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An Hour a Day does not Keep the Fat Away

  • December 1, 2010 4:01 pm

How often do people tell you that they cannot seem to lose weight even though they put in an hour per day in the gym or on the treadmill. Unfortunately, going about our daily lives and merely injecting an hour in the gym will not help us realize any goal of weight-loss or figure transformation.

As I have tried to emphasize before, fitness is all encompassing, it must be an ever present part of our lives. If your goal or definition of fitness then is yourself 15lbs lighter and more toned, then you must eat, sleep, and live in a way the progresses you towards that self-made definition.

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Rant: Push Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

  • December 7, 2009 11:24 am

So I’m at the gym today and what do I see but three girls “working out” in the shortest shorts ever, talking and laughing like it’s the most fun they’ve had in their lives. Now, why did I just put “working out” in quotes? Because there’s a difference between actually working out and just hanging out in the gym and thinking you’re working out, and apparently a lot of people do not realize this. The gym is not a place to socialize people — be it the basement of your house, gym in your apartment or road you are going running on, go there with a purpose.

If you’re in the middle of a set and talking to the person next to you, you are not working out. If you are looking across the room and checking out some girl stretching, you’re not working out. And if you feel exactly the same at the end of a set as you did at the beginning, you damn sure are not working out.

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Breakfast of Champions: Truth to the Phrase

  • December 6, 2009 11:07 pm

If there is one phrase in fitness that holds true it is that breakfast is indeed the meal of champions and is important for getting you through the day with energy.

What makes breakfast important is that it provides our bodies with fuel for the rest of the day, if the meal is balanced in protein, carbs and fat, curbs our appetite reducing the risk of overeating later and improves our concentration and focus. Some people tend to think that they do not have the time to eat breakfast. Just like those that believe that they cannot workout without a gym membership, this is nonsense.

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BMI as a Case of Misusing Data

  • December 6, 2009 7:31 pm

It can be said that as a society, we are generally concerned with the status of our weight and if we are overweight, underweight, or healthy. The most frequently used measurement for assessing what category we fall into is BMI, or Body Mass Index. If you have not heard of it then don’t worry, you have not been missing out on any real knowledge.

BMI is calculated via the following formula:

BMI =
( kg/m² )		 (weight in pounds * 703 )
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height in inches²

Thus, it is merely a factor of your weight and height. 703 is a conversion factor from imperial to metric units as the formula was originally derived by a Belgium statistician early in the nineteenth century. It is incredibly accurate at predicting the overall state of health of a population, but for individuals it is terrible. Now I will say that the CDC and most physicians use this measurement as a general rule of thumb, but it is still mind boggling trying to figure out why.

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Let’s Talk Basics: Weight Management

  • December 6, 2009 5:38 pm

Assuming that you do not have other health issues, how your body retains or loses weight is a relatively simple concept to understand. If after this post you have any further questions please leave comments below.

Let’s first preface this discussion with some basic math stuffs. Your body is like a battery, excuse the sorry analogy. To do work it must intake a sufficient level of calories to convert into usable energy, which in our bodies is ATP or adenosine triphosphate. At the end of the day, excess levels of ATP are stored as either fat glycogen or other sugar substrates… or excreted. This is a gross simplification but it is sufficient for our purposes.

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