It’s a week before Christmas and all of you have completely forgotten about Hanukkah you fucking bigots are stressing. You haven’t finished shopping, supply chains are FUBAR, you are contemplating the ridiculous drive ahead, and/or dreading all the people coming to...
Ten minute, no equipment required, totally easy workout. Provided you can already plant your feet and bend over until your hands touch the ground, that is.
It’s sweater weather so this seems like a good time discuss the verboten subject of abs. Yes, Glibfitters they are important, and they need to be worked as a distinct muscle group. The aesthetic benefits of good abs are self-evident. The functional benefits of strong...
After years of working out solely inside, I had about three seasons of working out in the great outdoors. The contrast has given me perspective. For gym work, I like being outside if I get to the gym early and the equipment I need is outside. Aerobic work I much prefer to do outside. I like the changing scenery and feeling of motion from running.
This seems like a good time to discuss what motivates you to workout. I’m broadly defining workout. It can be anything that get’s you off your ass and gets your heart pumping. Sports, lifting weights, walking, running, biking, jumping rope, skateboarding, and so forth all count.
For those of you looking to test/assess your fitness here’s a fairly broad way to do it. Alternatively, you could turn to one of the fitness tests for the military branches. And here is a little bit of fitness philosophy and a take down of a silly fitness test.
The last few months my workouts have been very inconsistent. I’m enormously frustrated with myself. I have had weeks of diligence, a week or two of little to no activity, and weeks that were themselves such a mix they were the epitome of mediocrity.
Results come last. We all want to judge the effectiveness of our actions based on their results. But how can you make this judgment, while you are doing something, when results come last?
Chapter 9 of The Slight Edge is entitled Faces of The Slight Edge. It should be entitled the Forces of The Slight Edge. Those forces are: Momentum, Completion, Habit, Reflection, and Celebration.
Hmmm, is “mastery” a racist term? Only one way to find out.
One of the quickest and most direct routes to getting yourself up and onto the success curve is to get out of the past.
Get off your fat ass and do something.
Look Fats, here’s the deal: You’re a damn liar, man.
You can’t start with nothing.
This is the last Coronavirus edition of GlibFit.
The most powerful force you have to make the changes you want is time.
Chapter 2 of The Slight Edge is entitled “The Secret of Easy Things.”
The premise is summarized in this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
He is coarse, brusque, and harsh. I often need a dose of this.
I’m taking my parents out to lunch to celebrate Birthing People’s Day.
Why the hell do I have to wear a mask?
The past few weeks I’ve been in something of a funk about my workouts.
Is it exhaustion from work?
I have been writing this column for over a year and realized we have never covered how many types of fitness there are.
Let’s pretend it’s a normal day.