Will a certain rep scheme build more muscle? Burn more fat? Create robotic-like endurance? Is a 3 rep program for no-necks, 10 reps for beefcakes, and 30 reps for human battery packs?

One goal, too many distractions

I wrote a book that made this claim: Are You Useful?

Did you know there are trainers out there who brag about NOT using barbells? Others boast about never using 2-legged squats, only single and split leg versions. Why do you think they'd highlight their limitations like that?

I've often, and maybe obviously, been accused of being competitive. Believe it or not, in the past the verdict made me bristle, but now I'll culp to it. Yes, competitive I may be, but if you've ever competed against me, you may have missed a key ingredient in our battles.

In the industry of making people move around in interesting ways, dropping a grand or two on a weekend certification once seemed as common as fitspiration memes on Instagram.

An excerpt from chapter 3 of More Inclined Towards Adventure, available digitally on this website (and as part of the membership), and in analog form here.

An interesting trend is developing in my email threads. Recently, the majority of my dialogue with clients and website members involves the emotional jiu-jitsu involved with being a beginner.

There has been very little new thought in the name of Fitness recently. And by "recently," I mean the last 130 years or so. This is OK, but it also kinda sucks.

What happens when a pair of acutely aware thinkers and movers facilitate dialogs with a handful of other thinker/movers?

I'm stealing from my own book, Are You Useful. A story about how BodyTribe started, at least philosophically, which happens to be one of the first chapters of said book I'm plagiarizing.

I remember reading an interview with a massive bodybuilder named Dave Palumbo back in the mid 90s.