• Learning The Hard Way About Stretching

    I spent last week at home nursing my injured back. While I would have preferred to share a rousing tale of heroism where I willfully sacrificed my body to injury to save a damsel in distress, the reality is far less theatrical. Truth be told, I hurt my back...
  • 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...
  • All This For A Dog

    On Tuesday September 19th at 9:07am, with her family around her praying and comforting her, with our hands on her warm little body and her head resting on Ana’s arm, Ellie’s precious heart stopped beating. Her sister asked to lie beside her. Bella knew, and it was beautiful to...
  • 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...
  • Hangin And Bangin With The Boys

    I had just turned sixteen the first time I walked into the Regina Athletic Club. In retrospect, “walked in” doesn’t paint a truthful picture. It was more like a terrified slink than an actual walk. This was a gym for real men, big men with barn-door shoulders, Herculean backs,...