A Personal Discourse On Fitness…

There are moments in life that can define us by revealing our courage or our humility, in pursuit of growth.  Or, those same moments can haunt us, ongoing, for revealing all we are not willing to do to affect change within our self.  This might be the story of one such moment:
My daughter was 9 [...]

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Exercise v. Recreation…

Strength training isn’t for everyone, that’s for sure.
Strength training is done indoors. Golf is done outdoors.
Strength training is hard work. League softball is social, and fun.
Strength training might wreck your back. Walking is low-impact.
Strength training is for people who like to look in the mirror. Biking is for people who like to look at the [...]

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Hog Tied: Fitness, Illusions, Ownership, and Brief Thoughts On Baseball

No doubt, the CDC has some statistic that says that the odds of me being attacked and molested by a gang mutant jackals, dressed in Kevlar pajama pants, with whiskey on their breath is 90% greater than the odds of me dying from the H1N1 virus. This may be true. I will continue however, to [...]

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Attacment is as attachment does…

Common religious scriptures teach us that attachments are not necessary to live a fulfilling life. That the seeking of, and dependence on life’s attachments can inhibit our spiritual growth and divert us from fulfilling our most critical human potential.  Through studying the text of any faith, we learn that true fulfillment is the sum product of [...]

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The Altar Of Right Foods…

Daily Exercise is something I have been practicing since I was 12 years old – I don’t know otherwise. In that sense, the ritual practice of strenuous movement has become a primary religion to me – literally. I have often been ashamed to share that for fear of offending those of more ornate and historic [...]

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Go-No Go Decision

This is the first guest post I have posted on this site.  Written by Dr. J. (sort of his real name) of www.calorielab.com. 
Dr. J. writes a health/fitness column each week that I always look forward to reading.  In fact, it’s the only one I read regularly — the ONLY one.  When you consider the scope [...]

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Contemplating Fitness…. And Americanness.

Our American lives, as important as we make them out to be, are pretty meaningless the way we tend to live them.  All too Americanly, we seek to view, we seek to hear, we seek to touch, taste, and buy all that catches our senses.  Then, we seek to display all that we have accomplished [...]

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Mental as anything…

 I’m going totally mental. My mind has become too quick to absorb the flow of character flaws which pours from hominid to hominid, along with their sweat and breath, in the course of their exercise. From within the these human forms, my gym air fills with emotional exhaust fumes. The release of those personalities is [...]

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A Case For Strength…

(originally written April, 2009)
Reach.  Extend.  Bend.  Stand.  Carry.  Pull.  Lean.  Twist.  Sit.  Push.  Hold.
 The ability o perform any of these should not be taken for granted; no one a luxury, each one probable in the course of a day. Only two gifts are awarded at birth; the conscious and the body. In matters of virtue, [...]

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The art of the ordeal…

I’m not exercise obsessed, as many who know me believe. Art is my passion, exercise my medium. And no, it’s not so much about the beauty of the human body which lures me into my daily movement. Rather, it’s about the beauty of the actions involved in forging the human body – my attraction is [...]

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