Author: Michelle Korhonen
Want to get strong like these LEGO lifters but don’t how to start? In this Beginner’s Guide to Strength Training (part of our Strength 101 series), you’ll have both the confidence to start getting strong with resistance training AND a plan to follow. These are the exact strategies we use with our Online Coaching Clients to help them start strength training, and I’m excited to cover everything you need. We’ll be digging into the following: By the way, we’ve combined this article along with the rest of our strength articles into a “Strength Training 101: Everything You Need to Know”…
Even after nearly three months of winter, the oceans of the Northern Hemisphere are disturbingly warm. Last summer’s unprecedented temperatures—remember the “hot tub” waters off the coast of Florida?—have simmered down to a sea-surface average around 68 degrees Fahrenheit in the North Atlantic, but even that is unprecedented for this time of year. The alarming trend stretches around the world: 41 percent of the global ocean experienced heat waves in January. The temperatures are also part of a decades-long hot streak in the oceans. “What we used to consider extreme is no longer an extreme today,” Dillon Amaya, a research…
“Can I get rid of my man boobs quickly and naturally?” Awkward phrase? Sure. But that’s not gonna get us to shy away from the topic here on Nerd Fitness. We work on solutions to questions just like this with our Online Coaching Clients: awkward questions and challenging situations that are tough to talk about, but can be helped! This is what we do, and we’re really good at it. Today, let’s tackle the “moobs” situation head-on by covering all of the following in this MASSIVE guide: Okie dokie, let’s jump in! What are “Man Boobs”? Let’s chat about some…
Sister Wives star Garrison Brown struggled with depression and addiction and is claimed to have had problems with an ex-girlfriend ahead of his tragic death by suicide at age 25 according to a new report.The reality star – who also reportedly sent ‘troubling’ messages – had been having a tough time leading up to his death via self-inflicted gunshot wound as his three roommates – Tyler, Cheyenne, and Addison – gave their accounts to law enforcement.The Sun revealed details from the police report in a report on Thursday as an officer wrote: ‘Addison stated that he has had conversations with [Garrison] about him being depressed…
As President Joe Biden prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight, his pathways to reelection are narrowing. His best remaining option, despite all of the concerns about his age, may be to persuade voters to look forward, not back.In his now-certain rematch against former President Donald Trump, Biden has three broad possibilities for framing the contest to voters. One is to present the race as a referendum on Biden’s performance during his four years in office. The second is to structure it as a comparison between his four years and Trump’s four years as president. The third…
Health officials today begged parents to get their children vaccinated amid spiralling cases of whooping cough. Experts blame the resurgence of the ‘100-day cough’ on a slump in vaccine uptake among kids and mothers-to-be, as well as a post-Covid resurgence caused by less immunity due to pandemic social distancing. UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) bosses received 553 lab-confirmed reports of whooping cough cases in England alone in January. It marks a 61-fold rise on the nine logged over the same month in 2023 and comes after MailOnline earlier this year revealed that cases of whooping cough were at a decade high. For comparison, there…
This combination of photos provided by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday shows cinnamon products sold in U.S. discount stores which contain elevated levels of lead. U.S. Food and Drug Administration via AP hide caption toggle caption U.S. Food and Drug Administration via AP This combination of photos provided by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday shows cinnamon products sold in U.S. discount stores which contain elevated levels of lead. U.S. Food and Drug Administration via AP The Food and Drug Administration has issued an advisory for six brands of cinnamon due to possibly containing lead. La Fiesta,…
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.“Hollywood is easy to hate, easy to sneer at, easy to lampoon,” Raymond Chandler wrote in The Atlantic in 1945.Chandler, at the time already a popular author of detective fiction, had lately begun working as a screenwriter, but he still considered himself an outsider in the movie business. “I hold no brief for Hollywood,” Chandler wrote. “I have worked there a little over two years, which is far from enough to make me an authority, but more…
Dr. Louise Aronson, a geriatrician and author, speaks with a patient at UCSF’s Osher Center for Integrative Health in San Francisco. /Julia Burns hide caption toggle caption /Julia Burns Dr. Louise Aronson, a geriatrician and author, speaks with a patient at UCSF’s Osher Center for Integrative Health in San Francisco. /Julia Burns A recent study found that older people spend an average of 21 days a year on medical appointments. Kathleen Hayes can believe it. Hayes lives in Chicago and has spent a lot of time lately taking her parents, who are both in their 80s, to doctor’s appointments. Her…
Change can come to Haiti in a hurry, but only when the United States decides it will. Pope John Paul II famously said that “something must change” in Haiti in 1983, during the rule of Jean-Claude Duvalier. But not until 1986, when the State Department decided to abandon Duvalier, did he finally leave the country that he and his father had worked to impoverish.Yesterday, the United States seemed to make a similar break with Ariel Henry, the de facto prime minister whom Washington has supported—doggedly and against all sane advice—throughout the two and a half years of his dismal administration.Mass…