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Like the salmon of Capistrano at the tail end of my 2014 “winter bulk” fat was beginning to flock everywhere making me look like the Stay Puft Marshmallow man. Getting to “Stay Puft” status meant it was time to start dieting and cutting.
Unless you eat only frozen chicken and cottage cheese or down shakes all day eating over 200 grams of protein a day with a variety of protein sources gets to be expensive.
No one should ever go broke while they are trying to get bigger or leaner.
The “magic” food question is among the top five questions I am asked as a fitness coach. Everyone is looking for that one food that “Alakazam” and “poof” makes all the fat disappear off their back, abs, and arms overnight.
Weekly, maybe even daily, we are bombarded with ads or news stories covering some new supplement or exotic food that is the Holy Grail of fat loss.
Successful people tend to attribute their accomplishments to certain “rules” or guidelines that live by. These can be rules for behavior in the workplace, rules for interactions with clients or rules for how they approach challenging situations.
The Jedi are the keepers of peace in the Star Wars universe and for thousands of years they harnessed the power of The Force for good in the galaxy. The Sith are their arch nemesis and purveyors of the “dark side” of The Force. Their intentions are evil and they have only one desire: to rule the galaxy.
Good vs evil, blah, blah, blah.
Here is the truth.
The Sith are by far better than the Jedi.
*This was originally a guest post I had the opportunity to post over at Tanner Baze Fitness. I went to Tanner with this post for some help and he allowed me to publish it there*
Truth is, when you commit to an active health-conscious lifestyle, it will be full of successes and failures. For a while, you will hit PR (personal record) after PR. You will passionately stick to your diet counting every macro or calorie. On the weekend,s you will limit yourself to one or two drinks, and you may even see lots of weight dropping off the scale!
Ceremonies are everywhere in life. We perform daily ceremonies that we are not even aware of most times. I bet you go through the same steps(ceremony) when preparing your coffee in the morning.
Summer is quickly approaching and for many women, it means heading to the gym to get into bikini shape. For most, this translates to lacing up their running shoes and hitting the streets/treadmill. Weight loss guarantees from magazines and online blogs’ bombard women promising mind blowing results in a short time.
Women often overlook or completely disregard the premise of lifting weights. In contrast to cardio, strength training is by far a better investment of time.
Let’s clear this up first. Your core does not equal “abs.” You can have a strong core with no ab definition. Opera singers can manipulate their core to sustain notes, but Pavarotti has no visible abs. Core exercises, alone, are not going to get you shredded.
Over the last few years, the plank has become the “go-to” core exercise. Countless articles have been written about them and hundreds of people perform them at the gym every day.
Football is over. Take at least an hour or so on Sunday preparing your meals for the week. You will appreciate that extra time in the mornings, the cha-ching of savings, and of course the reduction in stress.
