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More Essential Home-Gym Equipment: a Floor

This one is a little bit tongue-in-cheek, but seriously, you get a lot done with just a little floor space. I’ve said this often and even written it on this blog a couple times: a human being who is determined to exercise can do it ANYWHERE. People get strong in jail cells, bunk houses, andContinue reading “More Essential Home-Gym Equipment: a Floor”

Why the Blender is Essential Home Gym Equipment

There aren’t many things that you “have” to have in a home gym, but I would say that a good blender is one of them. I have had dozens of blenders over the years and I use mine every day. Throw away all your pre-made energy drinks, recovery drinks, or protein shakes, and just makeContinue reading “Why the Blender is Essential Home Gym Equipment”

Back to Basics

Right at the start of the COVID outbreak, before any of the lockdowns were imposed, I blew up a copy of these “Basic Lifestyle Guidelines” from OPEX into a poster for my gym wall. I had no idea then how important these were going to become in the following weeks. Give them a good, thoroughContinue reading “Back to Basics”

Test Results = Negative

Good news as my test results came back negative yesterday. I’m still really sick, and they did warn me about false negatives, so we’ll see how long this takes to get over. Why blog about this? I could just keep it all private, but… I work in health & fitness, so I believe I haveContinue reading “Test Results = Negative”

Waiting for Results

I was tested for COVID-19 yesterday. I feel like garbage and I’m not gonna lie, this is pretty scary. I will hear my results today. In the meantime, I thought it could be helpful to others if I shared WHY I got tested and what the experience was like. Why Did I Get Tested? IContinue reading “Waiting for Results”

Throwback to CrossFit North’s “Suffer on Saturday”

This is a photo that recently surface on the internet and brought back a lot of memories for me. This is CrossFit North in Seattle’s Magnuson Park during a “Suffer on Saturday” event in April 2005. I did not take the picture, credit for that has to go to Nancy Meenen. This photo is significantContinue reading “Throwback to CrossFit North’s “Suffer on Saturday””

The Moral Imperatives of our Impending Doom

Is the Earth taking revenge on us? Is God wrathful? Is the human race doomed? In the 21st century, it seems like we are attacked on all sides by diseases, and wars, and natural disasters; by ideological conflicts and economic crises. Does this spell the end of humanity? Are we all individually and collectively doomed?Continue reading “The Moral Imperatives of our Impending Doom”

Bring All Your Knowledge and Experience to Bear

This one is a follow-up to my recent blogs about Noticing and Explaining. This one is about step three: Prescribing. Remember the framework: Noticing Explaining Prescribing Actioning Giving all credit where it’s due, I did not come up with this framework. This comes from OPEX Fitness and I have been using it for several years. Continue reading “Bring All Your Knowledge and Experience to Bear”

Find the Truth

Building on my recent post about Noticing, today I want to talk about Explaining. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s often easy to jump to a conclusion about why something happened. In fact, that is pretty much always the easiest thing to do. I mean, I know stuff, I’ve been around, IContinue reading “Find the Truth”

The Vision

When I was still working at the health club, planning to set out on my own with my own fitness coaching business, I did a lot of business plan writing exercises. One question that always comes up is, “What is the vision for your company?” Other variations of this are, “What is the ‘why’ behindContinue reading “The Vision”