… but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop moving! The winter months are a place where lots of natural training mavens can slack off a bit. It’s harder to get out and do what needs to be done, and especially given the weather we’re currently having here in Ohio…
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…
A few months ago, I switched from my normal sitting desk in my cube to a standing desk. Basically, I accomplished this by pulling one of the overhead cabinets in the cube off and setting it on the desk, and putting my monitors, keyboard, and mouse on top of it.…
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…
Kids are fantastic. They’re full of energy, joy, excitement, and adventure. Unfortunately, what frequently happens is that we as parents are too tired or out of shape to join them on their quests for fun and learning. And that rubs off on the kids. Or we want our kids to…
A fitness expert named Earle Liederman was famous for many things in his day, but he’s become particularly well-known for his list of “five things that every man should be able to do to save his own life.” It’s a list that has always resonated with me and is a…
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…
