Poor Royce Gracie.

Let me say something first:
No, I didn’t expect Royce Gracie to beat Matt Hughes. I was rooting for him in my heart, but my intellect told me otherwise – which doesn’t make his loss any less disappointing.
It’s the Monday Morning Locker Room Question that’s being asked all over. Well, at least all over locker rooms [...]

Babies = Barbells.

Now, at some point, if you’ve reared a child or two, you must have wondered about the health benefits of toting your baby around. If you were so inclined, you may even have thought to yourself, “Well, I’m certainly strengthening my arms carrying this baby of mine around!”
But I’m fairly certain you’d never made the [...]

"Our New Contraption Beats the Living Shit Out of You."

I’ve been sitting on this post for two weeks…
Not literally “sitting”.
A client of mine told me about an ad that was placed in the New York Times by Soloflex. They were advertising their new version of a Whole Body Vibration machine, the SoloflexWBV. Advertised as a less expensive version of the institutional models [...]

It’s Really Called "Football."

You know, if televised soccer games looked more like this, then I’m sure more kids would play it.

I’m Still Alive – and So is David Blaine.

I’m know I haven’t been keeping up on my blogging – shame on me.
Yesterday Corrie and I passed by Lincoln Center and saw David Blaine in his fishbowl. In case you haven’t heard, David Blaine is submerging himself underwater for a week, at the end of which he will attempt to break out of 150 [...]