• Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Do something active, every day

    Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Do something active, every day

    You don’t need to train every day, but I have found that doing something active every day helps to stay in a mindset that encourages better behaviours and patterns for both eating and the maintenance of exercise. Simple, gentle, recreational …

  • Finding Your Carb-Appropriate Diet

    Finding Your Carb-Appropriate Diet

    Cliff on the Nourish, Balance, Thrive Podcast In this podcast, I chatted to Chris Kelly of Nourish Balance Thrive about my journey through sport, health challenges (esp. Crohn’s Disease) into health practice, writing, and research. It was a great chat …

  • Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Focus on recovery

    Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Focus on recovery

    You can’t train all THE time, and while it’s true that sometimes you may not exercise enough, there are also times when you’ll be tempted to exercise too much. Recovery (sleep, rest, and active rest) are crucial for …

  • Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Keep a training journal

    Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Keep a training journal

    Without knowing where you have been, it’s difficult to know where you should be! It is imperative to increase the intensity, volume, frequency, or duration of your various exercise types over time, and so keeping a record of what you …

  • Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Challenge yourself!

    Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Challenge yourself!

    The body adapts easily to change, which is why we don’t continue to improve when we do the same thing day after day. We need to consistently challenge the body with new stimuli like increased weights, more reps, or more …

  • Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Do a little cardio

    Cliff’s 101 Tips for Health: Do a little cardio

    Cardiovascular, ‘cardio’ or Aerobic training done at a steady pace is a terrific addition to your training schedule. Even though resistance training and HIIT might give you a little more ‘bang’ for your training ‘buck’, cardio is still awesome…and it’s …