Yet another crappy training franchise opened in Sacramento, with another bunch of passionless trainers teaching a handful of eager clients more of the same boring, diluted nothing that our commercial fitness industry is famous for. During a livid rant I was conceiving in my head, the realization of my true snobbery gave me a hearty […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL!!
Today’s workout:
Pullups/burpees/ninja chops/box jumps. One for each year Al’s been alive. She’s 39 years old today, so see how fast it takes you to hit 39 reps of each.
Ninja chops with a 35 pound club.
We’re counting the injured in our total for the Tiger vs. Human battle that happened at the San Francisco Zoo recently, and the total could be counted as 4 if we include the zoo keeper injured by said tiger a few months a ago, but Tatiana did managed to wipe one of us off the […]
Wanna be Santa? Can you handle his training regimen? Part of our workout today will come directly from a pirated copy of Santa’s training manual. Ya think he’s fat ’cause he’s jolly? He’s ‘fat’ because he needs the stored energy for that amount of work he has to do. By the time the season is […]
Why? Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy?
Why do folks still believe that lying on the ground flexing their spine is time well spent? I’ve posted the updated version of my most popular article (which, if googled, can be found pirated on several websites). It is now called ABS: The Inconvenient Truths. Here’s a sample:
Truth #3: Strengthening the ‘abs’ […]
As we are slaves to chronology, we usually take this time of year to start reflecting and planning. Today’s workout was a wonderful respite from that, keeping me in the Here and Now and centering my focus on my ability within that moment to push beyond perceived barriers. As my friend Cody Fielding will tell […]
Here’s a thought: Any excuse you can think of falls into one of two categories, Fear or Laziness.
Let’s play a little game and see which of the excuses from these lists below fit into which category (and keep an eye out for any that seem familiar to you):
The lack of resources list
I don’t have…
… […]
We, as ‘freethinking’ flesh packets trying to get by with the least amount of work possible, are quite capable of setting limits on ourselves with imagination and glee, just to avoid any real work or discomfort. So I’m perpetually inspired by the growing handful of folks who step out of this routine, who realize […]
Dave Tate put the germ of this idea in my noggin, which has since been washed around by the spam and lime jello between my ears into my ‘concept of perpetual learning,’ or, to borrow from my ‘guru terminology kit,’ the Principle of Continuing Education.’
(’Principle’…’principal?’ Get it? C’mon, only good things can come […]
The First Lifters
Let’s pretend. You’re you, maybe a tad younger (in my case, let’s make that a pretty big ‘tad’), and the calendar reads 200 years earlier. You want to increase the ability of your body. Basic wisdom seems to be that hard work will help you to your goals. It […]
