Category: Refine


  • Meal Prep for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Healthy Eating

    This single habit makes healthy eating possible for busy people – here’s how to start this weekend. In This Guide You’ll Learn Why Meal Prep Is the Missing Link You’ve tried to eat healthier before – but when life gets busy, convenience wins. You started a diet with the best of intentions with clean breakfasts…

  • How to Lose Weight Permanently: Habits That Actually Work

    Look, I get it. It happened to me too – I blew up to over 300 lbs eating pizza and drinking beer. I lost the weight and got in shape following the same framework I am sharing with you in this guide. The American diet has a lot of room for improvement, and our society…

  • How to Maintain Momentum and Avoid Missing a Workout

    You missed a workout. Here’s why doing something (literally anything) is always better than waiting until you can do it right. The Missed Session Trap – Why Busy People Lose Their Fitness Your meeting went long, your client dinner ran until 10pm, or you got your butt kicked by an analysis. Now that it’s the…

  • How to Stay Fit in a Hotel Gym While Traveling

    Traveling does not have to derail your fitness. Keep your habit and maintain your gains using the hotel gym – even though the heaviest dumbbell is 50lbs. I travel a lot between work and general roaming around the country, and these are the tips I use to maintain my fitness year-round. Why Hotel Gym Workouts…

  • The Professional Man’s Work From Home Wardrobe

    The smartest move you can make with your work-from-home wardrobe is already hanging in your closet. If you were an individual contributor before your last promotion, you dressed like one. Chinos, polos, maybe the occasional button-down. Now that you’re a lead, those clothes feel underdressed for the office – but they are exactly right for…

  • 80/20 Running Half Marathon Level 1 Review & Results

    Now that you have run 3.1 or 6.2 miles, why not 13.1? This mid-length race is a natural stepping stone and will push your limits as a runner. Training for a half marathon (13.1 miles) will teach you fueling, pacing, recovery, and safely adding volume to build your aerobic base. It can even help you…

  • How to Fit Fitness Into a Busy Weekly Schedule

    Fitness is hard to start, and life only accelerates. You need to fit exercise into your busy week – without neglecting your spouse and kids. It is possible to balance life’s commitments with getting healthy, and exercise will help you show up better to every other aspect of your life. In this post, I will…

  • The Economics of Deer Hunting: Cost Breakdown and Analysis

    If you found my blog, the odds are that you are an explorer.  Just like the explorers of early America, I am a hunter.  If you aren’t already a hunter, I would encourage you to become one.  Hunting a great way to learn more about wildlife and conservation, reflect, and provide high-quality meat of a…

  • How to Start Running: From Walking to Your First 5K

    Running is one of the best ways to get fit, burning twice the calories per hour as walking does. It also helps to improve aerobic fitness, bone density, and mental health. There is only one problem – how do you start? If you have never run before, it can be daunting to get started. You…

  • Should You Workout While Sick: Introducing the Minimum Viable Workout

    We are in the middle of flu season, and people are passing around bugs like it’s March 2020. I caught it, you caught it, we all caught it, now the question is what should you do about it? You have been diligently working on your goals, improving your fitness, losing weight, and becoming a better…