How many reps should you do? The rules are everywhere and stated with confidence. Most of them are wrong — or at least incomplete. Here's a more useful way to think about it.

Around 80% of BJJ practitioners aren't doing additional strength and conditioning to support their training. Of those who are, most aren't training the neck directly. This is a problem. Here's what to do about it.

A life focused on the self is one that involves suffering. Kierkegaard called it despair. The antidote, he argued, is faith — and the path runs through self-knowledge, self-mastery, and ultimately service to others. This is what that looks like in practice.

What's the difference between prayer and meditation? The closer you look, the less obvious it becomes. This piece explores two forms of Christian prayer, two forms of secular meditation, and why the difference between them may not lie in the practice at all.