Exercise

Mobility is crucial, no matter what your goals are. — When it comes to exercise, I like to be told exactly what I need to do. I want to know how many reps I’m doing, how many sets, and how long I can rest for. I want to know exactly what I’m doing today and what I’m going to be…

I signed up for the Chicago marathon in October of this year. I will try to run some smaller marathon in May as well. Yes, being cocky. Because I’m getting better. My 2.57 a few months ago now feels mediocre. Not that every one of my daily runs is a…

The best people to mirror when handling stress is none other than the most successful athletes around — If anything, the pandemic itself has brought on more stress on top of the personal and professional setbacks we may have encountered. Just look at all the controversy that Novak Djokovic has experienced in Australia. If Djokovic could participate in the Australia Open — how would he handle the stress…

I’m not here to write about the benefits of running and exercise in general — there are millions of blogs and studies about that. I usually talk about my own experience, about my own love of running. In one of my other stories, I wrote about how you never regret…

No, I didn’t get ripped — but it overhauled my entire life in a year — I had just finished reading Gretchen Rubin’s “The Happiness Project,” — a book about a year-long experiment in which she pursued habits that made her happier. She came up with 12 small word projects — energy, marriage, work, parenthood, etc., that could unlock “real” long-lasting happiness. It sounded like the…

Note: This is part one of a three-part series where an average, middle-aged dude — me — tells you my step-by-step method for how I do each of the three aspects of the Wim Hof Method. …