My current workout – Turbulence Training Reconstruction
Last month’s workout routine from Turbulence Training was extremely challenging, and quite frankly, I’m glad it’s over. While it was nearly all bodyweight, which wouldn’t seem that difficult, it is when you’re doing 20 minutes straight with no rest AT ALL in between exercises. That’s why Craig Ballantyne named it the TT Depletion workout, I guess…. For July, Craig’s goal is to reconstruct that which was depleted last month, and hence the name Turbulence Training: Reconstruction. I started the workouts yesterday, and itR

Man In The Mirror
Q. How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A. Just one, but the light bulb really has to want to change. Yes, I know, that’s a really dumb joke, but it holds a lot of truth when you look more closely at it. Let’s say you’ve got a weight loss goal, or a relationship you’re tryin

Sunday Stars for June 28th
Summer is finally here in Chicago!  When you need a break from the week, come in and take a look at some of the articles I’ve starred this week in Google Reader:

A day of solitude
Once or twice a year, my wife and girls head over to Indiana to visit friends, and I stay behind to work and then join them a day or two later via train. While I miss my girls when they’re gone, I think that every man I know has a regular need for solitude – to be alone just with his own thoughts for an

Concerning death and celebrity
Why does it seem that deaths of famous people always come in threes? This week a trio of well-known celebrities passed away – Ed McMahon, beloved sidekick of Johnny Carson for so many years; Farrah Fawcett, late 1970s pin-up girl and Angel; and Michael Jackson, the world-famous ‘king of pop’ and inventor of the moonwalk (which I could never, sadly, quite figure out how