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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

After all the good Irish food & drink from Paddy’s Day I figured some of you guys might need a little cleansing food for the weekend. This is a great seasonal dish highlighting some beautiful lamb and  veggies that some people may not use or even know of. I grew up eating turnips all the time. They have a delicious sweet nutty flavour. They’re in season right now but with spring just here you should take advantage of these great veggies while they last. Those of you who know my cooking style will know I’m all about simple delicious food and this definitely fits the bill. I didn’t want to mask the great natural flavour of the grass-fed lamb so I just enhanced it with some flavourful fresh garden herbs.
LAMB RECIPE:
Serves 4
2 racks of grass-fed lamb (16 chops)
1/4 tsp salt – […]

Original post by thehealthyirishman

Search through a few cookbooks or food blogs for a pulled pork recipe and you’ll find that everyone has a slightly different approach. Some cooks add broth and tomatoes, some sear the meat at the beginning, some cook the pork in a crock pot and others go all-out with a charcoal grill. Each cook will claim their recipe is the best, but we’ll let you in on a secret: no matter how you cook pulled pork, it’s going to be delicious.
We like the approach Pat “Allbeef Patty” Levine submitted for the Primal Blueprint Cookbook Challenge because it’s straightforward and fool-proof and still has tons of flavor. As Pat told us, “the beauty is that it’s very affordable and it’s more of a “method” than a recipe” – which means you can alter the seasonings to your own taste. The method Pat speaks of is slow-cooking at a low temperature. Low […]

Original post by Worker Bee