A favorite topic of discussion at my previous job was the topic of “all things awesome.” It always made for spirited debate in that neverending discussion throughout human history of what is awesome and what is just simply completely NOT awesome. It could almost stand to be its own branch of philosophical study: awesomeology. What [...]
Posts Tagged training
Are You Awesome?
Jun 24
Your Open Invitation
Jun 22
One of the more recent trends in the fitness industry is the “boot camp” concept which is group fitness combining conditioning exercises, weights, intervals and so on. The popularity of the classes likely stems from the fact that they are fairly time-efficient, cost less than a standard personal training session and people often find more [...]
Embrace the Team
May 2
Throughout my life, I’ve been on a wide variety of teams. As a kid, they pretty much involved sports of one kind or another, from a formal Little League team to whatever teams we would cobble together to play pick-up football, baseball, Wiffleball, street hockey, basketball or the always classic “war” (which involves 10 year [...]
If there’s one area that I tend to cause puzzlement in my friends, family and co-workers, it’s the way I approach my training, exercise and diet regime. It’s not that they are necessarily amazed at my being into health and fitness (since lots of people are), it’s really the specifics of my philosophy and approach [...]
So in my gym tour, you can see I picked up a 10 lbs. sledgehammer and a big ol’ truck tire. That right there is about $20-$30 worth of really good conditioning tools, as odd as that may sound. Just a little video to demonstrate: And truth be told? It’s actually pretty fun and a [...]
All About the Fundamentals
Jan 26
The company for which I work frames several of its most important core values in its Code of Ethics. It’s something I genuinely appreciate about where I work because it’s something that’s taken seriously and in my current job, it’s my role to support those values and ensure they are not compromised. As part of [...]
Do you see it?
Jan 8
When you look at this photo… what do you see? A basement filled with strength training equipment? Money that could have been better spent on something else? Someone’s shrine to an obsession? This is my home gym and to me, it’s an almost sacred place. Seriously. For me, weight training has always been a tremendous [...]
The value of crazy
Jan 1
I firmly believe in the value and power of crazy. Maybe not so much in the wearing hair shirts in public while declaring Fred Savage to be the antichrist kind of bat guano crazy… but more the kind of crazy that causes people to stop and stare a little bit while walking away shaking their heads. The value really lies in the idea of doing something others either do not want to do or will not do because it looks hard or might be a little embarrassing.
