First off, some awesome news: You already have abs. OK, they might be small, they might not be very strong... ...but you have them all the same. How do I know? Because for over 30 years, I thought it was impossible for me to have six-pack abs. (Call it genetics, bad luck or whatever) Well, I [...]
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Ex-DEVGRU operator, Andy Stumpf, knows all about quitting. Put it this way: Only about 20% of BUD/S students actually make it through to become Navy SEALs.And the SEALs that then try to join DEVGRU (the Navy's elite counterterrorism unit)? [...]
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Let me take you back to 2002... Apple just released its second-gen iPod, and everyone was crowding movie theaters to watch Attack of the Clones and The Lord of the Rings. Nickelback, Nelly, and Avril Lavigne were playing in the background of every store you walked into. [...]
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Let's be honest: Fast food can be a fricking horror show. I mean, chow down on a Zaxby's Club Sandwich Meal... [...]
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Now Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary isn't what you'd call sensitive... His go-to response if you turn down an investment offer? You're dead to me But there's a heck of a story behind all that bravado. In 1986, he used a $10,000 loan to start SoftKey Software Products... ...which he sold to Mattel for $4.2 billion just 13 years later. Ker-ching. [...]
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Look, I'm almost too embarrassed to admit it... ...but over the past few months, I've had first-hand experience of how weight creeps up. Yep, I'm looking at 15-20 pounds of weight gain since last summer. Now, this was very different to my insane weight-gain experiment back in 2014. (That's when I piled on 55 lbs in just over a year, then lost 61 lbs [...]
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OK, I know it sounds crazy but... ...you can have some of your BEST EVER workouts when you're sick. Even though the typical advice about working out with a cold is: • Anything above the neck (e.g. a runny nose) = go light/easy • Anything below the neck (e.g. a hacking cough) = forget it But here's the problem: There are [...]
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OK, we hear stuff like this all the time: • I’m over 40 and can’t lose weight • My metabolism has slowed right down • Whatever I eat turns to fat So, it sounds like a done deal, right? Middle age = Inevitable weight gain But here's the great news: That's just plain WRONG! (Take it [...]
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Confession: I'm no more disciplined or motivated than anybody else. But there are a few tricks I use that work like gangbusters. That's how I went from barely being able to stand up on cross country skis... ...to completing a 10-km/6-mile event only 13 days later. (Sure, I came home in last place, but it was an absolute [...]
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So, who's the toughest person you know? Maybe it's an Ironman triathlete, a Navy SEAL or an MMA fighter. Guys that regularly push themselves beyond what most folks would consider impossible. But the "marathon monks" from Japan's Mount Hiei operate on a whole different level. Put it this way, marathon runners that have tried to keep [...]
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