Found an interesting video of a fitness model doing some half-assed one-handed chinups. While they’re not quite one arm chinups (nor are they really complete chinups either), it is impressive to see a woman who can actually come close to the upper body strength of a Lillian Leitzel (who was alleged to be able to [...]
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In likely the most exciting health news of the year, it appears that there is hope for diabetes sufferers (from Canada, no less). Read about it here: Diabetes breakthrough. For a long time, it was thought that type 1 diabetes was a completely different animal than type 2, for the sheer reason that type 2 [...]
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One of my recent guilty pleasures is watching a show called Ninjawarrior on G4TV. The premise behind Ninjawarrior is pitting athletes (and those who fancy themselves opt-notch athletes) against a giant obstacle course – think a Crossfitter‘s wet dream. There are 4 “stages” to conquer in this gigantic playground, and beating all 4 stages (which [...]
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Above: Maybe Nikita was right; there really is something to this Russian water embued with “human essence.” This Russian grandmother the next Donald Dinnie or Steve Jeck? Not really – read the whole story here. Just thought the pic would inspire you to head out to the gym and lift away with wild abandon (and [...]
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I previously detailed that cardio makes you hungrier, causing you to eat more calories and to have an overall net calorie gain. Let’s go through some more reasons why doing cardio (aerobics) for fat loss may not be the best approach: 1) It burns fewer calories than you think. So you got on the elliptical [...]
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