Thank Lance Armstrong for setting back society’s already backward view of human growth hormone (HGH) last year when he admitted – finally – to taking them and became the new poster boy for cheaters the world over. Cycling and other professional sports leagues and their antiquated bans aside, most...
Like with any relationship, your time with a trainer has its ups and downs. There’s the honeymoon period: when everything that comes out of his or her mouth and body is gold and you seem to get in better shape by just thinking about your trainer. The midlife crisis phase – when you both start...
For you couch potatoes out there, this doesn’t mean what your dreams have finally come true. What it does mean is that sleeping is one the most critical factors to a healthy lifestyle and has to be an integral part of any fitness routine. The harder the workout, the more sheep you better count....
Sex and fitness make for common bedfellows. Getting good at one, usually makes you better at the other. How else do you explain a shared usage of so many verbs: thrusting, pumping, lunging, flexing, and squatting (we could go on but things would get a bit risqué). But while a healthy and active...
The French call it the “Little Death.” But most of us know it as “The Big O.” Its pursuit makes men act like dogs and it can lead a woman to purr like a cat. If we are honest, we’ll realize that much, if not most, of why we work so hard in the gym – to tone up are six-pack or tighten our bums –...
By now you’ve probably heard of Carb Cycling, although you might not know what it means (No, it’s not where carbohydrates take spin classes, and, no, it has nothing to do with the proper functioning of your car’s carburetor). In fact, Carb Cycling refers the practice (notice, we didn’t say diet,...
Since the Fen-Phen fiasco of the 1990s (in case you forgot, that’s where weight loss turned into life loss as a result of the deadly drug combination of fenfluramine/phentermine), weight loss supplements have been battling an uphill battle for legitimacy. But that hasn’t stopped us from scarfing...
There’s nothing like a good meal to make you hungry for some even better lovin’ (hold the references to sausage, bananas or melons, please!). The reason a night of wining and dining routinely leads to the horizontal mambo, is as much physiological as it is psychological. And if that sounds too...
Your job has you visiting more airports than an Air Marshal during an imminent threat alert and lately avoiding the Cinnabon stand at MIA’s Terminal H is getting harder than ever. You can only hold out so long. So what’s a busy traveler to do when hunger pangs threaten to end your fast food...
