Tag: health

  • How tension earns our attention

    My left elbow seems to have blow up. The x-rays confirm that I have the golfer’s elbow. Early stages, thankfully, and I’ll be seeing my Physiotherapist to get this fixed. The situation also means that I will not be able to do barbell squats for the next few months. I’m just so that that I…

  • Do this everyday if you aren’t a teen anymore…

    In retrospect, I think I was the most ‘free’ when I was a teenager. Life in general was so much less stressful. I just didn’t have a care in the world. The pressures of school were negligible compared to what my own 9-year old goes through. I was super-active not only in sports and in…

  • Let’s talk about sleep

    I don’t remember the last time I clocked in a regular (read: healthy) 8-hour sleep. Not since 2002, for sure, as I’ve always had a schedule that will have me wake up between 3 and 5 am to read, study, write or do something productive. Yeah, I know, it’s a little too early but that’s…

  • Why changing your body composition should start with common sense…

    The powerlifting fraternity has a bad reputation for producing athletes the size of an industrial refrigerator. And guess what, it’s to do something with our belief system, which sort of sounds like this: get huge get effing huge repeat until you die Is it common sense to carry 400 lbs (roughly 180 kg) of mass…