My face is pretty much back to normal after the “kettlebell incident” so I hit the gym and met the powerlifting team for a max effort bench press session. Here is the workout I did:
Arthritis is a life long condition, which means many people are searching for treatments that are more natural. Finding treatment that is non-toxic and you can use life long is tough. For those who cannot tolerate drugs ginger is an outstanding option.
Instead of antagonizing the stomach like many of the anti-inflammatory drugs do, ginger is used used to treat stomach upset.
Arthritis is a common ailment and sooner or later touches most of our lives. Since it is a chronic once you have it, it will not magically go away. With this in mind the question becomes, “How do you treat it life long?” There’s no question about it, long term drug use raises fear in most people. Drugs are expensive and there are unpredictable side effects.
Why ginger for arthritis?
Ginger can be taken in several forms, slices of the fresh rhizome, juiced or encapsulated dried powdered extracts.
When ginger is dried, its chemistry changes; in particular, the gingerols, which are abundant in the fresh rhizome, convert to the more pungent shogaols. These two classes of compounds have different properties, with shogaols having more powerful anti-inflammatory effects. With that in mind it would be wise to use more than one form of ginger and people with arthritis and other inflammatory conditions will get better results if they combine ginger juice and dried ginger capsules.
Ginger affects the production and action of a group of body response modulators called eicosanoids. Imbalances in eicosanoid production are at the root of many ailments, one of which is arthritis. Ginger helps to modulate this system in ways that reduce inflammation. Studies show that ginger may be as effective as some of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that are commonly used. However, the good news here is that ginger is not toxic AND it helps to protect the stomach lining instead of damaging it.
Juicing is an ideal way to help get your arthritis pain under control. You can read about the best stainless steel juicer here along with information about the popular breville juice fountain.
Rhinoplasty is the medical term for a nose job. It can be performed for cosmetic, functional, or reconstructive purposes. Dr. Vartanian shares his guideline for obtaining successful long-term rhinoplasty results based on his experience with over one-thousand nasal procedures.
1. Detailed preoperative analysis of the patient, her aesthetic goals, and anatomy of the nose and face.
2. Understanding what the patient wants.
3. Customizing each nose based on the patient’s aesthetic goals and what will suit the patient’s face.
4. Correction of nasal septal deviation.
5. Use of serial rasping to create smooth nasal dorsum (nasal bridge).
6. Use of gentle and careful dissection techniques to minimize bruising and tissue swelling.
7. Creating natural appearing contours.
8. Use of suture-fixation techniques.
9. Use of smallest osteotomes (instruments used to reposition the bones) to minimize bruising.
10. Maintaining the proper proportion of the nasal triangle.
Experience with both closed and open rhinoplasty can also help the surgeon select which approach will produce the best result for the patients. Once the patients desires are known, it is up to the surgeon to deliver those results for the patient. The aesthetic judgment of the surgeon is shared with the patient prior to surgery. The use of computer imaging programs can help in showing the patient what is possible. Saved digital images are used during surgery to remind the surgeon of the patient’s current and future desired nose.
About the Author
Dr. John Vartanian is a double board certified facial plastic surgeon with offices in the Los Angeles area (Beverly Hills & Glendale, CA). He specializes in rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, and facial aging reversal surgery and procedures. More info at: http://www.facial-plastic.com 520 E. Broadway Ave., Suite 200 Glendale, CA 91205 818.662.0600
Los Angeles Rhinoplasty Expert
We’ve got a ton of great content for you this week, so let’s get right into it!
Much like my three-part series on low back/core training a while back, we’re going to cover my basic thoughts and ideas on shoulder training over the next few weeks. This first piece outlines my basic philosophies on shoulder training, and lays the foundation for the upcoming pieces.
What kind of content do you want to read on my blog? Place your vote and let me know!
Want to see some killer legs? Look no further than this years Winter Olympic games. Learn what some of the best do to take their hip and thigh development to the next level.
Find out the mistakes I made when opening IFAST, as well as advice I would give anyone who wants to open a facility in the future.
Exercise of the Week: External Rotation on Knee
A simple exercise to develop strength around the shoulder and rotator cuff.
I’m off to California for the Cosgrove Business Seminar this weekend, so hopefully the weather there is a bit better than Indiana! Take care and have a great weekend.
Stay strong
MR
Robertson Training Systems LLC
9402 Uptown Dr., Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN
46256
US
I’m often asked why I carry a bag full of herbs around the world
with me. I drink a lot of tea throughout the day (anywhere from
5-15 cups). Tea to me isn’t an option, it’s part of my optimal
super-performance health plan.
