“I should’ve just handed ‘em the keys to the house because they ended up driving me out anyway.” —Resident who walked away from a house infested with hobo spiders. Scientists are becoming interested in deadly spider venom for fighting human illness and as a bio-insecticide to protect crops. We kid you not; spiders known for [...]
Why do men need to be the biggest prick you’ve ever been with? Ooops. I meant to ask – Why do men need to possess the biggest prick you’ve ever played with? This conversation started with an email I recently received from one of my oldest best friends: “Okay…so I have an article I want [...]
Is this supplement really all that? With most talk centered around fat as being “bad”, it can be hard to conceive some kinds are actually good for you. Enter EFAs (essential fatty acids), so-called because the body requires them to survive but can’t synthesize them so needs a direct food source. Of all the fats [...]
They can be insistent but they always tell you the truth. Physically speaking, we’re still half ape-men (and -women), and no disrespect to the creationists who might’ve got their knee pain from dancing too on the head of a pin. Be that’s as may, we do still suffer from the consequences of an upright posture, [...]
Let Junior help you meet your fitness goals! (A guest health article by Gertrude.) The start of the new school year brings us the opportunity to incorporate changes into our daily routine. Bedtime is earlier, the morning more rushed, but even so, a few well-thought out tweaks to your day can add maximum mileage to [...]
If you don’t know what you’re getting into then you shouldn’t. “Killer” workouts, oh yeah. CrossFit, the intense strength and conditioning regimen around for a while and found nearly everywhere, is especially popular with the military and law enforcement-types. Just about every gym with space on the floor suddenly wants to have in. It’s the [...]
Or the Opposite for Success! As a trainer at a popular fitness facility I was amazed at how many frustrated people were stuck with fat burning routines and eating practices that lead to failure no matter how hard they tried. Even my clients would be searching incessantly for the next new program or supplement that was [...]
This’ll help you build lean muscle and burn the bodyfat! Here’s an easy way to ramp up burning bodyfat and build muscle at the same time to give you that “beach body look” just in time for, well, the middle of summer. (But others will envy you!) This is an intense technique that makes you [...]
You in for some dangerous but fast weight loss? It sure is popular, and some say it really works. But whether a miracle or a fraud, this plan means injecting yourself with HCG, a pregnancy hormone, while ingesting just 500 calories a day. Some are way convinced (we’ve talked to a few); but consensus has [...]
A guest fitness article by Gertrude for derriere aficionados Consider the butt. The butt is the most overlooked muscle in the body, yet one of the biggest and most important. If you have a good one, the rest of your body is not far behind—pun intended! I started thinking about the value of butts when [...]
Skipping This is Just Asking For Trouble A famous quote says, “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art”, but one of the things that makes it so hard are cravings! They can, in fact, be a game-ender. But new research shows how to tone them down—good!—because, as you probably know, [...]
You see them wasting their time all the time A lot of people in the gym really don’t have a clue (we all know the guy who’s been training for two years but still looks exactly the same as the day he started). Why? Mostly because they rely on “intuition” to guide their workouts. Good [...]
