Exercise Archives - Better.Cheaper.Slower.

Flexible Monday: Keeping the resolution.

January 20, 2025

Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Lifting packages, bending over to tie your shoes or running to catch a bus. Because my New Year resolution is to help you find the easiest Ways to feel Better every day.

Osa to Matapalos: Rainforest to Beach

January 17, 2025

From Howler Monkeys to screamin' surfers in one hour. Now that's extreme biodiversity. No electricity, no phones. But more flora and fauna species per square mile than you can imagine.

Balanced Monday: Keeping the resolution.

January 13, 2025

A 3-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to stay on your feet. To train them to react fast. So when you step onto an uneven, slippery or unstable surface that makes you to begin to lose your balance - you'll immediately regain it.

The Walk That Ate Austin

January 10, 2025

Walk the whole river trail and the complete in-town loop for a 5-hour, 11-mile Walk that burns about 1,500 calories. Way more than your breakfast tamale at the Farmers Market and a great lunch along the Way.

Moving Monday: Keeping the resolution

January 6, 2025

Even if you exercise vigorously for an hour every day, sitting for the next 8 hours significantly increases your risk of all the things you exercise to avoid. Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity. Here's a 1-minute solution. Do it in front of the TV or computer.

Devil’s Garden. When yours freezes over.

January 3, 2025

When New York's Central Park freezes over, a 6-mile hike in the Devil's Garden sounds pretty good. The landscape: natural stone arches and pillars that look like the ruins of an ancient civilization. And it's 30 degrees warmer there right now.

Happy New Year. Every Day.

January 1, 2025

No matter what did or didn't happen last night, let's talk about feeling good. Better every day. Energetic, comfortable. Flexible. Balanced. Strong. Feeling like you can do anything you'd like to do. Whenever you'd like to do it.

Your Last Monday of 2024: Separated at Girth

December 30, 2024

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Mondays of each month bring you new Ways to shake your thang, increase your flexibility, balance and strength, respectively. So what happens when the month has a 5th Monday? We find compelling reasons to keep exercising. Like the good twin. No excuses now.

Your Monday #51
Skinny is not the same thing as Healthy

December 23, 2024

And heavy doesn't have to mean unhealthy. Improving your CardioRespiratory Fitness through exercise may be the most important health intervention available. Even if that exercise doesn't result in big weight loss.

Your Monday #50: The Gift of Strength

December 16, 2024

Better Cheaper Stronger for $30. A set of resistance tubes that weighs next to nothing and takes up next to no space. They let you "weight train" without weights. Perfect for anybody who can't stand lifting weights. Like me.