Friday Link Love
How did Friday creep up on us so fast? This week it was like a tiger in the high grass, out of sight until it pounced out of no where. Well, consequently here are our Friday links, lovingly posted so as to not only guide you guys to the best of the web, but to also give respect to the people out there crafting high quality material for the rest of us to read. So click on over, and enjoy!
Third Week Slump: The Hardest Part of the Workout
I see it over and over and over again. Scores of people line up to begin a health and fitness challenge. Whether it's acting on a New Year's Resolution at the beginning of January or a sudden resolve to undertake the Insanity Workout, people get fired up, impatient, determined to get radical results today. They can't wait, they've got the fever, they need to start as badly as drowning people need to breath. But then, a few weeks later, they're done. Stop cold. Endless number of people go through this pattern. So what's going on?
Do You Know What You’re Eating?
t's hard not to think we're sliding into a nutrition-version of 1984. I saw Food Inc this weekend. Shocked and angered me. I've been learning a lot about nutrition and what's healthy and what's not over the past, year, so I don't consider myself a newbie when it comes to these issues, but to see everything put together so lucidly and for the facts to be stated so blunty was a frightening eye opener.
Friday Link Love
Another Friday, and another batch of incredible posts from around the web. You're going to start seeing that I post stuff from a bunch of usual suspects, blogs that I go to regularly in order to catch some enlightenment, learn some new tricks or simply enjoy that blogger's sense of humor. Here's what particularly caught my eye this week.
Sledgehammers: Extreme Exercise # 1
We're going to be kicking off a series of articles here on the Extreme Fitness Results Blog examining the world of extreme exercises. While many people throw themselves into P90X or the Insanity Workout, there's a whole slew of others who like to get Rocky Balboa on their workouts and try a variety of intense exercises. Over the next few weeks we're going to examine a number of these off-the-beaten track workouts, and evaluate whether they're worth considering. Today we're going to kick off by looking at a very cool exercise: the sledgehammer Tabata. It's cool because you get to swing a sledgehammer around, and if you're a boy, that's like returning to be a nine year old. If you're a girl? I don't know. Do girls like swinging sledgehammers around? Probably! That's just how awesome sledgehammers are.
Free Shakeology Giveaway: Enter Your Favorite/Craziest Recipe to Win!
Where you guys aware that Shakeology is rapidly becoming one of the most successful supplements out there? (Is it even a supplement? It's actually a full meal replacement!) To celebrate this rising in popularity, and the general excitement this product is generating across the nation (we're not making this up, we get amazing feedback here at EFR almost every day), we want to do a Shakeology giveaway to spur people to share their favorite recipes--and their craziest ones.