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Giggling Baby

Part of the Friday Fun theme, for today a giggling baby video. Kinda infectious isn’t it?

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Is The Biggest Loser Realistic?

I was recently interviewed for an article in the NY Times about the television show “The Biggest Loser“. I was asked my opinion of the show and if I thought it was realistic or set people up for failure. I had some opinions of course, but you can read about that in the New York Times.

In the mean time, I’d like to ask you quite simply:

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If you have any thoughts on the Biggest Loser, please leave them in the comments below. As for the article, you can read my comments in the New York Times. It was also picked up by the entertainment section of MSN.

10 Ways To Make Your Halloween Environmentally-Friendly

Halloween (aka All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve) can be a great occasion. Of course, as with any major event there’s a bit of cleaning up involved the following morning.

Here are just a few of the ways (10, to be exact) you can make your Halloween more environmentally friendly, and spend more of that clean-up time in bed. Perfect.
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Incredible Upper Body Strength

This is an incredible example of the sort of upper body strength that is possible when the human body is worked and properly nourished. You can clearly see that this man does not have the traditional build of a bodybuilder, yet has the strength of one.

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This is the power of functional muscle, being able to use your body in a functional way. You the reader may not want to be able to do what he does, but at the very least, you can appreciate that he’s much stronger in a broader range of motions than Mr Olympia or Mr Universe.

Where bodybuilders can curl a dumbbell or barbell, or squat 700 pounds, this man is able to use his body in various ways that would probably cause the biggest to fail.

Functional muscle rules!

Of course, should have known, he’s a Cirque du Soleil member. His website is Dominic Lacasse

Thanks to The Fit Blog via MyBlogLog