If you go to the movies regularly at Regal Cinemas, I wholeheartedly recommend their app and joining the Regal Crown Club. You earn points for every dollar you spend on movie tickets and food purchased at their concessions stand. The app is useful for finding the nearest Regal Cinema and discovering which movies are playing … [Read more…]
One of my favorite reads this year was the book “The Martian” by Andy Weir. I am an engineer by profession and this book is my MacGyver in space. The 80s MacGyver not the new 2000s MacGyver. It tells the story of an astronaut who is accidentally stranded on Mars. He uses his knowledge of … [Read more…]
The first time I saw a burpee I thought, that looks easy. Eight reps later, I collapse on the ground balled up in a heap breathing heavily like I just climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Burpees look easy enough but for some reason it is the most exhausting exercise you can do with what seems like “little … [Read more…]
I do not like doing cardio but as I have gotten older burning fat has gotten hard to achieve without it. It is great compliment to weight training. I warm up with stretching and five minutes of cardio and then do a final cardio burn for about 10 minutes at the end of my weight … [Read more…]
I have been doing Intermittent Fasting since summer 2016 and combined with regular weight-training and HIIT cardio I have lost about 20 pounds. At the time I started, I did not know that what I was doing was called Intermittent Fasting. So how did I end up on this lifestyle change? Well, last summer I … [Read more…]
My family and I love to travel. We are not hung up on material things and prefer doing “stuff” as opposed to collecting “stuff”. We recently traveled to North Charleston South Carolina for a family reunion and stayed in the North Charleston Marriott. We give it 4/5 stars. The hotel looks newly renovated. It has … [Read more…]
Bodybuilding.Com is a mash up of Facebook, Amazon and Men’s Health. They have an online store for supplements, clothing and fitness gear. I buy supplements, protein shakers and other fitness knick-knacks from the website. They have a extensive collection of products and competitive prices. I prefer buying supplements from bodybuilding.com because a large number of … [Read more…]
We are not big fans of fast food with the exception of Chick-Fil-A. They serve tasty, high quality food at an affordable price. If you are familiar with the Chick-Fil-A you know that the line at the drive-through regularly wraps around the restaurant.The lines inside are almost as bad. I discovered the app about 5 … [Read more…]
There are several YouTubers that I follow for fitness: Gabriel Sey: The Truth, Elliott Hulse’s Strength Camp, Fitness Addict and Zen Dude Fitness. They each have their own style and delivery. The information they provide while fitness related is different and fulfill different aspects of fitness Gabriel Sey: He is a Personal Trainer, Online Coach & … [Read more…]
Every $dollar I save is 25 cents for retirement, 25 cents for investing, 50 cents for business capital. I got into trouble with credit cards when I was in college. I used them to splurge at restaurants and malls and ran up thousands of dollars of debt and ruined my credit. It took years for … [Read more…]