Originally published on Medium < https://medium.com/@jesse_irizarry > “Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be...

Knees were meant to bend and bend completely. I could have avoided so much of the pain and stiffness that I dealt with daily when lifting...

It was a year or two back, I think. But really, who remembers timeframes anymore?, I wrote a piece for Breaking Muscle on some of my...

I get wound into frantic spells of higher thought here and there. It’s usually on mornings when I slept well the night before where I get...

It’s kind of like dad jokes for a dad. Your kids reach a certain age and you not only start enjoying them but they come to you from the...

Spilled coffee on a Carl Jung book that I was reading this morning. Not a good look. Why wouldn’t I spill something on a book like that? ...

I’ve tortured myself right and proper. My mind has always had compulsive thoughts steadily running through at hyperspeed. Even as a kid,...

I didn’t have a lot of friends when I was a little kid. My stutter was staggeringly worse than it is now so it was really difficult for...

I wish you could see what I’m looking at right now. I’ll take a picture of it for this blog but it’ll be a lousy painting of this picture...

I think I’ve written about this before, I’m not sure. I don’t care at this moment if I have or not. I’ve recited D.H. Lawrence’s quote...

Another repost of an article I wrote on Medium a couple of years back Let me tell you a story… Matthew loved superheros, from the first...

This is a repost that never made it to my new blog when I shut down my old one. I wrote it ( I think) 4 years ago. Coach Bill has been on...

I took my singlet off, changed into my shorts and t-shirt, and started whipping my back. I used dumbbell presses for my cat o’ nine...

I don’t get it. If you’re an athlete or lifter, why do you never work on your mobility? Maybe you’ve already put time into improving it...

I remember taking my shoes and socks off, straightening my belt, and bowing as I stepped into the dojang. I was about nine years old, I...

I’m pivoting some in my career. Even with all the uncertainty of life during this global pandemic, I feel pretty confident and strangely...

I don’t think we get many real wake up calls. I’m not even sure about the phrase itself. But dealing personally and socially with a...

Guy lifts weights. Maybe he isn’t all that consistent, but dammit he’s identified with it, at least when it suits him. Guy’s wife has...

Meditation can be very difficult. We’re told to let go, but we have no instinct for it. We need to learn to understand it. And learning...

Because I coach powerlifting at a strength gym, I spend a lot of time around athletes who train specifically for strength. My gym, JDI...