The Memphis Zombie season is fast approaching and this year’s event will take place Friday, May 28th starting at 6:30pm (come early if you want your makeup done).  You’ve probably seen me pimping the event on twitter for the past 2 months or so.  From what I’ve read, this year is supposed to be bigger and better than the past events.  Memphis Zombies have a complete run down on what to expect.  It will blow your mind, and I’d definitely recommend you take advantage of the spectacle that is Memphis Zombie Walk.

If you’re trying to shed some weight from the winter and want to make sure you don’t get taken by the upcoming apocalypse, Wired Magazine has put together a zombie workout routine.  It focuses on lots of jumps, hurdles and runs to strengthen your legs and core in case you need to breakaway or hurdle buildings and barriers.  Here’s a synopsis of it.

Survival Workout

1. Climb
Zombies aren’t very spry, so climbing over barriers is a key evasive maneuver. Practice on a wall that’s a little taller than you.
Extra training: Pull-ups, bench dips
Muscles worked: Core, triceps, deltoids

2.  Free Fall
Jumping off a roof may provide temporary respite, but break a leg on landing and you’re dinner. Cushion the impact by extending your legs and touching down on the balls of your feet. Then get up and make tracks.
Extra training: Toe raises
Muscles worked: Calves, hamstrings

3.  Hurdle
Run at a sturdy obstacle—park bench, subway turnstile, picnic table. Dive forward, placing both hands on the object, and swing your legs up to your chest. The momentum will propel you over.
Extra training: Air squats, push-ups, sit-ups
Muscles worked: Pecs, delts, quads

4.  Breakaway
“Extricating yourself from a zombie’s grasp uses every muscle in your body,” says Rich Gatz of ZombieFit. Practice by lifting and tossing a big object like a tractor tire.
Extra training: Resistance running, weighted pull-ups and push-ups
Muscles worked: Lats, core, hamstrings

via Wired Magazine

Get Your Zombie Workout In Before Friday is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

A lot of times, the BarCamp focuses on web applications, social media and related technologies. BarCamp Memphis has a list of topics ready for Saturday’s agenda.  Personally, I’m looking forward to Brian Cauble’s presentation on building an iPhone application, the Google Wave live demo and the cool stuff that BuckDaddy and Dave Delaney are going to serve up.  I’m also really excited to hear the panel conversation on community blogs that includes the fine folks at MemphisConnect, Nashvillest and Andre Natta of The Birmingham Terminal.

I’ll be tag teaming a presentation with Daniel Prichettt about setting up your own custom URL shortening service and helping out with some PowerPoint Karaoke during lunch.  I think you all will be in for a treat.

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BarCamp Memphis is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

The weekend starts Friday at 6pm and wraps up the evening of Sunday, May 31st.  The founders have put together a Facebook group to bounce around initial ideas, but project votes won’t be made until Friday evening.  This year the plan is to have multiple projects simultaneously move forward at the same time.

To give you an idea of the type of projects that get launched in a weekend, take a look at San Francisco, Phoenix, New York and Lexington.

Startup Weekend is limited to the first 100 people that sign up, so be sure to grab a ticket now.  Help support and grow the entrepreneurial spirit of Memphis.

Get Your Tickets to Memphis Startup Weekend is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

The event, which will be held from 1:30 – 4:30 at the Emerge Memphis building will bring two of the most well-respected leaders from the world of innovation, interactive marketing, and user experience.  The private workshop will entail about 60 minutes of presentations and Q&A by both Adrian and C.C. as well as a private panel discussion with both to end the day.  The workshop and panel are both open to the public.  Tickets can be purchased online and will set you back $150.

If you can’t pull away from work that afternoon, but still want in on the action, there will be a free cocktail reception from 5:30 – 7:30 that same evening.  We’d love to have you stop by!

Adrian Ho and C.C. Chapman Teaming Up For Memphis TechFuel Event April 23rd is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!