Archive for August, 2009

Back in Action

I’m back!
After a week at home on Cape Cod, doing almost nothing for the entire time, I’m back in Atlanta and ready to get back into my routine.  I didn’t have a gym membership up there and I didn’t feel like paying 15 bucks for a single-day pass at the gym in town (WHICH IS [...]

Diet, Exercise

That’s It, I’m Going Primal. Who’s With Me?

Sorry the updates this week have been late, I’ve been on vacation up in Cape Cod and decided sleeping in was of the utmost importance.  Regular updates around 8AM will begin again next week.  I hung out with my buddy Saint yesterday (the programmer who lost 33 lbs in 12 weeks), and he told me [...]

Diet

Role Playing, Genetics, and Fitness. OH MY!

We’re all different.
Some of us are big, some of us are skinny, some of us right in the middle.  Some of us are tall, some of us are short, some of us have fast metabolisms, some of us have slow metabolism.  Despite all of these differences, we’re all after the same thing: to love and [...]

Diet, Level Up Your Life

In the Gym, Keep it Simple Stupid!

Open up any copy of Muscle & Fitness, and you’re bound to find dozens of different workouts that will sculpt the three parts of your triceps, individual abs, all parts of your shoulder, etc., with ultra-specific exercises that isolate individual muscles.  These routines will ask you to spend 5 or 6 days a week in [...]

Exercise, Workout

Are Your Low-Fat Meals Are Making You Fatter?

Word Count: 950 NF Difficulty: Beginner
Everybody is convinced that the fat in your food is the cause for our nation’s obesity issue.  WRONG.  You know who the real culprit is? Sugar and simple carbohydrates.
Whenever you fill your body with more fuel than it actually needs, which is easy when eating food with a high sugar [...]

Diet