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The New Years Contest Transformation: 3 Incredible Stories

April 12, 2013 By Joel Runyon 7 Comments

Woah. I'm finally getting my butt in gear and announcing our winners for the New Years contest. We had so many entries - it took me a while to get through them all. It's been a big process, but it's been really cool to see some of these transformations happen in real time. It was tough to narrow them down, not only going through physical changes, but also the stories of the people behind them but after much deliberation, we narrowed it down to our top 3 ...

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Fitness, Nutrition, Updates Tagged With: fitness programs, impossible abs, ripped, Six-Pack Abs, transformation stories, weight loss

5 Common Myths About Six Pack Abs

August 16, 2012 By Joel Runyon 99 Comments

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 ...

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Six Pack Abs ≠ Impossible

July 23, 2012 By Joel Runyon 66 Comments

For the last 3 months I've been quiet on the personal challenge front. It's not because I haven't been doing anything - in fact I've been rather busy - but I've been working on something that's taken a ton of focus. Fortunately, it's finally time for me to share. When I first started the list, one of the first things on it was Get a six pack and do a photo shoot to celebrate The Six Pack It's always been a little weird to have on the list as it's ...

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