The Prize:
Tanka Bars. Snack food made of buffalo. That’s pretty much all that needs saying. In the pursuit of quick-fix meat-chunk eats, Tanka is offering up a handful of Tanka Bars, Tanka Bites, and Tanka Wild Sticks to the winner of today’s post. BONUS: Enter “MARKSDAILYAPPLE” when ordering from TankaBar.com for a 15% discount off of regularly priced items.
YouBars. Energy bars can be nasty business. 95% of the energy bars on the market are simply candy bars re-branded for the cardio crowd. Heck, even Snickers has its own brand of energy

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Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack time. Hard boiled, scrambled, poached, fried. We’ll take eggs any time of day, any way you want to cook ‘em. But if we had our choice, the omelet just might be our favorite. Like an edible envelope that can be stuffed with anything you desire, an omelet is a quick and healthy way to satisfy hunger.  You really can’t go wrong when eating a meal based around such an excellent source of protein, choline, selenium and vitamin D.
Unless, of course, the thought of cooking an omelet makes you break into

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Two weeks ago, the J.J. Experiment began (week 2). J.J. Valdivia, a personal trainer in Miami, is guiding ten people as they take a 30-Day Leap into a healthy lifestyle. Let’s find out how they’re doing…
My fellow Grok and Grokettes,
It was a busy week for myself and the Leapers. Last Friday, I was joined by Mike and Georgina for a quick bodyweight session at Body Waves. They performed two sets of maximum repetitions of each of the Primal movements, and they were back at their desk before you could say “Power

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Stay tuned for the third installment of the J.J. Experiment.
The Prize:
A Sandbag. The unwieldy lump of heavy. I’ve been using one of these sandbags since I featured them a year ago. Mine has taken some real abuse and has yet to show a tear. Courtesy of Henkin Fitness, the winner of today’s contest will receive his or her choice of the Burly, Strength, Challenge, or Power packages which includes the heavy duty sandbag plus ebooks, training videos, a fundamentals DVD, and a poster. As for the hardcore Primal Groks, sure you could use

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A shocking claim has been made that 75% of Americans will be overweight by 2020 causing concerns about the general level of health in the U.S. in the not so distant future.
Obesity in the U.S. has been a problem for years, and despite the fitness revolution and tons great weight loss programs it doesn’t seem to be getting any better, and in fact — seems to be getting worse. The problem is especially hard to solve because as many people reading Passionate Fitness can attest to, simple lifestyle changes like dieting and exercise solve the

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Losing weight doesn’t have to be hard, and as long as you have a good, practical program on how to lose the weight — chances are that if you stick to it, you’ll meet your goal. In fact, it really doesn’t matter whether you want to lose 10 pounds or 100 pounds! As long as you find the program that is right for you, you’ll be amazed at how quickly your body will respond once you find the right weight loss program!
The problem though is that with so many weight loss programs on the market,

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The Prize:
This one is just too cool. A fitting prize for today’s brain challenge, it’s called an Isis Puzzle. ThinkGeek, the folks behind the miracle fruit and homo sapiens kitchen tool prizes of yore are now offering up this beautiful, elegant, difficult, titanium, hand-made puzzle sphere to the winner of today’s contest. As a decorative piece, it can smarten up even the pulpiest of bookshelves. As a brain teaser, it will dazzle the minds of everyone in your Sunday afternoon Mensa papercraft parties. But this little ball is also a gateway to adventures most

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Today’s contest post will be published at 1 p.m. PST. It is a time urgent contest so you’ll have to move quickly. The first contestant to solve every brain teaser is the winner. Check back in a few hours for all the details.
As Tuesday’s post noted, we’re now midway through our 30-day challenge. I hope the second half of your adventure has gotten off on the right foot. What are your thoughts, reflections, questions since the halfway mark? What are you looking forward to in these last couple weeks? Where do you hope the

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Eat Stop Eat Expanded Edition is the newly released update of Brad Pilon’s three year old book about intermittent fasting. This is the first and only review you’ll need to read on it.
Right of the bat, let me say that this is a tremendous improvement over the original Eat Stop Eat.
Brad has given me an OK to quote some passages that I found particularly interesting and enlightening for my readers. I’ve also linked to the references provided in the book. These are just snippets. There’s plenty more good stuff in the book.

Fasting and

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