All posts tagged: Fitness

A male athlete reaches upward during a fitness competition inside a stadium, with judges and other competitors visible in the background.

He Was Done — I Still Had to Tell Him It Wasn’t Enough

Published by Trotzendorff

His legs were shak­ing before he even went down into the next squat. He stood in front of me at the wall ball sta­tion with that look peo­ple get when they are no longer real­ly decid­ing any­thing. They are just try­ing to keep the body mov­ing for one more rep, then one more, then some­how anoth­er. He picked up the ball, dropped down, came back up, threw, caught it. I watched the move­ment and called it straight away: no rep. Not because he missed the tar­get. Because he had not gone low enough.

The Power of Physical Activity: Performance and Health in the Workplace

Published by Trotzendorff

Wel­come to one of your typ­i­cal work­days, filled with dead­lines, meet­ings, and count­less emails. Amidst the dai­ly grind, it’s easy to for­get about tak­ing care of our phys­i­cal well-being. But what if engag­ing in reg­u­lar phys­i­cal activ­i­ty could not only improve our health but also make us more effec­tive and cre­ative in our jobs? A recent study pub­lished in Per­son­nel Psy­chol­o­gy sug­gests that incor­po­rat­ing phys­i­cal activ­i­ty into our dai­ly rou­tines might be chang­ing our views on job per­for­mance and over­all health.