“Kindness is the water that puts out the fire.” I awoke today to this quote from Lady Gaga and I found myself moved by it. We live in a time of unrest and unease and many people are responding with fire….with meanness and intolerance and divisiveness and fear. But “Kindness is the water that puts [...]
In this day and age of instant celebrity online, many people seem to have forgotten that in order to achieve anything, you must sacrifice. It’s human nature to look for the easy way out, the shortcut to achieving your dream, the silver bullet to give you the edge. But ultimately it all comes down to [...]
We all share the gym, so I'm often frustrated when my fellow gym members don't follow the most basic rules of gym etiquette. This includes putting your weights back where they belong, removing weights from machines when you're finished, cleaning up a bench if you leave it sweaty, and not leaving used Band-Aids lying around [...]
Today I was excited and honored to pass my evaluation and reach Section Three of Black Belt Training at the Martial Arts Center for Health. This achievement came at the six month mark in my training. But my day started sitting across from a doctor. My doctor asks to check my bloodwork every six months, [...]
Currently in the news, Michael Sam was not signed by any NFL team. A GM of an NFL franchise admitted that he wanted to sign Michael but "was afraid of the media attention." So my thought was that these big bad football types are really acting like a bunch of cowards. This is all the [...]
We have three new guys in our gym who have started showing up at our afternoon workout time. They seem nice enough, work hard, and have decent physiques. But they are incredibly annoying. Why? They are loud! Not loud in a friendly “say hi” and share your energy kind of way. They are loud in [...]
I’ve been an educator my entire life, and I always loved those moments when I saw the “light bulb” go on in someone’s eyes. I’ve had this happen with students, instructors, even parents I was working with. It’s one of those rewarding elements of teaching. I’ve always cherished when I had one of those same [...]
Today at the gym I was working out alone because my workout partner, John, was not feeling well. I can’t be too upset at him as he is wildly consistent and never misses. I was working on shoulders so I spent almost my entire workout using dumbbells and using the benches near the dumbbell rack. [...]
One of the most inspiring moments of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games was the performance of Jeremy Abbott in his short program. Jeremy is the current US Men’s Figure Skating champion and was a contender for a medal in Sochi. However, on Jeremy’s first big quadruple jump in his short program he fell, and fell [...]
I have a thing for men in glasses, and have for as long as I can remember. I also love guys with big arms. So one could imagine that putting these two things together creates a perfect storm that I'm sure to appreciate. My good friend John and I were walking around Universal yesterday [...]