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Keeping Up with Daily Calories

September 17, 2009

If you figure out approximately how many calories you need on a daily basis (to do this, see Estimating Daily Caloric Needs), then the next step is keeping track of your calories on a daily basis so that you know whether or not you are above or below your daily target.  A cool site that can help you do that is this: http://www.fitday.com/.  Check it out.  It’s good. Darryl

We Can Do This the Hard Way, or the Easy Way

September 16, 2009

So, yesterday I introduced a couple of formulas to compute estimates of your daily caloric needs.  But, if you don’t feel like breaking out your pencils and calculators, there is an easier way to get your daily caloric estimate.  I was reminded of this when Martin O’Connor asked the following great question: “Do you include a FREE LINK to a calculator site?”  Well, sure.  Here it is: Calorie Calculator.  I like that one.  Check it out.  If you click on the “Advanced Options” link, it gives options for the “Harris-Benedict formula, which was described in yesterday’s post, as well as two other methods for daily caloric calculation. Hope this is useful to you. Darryl

Estimated Daily Caloric Needs

September 15, 2009

A friend of mine wants to lose some fat.  He asked me for some ideas on how he might proceed.  I asked him to keep a food journal and let me see it after a couple of weeks.  He did so.  When I read over it, I saw eggs, protein shakes, roast beef, and brown rice.  I also saw plentiful doses of spice cake, birthday cake, bacon, pizza, pigs in (...)

Time for a New Week

September 14, 2009

Hope each of you had a great weekend.  Back tomorrow (Monday) with more fitness and health related information.  Don’t forget your workouts this week! Darryl

Some Thoughts on Weight Loss and Muscle Gain

September 11, 2009

Lean, toned physiques Are you about to embark on a weight loss journey?  Or, are you about to put on some manly muscle (for the guys) or sculpt a beautiful, toned physique (for the ladies)?  There’s so much that comes to mind when thinking about starting these types of endeavors.  Hmmm.  So much so, that we’ll just make a quick list.  Here are some common sense thoughts on fat loss (...)

Real Life Fat Loss

Before (June '09) After (August '09) Have you seen any incredibly drastic before / after pictures in which a person goes from ordinary couch potato to looking like a Mr. Universe competitor, all in a matter of a few weeks?  Many of those photos are legitimate.  However, most, if not all such drastic transformations occur when a person that was previously well developed gets back into training, or the person (...)

Welcome!

September 10, 2009

Welcome Kevin Hogan IMC participants! Darryl

Transforming Your Body Quickly

August 29, 2009

Do you want to create a drastic change in your body in a short amount of time?  If you’re pudgy with a gut, would you like to be lean with a flat stomach? If you are skinny, would you like to add several pounds of muscle to your scrawny physique?  Would you be satisfied if you did this in, say, 12 weeks?  That’s 3 months. Well, the truth is, YOU (...)

Hard versus Easy Cardio

August 21, 2009

Greetings folks!  Hope this blog post finds each of ou doing excellently.  Here’s a little tidbit for the cardio-philes out there. Did you know that if you run a mile (or any set distance) as fast as you can, or if you run the mile as slowly and leisurely as you can, you will burn about the same number of calories either way?  Also, if you run the mile as (...)

Time to Workout

August 13, 2009

Tonight, my wife and I worked out together…late.  We had dilly-dallied for a few hours after I had arrived home from work, and next thing we knew, it was late.  It was about 11:00 p.m. when we started.  My wife wasn’t too happy about this, and at first she was VERY reluctant to exercise.  But, after I laid the guilt trip on her by saying I was going to lift (...)