Category Archives: Smart

Getting injured is already tough because of the physical pain and impairment from daily activities, but it’s even more tough mentally when it derails your training plans and recreation.  So, recovery from an injury can be a pretty emotionally devastating process when you take all that together. One of the keys to successful recovery, then,Continue reading “Returning From Injury”

What does that even mean? “Meta” is a Greek prefix that means “beyond” or “behind”, referring to something transcendent.  “Physics” refers to the physical world.  “Metaphysics” is the philosophy of existence. When I talk about “Applied Metaphysics”, I’m talking about the practice of bringing things into existence: using the powers of the mind to changeContinue reading “Applied Metaphysics”

“What?!” I hear you say, “Books don’t belong in the gym!” I say they do! Before you blow thousands of dollars buying gear from Rogue, I say read a few good books on exercise and nutrition.  Whether it’s inspiration or education, you will gain much from reading these books.  Some are going to teach youContinue reading “Home Gym Essentials: Books”

When the internet first came into our schools and homes in the mid-90s, I used to get on that dial-up and type terms into AltaVista looking for something cool.  One of the first websites I remember becoming interested in was a punk rock site called “Praxis as Pedagogy”.  (Look those words up in the dictionary,Continue reading “Praxis”

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Noticing, Explaining, and Prescribing.  Now, to round out this series on the NEPA framework, here is Actioning. Actioning sometimes gets forgotten or glossed-over in discussions of this framework, as if noticing, explaining, and prescribing are the things we really have to be taught and be highly consciousContinue reading “Take Action”

I think you can gather by now that my series of articles on “home gym essentials” is not like most you’ve seen.  This is a bit of a jab at those shopping list articles you usually find.  I think that success with a home exercise plan actually starts with much more basic things than theContinue reading “More Home Gym Essentials: a Brain”

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”