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Sometimes it takes 18-months to motivate enough to commit and get started—and that's okay!
I have had this timer set up to prompt me to do 90-seconds of kettlebell swings every single hour of the day. I've been ignoring it for over 18-months but started doing it again today.
JLRacing ErgTrou are the ultimate trou
At first, I thought that the polypro unisex ErgTrou by JLRacing was a gimmick. All I could see that was any different at first blush was that gimmicky alternative logo of a stick figure little unisex person on a Concept2 indoor rower and a slit pocket at the small of the back in which you can stow your smartphone or MP3 player while you're doing all the meters on your erg.
Mark's Mexican Meth is fit for a king but made for a pauper
For someone who is so historically financially successful, Mark Harrison is the Scrooge McDuck of entrepreneurship, affiliate marketing, and influencer marketing.
I've been doing the Cliff Young Ultra Shuffle
I just discovered Cliffy Young via Amazon Video today. At 61, he ran 500 miles from Sydney to Melbourne, Australia.
Uncle Mark's Anchovy Vinaigrette Umami-Bomb Sauce of the Gods
My buddy Mark Harrison never recommends recipes for me. However, he's become obsessed with this recipe to the point of really pressing it on me because he knows how much I love strong flavors, olive oil, garlic, and even anchovies!
Remove regrettable online tattoos with reputation management
The way you feel now about all those photos of you at the beach, in your suit, body-proud, tanned and drinking — liberation and joy — may end up making you feel completely different in your near future — trapped and ashamed. No matter how young you may be, reading these words, you need to start thinking long-game when it comes to your online reputation.
Reputation management is not about dressing up mistakes
If you want to fix your online reputation, writing big checks to an online reputation agency isn’t enough over the long haul — you’ll also really need to get your own house in order.
You Can’t Ignore the Power That Search Holds for Your Business
If you’re a serious business person whose business isn’t digital, you’re probably too busy making money to fool around on social media. Social media’s stupid, right? Just baby pictures, workout check-ins, adorable kittens and the self-indulgent ramblings of under-employed folks too far to either the left or the right to amount to much.
Online reputation management (ORM): don’t forget Google when you’re in crisis mode
When the shit hits the fan and you, your client, your company, or your brand ends up in the entirely wrong sort of spotlight and you don’t fully subscribe to the axiom “I don’t care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right” then you’re going to need to focus on two things right away. In this order: first, of course, address the media about the issue in real life; second, preemptively and proactively prepare yourself for catastrophically-negative search results that will outlive and haunt you well past your devestating time in the limelight.
Membership in the Potomac Boat Club Concept2 Team is Empowering
The Concept2 virtual team challenge, World Erg Challenge, is ten-days old and I've only clocked 24,607 meters so far--but I am still mid-pack in the Potomac Boat Club.
You can’t eat bare hands
In your business, how risky is your Plan A? Are you only chasing the big wins?
Mud Season Madness starts today on March 1—get in those 10km days!
I haven't erged yet today but I am going to aim at rowing at least 10,000 meters every day on my Concept2 Model C indoor rowing ergometer for at least 25-days during March.
You’re the culmination of what you’ve shared and kept online
If you haven’t been writing about what you know about marketing, public relations (PR), digital advertising, social media marketing, influencer marketing, content marketing, marketing automation, online reputation management (ORM), search engine marketing (SEM), and search engine optimization (SEO) on a blog or online publication for as long as you’ve been passionate about these subjects, you should start now.
My One Burrito a Day (OBAD) One Meal a Day (OMAD) Diet
For a couple weeks now, I have been following the one meal a day—OMAD—diet. I am trying it out because after reading about and trying the keto diet, which is very prescriptive, I wanted something easy that amalgamates intermittent fasting, one very satisfying meal that fulfills all the calories I need for a day that actually satiates me, and no food to cheat with in my fridge, cupboard, or larder.
Trying one meal a day—OMAD
If you go down the Keto diet rabbit hole, you'll end up reading about IF—intermittant fasting; and, if you spend enough time on reddit, you'll eventually discover the OMAD subreddit: One Meal A Day. It's simple: eat like a king once-a-day, somewhere between 4pm and 8pm, but only for an hour. Then, stop eating for the next 23-hours.
