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 …