From the category archives:

Endure

13 Ways Past Burnout

Call it Spring Fever, call it competing priorities, call it whatever. For whatever reason I am burned out this week. And it shows, especially on this blog. Complaining isn’t going to help anything so let’s focus on what does.

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Daily Diet and Workout Checklist

Want a fool-proof way to get in better shape? Download and print out this checklist. Follow it every day.

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My Fool-Proof Way to Lose Fat, Gain Muscle

Tired of not making progress in your fitness goals? Me too.

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300 Workout

Remember the movie 300? You know, the one you started feeling uncomfortable watching with your wife because all the guys in it were next to naked and they looked in better shape than you? Much, much better shape? Well, here’s how they did it. A personal trainer came up with a series of exercises – [...]

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How I Workout On the Road

Take measures against falling out of shape while you’re out of town with these steps.

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Why Swim 5.5 Miles in Open Water?

In short, I’ve had a cast on a foot every spring for the last 3 springs from playing football. Don’t let anyone tell you flag football is non-contact. Aside from the foot problems, I needed something new to try for a workout. As it turns out, I went for something old. I used to swim [...]

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How Much Protein in a Diet, Really?

A friend of mine who competes in 24hour long endurance races recently asked me about how much protein he really needed in his diet. This was an interesting question from an interesting man; for example he now does adventure races over the weekends when away from his cubicle job because he learned all the necessary [...]

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Do You Barter?

They say a Penny Saved is a Penny Earned. So I’m going to try to save a million pennies by bartering website design work for help around the house. We’ll see how it goes. Was Not Successful Before I tried this before by simply responding to ads in Craigslist. This devolved because there are a [...]

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10 Things I Like About My Cubicle Job

One way for a cubicle warrior to endure the corporate jungle is to keep things in perspective. I know I spend a lot of time bitching and moaning about my cube. Here are 10 things I like. 1) Paycheck Nearly self-explanatory as it gets me closer to my Special Number and helps me research how [...]

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