In an article I wrote for Breaking Muscle yesterday on the 7 Fitness Myths You Gotta Know About, I accidentally stirred up quite the controversy over an ongoing debate among fitness professionals about how important the Calories In vs Calories Out equation is. I made the claim that the most important part of the equation… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Fat Loss
Intermittent Fasting, The Vodka Diet, OR How I Got Skinny For My Wedding Like a Real Man
Call me girly, but I had no intentions of being fat at my wedding. Unfortunately, with only a few months to go, that was exactly the situation I was facing. I needed to take drastic measures, measures most will find insane. And, because of my experimental personality, I took them! Lo and behold, it worked! … Continue Reading
White Women’s Workout: Racism + Exercise = Hot Body
Another gym sent to me by Roy:
Diet vs Exercise: The Fitness “Order of Operations”
OK, the title of this post is a bit misleading. But, it seems as though many people believe that “Diet vs Exercise” is a valid question with an obvious answer: Diet. They may not believe it consciously. But, in their actions this is what happens. In truth, of course, there is not an exclusive “or”… Continue Reading
Throw Away Your Scale! I Mean It … Now!
Today’s tip is a simple one, and one I’ve mentioned before. But, it bears repeating (a lot): Throw away your scale. That may seem harsh, but unless you are a competitor in a weight-classed sport (weightlifting, wrestling, etc) then owning a scale and getting on it regularly is a sure-fire way to screw up your… Continue Reading
Everything You Know About Fitness is Wrong – Zen Quote of the Day
Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Ernest Everything popular is wrong That may not sound very Zen, but it is. It comes down to being aware of the natural human instinct to jump on bandwagons. The more aware you are of any natural tendency the more rationally you can react to them. And jumpin’… Continue Reading
