Life teaches you things. The longer you get to live, the more you typically learn, provided you don’t program your life around a “must-see TV” schedule. It can also teach you a lot about what’s worth living for. And what’s not. A recent email on my way to the airport set the tone for this post. It was a link to an article called “Workout Guidelines for Men over 40.” Most articles and...

“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever.” – A Bronx Tale Not every dude can look like a model. No magic workout or miracle skin cream or even plastic surgeon could transform Gary Busey into Charlie Hunnam. Yet we all have potential to look just a little bit better than we presently do – some of us a lot. Yet only a charmed few get...

 Working out is my therapy. My daily dose of heavy iron keeps me a sorta sane, marginally productive member of society. I’d be lost without it. Or at least doing six months house arrest for road rage. The gym is also an incredible teacher, if you’re willing to learn. Stick around long enough and you’ll get schooled in goal setting, tenacity, even pain tolerance, not to mention the merits of...

I have a stalker. It started with emails and Facebook messages. It progressed to voice mails and increasingly desperate sounding texts. Last night, I found a business card on my car with just three words on the reverse, written in tear-smudged ink: I miss you. It’s not an adoring female fan. Hell, it’s not even a female. It’s my chiropractor. I’ve never been a “see my chiropractor or soft tissue...

Muscle size that is. Apologies for the click-bait title. At times you have to pull out all the stops to make a point. And that point is: contrary to what I’ve been hearing lately, building bigger muscles is a good thing. Now I still believe that guys should ultimately try to get (and stay) lean. When I work with a guy, especially someone over 30, I always try to get them lean first -- even if...

Welcome Back! Actually it was me that left. I just moved again. What an enormous shit sandwich that is. I’ve moved 5 times in the past 5 years and it never gets easier. Your once organized life becomes utter chaos; everything you need to function suddenly lost in a sea of cardboard boxes that look all too similar. You can’t find dishes or cutlery or coffee cups. You can’t even find clean...

 Information is cool. But execution is what matters. If losing fat were as simple as having access to information we’d all be ripped. Especially the dorks arguing on Facebook about when to start drinking their “peri-workout” drink. Instead, the average gym goer is, well, fat. Or skinny-fat. Or just plain physically shitty, with a cupboard full of lousy supplements and an ass like Donald Trump....