Posts Tagged with "Fitness Links"

HFCS

Friday, February 19, 2010

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High fructose corn syrup.  Possibly the bane of good health?  Harmless substance with little worth?  Can we be sure?  THIRTEEN teaspoons in a single 12 ounce soda?  Is it genuinely this dangerous? The missus has proposed that one of the first major changes we are making in our household diet is to try to eliminate as [...]

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Off the Wagon

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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So, I’ve basically fallen off the wagon. It’s a pattern in my life that, along with a lot of other things about myself, I despise. Six weeks ago, I was a determined fitness machine.  I was eating decent 95% of the time, I was forcing the workouts three or four days a week, I was sweating.  I [...]

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Physical #Fitness – 20 Pullups

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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So I’ve set a goal.  It’s not going to be an easy one, though.  There will need to be intermediate goals. Twenty consecutive pull-ups.  The number came from a website I found – pull-ups-training.com. I don’t like their training program, but it’s a good goal.  The site also seems to be a bit “dead”. Is it realistic [...]

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Physical #Fitness – Pushups and Pullups

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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So I’m sort of unofficially trying the One Hundred Pushups challenge again, but I don’t really like the system that the website promotes.  I want to do a hundred, but that’s not my only fitness goal, so I’m going to modify it. There’s also an offshoot called twohundredsitups.com, and another that is twohundredsquats.com.  I do like [...]

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Physical #Fitness – Ten Minutes

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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A favorite read of mine, even though he’s getting more and more commercial in nature, is Vic Magary’s GymJunkies website.  Vic often gets to the heart of the matter while others only try to sell their stuff.  (Vic still tries to sell some stuff, and since he’s a trainer, I’ll let him by with that.  [...]

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