My notes started to get a bit longer so I’m cutting these down to 5 days at a time. Here are my day 11-15 notes on Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life Day 11: Becoming best friends with God 6 secrets to becoming a friend of God (1-2): Constant conversation Don’t change what you do, change your attitude toward what … Read More
Podcast Episode 21: Matt Knabe – Musician, Counselor, and Prodigal Son
Disclaimer: The audio on the Core4Life side is pretty bad for this episode. Someone (Ryan) didn’t set up the audio input correctly, so our side of the conversation was recorded on the built-in microphone on our laptop instead of our mixer. Luckily, Matt’s side was crystal clear and he’s the one you want to hear anyway! Bourbon: Western Reserve Small … Read More
Weekly Pillar Post – 11/30
beFIT – Andrew Recovery is an often overlooked part of staying fit. When you work your body hard, it takes time to recover and build back stronger. As you age, it’s more important to focus on recovery to allow yourself to continue to perform well. I found this stretch routine recently and have been trying to do it a few … Read More
Quick Hits – College vs. Career
We all had big dreams coming out of college… well… most of us. In this episode, we sit down with our great friend and former guest, Matt Lee, to talk through what we had planned for our life coming out of college and what we actually ended up doing in our careers. We’ll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick … Read More
The Purpose Driven Life (Days 1-10)
I mentioned on a previous blog that I had started diving into Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life after never reading it before. It has been awesome to continue to pursue God and not the things of this world. I am going to post 4 blogs; since there are 40 days in the book, these will be broken down into … Read More
Podcast Episode 20 – Meet the Core4 – Andrew
This is our 3rd of 4 episodes dedicated to the members of Core4Life; now coming out on episodes 10, 15, 20 and 25! Bourbon – Technically not a bourbon… and we forgot to mention it during the recording. However, we were enjoying some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey for this episode. beFIT Andrew grew up playing lots of sports including swimming, … Read More
Weekly Pillar Post – 11/23
beFIT – Ryan I recently joined Matt and Andrew in creating my own home gym. It’s in my basement, so I’m guessing we’ll be spending a lot of time in it this winter. I bought a rack, bench, bars, and weight plates, but I felt like I was still missing some things – a pull-up bar and parallettes. So, I … Read More
Quick Hits – Injuries
It turns out that we, as a group, are pretty accident-prone. In this episode we sit down with one of our most popular guests, Dan LeMoine, to discuss some of the worst injuries that we’ve had in our sporting careers and how we worked to overcome them, or ‘modify’ our circumstances to work around them. We’ll be bringing you these … Read More
Weekly Pillar Post – 11/16
beFIT – Mike We talk a lot at Core4Life about having a core group of people to keep you accountable, especially when it comes to health and fitness. We as a group have done some great competitions wrapped around that concept that we’ve discussed previously. However, we know that there could be circumstances that prevent that from happening in your … Read More
Podcast Episode 19 – Jared Sylvester: Cancer Survivor and Miracle Dad
You do not get to hear stories this encouraging every day. Jared was diagnosed with osteosarcoma going into his Junior year of college. He shares his journey through his battle with cancer and how it has shaped him and his future. Whiskey: Long Road Distillers (Grand Rapids, Michigan) – Straight American Whiskey 01:50 – Upbringing: Transition into college and radical … Read More