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Archive for January, 2008


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Become An American Gladiator

Become An American Gladiator

It seems like the major television networks and movie studios have run out of ideas. Instead of coming up with original ideas, they are now simply recycling old movies and television shows. They brought back: The Terminator The Bionic Woman Knight Rider Rambo Rocky I can’t wait until they bring back the A-Team, Air Wolf, [...]

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Nutrisystem Weight Loss Program

Nutrisystem Weight Loss Program

Many of you have seen Nutrisystem commercials. Weight loss while eating has become popular. On their web site you can read about dozens of success stories of people losing 20 to 100+ pounds! Nutrisystem Weight Loss Program Nutrisystem is a weight loss diet program where you eat to lose weight! Sounds too good to be [...]

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Perfect Blogging Birthday Contest

Perfect Blogging Birthday Contest

My buddy Stefan over at Perfect Blogging is having a contest where 20 people will win $50 each. That’s $1,000 in prizes! It’s his birthday so he’s trying to do it big. Stefan is throwing a birthday contest and is giving away $50 to 20 different people! All you have to do subscribe to his [...]

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Wake Up to the Treadmill!

Wake Up to the Treadmill!

Ever feel tired and sluggish through the day? I do, a lot. I’m a very unmotivated and lazy person, I’ll admit it. But, I force myself (or my workout partner forces me to do it), and the best way I’ve found to keep my energy up through the day, was to do something unorthodox … [...]

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Pushing Around a 5500 lb. Car

Pushing Around a 5500 lb. Car

Car pushing can help build muscle and strength in ways you never would have imagined. I first came across car pushing and pulling while watching The World’s Strongest Man competition on ESPN as a kid. It can help train your body in ways that conventional weights, exercises, and machines can’t. It’s also a great total [...]

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Unlocking the Vault for the Ladies

Unlocking the Vault for the Ladies

Okay ladies this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to enter the mind of us men. I am going to bring you into the world and inner most desires of the male brain. It has long been accepted that women are the complicated species. But in actuality men can be seen as so simple [...]

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Exercise Your Way to Better Blogging

Exercise Your Way to Better Blogging

It seems to me that you can hardly go one day without hearing health related news. There are new miracle pills developed on a seemingly daily basis, medical reports are published frequently debunking some previous health myth, and it seems as though half of all TV commercials deal with some aspect of health. There’s no [...]

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Super Bowl Party Versus New Year’s Resolution

Super Bowl Party Versus New Year’s Resolution

Okay, the Super Bowl is set. Israel’s New York Football Giants versus the undefeated and unstoppable New England Patriots. I don’t think the Giants have a chance, but I didn’t think they could beat the Buccaneers, the Cowboys, or the Packers. Now that you know who is in the Super Bowl, you need to make [...]

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How Many Sets Should You Do Per Exercise?

How Many Sets Should You Do Per Exercise?

This article was submitted by Mehdi, author of the strength training blog StrongLifts.com Israel invited me to make a post about how many sets you should do per exercise. For a lot of people going to the gym, the amount of sets you should remains unclear. This post will help you out. Benefits of Sets. [...]

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Eating to Lose Weight

Eating to Lose Weight

That’s right. You heard me say it: eating to lose weight. I’ll say it one more time to let it sink in: eating to lose weight. Now why in the world would someone eat to lose weight? Well, here’s the secret: It’s not the amount of food really, but the number of times. Let’s look [...]

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Guy Things To Do Before You Die

Guy Things To Do Before You Die

Every guy has a list. We as men have an inherit obsession with lists. We are programmed to respect the priority and organization that the all Holy List provides. Moses introduced all brethren of the world to the original and ultimate list when he returned from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments. One of the [...]

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The Ultimate Laptop Workout

The Ultimate Laptop Workout

So you make money with your laptop, right? Cool, the handy slim, rectangular circuit box puts bread on the table. It also keeps you in contact with love ones, that’s an enriching component to its repertoire. It may even get you laid, thank God for Craig’s List…you know what I’m talking about horn dogs. But [...]

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Eat Smart’s Nutrition and Digital Food Scale

Eat Smart’s Nutrition and Digital Food Scale

This is not a paid review, just an in-depth look at a product Israel and I are interested in buying. He was able to email the Vice President and secure FMU readers an 11% discount off the $75 Nutrition Scale price. Simply enter the code “UNLEASHED” when you check out. The EatSmart Nutrition Scale is [...]

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I Owe $28,000 in Medical Bills. I Need Some Sponsors.

I Owe $28,000 in Medical Bills. I Need Some Sponsors.

That’s right. THIS IS NOT A GIMMICK. My appendix surgery has really amassed a medical bill of over $28,000. Sadly, I don’t have health insurance. But this isn’t about not qualifying for insurance or anything like that. It’s about me needing to pay that bill, or better said, those bills because it’s more than one. [...]

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Carry The World On Your Shoulders

Carry The World On Your Shoulders

This is the first of a new series of weekly posts by Kalvin C. Chinyere, M.D. (Dr. Kal). Along with being a Doctor of Medicine, he is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a Health and Fitness Instructor and personal trainer. To top it all off he was once a fat bastard, [...]

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ads

The Good, The Bad, and the Ads

In today’s world on online advertising, Google has become like McDonalds. Around every corner there’s an unholy blue “G” staring you down. They have controlled and dominated advertising online for years and will continue to do so for a long time. However, Google has let a lot of us down time after time. We have [...]

