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As the title of the post suggests, I’m in remission! I had my 1 year anniversary on October 1st. Just a few days prior to that I went into the oncology clinic for a pulmonary function test and another bone marrow biopsy. While I wasn’t expecting anything but good news, it is still a few …

I made an Instagram post today talking about our Wednesday Habit Practice. Meditating gets tossed out there a lot and I feel like there are still a lot of misconceptions about it. There’s apps, there’s how-to’s, there’s blog posts, there’s seminars, and there’s retreats. So what’s what? Similar to training, I want to lower the …

A while back I had the idea (forced on me) that in order to move on I had to think about the person I was as being dead. I could no longer be Person A. That person was in the past but was not who I was any more. I’m currently Person B and striving …

We all know that one person (or more) that constantly lives in the past.  “Back in my day… blah, blah, blah.”  In the fitness industry we routinely hear someone bragging about, “Well, ya know, back in high school I could bench 400lbs for 10 reps.”  Most of the time the exaggerations are just that, exaggerations.  …

“Strength is a cure” I won’t be so egotistical, overconfident, or just outright wrong to make a claim so bold that strength is “the” cure.  But I do think that strength is a vital component to long lasting healing from most significant illnesses.   Louie Simmons, the godfather of powerlifting in the US, said, “strength is …

Cancer has changed me.  Well, duh.  But in more ways than one.  Some changes I could argue are for the better but there are plenty of changes that I’d argue are not for the better.   For one, I’m weaker now than I have been in years.  Maybe decades.  That’s frustrating beyond measure.  I worked hard …

Kind of getting a little personal with this one. It’s tough to talk about some of the sadder times. I find that I’m able to talk about the hard times or the easy times but the sad days are really tough to talk about. But it’s out there. Give it a listen and let me …

I thought it might also be easier for some people to listen to my story or my updates via podcast rather than reading the updates. I’ll try to convey as much via podcast as I do here but I personally am a bigger fan of the written word than I am of my own voice. …

Almost every morning, I go for a short walk up my street and back. Sometimes I extend it to a trip around the neighborhood or after I return to the house I’ll hop on my stationary bike for another ten or fifteen minutes. It all depends on how I’m feeling. This morning I happened to …

A friend asked me the other day if I ever got tired of people asking me that question.   I said, “I’ll never get tired of it.  It shows people care and that means the world to me.”  I paused and added, “But I do get tired of how I answer the question.”   When someone asks …