I was talking to my daughter since she was questioning my abilities as a 3rd grade teacher ( so am I btw) and I told her: ” Look you have been cast into a very uncertain scenario, it is not cool but we have to deal with it.” There is no denying it ( albeit […]
Now with some states reopening ( insanity) and people recovering, I am often asked what one should do in terms of training. The usual reaction is: GYM IS OPEN….BEAST MODE. Stop. This will not work! Why? Because we have been on break for too long. Here is my advice : Unless you have been as diligent […]
Embrace the suck! Todays newsletter is about my t-shirt. Hold on there is a method to this nonsense. Yesterday morning was simply from hell. You know when nothing works. On wakes up to several annoying emails, the kids are out of control and once you finally have them outside, you need to shield from EMT […]
At some point in our lives we all will likely struggle with feelings of helplessness, the sense that we are not as in control of events in our lives as we would wish to be. If this is something you have never experienced before the current global crisis that is the COVID-19 pandemic then […]
A catastrophe like the COVID19 is essential a very unforgiving gym bathroom mirror for everyone and every entity . Every country is being measured in terms of how well it did protect its citizens, Every leader is coming under scrutiny , some pass the test , others… oh well. The same goes for any business, […]
There is no denying it, we are living in a challenging time and things do appear dark. From the view point of this great city of ours, you are witnessing a complete failure of federal leadership, gross incompetence on many levels, excessive greed by banks and large cooperations sucking up small business loans ( the irony!) , failure […]
The long road back Since this question came up: how ones one feel post coronavirus ? The short answer is: I do not know. On the physical side, it seems that the recovery from the virus is not linear, to put it mildly. If you are to bounce back from a garden-variety illness, you notice improvement […]
Someone asked me the other day: Why not close the shop and go work at bigger gym when things reopen? Sure, that would be the easier path but there are a few reasons why we do not consider doing anything the like. 1. This is our home too. We built it, we bought the equipment, built up […]
I wanted to write this newsletter for a while, alas whenever I felt heroic enough to sit I came quickly to the conclusion that I was in fact very weak. As I am wrapping up a two week quarantine, let me tell you this: this thing is no laughing matter. Even though I consider […]
Unless you are completely oblivious too..well everything you must by now understand that we are facing a tectonic shift of the likes that we have not seen since WW 2. When this is over, hardly anything will be same be it in terms of the economy, society, politics, international relations ..you name it. And yes, these are […]