This is a recipe for a creamy seafood pate, or dip, which you can put on crackers, vegetables, or wedges of bread. You will need to get a brain mold, or some other kind of mold, to use to shape your pate. Makes a nice shrimp or crab flavored dip, which can be spooky as long as you use a spooky mold. There are a couple brain molds for sale on Amazon pretty much at all times.
Many beginner athletes start exercising to lose fat. They workout 4 or 5 times each week, for 30-60 minutes per session. After 6 weeks or so they evaluate their progress and realize that they weigh roughly the same weight, and their total body fat has only dropped 1-3%. Surely after all that exercise they would have made a profound impact on their body composition, losing inches and pounds of fat, right? WRONG!
Why You Will Not Lose Fat With Exercise Alone
Why? Your diet is responsible for 75-80% of your progress when trying to drop fat.
A study conducted by the University Of Kansas School Of Medicine reveals that Alzheimer's patients who exercise have larger brains than those who are out of shape.
About the Study
Of the 121 people in the study, all were over 60 years of age, and 57% of them already had Alzheimer's. The actual study itself involved fitness tests and brain scans.
Let me tell you about a recent conversation with one of my friends over IM. This guy used to lift with me back in college, but he is working on his own business right now and hasn't touched a weight in almost a year. So they guy goes out and gets a gym membership and starts training again last Monday.
This is how the conversation went down:
friend: my muscles hurt
friend: chest and tris are killing me
friend: i can barely move
friend: i didn't push that hard
friend: i just did as much as i could
friend: what can i do to recover faster?
My friend here is suffering from a little something called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, or DOMS.
Pull ups are hard, but they are one of the few true tests of strength. I say this because some powerlifters can bench 600 or squat 800, but they also weigh 300+ and can barely manage 5 pull ups. This is one of the few exercises where you can measure relative fitness by comparing the ratio of the number of pull ups completed to bodyweight.
Some of you might get mad at me, talking about powerlifters training for strength rather than endurance, but the fact of the matter is that when I was powerlifting I could still do 15 pull ups at 195 lbs.
Hardcore weight trainers eat a ton of protein in a day. OK, they don't eat a 'ton, but just now much protein do they eat? How much protein do you eat? How much is appropriate? Can one have too much of it? If so, what are the drawbacks? The ultimate question is: how much protein should I eat in a day?
As with how much fat to eat in a day and how many carbs to eat in a day, it all depends on a couple factors:
* age
* body size
* diet
* activity level
* lifestyle
The recommended amount of protein for a healthy adult is 0.
Arterial cholesterol is one of the top causes of cardiovascular disease and heart disease in the Americans. You need to know what it is and how to prevent cholesterol build-up as you grow older. Let us now examine the how, the why, the what, and the prevention strategies for maintaining good health.
While circulating blood cholesterol is important to know about, you can also gauge increased cholesterol levels my examining the molecules that transport the cholesterol to the cells.
Looking for something to take with you on the road, or a snack to munch at your desk? Forget about those awful Powerbars and other various soy bars. Granola bars are OK, but they do not have much protein. High quality protein bars are available at the store, but for $5 a pop! We are looking for something cheap and easy, and here it is. Do-it-yourself, homemade protein bars.
We know cardio is essential to improve the cardiovascular system. This goes without saying. When many people don't realize, is that cardiovascular exercise can be useful for losing weight as well as gaining weight; for increasing endurance as well as increasing power, size, and strength. The difference is in training energy systems. You can train your anaerobic energy system (builds power and strength) while participating in a cardio workout, just as easily as training you can train your aerobic energy system by performing super-high-rep circuit training on the weight machines (boo).
Steve Hanson has 10 years experience in the fields of exercise science and sports nutrition. He writes articles on all forms of athletic training and nutritional theories. View the blog to learn more about your favorite exercise and nutrition topics.
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