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Weslo Cadence 25 Review

I present to you- my new treadmill:

I got this bad boy at Big 5 Sporting Goods, on sale for $299, usually priced $399
I have to admit, Im pleasantly suprised. For being so cheap, it is suprisingly strudy and quiet.

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Mystery Box

I bought a treadmill yesterday. I did NOT buy it from Walmart, I got it from Big5 Sporting Goods, because I found one on sale for the same price. Its a different model, and hopefully the boy the will get it put together today, so I can give you guys a review of it.
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What the hell is a Kettlebell? Sarah Lurie’s Workout DVD

[By Merry]A product review? On Cranky Fitness?Yes, I know. I do product reviews about as often as I say something nice about… well, about pretty much anything. I made an exception in this case because I was intrigued by the name. What the hell is a k…

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I’ve Got a Fever, and the Only Perscription, is More Kettlebell

I love kettlebells.
You could imagine how happy I was to come home and find a big ol’ heavy box on my doorstep from GoFit.net.
Inside was Sarah Lurie’s The Dynamic Kettlebell Workout: a 15 pound kettlebell, and an accompanying DVD.

Kettlebells are great because they are all about functional movement. How often you find yourself actually needing [...]

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The Hundred Pushups Craze

It’s been a few years since I have tested myself, but at that point I managed 46 pushups nonstop. I doubt that I could do that right now, although I could probably get into the low 30s.
There’s a craze going around right now about doing 100 non-stop pushups. The craze was [...]

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POWERade Zero Mixed Berry Tastes Not So Great

This week we had two double header softball games in the wonderful heat and humidity that is Maryland. The first game was on Tuesday and the second was just yesterday, Thursday, and it was pretty warm on both days. Tuesday was far worse, with a combo hit of humidity and heat that really sapped our [...]

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What is the Body Bot?

I met Ryan Lee in August of 2007. He was a speaker at a conference that I attended, and the first night there he came into a small party we were having in a back room at the Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Austin. We chatted a little, and the next thing that [...]

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Ball Dynamics Pressure Points? Review

About a month or so ago I was in touch with a gentleman at Ball Dynamics, a Colorado based manufacturer and distributor of the FitBall® product line. They sell a variety of swiss balls and medicine balls and accessories, which should be a staple in any athlete’s home exercise equipment.
In exchange for this review, [...]

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Review » Kara Goucher Endurance Boost Workout

A little over a week ago, I was offered the opportunity to review one of Nike’s new workout mixes that you can load on your iPod and use to guide you through a workout. There was only one problem with this…I don’t have a working mp3 player, and never wear headphones when I’m working [...]

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The Checklist Generator rocks!

This weekend, I will be traveling down to the Atlanta, Georgia area. The main focus for the weekend will be taking the RRCA coaching certification course, which will then be followed by the second running of the ING Georgia Marathon. In order to get ready for the race, I started out by using [...]

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Isagenix Cleansing Program review

The following article was written by Pete Bottomley, the Director of Sales & Marketing at Coast of Maine Organic Products, Inc. Pete is a masters runner for Dirigo, R.C. and competes in mostly middle distance races in Southern Maine. He ran his first marathon this past April in Boston, and this past December [...]

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Renowned Diet Program All Online

Duke Diet - Get Your EvaluationDuke University’s Diet & Fitness Center is a world-class diet program that is located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Their popularity and reputation have led them into bringing their diet program onto the internet for people all over the world to join.

The Duke Diet & Fitness Online Weight Loss Program places importance on nutrition, fitness, behavioral health, and medical issues when it comes to a healthy life style. The program will help you perfect all four of these aspects. The program offers hundreds of recipes for nutritious, flavorful recipes for you to apply to your daily meals. The program is easy to follow since they organize your meal plans with everything from covering your daily nutrition to the recipe options you can choose from amongst their database. They can also help you to create your own healthy meal plan.

When it comes to weight loss, fitness is also very important. The Duke Diet program can act as your personal fitness adviser. Exercises such as stretching and cardio are implemented into their fitness program. All of the exercises are taught in the program, making it easy for beginners that have no idea what to do to start off their daily exercise routine.

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Behavioral health is very important when sticking to your diet. Many people have different reasons for their weight gain. The program will help you comprehend what steps you need to take in order to persevere in your weight loss goals, including tips on how you can reduce stress and maintain your positive thinking. There are several medical issues that are outlined in the program. When starting the program, you will already be on the road towards a healthier life style and minimizing your risk of certain diseases at the same time.

