Author: johnbarban
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What Does “Healthy” Look Like?
I met up with a friend for my morning coffee today and we got onto the topic of body image (go figure) and we ended up talking about what a healthy body looks like. This is when I realized that we all have a built in image in our heads of what we think a…
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What do you look like when you’re eating
I’m sitting at a coffee and bagel shop in the airport right now and there is someone a few tables down from me eating lunch. I’ve glanced over at them a few times now and it occurred to me that none of us know what we look like when we’re eating. This person seems to…
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Short vs Long Term Thinking
There is a theme to sustainable success no matter what type of success you’re talking about…it could be weight loss, career, education, sports, financial etc. And that theme seems to be short vs long term thinking. I view it as the simplest expression of the underlying theme to all of these more commonly heard concepts…
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Intensity Reserve
Let’s assume you’ve already built the habit of working out…let’s also assume motivation is not a problem for you…let’s also assume you go to the gym and workout with weights regularly 3-5 times per week. How much intensity should you put into each workout? How hard do you really have to hit it to…
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Strong or Jacked…what do you want?
Most guys start working out with the intention of building muscle and having a ripped body. If anything strength is simply a side effect of bigger muscles. But somewhere along the line many guys get caught up training for strength instead of bigger muscles. They start worrying about how many plates they have on the bar…