Okay, so it’s not the best picture, to be sure – I thought I could wash-out the glare, but alas… Anyway, here’s Madame Benoit’s rather erudite quote: “I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with variation.” Not to beat a dead horse, but again — it is [...]
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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill [...]
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. – Rumi What in the hell does a Franciscan Friar (Father Richard Rohr, author of The Naked Now) have in common with Physical Culture [...]
Super Human Radio‘s Carl Lanore devoted a show recently to the training and philosophy of Bruce Lee. What can Bruce Lee teach us about striving for phenotypical expression excellence? Everything, my friend; everything. Maybe not by way of training specifics (unless, of course, you happen to be a martial artist), but certainly by way of [...]
Kevin Koskella, of the blog and companion podcast Healthy Mind, Fit Body and I recently met in Austin, Texas (the epicenter of Physical Culture) over an awesome cup of joe at my “office”, the fantastic (and thankfully, just down the street from my studio) Thunderbird Coffee. It’s funny — I’m really a rather reserved, quiet, [...]
So this is what I chowed-down on Sunday evening, following a rather long day spent in the fixie saddle. What you see here is a 1 lb, applewood smoked ham steak, from my good friends at Greene County North Carolina’s Rainbow Meadow Farms. You can’t really tell from the photo, but that good-tastin’ bad boy [...]
Nothing at all fancy today, just a lot of work jam-packed into a mere 30-minute time frame. Russian lunge jumps for height: 3 each leg, each round single-leg high box (approx. 18″) step-ups: 135 x 5, 5; 155 x 4; 165 x 4; 4 (each leg) ab wheel roll-outs: bodyweight x 10, each round glute/ham [...]
135 lbs hasn’t felt this heavy in quite some time. I cut down the rest time between exercises here to next to nothing — just long enough to catch a gasp of air — before hitting the next movement. If you look at the time-under-tension of each movement you’ll see that each [...]
“The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
2 miles from my house to the gym offers a perfect opportunity for a short fixie huck/warm-up prior to throwing around a little iron. An odd combination, I know. I was asked recently if I was the only fixie [...]
