You’ve heard the reason why we store fat. You probably never questioned it. Have you noticed it doesn’t make sense? You’ve heard the following from any number of sources. Have you ever questioned it? The reason our bodies store fat goes back to the earliest of times. Fat storage was a tool of survival for humans. When food was plentiful people ate as much as they could. The extra food[…] Keep reading →

You can learn a lot from a cherry. Enjoying my first half-pound of these sweet, tangy, juicy wonders of nature of the season reminded me how much nature teaches us about life. Sorry to my southern hemisphere readers. “Multitasking” makes you do multiple things poorly. Focusing on one thing gives you quality. I was about to start reading while eating. But wait! Why would I allow something to divert my[…] Keep reading →

Remember I found a guy in England who did a one-year burpee “ladder” in my post “A burpee brother?” A burpee ladder means one burpee on the first day, two on the second, three on the third. A one-year ladder means you go until you do 365 on the last day for a total of almost 70,000 in the year. I’ve meant to do 365 burpees in a day since[…] Keep reading →

Do you notice the difference between something tasting good and something making you want to eat more of it? If you want to eat healthy, you’ll care about the difference because companies that make junk food know the difference and use it to manipulate you. You end up spending money on unhealthy things that are profitable to them and you lose control of your eating habits. Most of the time[…] Keep reading →

Have you had problems? Have you felt depressed? We all have. Sometimes life feels like it’s free-falling, like as bad as it gets it seems like it can still get worse and does. When life brings you down, it helps to have things that keep it from dropping lower. Friends and family are resources people commonly cite as keeping their lives stable and keep them from dropping too low. As[…] Keep reading →

Someone who posted about my burpee discipline posted about someone else who does them too, a guy in England with a blog subtitled “The ramblings of a somewhat burpee-obsessed social misfit.” Among other things he did ladder-year of burpees, meaning one burpee on day one, two on day two, up to 365 on day 365—pushing 70,000 burpees in a year! How could I not love his blog? If you like[…] Keep reading →

Michael Jordan was the best basketball player of all time, a star everyone knew was destined for greatness from college on, right? Wrong. It’s a nice myth if you want to take it easy on yourself and not try, but things didn’t unfold that way. On the contrary, even after he started in the NBA, knowledgeable people, including Jordan himself, doubted his ability. This Chicago Tribune article, “He Was No[…] Keep reading →

Regular readers know I trained for last year’s marathon, then hurt my foot just before the event, after already running a few 20+ miles runs. Postponing gives you automatic entry the following year, which I did, and just got an email that I’m in this year. Congratulations, Joshua! You’re in. Welcome to the Class of 2014, New York City Marathoner! You’ll be on a runner’s journey through the five boroughs[…] Keep reading →

Ordering a burrito the other day the server asked me what “protein” I wanted in it. I got the same question ordering a potato not long before. Has calling food by once-highly scientific terminology become standard? I guess protein has become a standard word. It used to be a scientific word. That means originally almost nobody knew what it meant. I think people still don’t know what it means, but[…] Keep reading →