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Your Office is a Hostile Environment
NYT – Americans spend over 90 percent of their lives indoors. Until recently, little was known about how this was impacting us. But evidence is now mounting that we are paying a physiological price for spending all those hours cooped up unnaturally within four walls. Levels of the stress hormone cortisol tend to be higher […]
Workout of the Week – 20 Yards Away
This ones a Brain Child of Mine, Enjoy the trip into my Mind 4 Exercises / 15 Rounds / 20-25 mins What you need: Empowered Individual The Motion(s): 20 yard Max sprint 2 x lunge burpees Side shuffle 20 yards to the right 2 x lunge burpees 20 yards backwards jog 2 x lunge burpees […]
More Fitness Technology & Data… Same Doughnut Love Affair
WSJ –High-tech interventions also have failed to encourage people to live more healthily. For an October 2016 paper in the journal Lancet, researchers at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore randomly assigned employees from 13 organizations to one of four groups, in an effort to encourage exercise. One group got Fitbit Zip trackers, two other […]
Don’t be a Jerkoff…Just be Nice
People are naturally nice, all you have to do is be nice first and the magical walls all of a sudden begin to fall down. Let a person see the real you and they’ll make an assessment right then and there. If its not meant to be then so be it, no time wasted […]
It’s All About Balance
I had a friend approach me recently with the question: What Diet should I go on, Paleo or Keto? I already knew the answer I was going to give her but I was intrigued to hear her reasoning for zoning in on these two diets. I asked her what she was trying to achieve? Her […]
Would You Just Spit It Out Already….Fat That Is
PI-Some of the water produced as the body consumes fat exits in the usual way, through your urine and sweat. But a 2014 study in the British Medical Journal found that most of the byproducts of fat (including all that carbon dioxide) leaves the body through the respiratory system. Yep, you read that right. […]
A Day in the Life : A Pill
It’s about time we take a look into the fabulous life of these mini magicians. The majority of the US population is wetting their palate with at least one prescription daily. Our friends at the Mayo Clinic are throwing these numbers out there: “Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, […]
A Good Hotel Never Has a Bad Gym
I’ve never seen it. I’ve been to plenty of bad hotels that have shitty gyms but never the other way around, I could stand to be corrected but as of now thats the way the cookie protein bar crumbles . Anyway, we already established in previous posts I travel a good amount for work. I’m […]
Workout of the Week – Back At It
Big Pull day with three Back classics…..I like to break the reps up into smaller achievable sets but that’s just me. Clocks On, its you vs. yourself, Ready-Set-Go! 3 Exercises / 300 Reps / For Time What you need Pull-Up Bar Barbell with 70% Body Weight The Motion(s): Dead Hang Pull-Up’s – 100 reps […]
Studies are Trickling Out on E-Cigs and…..Yikes
So the evidence is beginning to trickle out to confirm what we kinda already knew. Those cool vapes and E-Cigs with all the flavors and good smells may not be the best alternative to smoking. IN FACT, take a gander at the comment below: In a study published in January 2015 in The New England Journal of Medicine, […]
Vegan or Vegetarian? Cool! Still Doesn’t Mean Your Healthier
Eliminating meat from a terrible diet doesn’t really make it any healthier, according to a study released today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. In fact, the study found that participants whose mostly-plant-based diets (think vegetarian or vegan) included a lot of processed foods, such as sugary beverages and French fries, were […]
I have a Fever……And the Only Prescription is More Fiber
A diet of fiber-rich foods, such as fruits and vegetables, reduces the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and arthritis. Indeed, the evidence for fiber’s benefits extends beyond any particular ailment: People who eat more of it simply have lower odds of dying. Full Read Fiber is to normal humans what the cowbell is to […]