Are you inspired to pursue a big adventure in nature but struggling to make time for training? This is a good sign. It’s an important...

We can all become pretty unstoppable. With a well developed aerobic system and a good understanding of our pace and fueling, the only...

There are many underutilized human training tools and environments in our modern world. One of the most powerful ones is the dark. Like...

To avoid breaking it helps to stay aware of broken practices. In our culture, athletic energy is often channeled into avenues that break...

The start of a new year is a time of rebirth and self-direction. It’s a good time to reflect on our continuing personal evolution and...

The arrival of winter reminds us that there are natural rhythms that affect our development. When we spend most of our time inside in...

Optimizing our ability to explore nature as athletes over the full term of a human experience takes a bit of strategy and planning. It...

Life is too powerful to waste chasing things that don’t matter. When it comes to our bodies and our athletic lives this is equally true....

There are many exceptionally strong and resilient tribes of people in this world. It is no coincidence that some of the toughest tend to...

On this Thanksgiving holiday, let’s remember to be grateful for the strength of our ancestors. All of our genes were passed on to us...

I went out for a trail run alone through the woods yesterday evening. It was wet, foggy, and it was getting dark. No one else was...

Life is an evolving mystery and so are we. One good reason to train as athletes is to work through our many layers and to more fully...

There are some basic actions that we can all do right now to live more powerfully. The first step is simple. It’s a decision to accept...

It may indeed be true that dogs are man’s best friends, but perhaps fear and discomfort should come second and third. Just like dogs,...

In today’s culture, we limit ourselves in the way we think about our minds and bodies. Treating our minds and bodies as separate in our...

Athletic medicine is powerful. It might be the best (and most enjoyable) preventative medicine we have available to us. Leaving aside...

The previous post “How to take charge and change your life, pt.1” discussed the basics of empowerment and how to use athletic training to...

Living our strongest and truest lives requires us to take full ownership of our experiences. If we struggle with this it probably gets...

Today we’ve almost literally confined “fitness” in a box. The sad reality is that most of us are training to be tools, not the powerful...

To transform our lives and realize our deepest strengths the most important skill is learning. We need to learn what we truly stand for...