I don’t play golf and tend to be a bit snotty about it as exercise. But here’s a lovely message from an old high school classmate who just came back from a two week golf trip to "Scotland, with...

Another slant on this sacred topic. I have to face my single sculling coach on the Salisbury Lake at 7 am tomorrow. Ugh. So tonight – after a 200 mile fool’s errand, driving half way to NH and back,...

I had a major "hire-a-trainer" moment yesterday. I was at the enormous and elegant All Sport health club in Poughkeepsie N.Y. and had the good luck to have a weight session with the owner, Mike Arteaga. Mike is deep...

So I got this trainer, right? And he suggested I was a little puny around the CORE…gave me some exercises to do. And YIKES was he right. I stumble and moan and fail at the simplest of his exercises....

This "hire a trainer" suggestion – even though you work out all the time and know a fair amount about it – is interesting. Early insight: you underestimate what you could be doing. People in the business take a look...

I took some of my own advice yesterday and bought an hour’s worth of the time of a serious rowing coach. I asked him to map out a regimen for the three months from now to the Head of...