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A solemn man, sitting on top of a large rock high above a forest, contemplating his life's purpose.
01/04/20

In the first article of this series, Life Purpose: Defining Yours Is Important, I provided an argument to define your life’s purpose and a definition with characteristics of a meaningful purpose statement. In this article, we will go a little further with the idea and explore a process to help with identifying your own.  Let’s begin….

members of a fitness community doing rowing intervals
12/19/19

I belong to a great fitness community, and it has helped me stay on-track and motivated. We playfully call ourselves the fitness mafia, and we have seen members come and go and come back. There are no fees, other than the occasional bombardment of text messages. So, it’s simple and basic. We post a workout,…

Prioritize Fitness
12/17/19

Prioritize your fitness to find greater enjoyment in your life. Many of us like to use the lack of time as an excuse when it actually is a matter of priority.

Life Purpose
12/09/19

Have you ever had a feeling of being lost as you wondered through your day? You wake up, get dressed, make breakfast, and walk out the door to go to work. The day starts the same as any other, and it goes nowhere different fast!

If so, define a life purpose and start to enjoy life.

Goal Setting
11/25/19

Goal Setting, sometimes I wonder if it is an exercise in futility. At the end of last year, I sat down and formulated seven specific goals. They ranged from spiritual goals–pray a decade of the Rosary every morning–to a host of fitness goals. I categorized them into two groups, habit or achievement. I even went…

CrossFit: constantly varied, never random
09/03/19

CrossFit is a training method that is built on being consistently varied, but it is not random. It is exceptionally designed to improve functionality of all ages.

A row of assault bikes
08/30/19

Anyone who has an interest in CrossFit®, no matter how deep, knows the amount of pain and suffering Assault Fitness’s Assault Airbike, aka Assault Bike, produces. The suffering felt on the bike has lead to athletes calling the equipment the Devil’s Tricycle. It’s no wonder everyone who jumps on the bike wants to have a…

08/28/19

How do we bring physicality to an increasingly artificial world?  Here’s something important to understand: we have successfully removed ourselves from the Animal Kingdom. We are no longer in the food chain unless a lion escapes from the Cincinnati Zoo, or a house kitty precisely strikes the jugular. In the wild, physicality matters. If I…

08/26/19

We often say we do not have enough time to exercise, but we have 48 hours a week available to us. What are we doing with it?

08/22/19

Quality of life is dependent on how fit you are, and it is never too late to start working on your level of fitness.