I don’t know where you live, but here in Columbus, where the Mudlife Crisis family lives, it’s cold and snowy. My wife, who’s originally from Texas, has accustomed herself to the cold to a point where she’s just happy to see temperatures in the positive column. So that’s saying something.…
Jack Lalanne, the amazing health pioneer of the 50s through the 80s (and beyond, naturally, as his legacy is ongoing), was famous for saying (about aging) “The reason that you can’t do what you used to do, is because you stopped doing it.” He was referring to the myth that…
I used to be a youth soccer coach. You hear the stories about parents who can’t leave their kids alone to have fun playing sports, but until you see a kid being berated by parents, or a volunteer referee being harassed from the sidelines by over-gregarious parents, they’re just stories.…
You’ve probably heard the saying “variety is the spice of life.” The creator of that saying knew what he was talking about, without a doubt. I’m in the middle of a great book right now: Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement by Katy Bowman, M.S. (as I mentioned…
I just (literally, about an hour and a half ago) finished reading the book Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization by John Ratey and Richard Manning. This book was a fantastic look at the challenges of the ease of modern life, and how it causes…
I (nearly futilely) wiped the mud from my face and grabbed the rope. Making sure to keep as close to a ninety-degree angle as possible between my body and the wall of the mud pit, I pulled myself up out of the pit and onto the slippery side of the…
