UNBRIDLED TRUTH

I like to keep things pretty simple with my cooking. Each additional step beyond "mix the ingredients", "put the mix on a heat-resistant object", and "apply heat until cooked" is a complication that needs to justify its worth. While those extra steps do usually add something to the final result, I think they aren't often worth taking up time that I could be putting towards something else. This recipe is one of the exceptions. Unfortunately, I can't remember where it was th

No performance exists in a vacuum. External circumstances and chance have a bearing on, well, almost everything, to some extent. That said, the individual is also rarely without some influence, too. This is all a fancy way of saying that, while there were external factors involved in the poor performance I had on my weekend challenge workout, I could've done things differently do avoid, mitigate, or overcome them, and I didn't. On a more positive note, I've got a recipe li

I felt like doing something a little special with this week's routines, so I made it a full week of challenges and pass/fail workouts. Two-by-two was simple enough to see, and a proverbial coin flip turned up a pass/fail workout for the tie-breaker. As for the delay in posting the recap, chalk it up to an atypically busy Sunday, which was a fun day. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail Fingertip Push Ups - 2 sets of 6 (pass) One-arm Dead Hangs - 2 sets of 11 breath isometric holds, each s

Of all the weeks to get struck by some random illness, it had to happen during this one. Everything was fine and well, and then I woke up on Tuesday with a debilitating headache and a pervasive soreness and sense of fatigue through my tongue and throat muscles. I was worried at first about it potentially being tetanus, but some quick research allayed those fears. Nevertheless, it did knock me on my ass for a day, and I needed another to finish recovering, so this ended up

Unrelated to my exercising, this weekend is a holiday weekend in Canada. Now, admittedly, the holiday isn't technically a statutory holiday across the country (in fact, my particular workplace doesn't recognize it), but it still serves as an excuse to do something a little different. With that, I cooked up a duck today. I'd done duck breast before (following this Gordon Ramsay recipe, sans sauce), but I decided to do a whole duck this time (taking inspiration from this Gor