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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Don’t get me wrong, I am a total research whore hound.
I’ve got Google Alerts on Google Alerts for studies that keep me in the know on everything from yoga to entrepreneurship to music.
But, not too infrequently, I come across an abstract of a study that leaves me scratching my head, wondering, “dude, did you seriously have to spend a bazillion friggin dollars to prove what is already patently obvious to a 3-year old?”
Now, of course, I could just keep all these ridiculously self-evident studies to myself, but where’s the fun in that? So, without further ado, here is my list of…
Terminator donut fuels massive weight loss
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
It began as a joke, inspired by the movie Terminator…
But, now, it seems a team of researchers at the University of Auckland’s Laboratory for Biomedical Interdigitation have blown the lid off of the weight loss world, creating a high-tech donut, capable of producing up to 40 pounds of weight loss over a 30-day period.
Terminator donut literally re-forms in stomach…
The genesis of the idea for the terminator donut was a late-night brainstorming session among lead investigators, Professor Robert England and two Ph.D. candidates, Emily Schoenberg and Peter Filsaime. “The night before,” Filsaime revealed, “we were sitting around watching the second Terminator movie and marveling at the borg’s ability to literally reconstitute itself after being blown apart.”
How I burn 600 calories a day blogging
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I tried to fight it for so long.
I’d schedule exercise for 4pm every day. When the warm weather was around, it was pretty easy. By 4pm, I’d be itching to get out into the afternoon sun. Okay, I’d miss days, but it was still a lot easier.
But, then winter came…
And, while I do yoga, limitations caused by multiple surgeries don’t allow it to deliver the cardiovascular workout and calorie-burn I need to stay healthy. Plus, with more and more of my career requiring me to write for extensive periods of time, my level of “sedentary-ness” skyrocketed. But, that all ended a few weeks ago, when I set up my…
Horrifying 12-day Cool Whip experiment
Monday, February 25th, 2008
It all started as a simple way to demonstrate to my daughter the difference between real-food and fake food. But, man-oh-man, did this thing go horribly wrong!
As the son of a mad-baker, I had a lot off whipped-cream growing up. But, not the kind you get from a can or a plastic tub. Mom used to whip it up fresh from heavy cream, vanilla and sugar. Okay, so we know that’s not the best thing for your body these day…but wait’ll you see this!
The Great 12-day Cool Whip experiment…documented in photos!
Top 5 ways to double your energy without caffeine [Lifehack.org column]
Friday, January 18th, 2008
My weekly column on lifestyles at Lifehack.org is up. Here’s how it starts…
It’s one of the most common complaints on the planet and it comes in many forms:
- “I just sat down, you get up.”
- “I’m too tired, too achey, too frazzled.”
- “Can’t a person have 5-minutes to just chill out?”
- “I’m burned out.”
- “I’m feeling a little… run-down, weak, lazy”
While there may be other contributing factors…
Lack of energy plays a pretty major role in all these excuses.
Freestyle Fridays: Lifehack radio interview, CareerRenegade.com and lifestyle-evolution updates
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Wow, this week, I have so much juicy stuff to share, including a revealing radio interview, the opportunity to become a career renegade and an intereting discovering about exercising with the mice at 5:30 in the morning…
How to lose weight without losing your mind: lifestyle evolution series
Monday, December 17th, 2007
So, what pisses you off more? Your inability to stick to exercise, lose weight, fit into your clothes and feel better? Or, the dizzying array of books, programs and meal-services that are peddled as the ultimate solution or require you to keep paying for the rest of your life…and then leave you fatter and more dejected than ever before?
It’s time for a sanity check!
Top 10 ways to un-bake your brain
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Feeling stressed, anxious, overwhelmed or fatigued? Having trouble making decisions, falling and staying asleep and solving problems? A bit low on energy, just all-around baked? Life does that to us sometimes. The good news is…there’s a short list of simple practices that, done regularly, can pretty quickly un-bake your brain…and your body!
How to make exercise more fun than sex
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
In the 1977 cult classic, Pumping Iron, now California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger titillated (and horrified) the world with his famous line about weight-lifting:
It’s as satisfying to me as coming is, you know? As having sex with a woman and coming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of coming in a gym, I’m getting the feeling of coming at home, I’m getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am coming day and night. I mean, it’s terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven.
Whether you’re repulsed by his bravado or not, you have to admit, it would be pretty damn awesome to be so drawn to a particular form of exercise that you’d literally elevate it to the level of orgasm.
Well, what if you could make that happen?
Exercise for grown-ups, get active or get dead: Lifestyle Evolution Series
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Simple fact—if you are over 30 and don’t exercise, you are shortening your life, raining pain down on your body and breaking-down your brain.
In your teens and twenties, exercise is largely about appearance and performance. And, rightly so. Because prowess and appeal are prime motivators during this time of your life. Disease and dysfunction just seem too remote to fuel your desire to become and stay active. These are your invincible years.
But, as you move into your 30s, 40s and beyond, moving your body in conscious-way on a regular basis takes on a whole new purpose. Life’s grind begins to impact you in ways not experienced earlier in life and the cumulative effect can range from mildly-intrusive to massively disruptive.
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