My first orientation to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) was last year when I visited my brother and went to watch my nephew Paul at a training session. It was then that I became a fan - not of the fighting (although the battle with the heavy bag is one that I find absolutely titillating as [...]
Tag: fitness
228 + 228 = mildly intoxicated and no nutritional value
Today I want to share with you my new favorite place to visit - myfitnesspal.com. I ran across this site a few weeks back when I was researching how many calories a Smirnoff Ice Wild Grape contains (that is my beverage of choice at the National Emergency Training Center's Pub and I wanted to be [...]
Working the bag…
I love my punching bag and gloves. I have been known to say that boxing is my new favorite thing, but one of the students in our program, Patrick Wilson, tells me that it isn't really "boxing" unless I am hitting and being hit...everything else is just "working the bag". Well then, I guess I [...]
P90X – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!
Satan lives...and he lives in the form of Tony Horton and his P90X workout series. My brother gave me the P90X set when I visited him in California at the end of July in support of my Best Body Ever goal. I let the DVDs sit for quite awhile and then I watched one here [...]
In the eye of the beholder…
Perceptions are funny things, especially when they are of ourselves. The way we perceive ourselves to be (self-image), the way we believe we are seen in the world (others image of us) and the way we are actually perceived by others are complicated paradigms that we universally experience as human beings. I remain fascinated by [...]
THE NEW FORTY 