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Posted September 3, 2009
I?ve been in training for a variety of events and sports for about as long as I can remember: baseball, soccer, footbag, hockey, boxing and ultimately strength sports – so I?ve purchased a thing, two or a million from a wide variety of suppliers over the years.? If you deal with enough retailers you?re bound
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Posted August 31, 2009
Oh, that Steve Jobs. Always with his finger on the pulse of America, knowing just what various iPhone applications are necessary for iUsers to live their iLives to the iFullest. Whether it be a place to find the best, most cost-effective food in your area (UrbanSpoon) or the ability to throw out your variously-pitched whoopee
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Posted August 27, 2009
This post goes out to a special group of college students. This is for the collegiate kids who deal with more shit than your grandfather’s Depends. For the class who, year after year, keep getting pissed on (voluntarily). Yup, that’s right freshmen – this one goes out to YOU! Whoa! that obnoxious Paperclip from Word
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Posted August 26, 2009
According to legend that monkeys were first used to collect tea nearly ten centuries ago. After seeing his master attempt to retrieve the leaves from a wild tea tree, the monkey climbed up the cliff, collected the tea growing there and brought it back down. Nowadays the practice of monkeys picking tea has all but died out, except in one
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Posted August 25, 2009
For those of you who don’t know me and who’ve never visited my blog, the primary focus of my own personal training is increasing strength, but the style of my training would probably seem a bit skewed to those with conventional views of strength training. Rather than trying to achieve an enormous bench press like
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Posted August 21, 2009
Point Break is not that great of a movie. The acting is spotty at best (as anything with master thespian Keanu Reeves tends to be), the script is decent (at best), and the directorial flourishes are no better than your substandard late-80s, early-90s high-concept action movie, complete with slow motion explosions, a shitty soundtrack, and
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Posted August 20, 2009
Man, I realized after writing my article on the 7th Grade Party theme that the world needs even more frivolous excuses for people to get inebriated. So, without further ado, peep these suggestions from a guy with little or no redeeming qualities. “Costume” Party – Ever since Halloween I’ve been a big fan of this
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Posted August 19, 2009
I’ve been involved in some aspect of training and physical culture for nearly two decades. I’ve had times where I was being coached, times where I was doing the coaching, times when I was alone and times where there were so many people working together in the gym that you cooled down before you got
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Posted August 19, 2009
In 1900, the town fathers of Britt, Iowa invited Tourist Union #63 to bring their annual convention to town, and the National Hobo Convention has been held each year in early to mid August ever since. Hobos stay in the “Hobo Jungle” telling stories around campfires at night. To celebrate the Americana that is the
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