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New Year, New You – 52 Week Guide For Achieving Greatness In 2009

 

 

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Nothing says “hello, new year” like a plan to get into shape. After all, few occupations require physical prowess like that of the professional warrior. (Journalism certainly doesn’t, pass the Cheetos…)

If you really want to unleash your inner Arnold this year, try:

1. Mixing it up. Seriously, don’t you get tired of the same thing, the same thing, the same thing, the same thing?

“Change up your workout,” advised Army Staff Sgt. Gregg Ramsdell, 47, an avid powerlifter with a string of titles in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington who recently returned from his third war zone tour since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. “One week during the cycle, change things by doing one set of as many reps as possible on every machine in your gym.”

These full-body workouts could get you home from the gym fast, “not to mention pump a lot of blood to the affected body part,” Ramsdell said. A similar plan could incorporate free weight exercises, so long as you’re working both upper and lower body.

What’s the point? Putting the human body into a set routine is like rocking a just-fed baby, everything goes night-night. Pretty soon, you stop seeing results. So wake up your muscles with a taste of something different.

 

 

 

2. You are what you drink. Know why the Kool-Aid Man was so fat that he had to make his own door wherever he went? ’Cause he was full of syrupy, sugary sweet beverage. Ooooh yeah.

“Cut out all drinks with calories,” said Jennifer Hughes, wife of Cryptologic Technician 1st Class Nicholas Hughes. Currently stationed in Virginia Beach, Va., they are competitive amateur bodybuilders, with Jennifer serving as their dietician. “If you haven’t already done this, just doing this alone will create a huge calorie reduction, without much effort.”

That includes beer. A can of Budweiser has 145 calories — not so bad if you drink one, terrible if you drink, say, eleventeen.

 

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More Crazy Wild Sex In The Olympic Village

I am often asked if the Olympic village – the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world’s top athletes for the duration of the Games – is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is.

I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point. That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle.

Barcelona was, for many of us Olympic virgins, as much about sex as it was about sport. There were the gorgeous hostesses – there to assist the athletes – in their bright yellow shirts and black skirts; there were the indigenous lovelies who came to watch the competitions. And then there were the female athletes – literally thousands of them – strutting, shimmying, sashaying and jogging around the village, clad in Lycra and exposing yard upon yard of shiny, toned, rippling and unimaginably exotic flesh. Continue reading ›

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Get Rid Of Cellulite With Exercise, Not Dieting

When Mike turned 65, he was 25 pounds overweight. By strict dieting, he shed the extra pounds, but he lost more weight; he also lost his energy and vitality. He was always exhausted, and his friends, seeing his gaunt, drawn face, worried about his health.

By the time volunteered for a particular fitness program two years later, he had put 25 extra pounds back on. After 6 months of exercise and some willpower at the dinner table, Mike slimmed down again. This time he felt better than he ever had, brimming with energy and glowing with good health.

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Aki Nishimoto Is Miss Japan

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“As people who endeavor to model themselves after the ancient Greek gods, we are glorifying physical beauty to realize an existence that is closest to the gods.

Body building tournaments give us a chance to compete on the basis of the soundness of our bodies. Males put an emphasis on strength and power, and to that, females add the aspect of beauty.”

So says 41-year-old Tokyo native Aki Nishimoto, a body builder who last October 4 took the title of “Miss Japan,” for the third year in a row and fifth time overall.

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How Can I Become a Fitness Model?

Everyone is busy these days, but bearing in mind what is at stake, making time for exercise needs to be a priority right now. In fact, there are people who make it their purpose in life to promote the advantages of physical fitness and prove to the world what a physically fit person can look like.

It is for this reason that most people believe that fitness models are some of the healthiest and most eye-catching people in the world.Fitness models are, undeniably, the embodiment of a physically fit person, exuding health, life, vigour, and physical attractiveness.

So, if you think that you have what it takes to be a fitness model, here are some tips on how to become one.

Start by making some time for exercise.

Thirty minutes a day for exercise is not too much to start with and can easily be found if you look hard enough for it. You can find time for exercise in the following ways;

* Cutting out one TV show from your evening television viewing.
* Getting up a half-hour earlier each morning.
* Using half of your lunch hour for a brisk walk.

To become a fitness model will eventually require more than thirty minutes a day but you have to start slowly and build up your physique in the early stages.

