In between listening to David Bowie songs today (he passed away last night, leaving a large hole in my musical life), I actually had time to listen to a couple of podcasts. One of those was Katy Bowman’s Nutritious Movement episode about movement in winter (here’s the transcript, and links to…
We live in a rather amazing age, where there are tools to measure just about anything you’d like to measure in your life. Calorie counters, heart rate monitors, and more line the shelves of sporting goods and health stores, and there are probably a million ways to use each of…
I think it’s safe to say that most people know (even if only in their guts or the backs of their minds) that positive habits are the key to any amount of success in life. Doing things that will take you from one point to another via small, repeatable, and…
Last night, in the UFC, Conor McGregor put away reigning Featherweight champion Jose Aldo in a whopping 13 seconds. Yeah, it wasn’t even funny. And there’s been a lot of talk, as a result, about the training regimen that McGregor has been undergoing at the hands of movement trainer Ido…
Let’s face it. Injuries just suck. Man, do I hate to have my plans interrupted because of injury… but who doesn’t? It’s frustrating, debilitating, throws off schedules and plans, and more. And of course, there’s the pain factor, too. That’s not a great thing at all. So… last Wednesday, I…
This is going to be a slightly different post today, sort of a journal of what I did and felt this weekend. Because a couple of things happened this weekend that were awesome and made me consider my training and lifestyle pretty seriously. And it involves the World’s Toughest Mudder…
A common thread that I find among lots of health-minded people is that they don’t like to take in any food that has toxins in it, but that they don’t consider other means that toxins might enter the body. And it makes sense. The skin is supposed to be this…
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I was looking at getting myself a pair of amber glasses for wearing at night, to avoid the incursion of blue light into my eyes and shutting off my melatonin production. Well, I found a pair. I figured that they’d be easy to…
This is going to be one of those posts where an overwhelming number of people are going to tell me that I need to just lighten up. Sorry, can’t do it. I’ve got a bit of a rant coming up and I think it’s overdue. People like to joke about…
