Here is where you can find all the traveling things - Primarily my City Guides. These are where I give you all of my favorite things that I found in different cities: food, coffee, booze, fitness, and stuff to do. I’ll never tell you something was great if it wasn’t, but I won’t be badmouthing, either.
Southie, thanks to all the movies and from what I gather much of history in the city, has a reputation for being dangerous and downtrodden. That is not the Southie of today.
I went to Austin for the first time in April of 2014. I planned for a year, looking at what food stops I wanted to make and basically planned my whole trip around that. Yes. I made an excel file with where each meal would be had. Here’s a list of the places I ate, drank, and some things to do around town. It’s not even scratching the surface of what Austin has to offer, but it’s a place to start.
Burlington is everything that is right with hipsters. People bitch and moan about their beanie hats in the summer, and non-prescription glasses, but where hipsters go - creative, local, quality food and drink tend to follow.
It took all of 12 hours here for me to ask the question:
"Have I been living under a rock or is Minneapolis America's best-kept secret?"
Let me be clear: I’m specifically talking about the Paleo diet in it’s low-carb iterations, women, and athletic performance. Our bodies react differently to the athletic demands we put on them. Women are not just small men.
Magazines make money on the very very simple concept of convincing you that you’re gross, fat, ugly and unlovable…and only with the things in the pages of their publication will you ever be beautiful, sexy, loved and accepted.
You don’t need new programming to get better. You need to schedule time either by yourself or with a coach to work on those skills if you want to get better at things. You need to put work in.
Hitting the hotel fitness studio? Who knows what you’re gonna get. I’ve seen everything from Pelaton bikes, to 5 dumbbells and a treadmill that doesn’t turn on. Having a few easy, simply, equipment-less workouts in your back pocket can be enough to get you moving when you can.
“I’m not sure what to eat now that I can’t have any carbs.”
“Since I can’t have carbs anymore, I’m really tired.”
“What do I eat since I can’t have carbs on paleo?”
These are questions and statements that I see constantly.
There seem to be two teams: the people who tell you that it’s the ONLY way, and the people who tell you that it’s NEVER the way. Personally – I don’t take advice on something from someone unless they’ve done the thing they’re talking about
I've dropped in at quite a few gyms in my CrossFit tenure. From local in NJ when visiting family to across the Atlantic in Copenhagen, Denmark. I have to be honest, I assumed what I'm about to tell you was a sort of common-sense thing...not to be a dick.
There are so many options of things to recap when one year ends and another begins. Do I tell you of all of the best shit I bought? All of the gear that I was obsessed with? Sure. I might do that. But first I’m going to tell you about my favorite FOODS of 2017…BECAUSE I LOVE FOOD.
So I went to San Francisco a few times over the last couple of years on solo-cations, and while I was super about posting to those IG stories I never really got around to writing anything up. Admittedly I feel like I can’t really do it justice, because I suspect that there is way more to do and see than what I was able to accomplish.