Archive for October, 2009

You have abs! Yes, really!

October 19, 2009

Coach Marks back in Jr. High gave me this advice: If you want a 6-pack, all you need to do is do 100 sit-ups every day for 3 months. So I took him up on it. 12 weeks and approximately 9300 sit-ups later I still didn’t have my 6-pack abs. (However I do find sit-ups [...]

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Why you NEED a workout partner

October 16, 2009

Human beings are social creatures, sociologists and anthropologists have been saying it for years, it’s the reason most of us don’t go to the movies, restaurants, or vacation alone. So why is it that we insist on working out by ourselves? Maybe we are self-conscious of where we are at physically and a think a [...]

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Roasted Herb Salmon

October 14, 2009

Who says you need to go to a fine restaurant to get some excellent fish?
For years science has known about the benefits of eating fish. Omega-3, low fat, high protein… and that’s just a few reasons.Of course you need to be able to swallow the stuff first, and there’s nothing worse than poorly prepared fish.
Here’s [...]

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Throw away your scale!

October 12, 2009

I was all set and ready to write about something else (I’ll leave you in suspense over what) when 2 conversations I had with my coworkers popped into my head.
The first was about a female coworker of mine had lost a ton of weight, and now looks like a whole new person, but was struggling [...]

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