Category: Personal

  • An Exerciser’s Credo

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    exercise should be fun, efficient, and effective. forget the fancy clothes, footwear, and supplements keep it simple – that keeps it sustainable train movement, don’t focus on individual muscles there is no something for nothing – don’t focus on fast results, focus on a sustainable practice develop a diet that works for you, work on…

  • Overcomplication

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    The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. It’s not about daily increase, but decrease—hack away the inessential. Boy does Bruce Lee cut to the core of our urge to overcomplicate and get in our own way. Sometimes we make things harder on ourselves than they have to be. That is certainly…

  • Indoor Humans

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    “I’m an indoor human,” I joke occasionally. Only thing is—it’s not a joke. I am! I’m sure this will all change by necessity when I have kids and spend more time outdoors, but I don’t want to react to life, I want to create it, and I don’t like the idea of being an indoor…

  • The Gout Diet (How to eat during and after the gout)

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    I suppose it was inevitable. Years ago, sitting at a Brazilian Steakhouse with friends, I joked that I was busy getting “The Gout” as I shoveled bite after bite of steak into my mouth and washed it down with a mojito and mashed potatoes. That was before I had a full-blown case of gout. After…

  • What will it take to break you?

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    I was a big fan of David Carradine’s character in Kung Fu the Legend Continues. He was so cool, composed, and collected. One episode I really liked featured John Saxon guest starring as a bad guy running a work camp. Kwai Chain Caine gets himself imprisoned and is instrumental in getting people out (of course).…

  • March Stats: 7 Workouts – 4.43 hours total workout time

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    If you’re someone who has frequently used the time excuse to keep yourself from getting a workout, take a look at the stats above. That’s 7 workouts in the month of March and only four and a half hours. Some people spend that much time in a week exercising. Or maybe they’re exorcising… In case…

  • Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues

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    Who doesn’t admire and respect Ben Franklin. How comforting it is to know that even a man as great as he struggled. In fact, when he first undertook his program of developing the 13 virtues, he said of himself I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined. Ben…

  • Ip Man Movie

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    The other day I was browsing Netflix movies and one by the name of Ip Man caught my eye. I guessed correctly that Ip Man was referring to a person who I had always known as Yip Man—Bruce Lee’s martial arts instructor. Full disclosure: I’ve never studied Yip Man’s life. Knowing full well that biographical…

  • Work and Play

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    Work and play is a choice that each of us face everyday. We need to constantly remind ourselves what we’re doing, what our purpose is for the action we’re taking, and whether or not we’ll regret that we didn’t take full advantage of the moment when we had it. The following was written in the…

  • The Nature of Self Discipline

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    You only need to review the following points about self discipline and realize that it is one of the most fundamental necessary attributes to possess: “Most human problems seem to be tied to self-control. Whether you’re jealous, afraid, timid, or drink too much, the common link seems to be an absence of self-control.” Lev Albert,…