The Marine Daily 16 is a set of calisthenics exercises that Marines “lovingly” refer to as PT (emphasis on the P) which is short for physical training. I’m writing a series of posts about this training program in this series I’ll walk you through the Daily 16 describing each exercise sharing my personal preferences and [...]
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100 Pushups: How Many Can You Do?
I found an interesting site you should check out called 100 push ups. While I don’t often link to exercise websites, this one of fun and entertaining. I promise. The site contains information about push ups and a program to get anyone to 100 push ups. The main purpose of the site is to advertise [...]
George Laroque Vegan
Everyone knows vegan’s are 120 lbs due to the lack of protein, iron, and calcium in our diets. Recently a National Hockey League tough guy, George Laroque, has gone vegan to make a political statement against animal abuse. He serves as a wakeup call to many ignorant sports fans who equate eating meat with athletics. [...]
Running Raw
This morning Kristen found Tim VanOrden’s Running Raw on YouTube. Tim is an amazing runner who eats and promotes a raw food, vegan diet to athletes on his blog Running Raw. Tim is a persuasive speaker and his blog is marvelously entertaining and educational. Tim proves that an amazing athlete can thrive on a raw [...]
Why do professional runners eat so poorly?
Kristen has recently become inspired to take up serious running. However, reading books about running and how to train for running is like reading propaganda for the meat and dairy industry. Professional runners obviously live in the same toxic food culture that we all do. Yet, reading about trainers and runners who eat protein powder, [...]
