Category: Health


  • In the good ole days of yore—in my 20’s and 30’s when I weighed 190 lbs —picking up big things up and putting them down was a passion of mine. I was young, brash, and was relatively injury free; to make this matter totally worse, I was omnipotent. But as Socrates has said: the more…

  • They say that it takes a decade to master a topic and another 5 years after that to make it your own. Although I feel like I have a good sense of competency, I am far from mastering all that is out there in the training universe. Socrates once said, “the more you learn, the…

  • So what do I propose? Well, as Geoffrey Chaucer once said “patience is a virtue”; you will just have to read the next post for the answer. A few months ago, I took an online course called Body Matter through McGill University in Canada. One of the topics that piqued my interest was a presentation…

  • After watching one of our favorite reality shows, the Bachelor, I usually tune into watch the rest of The Biggest Loser (TBL). With an average of 7 million viewers weekly and over $100 million in annual revenue, it is one of the most popular reality TV shows of all time. I think, though inspirational in…

  • Korean street food, oh how I miss thee Training is like good Korean cooking. Every Korean cook has their unique variation on the classic Korean  dishes. One of my favorite foods, for example, is called Dukbokki—a Korean street food made in sweet-spicy sauce with rice cakes that is chewy yummy goodness. I remember going to a…