The topic of chemical addictions is one that is near and dear to my heart and affects so many of us both directly and indirectly. Alcohol, cigarettes, and pain killers are some of the intoxicants that usually come to mind when we hear the phrase “chemical addiction.” I would also like to point out that addictions to coffee and junk food (which are chemicals) are usually overlooked when we do an inventory of our own lives.
It’s not good for your health to drink more than one cup of coffee a day, and I drink at least two—so I am going to do a little lifestyle makeover myself. The excuse I use is that I juggle college and a professional life, so of course I need the boost, right? Wrong. The reality is that I don’t need to depend on caffeine for energy, and neither do you if we get enough rest, exercise, and eat right.
Below is a summary for Eat to be Fit-The Truth About Fat Loss , by Michael J. Foley with Pat Walsh. I recently made Pat and Mike’s acquaintance and thought this first-person account had some great insight on the subject of chemical addictions, and what we can do to overcome them: Read more…
The World Champion Workout
Just last week I spent a few days with UFC World Welterweight Champion, Georges St-Pierre, and his most excellent coaching team of Firas Zahabi, Jon Chaimberg, and Phil Nurse. And while some might say I was lucky enough to sit in on a sparring session and a conditioning session, my lungs might beg to differ.
One afternoon in particular, Jon, GSP’s strength coach, lead a group of us through one pretty intense workout. Indeed, if you think you’re working your intervals hard, try this one on for size.
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The Circuit
After a strength training session, finish off with the following circuit of exercises:
20 air squats
20 lunges each leg
20 jump squats
20 split jumps each leg
6 burpees
Note: You’re going to perform this circuit all the way through with no rest. Then, at the end, take about 2 minutes to recover. It won’t be enough. But that’s all you get. Next, repeat the entire thing a second time. Read more…
This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at (fountainofyouthworldsummit.com). In this excerpt, Dax Moy shares the remaining steps for the Magic 100 program for success.
The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dax Moy, one of the four most successful achievement coaches for personal trainers in the world.
Kevin: WOW! What’s next?
Dax: What’s next is know why you want it. To be really, really honest, most people don’t know why they want what they want. Or they will never admit it to themselves. You know what, they’ll say “oh yeah I would like a new Land Rover Discovery”, in my case you know? “Why do I want it?” You know it’s a great car. And that’s when most people start, “it’s a great car; made me feel…” Basically when I actually went through the “why do I want it” phase, what it really, really, really came down to was: it would make me feel successful, it would make me feel special, it would make me feel like I made it. Those are the obvious reasons. Because it is a great car, it’s got x horsepower, and the wheels are shinning; they are not really good reasons. They are not the things that I see that are going to hold you on course when things get tough, okay? But, when you know why you want it, when you get to the bottom of the real reason well, actually you know? Again, if I even dig a little bit deeper; for most of my life I felt poor, and I felt like I wasn’t going to amount to anything. This was going to make me feel rich, like I was turning into something that I wanted to be. Read more…
Fasting for Spiritual and Physical Cleansing, Not Weight Loss
Food & Nutrition | MM Team | Mind & Meditation | Weight Loss
I wasn’t aware fasting was used as a weight-loss plan until I read the “Intermittent Fasting” article on the Mindful Muscle blog. And, having read it, I found myself wanting to know more about supposed benefits and risks. My impression, from the article, was that outside of spiritual benefits, fasting was not an ideal method of weight loss.
Upon further research, what I found was contradictory. There were those who lauded fasting and those who emphatically denounced it. One aspect that appears to be universal—at least universal in the articles I delved through—is that no one actually prescribes it as a weight-loss method. Those who recommend fasting usually do so because of its supposed cleansing benefits, not because it was a guaranteed pound-shedder. To be honest, I find that a relief; the idea of not eating for a long period of time to lose weight just sounds too much like anorexia or starvation to me.
The Spiritual Side of Fasting
With the intent of centering oneself through fasting in a spiritual context, however, I can understand and appreciate the testimonies of practitioners. Depending on one’s religious or spiritual knowledge, many people have some familiarity of when fasting occurs today. Read more…
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