167 Fat There is a current and recurrent thread amongst HEMA and other martial arts disciplines that mocks the fat instructor. It’s one of those things that everyone feels comfortable
263 Warming Up for Class I’m an old fat man, so I have to put in a lot of extra to work to get myself ready for class. I’m the teacher,
40 Mothers Mothers. They’re so … tactful. I was a few days into the visit with my parents in June when my mother asked something that had clearly been on her
40 Power To The Stars In the midst of a few hefty bits of writing at the moment, including writing a short article with my wife. That’s the only bit that might soon
40 One Thing Leads To Another Deeper and deeper. Kind of a Fixx sort of morning. It’s coming up on nine months since we started up Valkyrie. I think the biggest change can be
40 Strong Body Strength is everything. It’s the key to real mobility. It’s the key to a balanced and happy body. Real flexibility comes from strength, as does speed.
167 Healthy Body Rough week for a number of friends of mine. A person who spanned a few communities and was friends with my friends passed away suddenly in his sleep. I remotely
263 Grind Grind Grind Moving to three days a week training just might be the death of me. Judging from how I feel this morning, anyway. It’s not muscle soreness that’
40 Wow. Seven days left in our official fundraising campaign, three days before we need the funds, we’ve hit…and exceeded…our goal of raising half the fund
40 And suddenly... I’m done. No more night shifts. I get to start the fun process of adapting myself to daylight living. You’d think it would be easy, but
263 With reasonable fitness... You should be able to: go for a two hour ramble with a friend at the drop of a hat, no water, no workout clothes, just a nice long walk.
263 Adding things up Had a great bike ride on the weekend. Headed out past the airport. Stopped at the last bit of land before the Pacific, and enjoyed the cool ocean breeze. Snapped
40 Sixty pound cupcake I ate a cupcake today. And even thought I’m overweight and a nutrition coach, I felt no guilt. We were up the hill at a small local farmers
24 Get up and move I remember sharing a hotel room with my ex-wife, and my training partner. It was a major tournament, and my partner was fighting terminal cancer. At this point, she had
40 A little bit about calories. Insulin. Pretty, isn't it? What, exactly, is a calorie? You eat a chocolate bar, it has 325Kcal. You bike for half and hour, you burn 325kcal. Great! So if we chop up a chocolate bar in smaller and smaller pieces, at
