Most folks like things to be easy. Right? I mean, who wants to make their lives more difficult? We all have plenty of problems in our lives, and adding another problem on top of them is just nuts. Well, that’s the wrong attitude, and I’m going to show you why.…
I want to share with you today a little something that I’ve been struggling with this OCR season, the problem of flagging motivation, and a very simple way to overcome this problem. That way is to do your workouts with other people. “WHOA!” I hear some of you saying. “I can’t…
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…
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 Tough Mudder race has been releasing its newest bunch of obstacles via video recently, and there are some doozies coming for us this year! They started the hype in early January with this video: and pumped up the volume a bit with this: And now, videos for all the new…
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…
