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The Walking Dead, “Smart for Then or Smart for Now?”

March 12, 2015 ♦

Parable

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"Smart for Then or Smart for Now? " Rick Grimes, Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 13 I choose Smart for Now! One of my fantastic clients recently introduced me as Michele the Trainer an amazing Entreprennaire (extraordinary entrepreneur). That intro meant a lot to me. It takes a lot of…

Fanatic about Maintaining the Right to be Fanatic

October 5, 2014 ♦

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Fanatics of Anything are a Turnoff. The one thing we should be a fantastic fanatic about is retaining the freedom to BE a fanatic if we want to be fanatic. I’ve found that the best way for me to be an effective trainer and teacher is to avoid being a…

Any Workout vs. a Workout that’s Right for YOU

September 8, 2013 ♦

Movement, MTT Critic At Large

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Any Workout vs. a Workout that's Right for YOU Has this ever happened to you, or to someone you know? You want a personal trainer and you call Joe. When you show up to workout, however, it's Moe, or maybe Jack? What happened to Joe? How can this…

Cost of Obesity is $11,881,507,282!!!

July 18, 2013 ♦

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Weight problems cost California FORTY ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! Cost of Obesity in LOS ANGELES is $11,881,507,282!! Those of us who have been obese or overweight can list for you the costs associated with being overweight. Food obviously costs more--which I know folks can argue that healthy food costs…

Bikini Summer!!

July 8, 2011 ♦

Holidays, Movement

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Do you see the same body as last year? What about our INTERNAL body? Are we working to PREVENT issues? When you start working in the dark of morning and don't leave work until the dark of evening.....and you are inside a year round same temperature building, with the same…

Packets getting Preferred treatment on the shortest Path to the Port

June 3, 2011 ♦

NerdNotes for Engineers

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The internet sends information over the wire or wireless (email, browsing, video games, porn, etc.) broken up into tiny packets. If your packets don't arrive quickly and in perfect health..what you see on your monitor takes longer to load or arrives looking broken or with an error. Internet performance testing…

7 Dead Friends on LinkedIn

May 27, 2011 ♦

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I have a few dead friends on LinkedIn.. Sure I could delete them..but they are like virtual Memorials ....like when you see an emotional mountain of flowers piled up near a streetlight off the freeway and you know there must have been a fatality there. We were all in tech,…

Apple a Day!!

April 15, 2011 ♦

Tiny Changes

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Michele the Trainer agrees that An Apple a Day is Good for YOU is TRUE! (organic apples of course) "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." Bernard Baruch Here is one study that is probably true (as it aligns with pure…

OOH That Smell…Is that Perfume or Anaphylaxis ?

April 8, 2011 ♦

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I'll be the first to admit, that I am guilty of bringing the exotic fruit Durian into the office and having my coworkers freak out thinking the smell was a gas leak and almost evacuating the second floor and calling the gas company. Yes I know we all remember that..LOL.…

Please Pay for your Balls

February 19, 2011 ♦

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Got balls? Not every company has a PA system, and when they do it can be a belly fat producing stress hormone generating tradgedy, or not-so-often, a source of great amusement. I worked at a telecom company that had personal trainers and group exercise classes, free clothing and lots of…