by Coach Mauricio | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog
I’m excited to share this lovely Dal recipe with you! But first, some context because I think the way I came about this could be insightful for you too. My food habits for the last few years have been oriented around fuel for health, for exercise, and time management....
by Coach Mauricio | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog
To this point, I’ve focused on stress-reduction exercises and concepts that are essentially an awareness and practice within your own body. That’s a great place to start and to keep coming back to. But it would be incomplete to imagine that the stress response you...
by Coach Sarah, FNP-BC, MSN | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog
Ok, so you’re trying to get more protein in, you keep hearing that breakfast is a good place to start, since most American style breakfasts are almost exclusively carbohydrate. One of your first search results when trying to google ‘how to eat more protein’ is those...
by Coach Mauricio | Mar 16, 2023 | Blog
So far in this series I’ve covered: -Part 1: humming exercises -Part 2: hot tub, sauna, cold water plunges -Part 3: fog horning (loud sounds), shaking it off -Part 4: playing and/or listening to music Do you notice anything these different types of therapeutic...
by Coach Mauricio | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog
In late 2020, we officially started Zen Strength & Conditioning. As you probably remember, that year was a pretty big shock to almost everyone. Change was in the air. For my personal experience, it was an initial increase in intensity of all aspects of my...
by Coach Mauricio | Feb 7, 2023 | Blog
In Part 1 & Part 2, we covered two different ways to reconnect with your body and settle your nervous system. If they worked for you, great. I highly recommend you lean into them as part of your daily and weekly routines. Thinking forward about my own...
by Coach Mauricio | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog
In Part 1 I talked about humming as a body-based activity to help settle your nervous system. If it worked for you, great. If not, try to stick with this process of exploring to find out what works for you. I want to go a different direction today, because in my...
by Coach Mauricio | Jan 25, 2023 | Blog
In the previous article It Starts With Mental Health, I finished with what may be a new and somewhat radical idea for you: the part of your brain that does the thinking, the prefrontal cortex, is only partially in control of the choices you make, like whether or not...
by Coach Mauricio | Jan 19, 2023 | Blog
Living in the SF Bay Area, I have had the pleasure of coaching a fairly diverse group of people over the years. Something that brings me a special kind of joy is when we can help people who may not think of themselves as athletic discover that with time and patience,...
by Coach Mauricio | Jan 13, 2023 | Blog
When I got my Prediabetes diagnosis in 2015 due to an elevated hemoglobin A1C test result, I was told not to worry about it at that time (it was borderline). But I understood what it meant (chronically elevated blood sugar), so I “knew” that in summary I needed to...
