STR!VE NATiON

This is the second year that I’ve helped coach my daughter’s youth basketball team. 6th grade girls! It’s a fun age to coach, without a ton of non-basketball drama or on-court tension. It can also be a little frustrating. The girls are simply too inexperienced or too small to do some of the things that [...]

My 11-year-old daughter recently started getting interested in volleyball. She knows I love volleyball and, like basketball, I’ll play with her any time she asks. No one has ever had to twist my arm to get me to play volleyball or basketball (or any other sport, for that matter). When we first started “peppering” (that’s [...]

Here’s your big chance to help set the product (and pricing) direction of the Strive Nation. Using the t-shirt designs above, please answer the following questions. Thanks in advance for your help!

I’ve put together an anonymous survey to do some basic, unscientific research on what people are looking for in terms of weight loss and fitness. The more people that take it, the better the collective data. It should only take about five minutes of your time. Thanks! Loading…

Only recently did I begin hearing the term “reboot” in reference to movies. Actually, the term isn’t being used for the movies themselves, but rather with the movie franchises, stories, and characters. The Amazing Spider-Man was the first movie I had heard being called a reboot. A reboot of a movie franchise is like a [...]

In 2008 and again in 2011, I blogged about treadmill desks. It’s an interesting idea, and I actually tried it for a few hours, but it’s not really for me. I’ve also blogged about how your chair wants to kill you. I’ve read and written about these things because I’m becoming increasingly aware that I [...]

Have you heard about the Funhog Family? Brian and Jodi Tuten and their five young children are doing the first part of their 50-State Challenge, spending three months this summer visiting and having adventures in each of the 39 states east of their home city of Phoenix, AZ. We were privileged to be one of [...]

This post is just a point-by-point summary of a CNN Health article called 10 Exercise Myths that Won’t Go Away. Click on the link to read the whole article. Remember, these are exercise myths, not truths: Your cardio machine is counting the calories you’re burning. Women shouldn’t lift weights because it’ll make them bulky. Heart [...]

Here’s a guest post about obesity by RN and wellness coach Laura Crooks of You Bloom Wellness: Americans get fatter each year.  We can be so accustomed to seeing overweight people we have lost touch with the problems associated with it. Carrying extra weight is not only uncomfortable but it increases the chance of developing certain [...]

I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell‘s book Outliers. I had heard so many people talk about this book, so I finally picked it up at the Dallas airport to read on my flights back to Pittsburgh. It’s a great book, and as Gladwell is apt to do, he pulls together research and ideas that make [...]