During the last week I started rereading “Kitchen Confidential” by the late Anthony Bourdain. For those unfamiliar with this masterpiece , it is basically a chef’s odyssey through the NY restaurant world. Bankruptcies, successes, coke binges, burn outs, disasters, the mob, machine guns in the kitchen.. you name it , it’s there. Here is a guy who had the highest […]
Don’t be a douche I admit it, I was wrong. One of my predictions or hopes during the annus miserabilis that was 2020 was that people would be a bit nicer once things are looking up. This does not seem to be the case at all. Humans are just as selfish and entitled as ever. […]
One year ago,I was biking all by myself on Madison Avenue. No cars, no motorcycles, no bikes.. nothing. It was eerie. I felt like the guy who did not get the email about the zombie attack. Needless to say my place of business was closed and things in general were in dire straits altogether. Today, […]
Yesterday, Shane and I had the good fortune to attend the first NY Knicks play off game post covid ( and in almost a decade) and it was absolutely electrifying. It almost felt odd to be in a huge crowd without masks ( no entry without a vaccination card) but I got used to it […]
We live in a society where more seems better at all times. So the logical conclusion seems to be that doing more in the gym will lead to greater results. So on to more supersets, dropsets, paused reps, more volume overall? The answer is as so often: it depends. I often compare training to writing code: bad reps […]
Today would have been Sophie Scholls 100th birthday and being somewhat of a historian, I feel compelled to work this event into my newsletter. For those that never heard of her, she was a member of a resistance group during the Third Reich, named the White Rose. Sophie along with her brother Hans and several others […]
The pandemic is over- or is it? One of the most fascinating aspects of the whole covid situation is that there is no one Covid experience. There is only your experience that day which depends on geography, gender, relationship statue, income etc etc. In certain parts of the world, things are getting better and there might […]
Last Saturday my man Jay and i made a quick video why the barbell bench press simply isnt a great chest exercise since it simply does not engage many fibers. On the bright side, we got 1 million views. On the other hand, we got a lot of hateful comments. granted this is social media where everyone […]
Is NY back? This being Easter it only makes sense to talk about resurrection , I mean has anyone recently checked out NY basketball recently? Two play-off teams!! But aside from five guys in shorts throwing a ball into a basket, is the city back? I would say there are definitely green sprouts to be found. […]