• Dead Before Your Time

    Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are...
  • Running With My Boys

    On Monday after I got home from work, we decided we would do a family workout on the beach. It was a perfect evening for it and after some swim time, Ana, Cady and Emma did her sprint drills in the sand while Cole and Kwamane and I ran...
  • August 12: High Intensity Fitness Test

    Emma joined me for this workout. She did her own program but she was there to cheer her daddy on. I love when our kids workout with Ana and I. They enjoy it very much and are always proud of their workouts, how sweaty they got, and how strong...
  • August 1st: Heavy Bag Work

    Overall Workout Objective: Boxing agility drills, heavy bag skills and conditioning, and most importantly, I trained with my wife Ana for this workout. She is a retired pro athlete so she pushes me and she can hang with me through even my toughest workouts. Strategy: Start with abdominal work,...
  • July 29: Up The Volume And Tend To Details

    Overall Workout Objective: Improve upper-body endurance and improve low back and abdominal strength and endurance. Strategy: 30 seconds on, 30 seconds rest, 5 sets per exercise. Increase volume and variety by adding a second exercise to each area worked. Start each workout with abdominal and low-back work, going back...
  • Your Body Is An Adaptive Organism

    I was the skinny kid growing up. I started lifting weights in high school to pack on size and ate everything I could lay my hands on. Every bodybuilding magazine I read back then preached heavy training for big muscles and light training for definition, so I went “heavy”...
  • Coming Back After A Long Break From The Gym

    Working out only works out when you do it often enough and consistently. But life can get in the way, which means priorities change, and that day we take off to do something or not do something can very quickly turn into a week, a month, and so on....
  • Vitamins 101

    I think most people subscribe to the general understanding that vitamins are good for us but far fewer understand which vitamins do what and why we need them. This is a basic overview of the 13 recognized vitamins and what they do. All vitamins fall into two categories, water-soluble...
  • Three Lessons Learned

    The past ten days have been miserable. I’ve been dealing with minor back pain for the past month, and it finally got the best of me last Saturday. It started with some tight muscles, which I neglected to address right away by stretching. Then it progressed to an annoying...
  • Back On The Bags

    There is a point in life when you come to accept some things and let go of aspirations more suited for a younger man. The salad days of me thumping my way around a ring or cage, or an alley for that matter, are well behind me. Yet despite...