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You Don’t Have to Be a Gym Rat To Get Fit or Lose Weight

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As odd as it may sound coming from a gym rat like myself, I totally understand where she is coming from.

For those that lift heavy weights, they know how empowering it can be, not to mention its numerous health benefits. For some, the gym can be more terrifying than a tornado full of sharks.

When I mention lifting weights to someone new to a workout regiment, sometime I see this weird look of fear in their eyes.  A fear that if they lift weights, they will become some behemoth who eats his/her weight in red meat; a Situation wanna-be who spends six days a week at the gym and only talks about his abs, or a woman who shoots up testosterone and now wins Tom Waits karaoke contests on Saturday night.

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How to Find Your Why

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Implementing a new consistent behavior that you hope will lead to a life changing habit can make you feel like a salmon swimming upstream.  You are constantly fighting the current of your own mind as you work to establish this habit. 

In all honesty, most of us would rather the habit fairy show up and magically leave the habit under our pillow. We want it all and we want it now! 

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What is the Most Accurate Way to Measure Body Fat?

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Most people gauge their weight loss success with the bathroom scale.  Step up, stand still, and boom instant feedback.  However, your common household scale is about as reliable as a drunk plastic surgeon at Mardi Gras.  

Scale weight can fluctuate throughout the day depending on numerous variables and they also do not provide any measurement of how much body fat you actually have.

There are a few ways to measure body fat specifically for those who are trying to reach a certain level of “leanness.”

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We Can Be Heroes (The Fascinating Reason Why Heroes Matter)

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Heroes connect us with the humane powers inside ourselves, guiding us to through the trials of perseverance and leaving us with the understanding that anything is possible; so long as you decide to commit to one-hundred percent self-responsibility in this moment in time

We are all looking for a power, a power to overcome our greatest obstacles, that will provide us the strength to live a better life.  

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Things I Learned Over 50 Podcast Episodes

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You will have to make sacrifices, i.e. time, food, Netflix marathons, money, etc.  Unlike trying to fly a space ship to Mars if you are looking to lose fat, add muscle, get in better shape, or eat better your biggest obstacle is going to be you.  So you have to hustle harder than your inner negativity.  Hustle so hard that you leave the negativity in the past.  If you can hustle and make this a real commitment for 6 months and give it the majority of your attention, you can turn your life around completely.  

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Put it In Reverse: A Reverse Diet Experiment

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In a nutshell, a reverse diet is a protocol where you slowly add calories back into your diet after you have been in a long period of caloric restriction. 

Instead of dropping an atomic bomb of calories into your system and expanding like a mushroom cloud of fat and water retention post diet, a reverse diet Jedi mind tricks your body into accepting the increased calories. 

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Your How to Guide for Eating Healthy on Vacation

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Once the 4th of July is over, most people, are done vacationing for the year.  For others they might have one more weekend or week planned before the cold chill of fall begins to descend from the North.

I just got back from vacation celebrating being married to my amazing wife for a year along with celebrating America’s Birthday.  I did not track food for the week but I did stay very conscious, mindful if you will, of what I was eating. 

You can implement a few of these yourself the next time you take a vacation.

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