What Owning a House Has Cost Me Mark Brown March 14, 2023 My house is my best and biggest financial asset. That’s going to be true for a long time. I can’t dispute that statement in any way. Owning a house costs more than just dollars and cents over the years. It also just about …
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Critically Thinking Through Programming, Part 2
Mark Brown October 27, 2022 When talking about critically thinking through programs, I’m looking for contradictions between the 3 core tenets and the goals I have set for myself. Effectively it’s asking the question “Does this lift have direct benefits to my stated goal?” If that answer is no, then the program or goals need …
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Value in the Gym, Part 1
Approaching Lifting Through the Lens of Value Mark Brown September 15, 2022 The concept of value is essential to understanding why and how stuff gets done. This goes foes the gym, work, home, everywhere. For some areas of life, such as business, the discussion of value is inherently in everyone’s face overtly. Others it gets …
The Joy of Painti…Wait…What?
Making Bob Ross Proud in the Gym Mark Brown July 12, 2022 That’s right! That Bob Ross. A look into the paintings that the public television icon did for all those years and the man himself are worth taking a deep dive on into regards to the gym. The entire thing was amazing when it …
The Road to Discipline: Chapter 11
A Goal Only Interrupted By Death Mark Brown June 28, 2022 Long term goals can only be achieved by accomplishing numerous short term goals along the way. That requires working every day to get the the latter done to get to the next one. The real key to achieving the long term goals is to …
The Road to Discipline: Chapter 10
Becoming a Prisoner of Success Mark Brown June 21, 2022 No single feeling is more intoxicating than success. There’s so many emotions running through someone in that moment. Happiness, of course, is the at the top of the list. Physiologically speaking, we know that is our body is giving us a huge shot of Dopamine. …
The Road to Discipline, Chapter 9
The Aftermath of Your Dreams Mark Brown June 14, 2022 Finding discipline causes a lot of changes in one’s life. Some are anticipated and others aren’t. How one reacts to those changes has an impact on the discipline that has been acquired and the people whom it effects. Decisions and actions have consequences and not …
A Slight Change
Starting Week 22, 2022 Mark Brown June 9, 2022 I am making a slight change to my lifting program for an undefined amount of time. I am making progress in my triples and doubles on the main power lifts but am not making a lot at the top. I have lifted with Pete and his …
The Leg Press
Part 1: Why and How Mark Brown April 5, 2022 The leg press can be a polarizing piece of gym equipment. It’s one of the best tools for lifters to get both strength and muscular development from one machine. It’s also one of the easiest ways for lifters to get in their own way through …
Winter Training Takeaways
Mark Brown March 29, 2022 The first two months of 2022 were too cold to train in the garage. A big surprise in Iowa, I know. I spent 2021 from January to the middle of May and learned some valuable lessons from that time. Those were mostly things not to do. Instead of doing a …
Life Through Lifting 