Coach Iron Pete - Men's Success for Tough Times

I still see so many people in this country (USA) willfully locked down since early last year. It is a shame that they have allowed fear to overrule their judgement and critical thinking processes. And I'm talking about healthy, younger people here, not the ones that are old and frail. I recently took a trip to Aruba. My aging parents (79 and 72 years old) have a timeshare down there and booked airline tickets early after I made an initial analysis of the #Covid19 situation. And they invited me to come, in which I said yes. Living the life in Aruba For a short background, I have been a scientist of a consumer products company with exposure to the FDA for 12 years before I became a coach, so statistics and analytical reasoning is my strength. I'm not "blowing this out of my ass" like some people claim when I tell them that the #Pandemic is overblown. Everything evolves around the CDC figures. Namely, 99.8% of the people survive this virus if infected. For my parents...

There are a lot of evidence that suggests that a regimen of good health, diet, exercise, and Vitamin D is enough to ward off Covid-19 Just like any other viruses that came along in the past.   I've posted the evidence multiple times before. Treat your body well, and it will treat you well in kind.

Note: Men, one of the best things you need to do in becoming strong is to be productive. Time management is HUGE in this regard. If you get a handle on this issue below, you will be well on your way to taking your time back and being efficient again! How many people do you know spend most of their times in front of a screen? Phones, desktops, laptops, you name it, a lot of people live and die with what happens in front of a screen.   I believe that there is such thing as internet addiction. With so much information at your fingertips, it has a "sensory overload effect", numbing and scattering your thoughts to the winds. This will render you largely unproductive.   And it's having a very negative effect on society. All of our genuine bonds between family and friends have been frayed or even destroyed by our "new connections" to the internet. The internet was supposed to be the game changer that was supposed to bring all of us together, make us a lot more producti...

This excellent article comes from a women's website from the UK. I'm not surprised to see this because it is women that are the most resistant to a certain "mystery liquid in needle form" if you get my drift.  Most women do know that there seems to be a chance that this lethal liquid  can render a woman sterile as the it  can develop antibodies that can attack the proteins that develop the placenta during pregnancy. Please look at all viewpoints so that you can make well-educated decisions on whether to get the vac...er, the liquid or not. https://bit.ly/37yOzZZ https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-fascists-are-demonising-the-non-vaccinated/

Most men need to be healthy and be productive in order to be happy. I know it's an insult in some ways, but we're tools. 😁 I mean it as a compliment though! We need to give ourselves goals so that we, as tools, can be used to work towards that goal.   We're only useful when we are being used. Not that kind of used! But used in a productive way in which we are proud of our results. A lot of men have lost that usefulness in 2020 as their goals were either destroyed by government lockdowns or forcibly modified as a result of this "new normal." As with the former, we are goal oriented creatures, and we lose that motivation when the goal is removed. A tool that just sits there isn't making itself useful. As with the latter, sometimes the new goals don't reflect what we are used to doing, and we feel at best awkward when trying for these modified goals. Using a knife to loosen a screw doesn't work very well, doesn't it; a knife is used in cutting things...

 So I heard the Super Bowl happened yesterday. I only know because I'm hearing Tom Brady getting flak from angry people that he wasn't wearing a mask. Folks, I give you real evidence of what you do NOT want to be if you want to be a strong leader during tough times, these angry people. These people are always looking at other peoples' business and being perpetually angry about every little thing. First off, stop wasting time looking at other people. Focus on yourself instead. Remember that self-improvement is the most important priority that you have to address in order to be successful. Secondly, stop being angry all the time. Anger is a negative emotion, and it is easy to convey that anger to others. People can sense it, and will try to avoid you whenever possible. You need to be a beacon of light, not an infectious carrier of darkness. Having a positive attitude around others will make other people gravitate towards you. Yes, you can still be angry sometimes, ...

 I got back from my wintry run this morning in time to see the whole Punxsutawney Phil "celebration" on television. What a sad state of affairs. 19 years ago, I and some other runners in my club went down to Punxsutawney to see the spectacle in person. Gobblers Notch was a little outside of the town, and there were buses that took us from the town to Gobblers Notch. Groundhog's Day past - huge enthusiastic crowds! The overnight festivities were awesome. It was cold when we were there, so there was a lot of alcohol that was passed around that night. If you think of it as a metal concert, complete with mosh pit, this came close. The crowd was cheering the loudest when they took Phil out, and derisively booed him when he said that we had 6 more weeks of winter to go. It was all in good fun though. This year? When watching it on television, the first thought in my head? How sad. No wild crowds, no enthusiastic cheering. Just a virtual ceremony. It was so quiet there!...

    I'll be posting a separate blog for Men's advice, strength, and fitness apart from the endurance training blog. I think the two are related but are significantly different, and that warrants a separate blog page. Creating a new blog page away from the Google Sphere is a bit more complex than expected, so I'm going to temporarily repurpose one of my older blogs to accommodate the new direction we're going. I'll hopefully be getting a more permanent blog in either this week or next; I promise to keep people in the loop here. I've had one long time friend commit suicide when he was fired from his job. We didn't talk for about 5 years but it came as a big blow last year. I also had to talk one "off the ledge", so to speak. He's a local bartender here and was also recently let go from the job when the restaurant went tits up under the Cuomo authoritarian regime here. He also went through a very nasty divorce. Luckily we put our heads together an...