Alright, what a great event we had on Saturday!
Again, packed house — people that came in late were watching the fight standing, because all of the seats were taken.
The National Guard Armory held well over 500 people, and there was no disappointment that evening.
We had amazing fights, including Billy’s and Gina’s, who both fought tremendously well.
Since I couldnt find the official results, I’m just going to post the videos here. Enjoy!
Jonathan Thomas VS Jason Ramos

Zed Mitchel VS Josh Mundem The best fight of the night!

Jamie Pickett VS Kelly Wilkins

Nick Morrison

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I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.
Optimal Life Fitness Group Blog — Kettlebells, Olympic Lifting and …
Optimal Life Fitness, for Health, Fitness and a New Lifestyle Outdoors.
Killsport Kettlebell Training: Monday 9/21/09
If this 1 doesnt kill you… Do repetitions of 30-20-10. circuit style for time 1. kettlebell

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Are you passionate about fitness and health, and able to write?
Do you want to share fitness or health information with the world, or do you want to share your unique personal story and how fitness has affected your life?
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In honor of our opening and to help kick start the process of making this site a hub of amazing fitness articles, PassionateFitness.com is sponsoring Passionate Posts Competition 2009.
How it Works:
Here’s how it works. All you do is

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Obesity costs America $147 billion each and every year.
It’s linked to cancer…
and diabetes…
and depression….
and generally ain’t that good for you

So, how come “many overweight patients are not being advised to lose weight, diet, or exercise”.
In fact, when it comes to medical intervention in cases of obesity, the numbers are as follows:

Having a doctor tell the patient about the health problems associated with being overweight (48.0%),
Suggesting diet and exercise (46.5%),
Referring the patient to a formal diet program (5.2%),
Prescribing a weight loss medication (4.0%),
Recommending a non-prescription weight loss

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I’ll admit it. For the most part, beverages don’t get a lot of attention around here. I tend to take a pretty dismissive stance on them, perhaps as a reaction to the ridiculous mainstream obsession with water intake (64 ounces per day? C’mon!). Also, besides the occasional hankering for a cold beer, I don’t really crave beverages. Coffee in the mornings, water when thirsty, and the occasional glass of wine with dinner is my typical lineup. Most of the fluids my body needs comes from the food I eat so I tend to view beverages

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I watched The Biggest Loser last week – as well as the prior week’s opener, thanks to TiVo. I know what you’re thinking, but, hey, it’s my job and it has to be done. Truth is, I figure it’s about time someone shook America by the lapels and exposed the myths and fallacies in this show, which has become one of the most popular on TV. With all the glowing coverage, the average viewer is starting to think The Biggest Loser somehow represents the indomitability of the human spirit and the triumph of modern bariatric

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I’ll have another Q&A up soon, but I figure I’d drop by real quick and link some worthwhile reading and listening material.
* Ryan Zielonka writes about his experience with my RPT system.
“Intelligent HIT – the kind promulgated by Martin, at least – keeps volume to a minimum. Major movements are trained infrequently. Martin has taken his cues from guys like Arthur Jones and Stuart McRobert, altering the workout week to an extended 8-day schedule and emphasizing progressive overload over volume.”
…”For the past four weeks I was in the gym three times every

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Good article by Lyle.
You can check out the progress I made with 16 hours of fasting and three meals a day here.
I should note that gaining muscle on an intermittent fasting setup is not for everybody. For some people, it’s simply burdensome to eat the calories required for growth, in which case splitting meals in a more conventional manner is the better approach.
However, most find they get used to the meal pattern after a few days of adaptation, seen through decreased hunger during the fast and a greater appetite in the post-workout

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In a recent podcast, Lyle announced a collaborative book project with me, Alan Aragon and Borge Fagerli. This book will precede the book I’m working with, but will include a little something on intermittent fasting and bodyrecomposition by yours truly.
For those not familiar with Alan Aragon, he’s a nutritional consultant, contributing editor to Men’s Health magazine and also maintains the excellent Research Review. I highly encourage anyone with an interest in this field to subscribe to RR, and I do so myself.
Borge Fagerli is a personal trainer and the founder of MyRevolution, a

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Lyle wrote an article based on conversations with me, Alan Aragon and Casey Butt, with regards to the maximum muscular potential of natural lifters and realistic rates of muscle gain.
Here’s my take on the issue.
“Martin Berkhan of Leangains.com has a somewhat simpler model than Casey’s, also based on his observation of top level natural bodybuilding competitors who are contest lean (e.g. 4-5% body fat).
His equation is:
Height in centimeters — 100 = upper limit of weight in kilograms in contest shape.
So take your height in inches and multiply by 2.54, that’s

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