Movement category – don’t think of it as exercise, think of every movement your body does all day long, as well as night!
As I mentioned in last Monday’s post, I completed the Mud Ninja race a couple weeks ago and had a blast. But, that doesn’t mean that everything was hunky dory. As I also mentioned, I wasn’t in great shape for it and though I finished, it was a tough one. …
Two weekends ago, I completed my latest Mud Ninja race. And though it wasn’t my most successful race as far as obstacle completion and time go, it was a complete success from a level that I didn’t even consider at the time, but was a lesson I realized a few days…
I’ve mentioned before that I think one of the greatest reasons to take on obstacle course racing is the effect it will have on your kids. I absolutely believe that, and I’m hardly the only one. Check out the video below and pay close attention to the comments starting at…
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. So, many folks have been switching things up and creating standing desks. I’m one of them – I switched to a…
The first time you tell someone that you’re training for an obstacle course race, you generally get one of two attitudes about it: those who think it’s awesome or even just impressive, and those who don’t get the attraction. And that’s fine. Not 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. I 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 Hébert was present at the eruption of Mount Pelée 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…
