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Doug
Member since 28th May 2008
Occupation: Health and Fitness Consultant Doug Setter holds a Bachelor's of Human Ecology. He has served as a paratrooper and U.N. Peacekeeper, completed 5 full marathons, climbed Mt. Rainier and is the author of Stomach Flattening and One Less Victim. He instructs fitness, muscle-gain, weight-loss, “stomach flattening” and kick-boxing. He currently manages 2nd Wind Body Science at www.2ndwindbodyscience.com and can be reached at doug@2ndwindbodyscience.com
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06th June 2008
Being slim is no guarantee for having a flat stomach. Just walk around the beach on a hot summer day and observe the number of thin people with mild to extreme pot bellies. Being underweight does not mean a slim physique or good health. If you want to fir...
06th June 2008
While there are dozens of hangover cures, the most effective are those that are taken before the drinking occurs. Hangover pain is mostly from dehydration, allergic impurities in the alcohol and poisoning known as acetaldehyde damage. Speaking from experi...
06th June 2008
The first thing to understand about tobacco is why people keep smoking. Experiments that measured brain-wave activity in humans have shown that nicotine screens out external stimulus like loud noises. In a practical sense, tobacco helps the user shut ou...
06th June 2008
If you really find it difficult to stick with an exercise routine or feel some psychic force yanking you to physical sloth-ville, then you might want to look at your training environment. It is difficult to keep going to a gym or training area that ...
06th June 2008
Punishment is a poor method of motivation. But, it can help program us towards better living.
For instance:
• Touching a hot stove causes painful burns;
• Being “uncool” around peers, will get you ostracized;
• Showing up late, can ...
06th June 2008
5 Minutes to Fitness
One of the most effective methods of getting something unpopular done or doing what you don't feel like doing is the 5 minute rule.
A case in point is this article. I really don't have the time or the inspiration or the feeling ...
06th June 2008
AVOIDING ABUSIVE DATES
When still in high school, I thought that I had seen the last of battering after my mother divorced my stepfather. But, I noticed it cropping up amongst "the cool people" at high school. Strangely, it was often some of the physic...
02nd June 2008
I had heard bits and pieces of Pilates this and Pilates that. But, I never really took a serious look until some of my women's kick-boxing trainees started talking and demonstrating these "Pilates" moves. O.K. some of it looked difficult... I mean cha...
02nd June 2008
Craving certain substances is not a matter of corrupt morals or weak wills. It is often a series of learned behaviors and body chemistry.[i] Something as simple as a genetic background can predict potential alcohol problems. For instance, people from Midd...
02nd June 2008
Detecting Addictive Personalities
Whether you are a parent, friend, student, teacher, boss, co-worker, employee, patient, counsellor, manager or partner with an addict can drain you mentally, physically and financially.
It takes no genius to figure o...
02nd June 2008
As a private soldier, I made a point of sleeping (and eating) every chance that I got. Naps were gold. Precious commodities, grabbed at every opportunity. I needed the energy for our training exercises as well as our late-night shenanigans.
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02nd June 2008
Before I learned of the following technique, I used to train my gut muscles randomly, without any strategy. Then a friend from a national cycling team, taught me this sequence of: working the obliques, the lower and then upper abdominals.
Although I...
02nd June 2008
Before I learned of the following technique, I used to train my gut muscles randomly, without any strategy. Then a friend from a national cycling team, taught me this sequence of: working the obliques, the lower and then upper abdominals.
Although I f...
02nd June 2008
The common advice of gaining muscular weight has often been: eat lots and exercise less. Plus, the weird logic of, "Well, you just put on fat and then turn it into muscle," is also so much nonsense.
For an under weight person gaining muscular weight is...
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