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Myles Jeffers
- Sep 26, 2021
- 4 min
Ode to: Toyoshima and Sapporo Chuo Taikukan
This blog is an old one, but on my morning walk this morning there must have been a flavour in the air, or a sound that vibrated just right to bring my mind back to this moment from nearly five years ago. I often say that Kachalka, in Kyiv Ukraine, is my favourite gym in the world, and it is. However, to be clear, my favourite Lifting Temple is in Sapporo, Japan. Enjoy. The last 5 or 6 days were shit. I had the flu and had to travel from Osaka to Sapporo. Ugh, it was miserabl
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Myles Jeffers
- Jul 31, 2021
- 7 min
Surfing x Weightlifting x Mastery
Written in 2017. I put on my board-shorts, ripped a coffee, and walked towards the Indian Ocean with 50,000 Rupiah in my pocket, the keys to my hostel dorm room, and nothing else. As I strolled towards the ocean, it felt like I was going to meet a high-school crush. The search for the perfect wave is a new journey for me, but I feel like in some ways this search has been in my blood since before I even tried surfing seven years ago, and on some level has even shaped the path
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Myles Jeffers
- Nov 21, 2018
- 2 min
What I learned hunting...
Yesterday I did something for the first time. I went hunting. I sat in a blind for almost 9 hours in -20C (with windchill), and was lucky enough to see 1 squirrel, but zero deer. So, was it a wasted day? Was I still hunting even though I don't have a picture of myself with a dead deer for social media? Although I didn't get an animal, I had a lot of time to think, and I had fun reflecting on a lesson that can be learned from my "unsuccessful" hunting day in relation to fitnes
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Myles Jeffers
- Oct 26, 2018
- 5 min
Filtering...
Filtering.... There was a book sale at the local library a couple weeks back, and amidst the stacks an old book caught my attention. Not like really, old, but like mid 90’s old. The title of the book is When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough. A book about Perfectionism. Even though this book is almost as old as me, I think it is extremely relevant today, especially in regards to health, fitness, and appearance. But first, what the frig is perfectionism anyway? Perfectionism is a ter
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Myles Jeffers
- Mar 2, 2018
- 7 min
The Forgotten Key To Unlock Your Potential!
(^ working on my fitness, seriously) When people decide that they want to begin making changes in their life to improve their health and fitness, the first things people think about are often changing their nutritional habits, and of course hitting the gym, walking, or jogging. It is also common for already dedicated people who want even more fitness to think that the answer to gaining more strength/fitness is going to be an extra session a week, or longer workouts, or heavie
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Myles Jeffers
- Feb 12, 2018
- 6 min
Thoughts on: Constantly Varied x Learning x Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
An important part of the success of Crossfit is the idea of “constantly varied”. This concept works well with fitness because it provides a continual shock to the system for untrained individuals, it is exciting, playful, and keeps people coming back to find out what crazy workout they’ll be doing next. As a form of exercise this is a fantastic approach because the body is really going to be put through its paces and forced to adapt. People who stick with this model for years
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Myles Jeffers
- Jan 22, 2018
- 8 min
Triggers and Nutritional Rants
I’ll be honest. I have been triggered in every hostel that I cooked in over the past three months by people making critical comments about me eating healthy or even cooking for myself. Last nights’ comment was especially triggering and I am fighting a fever so I am a little hot-headed. So, today I am going to rant a little bit about nutrition. Eating Healthy Food Is A Privilege, Not Ambitious If you live in Usa, Canada, or Norway then you are blessed to have access to healthy
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Myles Jeffers
- Jan 20, 2018
- 7 min
The Three Body-types
For some of you this is going to be old news, but for some of you, this might bring a bit of an understanding as to what your "essence” is and your body-type. There are three body-types that are well known in the world of fitness, physique, and nutrition. They are ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph. In this blog post I will give you some information on each of these body-types, and what they mean in relation to your health and fitness. By and large your body-type is the resu
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Myles Jeffers
- Jan 8, 2018
- 11 min
My Journey Through Over-Training: The Early Years
Right off the bat I am going to be honest with you. This post is as much a cathartic exercise for myself, as it is meant to be informative. Bits and pieces of this have tried to creep into almost every blog post I sit down to write, so I need to dump it and move on. Take it or leave it. My experience with over-training is a large part of why I became a coach. Experiencing first hand what over-training does to a body has a great impact on the kind of coach I am today, and why
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Myles Jeffers
- Jan 4, 2018
- 3 min
Snapshot of Succes: Simen
Simen is a viking who trains at Crossfit Hunsfos in Vennesla, Norway. He started as a remote coaching client with the main goal of putting on some muscle, and getting strong enough to hit a 500kg total in the Deadlift + Back Squat + Bench Press. The bulk of his training history had been Crossfit and he'd been attending group classes for a few years. He found that it didn't take long before he could do most of the skills (muscle-up, handstand pushups, etc.) but wasn't getting
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Myles Jeffers
- Dec 31, 2017
- 9 min
Training Age & Appropriate Rep-Schemes
I learned this one the hard way. When I first got into lifting weights at the age of seventeen, I wanted to get strong and I wanted to get big. Sound familiar? So, this lead to me lifting 5 sets of 5 reps for about 5 years. It is what dudes in magazines did so it must work. I got kind of strong and kind of big, but also spent about three of those years lifting the same weights. It wasn’t until after I learned about strength training through my education with Opex Fitness that
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Myles Jeffers
- Dec 26, 2017
- 12 min
Elite Athlete ≠ Coach. F the 1%
How to pick a coach. What makes a good
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Myles Jeffers
- Dec 17, 2017
- 7 min
Pranayama Breathing Part 1- 5-10 Minutes to Improve Your Health
Now I am not going to dig into the question of what fitness is in this blog, but I will qualify this post by saying that my concept of fitness involves more than one's ability to perform physical tasks. With that in mind, I am interested in what things people do who are happy and live a long time. I am also interested in methods and techniques that have stuck around for a long time. One such practise is Pranayama. It is one of the eight limbs of yoga, and involves several dif
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Myles Jeffers
- Dec 13, 2017
- 8 min
Missing Training Due To Injury, Illness, or Vacation... How much progress do we really lose?
Introduction It is flu season, but hopefully it is over by the time you read this. Recently I had a couple of clients become quite sick, and had to miss training. They were both worried about losing progress, and one even had a competition coming up the next weekend. She was so worried she’d lose all her strength and get embarrassed at the competition. She even ignored me telling her to rest, and snuck to the gym to train one evening despite having a fever. I couldn’t really
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