I can do without my “tea program” for a few weeks, but then I start
to ebb in remaining at 100% peak work performance. Being 100% for
14 hour exercise marathons weeks in a row isn’t just a skill you
can develop with practice. You need to have the energy level high
enough to handle all of the various kinds of work tasks that you
need to complete.
You don’t always have your “deep” forebrain creative energy - the
kind of juice you need to generate exciting ideas, so I wave the
intensity of work throughout the day. For energy-intensive
exercise, filming, writing, R&D, teleconferences or presentations,
I “peak” my energy of the day toward those meetings. The rest of
the day, I may focus on less energy intensive tasks.
Sometimes travel, peaking for an event or photo shoot, does tax my
system, so the following assumes my normal (strong)
immuno-function. I don’t use any of these for illnesses, injuries
or staving off viruses. This is purely my performance menu: my
energy throughout the day in order to peak my flow and perform with
the optimal type of energy for the tasks throughout the day. You
should always consult your doc, and an endocrinologist if you’re
serious about a peak performance lifestyle like I am.
The following regards the most affordable and sufficient options.
If it’s sealed, I can usually carry it from one country to the next
without the beagles sniffing out my carry-on. These aren’t “garbage
sales” - they are good teas, just the economy versions. When I’m
dining with business associates or meetings, I’m all about the best
teas possible. Health and performance are my priorities.
1. Guayaki yerba mate: GOOD MORNING!
This is my wake-up call. My wife discovered it on her walk-about of
South America. It has the kick of coffee but without the crash.
This is my first drink of the morning, and it also aids in
encouraging full elimination because without any sweeteners, it has
some bitter to it (bitter is a taste which massages along
elimination.)
If you haven’t given up sweeteners, then deal with one teaspoon of
organic honey. (Any more than that and you’ll get a sugar crash -
and think it’s the tea.) I take this on the road in the form of
Guayaki’s new organic energy shot; or when not available, Steaz
energy shot.
Although caffeinated, it increases the ability to focus, unlike
coffee which can make you feel frenetic, and causes you to crash.
This tea has about 2% of the caffeine of regular coffee, and to put
that into perspective “decaf” coffee is about 10% the caffeine of
regular drip coffee.
It’s also useful to help me reset to a new time-zone when I have to
zip across the planet and lose a day, gain a day, forget what time
zone I’m in.
I never drink it after 3PM because I like to start winding down by
around 5PM. But sometimes, when I have a late-night deadline or
field drill with one of our units, I’ll throw down a cup (or in
extreme cases, a Guayaki energy shot) so I can concentrate and
continue. I usually like to be in bed by 10PM, but my crazy
international schedule doesn’t always permit.
2. Bija hoodia: Appetite control
When I’m having to train hard and restrict calories for a
photoshoot, I exchange my yerba mate for a cup of hoodia, since
it’s caffeinated. Hoodia is an appetite suppressor. It comes from a
plant similar to a cactus, and the Bushmen use it to travel long
distances when they need to get to the next food source.
For me, flipping between exercise and publishing tends to be
interesting. A cup of hoodia will get me to my meal with mental
alertness, so I can eat the proper amount in the optimal sequence
(the TACFIT 4 Day Diet food sequencing remains critical for keeping
my high energy levels throughout the day and for perfecting my
performance peaking schedule.)
Hoodia teas unfortunately are a little more expensive than others,
because people are really over-using them. I typically never have
more than 2-3 cups a day because it starts to cut into the hunger I
need for a solid, full meal. Energy is more important to me than
physique, but physique is an important part of my job since I’m
frequently on camera. So, use with care. This isn’t a substitute
for food; it’s just to buy you time until your meal.
3. Market Spice Cinnamon-Orange: Avoid the afternoon dip
This is a local favorite, but never handle a bag and then touch
your eyes! Straight out of Seattle, this caffeinated tea lifts me
up throughout the afternoon, with a rich, tangy flavor without any
sweeteners.
In the early afternoon, Market Spice is my tea of choice after
lunch. It aids in digestion because of the spices, and helps
circulation when my body starts to go into digestion food coma. My
body responds very keenly to optimizing my digestion. I can’t
afford to be on seista when I have a major teleconference that
afternoon.
I don’t drink it after 5PM because it’s quite the kicker.
Occasionally, I substitute it for my morning tea on a weekend at
the lake, when I won’t be doing anything but going for a swim or
hike through the woods on a crisp morning.
