Tag: quick tips

  • Key to Fitness: An Active Life

    A modicum of fitness, hardly difficult to attain, is elusive to many. Yet there is one simple key: an active life. I’ve previously written in Bruce Lee’s Bare Bones Fitness Advice some simple things you can do to increase activity. Here are a few more: Desk Jockey’s: Get up and move every 50 minutes. Leave…

  • What will it take to break you?

    I was a big fan of David Carradine’s character in Kung Fu the Legend Continues. He was so cool, composed, and collected. One episode I really liked featured John Saxon guest starring as a bad guy running a work camp. Kwai Chain Caine gets himself imprisoned and is instrumental in getting people out (of course).…

  • Learn to Live an Active Lifestyle

    Let’s say you live in a walkable community. You walk to the grocery store. Carry your groceries home. You garden. You do all your own cleaning and cooking. You play with your kids. In addition to this, you eat sensibly, stopping when full and avoiding excessive sugar, caffeine, and alcohol. This moderate approach to life…

  • Make the Choice to Age Well

    With all the fad diets and exercise information, you’d think everyone would be in terrific shape. But we’re not. Many people make excuses for why they are not in shape. Genetics. Strange ailments that prevent them from doing anything. They hate exercise. Whatever. I traveled to Mexico for over a month and what I saw…

  • Don’t Just Sit There

    A reminder: Get up! In March I saw quite a few news articles about sitting increasing your risk for dying irrespective of exercise. As a writer, an office worker, and a citizen of the laziest country on earth! 🙂 I know that I sit too much. Well—I would sit too much if I didn’t do…

  • March Stats: 7 Workouts – 4.43 hours total workout time

    If you’re someone who has frequently used the time excuse to keep yourself from getting a workout, take a look at the stats above. That’s 7 workouts in the month of March and only four and a half hours. Some people spend that much time in a week exercising. Or maybe they’re exorcising… In case…

  • Simple Keys to Fitness: Fresh Air

    Indoor air is sometimes more polluted than outdoor air. Bad news for people who spend the majority of their lives indoors. In The Way to Live by George Hackenschmidt, he says “the principle food for man is air.” Air is life. Hold your breath and find out how important it is. Our indoor lifestyles need…

  • What’s the Rush? Eliminate Fake Progress from Your Training

    In a New York times article several years ago, I read about a parking structure that collapsed during construction. The reporter interviewed the workers and one of the memorable quotes was, “Everything about this job was rush, rush, rush.” The man they interviewed went on to explain that the concrete was too green, and they…