You drive a huge gas guzzling SUV. Every morning you park on the street when there are plenty of spaces in the parking lot. By parking on the street, the traffic has to go around your car all day (it's a two lane street). The place that you park on the street is where the sidewalk exits the parking ...

    Learning proper technique, before increasing intensity and load, can be accomplished through repetitions. The Jerk is an explosive move and not really necessary with lighter weights  - BUT it is a great way to practice the movement to the point where you...

This post is one of those grab bag things like you buy for a couple of bucks at the fair and don't know what's in it until you open it. It seems there are some copyright issues with the link below and as soon as the video is posted on YouTube, the original publisher takes it away. So, I'm not going ...

Huffington Post: How ironic that one of the last of the dying breed of global warming deniers in America is welcomed into our family home every night. They're your local TV weathermen (yes, mostly men) who despite their careful tracking of weather disasters and trends are hell bent on denying that g...

Huffington Post: How ironic that one of the last of the dying breed of global warming deniers in America is welcomed into our family home every night. They're your local TV weathermen (yes, mostly men) who despite their careful tracking of weather disasters and trends are hell bent on denying that g...

Kathy Bates Sheila Blair Maggie Rodriguez This morning on The Early Show on CBS, Harry Smith was interviewing Sheila Blair, chairman of the FDIC. Sheila looks a lot like Kathy Bates. She and Harry were doing their damnedest to assure all of us that money in federally insured banks is safe (up to $25...

Olympic Weightlifting consists of the Clean and Jerk and the Snatch.  We have used the Clean and Jerk often in our workouts (medicine balls, dumbbells and barbells) but be prepared to start snatching more!  It is a great movement. The video above shows three athletes pe...

  Claudia shows full extension doing a Med. Ball Clean! The medicine ball clean is a great movement because you can use it in your daily life.  "This clean may in fact have clearer application than cleaning with a bar, to heaving a bag of cement into a pick-up or hucking up a toddle...

Thank you to all the people who emailed me to assure me you also have weird vague half-memories and that my poor oatmeal brain can stop rotting if I do crosswords. Even if you're just saying it to be nice, I still appreciate it. Jane M. wrote: I choose not to think that the gray matter is dying. I c...

Thank you to all the people who emailed me to assure me you also have weird vague half-memories and that my poor oatmeal brain can stop rotting if I do crosswords. Even if you're just saying it to be nice, I still appreciate it. Jane M. wrote: I choose not to think that the gray matter is dying. I c...