Deck in DC

"If you wanna feel funky, feel free, but please don't spill that funk on me"
I am in Egypt, about 80 miles outside of Cairo, Egypt doing a training with some young people in grassroots activism. I can’t believe I am here and waking up in this modest hotel to a donkey outside and realizing there is no starbucks or continental breakfast is both humbling and scary. This is good for me….very good for me

I am in Egypt, about 80 miles outside of Cairo, Egypt doing a training with some young people in grassroots activism. I can’t believe I am here and waking up in this modest hotel to a donkey outside and realizing there is no starbucks or continental breakfast is both humbling and scary. This is good for me….very good for me

I’m going to Egypt

I will be in Egypt Friday September 9 - Wednesday September 14th….beyond geeked for this trip

moveyourbooty: MOTIVATION: so girlie even a guy can sweat to it. via Decker, resident DC MYBer…and definitely a dude. I am not a Female…but I have fallen in love with this. The new Nike Training Club is a training app that gives you your own personal trainer, anytime, anywhere. Get lean, toned and strong with over 60 custom-built workouts featuring audio guidance and on-demand instruction from a Nike Pro Trainer. It is marketed for women but I have been doing the exercises and they are tough and awesome. Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nikewomen-training-club/id301521403?mt=8

moveyourbooty:

MOTIVATION: so girlie even a guy can sweat to it.

via Decker, resident DC MYBer…and definitely a dude.

I am not a Female…but I have fallen in love with this. The new Nike Training Club is a training app that gives you your own personal trainer, anytime, anywhere. Get lean, toned and strong with over 60 custom-built workouts featuring audio guidance and on-demand instruction from a Nike Pro Trainer. It is marketed for women but I have been doing the exercises and they are tough and awesome.


Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nikewomen-training-club/id301521403?mt=8

Rap was built to handle contradictions. The real bs is when you act like you don’t have contradictions inside you, that you’re so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into, strange places.” Jay Z

—Decoded (Jayz)

The fam, these cats welcomed me to DC and not only gave me a crew to hang with they don’t ask me about work, or any of the other DC stuff. Great friends, life friends

The fam, these cats welcomed me to DC and not only gave me a crew to hang with they don’t ask me about work, or any of the other DC stuff. Great friends, life friends

Cory Booker is getting in shape!

So, enough! This year I am going to talk less about what others need to be doing around health and fitness, and instead focus much more on how I’m living up to my own values and ideals. I am going to be the leader I dream of being in every area of my life, and lead by example.

moveyourbooty: MYBprofile: The DECKER Edition (Washington, DC). Okay so you know how if a table had its legs pull out from under it, it would fall completely to the ground, bringing all the glassware, plates and silverware crashing down to the ground in a dramatic, shocking and frightening fashion? If Decker weren’t in my life I would be that table all broken and shattered on the ground. Got it? Decker and I go all the way back to 3rd grade and every year he becomes more near, dear, and necessary to my general existence. Calling the man a go-getter is a MASSIVE understatement. He’s one of those people who is going places. Constantly. He’s always onto this project or the next, connecting with this person or another, successfully hitting everything out of the park that comes his way. He’s big time. And only getting bigger by the minute. Except recently, he’s been getting smaller, leaner and more fit by the minute. He’s getting stronger by the minute. Faster by the minute. And all around healthier by the minute. So I’m psyched for him to contribute to MYB! Here’s to his first post and more to come! via Decker: BROTHA on the RUN: My Fitness Journey CHAPTER 1: More Than a Race This past year I completed a half marathon, yes a half marathon!! This big brotha ran for 13.1 miles without stopping (maybe stopped a couple times for water) in 2hrs and 16 minutes. I have a goal this year to complete a full marathon but I am also amped to launch my 30th year with a renewed sense of personal health and transformation. I am not in this to just lose weight but to live a better life and my personal fitness and activity will hopefully be an extension. As a black male, this fitness thing means a lot more, it is about changing the culture of many of my friends to not just workout to get “swole” but to live better and longer. Diabetes, High Blood pressure, Heart Disease, and other health issues continue to plague black males. I hope being more vocal with my health goals and challenges will inspire any brothas out there to get up and Move their Booty! Hope you enjoy my updates and pics and thanks MYB for the opportunity to share!

moveyourbooty:

MYBprofile: The DECKER Edition (Washington, DC).

Okay so you know how if a table had its legs pull out from under it, it would fall completely to the ground, bringing all the glassware, plates and silverware crashing down to the ground in a dramatic, shocking and frightening fashion? If Decker weren’t in my life I would be that table all broken and shattered on the ground. Got it?

Decker and I go all the way back to 3rd grade and every year he becomes more near, dear, and necessary to my general existence. Calling the man a go-getter is a MASSIVE understatement. He’s one of those people who is going places. Constantly. He’s always onto this project or the next, connecting with this person or another, successfully hitting everything out of the park that comes his way. He’s big time. And only getting bigger by the minute.

Except recently, he’s been getting smaller, leaner and more fit by the minute. He’s getting stronger by the minute. Faster by the minute. And all around healthier by the minute. So I’m psyched for him to contribute to MYB! Here’s to his first post and more to come!

via Decker:

BROTHA on the RUN: My Fitness Journey

CHAPTER 1: More Than a Race

This past year I completed a half marathon, yes a half marathon!! This big brotha ran for 13.1 miles without stopping (maybe stopped a couple times for water) in 2hrs and 16 minutes. I have a goal this year to complete a full marathon but I am also amped to launch my 30th year with a renewed sense of personal health and transformation. I am not in this to just lose weight but to live a better life and my personal fitness and activity will hopefully be an extension.

As a black male, this fitness thing means a lot more, it is about changing the culture of many of my friends to not just workout to get “swole” but to live better and longer. Diabetes, High Blood pressure, Heart Disease, and other health issues continue to plague black males. I hope being more vocal with my health goals and challenges will inspire any brothas out there to get up and Move their Booty!

Hope you enjoy my updates and pics and thanks MYB for the opportunity to share!

We recently did a program in Los Angeles working with Millennial Vets, here is a video shot by our partner MTVU

now that im debating this thing i have i am simultaneously realizing how much i didn’t have the other thing

Great vid

To be means to communicate…To be means to be for another, and through the other, for oneself. A person has no internal sovereign territory, he is wholly and always on the boundary; looking inside himself, he looks into the eyes of another or with the eyes of another.

—Mikhail Bakhtin