Archive for August, 2005
Creating a food log
31 August 2005If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! If you want to lose body fat fast, if you want to hang onto hard-earned muscle in the face of declining calories, youll need to weigh food portions. The only way its physiologically possible to lose stored body […]
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Diet log: necessity or superfluous exercise in futility?
30 August 2005First things first: if you are thin or seeking to add muscle, a diet log book is a superfluous frivolity that no one other than Phil Hartmans anal-retentive chef on Saturday Night Live need be concerned withwhen you are seeking to add muscle mass the world is your oyster: eat more calories than you […]
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Bobcat strikes!
29 August 2005 Dr. Robert, my personal Tom Hagen-like consigliere, enters his first powerlifting competition at age 50-plusputting yourself on the competitive spot brings to a persons training a degree of intensity not thought possible leading up to the event and a degree of exhilaration not thought possible in the afterglow
I was so focused I cant even […]
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Reality TV Just Got MORE Real: The 60-Day Makeover
26 August 2005 Press Release:
WAYNESBORO RESIDENT TO TEAM UP WITH EMMY-WINNING PRODUCER
FOR REALITY TV PILOT TO BE SHOT LOCALLY
Waynesboro, Pa., resident Marty Gallagher will team up with seven-time Emmy-winning TV producer Mark Hammond to produce a fitness reality show tentatively titled 60-Day Makeover.
Gallagher is a nationally known fitness scribe who has written over 200 fitness and […]
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GRILLMAN SIGHTINGDiet log blurb postponed until tomorrow
25 August 2005The GrillMan is a mythical creature akin to the Yeti or Big Foot (roughly the same proportion) He suddenly reappeared on the radar screen a few days back. He is rested and ready for another Iron Assault and I thought our back and forth musings might be of interest to the readers profanity […]
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The dreaded training and eating logs
24 August 2005Almost without exception elite athletes log training results and do so in real time as the workout is actually occurring. As the weight train, immediately after finishing the set youll see them pick up their little spiral notebooks and with hands still shaking from exertion jot down what just happened. Why do they go […]
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A truly memorable meal for all the wrong reasons
23 August 2005I had a tragic dinner with a well meaning friend the other day (great athlete, horrendous cook) and while the food he served would have caused a prisoner riot in a forced labor camp, his foray into food prep provided me with sudden insight that served to amplify and clarify why proper food preparation […]
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The greatest athlete Ive ever seen
22 August 2005I happened to catch a documentary this past week on the great Jim Brown and his work with gangs, prison inmates and the permanent underclass. It struck a resonant chord in my brain and I broke out my Spike Lee video on Brown and his athletic accomplishments. Now 68, Brown still stands tall and […]
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