Exercise Archives - Better.Cheaper.Slower.

Your Fifth Monday of the Month

March 31, 2025

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 invent a sport.

Slower Sunday: Crossing the border

March 30, 2025

All steps are not created equal.

Change Your Light Bulb:
Sleep more, weigh less

March 29, 2025

Today's News Flash: Research shows that a clever use of Smart LED lights might help you sleep more and weigh less. Say what?

The Walk That Ate Boulder

March 28, 2025

You see more walking, biking, jogging and hiking here than in any other town in the States. Trails right up into the foothills of the Rockies and back down to the other thing they do well here: eating. Perfect place to burn more calories than you consume during a day of sightseeing.

Stronger Monday: Your Inner Thighs

March 24, 2025

No equipment. No weights. Just you and your thighs against gravity. The easy Way to strengthen your adductor muscles. If you're not sure what or where they are, well, they're the ones you'll be feeling.

A Walk Through Time

March 22, 2025

I was working on a "little things in the shadows of big things" Walk. But I got lost in the fourth dimension. Time. The subway stairs were the entrance to a huge archaeological dig. That led to the last bit of old growth forest in New York City. What a trip.

The Walk That Ate Salt Lake City

March 21, 2025

Mountain hiking, city walking and city eating. All in a day. An 8-hour day, not counting restaurant and food truck stops. Burn Way more calories than you consume while you sightsee it all.

Flexible Monday: Hug your knees

March 17, 2025

Let's start the week loose. Comfortable. Flexible. Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today's Way'll relax and stretch your lower back and hips. Make them feel and function better.

Poas: Through the clouds to the steam

March 14, 2025

An easy hike through an eerie environment. A nice walk in a place that has a slightly off-planet feel. Costa Rica's Poas Volcano. Way up in the Cloud Forest at 8,800'. Still active and steaming.

Balanced Monday: Knees up. 1 at a time

March 10, 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.