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...
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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...
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How to Keep the People Attending Your Conference Alive
Do you organize events? Do you like your attendees alive? Conference organizers like their attendees to be energetic, enthusiastic, and preferably, alive. However, I see a lot of conference...
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Bicycle Parkour
I get a lot of personal training ideas from videos, but Danny MacAskill’s Imaginate (below) is useless for that purpose. Just training to do some of the tricks in this video will almost certainly...
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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...
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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...
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Lose Weight and Get Strong Without Leaving Your House
My family and I are in the process of moving to another apartment, and we are thinking through how to design it to promote active living for us and our children. Both at work and at home, we’re...
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Ultimate Pushup Videos / ffMASSIVE Conference at SXSW
We’re now gearing up for the 2015 version of ffMASSIVE, ffVC’s annual conference as part of SXSW. If you’d like to participate as a sponsor or in some other capacity, definitely please contact my...
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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital
Both founders and researchers in healthcare are spending far too much of their energy in areas where they’re not going to make maximum impact. Most health problems are self-inflicted, but the...
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Recent Books: Paleo, Angel Investing, Mediation, and Career Acceleration
I read a few books over the last year that I thought were worth highlighting/recommending: The book that has had the most practical impact on my life was The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for...
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Ultimate Workout Room/Playroom for Crossfit, Parkour, and Gymnastics
What is the best way to create maximum workout options in a New York apartment? I spent a fair amount of time researching the best system for the workout room/playroom in our new apartment, which we...
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The Ultimate Office for Athletes and People Seeking a Healthier Lifestyle
When Arnold Schwarzenegger first came to America and started becoming the world’s most successful bodybuilder, he and fellow bodybuilder Franco Columbu worked during the day as bricklayers....
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Ultimate Office for Fitness, Post #2—Photos and Coverage
We’ve received a very positive response to our post about creating a fitness-friendly office. Daily Burn posted some photos, and we thought some additional ones would be interesting. Our intern Matt...
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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work
Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital’s approach to building a fitness office. (Thanks Tim!) I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post...
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Personal Training in Your Hallways
Personal trainer Jake Koenig reached out to us to request to run a minimum viable product trial of his in-office fitness training service. We’re always glad to help entrepreneurs, and we are a bit...
View Articleff Venture Capital profiled in Creative Workspaces Magazine
ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. The feature, titled “Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward,” offers an inside...
View ArticleNever 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...
View Articleff Venture Capital Holiday Video 2012, with in-office workout
We would like to wish you Happy Holidays from ff Venture Capital! This video gives you a sense of our “fitness office” during the holidays. If you are not familiar with photography memes like “ff-ing”,...
View ArticleParkour 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...
View ArticleNever 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...
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