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Hey folks, Paul here. I hope Tobias doesn’t mind me poking my head in and posting this.
A lot of us geeks are solitary animals who spend copious amounts of time alone in front of our computers. Not only does this contribute to our overall midriff expansion and late night pizza binges, we also have to [...]

This Friday’s recipe of the week is a curried chicken salad. It is snagged from the zone perfect site, where you can find many more easy to print out recipes that use complex carbs balanced out with good amounts of protein.
Here’s an exotic twist to spice up the usual boring chicken salad. A quick and [...]

Bodybuilding Legend David Draper takes a look at frequency of workout in his latest weekly column:
Some things you can’t abbreviate, rush or combine. Time takes time. Healthy musclebuilding, like birth, can’t be accelerated. The process moves along at its natural designated pace. You just apply the physics and go, little darlin’.
One day a week at [...]

At BodyBuilding.com Justin Hager tells his story about becoming obsessed with cardio and his failing to eat properly, dropping him down to a dangerous 3.6% bodyfat and how it affected his life.
He follows the story through his bulking back up with muscle and adding some good bodyfat to sit around a healthy (for guys) 12% [...]

More information about Body For Life and general fitness than you can shake a protein shake mixing stick at can be found at Hussman Fitness.
Spend an afternoon reading everything Hussman has to offer, and you’ll certainly be well educated on many of the concepts needed for an effective weightloss routine.

One of the oldest myths in health and fitness is that women should not engage in resistance training (weight lifting) because it will bulk them up.
As a result, fitness for women focuses on cardiovascular health. A lot of it on running.
The truth is actually that weight training creates toned and fit women. About.com has 10 [...]

For those interested in tracking every single calorie, here is Caltrac. This amped up device looks like a pedometer, but tracks your activity on lots of other levels as well. It’s actually an accelerometer, and can help you distinguish between running calories burned and walking calories burned. It also claims to track calories burned while [...]

Science Fiction author Nick Sagan (yes, son of THAT Sagan), talks about how tracking the caloric content of the food he ate drastically changed his habits, as well as what he thought was healthy:
Once I started counting calories, I found that I’d been making some ridiculously bad food choices. Take the caesar salad. Six weeks [...]

Usually on Fridays we post a ‘recipe of the week.’
Last Friday we missed putting one up, so here is our ‘recipe of last week’ from Bondpiano.com, and it’s a lasagna recipe that sounds great.
Scroll down for the low fat high protein lasagna recipe, about which the website owner says:
The only thing I don’t [...]

No matter what kind of software platform you exist on, you probably will be able to use Health Engage. Available for Mac, Win, Linux, Palm, and PocketPC, this diet and exercise software looks simple to use and it’s multiplatform nature makes it very appealing.