Last month I did an on-stage interview with Peter Crysdale of Startup Grind. You can read a summary at AlleyWatch. For fun, I did an on-stage vertical pushup at the end of the interview (skip to 44:00)....
[Continue Reading]SXSW charity push-up competition, Sunday 1-2pm, Austin TX
Michael Gold challenged Jeff Pulver and me to a pushup contest for charity on stage at SXSW. This rapidly escalated to a full-fledged Indiegogo campaign. So: Come challenge Ryan Armbrust, me, and some other team members Sunday 1-2pm at the ff MASSIVE pavilion, Empire Control Room & Garage (606 E 7th St, Austin, TX) Sunday,...
[Continue Reading]Meet people at SXSW … while working out and losing weight
Can you go to SXSW and stay in shape? South by Southwest (SXSW) is famous for a jam-packed schedule, infinite free food & drink, minimal sleep, and radical overstimulation. It’s not well known as a place to stay in shape. So before attending for my first time (finally!), I had to find a solution to keep my...
[Continue Reading]How to keep the people attending your event alive
Do you organize events? Do you like your attendees alive? Event organizers like their attendees to be energetic, enthusiastic, and preferably, alive. Joe Reilly organized 50 events a year while serving as President of the Family Office Association. He said, “Conferences are the unnatural situation par excellence, almost like a casino. You are in a recirculated-air,...
[Continue Reading]Wheelchair Gymnastics (Really)
I now primarily do calisthenics and body weight exercises for my workout, but I have the great advantage of having four working limbs. This video shows a wheelchair user, Joshua Rucker, doing calisthenics most able-bodied people couldn’t do. Really, really impressive, and inspirational. ...
[Continue Reading]Never Leave the Playground, part 2
I blogged some time ago a PBS video featuring Stephen Jepson, who is more agile than you are…and at age 72, he’s probably older than you too. I love (and share) his philosophy of active living and “never leave the playground”. One of the influences of training in parkour is that I’ve gotten in the...
[Continue Reading]Parkour and Entrepreneurs
Parkour is to entrepreneurs as golf is to (some) corporate executives. (Previously posted at Forbes.) In the past few years, I’ve taught myself some of the basics of parkour, which is effectively skateboarding without the skateboard. The goal is to navigate your environment as quickly and efficiently as possible. The New York Times describes it outdoor...
[Continue Reading]Never Leave the Playground
If you’re interested in being both physically and mentally fit — regardless of your age — you have to watch this 71-year-old. I definitely share his philosophy that you should “Never Leave the Playground.” I can comfortably guarantee that he can do some tricks that you (and definitely I) cannot do....
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