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Swine Flu Prevention, Remedies, Tamiflu, and Pandemics

By Jay Madrigal / / Comments Off on Swine Flu Prevention, Remedies, Tamiflu, and Pandemics

Let’s get something straight right off the bat: I am a researcher, not an medical doctor. This gives me an advantage over medical doctors however, because I don’t have a medical bias that can cloud my judgment. I also haven’t been brainwashed by drug companies or through pharmaceutical education. I do however, spend many hours…

Good Nutrition Without a Plan

By Jay Madrigal / / Comments Off on Good Nutrition Without a Plan

How many times have you awoken in the morning only to realize that you don’t have any food prepared, are going to be too busy to cook, and you really have no plan? This hardly ever happens to me, but it did yesterday (Saturday). I almost always make food for 3 days or more in…

Shopping For a Personal Trainer

By Jay Madrigal / / Comments Off on Shopping For a Personal Trainer

Seattle personal trainers really are the best in the country.  X Gym personal trainers are the best of the best, so when X Gym members have to move out of the area, they always ask me how to find a good personal trainer in their new town. This doesn’t have to be as tough as most people…

You’re Only as Strong as Your Peer Group

By Jay Madrigal / / Comments Off on You’re Only as Strong as Your Peer Group

Are your friends and loved ones sabotaging your fitness progress without even knowing it? They might be, and it’s not because they don’t care about you. It’s because they do care about you and they value the patterns they share with you. I have talked to many people who are very fired up about their…

The Side Effects of Fat

By Jay Madrigal / / Comments Off on The Side Effects of Fat

I always find it interesting that the drug commercials on TV seem to spend much more time listing the side effects of their medicine than its benefits. Well, if one of those commercials listed only the top 20 side effects of extra body fat, it would have to read somewhat like this blog below (this…

Toxic Tuna

By Jay Madrigal / / Comments Off on Toxic Tuna

Got Mercury? Some of you have wondered why a Seattle personal trainer like me writes so much about food and so little about exercise. I do in fact own the X Gyms, so wouldn’t it make more sense for me to talk about exercise more than food? The reason I write so much more on nutrition…