“Killed.’’ Hugh Jackman remembers it vividly. “We got killed in the reviews. Scathing! Like, ‘This is the worst show…ever.’” There are few experiences more soul-sapping for an actor than having your Broadway debut collectively announced dead on arrival by the mainstream media. That is, apparently, unless your name is Hugh Jackman—because as the actor sits before me recounting the critical response to the 2003 stage production of The Boy from Oz (or, as the New York Times dubbed it, “an indisputably bogus show”) and his performance therein (which, according to New York magazine, lacked “spark, vivacity, or joy”), an infectious smile is spreading across the Australian’s face like a California wildfire.

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Is HIIT not working for you? Chances are you are making this one crucial mistake in your workout. A guy came up to me in my gym two weeks ago and said, “Russ, I’ve been doing about an hour and 10 of HIIT and also weight training almost every day of the week” and he was confused why he wasn’t seeing any fat loss results from it. Immediately I knew what the problem here was – it’s a mistake many people make around the world.Today I’m going to show you where he was going wrong and how he corrected it.The MistakeDespite being over 20 years old, high intensity interval training has only really become popular in the mainstream over the last two years and, as a result, there are many coaches and trainers out there who know very little about the science behind it. You’ll often hear people giving out vague instructions such as “Just do a minute easy, a minute hard” or “Just turn the gears up every 30 seconds”.That approach is nonsense.What this guy in the gym was doing is something I see a lot of people doing and then wondering why they are not getting any results

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