Goldilocks, over-training and you.

I personally love the Bell curve and all that it represents. Take for example the people in America. On one end of the Bell curve we have the standard American: overweight and underactive. On the other side we have an athletic American: in shape and most likely overactive. What do I mean by overactive you are probably thinking? Let’s start by talking a little about how your body works.

The human body is an amazing work of art. Every day for hundreds of years, all over the planet, thousands of the world’s smartest people (doctors and research scientists) have been TRYING to figure it out. One of the most impressive things they have discovered is that the harder you work the body (within reason of course) the better it becomes! Try doing that with your car and see what happens. There is a certain amount of your physiology that is based in your parents genetic contribution to who you are, but the vast majority of who and what you are today, is nurture, not nature. What this means is that you are the end product of every single interaction with the world and the subsequent remodeling your body went through to accommodate to those interactions. Think about it for...read more here

5 HUGE mistakes women are making in the gym

While I would never want to do anything but encourage more women to hit the gym for their own fitness goals, I do have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when it comes to some of the insanity that goes down once they get there.  Getting great results from your time in the gym really isn’t all that complex, unless you make it that way yourself.

Ladies, high five for your continued efforts to better yourselves! Along the way on your fitness journey, please try to keep a few of the following items in mind:

1. Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop working your abs all the time. Your abdominal muscles, just like all of the other muscles on your body, do NOT need to be beaten down every single day. Should you challenge your core muscles?  Absolutely!  Just try to... read more here

10 THINGS TO CONSIDER B4 DATING AN ATHLETIC GIRL!

So you think you can handle an athletic woman, huh?

If you really think you’re up for the challenge, you might want to run through this list and if you can make it all the way through without dying, maybe you can try your luck with one of those badass CrossFit ladies or girls squatting 225 deeper than you can.

1. Her Strict Diet

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She is going to be on a very strict diet that will not be shaken by your pleas to go have a beer at Yard House…even if it’s just one.

Or maybe she‘s bulking and will be eating a lot…likely enough to put your sissy pants stomach to shame.

2. No Belly Comments… For Your Own Safety.

If she is bulking to put on some muscle, you cannot… I mean cannot… inform her of how her belly seems to be protruding more than usual.

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Ebola is coming!! (Or is it??) The TRUTH behind the hype.

Not many things drive me more crazy than people using social media to perpetuate ignorance.

It’s bad enough when one person doesn’t know what the hell they are talking about.

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Magnify that via the power of Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and you end up with what is commonly referred to as a cluster f*ck.

Just because your buddy in Florida posted a status update about Ebola making people into zombies, doesn’t mean you need to perpetuate the silliness by sharing it with your circle of friends.

Stop the madness, people!

Let’s get this out in the open in as simple a way as possible: Ebola is less dangerous to you than the common cold. By a LONG shot.

• Compare that to the common cold (rhinovirus) which you can be infected with by direct contact or through indirectly inhaling droplets from a cough of someone who is NOT displaying symptoms at all.Ebola can only be spread by direct contact with bodily fluids from someone who has Ebola and is displaying symptoms currently.

• The reality is that in the US the spread of this type of disease is... Read more here

10 ways to bulletproof your relationship.

It’s not rocket science… until it is!

How many of these do you do with your boo-boo?

Healthy Couples…

1. Do Their Own Thing!

Let’s be real here folks, I could go on and on about the idealist fantasies that every twenty-something wants to believe will happen when they get married but the reality is…

we all do our own thing in the end.

We balance together time with personal space time… and love both!

2. Healthy couples compromise.

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What if I told you ‪ORGANIC‬ is just a big ‪MYTH‬?!?

All across the United States people are looking for ways to improve their health.

They want to have more energy, get sick less often and improve their overall quality of life.

For many years now, Americans have believed that organic foods were healthier than food grown using conventional methods.

Those people might be very upset to find out that there really isn’t any difference between the organic Gala apple they just bought at Whole Foods and the regular apples readily available at the corner Walmart.

Well, other than the fact that the organic ones cost twice as much.

Why do most people buy organic? They believe that:

• Organic farming is better for the environment

• Organic foods are safer (no pesticides)

• Organic foods taste better

• Organic foods are more nutritious

The problem is that each of these strongly held beliefs are based in very shrewd marketing done by the organic farmers and organic food purveyors.

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10 THINGS GIRLS DO (AND HOPE YOU NEVER FIND OUT!)

Sugar and spice and everything nice.

Yeah, right! Who do you really think you’re kidding?

Just cause we are girls, doesn’t mean we don’t do some pretty gnarly things…

in private and sometimes in public.

See how many of these YOU will admit to ladies or you have witnessed guys.

1. Let’s just get this out of the way right now: all girls pick their noses.

We all wake up with a dry schnoz and if you think I’m waiting until you get out of the bathroom to go blow my nose like a lady, you must be crazy. And God forbid the car windows are not tinted…

I’ll leave it at that

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