December 23, 2009 By 15 Comments

New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Have to Suck

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In just a few days, many of us will be drinking the bubbly, stuffing ourselves silly and counting down the minutes as we head into the New Year.  As I get older, I find it depressing how fast the time flies and it seems as if only yesterday I recorded my 2009 New Year’s Resolutions in my journal.

If you take a look around the internet, as well as other media outlets, you’ll notice the most popular New Year’s Resolutions are the same every year.  Most of these resolutions are the same time and time again.  A few of the more popular resolutions are to ‘lose weight’, ‘get out of debt’, ‘exercise more’, ‘eat more healthy food’, ‘go back to school’, ‘get a better job’, etc.  The list goes on and on and on. [Read more...]

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December 21, 2009 By 18 Comments

The Ultimate Holiday Fat Loss Exercises

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In the realm of health and fitness, I’m positively certain you’ve come across many resources suggesting you do a particular exercise to produce the fat loss results you’re so desperate for.  Now this is all fine and dandy, but the ideology behind these recommendations is mostly wrong.

The sheer truth is that a specific fat loss exercise is not the sole reason you experience fat loss.  Does it play a part?  Does exercise help create a bigger deficit?  Sure.  However, as you’ve read many times here, the caloric deficit is the sole cause of your weight loss, not the particular exercise selection.

In lieu of the Holiday’s, I thought I’d share some non-traditional exercises that will be of utmost value on your path to fat loss. [Read more...]

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December 8, 2009 By 67 Comments

T-Muscle’s(T-Nation) Anaconda Protocol: A No-BS Assessment

In case you haven’t noticed, T-Muscle released their highly anticipated Anaconda™ Protocol (do not fear, I ­repented to the internet gods for linking to them) at the end of November.  If you’re familiar with this whole project, you know it’s been in the works for quite some time now.  If you know nothing of what I’m writing about today, take a look at my I, Bodybuilder rebuttal from August to better understand today’s composition.  Matt Perryman already shared his thoughts – check it out. [Read more...]

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December 1, 2009 By 21 Comments

Workout Partners – Do You Need One?

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Chances are, if you’ve been working out for any extensive period of time, you’ve likely had a “workout partner” at one point.  Your experience with said partner could’ve been great, mediocre or it could’ve been so treacherous that you would rather eat dirt or light your shorts on fire.  I know about the latter from personal experiences.

I’ve had many friends and acquaintances over the years ask to work out with me, but something usually came up.  Many flaked out, our schedules changed or I just got sick and tired of doing more talking than lifting.  I guess the only time I’ve ever had a steady workout partner was during athletics when we all trained together -  we had no choice.  Then, after high school, my best friend lived with me for a summer and we continued to work out together.  He’s been the only workout partner I could actually stand and this was because we had similar goals and shared the same athletic background, plus he is practically my brother.  He then went off to school on a football scholarship and I was on my own again. [Read more...]

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