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10 Minimalist Workouts You Can Do at Home
What are Minimalist Workouts? Minimalism is a word on the move. Like a fresh fad, it’s being sprinkled on top of anything and everything. There’s minimalist art, minimalist lifestyle blogs, minimalist podcasts, and now here we are talking about minimalist workouts. While I don’t personally consider myself a minimalist or part of that movement, my pursuit of efficiency with
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The One Missing Ingredient from Your Fitness GoalsNot Finishing our Fitness Goals It’s a shared human experience to find ourselves in the middle of the year without remembering... -
The Last Kettlebell Buying Guide You May Ever NeedA Kettlebell Buying Guide: An Overview While they may seem like a fringe exercise modality, kettlebells have increased in popularity over...
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My Year of Walking BarefootHow I Started Walking Barefoot Walking barefoot was not a habit I intended to start, but once it was in motion,...
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A Minimalist Exercise Routine That WorksOn the Hunt for a Minimalist Exercise Routine Maybe you’re like me. Maybe not. Maybe you have young kids, a marriage,...
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10 Minimalist Workouts You Can Do at HomeWhat are Minimalist Workouts? Minimalism is a word on the move. Like a fresh fad, it’s being sprinkled on top of...
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Threats to the Glory of Young Men“The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair” – Proverbs...
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3 Nutrition Choices to Win in the MarginsNutrition in the Margins My wife and I generally hawk our meal choices for ourselves and our children. Especially this year,...
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3 Problems With Counting CaloriesThe Convoluted Maze of Nutrition To me, nutrition is extraordinarily convoluted. Cited studies contradict each other, trends and fads regularly enter and...
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When You Have 10 Minutes to ExerciseWhen You Have 10 Minutes to Exercise Sometimes, all I have is a few minutes to devote to exercise and movement. If...
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The One Exercise Goal for 2023The One Exercise Goal for 2023 This one goal completely reshaped how I thought about setting exercise goals, and I hope...
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How to Create Your Own 20 Minute Full Body Workouts, with 3 ExamplesYou Can Learn this Skill Creating your own workouts is a skill that you can learn. It’s like the skill of...
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The Home Gym Under Your Bed: 7 Benefits of KettlebellsThe Ultimate Home Gym Tool Kettlebells were always an odd exercise instrument to me. They were always stashed in the corner...
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20 Ways to Steward Your Strength in Your 20sHabits Are Like Trees Your 20s are a pivotal decade for habit formation. It is a decade of beginnings. As you...
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Latimer and Ridley: The Strength of ConvictionThe following account is an inspirational story of strength. This is not a weight loss tale or a bulk-up success...
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When You Lack Motivation to ExerciseThe Mist of Motivation We all know that familiar slothful feeling that creeps into our minds and chills our zeal. In...
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Avoiding Crooked Fitness Paths: Stewardship, Skills, and Strength“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then...
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The Farmer's Walk Hack to Forge an Iron GripStronger Steps With a Farmer’s Walk The farmer’s walk, also called a farmer’s carry, is as simple as it is effective. Pick...
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Swole with Conceit“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of...
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Protein, Muscle Growth, and The Gospel“And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” – Colossians 1:17 For body-stewardship, it’s important to...
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Diligence, Hastiness, and the Yo-Yo DietThe Yo-Yo Diet There’s a phantom phenomenon that lurks in the corners of fad diets and weight-loss programs. Its clinical term is weight...
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Gnosticism and Exercise“For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for...
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How to "Make Time" to ExerciseWhen do you make time to workout? This is by far the number one question, challenge, and concern I’ve heard from other...
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"Samson Strength": Where Did it Come From?“…See where his great strength lies…” Samson is the iconic figure of strength in the Old Testament. In fact, the phrase “Samson...
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5 Tactics for Exercise While on VacationSummer months are nearly upon us, and with these months come travel and scheduled vacations. And vacations are gifts from...
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A Minimalist Home Gym: 6 Exercise Equipment and 10 WorkoutsThe Home Gym Home gyms vary in size, equipment, toys, and costs. But they do not need to be elaborate to...
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5 Tips for Sticking to an Exercise Routine All Year“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty” – Proverbs...
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4 Biblical Reasons for ExerciseMurky Motivations “Be the very best you”. “Get that beach body ready”. “Boost your self-esteem”. “Impress others with your gains”. “You deserve to look good”. If...
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"Thoughts for Young Men": Dangerous Procrastination” ‘Serious things tomorrow’, said a heathen, to one who warned him of coming danger; but his tomorrow never came....
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The Long Road of Body-Stewardship“What gain has the worker from his toil?” At the end of each year, we start observing a fitness frenzy. During the...
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The Snoozy Sluggard in Proverbs“I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was...
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Warm Up RoutineDon’t Skip the Warm Up Warm up routines are skipped more than breakfasts on busy mornings, advertisements before YouTube videos, and...
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Get up and Run the Race“Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what...
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The Kinetic Chain: One Body, Many MembersThe basic principle of bodily movement is that your body moves as one system. The human body relies on several...
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10 Minute Ab Workout With Your KidsIn a previous post, I share 6 reasons why you should master bodyweight movements. One of these reasons is Teachability....
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The "Non-Fluffy" Christian Workout PlaylistSifting through the myriad of Christian music out there is getting more difficult, especially if you are on the hunt...
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Nutrition Basics: Calories, Macros and Good FoodFit Tip Friday – Nutrition Basics Nutrition and fitness are inseparable. Food is the fuel for your movement, and the man...
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Jonathan and the PhilistinesThe Hike, the Climb, the Fight and the Workout (1 Samuel 14) The Bible is full of incredible stories. It tells...
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What is an Exercise Regression?The Movement Pyramid Think of each exercise movement as the top of a pyramid. There are several fundamental skills and strength,...
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Sober-Mindedness: The Remedy for Laziness and GluttonyAlways liars. Evil beasts. Lazy gluttons. Sounds like the kind of people you want to be your neighbors, right? Well, for Titus, these types...
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Bodyweight Training: 6 Reasons Why You Should Master ItFour months into my marriage, my wife and I moved from a college town in Texas to a Hudson River...
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Hold the Line, Timothy: Training in Godliness & Bodily-ness1 Timothy 4:7-8 “Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is...
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Why Layman's Fitness ExistsI have always wanted muscles. When in grade school, my brother and I would stuff dirty socks and underwear in...
Simple Plans for Important Goals
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