Category: Personal

  • Focus and 5×5

    When I was a kid visiting my grandma and grandpa’s house, the silence was palpable. It was an old farmhouse with not a lot of electronics and the only entertainment was a VHS player with some movies I found uninteresting. That kind of calm now is what so many of us need. Calm and focus.…

  • Feeling vital, a story about PVCs

    As soon as the walk light flashed orange and told me I had 16 seconds to cross, I sprinted. Well, sprint is relative–I had a 20 pound backpack on. But I hustled, and it was just a reaction. I was feeling good and ready for the physical challenge. I am feeling vital. A bunch of…

  • Focus (again)

    I’ve written about this topic several other times, even using the title “focus”. Hence, Focus (again). It’s an important topic and I find I need to continually remind myself about it. As a younger dude, I would be keen on too much variety. But focus in training is essential. Focus in life is essential. I…

  • Morning deadlifts

    Every now and then I get on a deadlift kick. Five days per week, as specified in power to the people by Pavel Tsatsouline. Just a simple linear cycle two sets of five, a working set and a back off set. I’ve worked up to decent weights this way but staying light right now. So,…

  • Current Training and Stuff

    My favorite time to train right now is between 8 or 10 in the morning. A lot of times I have conference calls in the morning. I’ll take these calls from home and then when they’re finished, exercise. Or, I’ll do stretches while I’m on the call. Two days per week I do weights in…

  • The Decade of the 30’s

    I haven’t been writing much lately. Family, work, school. Having kids is a real eye-opener. I never suspected how much work it would be. It’s wonderful, but time is a precious commodity. Quite a while ago I quit Facebook and generally stopped going to sites that endlessly scroll. Any website or app that you can…

  • Rear Wheel Drive for Humans

    Following lunch, I sat at my desk, hunched over and reading news. A somewhat guilty pleasure and I also like to be informed. It dawned on me that my posture sucked and my butt was sore from sitting all morning long. “Get up!” a voice in my head screamed. Then I began thinking about an…

  • The Dread of Night (the fear of fatigue)

    “I dread the night,” my wife told me at one point a few months after our first child was born. Do you remember those days? Are you going through them now? You hear the little one cry out–fear shoots up and down your spinal cord, “Oh God, am I gonna have to get up?” If…

  • A Favor: Would you please take this survey?

    I’ve been doing this site for quite a while and want to know if my stuff is valuable and what else you’d like to see. So, I put together a short survey that’ll take you less than 1 minute to complete. Could you help me out? Survey

  • Getting it done

    People fascinate me. We are like black boxes. We show up to our family, to social gatherings, to work, and all this stuff is happening in the background that no one talks about. That’s the stuff that fascinates me. I’m trying to bring my full self to the table. I recently watched Erin Brockovich. “Don’t…