If you ask people whether “falling back” or “springing forward” hits them hardest, most will say spring. (I’m in this camp also.) I’ll admit that I love the extra hour of sleep in fall but dread the reverse a few months later. Switching the clock (in either direction) can leave you feeling oddly displaced, like you’re never where you’re supposed to be at any given time. The world is going about its business in the usual routine, but something feels off. For some people, sleep is the area hardest hit and the last thing to finally adjust. I get emails pretty frequently about sleep. For some readers, it’s the final frontier in their Primal conversion. Not surprisingly, time changes (both fall and spring) seem to inspire more emails on this front. To summarize the batch, a lot of people feel thrown for a couple of weeks and struggle somewhat to […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Haven’t heard of it yet?
Don’t worry, you will.
Invictus is a new movie that is coming out soon that stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
So why does it get it’s own workout? Well Matt Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the Captain of South Africa’s Rugby team in the early to mid 1990’s. And, at minute 0:57 of the trailer for Invictus, you see Matt with his shirt off for about 1.5 seconds.
Sounds silly but this is the equation:
Male Hollywood Celebrity Appears “Jacked” in a movie = On-line Hysteria over “How he did it”.
Think the Christian Bale Batman Workout, the Gerard Butler 300 Workout, or the Hugh Jackman Wolverine workout.
It works every time, without fail. Hollywood Celeb gets jacked, someone tries to cash in.
So I’m going to Preempt everyone with this one:
I know EXACTLY how Matt Damon got in shape for this movie…It’s the exact same way Hugh Jackman got in shape, which […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

 
Here at Passionate Fitness, we love our members so much that we just can’t stop giving you chances to get free money. In that spirit, we’re announcing the Invite a Friend Contest with up to $1000 in CASH prizes.
You heard us right, $1000 dollars. That’s 4 figures.
How it Works:
Here’s how it works. On the left by the main menu, you’ll see a little item called “Invite a Friend”.

When you invite friends, and the friends you invite join the site and sign up with the email they were invited at, you gain points. Here’s the break down:
Friends Invited + Activity of Friends (measured by forum posts and article/recipe/workout submissions) = Points.
When Passionate Fitness hits 10,000 members, and we will, the points are tallied and the members with the most overall points win cash.
Here are the prizes:
First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $200
Third Prize: $100
Fourth Prize: $50
Fifth Prize: $50
Sixth Prize: $25
Seventh Prize: $25
Eighth Prize: […]

Original post by rafael@thefitnessadviser.com (Rafi Bar-Lev)

Eric Wong's Ultimate MMA Strength Workout Introduces Creativity To MMA

Back in August we bought a copy of Eric Wong’s Ultimate MMA Strength & Conditioning program and gave two of our instructors a copy. (Yes, we did copy it, but just once)
It may seem weird that the top MMA gym in the outer banks would buy an online training manual, but the fact is that a lot of students work out on their own, either because of scheduling issues or because they work better following their own program.
For those students, KnuckleUp wanted to have a solid w0rkout plan that they could follow and get better results than trying to figure it all out on their own.
So, we asked some of our instructors to look over the course and try it out. The very first thing they pointed out was the importance given to mental training and psychological preparation. As noted on […]

Original post by knuckleup

The Ultimate Mma Strength And Conditioning Program 
Combat Core Strength: Advanced Torso Training for Explosive Strength and Power

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts lately you’ll know I’ve come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I’ve got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em…
MMA Fighting Stances: Mixed martial arts intelligence from the cage and ring
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney waited to make the right broadcast deal for the upstart MMA promotion's second season. …  Read More…
MMA Fighter Brett Rogers to Sign Autographs at Buckle, Mall of America
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ […]

Original post by dominic Paris