The choices we have in this life are endless. We can choose what to think, how we see ourselves, what to believe, what gets our attention, even where we want to point our lives. We can believe we’re victims or victors, cowards or courageous. Most often, it seems, we believe in limitations. I think it’s […]
How to Live a Great Life One Day at a Time
If it’s not contributing to your happiness, your goals, or your bank account, you don’t have time for it. ~ Tim Grover We all need to rethink time. It’s not even about performing well – though that’s the results – but a matter of living well. A buddy just sent me a quote from a […]
Don’t Let the Old Man In
I play a couple songs on repeat when I work/write/read out on the porch… The repetition makes you forget about the words so you can just dive into the task at hand. They’re usually country or some slower rock, something by Willie or Waylon or Cash or Billy Joe, that calms me along with the […]
The Feminine Endeavour of Lifting for Looks
Think about why we started to ‘train’… Men fought battles. We built homes and towns and eventually cities and city-states. No matter our social standing we initially had to be good at fighting. The king’s would fight at the front, not dictate who fought and where they fought at the back of the pack. As […]
Quotes on Freedom for Men To Live By
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power tochoose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”– Vicktor Emil Frankl Most allow the event, the stimulus, to dictate their response. They allow loss to make them sad, lazy, and useless. They allow failure to ‘force’ them […]
Are You Truly a Free Man?
A question: Are you truly free? We don’t think about this much in today’s society because we think we are. (grow a better beard) Throughout our history this is essentially what brave men fought for. We fought to be free from the tyranny of another nation or king, from the unsafety of dangerous wild animals […]
Are You Too Old To Build Muscle?
Building muscle and getting after it in the gym. Isn’t it a young man’s game? They have raging hormones, unlimited energy, and the drive to impress young, beautiful women. But what about you? Your 30’s have come in full force, and the gym isn’t as enticing as it once was. You’ve won: you have a […]
Your Joint Pain Isn’t Normal. Here’s How to Fix It In The Gym.
Getting stronger is fun. Banging heavy weights around, chasing self improvement is one of the few things in this world that connects us to to our primal manhood. Not in a self inflated, egotistic way. But a wya in which we can work with our hands to creating a better version of ourselves. This can […]
No, Back Squats Aren’t The Only Leg Exercise You Need.
If you’re a guy who is getting after it in the gym, you care about having a great physique as much as you want to do impressive stuff in the gym. Maybe even more so. But the guys in history who have had the most impressive physiques also have tree trunk legs. They knew that […]