Calorie Counting, Food Quality and Starvation Mode I had an interesting conversation yesterday with someone about calorie counting, food quality and starvation mode. It turned out that he tried to lose weight by counting calories. In a two week period, adjusting his diet to be 200 calories sub basil metabolic rate, he didn't lose one single kilo.......
Tabata... What the, Who the...?? The other day, I went out to crossfit class and did a typical crossfit style workout - a Tabata workout involving 8 sets of 20 seconds each of box jumps, squats and pushups, followed by 10 seconds of rest. 12 minutes of grueling intnsity. After the workout, like usual, I......
Crossfit vs p90x vs Kettlebells A conversation recently came up over at twitfitter on the relative differences of Crossfit and other newish intensity based fitness programs (like p90x and kettlebells) and whether or not fitness programs like Crossfit will take over the globo gym and behind the back wrist curls will become a thing of......
Charles Poliquin's Take on Crossfit In the December "Question of Strength" article on T-Nation, Charles Polquin discusses his view of Crossfit. He gives 6 reasons why he "can't recommend CrossFit training, especially for those seeking the highest levels of athletic performance". Polquin is a World respected Canadian strength training coach who has trained and/or consulted......
Burpee-Pullups Tonight I did a workout consisting of 5 rounds of 10 burpee-pullups and 5 135lb push jerks. Now, keep in mind that I've done workouts consisting of 150 pullups before. I've also done workouts consisting of 150 burpees before. But let me tell you that 10 burpee-pullups and I was......
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Calorie Counting, Food Quality and Starvation Mode I had an interesting conversation yesterday with someone about calorie counting, food quality and starvation mode. It turned out that he tried to lose weight by counting calories. In a two week period, adjusting his diet to be 200 calories sub basil metabolic rate, he didn't lose one single kilo....... 
Tabata... What the, Who the...?? The other day, I went out to crossfit class and did a typical crossfit style workout - a Tabata workout involving 8 sets of 20 seconds each of box jumps, squats and pushups, followed by 10 seconds of rest. 12 minutes of grueling intnsity. After the workout, like usual, I...... 
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Thank you for that movie trailer! I need to watch it :)
July 21st, 2009
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