Checklists and Why Diets Fail

One of the great secrets I’ve learned over the years is that we can’t visualize a negative action. You can’t picture in your mind NOT eating an ice cream cone. You can’t imagine NOT kicking a dog. You can’t imagine NOT eating that huge piece of FUDGE staring at you from the plate across the [...]

Weekly Calorie, Exercise, & Fuel Chart

With gas prices topping four dollars a gallon here in the US many people are looking for solutions to an ever increasing fuel budget. Some people are selling their gas guzzling SUV’s and purchasing smaller fuel efficient cars. Others are cutting back on vacation trips and doing more things at home.

I thought I would [...]

Fast & Fun Fitness Cards

I am a big fan of the Five Factor Fitness program by Harley Pasternak. This little book outlines a fitness program that almost anyone can do in 25 minutes per day. This book provides a combination of Aerobic exercise along with weight training in a twenty five minute, interval style workout.
The book provides pictures and [...]

Diet Success: The Mysterious Ingredient

As I was perusing the aisles of my local Barnes & Noble bookstore at lunch a new book caught my eye. It’s called The Hot Diet, by chemical engineer AJ Djo. I picked it up and started reading. Page after page it drew me in with one simple premise… something in almost everyone’s diet was [...]

Deliberate Actions: The Five Second Solution

Could there actually be a difference between doing an action for one second versus five seconds? Could this tiny time period make any difference in your life? If you practice weight training this could be the secret weapon you are looking for. This small difference can turbocharge your results. Here is how it works…
When lifting [...]

Deliberate Actions: Simple Diet For Success

I ran into a post a few days ago by one of my favorite writers and adventurers, Tim Ferriss, that really opened my eyes to diet success. In the post Tim explains that he created a meal plan that limited his diet choices to a dozen items. He created similar meals over and over in [...]