For those of you who follow my facebook statuses, you probably saw that yours truly was struck down with a nasty little bug that was floating around Pittsburgh this week. Now, I am not the one that likes to admit that I was feeling particularly run down, but after the holidays and my crazy work […]

At Midnight tonight, the ball drops and we enter into a new year. While many of us have our eyes set on New Years resolutions to lose weight, eat better, and all such things related to health, I have decided to take my life and my training a bit more seriously as well. I have […]

Merry Christmas Everyone! I just wanted to keep yinz up to date with some things that I have been working on over the past few weeks. First of all, I have entered into Phase 2 of the Ketlebell Burn program designed by Master RKC Geoff Neupert. I wrote in an earlier post that I was […]

For those of you who don’t know this, I have been studying hard for the past 4 months (God time flies!) for my National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) exam that will allow me to A) acquire liability insurance so I can B) START TEACHING KETTLEBELLS AS A FULL TIME GIG! Get ready! The New […]

YINZ AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET! I am very excited about this blog post as I have been battling with my own compensated injury in my right shoulder for a number of years now. Yep. Years! Over the weekend, I was curious about how the increase in my own shoulder mobility would increase my ability to […]

As I sit here at the Beehive Cafe blogging away while sipping on some local brewed Kombucha, I am reminded that this neighborhood I live in, this neighborhood of the South Side, is an ever-changing section of Pittsburgh that is now becoming more friendly to the primal lifestyle. To be honest, I tried my hardest […]

I have a confession to make. I hate flying as a method of traveling. The only reason I fly so frequently anymore is because its convenient. I don’t want to spend hours on a mega bus nor do I want to spend hours on a train going all over creation. I fly only because I […]

If there is one thing I am good at when I travel, it’s finding local pit stops for food and coffee. Today, I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite New York City finds when it comes to foo and coffee. Given the fact that I was only in New York for a brief […]

Greetings from New York City! My little Burgher Butt got up to the Big Apple for a weekend rendezvous and guys (you know what I’m about to say) Yinz aint’ seen nothing yet! I haven’t had a chance to actually take some time for myself to decompress lately, so taking a weekend away to another […]