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		<title>Whoah! Too Much, Too Fast for Six Pack Abs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Pack Abs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've been working out too hard and cutting too many calories this week. It became acutely clear on Friday when I was sucking wind on the basketball floor.]]></description>
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		<title>The Six Pack Abs Secret Weapon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Appetite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chewing Gum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THERE'S NO ONE FOOD that's indispensable to chasing six pack abs, but there is a secret weapon: gum. That's right, minty chewing gum. I've been able to substitute chewing gum for a snack on numerous occasions over the last few weeks. In fact, I'm going through a pack a day.]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have All the Carb Cravings Gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Pack Abs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broccoli]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'M ASTOUNDED. Major carb cravings have all but disappeared. I keep waiting for a powerful urge to buy a couple dozen chocolate chip cookies, grab a glass of milk, a stack of eight cookies, turn on the HDTV, and knock 'em down. But I haven't, and it's not sheer willpower. For those who know me, this is kind of a big deal.]]></description>
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		<title>Chalk It Up: Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'VE GOT A NEW PROJECT to put on The Better Man Plan list: names. As in, remember them, don't forget them. Half the time I meet someone new, I can lose their name within seconds. If the person is a hot chick, sure, I remember the name easily. But a regular guy? Maybe, maybe not.]]></description>
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		<title>Late Night Workouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Pack Abs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'M TRYING TO GET a little resistance workout in every day -- basically, arms, abs, with some miscellany on one day, followed by pushups, shoulders on the next day. The idea is to give the major muscle groups a bit of rest on the off days.]]></description>
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		<title>Fuzzy Math and the Afterburn Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Pack Abs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Build Muscle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burn Fat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I HIT ALWYN COSGROVE&#8217;S blog every month or so. He&#8217;s a fitness expert, and his blog seems geared more toward professional trainers than everyday guys. Still, if you ignore the industry-related posts, some real gems come up. Take, for instance, his post on resistance training and how it might burn more calories than experts originally thought. I&#8217;ve been thinking this for years. Of course, I lack the scientific skills to calculate calorie burn, but my experience goes like this: I jump on an electronic piece of equipment, say a stair machine, treadmill, rowing machine, or exercise bike, and plug in my weight. I start doing exercise and the little digital readout tells me how many calories I&#8217;m burning. Cool. The net result? I&#8217;m always surprised at how many calories I burn on a machine &#8212; seems too easy. Then, take for instance, the 500-600 or so calories the experts say you burn playing an hour of basketball. For me, and half the guys I play ball with, these basketball numbers are freakin&#8217; ridiculous. If I take the amount of effort I expend on the court and compare that to the amount of effort I expend on an exercise machine, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must Cutting Fat Also Shrink Muscle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Pack Abs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME I try to cut fat: my overall body mass shrinks, too. Basically, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening: as I lose the dreaded fat around my gut, I also lose the layer of fat that&#8217;s under my skin everywhere else. Sure, muscle definition starts to get sharper, but the shadow I cast is also smaller. I don&#8217;t like that. I&#8217;m already a pretty big guy. About 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 220 pounds typically. I&#8217;ve been as heavy as 230, though with more muscle. I&#8217;m down to around 216 now and I can tell, when pinching and looking in the mirror, that I&#8217;ve definitely lost some fat. The tell-tale signs? My belly button changes shape &#8212; so look for that as you shoot for indisputable abs yourself &#8212; and my sternum starts to show underneath my skin. The first time I noticed my sternum, about 5 years ago when I was burning fat, I was surprised to see a little asymmetrical bump in the bone at the bottom end. Huh. Never knew it existed. But back to this shrinking problem. It&#8217;s definitely easier to look bigger when you&#8217;ve got a layer of fat underneath your skin. It&#8217;s like wearing two shirts at once. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Pack Lesson: Don&#8217;t Start Abs in October</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Pack Abs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IF THERE IS ONE THING I&#8217;ve learned right now, it&#8217;s not to start your indisputable abs effort in October. Why? At the exact same time you&#8217;re trying to cut out anything with high concentrations of refined sugar, all the stores start putting up their Halloween displays with big packages of candy everywhere. Worse yet, the prices are so low it&#8217;s hard not to ignore them. For me, it&#8217;s Butterfingers. I don&#8217;t eat them often, but I&#8217;ve been nearly derailed by a few big displays already this year. So far, I&#8217;ve managed to avoid buying a bag. Plus, You&#8217;re Starting to Hibernate In addition to the Halloween candy fest, I believe there&#8217;s an unconscious desire in our bodies to put a little fat on the winter and slow down to conserve energy. Daylight hours are fading, and it&#8217;s harder than ever to get up early in the morning to workout. Then, assuming you survive October, Thanksgiving is on the way, followed quickly by December&#8217;s holiday action. I don&#8217;t what the holidays are like at your house, but at my house they&#8217;re full of food, snacks, football on TV, and beer. On the upside, if you can survive October through December with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tapping King Kong for a Deeper Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.bettermanplan.com/deepervoice/tapping-king-kong-for-a-deeper-voice.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deeper Voice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MOST EVERYONE CAN TALK in a deeper voice on purpose, but it usually sounds a bit forced. So how can a guy control that innate ability? How can you speak in a lower, richer, fuller voice? There's surgeries for this, it turns out . . .]]></description>
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		<title>How Low Can You Go?</title>
		<link>http://www.bettermanplan.com/deepervoice/75.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deeper Voice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;VE NOTICED SOMETHING unintentional in my behavior. Something instinctual and raw, something that might hark back to cave man days. When I run into a good looking woman &#8212; and it doesn&#8217;t really matter where, could be in the check out line at a grocery store, at Starbucks, at a barbecue, or chance encounter &#8212; I&#8217;m surprised to hear my voice deepen. I don&#8217;t necessarily talk to every hot chick that walks by, but you know what I mean &#8212; sometimes there&#8217;s these little meaningless conversations, a contextual joke, whatever. And despite the fact that I&#8217;m not actively on the prowl, my voice will tend to drop down to a deeper level. It&#8217;s not overly obvious, and I&#8217;m not sure that even the women in my life would notice, but I&#8217;ve noticed. WTF? Obviously, there&#8217;s something going on here. It&#8217;s not hard to assume that deeper voices sound more manly, and sounding manly is more likely to appeal to women, and appealing to women means you&#8217;re more likely to spend quality time with them, and spending quality time means you&#8217;re more likely to spread your DNA. So, yeah, I get that. I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s correct, anyway, I don&#8217;t have any [...]]]></description>
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