Archive for 'Diet and Nutrition'

28-Day Beach Blitz Part 5 of 5: Weight Training and Cardio

9 May 2007

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Picking a weight program to compliment a diet is like picking the perfect wine for a gourmet meal. The ideal progressive resistance training approach to compliment our 28-day, all-out diet assault could be […]

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28 Day Beach Blitz Part 3: Preliminary Preparations

3 May 2007

The first order of business is to establish a daily meal schedule. We don’t have time for baby talk or seductive murmurs so just read and then implement these seven bedrock principles:
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The 28-Day Beach Blitz Part 2: Diet Pedigree

25 April 2007

You need to be methodical and precise as every single day counts. Time is the enemy and with only four weeks to work our magic we don’t have time for fumbles, second thoughts or confusion. The dietary approach we’ll use is tried and proven by competitive bodybuilders, the acknowledged experts on shedding body fat […]

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Calories, food and metabolism…the never ending dilemma

12 March 2007

Metabolism is a moving, shifting target; never finite or fixed in time and space, metabolism, like hope, floats. Here is the deal: to stay the same (another myth: organisms never stay the exact same) we need to take in about approximately as many calories as we burn during the course of the day. Take […]

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One Man, One Pan: Pure Protein - Shrimp!

22 February 2007

According to my nutritional bible, The United States Department of Agriculture Handbook #8, a 100-gram portion of shrimp contain 18.1 grams of protein, .8 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of carbohydrate and 91 calories. For reference, a weighted pound contains 455 grams and a 100-gram portion is slightly […]

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Is post-workout nutrition worth the effort? You bet!

5 January 2007

There is a rock solid consensus among the iron elite that a physiological “window of opportunity” opens with the onset of an intense weight training session and closes about an hour after the cessation of the session. If nutrients (calories divided between protein and glycogen-replenishing carbohydrate) are consumed while the window of opportunity is […]

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Calories, food and metabolism…the never ending dilemma

28 November 2006

Metabolism is a moving, shifting target; never finite or fixed in time and space, metabolism, like hope, floats. Here is the deal: to stay the same (another myth: organisms never stay the exact same) we need to take in about approximately as many calories as we burn during the course of the day. Take […]

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