April 2011
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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DOMS
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), also called muscle fever, is the pain and stiffness felt in muscles several hours to days after unaccustomed or strenuous exercise. The soreness is felt most strongly 24 to 72 hours after the exercise. It is a symptom of muscle damage caused by eccentric exercise. After such exercise, the muscle adapts rapidly to prevent muscle damage, and thereby soreness,...
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Whole Milk > Skim Milk
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise: April 2006 - Volume 38 - Issue 4 - pp 667-674 doi: 10.1249/01.mss.0000210190.64458.25 BASIC SCIENCES: Original Investigations Milk Ingestion Stimulates Net Muscle Protein Synthesis following Resistance Exercise ELLIOT, TABATHA A.; CREE, MELANIE G.; SANFORD, ARTHUR P.; WOLFE, ROBERT R.; TIPTON, KEVIN D. Abstract Purpose: Previous studies have...
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Kava tea linked to kidney failure and muscle... →
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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forever-athlete asked: Is the "Warrior Diet" similar/the same as IF?
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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You can do anything.
I don’t know you. I don’t know a thing about you. I don’t know where you come from, where you’re going, or why you do what you do. I don’t know if we’d get along if we met. But there is one there is one thing that I do know: You are capable of much more than you have been led to believe. As I am writing this, there are 6.7 billion people walking and breathing...
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Top Ten Fasting Myths Debunked →
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 21st
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Ten Foods You Should Be Eating
(via Zahrada on Reddit) Here’s a list of things that should be in your kitchen - especially if you’re attempting to lose some body fat and/or be as healthy as humanly possible. I have absolutely no qualifications - just an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Of course, everyone should be eating more chicken, broccoli, and spinach, but here’s some more variety: Berries. All of...
Apr 21st
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Fitness Pet Peeve: "diet"
diet [di-et]  dahy-it -noun food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health: Vegetables are a wholesome article of diet. This is one of my fitness annoyances. When I ask you what is “your diet” I am not asking you if you’re on South Beach, Atkins or something else that doesn’t work. I am asking what you are eating. What is...
Apr 21st
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You, too, can't have a body like this.
To get the abs, male models have to starve, binge, booze, suck sweets, slap on fake tan and be Photoshopped. Daniel Martin regularly puts his body through hell. For days at a time he restricts fluid intake so severely that the resulting dehydration causes headaches, haziness and overwhelming fatigue. Having trained for weeks like an Olympian with high-intensity circuits, running and...
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Anonymous asked: Do you think a 15-30 pound loss is possible in 4 months? I only ask because next semester at college I'm planning to join our school's triathlon team and I want to shed fat and gain muscle before I start training with them.

I'm sure any loss in fat/weight will be beneficial, this is just me hoping it's possible to get fitter faster.

I'm doing...
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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healthdiva-deactivated20111202 asked: Hi,

I'm Kim and I'm interested in beginning training in a martial art. But, like many, I can't decide. The three you mentioned, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai kickboxing and American boxing, in a previous answer made me think maybe you can help me choose. What elements of each of those arts do you like most? AND, what sorts of challenges turn people off from them?...
Apr 19th
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The Iron
I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me “garbage can” and telling me I’d be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real...
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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forever-athlete asked: Hey Daniel,

I just wanted to say thanks for being so supportive of women being active, strong, and independent. Women need to hear that from guys, especially from cool, good-looking guys like you ;)

I love your posts about how women should be strong and awesome and not frail and weak.

Just wanted to let you know that your positive posts are...
Apr 15th
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“There are people in this world that make it so hard to love them, but...”
– CYB
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Let's be honest..
..I’m not here to win any popularity contest.
Apr 14th
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EVERYONE: Repeat after me..
I am a badass. I am awesome. Nothing can stop me. I am a badass. I am strong. I have no quit. I am awesome. Let’s do this.
Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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Become A Spartan Warrior
It was not long ago that men were born to be warriors and had no other obligations than to uphold the warrior code and to pass it on to their offspring. It was only during the past 500 years that man forgot this way of life and replaced it with a complacency seemingly suited for a new world of convenience. The time that has passed since we have forgotten our warrior days has been a mere fraction...
Apr 12th
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diamantes7-deactivated20110603 asked: How do you motivate yourself to work out? Even when you are feeling sick or a little under the weather or hell when healthy? Should you work out when in those conditions?
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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What was your victory?
It’s Sunday night fitblrs, that means reflection. What was your victory for this week?
Apr 11th
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“Go at life with abandon; give it all you’ve got. And life will give all it has...”
– Norman Vincent Peale (via teamproctor)
Apr 11th
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Apr 9th
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Anonymous asked: I took my 'before pictures' today and it scares me that if I don't find a way to change that I'll always be stuck where I am (which would be my own doing). I'm just afraid of never becoming the best version of me. I don't know if you can relate to this because judging by your posts you always seem so determined, confident, and positive. I just want to find it in...
Apr 9th
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Anonymous asked: Hey so I read your post about loving life, saying to talk if we needed to so...

I'm sorry this is anon. I am a follower and love your blog but I just didn't want this going out on tumblr under my name. I try to stay positive on tumblr because I am a weightloss blog and there's too much negativity out on those already.

But I try to love myself and love...
Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Is strength training harmful?
Yes. With additional strength and muscle mass, you will become irresistible to the opposite sex, which will raise your risk of STDs, and cause you to lose sleep and productivity, due to the numerous additional opportunities for casual sexual activity. You may also lose friends, who enjoyed having the “fat guy” or the “scrawny dork” around to make them look better by comparison.
Apr 8th
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