Zone 2 training: Burn Fat the Easy Way

Zone 2 training: Burn Fat the Easy Way

Remember those brightly colored “heart rate zone” posters hanging ubiquitously on the walls of school gyms and fitness centers a few decades ago? Well, they haven’t gone away. In fact, with the proliferation of wearable heart rate tracking devices, heart rate (HR) zone training is 

What’s it like to fast for 5 days?

What’s it like to fast for 5 days?

There is a lot of buzz on the Internet about fasting these days.  When I tune into my favorite podcasts, such as Tim Ferriss, Peter Attia, or Robb Wolf, there is always someone talking about fasting.  And that is not a bad thing!  Just look 

A Christmas gift that changed our lives: mud

A Christmas gift that changed our lives: mud

Three years ago Rachel gave me a Christmas gift that changed our lives: tickets to our first OCR (obstacle course race, aka “mud run”).  It was the Warrior Dash, a relatively easy 5k distance race.  It has been said that immediately after someone’s first OCR