Mountain Medicine: Part 4 – This is Your Brain on Nature
Little Occoquan Run - Photo credit: Sarah Vogel Appalachian Ecotherapy and Why We Need it Now Click here to read the whole article I dipped my paddle ...
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Mountain Medicine: Part 3 – This is Your Brain on Tech
Appalachian Ecotherapy and Why We Need it Now Click here to read the whole article Illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined th...
Mountain Medicine: Part 2 – Why We Need Ecotherapy
Appalachian Ecotherapy and Why We Need it Now Click here to read the whole article Patients with a window view of a natural setting had shorter post-oper...
Mountain Medicine: Part 1 Pura Vida
Appalachian Ecotherapy and Why We Need it Now Click here to read the whole article La Fortuna, Costa RicaPhoto credit: Isabella Juskova “¿Cuál es tu ...
How Meditation Can Enhance Your Athletic Performance
I have played sports since I was five years old. I tumbled and flipped my way through gymnastics, played softball and track and field in high school, and I che...
How Yoga Can Improve Your Athletic Performance
Learn how yoga can improve athletic performance with simple stretches! A few years ago, while training for a tennis tournament in the Caribbean, I asked som...
Gyms vs. Rock
Photo: Izzy Gifford climbs at the Riverrock Climbing Comp in Richmond, VA Have climbing gyms ruined rock climbing—or opened it to new audiences? Climbing...
Jack the Trail Dog’s Trail Reviews: Fairystone State Park
Lakeshore (roughly 2 miles out and back) and Little Mountain Falls Trails (roughly 4 mile loop) This isn’t far from the house, and I love how dog friendly s...
Hometown Heroes
Locals reveal their favorite spots for in-town adventure It’s five o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon. You want to get outside after a long day of work or cla...
The Fittest Man in the World is Still At It
Erwan Le Corre likes to talk about spearfishing. He can go into detail about fighting the currents and the challenge of holding your breath at the bottom o...
Top 5 Outdoor Activities for Beginners
Top 5 Outdoor Sports for Beginners and Amateurs Outdoor sports for beginners and amateurs include some of the activities we did engage in while growing up. They...
The Incident: What’s Your Positive?
The Todericos make it a point to refer to the event as an incident and not an accident. "We are survivors, not victims." As Denise Gorondy-...
The Goods Home Fitness: Build a Home Gym
EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON THEIR FAVORITE HOME TRAINING EQUIPMENT Best case scenario is you get your workout while you hit the trail, slopes, or rock. But life isn’t a...
5 Takeaways From Our Time at MADabolic Fitness Training
One of the programs we opted to test in our BRO Fitness Challenge was MADabolic Fitness Training in Asheville, North Carolina. What we found was an intense and effective interval training regimen built on work-to-rest ratios....
Sweat Shops: BRO’s One-Month Boutique Fitness Challenge
Orangetheory: An Orange crush is exactly what I needed...