To give an accurate account of what goes on in my household between the hours of 6am to close, with two St. Bernards and a pregnant woman, is to describe very nearly the same happenings of what goes on inside the Philadelphia Zoo during the autumn Beast Feast. It is a scene of total […]
How Kettlebells Make You a Better Athlete (Or Don't They?)
So I joined a Wednesday night dodgeball league and have come to learn something peculiar about my arm, which is this: Rarely do I hit what I mean to hit, but almost always will my ball go out and fetch something else. This means that so long as you are standing very perfectly still […]
A Daily Routine for Strength, Learning and Leanness
My morning today was a brisk one, brimming with life, and it’s turned out to be a charming day as well, here in my living room with the sun spilling in through the curtains and the dogs quiet and not too damn annoying either. I have two dogs: Lola and Chewie. They are slobbery behemoths, […]
The 10 Best Kettlebell Complexes to Blast Fat, Boost Muscle, and Build Strength
Minimalism is when effectiveness and efficiency meet. Effectiveness being this: doing the right things, and efficiency being this: doing things right. So in the mornings, after my coffee, and perhaps after some reading and writing, but before my breakfast (and when I say breakfast I mean it precisely in the classical sense, which is the […]
Kettlebell Technique Standards (Part 1)
Good form matters. …And bad form will cost a fellow in all sorts of ways. It’s the outward sign of carelessness, recklessness, and to a slender degree, stupidity. Quality matters in movement as it does anywhere else. Grass fed is better than corn fed. Pasture-raised trumps McDonalds. Don’t move at the level of a Big Mac, […]