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Last October, after many years of rejecting cardio, I stated that I would be Starting Over in Cardio. I outlined how I became anti-cardio in the post Understanding my Bias Against Cardio. And I...
Read more →Earlier this month, I discovered I was likely wrong about cardio and explained how I arrived at that decision in the post Understanding My Bias AGainst Cardio. I was persuaded by the case made by Dr....
Read more →As I explained in the previous post Searching For The Cardio Code, after a very long hiatus, I'm ready to reintroduce cardio training to my fitness plan. Some would argue that my long urban hikes or...
Read more →One of my fitness mentors is Chris Highcock from Conditioning Research and author of Hillfit. He always seems to be a year or two ahead of me when it comes to fitness interests and knowledge. In a...
Read more →One of my favorite podcasts is Masters In Business from Bloomberg by Barry Ritholtz. The show is a collection of interviews with some of the brightest and most successful people in finance. (side...
Read more →This is the third part of my series about exercise and fat loss. Part one was the post Walking Didn't Lean Me Out, where I showed how all my fat loss was a result of diet and how exercise played no...
Read more →In a previous post, I stated there were only two reasons people perform steady-state aerobic exercise. > 1. Endurance training. > 2. Fat loss. Sport-specific endurance training makes sense. For fat...
Read more →Over the past 15 years I've been known to say something like this: > Weight training is like a 401k. You don't see the results right away, but over time they add up. Cardio is like a weekly paycheck....
Read more →Last month I shared my current diet program in the post What I Eat and What I Don't Eat - March 2010 Edition. Now it is time to discuss the exercise part of the equation. Note that I don't consider...
Read more →While at my Glitter Gym, the gym paused the soccer mom workout music for an important announcement. It was a professionally made audio clip encouraging members to sign up for some nonsensical aerobic...
Read more →It just pains me to see well intentioned people enter the gym just after the New Year and make the same mistakes year after year. Some last a month or two. Most will fail and sadly, most will blame...
Read more →I have three points from previous posts on cardio that I wish to clarify. In the post Health Goals - Last Year and Today, I state that I got leaner despite doing no cardio. > I did not spent a single...
Read more →In the post The Easiest Fitness Debate I've Ever Won, I slammed cardio without really explaining why. Before I go into it, let us define the word cardio. Even though pretty much all exercise has...
Read more →I can't believe I forgot to post this story. This summer I was discussing fitness with a pal of mine. My pal is in his mid-20s and a fellow ectomorph. Some of my ideas are not widely accepted in the...
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