Where to Get It: The Duke Diet: Duke Diet & Fitness Online Weight Loss Program

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Weight Loss with Flavorful Foods

Sonoma Diet - See Results in 10 Days!One of the major problems these days with weight loss diets is that the foods that need to be eaten on a daily basis are usually bland. This is very important because some people fall out of their diet regime due to the fact that they crave tastier foods (which are usually high in calories and fat). When you eat tasty and flavorful food, you get satisfied without needing other foods to satisfy your cravings.

Low calorie and fat content does not always equal bland food. Which diet gives you this? The Sonoma Diet does just that. This diet puts emphasis on flavorful foods, flavorful foods that will help you stick to your diet because they taste great. The diet was written by the Connie Guttersen, PhD. The Sonoma Diet consists of several recipes that will teach you how to create flavor filled meals using fresh, healthy foods. The ingredients were inspired by the Mediterranean diet, which are foods that are healthy for your body, flavorful with few calories, helping you loose weight.

Sonoma Diet - See Results in 10 Days!

These foods are also filled with nutrients, helping you maintain a healthy body. The Sonoma Diet is mainly based on the Top Ten Power Foods. These power foods include tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, whole grain foods, almonds, blueberries, bell peppers, grapes, olive oil, and strawberries. These ingredients are incorporated into the diet’s meals. The Sonoma Diet is organized into five meals per day: breakfast, lunch, dinner, a snack, and dessert. By the end of the day, all of your meals will cover the nutrients and vitamins your body needs for that day.

The diet is also quite lenient because it allows you to have tasty, healthy snacks and desserts such as apple blueberry tarts. There are organized meal plans when you join that will help you loose weight starting on day one. There are also useful tools on the site such as a meal planner and shopping list that you can use. You can also take advantage of their online community for support and other success stories. Signing up is simple, all you need to do is submit your specifications (weight, target weight, gender, height and age), providing them specific details will help them find what will work best for you.

Where to Get It: The Sonoma Diet Plan Online

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5 Factor Diet Plan Review - Not Just for Celebrities

The 5 Factor Diet is an effective diet plan. It was created by Harley, a celebrity trainer who has worked with different celebrities such as Alicia Keys, Jessica Simpson, Kanye West, and Eva Mendes. Harley has brought his diet into an online program. His diet programs are highly beneficial to users who sign up because [...]

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2 Free Audio Workouts by Lance Armstrong and Chris Carmichael

Do you listen to your iPod when you are working out? If so, then I have some good news for you.
Personally, I do not use my mp3 player when I am working out because I am too worried that I would wind up dead if I buried my head in a set [...]

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Again to Carthage book review

My copy of Again to Carthage arrived this week, so I gave it a read through. It is a very different book than Once a Runner. You can read and enjoy Carthage without having read the first book, (which is good as it still costs in the hundreds of dollars,) and fans of [...]

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Jillian Michaels: Ultimate Cyborg Babe

Jillian Michaels, the raven haired tough gal who can kick my butt any day has a great site! The site is the perfect complimentary tool to aid you in your weight loss journey. If you need motivation, Jillian delivers. She is big on the mental strength aspect of physical change.
Jillian has put together a [...]

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How to train young athletes (Endure! Review)

Rick Karboviak believes that most high school running coaches in this country are training our kids incorrectly, and that it is hurting the sport. He believes that we need to do more to develop the next generation of runners, and provides some solutions and strategies to do so in his book, “Endure!”
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Nova Marathon Challenge

You may have read about the Nova Marathon Challenge at this year’s Boston Marathon. Tufts University coach Donald Megerle and 3-time Boston winner Uta Pippig took a dozen people off of the street and trained them for the marathon over a span of 9 months.
Throughout the entire process, one person who was diabetic sustained [...]

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The Liquid Vitamin Shop

When I first loaded Liquid Vitamin Shop, it wasn’t very difficult to see what it was that the company was selling. (Good Thing.) However, after that point, it all became incredibly cluttered.
The website itself seems as if it was built in 1997 and hasn’t been updated since, except for the products. As far [...]

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Inside the Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet (Episode 97)

Taking a closer look at the Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet
Hello and welcome back to another exciting episode of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” This is the Internet’s premier low-carb podcast online today and we have YOU to thank for that!
In Episode 97, our host Jimmy takes a look [...]

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About My Awesome Day At Georgia’s George L. Smith State Park - Georgia State Parks Review #1

I had an awesome day. I visited Georgia’s George L. Smith State Park - and I hiked more than 5.5 miles of trails. (Hiking might be a bit of an overstatement - but I did walk the more than 5.5 miles of trails and I had an awesome, awesome time.) I’ve uploaded [...]

