This UFC is inspired by the unprecedented success and fun of Acube Founding Partner Atty Jan Aliling's Walk The Talk Challenge. Here are the FAQs. This can be changed anytime, without prior notice, by the organizers. What is UFC? UFC officially stands for Ultimate Fitness Commitment. It can also stand for Ultimate Fasting Challenge. The 60 day period covered is 12:01 am Jan 8 to 11:59 pm Mar. 8. The official website, with links to all relevant material including the daily monitoring sheet is a padlet with this link: https://padlet.com/VCoachBong/IntermittentFasting Who can

One of my running coaches, astonished by my almost weekly races in 2016 and 2017, asked me- Do you train to race? or Do you race to train? If you look at my medal cabinet, then you know the answer to this... The context of "race" is joining a public running event that is set on a specific venue and date, and of course- a fee. In my early days of running in 2016, I used races to train. For example, I joined a 10km race to train for a 16k; I

In less than 12 hours, I will begin my last Unreasonable Mental Challenge for 2023. It is the 50 km ultra from Calamba to Sta. Cruz, Laguna. This annual ultramarathon race derives its inspiration from our national hero, Jose P. Rizal, which is why it starts in his birthtown. The race ends in Sta. Cruz, Laguna sports complex, where the tallest Rizal monument is, built for the 2014 Palarong Pambansa, depicting Rizal as a sportsman. The ultra event, organized by Run Mania, has common elements from the 3 previous ultras

Is it the best time? "No, i am too busy. I have a lot on my plate. Someday! In my case, with the Transformation training with Reinvent International that I went through last October 2023, I proved it to myself. For me, I ran 70km in a Crazy 24 hour run with almost no preparation. It was Reinvented Mind over matter. During the same training,

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Watch the first 2 minutes of the Youtube video where I first encountered this quote... https://youtu.be/9tsIYhnRw7k?si=X5t4Pdrv35OVplCN One Wild and Precious Life. Watch On Youtube I am Crazy. In my own way. But I am not alone. And I am not yet finished. I have just one wild and precious life and I will not waste it inside my comfort zone. I am an ULTRA marathoner ie. a crazy, slow, runner who somehow finds enjoyment in running 50km and above. I am one of 991 active Filipino ultramarathoners as per an international ultramarathon register. On

AI can hit or miss the bullseye? If you know how to use AI programs, then you are just increasing the probability (or, reducing the uncertainty) of what is basically a mathematical algorithm. If you use AI with unconscious incompetence, then beware of fake news and all that comes with it. For all the right and wrong reasons, headlines can be misleading... Not surprisingly, there are 2 very different headlines that resulted from the same research paper: The article from Fortune appeared on my FB news feed. Unfortunately, for me, it was a

The buzzword and the in-thing (or must know) is Generative AI. Artificial Intelligence? Yes! Act Immediately and Intentionally! Surely! In the past week alone, I attended 3 seminars on the subject matter: a whole day face to face seminar for Educators at Asian Institute of Management (Demystifying Chat GPT: Bridging the AI Knowledge Gap for Educators) and a 30 minute webinar by Boston Consulting Group on Linked in: BCG. Competing in the Age of Generative AI. Stand Out or Stand Aside. The third webinar was on Application and Ethics of AI

Marketing's operating definition includes: "Creating, Communicating and Delivering the Value"... This is a sincere, and necessary effort to communicate the value of the course design which is based on the latest best-practices on adult course design. The best practices didnt mention to communicate the value, and this may result to unnecessary pain or fear. Also, some students get easily bored when the admin stuff is being discussed because they want to go to the content right away. The result? Please watch this video to help see you go beyond what you

First 11 Life Lessons from Marathons In October 2016, the life lessons I learned from running my first marathon were more transformative than what I learned from my 13 years of college and post graduate studies. Below is an initial list of what I learned when I ran my first marathon in 2016, 103 days after getting off my couch, purchasing my first running shoe in 35 years. I was then 51 years old, newly retired from my corporate world, experiencing what some would label as a mid-life crisis, suddenly inspired by