💪Finkel's Fast Five 137 - September 11, 2020

Welcome to Finkel's Fast Five #137. Thanks for reading and subscribing!  ONE  HOOPS - With virtual schooling in full swing I can now add Gym Teacher to my resume and while I haven't challenged my kids to 'kick me in the Jimmy' like Beavis & Butthead's Phys Ed coach, I have ditched the lame curriculum and focused on what I know best...  ...driveway basketball. In particular, this week's lesson was to try to teach my son Allen Iverson's signature move. Our main source of learning material was this sick Iverson crossover highlight video on YouTube. If for some reason you forgot how ridiculously good Iverson was, watch it (the Jordan crossover never, ever, ever gets old). In fact, we were working so hard on the move we were late to homeschooling and my son was honest with his teacher and it led to this exchange, which I shared on Twitter and now has me in 4th place in ESPN's official virtual school Dad of the Year Rankings.

TWO

 FOOD - Look, I'm not going to lie. I've become a bit of a cooking fiend the last few months and I've been experimenting with a new arsenal of herbs and spices and blends to step my game up.  I'm a big fan of supporting local companies and trying regional flavors so this week I picked up the Key West Spice Company's Southernmost Blend and...it's delicious. It has a sweet, jerk-chicken like flavor and it's been great on chicken, on french fries and I actually put it on my scrambled eggs this weekend because I can't help but live dangerously. Gotta say, so far it's been great on everything. Check it out here.

THREE

 BEER & BASEBALL - Imagine your favorite beer. Now imagine an official Major League Baseball bat from your favorite team. Now imagine what it would be like to drink your favorite beer out of the barrel of your favorite team's bat.  You don't have to imagine anymore. There's a company called Dugout Mugs and their entire business is hollowing out baseball bats and turning them into beer mugs. Due to the unheralded power and unstoppable influence of the FF5 thanks to you all, the good people at Dugout Mugs sent me a Red Sox mug and I love it. Here's a nice slow motion video of my first pour. The mugs are a cool conversation piece and they're just overall awesome-looking. A perfect gift if you're looking for something different for the baseball fan in your life. I wanted to hook you guys up so the CEO agreed to give FF5 readers 25% off your first order. Just go to their website and use the code FASTFIVE at checkout.

FOUR

 MUSCLE - I'm hammering away on two book deadlines at the moment and my back and shoulders are feeling it. And there's only so many stretches and rolls I can do to offset it. So this week I tried to knock out a set of push-ups to failure for every hour I wrote. Boring, right? Actually, super boring. Buuuuuut...  I started mixing up my hand placement and that solved the boredom problem. So I'd start with standard push-ups, then move to diamond cutters and then wide grip and then... actually... and then I ran out of ideas. I needed some inspiration and I found Outside Magazine's piece on the 14 Types of push-up variations and that did the trick. So now I'm doing Sphinx push-ups, Spidermans and all kinds of goofy moves. It's working. Read it here.

FIVE

 A quote about eating that made me laugh:  “My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.”   - Orson Welles

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