“I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning; that’s an experience every girl should have.” – Ronda Rousey Pancakes rule. Lately, I’ve been eating one every morning. Since I was a... Read more
Hold The Phone, the New Pebble Tech is All About Fitness
Tech April 13, 2024
The company that beat Apple and Samsung to the SmartWatch game, by crowdfunding the first Pebble Watch in 2012, is doing it again. On Kickstarter, Pebble is funding not only one new watch, but two of them, and something totally new. We’ll come back to what that is. All... Read more
5 Lies We’re Told About Food Making us Fat
Diet April 11, 2024
First of all, can we all agree to stop using that word to describe people? Fat is a part of the body, an important one at that. It’s stored energy. We don’t call people who are musically inclined “ear,” do we? Alright, well maybe that guy is the one... Read more
This Back Combo Will Have You Pulling Cars
Fitness April 10, 2024
Strength can be attributed to many factors, but in the real world, it rarely has anything to do with how much weight we can push off our chests. It’s hard for dudes to hear, but the benchpress is not the ultimate measure of strength. Perceived strength comes down to... Read more
A year-long project by titans Google and Levi’s, Project Jacquard has produced a stylish denim jacket which looks nothing like you would expect from wearables. It looks like a denim jacket but does oh so much more. Project Jacquard is a collaboration between Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATP)... Read more
Jaybird has released the newest addition to their headphone lineup, called Freedom, and they are sweet. When Jaybird came out with the first version of the Freedom brand, released as the JB100 Freedom model, it was 2007. The Bluetooth market at the time was mostly monophonic or over-the-ear headphones.... Read more
Seems there is wearable news every day. Not all of it has applications in fitness, but some of it could totally change the way we workout. Here are three that could do just that if they can survive long enough to make it into the market. Our money is... Read more
Repeat the words, “I will not get bulky,” three times, every day. Then go lift some heavy weights so they can all wonder how you did that. A quick scan of the internets, and you’ll see there are plenty of advocates for women lifting. Sadly, much of the arguments... Read more
Get Stronger by Addressing These Deadlifting Mistakes
Fitness April 3, 2024
Often perceived as a men-only lift, the Deadlift is one of the most important, functional lifts you may not be doing incorrectly. Think about it. How many times are you lying on the flat of your back pushing heavy things, except in the bench press? When do you load... Read more
The Straight Dope on the Foods You Shouldn’t Eat
Diet April 3, 2024
Poor nutrients. They’re always on the short end of the stick. One decade it’s the fat, the next it’s the carbs, then it’s the sugar. Us humans seem to bounce from calories to nutrients, then back again, stopping long enough to blame sitting for all of our weight gains.... Read more
Phew, A Wearable To Fight Your Stinky Workout Undergarments
Tech March 29, 2024
Underwear isn’t surrendered much quarter by the body. They ride in the ground zero of bacterial stank, where we make some of our most pungent stank. Ew. Echoed often in articles on wearables is the concept that the future for wearables is invisibles. This... Read more
Thankfully, our minds are wired to run mostly on autopilot via our habits. Otherwise, we would constantly need to figure out electric toothbrushes, faucets, operating vehicles, getting dressed… life’s mundane moments. As our talents can also be our faults, like the super organized business leader who goes home and... Read more
I am uniquely qualified on this subject. As a personal trainer, working for Big Fitness, I was the king of supplement sales. Nobody beat me in this category. Despite how it sounds, it’s not something for which I’m proud. That trophy goes in the “I was young and needed... Read more
GPS Fitness Trackers Worth Owning Under $250
Tech March 25, 2024
Unless you want to run, cycle or swim with your smartphone, you have an only a few affordable options for tracking your activities via GPS. Affordable is a relative term with today’s technology. It comes down to what are you willing to pay to have what you want on... Read more
Pretty soon there’s going to be a wearable for everything. I’m not saying there will be a single wearable for each facet of our lives, but one tool that does everything. Until then, you only have one more tracker to wear if you want help avoiding skin cancer. Oh sure, you could... Read more
Why Your Gym Should Have the MYZONE Wearable Right Now
Tech March 23, 2024
In fact, if they don’t, you should just quit. You don’t need them anyway. Alright, let’s not be hasty, but you should talk to them. Maybe they’ll come around on this one. Just look how sexy it is. The MYZONE wearable, a chest strap called the MZ3, builds on... Read more
The once heated debate about strike zones for running has simmered to a back burner issue, but it has not gone away. In fact, the book that started it all, Born to Run is scheduled to be a movie starring Matthew McConaughey. There was bound to be a lapse... Read more
10 Surefire Weight Gainers for a Slim Budget
Diet March 20, 2024
Not everybody is trying to lose weight. In fact, in many ways trying to gain weight is an even harder battle to win. Not only is sympathy for weight gain woes very thin, the product line-up is even thinner. Oh sure, you can find weight gainers stacked in larger... Read more
Let’s face it, a calorie is not always a calorie. Sometimes they’re unicorns. For the uninitiated, the term calorie is a metric for energy. The calorie conversation is a little complicated by what we read online. There’s this pesky law of science, called the law of thermodynamics. There are actually... Read more
Blow Up Your Chest With This Combo Move
Fitness March 17, 2024
Having a well-sculpted chest is the secret wish of every gym rat, male or female, of any age. That said, having shoulders that still enjoy a full range of motion is the pipe dream of most us over forty. Can we have both? This guy looks to be holding up pretty... Read more