The wrong tool for the job at hand. Photo courtesy of Individual Thought
As I mentioned last Thursday, I attended a CrossFit certification this past weekend. I’m going to post some thoughts and notes here soon, but first I wanted to touch on a conversation that I had with a trainer (not one of [...]
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The bedroom is for two things and TV watching isn’t one of them. Teens Who Have TV In Their Bedroom Are Less Likely To Engage In Healthy Habits, Study Shows - “Girls with a TV in their bedrooms spent less time in vigorous activity each week than girls without TVs in their rooms (1.8 [...]
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Just a little something to think about.
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This is a guest post by Skyler Tanner. Skyler has been in the health, fitness, and physical performance field for nearly a decade. On top of constant self-experimentation, he maintains a large training client load in which to further test and improve theories. He recently started a website in which [...]
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Growlin, and smilin, while in the sun
I’m off to San Diego for the weekend. In fact, if it’s between 7:15am and 1:45pm Eastern on Thursday, I’m in the air on my way. I’ll be out there at the CrossFit Level 1 Certification and will be back Monday. Enjoy your weekend!
And for those [...]
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I have a post that I’ve left languishing for some time that I’ve just picked back up and started working on. It’s about dairy and the arguments for and against their inclusion in your diet. As luck would have it, I came across this article on CNN about why it is absolutely essential [...]
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I finished reading Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson this past weekend and all I can say is, “Wow”. This was an awesome book, quite the eye-opener. The premise, which nobody can deny, is that our biases affect how we look at new information. We [...]
Today, Mike O’Donnell of The IF Life and I launched a new project to enhance the health and fitness online community. It’s called Fitness Spotlight.
Fitness Spotlight is a site dedicated to giving you even more information on all things health and fitness from around the internet. We decided that with all the information that [...]
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Breasts: two great reasons to avoid trans fats. Trans-fats may hike breast cancer risk (Abstract)- “Writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Veronique Chajes from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) reports that high blood levels of trans fatty acids, but not cis fatty acids, was associated with a [...]
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Does that look like something you should be eating?
Let’s face it. Eventually, we all want something sweet. So when you do decide to make dessert at home, what sweetener should you reach for? What should you put in your coffee? We all know that it shouldn’t be anything with high-fructose corn [...]
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