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How to Get in Great Shape and Still Enjoy The ‘Finer Things’ in Life

Enjoying a cigar in Key West, Fla.

That’s what most people struggle with, myself included early on in my training. We think that you have to deprive ourselves. That building lean muscle, and getting a six-pack is about deprivation, and saying no to the treats and the things we enjoy most.

But it doesn’t have to be like that. Much of the fitness industry will have you think that you have to stick to a strict meal plan, that you can’t consume any alcohol, or that you have to eat boring foods that aren’t all that tasty. Well that

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Tags: Enjoy, Enjoy ‘finer

How to Gain Muscle and Lose Fat

The ultimate goal for a lot of us is to put on lean muscle. The kind we see in the comic books, on the cover of magazines and, yes, in our dreams. I wanted that lean, athletic-looking and muscular body for a long time, but didn’t know how to go about getting it.

The thing is, there’s not a lot out there that helps us gain lean muscle mass without first looking fat and bloated. The old bodybuilding adage that you first bulk, then cut, has been the norm for years. But, we’re not bodybuilders. We do

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Tags: Muscle, Muscle Lose

Insanity Asylum Review: Game Day

So youve been training with Shaun T for the last 10 days, your diet has been dialed in, you took the day off yesterday, and now its time for your first big GAME.  Todays Insanity Asylum Review is all about Game Day!

Are you in it to WIN it?

This is actually a FUN workout.  Its crazy hard, but its actually fun to go through.  Shaun T is very motivating, and makes the experience as if you were in an actual game.  Whatever sport you are playing, or set of drills, he puts you in the GAME.  In the sporting event, you are in a competition, and you have to push yourself to win!  There are a couple of obvious differences between this workout and all the others.

1.  Insanity Asylum Game Day is 61 minutes.  The other videos are under 45 minutes.

2.  This has something from every other video.  Youll recognize moves from Speed & Agility, Strength, Back to Core, and Vertical Plyo. (Click th

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The CrossFit Explosion – The 16+ Year “Overnight Success” Story of CrossFit

Although CrossFit seems like an overnight success, its story began quite a few years ago. The first time I heard about CrossFit was back in 2006, about a year before I started this blog. At that time it simply looked like a small program to train SWAT teams and police units. Supposedly in 2005, 10 years after the opening of the first gym in Santa Cruz, CA there were just 18 gyms. From 2005-2011 this has grown to from 18 to over 2,500 affiliates. In this post, I simply want to talk about this massive growth as well as give a brief overview of this growing CrossFit movement.

CrossFit Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

About 3-4 months ago I was driving to work on a typical rainy Seattle day.

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Tags: Crossfit, Overnight Success