by matt | Jul 13, 2014 | Equipment
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...
by matt | Jun 28, 2013 | Equipment
I have long been a proponent of gymnastics rings and their efficacy for building strength and muscle. I wrote an unpopular Ode to Rings and wrote previously about some inferior rings that I once believed in. I felt a little like a smoker who told other people that...
by matt | Mar 3, 2013 | Article, Equipment
I’m not the best boxer in the world. You won’t see my name on the list of world champions anytime soon. Really, I mostly box to get a good workout and because its fun to punch things. I’m not a career boxer, so I didn’t want to have career...
by matt | Feb 7, 2013 | Article, Equipment
Yes, my friend, and No, my friend. They are really that bad, and they are really very good. There is a chasm in quality between Everlast’s consumer grade and professional equipment that can only be crossed on a bridge made of your own dollar bills. Everlast...
by matt | Oct 21, 2011 | Article, Equipment
I know what it is like to want a pair of gymnastic rings. Have I acquired this knowledge by mere imagination, by simulating in my own mind what it might be like to want them, like an author might for his literary fiction? Like Dostoevsky, imagining the plagues of...
by matt | Aug 16, 2011 | Article, Equipment
In “Elite-Fitness” the only jump-roping task we are ever required to do, without exception (excepting otherwise), is double-undering. The user of the jump rope must jump into the air while compelling the rope two times beneath his/her feet before landing...
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