Bedroom Mobility
Just like our budget or cleaning the house, our physical condition can get away from us. When I assess individual mobility, it's almost shocking how naive or ignorant people can be about their own bodies. They can tell you to the penny what dinner cost, how much is in...
Stretching, My Opinion Only
Flexibility is one of the three pillars of fitness. The other two being strength and endurance. Flexibility however is a rather interesting leg of the stool. There are whole schools of stretching methodology, which would include Yoga and dance styles like ballet that...
Dark Rant: The Cards Are Stacked
“Antisocial Personality Disorder is primarily defined as a lack of empathy," I said. I'd looked it up, too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sound; without it you become emotionally deaf. "It means I...
Get Pushy
There are only so many ways to move. I believe in minimalism. Focus on a few things, get really good at them, then anything else is icing on the cake. With the human body we can push, pull, squat, hinge, fold and brace. The subdivision are thing like climbing,...
Your Tool Box Sucks
There is a hidden phenomena that occurs in a business, legal, medical or fitness/sports relationship. I think the genesis of this action occurs in our youth. It's welded with pride, ignorance, ego and what I call, "A Small Toolbox". In Japan a particular relationship...
So You Need A Special Diet?
So from all the advertisements in magazines, TV and online you believe that fitness, strength and muscle size is only possible when consuming expensive supplements that line the pockets of health food industry snake oil salesmen? Think again. This quote from Kali...
More Than One
If you spend any amount of time in a social setting, you realize that as the consumption of alcohol goes up,. so does the expertise of the people at the party. Thus we have so many men, late on a Sunday evening with greater football expertise than Don Shula or Chuck...
Rodney King Wants You To Join The CIA Program
I am a big fan of South African Performance Coach, Rodney King. I've been aware of his teaching and methodology for years through the internet, youtube, social media and email. He is first and foremost, a gentleman, family man, teacher and warrior. His communication...
Al Kavadlo. This Time He’s Really Stretching It.
So the Dean of Bodyweight and Bar, Al Kavadlo has moved into the realm of mobility and flexibility. So you are wondering, "Why another flexibility book?". Yes, I thought the same thing, but then I realize that everyone has their own take, viewpoint, life experience...
Djakarta Iron Intro, My Filters
Introduction- My Filters Edgar Rice Burroughs never visited Africa or Mars for that matter. My path to write a book, called, “Djakarta Iron”, having never been there, is based on my personal history and mental filters. It started in western Pennsylvania. My father was...
Gracie Jiu Jitsu with Steve Maxwell
While many people view Steve Maxwell as a cutting edge fitness educator and world traveler, I am aware of Steve's roots in combat arts. He has an extensive background in martial arts that includes, but is not limited to wrestling, kenpo, muay thai, sambo, systema and...
Rearrange the Deck Chairs
Verb- rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic (idiomatic) To do something pointless or insignificant that will soon be overtaken by events, or that contributes nothing to the solution of a current problem. There is a concept of, "not majoring in minors". In other...
A Deadly Substance In Our Midst
I am about to alert you to a deadly chemical in our midst. This subject has been brought up many times before, but I believe a covert, mysterious, campaign by the Organic industry, Big Supplement, Big Charity, Functional Medicine, Alternative Medicine and Natural...
Leave Your Ego At The Door
One thing that becomes clear is that there is always conflict. Idealist want us to aspire to a imaginary, higher, level, where we don't have differences. That is an illusion. Conflict will always exist and as warriors understand, it is never cured, only managed. Based...
Before You Lie To Yourself With New Years Resolutions
"Consistency trumps intensity; all the time. That intensity is born from consistency."--- Mark Reifkind, Strongfirst Every New Year, for one reason or another, people make resolutions. When I was young, I didn't understand this. You really don't have a grasp of the...
Facebook Might Kill You
Lots of rambling here, forgive me.--TF First, do no harm. That is supposed to be rule in medicine and not the exception. It's a good rule for life too. I consider it often when I prescribe exercise, hence no kipping pull ups or high repetition Olympic lifts. [had to...
Wrong Way
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.--- George Santayana We must realize that this planet is not bad, people are not bad, government is not bad,... our thinking and actions are flawed. If we do not like our situation, we must simply change...
Why Do You Want To Be A Victim?
There are four literary conflicts - Man vs Nature Man vs Man Man vs Society Man vs Himself In life, we do not cure conflicts, we manage them. Therefore our management skills must be honed and adapted throughout life. We can be taught to think by our parents and social...
