Vibram Bikila – THE RUNNING TOE SHOES

 My Vibram Bikila footwear was a tough snug fit when I first squeezed in to them. It may have felt snug and tight only because the Vibram KSO’s I had before may have been one size too big. Whether it’s due to them being broken in or because my feet are less fat…my feet now slide in comfortably. Even after throwing them in the wash and hanging them to dry, they don’t have the same squeeze and struggle when getting them on.

I remember the day I got in to mine: I was about 9miles in to a run with my KSOs when we ran off course and up to my running partner’s pad. Jimmy gave me his Bikila’s to try on because my feet were getting really hot (going raw and beginning to blister). I immediately felt lighter on my feet and there was more bounce to my step. I needed it because I was ill-prepared and unconditioned for the 11mi back home. FUNNY SIDE NOTE: I fell stricken with cramps 3 times on my way back home sending Jimmy ahead of me so I wouldn’t drag him down with me. On the final collapse, I had to lie out for about five minutes before a lady out running along the trail offered to phone for help. There my arrogance refused the help and I walked a slow zombie walk back home for the final mile. I WAS WALKING LIKE A DEPRIVED ZOMBIE! Biting off more than you can chew in long-distance running bears tremendous consequence! Continue reading

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Born to Run

Born To Run

Cover of BORN TO RUN

run [ruhn] 

verb (used without object)
1. to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.

Christopher McDougall’s book gave me a kick start in to the world of running for personal pleasure. Before then, I only ran for some other purpose: sports such as football and basketball, to improve my conditioning to be better in such sports, and most popularly because of growing too fat.

It was my very good friend and running partner and coach, JIMMY HART, that twisted my arm to read this book when I was going through a very rough patch in my ongoing battle with depression a few years ago. He framed the read and tricked me in to reading it as a self-improvement read knowing that at the time, I was a hog for all things that I felt could aid me in my quest to get a firm hold over my life and become better.

It was a very delightful treat because rather than point out my deficiencies and areas that needed in improvement in my life (as most self-help books tend to do)…the book treated me with a pure and simple narrative. The book taught me a valuable lesson: I WAS BORN TO RUN. Continue reading

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Time: Having it VS. Making it

Hello World. I have missed you.

Months ago, I had plenty of spare time. In my service as a personal trainer, the impact of the economy had adverse impacts to my business as it related to my business with 1-on-1 personal training clients.

So: I had a handful of clients and plenty of what may have been treated as DISPOSABLE but what proves to be INVALUABLE TIME. I had plenty of stress free hours that made prioritizing my running and strength training workouts easy.

Time has certainly become much more precious in my eyes Continue reading

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Eat this.

I have decided to provide a soundboard of sorts (every now and then) to announce GOOD nutritious FOODS that I stumble across. To me if it isn’t delicious, then it’s only nutritious and not GOOD FOOD!

The FAVORABLE STATS!

 

See the facts. With skim milk you get 17g protein and 8g fiber (5 of which is HEART HEALTHY soluble fiber) with only 270calories. I had this as my “dessert” tonight!

Enjoy.

My New Favorite Cereal

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C-prime Varying Results and Value

More than a year ago a personal training associate from Lifetime contacted me in regards to trying this product. Having been impressed by the demonstrations of its impact on my balance, I decided to give this band/bracelet a go. At the time only the Neo (fashion) line of bands with the magnetic clasps were available.


Former cPrime Video Media

I agree that there is a tremendous variance on the results of the tests performed with these types of products. It makes sense why cprime has changed their media and opted to remove the videos demonstrating the flexibility, strength, and balance gains from wearing this product. Anybody can act out desired results. When performing the tests, there are variables which often aren’t controlled to be constant before and after: body positioning, angles/directions of force in resistance, amount of force/resistance.

If somebody is eager to make a buck, what’s to stop them from biasing their tests? I had an unbiased third party administer its effects on me and I turned around and tested the third party. That’s where I was impressed.  Even so, this was clearly an issue of: “Individual results may vary.” Especially as it pertained to matters of flexibility. Continue reading

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