A Ton of Inspiration
Get your head right, get your body right, get your life right.
A Wealth of Insight
Centered in movement, often grounded in humor, and always intelligent, these pieces are timeless bites of wisdom. Start anywhere. Or choose a category (below) and dive into it!
Huj. Huj. Hajra.
We all have some fire-breathing creature within us, some nebulous, nameless soul who can be summoned to do the heroic things that we, in the cold light of day, think we cannot.
Words To Fire You Up: Part One
You can beat me. But not defeat me.
How To Grab Life By The Tail
Be strong, and learn to enjoy your strength. You earned it. Don't let the naysayers steal it—or steal anything—from you.
The Moment
It's a moment when you shoulder your doubts and your fears, along with your hope and your confidence, a moment when you put on your back all you ever were in your mind, right next to all you ever could be. The weights are visible, and invisible.
Crossing Over
If I really think about it, I know the barbell can't save me … because it already has.
Clean
Look around your life and pick out what you absolutely need: Who and what you cannot survive without (or do not want to survive without). Then take a critical eye to everything (and everyone) else.
Water In The Well
You wouldn't eat garbage, so don't put it in your head.
Working on a Dream
What are you doing? What do your efforts go towards?
Laugh Lines
You gotta laugh at yourself.
The Engine
There Will Come a Day
Small Steps
You're in the gym doing something. You're already braver than the residents of Sofa Nation.
Listening To Ourselves
The big lift in the gym tells us much, but the way we approach the bar before the lift tells us more.
Nerves
Achievement does not come without discomfort.
You Can't Win the Warm-up
Trying to win the warm-up is misplacing your efforts. It’s trying to excel in time when you should be preparing in movement.
Should
Take the shoulds of your life and turn them into wills. And then dids. Turn mistakes into success.
Fear
One Million and One
The Japanese have a saying: Fall seven times. Get up eight. Yeah, well I'm rising eight. And 9. And 10.
There Will Be No Reset
What Does It Take to Change?
Work so that you can say this: Who I am now is who I wanted to be.