Month: March 2010
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Muscles are Good…But More Isn’t Better
keeping with the theme of our word association I want to talk about the response everyone had to the word “Muscle” It seemed that most of you had a positive or at least neutral response to the word muscle. This word didn’t seem to conjure up any negative thoughts at all. Some of you seemed…
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Nobody Wants to be Obese
In yesterdays word association game there was one word that seem to get the most negative associations to it. The word was OBESE. It seems that you definitely don’t have a positive view of that word and whatever that word means to you. Words like ‘sad’ and ‘horrific’ came out for this one. None of…
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Low Protein Training
I’ve been back to the gym two days in a row now, and will be in again this evening. Lifting about 70% of what I’m normally used to, feeling a bit lackluster after eating soup and bagels for a week and not sleeping particularly well. The interesting to note here is that I’m probably only…
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Strength Loss After Sickness
I’m going to try and hit the gym today. It’s been 6 days since I’ve done any weight training while I was sick from food poisoning. This is a good experiment on muscle atrophy and strength gain/loss. During the past week I’ve been dehydrated, I”ve eating very little food and almost zero protein. My average…
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Detox and Cleansing – 100% Scam
As some of you know I had food poisoning a few days ago and I’m still not quite out of the woods. Head still isn’t right, and bagels and soup are the extent of what I can eat. This brings up an interesting point about detox diets and supplements. Specifically that there is no such…