So often we talk about health as it relates to fitness and nutrition, but could the greatest factor in our health really be our state of mind? We have heard “stress” will kill us but yet that doesn’t stop us from worrying about things. We feel helpless and say we have depression, when we don’t own anything…..we just experience it. Happiness is there for us every day to find and experience, yet most of us get caught up in things that probably won’t even matter in a …
Above Photo: Real Testimonail with IF from LeanGains.com
Editor Note: Today is a guest post from another Intermittent Fasting blogger by the name of Martin Berkhan. Martin has been getting great results with some of his clients using IF (especially those wanting to put on quality muscle while doing it). It’s my hope to bring together IF bloggers in the common goal of getting the truth and message out there to people about what can be done. This is just one example of a way that can get …
Ok….this is how I run. I get out on a trail with no Ipod and just go. No Heart rate monitors, no cell phones, no knee braces, no water bottles, no fancy clothing, no fancy shoes….just me and nature one on one. There is no pacing….as you can’t when you are running up and down hills. There are no rules….as you can stop and enjoy the scenery. Sometimes you just have to open it up….and then run till you have to stop. It’s almost like the best planned …
The following is a guest post from Parth Shah of ShahTraining.com
Bodybuilders will tell you to eat a bunch of carbs and protein after working out. I tried this and I got fat.
Two questions have always haunted me:
1. What is the most important meal of the day?
2. What do I eat at …
Ok I actually wanted to make a quick post on a comment made recently that said basically “Isn’t Intermittent Fasting how Sumo wrestlers get huge belly fat?”. In a sense there are some common variables, but also there are many that are not. Actually by looking at the sumo wrestler we can see how NOT to do an IF (or ANY eating plan) routine, be seeing how they do things on purpose to gain fat.
So what is a Sumo wrestler’s goals? To get as big, strong and fat as possible (because …
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose……. We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.- Henry David Thoreau
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. – Aldous Huxley
Going along with my “looking back” from the Trainer tells all posts part I and part II, I’m also going to …
Since the popularity of the original Trainer Tells All post, it’s inspired me to think some more and go into more detail about some things….the more I think….the more you have to read about it. 
Working out with cardio type workout in the AM and more weights in the PM might more replicate our ancestral patterns. Such as waking up on an empty stomach, going on the hunt, walking, running after prey here and there. The longer the hunt, the more light snacking on whatever can …
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