Logan Gelbrich
We Made You Something & We Need Your Opinion
Have you been living under a rock? ‘Season 2’ of the Hold the Standard™ Podcast is raging on and you better start binging it! Start at the beginning. You’ll love …
PODCAST: Carl Paoli Connects All Dots with Movement & Beyond
In this episode of the Hold The Standard™ Podcast, I welcome world-renowned movement coach Carl Paoli for a thought-provoking conversation on gymnastics, leadership, and the pursuit of mastery. Carl shares …
How to Defend Your Power with Small Habits
Does power sound metaphysical? I’m referring to your juice or whatever make you do what you do best. Defending it is arguably as important as having it in the first …
Incompetency Isn’t the Boogeyman We’ve Made It to Be
I used to watch my older family members shut down when undertaking a computer task they’ve never tried before. “I don’t know how to connect this new scanner,” they might …
Comparing Sauna Conversations, Culture
Noone said a word. It sucked. As someone who loves silence, I can tell you it didn’t suck because of the silence. It sucked because some of the best conversations …
PLAYLIST: Peak American Nostalgia Inbound!
Textured guitars and motivational drums, anyone? Our latest DEUCE Gym playlist doubles as timeless road trip music. These are the songbirds of our generation, folks. Throw these in your headphones and start playing some air drums. Dare ya! LISTEN.
The Pascal’s Wager of Intelligence
You know the bet.. It’s better to believe in God and find out He’s not real than the other way around. This is Pascal’s Wager. Intelligence works the opposite way. Prolific physicist, Thomas Campbell, once elegantly offered, “When you believe that you know, but you do not, you cut yourself off from the possibility of ever knowing.” Today there are so many adults that have knowledge based careers who live in fear of being wrong or not having answers. To reconcile this feeling, many of us assume expertise to avoid the risk of “not knowing.” The tradeoff of this behavior…
NEW DROP: Human Optimist Hoodie
This lightweight hoodie is a symbol of the human spirit that continues to stretch boundaries and overcome. DEUCE Community Inc. has shown that when you’re optimistic about humanity that we tend to surprise each other with what we’re capable of. “If we take man as he is, we make you worse, but if we take man, as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.” – Viktor Frankl The back features program graduate and lifetime member, David Gonzalez, testing his vertical leap. He went on to build a life unrecognizable to his younger self shortly…
Do You Have Your Diagnosis or Does It Have You?
I’ll be honest. This is one of those articles that is all in the title. You have your diagnosis, though, right? It doesn’t have to be a medical thing. You could be diagnosed as a funny guy, a slow learner, ADHD, or “bad knee guy.” No matter the diagnosis, the insight is the same. Do you have it or does it have you? If you use these labels to inform your own action and agency, then they might have a purpose. If you start to use your labels as a means to absolve agency, they might have you. And, that’s…
TRAINING MYTHS: Kettlebells Are Uniquely Safe, Functional
You’re not going to believe this. Kettlebells are iron weights shaped into a round “bell” shape with a handle. That’s it. That’s the technology. A kettlebell is every other loaded implement in the gym molded into the shape of a kettlebell. There’s nothing specifically special or healthy or safe about a kettlebell, which, of course, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use kettlebells. It means you should be nicer when discussing barbells, dumbbells, atlas stones, sandbags, maces, and everything else in the gym.