Why train barefoot? Quick summary: Training without shoes helps our instructors to better see everything that your body is doing so that we can provide more effective coaching feedback while you train. Barefoot training helps to improve joint-by-joint movement quality for safer training and a stronger, more resilient body. Yes, at Barefoot we really do […]
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A while back, Nate Green asked me a question: “What’s the best advice you’ve ever given your younger brother?” His premise was that not everyone goes through life with a close brother, or a mentor, and that this is one of the main things that seems to help successful people along in life. Nate’s idea
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So long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to harass and plague you wherever you wander on land or on sea. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 4 BC – 65 AD One of the benefits of being in a maritime Special Operations Force is that sometimes the places
Note: If you haven’t yet read the post on complexity and fractals you should start there. It’s a curious aspect of knowledge that both ends of the development spectrum, from naive beginner to well-versed expert, are marked by simplicity. Bruce Lee once said, “Before I studied the art, a punch was just like a punch, a kick
The picture above is a vegetable called Romanesco broccoli. Yes, it’s real. It’s often referred to as fractal broccoli. A fractal is a mathematical phenomenon involving a property called self similarity. It’s an object comprised of multiple components which can be split apart, but each of which resembles the whole. There are variations on this
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How to create a two-a-day exercise program that keeps you out of the gym. A common request I get is for workout tips while traveling. Many people have a good routine going at home and are able to eat and train consistently in their familiar gyms and in their own kitchen or at the restaurants
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius In The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely talks about a concept called self herding. Herding refers to the tendency to act based on the behavior of other people whom we don’t know
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I am going to tell you the best-kept secret to ultimate health and fitness. With this one piece of special information, you’ll have pain-free joints, ripped abs and the muscles you’ve always been after. You’d better have a pen to write this down because this one inside tip will finally unlock the door to maximum
I recently finished reading Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers, by Robert Sapolsky. It’s an illuminating and fairly technical book covering the multitude of ways that chronic stress slowly debilitates and eventually kills you and what to do about it. I took a lot of notes throughout the book on things like the impact of exercise on
I received an email recently from a young Special Programs candidate about to enter selection training. He had sought advice on how to make it through the process from a number of others who had been there, but the advice he had gotten was frustratingly simple, “Just don’t quit.” That advice though, is really the