Say WHAT!? Each Hour of TV You Watch Shortens Your Life By...

22 minutes!

Researchers in Australia recently conducted a study on 11,000 adults to get to the bottom of just how horrible TV-watching really is for your health. Well...I didn't really see this coming, but the results were pretty shocking. The researchers found that Australian's 25+ collectively watched ~9.8 BILLION hours of TV since 2008, which equated to a loss of 286,000 hours of life--or about 22 minutes/hour of TV watched.

Wow...That's pretty incredible. Thinking about it, you'd have to watch ~23,890 hours to cut 1 year off of your life, or ~65.5 hours to cut 1 day off of your life. Well then, thinking to myself...I've already lost a few months of my life.

Although I do question the validity of the study and their assumption that the loss of years of life is directly caused by TV watching (also, what number do you base a "full life" off of?), there's no doubt that living a sedentary lifestyle is absolutely one of the worst things you can do to your body. The one-two punch of overeating and sitting still is a pretty deadly combo, and a really easy way to develop a nasty case of obesity or heart disease.

So stay active, eat well, and turn off the tube...

For the full story check out http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20093072-10391704.html

The Totally FREE, dFL Calorie Calculator and BMI Calculator

A while back I posted a full guide on "How to Calculate Your Individualized Calorie Needs to Gain, Lose, or Maintain Your Weight," which was pretty good...but it actually required a little bit of real work and effort to figure out how many calories you needed to consume in order to achieve whatever dietary goal you might've had in mind. With that in mind, me and my good friend Mike developed a really simplified excel calorie calculator that only requires you to input your body fat %, weight, and TDEE multiplier (total daily energy expenditure)...and voila, it'll spit out your very own personal daily caloric requirements for any situation.

If you don't know your body fat % off-hand, or have any way of measuring it any time soon, I've included a glossary of pictures to use as reference. I've also included a chart of different TDEE multipliers and what each number represents.

Additionally, although I personally think BMI is a really stupidly horrible metric to gauge whether or not someone is classified as underweight, normal, overweight, or obese (I'm 7% body fat, but it classifies me as borderline overweight...go figure), I've also built in a really simplified BMI calculator that only requires you to input your height and weight. BMI is a pretty widely used and recognized indicator of the obesity/overweight percentage of the population, so it's definitely interesting to see where you fall and how you're classified.

You can download the Free dFL Calorie Calculator and BMI Calculator @ http://www.mediafire.com/?bis5wtb5nkvbi5c.

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I'm out for now, stay fit. ~DiSanto


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[Video] MMA Fighter B.J. Penn Jumps Out of a 3-Foot Pool...With No Hands (Waka Flaka!)

Today I have an absolutely INSANE video of MMA fighter B.J. Penn jumping out of a 3-foot pool...with no hands. The amount of lower body strength, power, and explosiveness to jump clean out of that much water is pretty much unreal. I've really never seen anything like it before...enjoy.

And if you want any shot of doing what BJ does in the vid below, start doing my Vertical Leap Workout Routine.