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So I have recently been toying around with the one arm military press. I train shoulders twice per week and I now include heavy one arm military presses every other shoulder workout. This started by accident a little over a month ago. I was planning to do some seated dumbbell military presses, but all the benches were taken. I grabbed a set of dumbbells and decided to do just one arm at a time standing (an exercise I've never included as part of my routine). It felt pretty awkward the first set, but really engaged my triceps. By the 3rd set I was hooked! This creates a much different feel in the shoulders than doing seated dumbbell presses. After just 4-5 weeks of using this lift all of my weights in my pressing movements have shot up. No wonder this was such a popular exercise back in the early 1900's.

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I was surprised to come across a Marie Claire article online disparaging the work of six popular healthy eating bloggers, several of whom I have followed for almost a year.

The article, which also appears in the November issue of the magazine, paints these women — Kath Younger (who blogs at katheats.com), Tina Haupert (carrotsncake.com), Meghann Anderson (graduatemeghann.com), Caitlin Boyle (healthytippingpoint.com), Heather Pare (hangrypants.com) and Jenna Weber (eatliverun.com) — as food and fitness extremists who have unhealthy obsessions with their physical appearances and the food they’re putting into their bodies.

The bloggers are lambasted for advocating healthier eating, when “in fact,” as the writer Katie Drummond suggests, they are putting readers and themselves in danger with their unhealthy approach to food and fitness.

The article is unfortunate and unfairly slanted.

In reading these healthy eating/living/fitness blogs, I have garnered inspiration and motivation for my own daily walk (and, of course, for this blog), as I’m sure many other women have.

The women who write the blogs offer up healthy recipes (and some not-so-healthy), keep food journals of what they eat throughout the day, post pictures, share what exercise they’ve done and offer small glimpses into their personal lives. They write honestly about their successes and hopes, as well as their struggles and frustrations.

Most importantly, they make clear that they in no way are the last word on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. They are offering examples from their own lives of exercise and diet failures and victories.

No, these girls are not dietitians (except for Younger) or fitness experts — but they don’t tout themselves as such, either.

I’m sure it’s possible that some unhealthy or struggling readers could come across these blogs and think they need to follow the bloggers’ routines to a T without care or concern for their own needs and well-being.

And I’m also positive there are blogs being written by girls who are truly unhealthy and who promote distorted eating and exercise.

In reading these blogs, though, I am quite sure that is not the goal of any of these bloggers. Sure, there are times when they come across as compulsive about what they eat or don’t eat. There are times when they seem to exercise too much and eat too little.

But in reality, they are just like the majority of us. Struggling to find a balance each day, wanting to live healthily, striving for a fit body.

Have you read the Marie Claire article? Do you follow any health or fitness blogs? What’s your take on the issue?

Our friends at XVIVO, a scientific visualization company from Rocky Hill, CT, have just released a brand new animation that will blow your mind as it takes you on a ride of biochemical metabolic processes inside mitochondria. The video, titled “Powering the Cell: Mitochondria,” was developed together with Harvard University, and is the second installment to the super popular “The Inner Life of the Cell” animation.

Make sure to watch it full screen:

From a press announcement obtained by Medgadget:

“Inner Life of the Cell” was originally intended for undergraduate life sciences students at Harvard. However, the animation went viral after being shown in the Siggraph Electronic Theater in 2006. The mix of publicity, criticism and acclaim proved that there was an unmet demand for compelling scientific visuals that educate as well as inspire. “It’s quite clear that we understand the world primarily through sight,"says Dr. Robert Lue Ph.D., Director of Life Sciences Education at Harvard and a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. "Somehow we don’t use that in teaching science as we really should.” Both Harvard and XVIVO received letters from students, teachers, and scientists all over the world, asking when the next chapter would be available. Well, the wait is over.

The newly released four and a half minute animation, “Powering the Cell: Mitochondria,” transports students into the three-dimensional microscopic world of mitochondria. The animation highlights the production of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) – mobile molecules which store chemical energy derived from the breakdown of foodstuffs. ATP molecules act as a kind of currency, imparting chemical energy to power most of the cell’s activities.

Dr. Lue points out “The production of ATP is a fundamental process in all living organisms, and here we show it in the context of an animal cell’s mitochondria. It is the combination of many proteins specifically arranged within mitochondria that allow this amazing process to occur, so we wanted to visualize a more complete picture. This presented both the challenge and exciting opportunity to represent several aspects of mitochondrial structure and activity that have never been visualized before. We hope this will add to the viewers’ understanding and appreciation of one of the cornerstones of metabolism.”

Project page: Powering the Cell: Mitochondria @ XVIVO …

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The coolest thing about the Internet in my opinion is the ability to meet people from all over the globe. Over the past 3 years I’ve become friends with a sharp personal trainer from Bulgaria, Yavor Marichkov.