Have you ever had a conversation with another human being?

This is full of awesome. (I get annoyed when people say "actually" that way.)

That study didn't actually show that:

4 months to work up to 9 miles a week? That's 3 runs a week, of 3 miles each, maybe 45 minutes each run if you're slow. That's a very minimal level of training. If you had ramped up faster, you could have been getting the same 9-miles-a-week training benefit several months earlier. Why cheat yourself?

So, apologies to notmyname as it isn't my place to jump in, but dude, stop. You are not his/her personal trainer, doctor, or any other professional related to their life. Accept his/her life experience as they state it, especially as somebody on the internet. Side note, you can alter your metabolism more than just…

Another dynamite article, Dick! It's good to know there are trainers like you in the world. :)

If only the article had explicitly spelled out the exact scenario you are complaining about. You know something like:

Congrats on not reading the article.

Simply put... lay off the simple carbs, and get some damn exercise. DONE.

You can use incrementally stronger resistance bands — wrap them around your wrists and then around your shoulder blades, to increase the exercise's load.

6' tall male, weighing in at 216 lbs as of yesterday.
And the fun part... I am the healthiest I have ever been in my life as most of it is muscle and my body fat percentage is someplace south of 15%.
I <3 Crossfit.

I haven't owned a scale for about...15 years. Instead I've developed what's been called the "weirdest method of fitness tracking ever" by my friends.

I have two drawer dedicated to my pants in my dresser. One holds pants with a 34" waist size, the other holds 36's and some belts. Every morning, I get up and put on a…

Ben — Ahhhh ok I'm getting more color now! When's the last time that you've been on a caloric surplus for an extended period of time?

Ben, if you are having that issue, I'd avoid carbs (complex or otherwise). I found that after eating carbs (oatmeal, bread, breaded things, etc), I became extremely hungry and ended up snacking just 30mins to an hour after eating. I could do a low level of carbs (like 20g a sitting...maybe 50-60 max a day) but any…

From downtown Manhattan to Laguardia by public transit takes around 65 minutes while a taxi typically takes around 50

Is there a companion article on how to keep calm and not instinctively slap petulant whiners?

One of my old managers' mantra was something to the effect of "if you can't figure out how to do your job in about 40 hours every week, you probably don't belong here."

While these are big decisions, they all strike me as pretty easy to answer.

I just got back from Disney World and Harry Potter at Universal; my daughter missed a week of school. I'm rationalizing it because she's only in third grade, way ahead in class, and it will only get harder when she gets older (also she read the Harry Potter books—all of them—five times in the last few months, so we…

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