Ever notice how some of the “regulars” at the gym never seem to improve?  They come in, sometimes daily, and like clockwork go through their workout routine exactly the way every time.  Sure, they’re working hard and they really do work up a sweat.  They just never seem to build any muscle or drop any fat.  Ever wonder why that …

I recently purchased a Polar F11 fitness monitor and it’s totally changed my workouts!  This wrist unit not only keeps track of my heart rate (which is an indication of how hard you’re pushing yourself), it estimates the number of calories I’ve burned during the session. The best part is that I can upload all of that information to a …

Did you know that up to 75% of cancer deaths in the US can be prevented?  According to a recent issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch, there are a lot of things that you can do to reduce your chance of getting cancer.  That’s right – you have a tremendous amount of control over your chances of getting the “Big …

If you’ve been watching the evening news lately, then you know that the lead story for a couple of days has been the epidemic of swine flu that’s hit Mexico and is moving into the US. Although a case of the flu isn’t that big a deal for most healthy adults, this disease tends to hit children and the elderly …

I was pretty busy last week.  I had ordered a brand new weight bench from Amazon.com and it finally arrived at my front door.  I opened the box and quickly found that this was going to be a “some assembly required” type of project.  No problem.  I took out my tools and got to work. After about 40 minutes, I …

Sometimes you wake up with it and sometimes you can feel it building inside of your head – that throbbing, dull ache inside of your head that makes it difficult to concentrate on anything else.  You’ve got a headache. Medical practitioners usually classify headaches into two categories.  The first category,  primary headaches, are those headaches that are not caused by …