How To Deal With Personal Image Issues

In my last post I talked about how I've been powerlifting for the past year. While I would like to say that I am doing this because I just want to be a healthier, more resilient individual, it's also because I just want to look better. Sure, powerlifting is not the ideal workout method for…

Reflections On a Year of Powerlifting

I'm writing this a bit prematurely as it's been more like 11 months, but whatever, close enough. For pretty much my entire life (with maybe the exception of my infancy) I've been a pretty lanky guy. Now, I've gone in and out of really "caring" about this. Most of the time I'd tell myself things like…

How to Become "Fearless"

Disclaimer: if you have a crippling fear of something that prevents you from doing day-to-day activities, you should seek professional help. This article is targeted more for people with "everyday" phobias. You probably know someone that you think is "fearless." They are the person that does a backflip off the cliff that everyone else is…

The College Survival Guide

I write a lot of posts on this website about things that I am not really qualified to write about, but this is not one of them. Just so you know, I rocked college. I went to a really hard school where people were known to fail so many classes that when you asked them…

Why Everyone Should Play a Sport

Growing up with an elementary school physical education teacher for a mother meant that I was forced to play at least one sport a year throughout my childhood. I wasn't always super thrilled about this since in many cases I was the antithesis of an "athlete", but I still played and had a mostly good time.…