4. Celestial Seasonings–Bengal Spice: Decaf zing
Bengal spice is my decaf solution to Market Spice, if I’m feeling
the need for some spices late afternoon, or throughout the evening.
Fully decaf, I can down even two cups without turning my brain back
on and disrupting quality sleep.
Bengal spice gives me just enough of a tasty zing after dinner to
ward off any sweet cravings. Because I prefer peak living rather
than the temporary excitement of sweets, I avoid all sugar. Sugar
wreaks havoc on my work performance, and turns my photo-ready
6-pack into a basement-ready keg. [I was an "obese" kid, and with
diabetes in my family. I'm not taking any chances.]
Bengal spice is very inexpensive, and I’ll even throw in some
cinnamon sticks and a shot of rum for a night-cap after-dinner
drink with business associates.
5. Yogi fasting tea: Calm the tummy grumbles
When I really turn up the juice on my training, my belly may start
to growl around 9PM. That’s a good sign. Hunger means that residual
calories will be consumed. And I don’t need to eat until breakfast
when it counts!
This is a fasting tea, so it will quell the growling, but because
it’s decaf (truly decaf), it won’t keep me up late. Yogi fasting
tea is my choice after 7PM for staving off any potential cravings
for snacks.
Typically, little snacks of almonds, banana chips, mango strips or
dried pineapple is fine, but when I have a big photo shoot, even
those little calories wreak havoc on the camera. Yogi fasting tea
helps me calm down too, not as much as chamomile.
6. Celestial Seasonings–Chamomile: GOODNIGHT!
This is my “off-switch”. When I can finally cool-down my mental
hard-drive for the evening, I’ll sip on a cup while sharing stories
with friends.
Most people don’t understand that speech and thought are very
deliberate processes for me because of these learning disabilities
which I’ve transformed into a fleet of high-performance habits. If
I don’t turn off my brain at night, it just continues to
free-associate.
I am completely ready to turn off the lights after my evening
prayers and meditations. It also helps with digestion, so if I’m
traveling and have had a meal that is noisily defiant, then it
smoothes a salve of comfort and eases things along.
When I time all of my teas appropriately, I’m like a freak of
nature throughout the day. I love running from one task to the
next, because frankly, my vocation is my vacation. I feel blessed
to be able to make an incredible living helping people bring
greater flow into their lives. My Tactical Energy Aids (TEA)
comprise a key role in my success.
Scott Sonnon
The Flow Coach
PS - Fellow health and fitness author Mike Geary’s Fat Burning
Kitchen contains an entire chapter on the benefits of teas. It also
covers pretty much any subject you care to know about when it comes
to nutrition and your health.
We here at TACFIT Commando highly recommend it, and we even
approached Mike and got him to put the product on sale this week!
So you can grab it until midnight tonight (Thursday February 24th)
at 50% off!
Fat Burning Kitchen 50% off sale;— Don’t miss out.
Click here and grab yours today Please note that FBK is a digital product–there’s no physical book that ships with Mike’s FBK. I’m sure most of you caught that. But in case there’s been any uncertainty when we’ve recommended this product in the past, we’re sorry for any confusion. In any format it’s well worth the regular price. But at 50% off it’s a downright steal. You’ll see what we mean once you dig into it. You can grab it at the link below before midnight. => http://www.tacfitcommando.com/fatburningkitchen
How about that Canada vs. Russia hockey game last
night! That was a crazy beating if I’ve ever seen
one. Go Canada!
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed my previous running
video where we discussed 4 of the biggest
challenges standing in the way of many runners and
exercisers.
In that video, I also showed you (convincingly I
think) that interval training is by far the most
effective to train if you want to start running,
run faster and longer, and burn more fat.
I’ve just posted the NEWEST video in this series
and, in it, I’m going to show a lot of great tools
and strategies to help you create your own
interval running workouts as well as the
“anatomical” components of any good interval training
running workout.
Knowing these secrets will save you a lot of time
and create far better results in your runs (and
workouts in general)…much sooner.
This is a must see video!
Check it out here:
Have a great day!
Your friend and coach,
Yuri
P.S. Stay tuned for the incredible new Treadmill
Trainer programs that are coming your way in just
a few short weeks!
Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN
Owner and Founder
Total Wellness Consulting
Check out our other great programs to help you
live your healthiest, fittest, and most energetic life
ever!
I always say, “If you don’t get clear about YOUR VALUES, you’ll
spend your life as a slave to the values of others.”
Below is a *rant* by Mike Geary about why hes sick of people claiming
that they can’t eat healthy because “healthy food is too expensive”.
