people that join a gym (but, really, any oft-stated exercise goal will do here)....
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