As I get older, I’ve found myself shedding more and more of the “invincible” mindset or the “it won’t happen to me” attitude that I once had. One such instance of this is wanting to carry emergency contact information with me when I’m off on a run or working out away from home. I’m a… Continue reading GO>ID: Carry Your Emergency Contact Information On the Go
Category: FITCOM
Tips on staying active, fueled and ready to overcome all obstacles.
Coastal California Adventure: ITS and PDW Team Up for Operation Aqua Terra
ITS was recently invited out to San Francisco to meet up with Prometheus Design Werx for a joint operation dubbed Operation Aqua Terra. I can neither confirm nor deny that I also toured PDW HQ and included some photos below. Aqua Terra, referred to as AT throughout the remainder of the article, was based on… Continue reading Coastal California Adventure: ITS and PDW Team Up for Operation Aqua Terra
Fitbit Flex Review: Tracking Your Activity for a Comprehensive Fitness Picture
Kelly and I have each been wearing a Fitbit Flex for a few months and we’ve been really happy with not only the view it’s given us of our overall fitness, but that it’s also been like a silent coach, pushing us further. While there’s no auditory feedback of a coach yelling at you to… Continue reading Fitbit Flex Review: Tracking Your Activity for a Comprehensive Fitness Picture
Is Travel Killing Your Workout Goals and Motivation?
One thing that unites us as Americans is our work ethic and our accepting the busy lifestyle that often accompanies success. The result is often long hours traveling, multiple days on the road, staying in hotels and eating restaurant food. This is a major contributing factor to the business professional slowly gaining weight from year… Continue reading Is Travel Killing Your Workout Goals and Motivation?
Living Better: What’s the Harm in Sugar and Sweeteners?
We live in exciting times. Our world is evolving in so many ways that we’re redefining what it means to be human. For the vast majority of our species existence we’ve been meat eating, vegetable gathering “locavors.” It’s only been since the crude oil boom that eating things from other parts of the world on… Continue reading Living Better: What’s the Harm in Sugar and Sweeteners?
Olympic Weightlifting: Master The Clean to Increase Overall Strength and Power
In the previous two articles, Sandbags: Unconventional Training Tools for Functional Strength and Unconventional Training Tools: Tire and Drag Harnesses, we showed you how to make some cheap and effective training tools that you can use anywhere. Homemade equipment and bodyweight exercises will get you fairly fit, but to reach your true potential, you’ll need to… Continue reading Olympic Weightlifting: Master The Clean to Increase Overall Strength and Power
Unconventional Training Tools: DIY Tire and Drag Harnesses
The tire and drag harness is probably the cheapest and most effective training tool in our arsenal. Its simple design and execution allows athletes of all levels to train 3 distinct types of fitness and is a great substitution exercise for injured athletes. Unlike barbells which are expensive and require more technical instruction and practice,… Continue reading Unconventional Training Tools: DIY Tire and Drag Harnesses
Earning the GORUCK Tough Patch with Challenge Class 732 in Portland
I sit here, just days after completing my GORUCK Challenge with mixed emotions. My muscles are no longer sore. I no longer travel with slow deliberate movements and I carried my four year old daughter at the grocery store tonight. I still hurt though. I have several open wounds that are starting to scab and… Continue reading Earning the GORUCK Tough Patch with Challenge Class 732 in Portland
Living Better: Make Your Body Work For You
The phrase “survival of the fittest” has often been associated with various facets of society, but most often when depicting the nature of humans – to not only survive but thrive – when placed in seemingly insurmountable or physically challenging situations. We see these tendencies of natural selection at a primitive level every day; some… Continue reading Living Better: Make Your Body Work For You
Living Better: Starting at the Core with Flexibility
Our bodies were designed to move, not sit in a chair or on a couch all day. I feel like American ailments are becoming worse these days and in my opinion, are directly related to atrophy. I strongly believe in the use it or lose it philosophy and if you don’t take movement seriously, you’re… Continue reading Living Better: Starting at the Core with Flexibility