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Pruning the Pot Belly on Slim People

Being slim is no guarantee for having a flat stomach. Just walk around the beach on a hot summer day and observe the number of thin people with mild to extreme pot bellies. Being underweight does not mean a slim physique or good health. If you want to fir... Read >

Power Nutrition to Stop Hangovers

While there are dozens of hangover cures, the most effective are those that are taken before the drinking occurs. Hangover pain is mostly from dehydration, allergic impurities in the alcohol and poisoning known as acetaldehyde damage. Speaking from experi... Read >

Why Tobacco is Addictive?

The first thing to understand about tobacco is why people keep smoking. Experiments that measured brain-wave activity in humans have shown that nicotine screens out external stimulus like loud noises. In a practical sense, tobacco helps the user shut ou... Read >

The Fitness Environment

If you really find it difficult to stick with an exercise routine or feel some psychic force yanking you to physical sloth-ville, then you might want to look at your training environment. It is difficult to keep going to a gym or training area that ... Read >

Painless Punishment for Good Health Habits

Punishment is a poor method of motivation. But, it can help program us towards better living. For instance: • Touching a hot stove causes painful burns; • Being "uncool" around peers, will get you ostracized; • Showing up late, can get ... Read >

5 Minutes to Better Fitness

5 Minutes to Fitness One of the most effective methods of getting something unpopular done or doing what you don't feel like doing is the 5 minute rule. A case in point is this article. I really don't have the time or the inspiration or the feeling ... Read >

Avoiding Abusive Dates

AVOIDING ABUSIVE DATES When still in high school, I thought that I had seen the last of battering after my mother divorced my stepfather. But, I noticed it cropping up amongst "the cool people" at high school. Strangely, it was often some of the physic... Read >

Why a Skinny Guy Trained in Pilates

I had heard bits and pieces of Pilates this and Pilates that. But, I never really took a serious look until some of my women's kick-boxing trainees started talking and demonstrating these "Pilates" moves. O.K. some of it looked difficult... I mean cha... Read >

Reducing Your Alcohol Cravings

Craving certain substances is not a matter of corrupt morals or weak wills. It is often a series of learned behaviors and body chemistry.[i] Something as simple as a genetic background can predict potential alcohol problems. For instance, people from Midd... Read >

Detecting Addictive Personalities

Detecting Addictive Personalities Whether you are a parent, friend, student, teacher, boss, co-worker, employee, patient, counsellor, manager or partner with an addict can drain you mentally, physically and financially. It takes no genius to figure o... Read >

Lean Muscle Through Better Sleep

As a private soldier, I made a point of sleeping (and eating) every chance that I got. Naps were gold. Precious commodities, grabbed at every opportunity. I needed the energy for our training exercises as well as our late-night shenanigans. ... Read >

Sequencing for a Flatter Stomach

Before I learned of the following technique, I used to train my gut muscles randomly, without any strategy. Then a friend from a national cycling team, taught me this sequence of: working the obliques, the lower and then upper abdominals. Although I... Read >

The Delicate Art of Gaining Muscle

The common advice of gaining muscular weight has often been: eat lots and exercise less. Plus, the weird logic of, "Well, you just put on fat and then turn it into muscle," is also so much nonsense. For an under weight person gaining muscular weight is... Read >