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Top 10 Perfect Christmas Gifts for the Fitness Buff (From $7 to $7,000)

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Creatine Enhances Cognitive Performance in Cases of Sleep Deprivation

Overwhelming volumes of research indicate that creatine supplementation improves exercise performance and lean muscle mass. Now research is showing potential benefits on cognitive function.Research suggests that in addition to creatine accumulation in skeletal muscle, the brain may also take up creatine. This study had healthy men and women load with 20 grams of creatine per day or placebo for one week.Afte ...

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For the Millions of Americans Affected by Obesity

I caught this subtle but powerful use of language in a news story today: "news for the millions of Americans affected by obesity." Do you see it too? "affected by"... People are affected by the recession, by terrorism, by cancer... but to slip this message into the subconscious serves to..." Create rapport with the large group who struggle with obesity. There's some affinity in the relief implied. The news ...

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If a Muscle Milk Falls in the Forest…

Why the price you’re really paying for the convenient "twist off top" protein shakes may be your life—at least your health. You’ve likely heard the saying, “If a tree falls in the forest does anyone hear it?” It’s a oft used, well travel thought experiment that questions the nature of reality. One I like to leverage when pointing to the fundamental flaw of the ready-to-drink, twist off top, protein shakes / ...

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The Shocking Truth About “The Truth”

The Truth About... We love the truth. Why? Because we wanna know it. We, our human minds, want everything reducible to a concrete fact. We want the world in a thimble and for that thimble to have a cap so we can be safe and night and go to sleep. Plus, we have this part of us which is inherently suspect. We may know a person for 30 years, know them well, and all someone has to say is, "Let me tell you the T ...

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The Truth About COMMITMENT (& 3 Steps to Get It)

[caption id="attachment_1240" align="alignright" width="400" caption="David Blaine Knows What Commitment Means and How to Get It"][/caption] Getting the body you've dreamed of is quite simply the product of COMMITMENT. So we are told; over and over and over again. Want to get to the top of that mountain? Climb it. Need to lose 100 pounds? Stop eating so much. Just don’t this! Just do that. Commitment baby! ...

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Why Stubborn Belly Fat is Like a Pet Rock

Are you experienced enough to remember the pet rock phenomena of the 70's. Quite a remarkable fad that made it's inventor, Gary Dahl a millionaire nearly overnight. The premise was very simple. Take an inanimate object and allow millions of people to project their uniquely human qualities on it. Thus, giving it--the rock--the illusion of being, of living, of having human quality. Now, of course we know in o ...

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Chasing the Dream vs. Living a Nightmare

"Livin' The Dream, baby!" Yep, living the dream. Seems it once was not just a popular phrase but a more common approach to life. This came up for me in a coaching session today. I was dealing out my list of crap that's not working in my life, the nice version of complaining, when my coach told me a story--as he's prone to do. He spoke of his own recent dance with the ridiculous, an exploration into things a ...

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Who’s Your Guru?

[caption id="attachment_1097" align="alignright" width="263" caption="Who's Your Guru Baby?"][/caption]We live in a connected world. But do you ever wonder just who you're really connected to? A torrent of information at your finger tips. In a fraction of a second you have access to nearly anything you could imagine ever wanting to know. Who wrote the screenplay to Gone with the Wind? Shazamm, you've g ...

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