“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” ― Frank Herbert, DUNE The greatest handicap in my own growth was not personal baggage or trauma, but simply that my perception of “how things work” was stuck in a very …
Continue reading One Step Beyond Logic: Linear vs. Exponential Causality
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Links below are to free, public Google Docs, which outline different bodyweight or minimal equipment based strength focused workouts. MASTER LIST - Bodyweight and Object Exercise Reference. Will be updated, but let me know if you need one move in particular demo'd. There are sample circuits included as well. Legs + Back Focused Bag Workout …
Happy June! The year has been burning away fast, but that's to be expected when you're running a business, independently producing an entire online show, and trying to have a life, which, I am. Well, at the least the first two things. Before I start doling out my innermost ramblings, a bit of business. I've …
Continue reading Foundation & Vision: The Keys to Forward Progress (And some Cara Updates)
This is my first blog in about a month; in March my writing habit took a back seat to production. I broke the chain of my everyday writing that I've kept up since January 1st. I'm okay with that, and like the topic of this post (training); it was a conscious attention-shift out of necessity …
For most of my adolescent years and early twenties, I thought people’s bodies; their shapes, leanness or fatness, muscularity or lack thereof, was mostly luck and genes. I thought their abilities - speed, strength, power, agility, and endurance were evolutionary poker and if you weren't dealt a good hand, you were fucked. I really believed …
Continue reading ORIGIN, PT I: The Experiment Begins (IF, Paleo, & Calisthenics)
Disclaimer, I did not break a rib, it just kind of felt like it. Through a confluence of happy factors on February 1st, 2017, almost exactly two years ago, I was given the opportunity to participate in an official Guinness World Record Breaking event. The event was hosted by Reebok to promote their new shoe, …
Continue reading Break Ribs, Limits, and Records: How I Tried to Set a Guinness World Record
Sometimes I watch people lift, and they look they’re doing their taxes. There’s a lot of sighing, slumping down on a bench between sets, leaning on racks, head down, shoulders forward, scrutinizing their program or scrolling social media (lord knows that’s me sometimes; okay, lots of times), the minutes inching by while they plod around …
If you follow me on Instagram, you have likely heard me mention recently that I dramatically limited my social media use. My January restriction from IG and Facebook (I have a Twitter but never use it, and stopped using Snapchat a while ago) was simply that I do not go on them except for between …
Continue reading How I Made More Free Time: Limiting Social Media
I must not fear Fear is the mind killer Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration I will face my fear I will permit it to pass over me and through me And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path Where the fear has gone there …
Continue reading Fear: Dictator Or Compass – The Choice is Yours
When you don’t really relax, and you don’t “switch” to parasympathetic, your sleep isn’t as deep, and you don’t feel super rested even when you got enough time asleep. This could mean that you need to spend more time actually unwinding and that’s right, chilling the fuck out.
