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December - 2009

"Hardcore Circuit Training" Review
We Never Play at 100%
Super-Slow Training: Worth Your Time?
Three Keys to a Fitness Resolution that Sticks
"Best Time to Exercise" Revealed!
How to Touch Your Toes II
Can We WALK?
More On Circuits
A Better, Stronger Faster Foam Roller
The Holy Grail of Fitness
Evolution Before Your Eyes
To Revere or Reject Our Fitness Forebears?
Extending Myself on Matters of Stretching

November - 2009

Fun with Training Montages
NYT Vindicated
Classical Statuary and Mild Case of the Cankles
"Afterburn" Under Fire
New Book Alert!
My crazy, unbelievable, ridiculous story that even I don't believe
Introducing Guest Blogger Randy Booth!
A Plea For "Average Guy" Muscle
Hippocrates Would Be Mortified
No Such Thing As Cardio
Beware the New Fun Exercise
Fun is Essential
RIP Aerobic Base Training: Boyle Slaughters Another Sacred Cow

October - 2009

What We're Missing in the Weight Room
All Work and No Play
How (Not) to Use a Treadmill
Mike Boyle Knows Squat
Fat Falcons and Childhood Obesity
Unpacking "Awareness"
New Thought: Do Things You're Terrible At
Coming Down With Something? Exercise (but not too hard!)
No Match for the Caveman
MPF Survey: Your Favorite Unusual Exercises
Boyle and Cosgrove Head-to-Head!
No Vanity, No Fitness Biz
Happily Barefoot
The Egg/Guilt Continuum at Whole Foods
Bottom Line on 'Biggest Loser'
Cool Gyms, #25755
The Only Exercise Tip You'll Ever Need

September - 2009

Running with Babies
Injury: It Doesn't Take Much
Weighing In On the "Time Under Tension" Principle
Muscle Ain't Fitness
Click One for the Memories
Ask the Fitness Nerd Wednesday
No Insurance, Thanks...
Group Training: Good for a Boost
Getting Hyper-Fit
Gluttony
Black-Belt Coaching: Searching for Mr. Miyagi
Chlorinated Swimming Pools: More Harm Than Good?
Springsteen's Pipes of Steel
Expand Your Movement Vocabulary
How To Get More Mobile: Do The Drills a Lot
Warming Up Works--If You Do It
Unsolicited Training Advice in the Gym: Good Samaritanism or Meddlesome Prattle?
Exercise Fanaticism: Genes or Environment?
Moving Towards a Better You
No on NSAIDS Before a Workout, Plus MORE Core-Training Fun!
Sleep Issues

August - 2009

Another Reason to Sweat: Exercise Makes Better Execs
Focus Friday: The Single Leg Stiff-Leg Deadlift
The Tone Question
Fun with Feldenkrais in San Diego
Pausing For Effect
Trainer, Train Thyself
Beware "Healthy" Foods!
REVOLUTIONARY Revelation Revealed!
DON'T Walk?
Getting Comfortable With Discomfort
What I Know For Sure, Strength-Training Wise, 2009!
Great Sports Movies: Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29
The Pro vs. the Joe
Ask the Fitness Nerd:  Push-Ups
Comic Book Pariahs R' Us
'Super'-Fit?
Why We Can't Eat Right
Hang onto those Brain Cells!

July - 2009

More Core Training Fun
Wanted: a Couple of Extra Inches of Height
Weight Training Approach #432
Why We're Fat, a Rundown
Fitness on the Cheap
A Fitness Geek Goes Native
What I Learned On My Summer Vacation
MPF One-Year Extravaganzer!
More On Tempo Lifting From A Guy Who Knows
Buyer: Beware Supplements
Man vs. Chimp
Let's Go Swimming
How Not to Get Injured

June - 2009

Dance, Monkey, Dance!
Way Cool Gyms, #254
Back In the Day: Another Primitive Approach to Fitness
The Human Hamster Wheel: Limit Your Treadmill Time!
Health News: Interval Training, Plus The Benefits of Fat
A Foot in the Door of Improved Performance
Perfect Exercise #1: The Pull-Up
The Fitness Industry: We Train People
Feedback in Fitness
Rest and Recovery: The Yin and Yang of Fitness
Stairs, Swimming, and Asthma: MPF Health News Round-Up!
Chasing Fitness Numbers
Coaching Speed and Reflexes: Gentlemen, We Can Rebuild Him
Vindicating Steady-State Cardio
Don't Throw Out 'Tempo' Training
Reality Check
Bike-Commuting Again, Some Nice Exercise Variations
Body-Weight Training Vid-Spiration!
Marathon Running: Who Are We To Judge?
Work Hard or Work Smart: Which Way To Fitness?
Working Out When You're Pressed For Time
I Was Once Blind: Neuroplasticity in the Treatment of Sensory Impairment

