ArvTraining Second Nature Strength was not a quality that anyone, even my closest friends and family, would've associated with me until I was almost 30. I was a weakling growing up.
hack 3 Powerful Hacks Here's 3 hacks that you can incorporate into your life without much thought. You might not see any instant benefits because this is not magic. But it is good for you, and a few weeks of consistency will add up. All of them could
original strength Original Strength Sometime in 2012, I heard about Original Strength from one of Coach Dan John's books. The word crawl immediately clicked in my head, and I was reading the book the next day. And it just made sense. I need things to click before I
guilt Guilt and the uselessness of it Listen to your body is preached by me to all my students. We need to be aware of what our body is telling us. If we are generally the type to love going to the gym to train, and are finding ourselves lacking motivation
ultimate The Irish Lion and SF Rec League My wife introduced me to Ultimate Frisbee when I was visiting Madras, just before I was due to move to Cupertino (2007). By the time I moved to San Francisco a year later, I was enjoying playing the sport. I found that there was
coaching Alcohol and Chocolates Whenever I go on vacation, either a real one where I actually go somewhere or just a vacation for my tummy, it almost always involves alcohol and chocolates (lots of it). I love chocolates. Drinking is fun when it is not the focus, and
strength training Simple to Complex Think about how we learned to talk. We learned to make sounds. We learned the A-B-C. We learned words. We heard a lot of people say stuff. We made sentences. We made a lot of mistakes. And we learned to talk, eventually. It goes
origin stories Small beginnings My Resistance was I would day dream. I will start with this...n 1 month I will start running... in 3 months run 10k. And not actually do it
The Quad Get out of the way Well-designed products and services should not require (much of) an instruction manual. What does that mean in the more complex world of coaching Strength & Conditioning
crossfit Are you guys warmed up? Back in late 2008 or early 2009, I joined San Francisco CrossFit (after I thoroughly embarrassed myself at the other CrossFit). The first 3 sessions were about getting beginners introduced
Dan John interpreting Coach Dan John's matrix Most of us want to train hard all the time, and our nutrition varies from eating like crap all the time to being in the strictest craziest diet for a few weeks. How do we balance these two out?
crossfit the story of my first-ever CrossFit class When we start off, most of us suck. Fact. Or at least, I did. But you flounder and suck it up and keep going. Let me tell you one of my stories and you'll get a better idea.
Blog Reset In the process of migrating from WordPress to Ghost, I managed to lose quite a bit of my old posts and mangle the rest. Am not a fan of Instagram and Facebook as a medium for what I want to read or watch or
