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Three Secrets for Wall-Ball Success

Three Secrets for Wall-Ball Success

There aren’t very many people who ever say “I love wall-balls!”  Even tall people, who have a much easier time with the exercise, don’t seem to like it much. (For those of you not in the know, here’s a wall-ball demonstration video.)...
Yelling at the Coached

Yelling at the Coached

You might have heard it before.  I know I have: “Pick up that bar!” “Get back on that bar!”  When you are part of an elite fitness regime, you are expected to give every workout your all.  Coaches like to push their clients harder.  The music,...
Double Under Jump Rope's Double Under Jump Rope Review

Double Under Jump Rope's Double Under Jump Rope Review

I recently received a Double Under Jumprope from a nice company in the UK named Double Under Jump Rope (doubleunderjumprope.com).  At first I was not actually skeptical because both the company and the product were named after the very action for which the product is...
The Kindle Paperwhite is Better than a Real Book

The Kindle Paperwhite is Better than a Real Book

Sometimes I like to read books. I don’t know why. There are plenty of people around me that I could talk to and spend time with, but sometimes real people just don’t cut it. Sometimes you can spend an hour with somebody and never really learn something...
Inov-8 Bare-XF 260 Review: Ropes, not Laces

Inov-8 Bare-XF 260 Review: Ropes, not Laces

Everyone around here likes Inov-8.  We’ve never met anybody who works there, and we probably don’t have any stock in their company, but we’ve seen their shoes, either on our own feet or on others at the gym.  We’ve seen the peppy little...
The Strike Mvmnt: My New Favorite "Elite-Fitness" Shoes

The Strike Mvmnt: My New Favorite "Elite-Fitness" Shoes

A little company that I had never heard of, called Strike Mvmnt, emailed me one day about sending me a pair of their shoes.  I looked at their website and immediately, like a true ideologist, I found the heel-raise for the shoe and saw that it was 3.9mm.  I only wear...