Tale of the tape on my now 9 month adventure in regular fitness and eating differently: Lost 35 lbs, bodyfat in the mid-teens, waist 38 –> to 34 Can bench press more than my weight Never felt better (seriously, the 40 me could thrash the 20 me) How? I certainly get tons of questions about it. And it’s been [...]
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After a workout recently my wife noted…“maybe people who exercise are just happy people.” Really? Come on, the world is full enough of trite, bumper-stickery ideas that don’t really hold up, particularly when it comes to health and fitness. Sure, I get the whole endorphin thing, that people feel better and maybe they have more [...]
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My historical approach to exercise can best be described as intermittent. Particularly now that I’m starting to encounter the nagging injuries that come with the crappy little gift basket that is turning 40. So anything that makes getting a workout easier and faster is welcome. Working with a personal trainer (in my case Chad Cirri) [...]
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I recently sprained the @$%^#*! out of my ankle playing soccer. Streaking (as much as I can streak, which isn’t much) toward the goal, visions dancing in my head of team celebration after my inevitable and devastating score, I pulled off a shot….expertly delivering the ball right to the goalie and coming down all wrong on [...]
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Saturday mornings…. All about possibilities, jammies, the week’s most slowly enjoyed coffee, happier kids, nothing to be late for… But for me, one of the highlights is also about gut busting planks and leg shredding squats. Really. Hard as it is to believe, despite the pain and suffering, I seriously look forward to my exercise [...]
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In 1988 I walked off a soccer field on Braddock Road….my middling high school career on the pitch completed. 21 years, and a lot of inactivity later… I stepped back onto a soccer field a few hundred yards away on the other side of Braddock Road, a new middling soccer career in front of me, [...]
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Yes, when you take the leap of signing on with a personal trainer, you’re flying your freak flag on a number of fronts (age, lack of will, supply of fat, tendency to self torture, etc.). It’s no small investment (figure a dollar a minute), the sessions are early morning or late evening most times, you’re [...]
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