Author: johnbarban
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Diet and Exercise – As Simple As Possible…but not Simpler
If you knew exactly how long you were going to live and had no choice to change it, would you still follow a ‘healthy’ lifestyle? After all, what is the point of health foods, healthy lifestyle choices, exercising, dieting anyway? If you engage in any of this you must have some sort of end game…
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When Do You Stop Working Out?
Weight training is a relatively new phenomenon as the physical culture revolution started in the late 1800’s and took hold in the early 1900’s. The introduction of ‘fitness clubs’ and structured weekly weight workouts isn’t more than 100 years old. As of the day I’m writing this post the first generation of people who followed…
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Can’t “Feed” Yourself for Weight Loss?
I was watching the nfl network the other day and some of their ex athletes and coaches were on a commercial promoting nutri system for weight loss. Basically you pay for them to send you a weeks worth of prepared meals and you only eat what they send you (ie: breakfast, lunch and dinners for…
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Change Your Life To Change Your Body
Albert Einstein has been attributed with defining “Insanity” as the following: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I feel like this is what most people are doing in the gym and with their diets on a regular basis. It truly is insane to expect a noticeable change in your body…
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Counting Calories For Weight Loss – Overestimate to be Sure
A comment I received from Kenneth in an earlier post brought up a very good point about calorie counting. Kenneth brought to my attention a new study done at tufts university that analyzed some commercially available foods (from restaurants and grocery stores) and compared how many calories that were stated on the label vs how…