Avoid the common perception that fitness is just a matter of the body figure.

The problem with modern society is that people tend to approve of and look up to females who are slim and sexy and to males who have well-developed physiques.

The outcome is that people have a tendency to start an exercise program not because they want to be healthy and fit but because they want to look like the fitness models that they see on TV, on posters, and in magazines.

But to be a fitness model, you should think about exercising your way to a healthier you and not just the sexier, physically attractive person that you want to be.

After all, being a fitness model does not inevitably mean you have to have the body size of a fashion model.

You must believe that ‘You are what you eat’ is essentially true.

If you want to be a fitness model, you have to believe that your body is a product of the quality of the food you eat, and of the kind of physical activities that you pursue in life. It has to be your conscious decision to lead a healthy lifestyle to the best of your ability.

Eating junk food will give you a junk body so learn about healthy food as a priority.Genes play a big role in a person’s health but these do not decide what you will eat at breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and the kind of activity that you will engage in.

If you do not accept this healthy-eating principle then you will find it difficult to become a fitness model, and to show other people what it is like to be physically fit.

Learn to adopt a positive self image.

To be a fitness model, you have to incorporate a positive body image into your life. This means that you should love your body no matter what is happening in your surroundings or in the circumstances in your life.

You should never yearn for a body that you know is not yours. Do not trouble yourself with the thought that life could have been better if you only you had slimmer thighs or stunning abs. By cultivating a positive self-image, you are able to gain respect for yourself, which in turn encourages others to respect and admire you.

The important thing to realize is that, being a fitness model is not all about vanity and physical attributes alone. What is important is the beauty of being physically fit and healthy that radiates from your body as it exudes the glow of health.

Even if you don’t eventually make it as a fitness model following these rules will improve your health and vitality so there is nothing to lose by attempting to be one.

Anthony Bradley writes for http://love-guides.com about fitness and bodybuilding as well as health,weight loss and dating guides
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Why Do I Love Her Body?

On the Design of Woman

One thing that keeps being a puzzlement to scholars everywhere, as well as to man in general, is: Why is the design of Woman’s body so powerful?

Why does it make us lose our cool every damn time, no matter how old and experienced we get?

Why does it keep its power, no matter how many times it is used, in art and advertising?

A clue to part of the answer came to me as I starting working on drawings for a series of postcards for DOMAI recently. Now, drawing, as you will know if you have tried it, is not something that comes particularly easy to most people, and especially not drawing the human form. And the female human form is especially tricky, because you think it is simpler than the male form, not having as obvious muscles etc.

And here we come to the crux of the matter: It SEEMS simple. But actually it is amazingly complex.

For my drawings, I was studying a video clip of a dancer, moving forward one frame at a time, and I noticed a peculiar thing: Even with just 1/24 of a second between two views, the body could look totally different in each picture.

The lines were different, the curves were different, the relationship between different parts were different. Even a single part, like the head or an arm, could have a completely different outline between two pictures 1/24 of a second apart.



Now, learning to draw, there are many ways to observe. One popular way is to divide the body into moving parts, and make the head an elongated sphere, the upper arm a tube, the upper torso a cut-off cone, and so on.

This way makes it easier to understand the spatial relationships of the body, but it does not lead to very charming drawings all by itself.

Another way is to ignore space altogether, and to draw the outline of the body in one long line, not caring how it all fits together. This can lead to drawings with lots of charm, but usually messes up the proportions of the body something fierce. (Of course this is meant as an exercise, not a technique.)

A third way still is to draw only the shadows and light of the body, ignoring shapes and outlines completely. This can have some power, but is very difficult to get to hang together.

My point here is that with all those ways of seeing and drawing the body (and these are just a few), each of them taking a long time to master, it should be obvious that the totality of the design of the body is extremely complex.

As a matter of fact, my central epiphany as I was practicing was this: There is no way of simplifying the design of the female the body. This is important.

It is important because of this: If a given design is needlessly complex, it can always be simplified. And further, it will gain power if it is. (Engineers make great progress every time they do this.)


And of course the corollary is: If a design cannot be simplified, it means that every part of the design contributes to the effect. And if it is very complex, of course that ads up to a lot of power.

So the next time you look at some stunning beauty, and you wonder exactly what part of it that makes you sweat, forget it: it all works together. And that is the genius of it.

Yours, Eolake Stobblehouse

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