It’s clear to me that most people who make this claim have got their
values all screwed up and probably live lives of mindless entertainment,
as well as slaves to the values of pop culture, media and The Jones’.
He’ll show you just how ridiculous this claim of “too expensive” is below.
Before the rant… if you don’t already have a copy of Mike’s Fat Burning
Kitchen program, he’s having a HALF-off deal in celebration of his 34th
birthday that expires Thursday Feb 25th… so grab this killer deal today:
=> http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/Lean_Foods
**8 Reasons Why Healthy Food is NOT More Expensive
This is probably the biggest excuse I hear from people as to why they
don’t eat healthy… most people have a false impression that healthy
food too expensive. But I’ll show you just why this is absolutely ridiculous.
Generally, people complain that prices are too high for foods such as:
*organic free-range eggs vs standard supermarket eggs
*healthy grass-fed meats instead of standard unhealthy grain-fed meats
*organic produce vs conventional produce (there are some times when
this doesn’t matter, which I’ll talk about in an upcoming newsletter)
*cooking natural unprocessed meals vs fast food meals
Here are some things to consider:
1. People complain about the price of organic free range eggs that
are $3.50 per dozen. However, those same people will buy a $2.00 soda
EVERY DAY of the week, which is nothing but chemicals and high fructose
corn syrup.
The dozen eggs will give you several days worth of all of the B vitamins,
selenium, phosphorus, and dozens of other vitmins and minerals that you
need. The dozen eggs will also give you approximately 80-90 gms of some
of the most bio-available protein available. Plus there’s the healthy fats,
omega-3’s, lutein, and more.
I don’t care if eggs went up to $10.00/dozen… it would still be a bargain!
Why don’t more people just skip the $2.00 sodas that they drink each
day and put that $60.00/month towards healthy food instead?
2. People complain about the price of healthy foods vs just getting fast
food… meanwhile they pull up to the fast-food drive-in in their $50,000
car.
Where are the priorities? Obviously, this person is saying that their car
is more important to them than their health. For some reason, they can’t
seem to understand that their car isn’t gonna matter when they die of a
heart attack!
Why not drive around a cheaper car and use the extra funds to buy
healthier food?
3. People complain about the cost of healthy foods, so they resort to
eating cheap junk food… meanwhile they are spending $200 or more
per month on blood pressure drugs, type-2 diabetes drugs, etc.
Yet for some reason, they don’t seem to grasp the concept that eating
healthy can fully reverse their high blood pressure and type-2 diabetes.
Yes, fully reverse!
Why not put that $200 per month towards eating healthier and working
out instead of on drugs that have side effects and are draining their wallet?
Hmmm.
4. People complain about the cost of healthy foods, yet the horrendous
food supply and resulting poor health of the nation causes higher health
care costs for everybody. Where’s the REAL cost?
5. People complain about the cost of healthy foods, yet these same people
seem to be able to afford the fanciest new cell phones, ipods, laptops, big
screen TVs, and way too many cable TV stations to ever be able to watch.
I guess their priorities are saying that those electronics and watching 4 hours
of TV per day are more important than their health.
6. People complain about the cost of healthy foods, yet the pesticides,
chemical fertilizers, and other poor farming practices (such as factory farm
feedlot wastes) that go into producing unhealthy factory farm junk food end
up creating costly environmental cleanups (which can increase your taxes) and
deteriorate health.
7. People will balk at the price of a healthy grass-fed steak or organic
produce, but they will spend $100’s per month on cigarettes, and drinking
twenty $6 beers out at the bars every weekend.
8. And lastly, people tend to generally view food PRICE as the most important
aspect in choosing food, as opposed to food QUALITY. But this makes no
sense whatsoever.
I bet anything that many of those same people that choose food based on price
(instead of quality) choose their clothes based on quality, their electronics based
on quality, their cars based on quality, their homes based on quality, their jewelry
based on quality, etc, etc.
Once again…priorities! Why do so many people value quality on “material”
goods, but don’t value quality when choosing food, which is going to determine
their health, happiness, how good they look, and how long they live.
It’s absurd if you think about it.
Alright, rant over for today!
If you thought any of these items below were healthy, you’re going to be
SHOCKED about what you read inside our Fat Burning Kitchen program:
*Canola Oil, soybean oil, etc
*Whole grain breads or crackers
*Tofu or soymilk
*so-called “energy” drinks
*Protein bars
*Skim milk
*Rice cakes
*Sports drinks
*Low-carb “designer foods”
*Low-fat “designer foods”
ALL OF THEM ARE COMPLETE JUNK MAKING YOU FATTER!
