Member Since August 1, 2008 , From Plymouth, United States
Want more fitness advice? Visit Answer Fitness ! "If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." -- General George S. Patton , Commander, Third U.S. Army, Normandy.
About TheFitnessNerd:

Leader of the Greatest Interactive Marketing Team on the Planet by day; exercise, diet, health and fitness nerd by night.  I also run a popular fitness website, Answer Fitness and am a Top Contributor in the Diet and Fitness category on Yahoo Answers.

I have two bachelor degrees from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor in Philosophy and History (with Honors), an A.A. in Humanities (Magna Cum Laude) and am a certified personal trainer (which I do in my "free" time.) My day job is leading an 18 person interactive marketing team for a major online mortgage company.

Interests include WWII and Military History, Jazz music (especially BeBop and big band like Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie), Roots and Progressive/Texas Country (Lucinda Williams, James McMurtry and Ray Wylie Hubbard) and Old Skool HipHop (talkin' "Tribe Called Quest" and "Digital Underground.")

I'm neither "dumb" nor "a jock" even though people assume this because I value keeping my body in shape as much as my mind.

 


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Answered: Weight Loss or Fat Loss

The GM Diet is bunk. It was never endorsed by the General Motors Corporation, nor was it ever even used by their employees. It's a typical fad diet that uses extreme calorie reduction and macro ...

Answered: Toning and firming?

Hi Mary, this is a really common question - especially from women. The first thing you need to understand is what "toning and firming" really means. Getting a "toned appearing body" means lowering ...

Answered: I do 90+ minutes of cardio 6 days a week, yoga ...

I'm assuming that when you say you are "still gaining" you are speaking of scale weight? The first thing to understand is that scale weight is not an accurate indicator of body composition. Body fat ...

Answered: Why does drinking a couple of glasses of wine a ...

Wine in moderation -- along with a good diet and exercise -- should not substantially interfere with a person's fat loss efforts. Indeed, wine contains certain healthy compounds (including powerful ...

Answered: How many grams of fat and fiber should there be in ...

About 25-30 grams of fiber, minimum. This is not nearly as difficult to achieve as you would think. Adding in some whole grains to your diet as well as fiberous whole fruits and vegetables will ...

Answered: How can I build my back muscles ?

The back is a notoriously challenging muscle group to build because it's not actually a single muscle that you can train with one exercise, but rather a chain of interlinked muscle groups that require ...

Answered: Health bars

Protein Bars and Energy Bars can be useful as a supplement to regular whole meals, especially if you are tempted to reach for less healthy alternatives for a snack. However, it's important to ...

Answered: Changes in obesity

In the U.S., the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled in the past three decades for pre-school children aged 2-5 years and adolescents aged 12-19 years. It's more than triped for children ...

Answered: Discriminitive neurologist

I would agree with Lavlav on this one. I'm not familiar with all of the case law around HIV and medical treatment, and it may be that a doctor in private practice has the option of rejecting patients ...

Answered: Can women give HIV to an uninfected man through ...

Yes, although the chance of transmission is less than if the man has HIV and the woman is negative and engages in vaginal intercourse. Anal intercourse is also a vector for transmission, as is oral ...

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