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Reading Time: 2 minutesBalance sports have always been a passion of mine. Skateboarding, snowboarding and climbing (which has just as much to do with balance as it does strength and agility). Slack lining is a great way to develop balance and core strength, but there are myriad other ways including balance boards. Growing up, my bestest buddy Jason […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGrowing up the son of a cardiologist, I had access to a treadmill more than 30 years ago. Whereas most people watched man of the future George Jetson walk Astro on a treadmill, me and my brothers would go to our father’s office, sprint to the room where they performed stress tests and give my […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the original Bad Boys (1983), while doing time in juvie, Paco Moreno (Esai Morales) had a hard-on for Michael ‘Mick’ O’Brien (Sean Penn). Not in the ‘gay for the stay’ way, but to avenge the accidental death of Paco’s little brother. In the end, street smarts and a pillow case full of soda cans […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes“She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.” Garth Algar, Wayne’s World I wanted so badly to knock the Viper Rope Climber from Marpo Kinetics. I wanted to say “go out and spend $2-3 per foot for 1.5 inch manila rope, tie it to a tree […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDear Sergey, Eugene, Dmitry, Aleksandr; with a bunch of 15 letter last names I can’t pronounce (and I’m 50% Russian myself)! Thank you for your hard work restoring Bitness. You faithfully ran FSCK over and over and again with the brute force of ignorance, even though disk integrity had nothing to do with the problem. […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I had my dog Magic not so long ago, we used to enjoy running together. Usually we would through the woods for miles, Magic with a big grin plastered on his face. The problem was, if there was something cooler than running – say a lake to jump in, or something dead to roll […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are about 650 named muscles in the human body (personally, I have 651 when you include Vitamin-L, a/k/a the Vanilla Love Log, but I digress). In addition to named muscles, there are at least twice that amount in unnamed muscles. All muscles fall into three categories; skeletal, smooth and cardiac. Some muscles we can […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesMy neighbors asked me to take their trash to the curb while they’re away on vacation. This family generates more trash in a week than we can in months. I opened their garage door and it was like a portal to Mexico City. A small Mexican boy came out from under the BMW and tried […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteClimbers burn a lot of fuel. At my weight an hour climbing can burn as much as 900 calories (estimate the number of calories you burn in a given sport here). In a mad rush to pack my gear and grab some fuel for a trip to Rumney, I devised a tasty little sumthin’ I […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNow I’m not one to boast (lie), but back ‘in the day’ (which Dane Cook will tell you was a Wednesday by the way) me and my bros would rock the pogo stick like all get out. Kick-outs, tabletops, one footers, 360’s, no hander (puh-lease) and back flips (lie). We still have our beaten, broken […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’d be interested to know what percentage of home fitness equipment goes unused. Treadmills, stair machines, rowers, weight and resistance equipment, etc. Sometimes the best workout home fitness equipment offers is from moving it in and setting up, followed by a second rep of breaking it down and moving it out. Enter the Mechanical Core […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI can’t even get my friends to regularly visit Bitness, let alone total strangers who share an interest in fitness and gadgets. Would I like this thing to explode and write 7 days-a-week about all things technology and fitness? Hell yes! I’m not ready to give up on my dream but I do need people […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe sub-title to Bitness.com is The Fit Geek. So I Googled it and yes, it would have been a good idea to do that PRIOR to choosing it but it seems so random no? Is anything original anymore? My primary goal with Bitness is to turn geeks on to gadgets for their given sport or […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the North East (from where I hail) die hards surf all year long. Many a winter day my friend Matt strolls into work from an early morning session in the freezing cold Atlantic. In mid-2007, thanks to an unfortunately named wetsuit from Rip Curl called the H-Bomb, surfers in cold climes can keep their […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor those of you not ‘in the know’ a slackline is used primarily by climbers to develop balance by walking the length of tubular nylon webbing (usually 1 inch thick) ala the Great Blondin. The difference between tightrope walking and slacklining is that the slackline, although tight as a drum, flexes and moves – a […]