No Workout But Lots of Exercise

I took a break for working out today but still got plenty of exercise with a couple of brisk 1/2 mile walks with a client and several hours of helping a friend with some moving chores.

Our obsession with sugar, salt and fat
In his new book, "Salt Sugar Fat," Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Michael Moss takes readers on a tour of the $1 trillion processed food industry, and the sights aren't pretty.  read more

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Leg Workout

It would have been a fantastic day for a hike, but I just didn't have a long enough break......so I did a leg workout instead....stability ball/dumbbell squats followed by circuits of plyometric alternating lunges, single leg stability ball leg curls and single leg calf raises.

TOPFIT Tips---Time
Time seems to be the excuse everyone uses when they don’t eat right or exercise, but if you don’t make time to do it now you’ll really come up short on time at the end of your life. Make time now to get healthy and stay healthy, and you’ll more than make up for it by living a longer and/or a more functional life.  read more tips

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Lower Table Rock and Heavy Bag

This morning I made time for a more leisurely Lower Table Rock hike......it was time for a less intense TR adventure.  Later in the afternoon I spent 30 mins on the heavy bag.

Eat Your Way to a Longer Life
Feeling hungry? Start fueling yourself with these delicious and powerful foods that just may improve your health.  see the slideshow

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Chest Workout

I took a break from trail running today so I could concentrate on some bookkeeping as well as other business and personal chores and errands.  But, I still made time for a great workout of heavy BB bench presses, DB flye/press supersets, and ring dips.

6 Easy Ways to Speed Up Weight Loss
It’s almost the end of February, and after two months of self-denial, your New Year’s resolution to lose weight is proving discouragingly difficult. You know what you need to do: Cut calories and up your activity level. And you’re on the right track – but the train seems to have slowed down to a crawl.  read more

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Upper Table Rock Run

I kept things fairly simple today and only made time for a great Upper Table Rock run.  I was going to do a chest workout but I was feeling a bit fatigued from the past week of activity......so, I listened to my body and decided to postpone that for a day or two.

No, Overweight People Don't Live Longer
Remember that study about how overweight people lived longer?
It was totally wrong, concludes a panel of professors at the Harvard School of Public Health.  read more

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Lower Table Rock Run and DB Rows

After spending most of the weekend from Friday evening until Sunday evening getting a great workout helping a friend with some high energy and high intensity moving related projects, I took it easy today.  I started with a Lower Table Rock run and followed that with a workout of DB rows (working up to a 2 rep max of 165 lbs) and chinups.

27 Foods You Should Never Buy Again
Cross these items off your grocery store list—whether they're rip-offs, fakes, drastically unhealthy, or just plan gross, here are the 27 foods you should never buy again.  see the slideshow

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Heavy Bag

It was an extremely busy day of client sessions in addition to personal and business chores and errands, but in addition to a couple of brisk 1/2 mile walks with a client, I also made time for a 30 minute heavy bag workout.

5 Ways to Make Nutrition Labeling More Effective
Thanks to the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, we as consumers have easy access to the nutritional information for most of the foods we can purchase in a grocery store. As they say, information is power -- but that power is weakened by several flaws in our labeling system.  read more

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