It’s a good time of year for you to be locking in some of your race season plans, because top race series such as Tough Mudder, Spartan Race, and BattleFrog are giving you some great Memorial Day discounts. Tough Mudder is offering $20.00 off of any USA-based race for the…
I wrote my last post on my personal recommendation for OCR shoes, and my favorite shoe is the Vibram FiveFingers Spyridon LS. And naturally, that has brought out a lot of questions like this: “But I read that they proved those minimalist shoes were bad for your feet! Why are…
One of the big discoveries that’s gotten a lot of play in the media over the past couple of years is the idea that sitting is awful for us. 슠So, many folks have been switching things up and creating standing desks. 슠I’m one of them – I switched to a…
Up to now I haven’t done a lot of talking about actually racing other than the article on how MovNat can prepare us for various obstacles in a race. That ends today. I got a regularly scheduled promotional email from one of my favorite shoe companies, VivoBarefoot, last Friday, and…
The first time you tell someone that you’re training for an obstacle course race, you generally get one of two attitudes about it: 슠those who think it’s awesome or even just impressive, and those who don’t get슠the attraction. 슠And that’s fine. 슠Not everyone is into OCR. But there’s an extreme…
Last week, my friend Sandy Shepard and I put out a podcast for the BeingJamesBond.com website on MovNat, the exercise methodology that I love most and has done such wonderful things for me. But one of the comments I get most frequently on MovNat is that it’s too hard to…
As some of you probably know, I am standing in for my friend “Head of Section” on the Being James Bond podcast while he’s on a secret mission. 슠I took the opportunity to use it as a way to share the wonders of MovNat for this week’s episode and I…
Back before World War I, a French navy officer named Georges H쎩bert was present at the eruption of Mount Pel쎩e on the island of Martinique. There, he witnessed the disaster and what he considered too much needless death due to the accident. And it had nothing to do with early-warning…
I’m now on day 9 of my 21-Day Sugar Detox and things are continuing to go well. 슠I’ve completed two goals thus far – first, just to complete this challenge and get rid of the sugar cravings that were affecting me; and second, to increase the amount of vegetables I’ve…
