A recent area of research of mine is in the psychological concept of “hardiness.” Hardiness, put simply, is the ability to withstand and perform well under stress. The concept was initially defined in the late seventies when a guy named Kobasa began studying the psychological profiles of men working as executives for AT&T during […]
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Protein shakes have been a dietary staple of mine for much of my life. I loathe MRE’s; the “Meals Ready to Eat” given to military personnel in the field consisting of roughly a thousand calories of mostly flour, soybean oil and corn syrup. On deployments I would often live exclusively on meal replacement shakes, flax
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” — Mike Tyson Picture a large plastic zip tie, about an inch wide. The smaller versions are sometimes used to tie garbage bags; soldiers and police officers use the large ones to restrain people. Anyone could figure out how to thread a zip tie:
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Freedom: The Ability to Let That Which Does Not Matter Truly Slide “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” – Walden Every year from mid-June to mid-July in Southwestern Alaska millions of salmon migrate from the ocean, some ranging from as far away as Japan, and
“But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in any
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Originally published on TMuscle.com The sun wouldn’t be up for another twenty minutes or so. But already the class was gathered under the feeble glow of a single streetlight, on a concrete slab that at one time had been the foundation of a building. It was now our gym. Piled in the red, volcanic
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The sun rises every day, but how often do you take the time to notice it? Have you ever felt like it was something so far away as to be nearly impossible? I remember once, in the early portion of my training in Naval Special Warfare, being led by the arms from my cell down
The first consideration taken when including any exercise in one’s program is its purpose. You must know what movement pattern and energy systems are being trained, and then you must know how to correctly perform the movement in order to get that effect. In the case of a staple movement like pullups, the primary movements
There have been four regions of the world identified because their inhabitants live exceedingly long, healthy lives, known as blue zones. One of these is the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica. I found myself here about two weeks ago after impulsively booking a last-minute plane ticket and boarding a flight with a small backpack and
Dr. Phil Ramos – Last year of residency, 2003. Dr. Ramos is a nephrologist in Denver. He has been training at Barefoot since this spring, and has made outstanding progress. What we didn’t know at first though, is just how far he’s come. The path required to become a medical doctor is rigorous, and at
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