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Body Hacking: Stronger and Leaner in 20 Minutes A Week

I’ve gotten marginally stronger and lowered my body fat by working out 20 minutes a week for the past 2 months. As someone who trained 5 days a week during high school and college, this self experiment has been pretty mind-blowing.   The genesis of this experiment came from an excellent book on fitness and reaching your [...]

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Things You Might Want to Know for Tough Mudder

I did my first Tough Mudder event in the Poconos this weekend with my buddies Derek and Mark. It was awesome. I have a lot of friends who seem interested so I thought it’d be useful to highlight things which I would have liked to know going into the event. Training Dude 12 miles!? – [...]

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Weeklongs 7 | Meals Are Not A CheckBox

This post is part of my Weeklongs Project. This week was about letting internal signals direct eating instead of external cues. As an undersized college football player, I ate constantly. My 5’10 frame was not going to stop me from trying to look like Lattimer from The Program. I didn’t stop eating when I was full and [...]

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Conserving Energy and Why I Have A Pushup Alarm Clock

This post originally appeared on LessDoing, a project of Ari Meisel, an entrepreneur and productivity geek who decided to share his knowledge of and experiments in efficiency. Ari is an Achievement Architect, helping individuals become more effective at everything. At SinglePlatform we do pushups on the hour every hour. I love this practice and the benefits extend beyond [...]

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