January 17th. The day most people quit their New Year’s resolutions or goals. National quit day. Don’t. Don’t quit today. Keep going. It will be worth it. Your best effort [...]

Moderated by Certified Health & Wellness Professionals   Today, in an effort to broaden our health and wellness focus, we have added three new public groups to the Iron Age Athletics [...]

I just got this great new shirt today from Find the Good - a small company supporting mental health with clothing, community and donations. A friend of mine shared a [...]

Very excited to announce Iron Age Athletics was featured on The Silver Edge Over 50 Health and Wellness podcast. I had a wonderful time speaking with Kevin English, founder of [...]

BMK Coaching Case Study (part 1 and 2)   Part 1: One of the best tools to fully understand your business and how it will launch, change & innovate as [...]

Inaugural Iron Age Athletics Decathlon Recap   This past Sunday I completed the inaugural Iron Age Athletics Decathlon - a ten event fitness test designed to test strength, speed and [...]

Would you run in Crocs? Video post. View HERE. Summary: Proving the "Born to Run" theory correct, that you can run in literally anything - including Crocs. Why? 1) They [...]

If you haven’t been following Andrew Huberman, PhD, I suggest you hop on the bandwagon. His Huberman Lab podcast - https://hubermanlab.com/category/podcast-episodes/ - is a fascinating mix of science, fitness, wellness, aging [...]

What's Kogalla you ask? Well - as Fall and Winter shorten the daylight hours, it's critical to have an excellent light source when running, hiking or doing other activities when [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about accountability lately. Why it works. Why it doesn’t. How can we create and introduce a feature/function in the app that really helps people reach [...]

Fasting has become an increasingly popular topic of late, and after listing to the Over 50 Health & Wellness Podcast with Kevin English - episode 96 (https://silveredgefitness.com/episode96/) featuring Laurie Lewis, [...]

This is an interesting concept I discovered reading "Endure" by Cameron Hanes. While the book may not be for everyone, there's a lot of valuable takeaways, not to mention the [...]

If you follow Christopher McDougall on Twitter (@ChristopherMcDougall), did you happen to catch his tweet this morning as he opened the very first copy of his “Born to Run 2” [...]

The Iron Age Athletics community app is now live on the App Store, Google Play, and the web: https://community.ironageathletics.com/signup To get the community off to a proper start, we have [...]

These days I'm more interested in being "fit" - generally really fit - than I am interested in anything super specific - like running a fast 5k, maxing out [...]

There's a 7 mile trail loop by our home that I've been running for years. It's one of the many routes I run in the area as I am [...]

I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear. I highly recommend it. It's one of the most tangible and actionable (not just theory) books on habits I have read. One of [...]

We need a new event. Sure - we have the CrossFit games, Deka Fit, Ironmans, Decathlons, etc. But we need something for the home "Hybr3d" athlete - something to [...]

I have this fascination with TOUGHNESS. I think a lot of athletes and fitness fanatics do. We have to be tough to excel. We have to be tough to [...]

I attended a short webinar yesterday, "Are Vitamins and Supplements Worth the Cost" - hosted by HealthDay News, with guest Thunder Jalili, Ph.D., professor of nutrition and integrative physiology [...]

We've all seen some wacky shit at the gym. Heck, I see weird stuff every week when I leave the home gym and workout with my wife at her [...]

I was reading thru some older material of mine, a blog post from 10 years ago titled "100 Tips About Life." - a bulleted list of nuggets I've picked [...]

Do you have a mantra? Something you repeat during a workout or a race when it's grind time? There's a lot of evidence that using mantras during meditation, anxious/stressful moments, [...]

Among the bookshelves in my home and those in my office, I have hundreds and hundreds of books that I cherish. They range from science, history and math - [...]