"Do you suppose they will choose to make war against lean, solid dogs rather than against fat and tender sheep?"
Goruck Heavy (May 31 - June 1) commemorating D-Day. San Francisco. Thirteen entered (eight men, five women), ten finished. These are the lessons I learned, first about individual performance (part 1), then about us as a team (part 2), then about my gear choices (part 3). Absolute Strength and Strength-Endurance Absolute strength is essentially one-rep... Continue Reading →
Today's the day, friends. 24 hours, 40+ miles, with logs, sandbags, PT beatdowns, and surf torture along the way. Wherever you are today, get after it! Hammer along with me and (I'm completely serious about this), please remember my team and me in your thoughts and prayers. I may be Buddhist, but I'm not choosy... Continue Reading →
Part 4 of our series "The Tao of the Lazy Badass" Long, Slow Distance I hate to say this, but your single biggest priority is to create some modest aerobic base. If you were cursed by an evil genie to be allowed only one kind of exercise, it would need to be something aerobic. Come... Continue Reading →
“Like water, volume is soft and yielding. But volume will wear away rock, and it beats the crap out of excess fatigue. As a rule, volume wins over fatigue. This is another paradox: what is soft and voluminous is strong.”from the lost training manual of Laozi (Lao-Tzu) A difficult book, but the most important one... Continue Reading →
Today's game was to climb to the summit on hands and knees: For every step, I had either to "bear walk" or lunge. Though that may sound wretched, it was a huge endorphin fest. The golden recipe for training is to do as much work as possible while staying as fresh as possible. That's the... Continue Reading →
Fascinating psych study in US and UK on what makes men happy: - Above all, men depend for happiness on job satisfaction. It accounts for 3x more than any other variable.- Men get happier as they get older. Over-50s are happiest.- Soldiers and veterans are happier.- Men of different races are equally happy. Same with gay... Continue Reading →
We’ve edited our Faleev “80/20” power bodybuilding series into a 100-page, for-charity, donation-based e-book now available here. Enjoy!
"Have fun. Luck goes to those who are strong and smile a lot. That is the only way." -A.V. Tarasov, father of the Russian hockey program
We’ve edited our Faleev “80/20” power bodybuilding series into a 100-page, for-charity, donation-based e-book now available here. Enjoy!
We’ve edited our Faleev “80/20” power bodybuilding series into a 100-page, for-charity, donation-based e-book now available here. Enjoy!