Timothy Stiroh

Just Do It.    Ever heard that tagline before?   If you have been an athlete at one point in your life, are currently an athlete, or just like sneakers, you have probably heard that famous Nike line before.    Now I’m not writing this to talk you into buying a new pair of Nike sneakers, but I do want to bring your attention to something I feel holds more power and meaning than you may have thought it could before.   Nike represents high performance, hard work, commitment, and consistency, and...

Over this past weekend, I attended the American College of Sports Medicine regional conference in Pennsylvania.   It was a weekend filled with hearing some of the top researchers in the field of exercise physiology talk about the most up to date findings in the world of health, fitness, nutrition, and human performance.   With over 12 hours’ worth of information that I sat through, it would take a week's worth of emails to share it all with you.   Instead, I am going to share with you the 3...

Throughout the week I had some conversations surrounding the topics of motivation and discipline.   Self help books and motivational speakers like to use these topics to help get people fired up and excited.   Motivation is very subjective to the individual.   There are financial motivators that people have.   Someone may be motivated to have enough wealth to travel multiple times a year, live in a certain house, or support create a certain type of lifestyle for their family.   Others may be...