Justin Bailey

Day Two was a rest day. Day Three: Ran 4 miles, again in my Sauconys.  It felt like much longer than that.  I wish I had some trails or consistent stretches of grass to run on, running on concrete is not so fun.  It felt…

As a youth pastor, on of my great privileges is to play a mentoring role for several young men.  I've been thinking about this lately since we have recently concluded a guy's group at our church. I remember hearing a Matt Chandler quote that has…

Though not that interesting to most of my readers, I have decided to log my training routine on the road to the Tough Mudder event in July. I put myself on the Runner's World half-marathon schedule, which called for only 2 miles on the first…

Several years ago when I was working out at my local Globo-gym, I was stopped in the locker room by someone who asked me what I was training for.  The question took me aback, because I was just trying to get in good shape.  I…

This will be the last post in this short series.  How do I plan to use the garage gym. First of all, I will be the first to admit that garage gym-ing has its drawbacks, at least for me. I will examine each drawback in turn.…

As I wrote in a previous post, my desire to consistently do CrossFit workouts despite my low budget led me to research what it would cost to outfit my garage with the necessary pieces of equipment.  The possibility that I could invite friends and my…

I thought I would pen a short series on a project I've been working on lately: constructing a garage gym. I was initially motivated to start researching how much it would cost to accumulate basic gym equipment when I realized that I my gym budget…