Five Simple Things That Help You Drop Weight Fast – Part 2 of 5
Part 2: Sleep the Leg, Johnny! In the last blog on this topic I talked about the first (or, rather, last) of the five things that I’ve found, for myself, to be the most beneficial when losing weight: drinking water. (Or rather, not drinking non-water.) Since I’m doing these in the reverse order in which [...]
Five Simple Things That Help You Drop Weight Fast – Part 1 of 5
Part 1: Be Like Water So, it has been 2 weeks since my last entry. Last week I got a bad bacterial infection in my joints which caused some pretty intense swelling and arthritic pain. I was basically bed-ridden from Monday evening until Sunday afternoon, which was the first time I was able to leave [...]
Why I haven’t been training, and what I’m going to do about it
I’ve been doing wushu (on and off) for over 17 years now. That’s kind of a long time (although not as long as some) and when I look back at my training efforts I notice some interesting patterns. Highs and lows. Peaks and Valleys. Times of motivation and energy and times where I lose focus [...]
Beijing and the Chinese Wedding Season
This weekend I’ll be making the trek back to the Capital of China, Beijing. This time for a friend’s wedding, but Ruhi and I will be able to meet up with a few wushu-related friends while we’re there. One of them just finished working with Keanu Reeves for his Taiji-related film, so my plan is [...]
Chinese New Year in Chaoyang with Wu Di 吴迪
We am spending the Spring Festival holiday in Liaoning province with Wu Di. I will be posting up lots if photos and updates from my trip on twitter so search there for #travelzilla to see all the good stuff. I will be using both my @naromkram and @wushuzilla accounts so searching for the hash tag [...]