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• July 9, 2011

  Spice Up Your Eggs

  Who doesn’t love scrambled eggs?!  You know I love them a whole lot, and I try to eat them whenever I can.  As healthy as eggs are, I don’t like them because they’re good for you; I like them because they’re absolutely delicious.  Today, I’ll share two quick ways to add some capsaicin kick to…

• July 8, 2011

  “How Much Should I Deadlift?”

  I train my lower body on Sundays and Wednesdays, with heavier bilateral work on Sundays and speed/rep work on Wednesdays.  This past Wednesday, some time during my clean grip reverse lunge and TRX Pike paired set, two recent high school graduates came in to workout.  They’re motivated and determined, and make an effort to head…

• July 6, 2011

  Try Something New

  We like making excuses, don’t we?  We’ll rationalize every possible reason why we can’t do something, instead of focusing that energy on something that we want to accomplish.  Stop making excuses, and start making changes.  Try something new.  I’m sure you’ve heard this proverb from Chinese Philosopher Laozi: “A journey of a thousand miles begins…

• July 4, 2011

  Independance Day Thoughts (from Thoreau)

  I’m not as well read as I’d like to be, and have an extensive list of books to read that ranges from Dante’s Divine Commedy to Shirley Sahrmann’s Diagnosis and Treatment of  Movement Impairment Syndromes, to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.  The list is certainly broad, and will require quite some…

• July 3, 2011

  Diversify Your (Equipment) Portfolio

  Have you ever seen one of the people at the gym that uses only one piece of equipment?  They only ever touch the Cybex machine circuit, or they use dumbbells for every exercise that they know, or rely only on body weight because it’s ‘truly’ functional.  Those people are missing the ball.  Varying the equipment…