At what point does pressure become danger? There’s a reason that a common parlance of exercising is “no pain, no gain.” Exercise, even if you’re doing it right,…
Tag: Safety
It’s not just a looks thing, it’s also a health thing. I have had to endure truly awful sunburns on more than a few occasions throughout my life.…
If you don’t need it, don’t take it. As a child of a doctor, there was almost always a regular supply of over-the-counter drugs available in my home.…
The bathroom scale is not the arbiter of your health. A few decades ago, peoples’ first and foremost identifier of the state of their health was the ol’…
If you don’t need to drink that stuff, don’t. I’ll never forget a moment in my Freshman year of college: it was the first day of a long…
The pants you wear are just as important as the weights you lift. We’ve talked a few times about the right kinds of clothes to wear while working…
It’s gonna be hard to appreciate gains if you break your limbs. When I was a kid, the first time I stepped into my dad’s homemade gym in…
There are few things as viscerally unpleasant as the ambient sound of your own ear canals. I have what one would charitably call “chronically gunky ears.” Every few…