philosophy

Your Body Can Patch the Cracks, Not Mend the Foundation

February 14, 2011

The body is a wonderful thing – a complex piece of machinery with a set of instructions that even allow it to fix itself. Underlying this machinery is a system that works within its operating conditions. Unfortunately, the ways in which we stress our body today pushes us past those operating conditions far too often. [...]

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Bulk or Cut?

July 31, 2010
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While there are many people who strive for athletic performance, it’s more like that the the average person just wants to look good naked. That approximately translates to more muscle and less fat (and ladies, you get ‘curves’ by having more muscle as well). After the miracle period of beginner gains, we face a fundamental [...]

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Hunger

July 24, 2010
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Hunger is both real and imagined. First there is the real type of hunger, physiological hunger. It can be measured by changes in hormone levels and is thus quatifiable. Then there is the imagined type of hunger, psychological hunger. It can roughly be estimated by the number of McDonald signs encountered through the day, but [...]

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Ego Lifts

July 17, 2010
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All the washed-up gym rats know what I mean when I talk about the “Big Three”. They are the Squat, the Deadlift, and the Bench Press are all too often touted as the must do for any gym-goer. It’s obvious why people like to do these three lifts: You can move a ton of weight. [...]

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The Benefits of Boring

July 3, 2010
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Routine is good for the soul Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the Black Swan, once opined that when it coms to investing, one should put 90% of assets into low-risk investments, and the remaining 10% into high-risk investments. That way, one could get the upside of risk; graced by lady luck with a windfall. At [...]

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10 Foods that Sobataged My Fat Loss Efforts

June 27, 2010
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I’ve dieted in the past, and while I kept to “healthy” foods, I still had trouble with adherence. Back then, I created a (mental) list of foods that I must avoid to prevent me from blowing my diet. These were 10 of those foods: Nuts – Pure Calorie Bombs Nut butters – peanut butter, almond [...]

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Get More Sleep

June 18, 2010
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I don’t need to tell you about all the research that has been done about sleep deprivation and its negative consequences. The bottom line is that everyone should be getting a good 8 hours of sleep every night. Yet, most people don’t get 8 hours of sleep a day, and the reason oft quoted is [...]

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Why I’m Against Vegetarianism

June 10, 2010
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Basically, it’s not the healthiest route forward. Regardless of whether you’re an athlete or an office worker, going vegetarian isn’t the smartest thing to do. It’s Hard to Get Enough Protein Protein has many benefits which I talked about in the recent article ‘How Much protein should you eat?‘. Unfortunately, getting enough protein from non-meat [...]

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Effort

May 26, 2010
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Most people don’t put enough effort into their training. In fact, pick whatever tasks you can think of, and you’ll find that most people partaking in that task just don’t put in real effort. For some reason, people just don’t want to do their jobs well, whether they be students, real estate agents, marketers, lawyers, [...]

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We Have a Behavioural Problem

May 21, 2010
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Losing fat isn’t a biological problem, it’s a behavioural problem. Many have heard the oft quoted statistic that around 2/3rds of Americans are Overweight or Obese. Many battle cries have followed, more recently by figures like Jamie Oliver, who even won a TED prize for his efforts. While he hasn’t solved the obesity epidemic, I [...]

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