Stewardship

Chronic Stress & Health In 2020 I remember having a panic attack in my backyard. Rapid heart rate… dizziness… shortness of breath… deep feeling of numbness and apathy… That morning I remember staring in my yard out there into nowhere, totally numb, and completely overwhelmed by everything I was feeling. It was a low for me. And with 5 years

“An Hour In the Plant A Day…” Years ago at work I joked with the HR Vice President that all the sitting and working I was doing made get less than 7,000 steps per day. As a newly minted professional, I wore and shared that low number like a badge of diligent honor. Pete, the HR Vice President, was not

Do Kettlebells Actually Work? I used to be a gym rat. And as I was doing my gym rat thing, I remember looking with raised eye-brows at these funky looking cannonballs with handles in the corner of the gym. A kettlebell? What’s that? Why does it kind of look like Joe Rogan wearing headphones? Do kettlebells actually work? Since I

I used to work for a sugar company… now I run an online fitness business How’d that happen? Well, it might be similar to your story. In short, for years I knew fitness and health was important… but I wasn’t living that way. I was running on fumes, working long hours, stress-eating, sacrificing sleep, and gaining weight. In 2020 this

Shadowy Seasons In 2020, I was in perhaps one of the most stressful seasons of my life. We had just moved states for a new job. We sold and bought a house during that time. Within 3 months of starting that job I found out there was going to be company-wide layoffs. The new job I had was already requiring

My Introduction to Vitamin D In December of 2015 my wife and I moved across the country from a college town in Texas to a town 40 minutes north of New York City. It was an exciting time in life… newly married, new job, new location, etc… But there was one change in particular that caught me flat footed. The

Muscle Confusion I did P90x in high school. This was a popular home fitness program released in 2004, known for its intensity, energetic trainers, and something called “muscle confusion”. Muscle confusion is a training approach that aims to increase strength and results by shocking your muscles with new movements regularly. After finishing P90x, I noticed a thickened layer of muscle

During my sophomore year in high school, I suffered a lower back injury that took me out during a football season. It was the last time I played high school football… and I went through 3 months of physical therapy. My lower back hurt so bad I could barely walk. As my coach so eloquently (and memorably) put it –

This article gives you all of my main home gym equipment recommendations, based on 10+ years of use, trial, error, etc…  The equipment you need depends primarily on what your goal is with exercise.  But if you generally want to lose weight and build strength, you ought to consider doing some kind of resistance training. And for that, I primarily