90% Is Perfect, 75% Is Good Enough

May 18, 2012

  Do you feel deprived on your diet? Like you’re always hungry and craving foods you “can’t” eat? In our culture, we like to do things 100%… and beat ourselves up when we fall short of the mark. When it comes to the food we put in our mouths, it’s no different. We try to […]

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How to Give Fear the Finger

May 12, 2012

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Marcus Aurelius The formula to look better, feel better, and live better is deceptively simple. Eat better, move smarter, live the good […]

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In Search of the Healthy Weekday Breakfast

May 4, 2012

Breakfast is the most difficult meal to get right. It is usually the most unhealthy meal we eat each day, chock full of sugar and refined grains, devoid of real food such as meat and fresh produce. Most of us have to get our asses out the door at the break of dawn and don’t […]

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The 9-Step Guide to Looking Better, Feeling Better, and Living Better

April 27, 2012

Look better. Feel better. Live better. Does that pretty much sum up what you want to get from your health and fitness? As much as we’d like to think we’re above it, we all want to look good naked. It improves our prospects, relationships, and sex lives. It improves the way others see us and […]

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The Apple School of Fitness

April 20, 2012

More than half of all U.S. households own one of their products. They are one of the most valuable companies in the world. If you would have bought 2,000 shares at $10 apiece 10 years ago, you would now be a millionaire. I’ve got a confession to make: I’m a bit of an Apple geek. […]

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How to Stock Up On Healthy Fats

April 13, 2012

Fat is back. After decades in exile, being blamed for everything from obesity to the Star Wars prequel trilogy, fat is slowly starting to clear its name. There really wasn’t anything of substance to hold against it in the first place, but a perfect storm of bad science, media sensationalism, and misguided governmental programs helped […]

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The Only 9 Exercises You’ll Ever Need

April 7, 2012

Looking for the newest variation on the bench press? An improved bicep curl to throw into the mix? Or how about the hottest new ab exercise guaranteed to give you an 8 pack in 30 days or less? We guys are particularly susceptible to “shiny object syndrome” when it comes to working out. We think […]

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