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I spent nearly five years researching mindset and health behavior change.
It’s been really cool to see the psychological side of fitness coaching become more popular and rival the importance of nutritional science, physiology, and how to program progressive overload.
But because of...
Hey! It’s coach Laney here!
With more people travelling again, I thought I’d come here and chat with you about snacking at the airport and on your vacation.
Don’t get me wrong, I love to indulge on vacation, but I also enjoy having healthy options to fuel my body for long...
Subtle citation flex coming at ya! You all know that I love sharing the science of healthy living with you, and today, I realized that while I share a lot of studies from other researchers, I rarely share my own.
In 2018 I conducted research which was published in the Journal of Sport and...
People’s opinions on weighing themselves are all over the place these days.
Some say you have to weigh yourself daily (you don’t). Others are saying to ditch the scale altogether (you don’t have to do that either).
We’re here to tell you that it is possible to...
6 Steps to Breaking Bad Habits
Do you have a health and fitness goal?
If yes - then you have a more important goal:
Form habitual behaviours that help you and ditch the bad habits that are holding you back — whether you want to believe it or not they 100% are standing in the way of reaching...
Casual research citation flex
Realized today that I share a lot of studies from other researchers… but never my own lol
This was a study I conducted in 2018 and was published in the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology in 2019
Without training in how to interpret statistics or read...
How to Use Restriction to Help You Achieve Your Goals
At KJO Coaching, we're all about flexibility, sustainability, education, and NOT restriction. But I also believe there’s a time and place for something that I call “momentary restriction.”
Momentary restriction is a...
When I, Coach Kasey, tell people I got a Ph.D. in mindset and health behavior change, it sounds made up.
The terms mindset and behavior change feel very abstract and floaty.
Science is the opposite. Science is concrete and logical.
But there’s a science to this floaty stuff, and...
You’ve decided that you want to make a lifestyle change. Yay! We’re excited for you!
Now, what does that lifestyle change look like?
Your approach might be too much, too soon
Did you say that you’ll eat veggies every day, drink enough water, and work out five times a week?...
If you’ve been following the KJO Coaching blog for a while, you know that we’re all about embracing a growth mindset.
Chances are, you’ve *heard* of a growth mindset before—but did you know there’s an actual science to it? I, Kasey,...
Please note: the word "binge" in this blog post is in reference to "overeating" and not clinical binge eating or binge eating disorder. Please see THIS POST for further clarification between the two.
You have a health and fitness goal that you’re trying to achieve, but you...
Do you want to be good at stress?
You might be thinking, “Be good at it?? Stress is bad!”
To be honest, that way of thinking is a shitty stress mindset, and that could very well be why stress sucks for you.
Sometimes in life, it feels like everything is uncontrollable, and many things...