Recently (as in last weekend) despite the current craziness of getting ready to leave for a year long road trip, I attended the TRX suspension training course. The TRX suspension training course was hosted at YuBfit in Huntington Beach.  It was taught by three TRX trainers, one who was a formal physical therapist. Here is [...]

Boy, do I miss blogging!  I can’t wait to get back to regular writing and reading in a few weeks. It looks like we’ve set a planned date of departure, October 16th.  Two weeks from today!  Craziness! I’m equally nervous and excited. Right now, my life is a whirlwind of trips to the thrift store, [...]

I’ve been in a blogging funk.  It seems that writing 31 days to a Better Body Series took it out of me. Oh and I’m moving into an rv for a year or more in a few weeks.  Downsizing four people into a little 300 square foot home is  a guaranteed recipe for crazy  a [...]

This morning I was scrolling through twitter and saw one of my kettlebell buddies tweet, “911 swings done”. My heart sunk. This evening, I headed to the beach alone with two kettlebells to do 911 swings in honor of those who lost their lives 10 years ago today. In Honor of Heroes Workout – 911 [...]

I wish I could have given you 31 “secrets” to a better body. The thing is there are no secrets. There are only choices. (source) Every day we make choices that either move toward our goals. Every workout is a choice. Every meal is a choice. Every thought is a choice. We choose whether we [...]

When I began I had a list of 31 things I wanted to write about but as the days passed new ideas would pop up that I wanted to include in the series.  Now I’m sitting here looking at the list of ideas that didn’t get included: sugar, carbohydrate timing, meal planning, protein, supersets and [...]

This is something I probably should have wrote about in the beginning of this series. Journaling. Food journaling, workout journaling, and good old fashioned “diary” type journaling.  They all serve their purpose but that doesn’t mean we need to do each one all the time. They are important  tools to have in the tool box [...]

For me, following through may be the toughest part of reaching a goal.  I’m always excited to start a new challenge and it’s easy to sprint to the finish line as soon as you see it.  Although the steps in between are often exhausting and unexciting, the alternative to quit in the middle again and again withers [...]

We have many choices available in this country. Take vaccum shopping for example. Do I want upright, cannister, robotic, bagless, windtunnel, HEPA filter, wet/dry, cordless, or handheld?  All I want is something that will consistently clean my floor.  Guess what?  Most vacuums will give me what I want…if I use it. The same with strength training. There [...]

(source) Guilt is an useless emotion. I feel guilty… …about eating _____. …about not eating _____. ….about skipping a workout. ….about working out. …about spending time with ____. ….about spending not enough time with ____. ….about watching too much TV. …about not getting pop culture references. …about not eating organic. …about spending too much eating [...]