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Category Archives: Fitness related

Practical Programming

Friday, April 13, 2007

It only takes one book like Practical Programming to expose what you see in the mainstream “fitness” magazines for the ridiculous crap that it is. This book sets out what you need to know in order to get strong. And it’s laid out in a pleasingly straightforward fashion, with none of the “Get hyoooge!!!!” hype [...]

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Lynx Grips

Friday, March 9, 2007

Okay, these have nothing to do with books, but I just got a couple pairs of Lynx Grips and have been trying them in my workouts. Here’s my product review: First of all, Lynx Grips, put out by Lynx Technologies, are small (10.5cm long; 9.5cm wide; 0.25cm thick) rubber pads that you put in your [...]

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Fantastic Voyage

Thursday, February 1, 2007

If you’re like me, a lot of the claims that are in this book will initially sound incredibly far-fetched…but then you start looking around online and see that you can actually find much of it already happening. Also, Bill Gates once said that co-author Ray Kurzweil is “the best at predicting the future of artificial [...]

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Inside-Out

Monday, October 16, 2006

I ordered this exercise DVD last week, and generally speaking, I like it quite a bit. The DVD is divided into several sections, such as Thoracic Spine Mobility, Scapular Closed Chain and Active Wrist Mobilization. These sections each contain several exercises that you can use to warm up that particular part of the body. The [...]

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Childhood obesity

Thursday, September 14, 2006

A recent article concerning childhood obesity says, in part: Americans are beginning to realise that childhood obesity is a real problem [gee, ya think?] and are even starting to do something about it, but there is no way to tell what actually works, a panel of experts said on Wednesday. Statements like this — and [...]

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