The secret to slow jogging and slow rowing is the power-10 and power pieces
Summary: let your slow-flag fly, for sure, when you slow jog and slow row; however, please feel free to add power-10s and other high-intensity pieces to your slow, long, steady-state everyday slow jogs and slow rows.
Row Daily, Breathe Deeper, Live Better is a book about slow rowing for a better life for life
According to D.P. Ordway, our not doing anything physical is as much of a shock to our physiological and neurological systems as is running, cycling, and doing CrossFit; however, it's the wrong sort of shock. D.P. believes that we all should have a baseline of activity every single day and that should be at least 45-minutes every single day on a Concept2 Indoor Rower. I thought that was my idea but it's not!
Online Communities Are The Best Thing About The Internet
Recently, what I hear about online communities on the radio, the Internet, and TV is how they are either: 1) exclusive bubbles in which all the denizens are echo chamber zombies or 2) traps for naïfs and nerds who are one kind word away from being radicalized into violent extremism. But these exaggerations can’t be farther from the truth!
Slow jogging, slow rowing, and the slow walking of the treadmill desk owner
I think I have a mantra: slowness. I've always been strong and slow. Even my stroke when I am slow rowing is always slow.
Added "take the stairs" to my resolutions
The worst workout when I was a college rower at GWU was running the Exorcist Steps in Georgetown off of Water Street. We flowed up and down, first thing in the morning, as a team, with folks powering up and streaming back down. It was a terrestrial vomit comet, worse than suicides, burpees, and wind sprints combined.
My new year's resolutions
Happy new year everyone! It’s 2018 and I am actually putting together a list of my own personal new year’s resolutions: slow jog, slow row, kick box, bell-swing, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, and, finally, some weight-training.
My first impressions of the new Mizuno Wave Sonic slow jogging shoes
OK, the new Mizuno Wave Sonic running shoes are made as racing flats and not as slow jogging shoes. But as slow jogging shoes I intend to use them. And also as erging shoes and as kettlebell swinging shoes and even as gym shoes and for 9Round kick boxing.
Season greetings from Chris and Jack Abraham
I hope you've had a wonderful 2017 and are having a delightful, friend-and-family-filled, holiday season! I wish you the most prosperous and love-filled 2018 imaginable!
Crypterium converts bitcoin arcana and cryptocurrency confusion into practical magic
Once cryptocurrencies are as simple and easy to use every day as dollar bills the benefits of cryptocurrency--lower transaction costs, speed of payment, removal of national boundaries, and so on--become real. Crypterium will free you to easily spend your cryptocurrencies IRL.
My favorite running shoe is still Saucony Jazz
No matter what I try I always fall back in love with my Saucony Jazz Original running shoes. That's not true, actually. I started off only running in Nike Pegasus running shoes--The Original Nike Pegasus to be exact--back in middle school. The original Nike Pegasus bears a striking likeness to Saucony Jazz Originals.
I was a teenage Russian troll
In my early and mid-thirties I was part of a super-discrete, amazingly-effective, super-covert, mercenary troll army that lived and worked out of two floors of Rosslyn Twin Tower Two in Arlington, Virginia, the United States called New Media Strategies.
A very traditional potato latke / potato pancake recipe even your mother would love
My mom and I had a few traditions: lunchtime wine at the Olive Garden, margaritas at El Paso Café, a Beefeater gin on her birthday, a really nice medium Filet Mignon at Outback, and lunches at Jewish delis. We would always start with a plate of potato pancakes--latkes--with sour cream and apple sauce.
SpyderGrip Green Lynx 2.0 Review
I bought this SpyderGrip Green Lynx 2.0 over a year ago, I think, but haven't used it much because I didn't think it could carry that much. Tonight, however, I checked it out and I was easily able to fit my Samsung S6 Active into the neoprene pouch.
Hill People Gear Snubby Kit Bag Review
Over the last couple-few years I haven't gone for a run without wearing my Hill People Gear Snubby Kit Bag on my chest. For me, it's how I like to carry my personal stuff when I am on a run, race, or jog.
Why I named my digital PR firm Gerris Corp
All y'all want to know what a Gerris is? Well, it's short for Gerris lacustris or the common pond skater or common water strider.
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