Sugar. You can't escape it. Even after you cut out the usual culprits – desserts, candy, and simple carbohydrates – there are still plenty of places sugars manage to sneak into. Even the "healthy" foods are loaded with it. Take for example: Chobani - The yogurt you see all those Olympians eating - has 19grams of Sugar in a dish. Naked Juice - The "natural" fruit juice smoothie - has 28g in 8oz (Compare that to 26g in the same serving of Coca ...
Archives for August 2012
3 Questions To Kill Every Excuse You’ve Ever Had
The next time you're tempted to give up because you came up with a really good excuse. Ask yourself: Would I believe this excuse if anyone else besides myself was saying it? (You wouldn't). Does this excuse even make any sense? (It doesn't). Am I really going to let this excuse stop me? (You shouldn't). Then keep going and don't quit. Your excuses are invalid ...
My 7 Favorite Paleo Foods
Fitness, is the epitome of the saying "you get out what you put in." Your body does what it can with what it has available, but you can't run off a bad diet. It doesn't work like that. If anyone ever tries to tell you you can electro-shock yourself into a six pack or sprinkle fairy dust on your food and lose weight without ever changing your diet, punch them in the nose and then run far, far away. Magical dust and contraptions you bought late one ...
5 Common Myths About Six Pack Abs
Last week, I was downtown chowing down breakfast with my friend Patrick Hitches downtown Chicago. Patrick's like a walking terminator and made his own abs transformation a few months back. Our talk quickly shifted from just catching up to fitness and comparing notes on our six-pack transformations. And, as we talked, we marveled just how much bad information is out there about losing weight and burning fat (and even worse, how much of it I believed over ...
A Crash Course Intro To Impossible HQ
We've had a lot of new people in the last 10 days so I thought I'd take the time to review exactly what it is we're up to at the site (we have a lot of things happening). If you've been around for a while, you'll still want to read this. We've got a ton of projects going on and you may have just missed a few things. First things first, there are a lot of sites that are about inspiration, feeling good and happy self-talk a-la a virtual internet ...
7 Things I Learned From My Encounter With Russell Kirsch
If you haven't read An Unexpected Ass Kicking yet, read this first. ---- After debating a few days whether or not to even share last weeks post, I hit publish. Over the first few days, it got some traffic along with some residual views from views from my six pack transformation. But Sunday, the piece really took off. It hit the top of Hacker News for 6+ hours, and got featured on BoingBoing (twice!). In short, over the last few days, the story has ...
Impossible Ones: A Brand New Impossible Thing (or Two) And How You Can Help
In case you haven't noticed, we've got a lot of things in the works around Impossible HQ and the blog lately. We're releasing a fitness program in a few weeks, and over the weekend we murdered our servers from last week's post (thanks to Jeff for un-murdering them), but that's not all. Today we're announcing 2 new impossible things: you ready? This is going to be fun. --- The BackStory A key thread throughout everything we do here an HQ is focused on ...
How Bad Do You Want It?
For you new visitors, welcome! Check out what the sites about and subscribe via email here. -------------- Cause sometimes you just feel tired...you feel weak And when you feel weak you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you...you gotta find that inner strength And just pull that sh*t out of you and get that motivation to not give up And not be a quitter...no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face ...
Skydiving on Mars (And How To Look Less Stupid)
Over the next month, I'll be posting several articles on my recent trip to Jordan. These will be posting on Saturday's in addition to all of our regularly scheduled content and will be focused on travel, adventure and living a better story. Enjoy. Tomorrow, NASA's rocket, the Curiosity rover is landing on Mars. People are quite excited about it, as it's quite the scientific accomplishment, but I'm a little but I'm a little over it. After all, I landed on ...
An Unexpected Ass Kicking
You can read the followup to this post here. --- I sat down at yet-another coffee shop in Portland determined to get some work done, catch up on some emails and write another blog post. About 30 minutes into my working, an elderly gentleman at least 80 years old sat down next to me with a hot coffee and a pastry. I smiled at him and nodded and looked back at my computer as I continued to work. "Do you like Apple? As he gestured to the new Macbook Air I ...
