Entries Tagged as 'body fat'

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

30 Day Challenge, No Sugar, No TV

Alright, here is a great test for the beginning of Spring. I started a 30 day no junk challenge yesterday. So I am cutting out sugar and TV for the next 30 days. Processed foods and white bread and white pasta and white rice are gone. My diet is pretty good anyway but I do [...]

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

70 Percent of youth are unfit for the Military

Saw this article which I suppose isn’t that big of a surprise but surely points out that we aren’t making much fitness progress. Ah the young people are our future. So what’s up young people?
See the article here.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

4 for perfect fitness

1) Train with Stanimal. If you did train with stanimal you would have increased strength and vitality, improved joint stability, reduced body fat and better cardiovascular performance. Unfortunately I can only train a few folks.
But you need to exercise. We all know this. 30 minutes every day break a sweat from exercising. The end.
No gym [...]

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Food is fuel

Video update for you on food is fuel.Sugar is not fuel. You wouldn’t dump it in your Ferrari would you?

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Greg rocks the kettlebell

Kettlebell training is one of the best methods I have come across for total body training and weight loss. Works great for any fitness level. Above is Greg doing the single snatch, one of the pillars of kettlebell training.
There are many types of swings and presses available. I am especially interested in the single arm [...]

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Treadmill Interval Workout, Volume Two

This is an update on a post I wrote a while ago. Updated for variations available to use this concept for total body workout or leg workout indoors or out.
I use this workout for legs and use it for a total body workout. Here we go. This is a sample used as a leg workout.
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Monday, July 28th, 2008

Are you in the other 14%?

A new study suggests that at the current rate of increase, 86% of Americans will be overweight or obese by the year 2030. Are you going to join me in the other 14%?
What do you intend to do to make it happen? If you add only two pounds per year in 22 years (let me [...]

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Going fast again

Back at the track for about 6 weeks. Had a knee issue for a while in the spring.
I have been working on running fast as I can. It feels great. It trains my legs nothing else, especially my hammys. And it keeps my body fat low. Usually do some active warmup, lunges and leg swings. [...]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

What if no one were fat?

Here is a great article to check out.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Insurance/Advice/WhatIfNoOneWereFat.aspx

Friday, January 11th, 2008

America waddles on Dunkin

I see these commercials all the time. America runs on Dunkin. The people are all very active fueled by donuts I guess. Um, no.
Wake it up people, marketers, Government.
From an article in Men’s Health, http://www.menshealth.com/16secrets/secretdunkindonuts.html

Dunkin doesn’t want you to know that each of its medium-size fruit-and-yogurt smoothies packs at least 60 grams of sugar—more than [...]