Tag: health

Easy 4-Day Gym Rotation to Help You Impress Strangers and Kids

Are you tired of being approached in malls and grocery stores and asked if you want to be a shirtless star in an upcoming Christmas calendar only to find out later they just wanted you to BUY an upcoming Christmas calendar that somebody else starred in? Does your son or daughter always find an excuse to NOT dress up as YOU for Super Hero day at school?  We’ve all been there.  The problem isn’t that these are unrealistic goals. The problem is you aren’t sticking with an easy to follow gym rotation. Continue reading “Easy 4-Day Gym Rotation to Help You Impress Strangers and Kids”

Pelicans- Not Known Fans of Leg Day

Pelicans Don’t Do Squats

Me: Honey, honey look. It's leg day.  I just did squats. Look at my legs.  
Mrs. Burrito Bowl:*Doesn't look up* They look great honey
Me: Can you tell I'm flexing them?
Mrs. Burrito Bowl: You're flexing them?  Haha.
Me: *Hangs head in shame*

Some people are blessed with killer legs but a poor personality.  My wife has great legs as well as a great personality.  I have an okay personality but the legs of a pelican.  Also I have poor natural eyesight.  Nature is a cold mistress. Continue reading “Pelicans- Not Known Fans of Leg Day”

Monday Motivation- Hang in There With a Pull-Up Bar

Today’s pull-up bar sponsored post is a thinly veiled metaphor for life

Hang in there, don’t give up.  Come on, you can do it. The road seems long and perilous but don’t give up.  Hang in there…metaphorically.  And also…you should just hang there, literally.  Hanging from a pull-up bar is a fantastic exercise that can help alleviate shoulder and back pain, increase grip strength, and allow you to appreciate the fact that we don’t live in trees.

Do you have back pain? Shoulder pain? Zits?  Get yourself a pull-up bar and hang from it several times per day and most of your life problems will simply go away. Continue reading “Monday Motivation- Hang in There With a Pull-Up Bar”

The Snowball Effect of Life Optimization – How to Start The Snowball

If you’re unfamiliar with the term “Snowball Effect” it basically means something that starts off small and insignificant snowballs into the next thing until eventually you’ve got an avalanche of momentum.  The snowball effect of life optimization is just that.  It starts off with small changes that snowball into a better life.   

It can be overwhelming to know where to start on the path to living a better, more purposeful, life.  You know there are countless changes you should be making.  Eat healthier, exercise more, save more money, learn to invest, drink less alcohol, stop poking baristas in the eye that pronounce your name wrong, the list can seem endless.   Continue reading “The Snowball Effect of Life Optimization – How to Start The Snowball”

11 Smart Ways to Lower Your Grocery Bill and Eat Healthier

We’ve all felt the pain of emptying our grocery cart onto the conveyer belt only to see the total creep way past our planned budget.  With a little planning you can lower your grocery cost without sacrificing quality.  Below are 11 smart ways to lower your grocery bill. Continue reading “11 Smart Ways to Lower Your Grocery Bill and Eat Healthier”

10-Minute Workout for Humans Who Read Blogs About 10-Minute Workouts

Being consistent with workouts is something we all struggle with, unless we just consistently don’t workout.  I’ve recently started a quick 10-minute workout regimen that I’m really enjoying. I mean, I don’t enjoy it at all when it’s happening.  I enjoy it AFTER I do it.

Now that I think about it, you probably won’t like it all….wait, come back.  You WILL like it.  You’ll LOVE it!  The whole thing is a blast. Never mind that burning in your chest or that slight fainting sensation.  Wooo! Continue reading “10-Minute Workout for Humans Who Read Blogs About 10-Minute Workouts”

How I Lost 11 Pounds Drinking Kirkland Light

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Listen, I love beer. I do not love Kirkland Light.  My love for a good dark beer is one of my best personality traits.  I will be slightly mean to a child for an imperial stout beer.  This isn’t a close call either.  I will tell a small boy that he can’t be a super hero because that’s not a real career path if it gets me a thick, 10% ABV, pitch-black imperial stout.

My love of beer has given me many a glorious evenings around some type of fire and/or friends.  These are the times the poets of old wrote about.  My love of beer has also given me a very dad like beer belly regardless of the fact that I am not a father.  In fact, I made a comment to my wife about how I’m going to get the ol’ 6-pack abs back to which she replied, “You used to have a 6-pack?” Continue reading “How I Lost 11 Pounds Drinking Kirkland Light”

5 Easy Ways to Get Back (and stay) in Shape- The 5-Minute Workout

Exercise is hard.  Trying to get motivated to do a 2-hour workout is mentally exhausting.   The older we get the harder it is to change our habits. The inactivity in our life builds on itself and before we know it we’re staring incredulously at pictures of our former selves. We sit there half hating/half admiring the person we used to be for their ability to constantly stay in shape no matter what they ate or how they lived.

For many of us those days are long gone.  You look down and see a little extra cushion around your belly and you want it to be gone.  Maybe you feel too embarrassed to even go to a gym.  Maybe you want to start at home where no one can see you workout. You don’t even know where to start.

Maybe you’re someone who has never worked out.  Nobody ever showed you an easy to follow workout and you didn’t know who to ask.  No matter where you are in your fitness journey this workout can help you. Continue reading “5 Easy Ways to Get Back (and stay) in Shape- The 5-Minute Workout”

Intermittent Fasting for Beginners- The Basics

Today’s post is all about the basics of intermittent fasting. If you don’t want to read about fasting, this isn’t the post for you.  Actually, don’t listen to me.  If you’re not interested in fasting it can only mean because you don’t know all the great benefits of fasting.  For sure keep reading whether you’re interested or not. Continue reading “Intermittent Fasting for Beginners- The Basics”