But when my progress began to stall, I started adding in some junk in order to keep growing. By the time I began a food journal on October 16, I was up 10 pounds. A month later I had gained another 12 pounds.
I was advised to start with 5 minutes a day. EVERYONE has five minutes a day to devote to themselves. Sit still for five minutes a day, close your eyes, and pay attention to your breathing. Pay attention to your thoughts. Observe the different voices at work in your mind, and heed the fact that they may not always be steering you in the right direction.
You should know that he spent the majority of his adult life doing things that were decidedly not–McDonald’s-y. Dude was a hustler, a high school dropout, a piano bar player-on-the-side, among many other things.
An easy mantra for meditations or times of increased stress and pain.
I am all sinew * And bones and blood and entrails * With a credit card
Occasionally I’ll eat red meat and drink red wine and get flashes of bizarrely ancient moments and images, feelings that I am connected to the past and the future, and that this has all been played out and will continue to play out over and over again.
I have been performing the bodyline drills in the above video and have been using them with personal training clients for a couple of months now. It is a tremendous way to warm up the body with isometric holds while strengthening connective tissue, improving mobility, and conditioning joints.
That is why the first question required when trying to move forward must be: Why?
Retired Colonel Peter V. Huisking has had an outstanding career in the United States Army that has spanned a quarter century. He also happens to be my father, and I couldn’t be more proud of him. I sat down with him recently and asked him about that Army Life, family, sustainable geopolitical diplomacy and more.
“A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.” –Masaharu Morimoto
