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I honestly don’t really care much about cycling or anything related to the sport. Just wanted to state that from the beginning. However, I am aware of the fame and iconic status that has been achieved by Lance Armstrong over the years. His dominance in his sport along with over coming cancer sure made for the perfect fairy tale story. Until now. 

Reports now claim that Lance Armstrong’s Team “ran the most sophisticated doping program ever.” A 1000 page report has come out that details how Lance not only used performance enhancing drugs, but also bullied his teammates into using them as well. The report further states how Armstrong paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for doping programmes. Nice work asshole. read more…

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Well I have finally gotten the go ahead to implement some of the changes to the gym that I have been dying to do. 

My first call was to change the paint. The urine yellow walls looked HORRIBLE. It also reminded me of my middle school in-school suspension room. 

To make matters worse, the gym wasn’t entirely yellow. There were a few random walls painted black, and there was a blue wall in there too. I have no idea who thought painting walls black in a small gym was a good idea, but it was def a dumb idea. 

My new color choice was a very light gray. I wanted to open the place up and make it look bright and clean. White would get too dirty, and gray would be a nice neutral to go with the purple upholstery on the equipment. During the painting process I also began to remove a ton of the pointless and tacky signs that were posted all over the gym. There were advertisements for products that weren’t even carried in house. 

And who can forget all the tacky looking photos that wrapped the ENTIRE gym. Definite overkill. There should be small sections of photos, but to try to cover the entire gym was a horrible move. It also made the walls look much shorter to the ceiling which in turn made the gym look much smaller. 

Here are a few comparison photos…. read more…

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Common Sense…..Patience……Hard Work. Three things that are seeming to become lost virtues. I am not entirely sure how this society has lost its way, but I am sure that we have lost our way. The answer to everything seems to be the quick fix with minimal effort. These feelings of mine apply to many areas of life and society, but for obvious purposes, I will stick to things health and fitness related. Shall we ?

Common Sense. Everyone is over worked (yet still mostly unproductive), under rested, and horribly fed. Everything is quick and on the run. Cheap and fast food is the answer. Who has time for home cooked meals made with healthy ingredients ? Well here’s a secret, sacrificing when it comes to the human body is seldom a smart move. Its so odd to me how a seemingly common sense thing is so overlooked. You only get one body. It isn’t a pair of shoes, or a car where you can just buy a new one. There are serious repercussions for neglecting your body. People eat like slobs, dont exercise, drink more soda and beer than water and are surprised when their body fails them. Then in a last ditched effort, they rush to try and repair years worth of damage overnight….with NO effort of course. 

What amazes me is how naive people can be. Naive in the fact that as they reach their 30′s they feel they can continue the poor habits of their teens and early 20′s. Come on, some of this stuff is hard science, but this certainly isn’t. Known fact, as you age you have to treat your body with more care it will deteriorate at an accelerated pace. read more…

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Consistency counts and slow and steady always wins the race. Display patience as you witness others rise more quickly, but fall just as fast. Why be but a flare, when you can strive to be the Sun ? Its the last man standing strategy. In the end, the last man standing is all that matters, correct ?

- Ryan Sullivan. Sci-Unison Fitness

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Day 8

Getting even better. Things were scabbing up. Swelling down even more. 

Day 10

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Day 3

By day 3 the sheer size of the wound was known. As you can see as the venom spread it destroyed everything in its path. All the tiny bumps from the previous days had grown. Next the smaller bumps would all begin to attach to make one larger surface area. 

Day 4

I am not going to lie. On this day I was becoming a little worried. The wound looked very clean, but it just continued to look bigger. Alot of this had to do with the fact that I didnt have a cone on Kho. The pastes weren’t staying on long enough. Day 4 was the day I added the cone to the repertoire. Trust me, add the cone to yours ASAP. 

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On Tuesday 11/22/2011 I had a client to train from 9-10 am. When I came home this is what I walked into….

At first I had no idea what had happened to my black Lab Kho. At first I thought she had some sort of fight with my other dog Jade. But that would never happen, nor did it look like a wound.

As you can see from the photo there were oozing red bumps all over her snout. I began looking on the Internet and bumped into Two Little Bursons blog. After seeing this blog I was 100 % sure that Kho had been bitten by a similar poisonous spider, possibly even a Hobo or Brown Recluse. 

After an entire day of researching, I came up with a plan. This plan did NOT include taking Kho to the vet. This is a decision that each individual dog owner must make. My choice was to go the natural and holistic route. Many forums mentioned that the vet would only provide an antibiotic and a steroidal treatment to help inflammation. None of these treatments do anything to address the spread of venom. 

For the first day I cleaned the wound every 2-3 hours with peroxide. 

I also decided to change her diet up. The diet was to be geared for maximum immune system support coupled with natural antibiotics. 

The diet consisted of the following: read more…

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As the obesity rates in the country continue to rise, it is now apparent that no age group is safe. A newly published study of 16,400 children born in the United States in 2001 shows that 31.9 % of 9-month old babies and 34.3% of 2-year olds were obese or at risk for becoming obese. 

The study can be found in the January/February issue of American Journal of Health Promotion. 

Male children were at a greater risk than female children. 

The scary thing is that this was based on children born in 2001. The United States has become a much fatter country since then. Start one of these studies in 2012, and I am sure these numbers will climb. Sad, Sad. We are in a country where not only do adults neglect their body and health; they are now doing the same to their off-spring. 

Proper nutrition and good health should trump all ! It possess much more value than any of the material things people seem to fixate on. Lead by example and don’t be a such fat ass, you may be teaching your children to follow in your heavy footsteps. 

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Results from a study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggest that repeated max-intensity sprints yield better fat loss results than longer duration, low-moderate intensity cardio. 

There were 20 particpants who were split into two groups. 

Each group ran 3 times a week for 6 weeks. 

Group 1 performed max intensity sprints. 30 seconds in duration, 6 sprints per session, 4 minute rest between srpints. 

Group 2 ran for 30-60 minutes at 65% intensity. 

At the end of the 6 week  study, read more…

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From the 8th annual F as in FAT: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011 report by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

States with the highest adult obesity rates: read more…