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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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		<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>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>
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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>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>
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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>The Battle of Convenience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HALF THE BATTLE OF ABS is convenience. Eating on purpose, with a goal in mind, is hard. Eating what&#8217;s handy &#8212; and cheap &#8212; is easy. The problem with cheap and easy is that most everything you can get in a handy pre-made package isn&#8217;t particularly good for getting to six pack abs. Quick, what was the last snack you ate? Carrot sticks, radishes, and Ranch Dressing? Heck, that wasn&#8217;t even my last snack &#8212; that was Reese&#8217;s Puffs. The point? If I had bothered to wash up some baby carrots, radishes, and cut up a cucumber earlier in the day or even last night, there&#8217;s a 90 percent chance I would have ignored the Puffs and ate some veggies instead. It&#8217;s All About Convenience I have learned, though, how to whip out a couple of quick breakfast options, both of which have a lot more staying power than Puffs. The first is scrambled eggs, which are just scrambled eggs that I toss a dollop of salsa into right before I take them out of the pan. No way to make that fast, easier, or more convenient. It&#8217;s just eggs. The second is a power bowl of oatmeal, and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Night Snacks: One-Two Shot to the Gut</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE PROBLEM WITH LATE NIGHT EATING is that it starts with a blast of calories that have nowhere to go, then it gets worse: if you're like me, after you eat late at night, you wake up in the morning not particularly hungry.]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Fuel, Not Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A FEW YEARS AGO, when I was close to having indisputable abs, I was briefly successful at changing my mindset: I was eating fuel, not food.]]></description>
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		<title>Indisputable Six Pack Abs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maxcer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN I WAS IN MY MID-TWENTIES, I used to have a big deep belly button, and man alive, it could hold the lint. I was exercising a lot, averaging 7-9 hours of hard-nosed basketball a week, with some weight lifting thrown in. My endurance on the court was at an all-time high. I was in pretty good shape, and yet, no six pack. But then again, I wasn&#8217;t really working on it, either. I was burning an insane amount of calories: to help me stay awake, I&#8217;d eat a box of licorice and write for hours late at night. Could be gummy bears or fruit snacks, Vanilla Wafers &#8212; whatever happened to be handy or available in bulk at Costco. And many nights, as desert, I&#8217;d make milkshakes. Not fast-food travesties that are called shakes; no, these were real milkshakes created with 2% milk and high-quality ice cream. Even if I was burning 5,000 calories a day, I was still taking in 6,000 or so. Sure, some days I might run out of licorice and actually burn a few calories, but I was inevitably heading toward some serious love handles. Then I Blew Out My Knee I blame it on [...]]]></description>
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