May - 2009

For The Love of God, Stop Exercising
Endorsement Thursday: The Moji
One True Aim: The Podcast that May Not Be
Exercise: Do We Really Need More Incentive?
Ennobling Muscles
Are Injuries Gifts?
Underdogs
Wanted: Men For Hazardous Journey
Radio Personality Gets Cancer, Makes us Laugh
Plus-Sized Yoga: Good Call
Squat Judiciously
HFCS Strikes Back!!
More Tales of Obscure Body-Work
Flesh on Film
A Guru Who's Earned His Stripes
Gorillas In Our Midst
Attention Must Be Paid
My New Favorite Thing: "The Beautiful Aim"
Hybrid Workouts: Where It's All Going

April - 2009

A Plea For Unfunny Disease Names
To Go Harder, Go Easier
Get Your Kids in Shape
Newsflash: Coaching Works!
Friday 4/24 Vid-Spiration!
Success Story: The Fat-Man's Agreement
More Nasty, Brutish, and Short Workout Options
Muscles For Sale
The Seductive Power of "Just In Case"
Fun with Cardio!
Tough Guys, Tap Water, and Black Belts in Life
Health Round-Up: Brown Fat and T'ai Chi
Weight: Use More for a Strong Core
Ask the Fitness Nerd: Interval Workouts 101
I Love You, Inner, Repressed Wild-Man
Too Chicken to Juice
4/3/09 Friday Vid-Spiration!
Happy 40th to "Aerobics"
Dieting: Controlled and Regimented, or Wild and Free?

March - 2009

ISO Personal Trainer
The Cons of Solitary Confinement: Taking a "Me" Decade
Poetry Thursday at MPF!
Move Well, Grasshopper
Deadlift and Row Your Way to Happiness!
The Guns of a First Lady
Just Do It...Seriously
Don't Forget Your Wrists and Ankles
Exercise Equipment You Shouldn't Buy
The 'Art and Sport' of...er...Bodybuilding
Move Like a Monkey
Pain and Gain: What's the Deal?
Health News Round-Up: Strength-Training Myths; Hungry Guys
Z-Health: Stress Relief, Great Performance
Insurance: An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Flesh
Gravitas Envy: Don't Worry About Going Gray
Ask the Fitness Nerd: How Fast Can You Lose Fat?
Does Sitting Around Cause Asthma?
Audio Wednesday! Interview with Shane Miller and Carl Miller
Get Strong the Right Way
Hobbesian Workouts: Nasty, Brutish and Short

February - 2009

Move Better in the Gym
The Lost Art of Spotting (Reprise).
The Menstruation Conspiracy
Core Training With a Bad Back
Great Gyms: Carl and Sandra's in Santa Fe
Rounding up Health News From the Phoenix Airport!
Away From Squat Rack
Ask-the-Fitness-Nerd Friday the 13th!
Muscles on his Muscles
Tips for Newbies
Carpentry Without Hammers
Ask-the-Fitness-Nerd-Friday!
Basic Training
Hard Core Work
Enough Dogma
Fun with Functional Circuits

January - 2009

Friday New MPF Feature Alert!
More Help For Lower-Back Woes
Health News Round-Up Wednesday!
Fitness: More than Muscles
More Smart People at Perform Better
Six Weeks to...the Same Old You?
Fix Your Shoulders
Own Your Movements
Design Flaws
Squatting: Dead to Me?
And the Best Fitness Writing Award Goes To...
A Bridge on the River Fitness
Brando and Bruce
Man vs. Chicken
Episode VI: The Keys To Fitness
Health-Care Hell; the Barackerciser
Fun With Mobile Joints
Rolling, Stretching, and Other Things You Do To Dough
Want to Get Fit? Don't Buy Exercise Equipment...
A Lesson From the Monkey Bars
Man On Wire: My New Favorite Movie

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