Beardy Pieces and Aspects of the Mo

With Thanksgiving tomorrow, our Mo Bros are settling down and getting the kitchen prepped for all the family time. Today, they Mo along!

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Movember Foundations and The Good Men Project have partnered up in honor of raising awareness for men’s health issues!  

If you’ve been following along for Movember, then you know what we’re all about! Keep checking back daily for updates on our Mo Bros facial hair and the issues that these Bros are talking about this Movember!

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Benjamin Mullen

Daily Mo Update

Check out Ben’s Writing here: Benjamin Mullen

& his YouTube series called #AskADad

& tweet to Ben here: @_BKMullen

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Keith Sansoucy

Daily Mo Update

I finally took a day off, so I doubt anyone will be asking about my mustache, but tomorrow is another story. Here’s hoping I can get some donations for men’s health on Turkey Day.

Movember Awareness

To continue my explanation from yesterday, I’ll compare my mentality after a grueling night of training last month with the same thing from this month. Wednesday nights are tough. I do an hour of boxing, then 45 minutes of wrestling, then an hour of jiu jitsu, then around a half hour of hard sparring. I’m usually energetic and positive for boxing, a little worn down for wrestling, sore and tired for jiu jitsu, and then either energized for sparring again or absolutely dead. The physical shape I’m in on these days plays a big role in my mentality. If I’m sore or tired I tend to get hit more or I get frustrated that I’m not able to do what I know my body should be capable of doing. That’s how the negativity starts. “If I suck so much that I get submitted 3 or 4 times in a single round, how do I expect to get in the cage?” “If I can’t even do a 30 second punch out without my shoulder falling apart, how am I going to have the strength to fight someone for 10 minutes?” “I am getting hit too often for someone who has been training as hard as I have been. When will I learn?” These are thoughts that plagued me a month ago. After a few rounds of getting my ass kicked at the end of a very long training day, I’m left feeling completely useless, hopeless, and broken. Nowadays, I still have these thoughts ocassionally, but there’s a difference when I do. When I start to get negative, I shake my head and concentrate on my breathing. I forget about the ego and disappointment and remind myself that if I want it to change, I need to learn from this instead of pouting. Patience is a virtue. I’ve never understood that as well as I do now. I believe that my participation in Movember has helped me with this change. I can only hope that at least one of my messages has helped you.

Visit Keith’s Movember Page here!

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Dyllon Charron

Daily Mo Update

Today No-shave November ends. I am not SHAVING but I am going to trim it up and make it look a bit more presentable as it is.

Movember Awareness

“Heart disease is man’s biggest killer. In 2009, 307,225 guys died from ticker trouble in the U.S.—or 1 out of 4 male deaths. Nearly half of all sudden cardiac deaths occur outside the hospital, which suggests that people can’t spot a majority of the symptoms. Worse: 50 percent of guys who die from heart disease have never experienced previous symptoms before. You can always be at risk.The list of risk factors shouldn’t be a surprise: High blood pressure, smoking, excessive alcohol use, high cholesterol, a poor diet, obesity, and physical inactivity all top the list. If you’re generally unhealthy, you significantly up your odds of developing heart disease.” – Find out more at Men’sHealth

Check out Dyllon’s writing here: Dyllon Charron

& tweet to Dyllon here: @Arbiter_Havak

Visit Dyllon’s Movember Page too!

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David Guba

Daily Mo Update

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Grow a Mo to support a Bro! It’s not too late, check it out and find out what you can still do to help, here!