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You Are Your Own Gym by Mark Lauren – Review

February 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

As a Bootcamp Instructor I’m always looking for new bodyweight exercises with little to no equipment necessary. Naturally Amazon knew this and suggested that I might enjoy this book while I was perusing it’s webpages.

Initial Thoughts

It turns out that You Are Your Own Gym was quite good. You can never tell with fitness books until you open them up and have a look inside. While not having as many new body weight exercises as I hoped it still provides a great reference book for every basic bodyweight exercise.

About The Book

Mark Lauren is an ex-Navy SEAL who continues to train the worlds best Special Forces to this day. He uses a combination of bodyweight exercises and high intensity training methods to create short, sharp and effective workouts. [Read more...]

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Weekday Vegetarian – Week 1 Summary

August 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ok, so I set off to a great first week of eating vegetarian just during the week especially considering that stupidly I hadn’t really planned very much about how I was going to approach it. Rather I thought I would just wing it.

I’ll start off by covering the good things.

Lost 1kg of bodyweight

Well if you want to lose some weight, apparently vegetarian is a great way to go. I ate some many fibrous vegetables last week that my digestive system went into overdrive. The weight loss was also probably related a little to less calories, although as I said at the start of last week I did not follow Eat Stop Eat this week so there alone is around 2000 extra calories.

Back into cooking

One of the things I loved this week was that I started cooking again. I hit up Dave’s site for some recipes and made the vegetarian pizza’s, the Eggplant Parmesan (which was amazing) and an egg version of his Shrimp Stir Fry.

And the one bad thing so far:

Not enough protein and not enough calories = lack of energy

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Improving Your D&D Attributes: Dexterity

June 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

What is dexterity?

In D&D your dexterity affects your balance, speed and reaction time. Dexterity in real life refers to basically the same thing. In fact according to dictionary.com the word dexterity means:

Dexterity
–noun
1. skill or adroitness in using the hands or body; agility.

Becoming elf-like

Training to increase your agility improves most daily activities from sport to shopping to walking with sure footing (which is great if you are into urban exploration). It is also one of the most fun types of skills to improve as increasing your dexterity enables to to achieve amazing feats. [Read more...]

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Improving Your D&D Attributes: Strength

April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

What is strength?

In dungeons and dragons, strength comes into play when busting open treasure chests, knocking down doors and wielding heavy ass weapons. That pretty much sums it up. For a more technical approach Dictionary.com defines it as ‘the quality or state of being strong’.

Which of course leaves us asking ‘what does strong mean?’.

Strong -adj. having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust

That is the definition from dictionary.com. When you are thinking about building strength and getting strong that is the description I want you to think of.

Building strength

In Dungeon’s and Dragons building strength is simply a matter of assigning the appropriate points to that attribute. Or hoping you roll three 6′s, depending on what character building method you are using. [Read more...]

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