Are you a man? Do you own more than one pair of jeans? If so, you’ve probably wondered at some point why some manufacturers use button flies instead of zippers. Here is the answer: these jeans companies hate you and […]
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Body Transformation Challenge
Body Transformation Challenge: Final Results
Final Stats Total weight lost = 73 Pounds Total inches lost = 52 Greatest reduction in waist = Justin “Koko” Restreppo with 4.5 inches lost Most weight lost = Jim Haff with 25 pounds lost Greatest conditioning change = Suzanne […]
Body Transformation Challenge
BTC Final Results
Meg Dennison Throughout this whole challenge I have been challenging myself with new forms of exercise as well as forms I have not utilized in some time. I have probably never done so many squats or lunges in such a […]
Body Transformation Challenge
Coaches’ Corner: Group mentality works
By Kyle Finneron The theme of this edition of the Body Transformation Challenge was “Gain your Independence.” While the core training and programing remained consistent, the thought of freeing themselves from the extra weight they carried around, I believe […]
Body Transformation Challenge
Coaches’ corner: Inspiring stories have far-reaching affects
By Beth Roberts I always feel a mix of emotions at the final meeting of a Body Transformation Challenge. The best part is the anticipation of their results and the hardest part is accepting that it is the final week […]
The Outside Story
The Outside Story: Flat Stanley and the centipede
By Declan McCabe Biologists sometimes field questions about a “huge scary bug” that appeared in someone’s home or worse yet, on their person. Most turn out to be benign organisms that ended up in the wrong place. For me, […]
Looking Back
When the past becomes the present
As I grow older I realize that things I thought were about as exciting as watching paint dry have now worked their way into my life. It’s gardening season and I seem to have inherited both my father’s love of […]
Altitude Sickness
Rough start, great middle, rough “finish”
I am not going to fool myself into thinking that you are all waiting with baited breath to hear what happened at the big trail run in Canada. But, also, I am not going to fool myself into thinking that […]
Generation Y
Lip wars
“Lip Sync Battle”—the half-hour viral sensation that pits celebrities against one another in fake karaoke contests—is about to enter its “second season” (only a month and a half after the conclusion of its first) on Spike TV, which seems as […]
The Movie Diary
Dead and gone
By Dom Cioffi Back in the early 1980s, during my junior high school years, I was a fan of the burgeoning New Wave movement happening in music. A friend of mine had a brother who was well versed in obtaining […]