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Your Health and Your Time

Time’s running out! (photo: IMDB/20th Century Fox)

Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? (Matthew 6:28)

I just watched the movie In Time (2011) (IMDB/Netflix). This is a sci-fi thriller. “In a near future where aging stops at 25, time is the new currency and the wealthy […]

Are You Drinking Too Much Water During Exercise?

Photo by Klearchos Kapoutsis

It’s summertime in the northern hemisphere, and when the weather gets warmer, physically active people give more thought to staying hydrated, often using sports drinks to replace electrolytes (sodium, potassium, and other minerals) lost through sweat. At least, that has been the conventional wisdom for the past few decades. Over […]

Is Stretching Good for You?

In a recent Get Fit Guy Podcast titled How to Get More Flexible (transcript available on the page), host Ben Greenfield discusses the pros and cons of stretching, overstretching, and inflexibility. There are good reasons to use static stretches and dynamic stretches. For example, it’s a good idea to increase range of motion in the […]

P90X2 Day 86: P.A.P. Upper, Ben Greenfield Talks PAP

I was not optimistic about today’s workout, to be honest. I went to bed late, woke up an hour early and didn’t really get back to sleep before the alarm clock beeped. I got busy with some things before getting started, as the clock ticked away. So I rushed into P.A.P. Upper with barely enough […]

P90X2 Day 57: Recovery Week, Day 1

The schedule for a P90X2 recovery week is much easier than it was for P90X. As a reminder (or an introduction, for those unfamiliar with P90X), the old schedule was a combination of stretching, yoga, core training (called “Synergistics”), and cardio (in the form of Kenpo-style karate exercises). Each activity was on a different day, […]