Every year I participate in the 28-Mile March for the Fallen at Fort Indiantown Gap in Central Pennsylvania. This year’s event really kicked my ass, so I decided to write a post explaining how I was able to recovery rapidly enough that by Monday, I was in the gym, back at training. I recorded this …
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This Saturday I’ll be completing a 28-Mile Ruck March around the perimeter of Fort Indiantown Gap. This is an event that I’ve done in the past, but I only recently decided to commit to this year’s march. It’s a noble cause which supports and honors fallen soldiers, and its full-length event is certainly not …
As I write this, I’m sitting between two hunting trips to Idaho’s remote back country to target a mule deer. This has left me thinking about both what I brought with me, plus what I’ll be bringing with me when I head back out. But just because I’m planning for a solo, backcountry hunt doesn’t …
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In theory, bodyweight-only workouts should be all that you need to sufficiently train your body. Throughout our history as a species specialized equipment was never part of our evolution, so it would stand to reason that some pull ups, push ups, and air squats should be all that you need for an effective home-based workout. …
Over and over we’ve heard about the value of optimizing your morning routine. In many respects this is a crucial element to achieving peak performance; what I’m more interested in, really, is the upstream and downstream effects of a honed-in morning routine. When your morning routine is on-point, it usually means that your sleep the …
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As we wrap up 2020, there’s a great deal of negativity surrounding the year we’ve just lived through, some have a positive outlook moving forward, some others–not so much… We get one shot at this and should make the best of it. For anyone anxious about the new year or depressed about last year, I …
We’re back at it with the 82nd installment in our Featured Fitness Content series. As always, the purpose of this series is to gather some of the best content in fitness, human performance, and health science from around the web, then provide these articles, research, podcasts, books, and more to our readers on a weekly …
We have lots of content to cover this week, from Ketogenic Diets to sleep routines of the ultra-successful, and aging to asthma. But first, you might want to take a look at last week’s Featured Content. You can do so here. At the time of this publication, I’ll be bow hunting Idaho’s Frank Church–River of …
We’re back at it again with another weekly installment of Featured Fitness Content. As always, if you’d like to go through last week’s edition, you can find it here. But now onto this week’s content… Featured Content The 3 Upper-Body Exercises You Should Be Doing By Alan Bishop via T-Nation 4 Intensity Techniques for Increased …
In the first half of this article series, I discussed my draw to Utah and some of the reasons why I’ll be returning this August to ascend King’s Peak–the state’s highest point at 13,527 feet above sea-level. I also explained how this differs from a traditional western peak summit; rather than climbing this at a …
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