The Final Phase Fat Loss program was created by John Romaniello (alias 'Roman'), fitness guru and self proclaimed "pretty boy". He was a winner of T Nation's HOT-ROX Inferno Challenge which is an amazing feat because the contest is based on making dramatic visual changes in the body. Yet Roman was already is such good […]

The Fat Burning Furnace program is extremely popular right now – and it's no wonder why. It's an irreverent change from the usual (use monotone, colorless voice here …) "eat less, exercise more". Or even worse, "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" (It's not! 300 calories of Snickers bar is handled a lot […]

The first reason to be interested in the Show and Go training system is that it was created by Eric Cressey. Let's begin with Eric's credentials: he is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), received his Master’s Degree in Kinesiology and graduated from the University of New England with a double major in Exercise […]

Question: who are the toughest, fittest guys in the world? The vast majority of us would answer that the toughest, fittest guys in the world are those who serve in elite military units. But how can any of us civilian types learn to be a strong and powerful as they are without actually joining the […]

I don't know about you, but no matter how thin I am, my stomach isn't truly flat. At least, it never looks like the guys and gals on TV. I'd settle for looking great in jeans, meaning my tummy doesn't pooch out. I eat right and exercise – I walk, I lift weights and I […]

(Menopause Treatment Part 1: Forget the Damn Rocking Chair!) The Day My Doctor And I Got Into A Screaming Match OK, I'm exaggerating. We weren't really screaming – just 'raising our voices' a bit. I went to him to talk about my menopausal symptoms, and I have to admit they weren't nearly as severe as […]

Humans are like all animals – we have an inborn need to re-create ourselves. For women, the period of recreation begins with menarche when we become old enough to be pregnant and ends with menopause when we can no longer have children. Menopause is welcomed by some women because we will no longer have monthly […]

My daughter got hemorrhoids when she was pregnant. Nothing unusual about that – lots of pregnant women get them – but they usually go away fairly soon. But my granddaughter was 2 1/2 years old and my daughter still had hemorrhoids! So she began a hemorrhoids home treatment plan. To our astonishment and joy: * […]

If your weight loss – or lack thereof – is driving you to eat 14 doughnuts a day, then you might wonder if there's any hope for you. Speaking for myself, as soon as diet plans appear in my life, I'm hit with an uncontrolled urge to eat, eat, eat! The problem is that all […]

In yesterday's blog entry, I mentioned my next door neighbor who was DESPERATE for a remedy for a toothache on the Friday afternoon before the Labor Day weekend. Knowing that she couldn't even call her dentist before Monday morning – and actually see him when??? – she faced almost three days of severe toothache pain. […]