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Despite eating a relatively balanced and healthy diet, I've continued to gain weight over the last three years. I attribute this to a number of causes: switching to a sedentary job, becoming a father, getting older (and thus my metabolism going from "slow" to "sleeping"), a variety of minor injuries (knee, ankle), and consuming waaaaaaaay too …
Continue reading Getting Right: My Foray Into Intermittent Fasting
Monday mornings. If you want, you could spend hours looking through countless memes describing just how horrific Monday mornings can be. Weekends never last long enough, and somehow you always find things to fill up the time you thought you'd have to recharge. But one Monday morning in August of 2015, I sat at home …
By BRIAN JODICE Yoooooooo! With that out of the way, let’s write. I’m compelled to share a story with you and I’m grateful for the opportunity to do so on two fronts; One, to the Muggo for providing the platform; and B, to my friend Abid for providing the fuel to this fire. For those …
by GABE MACALUSO On March 18, 2019, I found myself walking into an office to start my work day like I had done for the past 5 months and was greeted with the most evident sign today was going to be my last, a for-hire security guard sitting awkwardly and wondering where everyone was. We …
Continue reading Unemployment: How To Deal With It Successfully
by BOB POLIACHIK I'm different today. But not because I woke at 4:50am. And not because I sweat through my shirt this morning. It's because of who I sweat with. Who I saw, what they told me and what I shared with them. I'm talking about men from a workout group called F3. The difference is …
I have always enjoyed studying statistics. So as I wondered how to go about writing a year in review-type post looking at this site's first year of existence, naturally I was curious about the measurables. 21,613. 11,051. 89. 195. 87. 184. 105. 37. That's a list of the number of total views, visitors, likes, comments, and …
Just a couple quick housekeeping notes to finally put a bow on the first ever TMWC. Thanks again to all the guys who participated!
He remembers staring out the window thinking he was seeing icebergs floating in the ocean. Thirty-Five thousand feet below, Adam was simply seeing the whitecaps from gigantic waves in the Atlantic. He and his family were flying from Katowice, Poland to Chicago, Illinois. Adam was seven years old. The country they were leaving and the …
by Jim Herr The guy riding shotgun looked dead, with his chin lolled down on the scoop neck of his tank top. The braking van made his head snap, though, like one of those Insatiable Birdie toys taking its last drink. As it screeched to a halt, I thought, “what an odd angle for …
by JEFF LAWRENCE This. Opening up and sharing. I’m not good at it. I can count on zero fingers the number of people I’ve shared with what I’m about to type. But I have a lot to say, so bear with me. I’ve never been good at making deep connections, not easily anyway. And …