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Diet Bug, the Weight Loss Site for Women

Diet Bug, the Weight Loss Site for Women

Some of my articles involve lifting and certain workouts that aren’t really specified for women. Ladies, I haven’t forgotten about you. Everyone wants to lose weight and feel good. I found another great website that focuses just on weight loss for women. Diet Bug DietBug is a weightloss program designed just for women. The website [...]

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Early Morning Workouts: 6 AM Lifting

Early Morning Workouts: 6 AM Lifting

Today I finally performed an early morning workout. Not my typical morning cardio only session, but instead a strength training session. I was up at 6 AM and it was still dark outside. Not only was it dark but it was pretty damn cold too. My initial reaction was to go back to bed, especially [...]

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Elastic Resistance Training for Strength Gains

Elastic Resistance Training for Strength Gains

If I told you that you that you can significantly improve your strength simply by using what essentially are elastic bands would you believe me?Sports scientists, personal trainers, physiotherapists and athletes will tell you that it’s true. The basic principle behind training with elastic resistance is simple, as a person stretches the band, the resistance [...]

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The Inspiration List for Men

The Inspiration List for Men

2008 = No Excuses + Get It Done Need motivation? Well here goes folks, print this and paste it on your locker, or fridge, or your work space at the office. These are the no mincing words, top ten motivational points for getting shape for the new year. 10. Be the buffest guy in the [...]

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Calling All Advertisers: Google Banned My Adsense

Calling All Advertisers: Google Banned My Adsense

I have no idea why Google did this. It just plain sucks. 100% sucks. I am not happy at all. You may have noticed that the Google Ads I once proudly displayed are now gone. I have just begun implementing a marketing campaign for Fat Man Unleashed and have started getting some good results. The [...]

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Attack of the Killer Abs

Attack of the Killer Abs

Follow this quick abdominal routine to take a step towards shredded abs. You are also going to need to adjust your diet, but we will leave that open for discussion. First exercise: Cable Crunch – Kneeling Assume the position on your knees. Place your head in between the rope. Now you’re ready for the movement. [...]

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The Blogger Proof Workout, Vol. 1

The Blogger Proof Workout, Vol. 1

A Simple Workout for Fat Ass Bloggers You Know You Need to Read This! There aren’t many of us bloggers that take good care of ourselves. For the select few who do, congrats. This isn’t only for bloggers, but for folks that spend way too much time in front of a computer. That’s right. YOU! [...]

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The Beard, The Fat Face, and The Double Chin

The Beard, The Fat Face, and The Double Chin

Being blessed with overweightism has it’s side effects. One of which is developing a fat face and double chin. I hate having fat cheeks, it drives me crazy. My solution to that is growing a beard. Smart huh? Yeh, I know. Over the last few years I have periodically grown a beard because it covers [...]

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Weight Loss Challenge: Consider it Brung

Weight Loss Challenge: Consider it Brung

Unlike the last weight loss challenge in which I blew my competition away, this one is between a group of us. A few days ago John from Total Transformation put out a challenge. I don’t back down easily so I accepted. The objective is pretty simple: lose the most body fat. As of this post [...]

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Medifast Diet: A Quick and Easy Diet Plan

Medifast Diet: A Quick and Easy Diet Plan

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Not Just a Weight Loss Blog

Not Just a Weight Loss Blog

I originally created this web site so that I could lose weight and get in shape. So you could say it was a weight loss blog. It has since then morphed into something else. It’s not about losing weight anymore, although I do have a some more weight to loss. It’s now about being healthy, [...]

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Fat Joke About Endorphins

Fat Joke About Endorphins

Here’s a funny comic I found about endorphins. Do you ever touch the stuff? I know I do. Are there any fatties at your office that remind you of this? There is usually a fat or out of shape person that doesn’t care one iota about what they consume or how they treat their bodies. [...]

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Tom Platz: The Lumberjack of Quadriceps

Tom Platz: The Lumberjack of Quadriceps

Tom Platz was a lumberjack because he chopped and carved his tree trunk thighs into freakdom. One cannot deny his genetic predisposition to develop large muscular thighs. But it was Tom Platz’s barn-burning intensity and sheer bravery to train past the limits of his potential that made his thighs legendary. Platz’s training principle was simple: [...]

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Lifting Weights After Surgery

Lifting Weights After Surgery

I am so glad that I can workout again. I haven’t been able to lift any weights since my appendix surgery in December. I wanted to and felt I could, but my doctor told me to lay off until January. Well, it’s January dammit and I’m back with a vengeance! There is nothing like lifting [...]

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The Bowl Season, Big Ten vs SEC!

The Bowl Season, Big Ten vs SEC!

It’s rough as a big ten fan in the heart of the SEC. I thought it was tough being a Michigan fan living in Ohio. I was surprised to hear the Big 10 ripped almost daily here in Florida. Well now its time to pay up Gator fans! The Michigan wolverines defeated the Florida gators [...]

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5 Ways To Keep Your Resolution

5 Ways To Keep Your Resolution

Everyone knows what the New Year means, and to be brutally blunt … it means failed dreams. Everyone hopes to change something about themselves, or make their lives a little better in some way, shape, or form with their resolution. Myself, personally, this year I just hope to do better than I did last. That’s [...]