Keeping It Real

Fitness

Strong, mobile, rested. Training you can still be doing in ten years.

The Pickleball GuideRules in plain English, how to call the score, a first-game walkthrough, gear on a budget, drills and courts near you.Learn to play

Find a gym near you

← Newer articlesPage 6 of 162

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Grief that doesn't lift after a year needs more than time

Mourning is supposed to change shape. When it doesn't, there's a name for it, there's a treatment, and you don't have to white-knuckle another year.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Cancer in the family and when genetic testing is worth it

Build the family tree first, test the relative who's sick if you can, and know what a "variant of uncertain significance" actually means.

Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Forgetting Names at Fifty and When to Get It Checked

Most name-blanking at fifty is retrieval, not loss. But a few patterns are worth an appointment, and a few fixable things look exactly like memory trouble.

Ivermectin.com — Tracked USPS delivery, no clinic visit

PartnerIvermectin.com

Your legs won't sit still at night and ferritin is the test

The evening urge to move your legs has a name, a common cause, and a cheap blood test most people never get ordered.

Poll

How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Chemo runs on a cycle and your week should too

Fatigue, food that tastes like a penny, and the kind of help worth asking for by name, from someone planning around infusion day.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Men get breast cancer, and they almost always find it late

It's usually a hard, painless lump under one nipple, it's easy to write off as a gym knot, and the men who do well are the ones who got it checked fast.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

PartnerDude.com

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20267 min

The three skin cancers, what each looks like and how it's treated

Basal cell bleeds and won't heal. Squamous cell feels like sandpaper with ambition. Melanoma changes. Learn which spot gets a phone call this week.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The colonoscopy nobody warns you about is the night before

The scope takes about half an hour and you sleep through it. The prep is the part you have to plan around your job and your kids.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Autoimmune disease in plain language and how to keep training

What it means when your immune system misreads your own tissue, which tests actually tell you something, and how to lift and sleep around a flare.

Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Surveillance, surgery or radiation and how men actually choose

Your pathology report has three numbers that drive the whole decision. Learn to read them, then take the weeks you're allowed to take.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

PartnerDelicious.com

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The outer thigh, three seconds, and then you call 911

An epinephrine auto-injector is the easiest emergency device you'll ever use, and almost everybody hesitates too long with it.

Poll

How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The Parkinson's signs that show up years before the tremor

Smell, sleep, handwriting and one arm that stopped swinging. The tremor is the late arrival, and the early stuff is easy to miss.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your migraine plan and the headache that means call 911

Most bad headaches aren't emergencies, but a few are, and the difference is mostly about how fast the pain arrived.

WhackAWoke.com — Whack-A-Woke

PartnerWhackAWoke.com

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Working nights without wrecking your sleep, heart and waistline

Rotating shifts are hard on the body, but most of the damage comes from four or five fixable habits. Start with the drive home.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

The lung scan takes ten seconds and most who qualify skip it

Bunions, flat feet and when an insole is worth the money

Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The first two days after a pulled hamstring or calf

Ice is comfort, not treatment. What actually shortens the layoff, the one test that says you can run, and the trap that gets you hurt twice.

Shirts.com — Design it with AI. Wear it this week.

PartnerShirts.com

How to get off sleeping pills without losing a month of sleep

What the little white pill is actually doing, why it stops working, and the slow taper that gets you out without three weeks of wreckage.

Poll

How many days a week are you actually training?