We all get older. We all have to come face to face with the reality of aging. My wife recently was blessed with being firmly planted into her 30’s, and I am rapidly approaching 40. Our health must remain a priority as we age. There is a trend among those that I follow for inspiration…they […]
All I Ready Needed to Know… I am sure that more than a few of us remember the poem, All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. That was it. These were the foundational lessons for being a decent human being. There was nothing in there about being able to rattle off Pi […]
Little Surprises Over the past two days, I have found these little notes floating around the house. My daughters have been leaving them for my wife and me. We find them in the car, on the mirror, in our favorite chair, or in our garage gym. They have been excited for us to find them […]
I choose the load… …on the bar My coach suggests, but I choose. I decide what is heavy today and what is fast. I choose what my 100% effort looks like and I give it, accepting or rejecting the challenge of the bar today. It might be the challenge of the pull-up bar and […]
Getting out of bed. Going to the gym. Lifting heavier. Moving Faster. Running. Parenting. Being a good spouse. Being a good person. The Struggle is Real… It is hard to be the person that we want to be day-in and day-out. It is hard to get better and want to help impact change happen in […]
I have not abandoned my promise to blog the latest book from Joe De Sena and the Spartan crew. It has been a long couple of weeks, a few tears have been shed as I looked over at my barbell in the corner. But it is always easy to do the things you enjoy and […]
I recently received my copy of Spartan Fit by Joe De Sena in the mail. I read the first bit of the book and decided to accept the challenge to work through all 30 days of workouts and see where I stood and how I felt after putting down the programming pen for 30 days. […]
Seems like it has been a while since I have shared anything with you, wonderful people. It seems like the world keeps on spinning and spinning into more and more fights. We go from one crisis to another. One shouting match to another, and if we are lucky we find ourselves throwing some weight around […]
Lately, a lot of my posts have taken a little bit of a turn away from the training floor. I hope you don’t mind, but in this very season of life, training is of secondary importance. While I still lift heavy things, sprint, carry, perform bodyweight movement frequently, I have spent the better part of […]
A little disclosure before I get too far: I am a husband I am a father I believe something has to change This post has nothing to do with barbells or training but is more important than anything else I have written to date