Tabula Rasa and Better Choices.

One particularly nefarious method of self-sabotage is to say to yourself, “Well, looks like I blew my diet today; might as well forget about it and try again tomorrow.”
Realize that every meal, every feeding is opportunity for tabula rasa – that even if you screw up one meal, while you can’t “make up” for that [...]

Tip#455 – Add 10% To Your Bench Press (or any other exercise)…

…by “remembering” the rest of your body.
Typically, when performing an exercise, you’re taught to focus only on the muscles that exercise purports to target. For example, in the bench press, the primary movers are the chest, shoulder, and triceps muscles. So it’s not incorrect to focus on using and feeling these muscle groups [...]

Trench Warfare – Studies vs. “Results.”

What’s more important – theory or practice?
Just because it “works on paper”, does it “work?” And just because “it works”, does it “work?”
Just what the heck am I talking about?
I’m referring to the so-called Diet Debate on CNN’s The Larry King Show that Gary Taubes, Mehmet Oz, Jillian Michaels, and Andrew Weil engaged in. [...]

Results, On Purpose.

Button-fly jeans were devised in order to solve a problem (no more accidentally open fly), but did so at the expense of functionality.
(Anyone who’s ever frantically rushed into a roadside rest stop in a desperate hurry understands me on this one.)
Sure, it’s fashionable to sport a pair of button-flys, but which pair of jeans would [...]

Should “Morality” Factor Into Exercise?

Just picked this one up on the wire:
Beer After Sport is “Good For The Body.”
Now, your first inclination should be to think, “Hey, didn’t Eugene write a blog post about how the media distorts and misrepresents scientific findings and how we should be reading the studies themselves?”
Indeed I did.
After the initial shock and horror [...]