Men's Health Magazine

President Obama is on the cover of the October Men's Health magazine. My husband purchased this issue and there are a lot of interesting articles in this magazine. I was quite surprised by all the content. It is definitely worth getting a subscription.

Some idiot wrote that President Obama should not be on the cover because he isn't healthy. Their belief is that since he smokes he cannot be healthy. As if smoking is the only method of measuring someone's healthy!

Hilarious Shake Weight Exercise for Women Video

Every time I think I’ve seen it all, a new ridiculous fitness gadget comes out on the market. Now there is the Shake Weight! I don’t even know where to start with this one. When I first saw this I didn’t think it was real. I thought it was a joke and a skit from SNL. If someone thinks they will get toned arms using this gadget, then I don’t know what to think. The website states the following “get strong, sexy, sculpted arms”. Whatever! The website also states “An Independent Scientific Study shows that the Shake Weight™ causes over 300% more EMG activity than the traditional dumbbells of the same weight”. Do most people even know what EMG (electromyogram) activity is, and who funded this independent study?
Perhaps this device might be useful for someone who is bedridden! Why not just us free weights? What's interesting is that the ads show women with toned and muscular arms using the Shake Weight. Do people really think they got those arms by using this device?
All I can say is don't waste your money. Why not just pick a bottle of Coke and shake it? Afterall, that may be more useful than drinking it!

Stability Ball Push Ups

On Saturday I did a circuit training workout that included things like box jumps, jump rope, mountain climbers, burpees, and stability ball push ups. Stability ball push ups are not easy and when I first started to do them earlier this year I could only do about 4, now I am happy to say that I can do 20 consecutive stability ball push ups. So there I was doing my circuit workout and I was doing it in one of the group training exercise rooms at my gym. There was another guy working out in the same area. Well, I noticed that he grabbed a stability ball and tried to do them. The poor guy could not do them. I kinda wanted to go to him and tell him to first start with the ball against a wall, but I didn't because I don't really offer advice at the gym unless someone asks me. It sort of irritates me when people give me advice at the gym and for the most part they tell me crap. Like one day this guy told me not to do step ups because I could get injured? Basically you can get injured doing almost any exercise if you don't do it properly!

I've attached a link to how a stability ball push up should be done correctly, click on the title above to view, enjoy!

Are you Loving it?

I continue to hear over and over again that eating healthily is too expensive and many people do not eat healthily because it is too expensive. This woman wrote the following comment on a website “I believe one of the reasons so many Americans are overweight has a lot to do with the high cost of eating healthy. The average hard working American cannot afford to go to the grocery store and buy Meats, Vegetables, and Fruits.” This woman claimed that she would go to McDonalds and get 2 double cheeseburgers and feed a family of five for $10. Okay, I have not been to McDonalds in like forever, but since when can you feed a family of five with 2 cheeseburgers? All I remember about McDonalds is that their burgers were not that big and definitely did not look like those in the McDonalds commercials.
Personally I went to Safeway last week and chicken breasts (okay it was not free range chicken) were $1.99 a pound, so I got about 3 pounds of chicken for about $6.00. Do you realize how many meals 3 pounds of chicken can make? I can buy an entire cabbage for less than $2.00 and it will serve several meals. In my opinion, if you were to give people a choice of free food and one choice was a healthy meal and the other was junk food, they would choose the junk food. If the choice was fruit over a bag of chips most American’s would choose the bag of chips. When are people going to stop making excuses? The fact is Americans like junk food and that is what they eat! I was buying blueberry yogurt yesterday and the cashier said to me, “blueberries and suppose to be good for you but I don’t like them because they don’t have a taste”! My thought was what the hell is wrong with your taste buds – Nuff Said!

Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life

I’ve been reading this book Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life by Dr. Wayne Dyer. This book is an application of the Tao Te Ching. Many scholars consider this book to be “the ultimate discourse on the nature of existence”. Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life is an interesting book but it’s one of those books that you have to read slowly, the chapters (called verses)are extremely short, so it sort of forces you to read one chapter at a time. In the 9th verse, the author states the following “come to grips with the radical concept of ‘enough is enough’. Make this commitment even though you live in a world addicted to the idea that on one can never have enough of anything. The obesity crisis in the Western world, particularly in America, is a direct result of not understanding (and living) this concept. Eat, but stop when you’re full – to continue stuffing food into a satiated body is to be trapped in believing that more of something is the cause of your happiness.”
This made me think to the many dinners, whether it was Thanksgiving, Christmas etc when there was so much food that by the end of the night you eat so much that you are stuffed. I know I’ve done it and I don’t like the feeling of being too full. Eating too much makes me lethargic.

One way to tell if you’re eating correct food portion sizes is to use your fists as a guide to measurement. Your stomach is about the size of your fist and this is the amount of food to eat at each meal.

Anti-Fat Ad

Apparently there is lots of controversy about this ad that's posted all over NY city. I see no problem with it but I am very anti-soda so it should be no surprise!