2009 December

New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Have to Suck

December 23, 2009 By JC Deen 15 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Random Thoughts Tagged With: Goal Setting

The Ultimate Holiday Fat Loss Exercises

December 21, 2009 By JC Deen 18 Comments

Photo Credit: Polina Sergeeva

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...]

Filed Under: Diet Tagged With: Fat Loss

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

December 8, 2009 By JC Deen 67 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Fitness Myths, Popular Tagged With: Bodybuilding, Fitness Myths

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