Archive for June, 2008
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Precious Sleep
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Have you ever missed a good night sleep and then the next night stayed up late to watch your favorite rerun of Friends, Frasier or Scrubs…because even though you had seen it five times, you just couldn’t get enough? And then the night after, you went out with friends for drinks and dinner, and it went later than […]
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Top Ten: Salad Saboteurs
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Ah yes, the ever noble salad entree…the dieters delight…the healthy individual’s staple. Truth is, I’m a huge salad lover. Actually, the rawer the vegetable, the better. As a kid, I would scarf down carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers…you name it: If it crunched, I loved it. Once the crunch was gone, however, I didn’t love it […]
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“No Pain, No Gain”…Is this For Real?
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I’m a believer of a little pain. Always have been. I really feel that when you exercise, a little post-workout muscle pain means a lot of gain. There is such a thing as overdoing it, but a little pain means that you had a good workout the day before. Scientifically speaking, It means that you […]
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Top 10 Ways to know your Trainer is Worthless
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Having been an aerobics instructor and a personal trainer, I am always amazed at the number of trainers who really don’t cut the mustard. I often wince when I see trainers ’training’ individuals when they are clearly incompetent. Mostly because the people they are ‘training’ are in the dark about what they should be getting from the […]
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3 Reasons to NOT Step on the Scale
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I travel a lot for business, and, as a result, I have gone to a lot of gyms in a lot of hotels. A lot of these gyms have scales and being human, every once in awhile I give into the temptation to ‘test’ out one of them. The last time I ‘tested’ one, I […]
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3 Dangerous Gym Personalities…
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As an architect, I was trained to think that design was approached with either Form following Function or Function following Form. Depending on your schooling, your personal beliefs and your client, you may practice both approaches during your career. This morning, in the gym, I had a true flashback watching several other gym goers.
You’ve seen […]
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Is Balance the New Perfection?
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Over the last month or so, I’ve received questions submitted by readers and friends asking how I personally manage to find balance in my hectic schedule. The short answer: I’m not sure I ever have. In all honesty, I feel like true balance is much like true perfection: Never quite attainable…but definitely something to strive […]
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Special K Diet…Not so Special Afterall
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If you watch TV at all, you’ve probably seen the commercials for Kellogg’s special attempt at a special diet with their famed Special K products. Basically, they claim if you eat two 1 cup bowls of their cereal a day, you will lose six pounds in two weeks.* In short, the program instructs you to start […]
