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• August 16, 2010

  Summer Break (But Not From Learning)

  As of Thursday at 12pm, I’m finished with all of my work at NCC.  Summer break, here we come! Except not.  While it’s nice to not have to drive to school every day,  I still have a ton of things going on.  I’ll try to stay on top of all of it, so I don’t…

• August 12, 2010

  3 Awesome Things for Me, Plus 1 for You!

  Three awesome things have happened in the past 24 hours, and I’d like to share them with you.  Since you get to read about my boring life, I’ll include something extremely educational and important about fitness and nutrition.  It’s super high-tech, cutting edge data.  Not really, but it’s funny. The most significant thing that’s occured…

• August 9, 2010

  Why You Should Use Medicine Balls

  Before we get started with a few uses of Medicine Balls, let’s watch a video of how not to perform an Overhead Slam. Okay, so we can laugh together at this fellow’s misfortunes.  Now let’s laugh at me, because I’ve done that before.  NOW, let’s get down to business. While medicine balls can be used…

• August 7, 2010

  Metabolic Conditioning

  In my previous post, I discussed the use of interval training to increase the intensity of cardio workouts.  Today, I’ll give an example of interval training used to add a cardio aspect to strength training.  There have been numerous examples of conditioning intervals in past posts, but a definition hasn’t been given.  Here it is:…

• August 5, 2010

  A Few Thoughts on Cardio

  Yesterday, as I was in New York City with some friends, I noticed something that surprised me.  Everywhere we went, I saw runners, bikers, and some sweaty looking people in general.  While it was very hot and humid, they were sweaty from just having done something that was physically intense.   When we got to Central…