Weight loss is simple.
Most people who have tried Eat Stop Eat can attest to this.
Find an easy and effective way to eat less that fits into your lifestyle, and slowly but surely, you will lose weight.
Nutrition on the other hand..not so simple.
People LOVE to try and “Black and White” nutrition.
Good or Bad, Yes or No.
The truth is, we do most of this prematurely.
Take Trans fats.
Evil. Bad. The Darth Vader of foods.
Yet Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) is a trans fat being studied for its anti-cancer properties.
Actually, to be fair, it is being studied for its POTENTIAL anti-cancer properties.
The point is this – The basics of human physiology…pretty simple (on paper). We know what makes us over-fat, and we know what makes us not over-fat.
But Classifying foods as completely bad or completely good, we need to be careful with.
Obviously, the Trans Fats found in chemical altered saturated-fat substitutes and commercial […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

Updated: Oct 7th, see bottom.
As many of my readers know, I have favored low volume, high intensity training performed relatively sparingly.
At the extreme end of this spectrum is the type of routine I built my foundation on, such as the one I wrote about in The Minimalist. Here, I performed three different sessions over a 10-day cycle. The other regimen, one which I “refined” my foundation on, was built around Reverse Pyramid Training. Workout frequency was higher, typically three sessions over a 7 to 9 day cycle; still a low workout frequency, at least in comparison to some of the more traditional routines for strength and hypertrophy.
Such routines have worked tremendously well for me and my clients, but one should never feel constrained to one approach solely, nor claim the superiority of it, without having thoroughly explored alternatives.
With that in mind, I will focus on high frequency training in the […]

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Berkhan)

Ok so 3 more posts today that I’ve dug up – I’m an information JUNKIE on this stuff lately. Give em a browse and let me know what ya reckon. They’re just from a few different sites I’ve been surfing lately that are generally good for information like this…
exercise for boxing – YouTube – Abdominal Exercises for Boxers …
exercise for boxing – YouTube – Abdominal Exercises for Boxers (part one). Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at 12:27 am. The Ultimate Mma Strength And Conditioning Program · Combat Core Strength: Advanced Torso Training for Explosive …
the abdominal training secrets interview
i mean, i know you wouldn't train one of your overweight clients on their first workout the same way you train your pro boxers, right? dg: there are some simple abdominal tests in the ebook that will give every person a baseline to …
interview: the abdominal training secrets, exercise update
you wrote a […]

Original post by dominic Paris

In Part 1 of the Deadpool Mega Muscle Mass Workout, I told you that:

By stimulating the hard to hit fast-twitch muscle fibers, even hardgainers can maximize the size, strength and power of their muscles.
To wake up those fast-twitch fibers, we need to use 1 of 3 different techniques:

Very Intense Concentric Muscular Contractions – ex. Partial range bench press or Isometrics
Very Intense Eccentric Muscular Contractions – ex. Plyometric movements (depth jumps)
Very Fast Concentric & Eccentric Muscular Contractions – like a hummingbird flapping it’s wings

After waking up the fast-twitch fibers, we hit them with…

Slightly Less Intense Concentric Muscular Contractions…through a full range of motion and performed as fast as possible. Think explosive bench presses.
Slightly Less Intense Eccentric Muscular Contractions….but we drastically increase the time under tension. Sloooowwww negatives on those bench presses.
With no pause at the top or bottom of the lift. The muscle is always under tension.

Today, I am going to […]

Original post by DR

Or maybe you don’t. It turns out that sitting in a chair – that time honored tradition we commonly associate with rest, relaxation, and recuperation (don’t forget mind-numbing work, too!) – is actually bad for us. At least, the way we approach sitting is health harmful. The occasional dalliance with a straight-backed office chair probably isn’t a problem, but when we spend most of our waking life sitting (or, even worse, slumping over) in a chair, we invite disaster. Such sedentarism is a real problem, and a recent one. Grok certainly wasn’t bound to a desk. He may have had more off time than we do (if modern hunter-gatherers are any indication), but he didn’t spend it subjecting his body to extended bouts of unnatural contortions. And there’s the other big difference: the way we sit is completely unnatural. Instead of sprawling out, hands behind our heads, legs outstretched, we […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Frank Lampard and Thierry Henry are the celebrity faces of a new anti-obesity ad campaign being launched by Pepsi.
Anti-obesity & Pepsi?
That’s an odd combination

I always thought that soda helped to cause obesity.
But, if Pepsi wants to help me lose weight and get fit, then they must be one of the good guys…and therefore, I must drink more Pepsi
MUST DRINK PEPSI….MUST DRINK PEPSI….MUST DRINK PEPSI….
Nooooooo!!!!!!!
Help….I’ve think I have just been fatwashed by Pepsi

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Original post by DR

Nikki Young, author of The Paleo Cookbook (I’ve got a copy, and I use it frequently), was interviewed over at Fitness Spotlight this week. Read what she has to say. Then check out her pumpkin and chicken curry recipe at the bottom of the post.
Here’s a quick bodyweight exercise from Conditioning Research: The oblique side raise.
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It’s Waffle Iron Smack Down on the internet this week. Not to be outdone by reader Adam’s insanely delicious coconut waffles, Joyful Abode swings into action with her own Primal waffles. And don’t forget about longtime Primal champ Son of Grok, who brings the heat with his own waffles, old world […]

Original post by Mark Sisson