Author: johnbarban
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Working Out: One of the Best Relationships You’ll Ever Have
There are very few things in your life that can provide the degree of gratification and empowerment that working out can. It has both short term and long term benefits in that it provides a daily hit of gratification, energy, and feeling of accomplishment. It provides a long term benefit of improvement in overall health…
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The Season for Overeating is Here!
Today is Halloween, besides being my favorite event of the year it’s also marks the beginning of the season of overeating for most people in north america. Over the next two months most of us will be invited to multiple christmas parties, thanksgiving dinners, news years parties and other end-of-year events. This is the time…
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Does Barfing = A Good Workout?
I was recently working out at a gym I don’t normally go to. I was out of town and just bought a guest pass for the day. Anyway, I was going about my business just like any other workout and as I was leaving the change room a guy runs past me on the way…
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Bodyfat % is Irrelevant
Over the past couple years I’ve had multiple DEXA scans done to get an idea of how my diet and training affects my body composition. A DEXA is a machine that takes a detailed scan/image of the body and can tell you how much bodyfat you have compared to lean mass, and it can even…
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Breakfast Schmeckfast
I start most of my days with a coffee. 2 sugars and 1 cream. Most times I don’t have anything with it, just the plain ole’ coffee on its own. It’s quite rare for me to actually eat a full on ‘breakfast’. In fact I think breakfast and the concept of the necessity for breakfast…