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Yeah I've heard many times that a glass of red wine a night can have some health benefits.

True, but sober I can at least restrain myself to about half a box.

I've learned never to comment on a woman's weight. Never seems to end well.

I came home after drinking a few beers with friends and then ate a whole box of girl scout cookies. I really need to stop drinking.

I won't do yoga around other people. It feels like I'm trying to put myself into the most uncomfortable positions possible and I can't imagine it looks any better. I imagine the eye candy in yoga classes is unreal though.

Well they're all a little different. The yoga and pilates workouts should be obvious. The cardio based workouts you could log as high impact aerobics or circuit training. If you write down your reps in The Challenge you can just enter in the total number of push ups and pull ups.

If you get the hibachi just go easy on the rice and focus on the meats and veggies. At the Italian place just look for a dish with meat and veggies and try to avoid pasta.

Everybody needs to read this post. I wish everyone would stop saying it's impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. While that phrase is partially correct, it is possible to gain muscle and lose fat over the course of a week/month/year because the two don't happen simultaneously. Feel free to google "body…

I used to log it as high impact aerobics, but if you want a more accurate calorie count you'll probably want a heart rate monitor.

You don't need it if you can meet your protein and calorie goals through regular food. As for me, I just like the way they taste and generally have one post workout.

I lost 3 lbs since yesterday. What happened? Answer: It doesn't matter. I'm pretty sure I didn't burn 10,000 calories in my workout yesterday, I don't feel dehydrated and I've been drinking water all day, it could have been the bowel movement I had earlier, my pants don't fit any different though. I know this is easier…

Very true. I suppose you can ask them about their qualifications or their knowledge on certain subjects. You can watch them train other people to see if you like their style and if they are instructing people with proper form. You can go by word of mouth, ask your friends if they have any trainers they could recommend. Ask…

Building muscle will help you burn more calories over time, but it's very small. 1 lb of muscle burns about 5-6 calories per day at rest. 1 lb of fat burns about 2 (per the interwebz). So you can gain 10 lbs of muscle but you're only burning another 50-60 calories a day.

Personally I'd rather have someone more knowledgeable and motivating than someone with good genetics who knows nothing. How someone looks isn't always related to their level of fitness or knowledge.

I finished in about 35 minutes, which was way faster than I thought I would. The adrenaline I got during my first race pushed me a lot harder than just running on a treadmill or around my neighborhood. It's my competitive nature, I knew I wouldn't win but I wanted to finish before as many other people as I could.

This! Compound lifts are where it's at. Ideally you want to work your way up to free weights and do things like squats, deadlifts, bench press, and rows. If you're only comfortable on machines so far you can try the chest press, shoulder press, lateral pull, seated row, and leg press. Start with compound lifts like these…

I'd say overall fitness would incorporate strength, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, speed, balance, etc. Lifting is good for strength and aesthetics. Most people seem to be only concerned with the aesthetics part so I'd say that is partly true. How much cardio you do depends on your goals. Body builders are only…

Wait, who says all smoothies are bad? That's kind of a blanket statement, there's a million different ways to make a smoothie. If you buy a smoothie from a store and have no idea what's in it, chances are it's a lot worse for you than you think because they'll add a bunch of crap to make it taste better. Smoothies are only…

It gets people off their butts and doing something healthy, why is that silly? Yeah it's a fad, but that doesn't mean it won't get people into shape.

If you start off too fast you'll probably get sore and it will just slow you down. And lifting the same muscles heavy too often will do you no good except to burn calories. Like everyone else said you can use your off days to work on your flexibility or do some cardio.

It works great for a whole body workout, it's more designed to increase your core strength, cardiovascular endurance, strength, flexibility, balance, and agility than to just make you look more toned. If that's all you want then I'd suggest lifting weights. I started seeing some results within a couple weeks, but it's gone…

What are your goals here? In my opinion rest is more important than your actual workout if you are trying to build muscle or get stronger, because your muscles recover and grow on your off days. If you're just trying to burn more calories I'd suggest a different program where you can lift every day and alternate muscle…

I'm a little bitter they want to charge $3 for the Android app. I thought I paid enough for the DVDs, the least they could do is make the app free.

I'm sure there are, but that doesn't mean he is. Most of his facts were spot on, I'd just question what his definition of "clean eating" is since he never really said. He seemed to focus a lot on sugar, which I never thought of as "dirty" since it occurs naturally in nature in sugar cane, sugar beets, etc. But either way,…

If I read that right, the guy who wrote that is 18 and doesn't appear to have much of an education in nutrition or anything like that, just an eating disorder. And he admits he has a tendency to take things to extremes. He ate too little and exercised too much, I don't see what that really has to do with clean eating. He…

It gets tougher, if you want more cardio and core work I'd suggest switching to the lean schedule. Doing Ab-ripperX 3 times a week for 3 months will lose it's effectiveness after a while. PilatesX and Isometrix are both great core workouts, but you won't do them as much on the classic schedule as you will on the lean.

Worked great for me, I used to ride those things for like an hour. I'd set it to a somewhat difficult resistance and just watch tv and listen to music and I'd be soaked with sweat. Dropped a lot of weight, but that's about it. That's all my goals were at the time though.

In theory intervals will burn more calories because your heart rate will stay elevated for longer. I don't think it's a huge difference though. Personally, I do both. I wouldn't necessarily say one is better than the other because they're both beneficial.

The key to stronglifts (for me at least) was to add weight every week to force your to muscles adapt and work harder. In the past I used to just work out with the same weight all the time until I felt stronger and then I'd increase it a little, and I never really saw much of a strength gain.

Don't run 5 days in a row, it's too high impact and you're risking injury if you're not a seasoned runner. Run 2-4 times a week, or every other day max. if you want you can do a lower impact cardio on your off days like the elliptical or bike. Squats, deadlifts, and bench presses are great, but I'd throw in some barbell…