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Posted August 17, 2012
You and the ancient hunter-gatherer are different in many ways. You eat Funions out of a bag; he hunted wild animals. You sit around for hours playing ?Mass Effect?; he ran for miles a day. Despite this fact, you burn as much energy as your buffalo-chasing ancestor. A new study conducted by researchers from Hunter
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Posted August 8, 2012
Michael Phelps is the man of the hour. Heck, maybe the year. It?s not often one guy walks away from the Olympics with four gold and two silver medals. It?s even less common (so less common that it?s never actually happened before), that one guy can claim 22 Olympic medals to his name. In fact,
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Posted August 1, 2012
Feet pounding pavement.? Arms pumping back and forth. Buckets of sweat. Steely determination. This isn?t some scene from the London Olympics; this was me last night as I ran down my suburban street. I may have run over a dog turd or two, but I felt like a freaking champion. As of Friday, the 2012
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Posted July 25, 2012
You know how football teams dump tubs of Gatorade over their coach at the end of a winning game? You should probably follow suit and dump all yours out immediately. According to a joint investigation by BBC Panorama and the British Medical Journal, there is very little evidence that sports drinks actually improve athletic performance.
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Posted July 18, 2012
Warning: Don?t read this sitting down. Oh, and if happen to be watching ?Breaking Bad? at the moment, turn off the tube. You?re killing yourself and you don?t even know it. According to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal Open, sitting down and watching TV reduces life expectancy in the US of
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Posted July 11, 2012
In less than three weeks, the 2012 Summer Olympics will be in full swing. Millions will watch as mega-athletes from 200 different countries bring it on in sporting events as diverse as archery, volleyball, fencing, cycling, and weightlifting. An estimated 10,500 will compete in 302 different events. If you?re at all into athletics, get ready
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Posted July 5, 2012
There?s a lot to think about returning home from vacation. On top of unpacking sand-covered clothes and cleaning up cat piss, there?s a little business I like to refer to as ?post-vacation detox.? After a week of lying around and eating disgusting amounts of mozzarella sticks and burgers, your body is bound to be in
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Posted June 27, 2012
A couple weeks ago, I wrote an article called Build a Beach-Worthy Body Before It?s Too Late in which I espoused the benefits of working out and eating healthy in maintaining a muffin top-free physique. This week I?ve attempted to put those same principles into action during an actual vacation. I?m writing this article from
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Posted June 13, 2012
Visiting the beach is one of summer?s greatest pleasures. The combination of sun, sand and scantily clad women just can?t be beat. Everything seems perfect, that is until you take off your shirt and expose your beer belly to a bunch of unsuspecting vacationers. While the beach might be a great place to lie down
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Posted June 4, 2012
Well, folks. Summer is here. Which means that grill better have all the cobwebs cleared out of it, and you better have already head to the store to buy some lighter fluid and charcoal, and you better get ready for another season full of grilling like a crazy man outside. But maybe your grill, as
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Posted May 30, 2012
Ask my girlfriend and she?ll tell you I?m anything but a chef. I have a hard time frying bacon in the morning without scorching the pan and smoking up the entire kitchen. Despite my lack of culinary skills, however, I still try my damndest to eat meals at home as often as possible. Not only
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