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Barefoot Running (pt 3) – Patience, Puma and POSE

A few weeks into barefoot running I have two major learnings:
1, It’s so smooth, effortless and joyful compared to conventional running, IF you get the technique right.
2, It’s very hard work and takes a lot of patience to reset the muscles, calves in particular, to tune into barefoot running technique.
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Barefoot running (pt 2) – Killing me softly

barefoot running you will know that the barefoot running technique is different from the technique wearing modern running shoes . In essence: No heel strikes, light landing on the ball of your foot and your calves act as springs to absorb the impact of the landing and pushing you forward into the next step. Check the videos and articles in the first part of Barefoot running

60 burpees – the June challenge!

Assuming that your pistols are now fast and accurate it’s time to put the leg explosivity you’ve built to the test in the burpee!
The burpee is a great allround exercise to build aerobic and anaerobic capacity. You build stamina through the complex movement with three jumps, you build leg explosivity in the jumps and upperbody [...]

Join the Pistol Fight – the May challenge!

The Pistol Fight is the fitness challenge of  May 2009.
This is how the challenge goes:
A pistol is a one-legged squat, one legged raised in front of you and kept parallel to the floor while slowly squatting down one your other leg and then pressing up again.
Voila! Easy right?
On the first of May make as many [...]

“Welcome to the jungle, we’ve got fun ‘n’ games.”

Wonder if Axl Rose had the same kind of fun’n’games in mind that Erwan Le Core or Greg Glassman had in mind when they designed their respective fitness concepts?
I dare to call myself fit. Spent my late teens in the gym, Muscle & Fitness was my bible and Arnold Schwarzenegger my God. My early twenties [...]

Know your ID?

Instinctive Drives is the most impressive personality tests I have come across (and I have done quite a few).
What I find so appealing wit the I.D. assessment is that is going in depth on why you have behave in certain ways, what motivates you, what are your instinctive drives, and then gives you practical and [...]

Enough excuses – stop procrastinating now!

How to get you started getting things done instead of just pushing into uncertainity?
There is an established concept called Getting Things Done, GTD. This is the 101 on GTD!
The concept of GTD has as many variations as users for the simple reason that we all are wired differently. Nevertheless there are some “best practices” to [...]

The Seven Secrets of Inspiring Leadership!

A brief and inspirational narrated slide show on Inspirational Leadership by Carmine Gallo, presented by Business Week.
Checkout Business Week for more interesting content.

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Myers Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator, or simply the MBTI, is one of the most common and widely accepted personality tests on the market.
I’ve done the official test 3 times and various free versions of the test 2-3 times. I’ll share my four letter profile further down.
The objective of the MBTI is to indicate preferred behavior [...]

Get S.M.A.R.T!

There’s few things that lead to as much frustrations as misaligned or misunderstood expectations and since it can be so easily avoided don’t even think about it – just be S.M.A.R.T.
S.M.A.R.T is an acronym widely used in all forms of people management with a couple of different read outs, a few examples are:

Specific, Significant, Simple
Measurable, [...]