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Goals evolve

Goals change with age. But I’ve stopped framing goals. I chase skill and adaptations. I’ve seen my goals go from training for vanity to training ..

Never has there been a more accurate graph.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.George CarlinReplace USA with I..

The value and context of an exercise

If you ask a bodybuilding coach the value of hip rotation, you might get a shrug and a talk about hip abduction, adduction and flexion.If you ask a po..

The difference between coaching, instruction and motivation

Instruction: * Do this like this Motivation: *Let’s do this ! Coaching: *Here is what you need to do. *This is how you do it. *This is how you should ..

Why the tool matters

Here is a timeline of when we first introduced different tools in our gym: 2014Barbells Rings Kettlebell Resistance bands  Bu..

The distinction between coaching and training

In our gym and online, we try operate in this nebulous zone between getting out of the clients way when they are training and intervening only when w..

Time is such an absolutely odd construct. Especially when it is forced.

I can see the sun rising at 4:40 in the morning upon the Andaman Islands. One would think that is an ungodly hour (not for me personally). But Port B..

Noise

I could not hear a pin drop as I sat in this observation tower for over an hour. Except for the occasional and very unnecessary cackle of a family pl..

Muscle misnomers

1 Force produced is not solely dependent on the size of the muscle. This is self evident if you watch sports, athletics or martial arts. Pudgy cricke..

Celebs are full of shit

I’ve said this many times and I’ll say it again: celebs will endorse anything if the price is right. And even if they would never be caught within kil..