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Goldilocks and the 3 Workouts

Posted by bmagnus On August - 5 - 20092 COMMENTS

After six months of weight training using a customized schedule of Chalene Johnson’s ChaLEAN Extreme, next week we will be changing over to the latest Beachbody product, Shawn T.’s Insanity. Reviews will follow once we have had a chance to properly evaluate it. As we prepare to update our own personal exercise routines, it seems like a good time to address workout intensity.

Just like in the children’s story, exercise routines can be too soft, too hard, or just right.

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Unblinding Me with Science

Posted by wmagnus On August - 3 - 2009Comments Off on Unblinding Me with Science

Sometimes morning blog reading brings several things together that don’t initially seem related. Initially I encountered a hatchet job on bioidentical hormones and HGH replacement over at MSNBC. I subsequently encounter this piece at Psychology Today that reiterates what anyone who has ever taken a philosophy class already knows: Logical fallacies lead to muddy thinking.

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