I got a question from a reader named Rick this week: If this sounds familiar, you’re definitely not alone. When people join Nerd Fitness Coaching, over 70% tell us they struggle with stress eating, emotional eating, or nighttime snacking. I recorded a short video explaining why simply “trying to stop snacking” usually backfires – and…

I got a message from a reader, Sabrina, this week – and she pointed out a pattern I think a lot of us know well. “I allow myself to say sliding into bad habits is alright. After all, I’ve had a bad day. Well, my bad days have a tendency to become hard weeks and…

Ever wonder how to adjust your training when you’re sick? Or what to do if you haven’t worked out in a few weeks and are ready to get back into it? How about after you’ve just had a terrible night of sleep? These situations come up all the time in our coaching program, so today,…

One of the most popular workouts we’ve ever published at Nerd Fitness is our Beginner Bodyweight Workout. (Even though Steve filmed ​the original video​ with his shorts inside out and backwards. True story!) But after a few weeks or months, you may wonder: “Cool, this works. But what should I do next? Do I just…

[This is the part 2 in our Nerd Fitness Challenge series – designed to help you build fitness habits that last. You can read part 1 here. In the last step​, you identified the things that usually get in the way when you try to stay consistent. Now we’re going to use that information to…

So far in the Challenge, you’ve: Identified what usually trips you up Picked a starting plan Now we make sure that plan survives real life. In the video below, I walk you through building your Dial Mode – a simple backup plan for the days when time, energy, or motivation are low. We want to…

You go to bed fully intending to exercise tomorrow. Then the morning hits, and suddenly everything else feels more important. This exact pattern came up in a recent coaching session I recorded with a Nerd Fitness reader named Charlie. Below are three coaching takeaways from that conversation you can use today to avoid the comparison…

Depending on how the start of the year has gone, you might be feeling one of two things right now. Either: “Hey, this is actually going pretty well.” Or: “I thought I’d have more momentum than this.” Both are completely normal. And both are exactly why this step matters. The fourth and final step: Zooming…

Last week did not go according to plan. My wife ended up in the hospital and needed her gallbladder removed. (She’s okay now ❤️.) I wrote last week’s newsletter from a hospital room, using…let’s call it optimistic Wi-Fi. When the email went out this week, I opened it up and immediately noticed the bottom of…

If you find yourself getting excited to tackle a big fitness goal, but then burning out a few weeks in, you don’t need a better goal. You need to choose better problems. Let me explain. Take a marathon, for example. Wanting to complete a marathon sounds pretty cool. But that’s the shiny object at the…