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Hack Your Sleep – Tricks for the Best Sleep of Your Life

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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway

Do you want to get better sleep? Do you want to sleep less and function better?

We all know what it’s like when we get a bad night of sleep. I can remember driving to work most mornings and almost falling asleep at the wheel. It was a horrible feeling because I would either have to pull over and take a nap at a truck stop (which I never did) or just hope I didn’t completely pass out. “Just 20 more minutes.” I would tell myself. I would roll down the windows and crank up the radio.

It wasn’t lack of sleep because I still get the same 6-7 hours of sleep a night I get now but rather poor quality sleep.

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The 25 Second Workout (That You Can Do with Your Kids)

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I get asked a lot about the best way to get a workout in with limited time and without having to spend money on a gym membership. There are a lot of great exercises you can do at home in a short period of time but I think the pull-up is one of the best.

The pull-up is one of the best things you can do to develop functional strength. If you can pull yourself up from a hanging position, you can probably climb anything (important during a zombie apocalypse.) “The pullup targets more muscles than any other upper-body exercise,” says MMA strength coach Chad Waterbury, M.S.

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Sometimes We Do the Grok Squat – The Importance of Stretching

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“Grok serves as our primal exemplar, a figurative model for evolutionarily tried and true lifestyle behaviors: diet, exercise, sleep, stress, etc.” – Mark Sisson, Author

I had been sitting at my desk staring at my computer for a while and decided to do a little stretching. I dropped down in a squatting position (the Grok Squat or Indigenous People’s Stretch) and stayed there for a minute. While I was squatting, Uncle Butt, my much older yet well respected cube neighbor at work who prefers to keep his professional name anonymous as he is avoiding fame :-), peeked in and said “What are you doing?!” As I maintained my most perfect Grok squat stretch, I went on to explain…

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Primal Living in a Modern World

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On December 1st, I’m kicking off My21DayX (Experiments in Lifestyle Modification) by going 100% Primal…and the family is going with me!

Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint, defines it best:

The Basics
1. Eat real food.
2. Avoid sugar, grains, unhealthy fats, beans/legumes.
3. Align your carb intake with your weight goals and activity levels.
4. Move frequently at a slow pace: Get between 2-5 hours per week of moderate aerobic exercise.
5. Lift heavy things: Conduct 1-3 brief, intense sessions of full-body functional movements.
6. Sprint: Go “all out” once a week.
7. Get 8 hours of sleep every night.
8. Get 15 minutes of direct sun exposure each day.
9. Play! Find time to let go, disconnect, unwind and have fun each day.

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My21DayX – Experiments in Lifestyle Modification

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“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee, Author of Tao of Jeet Kun Do

Have you ever wondered which nutrition plan would make you look, feel, and perform your best? How about which habits would make you more productive, feel happier, and give you a better sense of well-being? Are all the mixed messages about what’s good for you confusing? Then this may help.

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