Image above: Brent Keyes from 2009 to 2011 In late 2009 Abby Keyes had begun preparation to open a Barefoot facility in Watertown, South Dakota. She was going through our qualification process, studying everything from functional anatomy to nutrition while going through our workouts and dialing in her eating habits when she was joined by her […]
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Remember kids, healthy eating starts with Froot Loops and Wonder Bread. The American industrial food system is heavily based on government subsidies. In the years between 1995 and 2006 the government paid out just over 177 billion dollars in subsidies to farmers to encourage and enable them to grow specific crops. These crops are generally
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Almost everyone wants to know how to fall asleep faster. The information below, as well as this iphone sleep app, will help you do that. Your nervous system is comprised of several components. The stuff that goes on without your conscious control is dictated by your sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. These two systems control different
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I just finished reading The Happiness Manifesto, a book proposing the need to measure a nations success less on its economic output and more on its sustainable happiness. Look at the picture above. Statistically, if you’re an American, whoever lives here is about twenty percent happier and healthier than you and consumes one-fifth the resources. To
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Stephane Roberts interviewed me a while ago along with Mark Twight, Martin Rooney and Dan John to contribute for a TMuscle article called Pushing the Limits. He asked me for my thoughts on the “test” workouts to push mental and physical capacity to a breaking point. Here’s my portion of the interview: “I don’t like most
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“I get it.” One of the greatest barriers to learning and becoming a better version of oneself is the phrase “I get it.” Being aware of a piece of knowledge doesn’t necessarily mean that you truly understand and implement it in your life. We all have comfort zones, like thermostats, and the idea that we
The Curse of Knowledge Everybody is stupid except me.” – Homer Simpson Next time you’re around a group of friends, try this experiment: Tap your finger on a table to the rhythm of a very simple, well known song like Happy Birthday. Before you do so, try to predict how long it will take for your friends
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Within Naval Special Warfare, a foundational principle is that one leads from the front. True leadership brings greater responsibility, not more privilege, and this is reflected not only during missions, but in one’s everyday actions. I was on a deployment with my SWCC detachment and we had spent several weeks running maritime interdiction ops and
I’m pretty good at assessing and writing programs for clients. It’s something I do daily, as I have for years. I’ve successfully trained people doing everything from rehabbing shattered shoulder blades to winning a Bellator Fighting World Championship. There is one person though, that I really just shouldn’t write programs for: Myself. It’s incredibly difficult
Dangerism – Belief systems or ideologies in which some activities are considered dangerous based on cultural histories, taboos and traditions rather than science, statistics or concrete evidence. “Have you ever licked a 9-volt battery?” This is the question Gever Tulley uses to gauge the risk aversion of crowds. As it turns out, a good many
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