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January 16th, 2010

Fitness Lies Exposed

There was an article in January/February issue of Fitness Matters about kettlebells.
Fitness Matters is an industry publication for personal trainers.
The article is about the benefits of kettlebell training. It’s entitled ‘Kettlebells: Twice the Results in Half the Time?”
The results were very favorable for kettlebells. The subjects in the test burned over 20 calories [...]

September 21st, 2009

All About P90X

I went to see the movie All About Steve this weekend, so you can see where I got my inspiration for the title of this post.
I promised y’all a complete review of the P90X program and here it is. These are my objective thoughts about the program. If you know my [...]

August 14th, 2009

A Burpee or A Beer

Today at boot camp, one of the guys was joking how every burpee he did this morning was burning off a beer he could then enjoy this weekend.
Of course, he was joking (or at least I hope he was!).  But there is this misconception sometimes that if you work out you can eat or drink [...]

August 10th, 2009

Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin..and what will!

This is the title of an article by John Cloud on the Time magazine website.  Check it out here.
Interesting article.  In fact, in some ways, I actually agree with the author’s conclusion that food intake is ultimately more important in the quest for weight loss than exercise.  Yep.  True.  If you are a complete newbie [...]

August 5th, 2009

Celebrity Trainer or Moron?

I was struggling with what I should write about today.
But a friend of mine easily solved my dilemma with a Facebook post.
She posted about some trainer named Tracy Anderson whom I hadn’t heard of.  Turns out she supposedly trains Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, and maybe some other celebrities.
So now she is opening a super-exclusive, super-expensive fitness [...]