Attack that Turkey with peace of mind – KnuckleUp's got your back!

Ho Ho Ho!
This year, the Holidays started early at the gym. And we’ve already got you a gift!
We know how tough it can be to stay in shape when you have the combination Halloween candy – Thanksgiving turkey – Christmas ham attacking you right when it starts to get cold and all you want to do is eat and stay under the blankets.
So we’ve set up a special package to keep you from falling into the Holiday foodtrap:
Here’s what’s in your holiday fitness package:
1. An entire month of UNLIMITED membership (access to any classes, including jiu-jitsu and mma);
2. Pair of leather boxing gloves, handwraps, jump rope, and a cool KnuckleUp bag to carry it all;
3. TWO hour-long private training sessions (a $150 value).
Not to sound too infomercial-like, but if you add the entire package it comes to $350.
But you’re […]

Original post by knuckleup

I find that grain bashing makes for a tasty, but ultimately unsatisfying meal.
You all know how much I love doing it, though. But no matter how often I sit down to dine on the stuff (and I’ve done it with great gusto in the past), I always leave the table feeling like I left something behind. Like maybe I wasn’t harsh enough about the danger of gluten, or I failed to really convey just how much I hated lectins. If I didn’t know better, I’d think the mere mention of grains was eliciting a crazy insulin-esque response and throwing my satiety hormones all out of whack. I was filling up on anti-grain talk, but I just couldn’t fill that void for long.
Well, I’ve got the hunger today, and this time I aim to stuff myself to the point of perpetual sickness. I don’t ever want to have to look at […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

The Ultimate Mma Strength And Conditioning Program 
Combat Core Strength: Advanced Torso Training for Explosive Strength and Power

Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…
Exclusive Boxing Interview: Jennifer “The Razor” Barber
This year it was decided that women's boxing will take place in the 2012 Olympics. SaddoBoxing: How is your preparation and training going for your bout …  Read More…
Boxing training is good for the body
But my girlfriend does boxing and swears that it's really improved her body plus […]

Original post by dominic Paris

HIIT Workout # 1…a four minute Tabata workout on the stationary bike
4 minutes of PAIN

20 seconds as hard as possible
10 seconds of rest

Repeat 7 more times

If you don’t feel like dyin’ then you didn’t go hard enough
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Original post by healthhabits

Have you ever been really down? Whether it’s about money, a relationship, friends, or just not being able to reach your goals, sometimes you reach a real point where you just want to give up and stop trying. This is where Pat Berry comes in and reminds you to get up, fight hard, and keep going strong no matter what the opposition.
I’ve often said that to be in top shape, you need to eat right and train hard, and that’s correct. But what I haven’t spoken about a lot is being in peak shape mentally as well as physically, where you literally give something all you got like there’s no tomorrow. Sometimes, when you really reach a downer, that’s the time to give all your heart and soul into getting up again and making sure you don’t look back, and don’t hold back.
Pat Berry is the perfect example of this. I’m going to be […]

Original post by rafael@thefitnessadviser.com (Rafi Bar-Lev)

It’s the stuff of quintessential irony. Paradox. An absurdity so egregious it’s painful to type, let alone view on the screen. (There’s actual smoke rising from my keyboard….) We’re talking corporate “public health” sponsorships so ridiculous your eyes will fall out of your head. First, a show of hands. How many of you are familiar with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)? Sounds like a thoughtful, professional organization, yes? A group dedicated to noble and intelligent advocacy for good family health, no? Voices of expert reason, rational and practical medical authority, right? A group that would – with sound mind and sobriety – partner with a soda company for a nutrition-focused consumer education program??? Folks, I got my boots on today for a good old-fashioned butt kicking (blog style, that is). Pull up a chair. I’m just getting started.

Here’s the gist. The aforementioned Academy of Family Physicians recently partnered […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Before I started doing CrossFit in 2007, I was blissfully unaware of the term “tabata,” but now it’s part of my everyday vocabulary. Lucky me.
The Tabata Protocol consists of 20 seconds of maximum intensity exercise, followed by 10 seconds of rest. The cycle is repeated eight times for a total of four minutes of work. It’s named after Izumi Tabata, Ph.D., a former researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Fitness and Sports.
According the man himself,
“[Six to 8 very hard 20 second intervals with 10 second rest periods] may be one of the best possible training protocols…”– Izumi Tabata, Ph.D.
This Men’s Fitness article — “The secret of Tabata: this 14-minute workout may be the best you’ve ever had!” — gets into a some of the science.
“The key to the Tabata Protocol’s effectiveness appears to be the short rest intervals between sprints. Conventional interval-training guidelines suggest keeping a 1:3 work-rest ratio. […]

Original post by mel@chancemccoy.com (Melissa Joulwan)

A young planet sits in wobbly orbit, still a bit amorphous and unsure of its final shape. A gurgling, bubbling primordial soup simmers on the surface, stewing and brewing for millions upon millions of years as massive temperature fluctuations, atmospheric pressure shifts, and extended bouts of thunderous lightning mar the landscape. Radiation is a constant, steady force. Deep within the soup, a spark! The beginnings of life, the organic, single-celled compounds that will grow and reproduce and mutate into a hundred million fantastical forms, emerge. All the while, similar – yet totally different – conditions are occurring on other planets concurrently, but no spark is seemingly produced. Why is that?

Consider, for a moment, the plight of the modern feedlot cow, a species that evolution has “constructed” to subsist most effectively on open grassland with plenty of access to sun and the freedom to roam. Instead, we stuff it full of […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

The Ultimate Mma Strength And Conditioning Program 
Combat Core Strength: Advanced Torso Training for Explosive Strength and Power

Back with more news for you today. It’s amazing how much good information there is on this stuff out there if you know where to look. Three in particular that I found really valuable were…
Become Super Fit With Boxing Exercise | Lifetime Fitness 4 Men
Is boxing exercise good for your fitness? You bet it is. Boxing exercise, whether called box-aerobics, cardio-box, or any of the other names it gets.
Fitness Boxing Instructor| Koreabridge.net
New media site for expats and Koreans includes classifieds, forums, photos, videos, blogs and more from Seoul, Busan, and other parts […]

Original post by dominic Paris