You’ll see why inside our FBK program. Grab it today while you can still get
the Half price deal in celebration of my 34th Birthday:
http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/Lean_Foods
Eat Clean, Get Lean.
Elliott Hulse CSCS
What gets measured, gets managed”
Peter Drucker
Management Theorist,
Author of 31 books.
—-
In an ongoing series to motivate everyone to keep their goals at the forefront and continue to take action — here we are again… I know I’m starting to freak you out….
But it’s Feb 24th. The 55th day of 2010 … 15% of 2009 is gone forever.
15% of your New Years Resolutions should have already been checked off…
So exactly how are they looking now?
Are you on track with those New Years Resolutions? Are you on track with your goals?
If you wanted to lose 30lbs this year - are you down fifteen percent - or 4.5lbs already?
If your goal was to do 250 workouts - have you completed 37?
If you wanted to make $10,000 more this year — are you on track?
It’s amazing how time passes so quickly. Actually it’s almost scary…
Don’t waste a single second.
If your goal is fat loss - start today
If your goal is muscle building - start today
If your goal is (insert anything here) - start TODAY !
If you’re just a little behind — adjust your plan - make up for it!
15% of this year is gone forever.
I meet a lot of people in my job, and get a lot of questions via email. I’ll talk to guys who track every single macronutrient that passes their lips, and have tried just about every program out there. When I ask them how things are going — they’ll tell me that it’s great, or that the program is working well.
But rarely do they quantify anything. How many pounds of muscle gained? How much of a strength increase have you seen in real terms?
Very few people actually measure and take stock of their efforts. If you are following a plan to lose fat - are you actually losing fat? And I mean at a rate that is acceptable for your efforts? Or are you blindly following a plan that doesn’t work, and essentially ignoring that?
I know where my progress towards my goals stand because I measure it.
When I was in the hospital for a stem cell transplant - the medical team took measurements of temperature, blood pressure and blood samples every 4 hours. Even if it meant the middle of the night (really!) - they knew exactly where we were in relation to our goal every 4 hours.
When we implement a marketing campaign at the gym — we track the results. We know, for example, how many direct mail pieces we send out, the cost of each mailing, how many inquiries we get, how many appointments are made, and how many people join the gym as a result. We know exactly how effective the plan is, and whether the return we are seeing is worth the investment.
We can see that for $X invested, we receive a return of $Y. This is important as we have expanded our gym by another 30% last year and completely remodeled the facility (after doing the same in 2008!)
We need to know where our membership stands - how many inquiries, how many new members, renewals etc and when our busiest times are - everything is measured and tracked so we can continue to grow and serve our members.
If you remember “SMART” goal setting — one of the keys is ‘M’ - Measurable. Measure your results.
As we enter the second half of 2009, it’s time to take stock of your efforts. Has your current return been worth the investment?
Again — 15% of this year is gone forever. Will you make changes TODAY or will another three months pass, then another six — and before you know it — it’s 2011…..
Don’t waste a single second. Start TODAY.
Where will you be at the 30% point - April 20th? That’s 8 weeks away. Will you be 8 weeks leaner - down 8, or even 16lbs of fat?
Will your business demonstrate 8 weeks further growth - will you be 8 weeks closer to your goals?
The time will pass anyway….
–
AC
AlwynCosgrove.com
24420 Walnut street
Newhall, CA
91321
US
A few days ago we began this discussion about supplements and I’ve invited you to check out Jeff Anderson’s Homemade Supplements Secret’s e-book. (If you’re into supplements and saving moolah)Anyway, he mailed me this free 59 page report all about homemade supplements.
You can download it at the link below…
=> http://www.hulsestrength.com/page/supplements_report.html
Enjoy,
Elliott Hulse CSCS
Guess what? It hurts! Luckily my nose wasn’t broken, just bled all over the floor and is still kind sore and swollen. Believe it or not this is the first actual kettlebell injury I have ever had.
I was doing deck squats when I rolled back a bit too far and was about to hit our perfect little walls (we live in a high end condo), knowing my wife would have kicked my huge ass, I tried to recover and somehow let go of the kettlebell in the process. What with gravity and all the kettlebell dropped about a foot and hit me square on the nose!
Like I said, thank God my nose isn’t broken, that would be so ridiculous!
Anyways, if you want to post your stupid injuries below feel free to share. Here is the workout I did leading up to the infamous kettlebell nose incident:
As you know I love to post videos at the end of my posts. I felt it would be fitting to post a weight lifting accidents video in this case!
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