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Health and Fitness

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The Better Way to Self-Motivate When You Don’t Feel Like Working Out

You have two self-motivation strategies to choose from when you don’t want to work out: A) The childish approach B) The grown-up approach.

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Sleeping on the Floor: A Year of Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Practical lessons and advice from my up and down experiences with sleeping on the floor over the past year.

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Metabolic Exercises: A Huge List for HIIT Workout Planning

Use this expanding library of metabolic exercises to spend less effort thinking what to do and spend it on your HIIT workout instead.

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How to Acquire a Taste: My Black Licorice Experiment

Experimenting with 7 scientific and pseudoscientific strategies on how to acquire a taste for a food to try to learn to like black licorice.

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How to Stop Liking Junk Food: The Reverse-to-Revulsion Technique

How to train yourself to stop liking junk food by doing the opposite of proven strategies used to get kids to eat their veggies.

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Factors Affecting Taste Perception: Fun Facts and Findings on Flavor

Fun facts about factors that affect taste pereception that you can use to make every bite in life a little more delicious.

Chris in the middle of a fun HIIT workout called a Pantathlon

Pant-athlon: The New, Fun HIIT Workout That Keeps Us Coming Back for More

The Pant-athlon is a new, fun HIIT workout involving strategy, competition, and endless variety. Any level and with any equipment can do it.

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Can You Get More Out of Your Food by Eating With Your Hands?

Does eating with your hands have social, health, and flavor benefits? Let’s roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty to investigate.

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