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Venus & Mars: The Training

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Smart trainers have long known that there are differences when you train men versus women.  Most studies have used men and assumed the results would transfer over to women. Not necessarily the case.

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Venus & Mars in happier times

While men and women are *mostly* the same physiologically (certain exceptions immediately come to mind)  turns out there are some important differences below the surface.  I just read an interesting article in MSNBC about the current research and  findings regarding gender differences in training effects.

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How I ate ice cream, pizza, burger, fries, chips, pretzels, cookies, a McFlurry and a box of Life cereal and still lost 5 lbs this week.

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Yes it’s true. 

I ate all that crap. I cheated big time. And I’ll do it again.

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Actually that’s pretty close…

All that junk food found its way down my pie hole and yet somehow I still lost 5 lbs this week.

How? Easy.  It’s all in the timing.

I have a single cheat day: Saturday.  I  eat whatever I want, however much I want.  When Sunday rolls around I am done with the binge buffet (kidding) and I’m back on the plan. It is really that simple.

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Pull The Trigger

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Trigger Foods and Why you are always hungry:

I have wondered for a long time I can eat an entire bag of pretzels, or a full box of cereal and yet still be hungry moments later.

I thought I could just be damaged. (Still up for debate)

Well a recent study had some interesting findings and when combined with some existing data can offer up some answers.

For me and millions of others, high carb foods are often “trigger foods”.  A trigger food is a food that can trigger you to overeat or binge. You just keep eating.

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