Being a Mom Doesn’t Make You Special

Being a Mom Doesn’t Make You Special

Holy shit, here we go. Being a mom doesn’t make you special. Biologically speaking, it means you had sex, or by some other means achieved an implanted embryo, grew a child inside you, and by scalpel or by stretching brought a baby into the world, then raised that...
Winter Running: Falling Won’t Stop Me

Winter Running: Falling Won’t Stop Me

Beer and ibuprofen, that’s what’s happening right now. I lived up to my name during this morning’s run; James Fell. And to answer the fifty thousand plus people who have asked the same question since I was three, yes, I did fucking hurt myself. We’ve had a spate of...
Forming Fitness Habits

Forming Fitness Habits

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” This is erroneously attributed to Aristotle, but he’s actually being paraphrased by Pulitzer-winning author Will Durant. When it comes to exercise, regular movement and...
The Exercise Myth

The Exercise Myth

Even though I smelled bad enough to knock a buzzard off a gut pile, the people in the medical tent of the 2013 Victoria Marathon were kind and caring. One paramedic even let me use his cell to make a long-distance call to my wife, who was watching via Internet feed...
Which is Worse: Food Babe or Food Poisoning?

Which is Worse: Food Babe or Food Poisoning?

One makes you want to barf, and the other makes you barf while sitting on the toilet. While the latter does indeed sound worse, especially with the whole “poop through the eye of a needle” part, there is more to this comparison requiring examination to determine what...
Book Review: The Lean Muscle Diet

Book Review: The Lean Muscle Diet

I knew this book would be awesome before I opened it. Big disclaimer time. I started writing about fitness late in 2008, and the first thing I did was go buy all of Lou Schuler’s books to find out how it was done. Not just the fitness stuff, but also the writing part....