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A Flask For Runners: The Body Bottle

A few weeks ago I was in dire need of a water bottle. I was reduced to using a regular cup for the time being. I have been wanting to get one of those big green Gatorade bottles that are used in college and NFL games, but have been too lazy to go buy [...]

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Heidi Diaz: Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya! (Episode 94)

Now it can be told: Lady on the left? Russian model. Lady on the right? Kimmer when she was slimmer!

Hello and welcome to the internet’s premiere low-carb podcast, the Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore!
In today’s episode, Jimmy takes a chronological look at the events — and the lies — that lead up [...]

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The Bad Fat Brothers Need a Spanking (Episode 93)

Introducing Sat and Trans: The Bad Fat Brothers. They are the AHA’s latest anti-fat propaganda monkeys!
Hello and welcome to the internet’s longest running and best beloved low-carb podcast; The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore!

In this week’s first episode, Jimmy introduces you to the perfectly awful Sat and Trans: The Bad Fat Brothers. [...]

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What is hornet juice, and how can it help athletic performance?

I was recently contacted by Rina Ward to sample and review Hornet Juice, a powdered drink that is supposed to boost athletic performance. For all of the buzz about Hornet Juice, I did not really know all that much about it. There are two websites that the company maintains. At HornetJuice.com, you [...]

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Free training for the Los Angelos Half Marathon

Lisa Sabin is a personal trainer, and she hired me to write about her program over at Konamoxt where she is offering to train people online for free to get them ready for the Las Vegas Half Marathon.
By joining this introductory program you get access to exclusive features, personalized training and support, tons of useful [...]

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Review: The Biggest Loser Club

This site is a one stop shop for viewers at home who want to experience NBC’s hit shows benefits. The web site is complete with a free profile which calculates your personal BMI (body mass index), a nice touch to assess and set your goal. To reap the full benefit you have to [...]

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Pisgah 50k Trail Race (2007) - Race Review

The Pisgah 50k Mountain Trail Race was this past Sunday, September 9, 2007. I really enjoyed the experience and will provide a few details about the race now that I’ve had a few days to think about the whole thing. The other day, I talked about what led up to the race and [...]

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Jimmy Dissects Blogger’s Disses Against Dieting (Episode 80)

Hello and welcome to episode 80 of the Internet’s hottest low-carb podcast, “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!”
Today, our host Jimmy picks apart the anti-weight loss rantings of the blogger known as “Ampersand.” He has come up with three theories why dieting for weight loss is for the birds, but we [...]

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The Role of the Obese In 21st Century Hollywood (Episode 78)

How’s Hollywood doing when depicting the overweight and obese?
Hello and welcome to Episode 78 of the Internet’s hottest low-carb lifestyle-based podcast, “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!”
Today, our host Jimmy looks at the two-sided issue of the depiction of obesity in Hollywood films. While it is a good thing (from our perspective) [...]

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Nutrition Bar Review: PowerBar Triple Threat Caramel Peanut Fusion

As part of my ‘calorie control’ diet, I’ve been eating one or two ‘nutrition bars’ a day. I like to eat one right before I workout and another later in the day, around 3PM. I’ve read several articles about just how “healthy” these bars really are, but I like them because I can [...]

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Is Dr. Caroline Cederquist Hypocritical Or Just Confused? (Episode 63)

Welcome to “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore”, the Internet’s most popular low-carb podcast (THANKS for your support)!
You may be forgiven if you developed the idea that ALL bariatric physicians endorse the healthy low-carb lifestyle. After all, our host Jimmy has spent the last SEVEN WEEKS bringing you interviews with many who [...]

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Big Bad Alli Will Court You, But Don’t Fall For It! (Episode 61)

What are the side effects of the obesity drug Alli?
In a world gone mad, one man stands alone: Jimmy Moore wants YOU to know the truth about Alli–the new FDA-approved first over-the-counter weight loss pill that is like an overly-needy girlfriend who serves you ex-lax brownies.
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Posh Spice Takes The ‘Skinny B*tch’ Diet For A Spin (Episode 55)

Could a famous singer REALLY send a diet book flying off the shelves?
Welcome to yet another episode of the Internet’s premiere low-carb podcast–it’s “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!”
Episode 55 is a very special occasion…Jimmy shares a book review he wrote about a year ago of what has now become a newly-repopularized [...]

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