Imagine if other industries behaved like the health and fitness industry…using the same off-the-wall marketing and the same “action before education or preparation” mentality.
Imagine this approach in…say… aerospace engineering:
Speaker: And in conclusion, that is my theory on how to land a space shuttle quicker and more efficiently then ever before.
Potential Investor: Wow! The was so fascinating.
Speaker: Thank you.
Potential Investor: I had no idea that the trigonometry involved in calculating the landing vectors of a space shuttle could be so simple!
Speaker: I know right? It’s actually based on this One Weird Trick…most people are trying to bring the space shuttle back to earth, which is completely wrong, what I’m proposing is that we bring the earth UP to the space shuttle.
Potential Investor: Wow…I didn’t even know that was possible! Where on earth did you learn that, MIT?
Speaker: Oh no, I don’t have a degree in aerospace engineering or anything like that, […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

I started posting about my approach to intermittent fasting back in 2006. Back then my writings and results inspired many to take the leap themselves. My blog came into fruition 2007 and more people decided to give intermittent fasting a chance. My clientele grew exponentially.
I’ve also received numerous e-mails from people, telling me about their results and thanking me for the inspiration and advice on this blog and the various forums I’ve posted on throughout the years.
Success storiesI’ve decided to post some of these success stories on the blog. If you have a success story of your own, feel free to e-mail me and tell me about it. If you have some before and after pics that would be great too. To narrow it down, I’m only interested in success stories where you feel I played some part. Maybe you feel you learned something useful from my writings that helped […]

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Berkhan)

OK, here’s the deal.
Yes there have been several (4 that I know of) studies showing that Brown Fat Exists in humans.
Even in adult humans.
It looks like we do have a tiny little bit left, mostly behind our shoulder blades and behind our clavicles.
And, YES it’s true, because of it’s high mitochondria content and the fact it expresses UPC1, brown fat cells actually burn energy (as opposed to just being an energy storage unit).
In fact, many proteins found in brown fat cells that are involved in fat uptake from the blood and fat combustion are more similar to those found in muscle.
Now, it’s dose of reality time.
In small mammals, exposure to cold stimulates the sympathetic nervous system to release the hormone adrenaline, which triggers brown fat cells to consume more fat and glucose for heat production…and it looks like brown fat plays the same role in humans. […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

Sleep Awareness Week (as sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation) technically ended March 13th, but somehow I’m guessing there are just as many sleep deprived folks milling about this week as there were a few days ago – just like our good reader Monday. Maybe a few of us feel better adjusted to the time change these days, but probably just as many stayed up late to watch the NCAA games this weekend. Or maybe it was a late St. Paddy’s Day party. Somehow it’s always somethin’, isn’t it?
Even if we’re good and diligent and never sacrifice sleep for entertainment purposes, life too often pokes holes in our most worthy intentions. Babies wake up in the middle of the night. Flights leave early. Deadlines, projects and bills keep us up later than we’d planned. Maybe we even burn the midnight oil to get a jump on the next morning’s tasks! […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Are you ready for summer?…shorts?…tank tops?…bathing suits?
YES – then,  please ignore today’s post.
NO –  continue reading…print a copy…study it…take it to the gym…and get ready to sweat.
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WORKOUT OVERVIEW
personal trainer toronto
3 Resistance Workouts per week (Mon/Wed/Fri or Tues/Thurs/Sat)
3 Optional Workouts of your choice (Yoga, sports, swimming, walking, hiking, cardio, hiit sprints…but no additional weightlifting). I include these workouts only for those advanced clients who can handle the extra volume of work.
Goals: Fat Loss / Increased Aerobic Endurance & Anaerobic Endurance / Increased Strength / Improved Joint Mobility / Correct Typical Muscular Imbalances (reduce neck & lower back pain)
This success of this phase of the workout is based upon three things:

Keeping good form throughout each exercise.
Performing as many reps as possible. Really push yourself.
Keeping the rest between sets to an absolute minimum. No rest if possible.

Alright, ready to start?
Let’s begin with the….
WORKOUT WARM-UP
Each workout will be preceded by a warm-up […]

Original post by healthhabits

***Special Thanks to Brian for this find.
Every wonder why breakfast is good and fasting is bad?
This is an ADVERTISEMENT that was found in “The Milwaukee Journal” back in 1943

I’ve also blown up the text part so you can read it….

And finally, just a reminder of the real reason why “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”

So it looks like back 1943, the practicing of ‘fasting’ was cutting into somebody’s profits.
(I love the “not wise, not wise at all” line)
Thank goodness the right propaganda can fix that nagging problem (sarcasm)
Personally, I think I’ll keep on fasting…I may not be a ‘champion’, but hey, I’m lean
BP
PS- I apologize for the term ‘Hottentot’…I didn’t write it, not do I understand why it’s there in the first place.

Original post by Brad Pilon

Besides stuff like tribal warfare, cannibalism, and high infant mortality, it seems like most any divergence from our ancestral norms is ultimately detrimental, or at least problematic. Nutrition is an obvious one, along with sunlight, sleep, and exercise. The mainstream media is even beginning to question the superiority of modern footwear. And then there’s the seemingly simple act of sitting down in a chair. It seems harmless, but as I discussed last year and a recent NY Times piece mentioned last month, sitting for extended periods of time is strongly linked with increased mortality and metabolic syndrome, regardless of how much exercise a sitter gets.
The chair is a bit like wheat, actually: a relative novelty to which we aren’t physiologically adapted that has become a cultural staple nonetheless. For at least eight hours each day, we twist our bodies into weird Tetris blocks with poor posture and sit, for the […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

The miracle of our bodies is that they come with their own giant rechargeable batteries.
You may know of these batteries as “fat cells”.
This is where we store energy for use later.
Brilliant design.
The only issue is, in order for these batteries to work optimally, they need to be drained every once-in-a-while.
If you don’t drain them, they start to cause problems (just like real batteries).
The best way to drain them?
Stop filling them ALL THE TIME.
Use them up a bit…
Sure, you might end up filling them up again…
But that’s how they were designed to work.
store a little burn a little.
NOT
STORE EVERYTHING.
Nobody needs to carry around 80,000 Calories worth of stored energy, but that’s what 50-ish pounds of body fat is…

Don’t be afraid to use the energy you already have (body fat) instead of going out and getting more (food).
A break from eating every once in a while, it does a body good.
BP

Original post by Brad Pilon

Dear Mark,
The time change pretty hit me hard this year. I’ve noticed that as I age I value my sleep more and more. When I was in my 20s and 30s I use to be able to get by on about 6 hours of sleep each night. Now if I don’t get at least 8 hours I pay for it. What’s the deal? Is this just part of getting older?
Shari

What’s one lost hour of sleep when getting over the hump of daylight savings time? It might not seem like much, but as I’ve noted before, time changes wreak a special havoc over everything from traffic accidents to workman’s comp filings. (Add the stock market and heart attack rates to this inspiring picture.) Truth be told, however, many of us were delinquent long before the recent changeover. Maybe the switch was simply the last straw in a long term bout of […]

Original post by Mark Sisson