Oven Roasted Spicy Sweet Potato Wedges

November 19th, 2011 Posted in Recipes 6 Comments »

This is a recipe for Oven-Roasted Spicy Sweet Potato Wedges that you will want to eat with every meal. Sweet potatoes are readily available starting in the autumn and all through the winter, but they are tasty all year ’round.

Also known as yams, sweet potatoes are packed full of vitamins and minerals such as including vitamin C, beta-carotene, fiber, copper, potassium and iron, and best of all they won’t cause your blood sugar to spike as rapidly as white potatoes. There is also no need to add sugar to make them taste good, because they are naturally sweet.

These orange-fleshed root vegetables are most often seen in a marshmallow-topped casserole around Thanksgiving, but why not try a recipe that adds savory and spicy flavors, such as these Oven-Roasted Spicy Sweet Potato Wedges?

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Tags: Diet, healthy food, nutrition, recipe, Recipes, sweet potatoes, yams

Meals to Maximize Performance

November 10th, 2011 Posted in Diet No Comments »

Meals That Maximize Your Performance

Willpower is not enough. Food is what fuels your training and performance. Athletes make eating meals a conscious process, and they put knowledge of nutrition and planning into it.

I have found that performance outcomes can differ by seconds, which means the right muscle didn’t get the right fuel. Every bite that you eat counts. In working with athletes and their nutrition needs, I’ve found a few simple rules that help you keep food as fuel at the forefront of your mind and help ensure that you get the proteins, carbs, fats, vitamins, minerals and fluids.

Here we go:

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Tags: Conditioning, Diet, exercise, fitness, food, meals, nutrition, performance

Stay fit Stay healthy: Exercise daily

November 7th, 2011 Posted in Healthy Lifestyle 1 Comment »

The growing health issues like heart issues and obesity can be curbed by keeping your body fit through daily and proper exercises. Getting into a habit of regular exercise can lead you good health and increase your energy levels. It also alleviates your stress level to a large extent keeping you fit and fine.

Ironically, despite all the importance, exercises are still not considered as a must activity in daily schedule since people find it hard and boring. Regardless of the hard and easy thing you see in the exercises, putting into its proper habit is important rather than doing it haphazardly. There are couples of benefits of having a daily exercise schedule. Let’s explore them.

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Tags: exercise, fit, fitness, health, healthy

Ecdisten and Blog Updates

November 4th, 2011 Posted in Business 6 Comments »

Hello everyone. I’ve been quite busy these last two weeks. Hope you all had a most excellent Halloween. I was Ghost Face this year. But I digress…

What I’ve been doing

My latest job just ended after 3.5 years and I’m now unemployed for a week, so if you or anyone you know is looking to hire a software engineer with experience in Java and .NET, or if anyone needs a web developer / SEO / SEM, please let me know. In any case, much of my free time has been spent sending out resumes and searching for the next perfect job. Lord knows I’m not making a living on Project Swole revenue.

I’m also renting out my old house in Hooksett, NH. Any extra free time has been spent painting, cleaning, and fixing the house, getting it ready to be someone else’s house for a couple years. Fixing and cleaning a house is actually pretty good exercise if you keep moving at a high pace.

Ecdisten Update

A notice to everyone who ordered Ecdisten from buyecdysterone.com, I have placed my next order! That’s right, my order is being processed, which means your order being shipped is just a matter of time. I’m still a couple weeks off from receiving my shipment, but as soon as the boxes are in my hands your bottles will go out in the mail.

Thanks to everyone who trusted me enough to pre-pay for their ecdysterone supplements. The success of this venture is entirely dedicated to you!

Swole Updates

I haven’t posted as often as I prefer in the past two weeks. This is because of everything I mentioned up above. I have a whole slew of diet and workout content that I NEED to post if I can just find the time to write all the content.

My crazy fat loss detox diet is 50% written, and I just know it’s going to blow your socks off for the new year.

I have some new full body routines, a refurbished Werewolf Strength Training routine, and a Werewolf fat loss routine just waiting for the finishing touches. Those should prove to be exciting.

Stick around and good things will happen between now and the end of the year. Fitness is going to explode in 2012. Don’t miss the boat!

Tags: Business, ecdisten, ecdysterone, Personal

Halloween Recipes: Caviar Crescent Moons

October 25th, 2011 Posted in Recipes 1 Comment »

A high protein gourmet Halloween recipe.

If you’re hosting a Halloween party this year, chances are, you’re serving your guests a few Halloween inspired treats. Typically, the quality of the appetizers gets sacrificed in the name of this fun filled holiday. Why not try something different this year, and opt for a healthier, more refined gourmet foods hors d’oeuvres table.

With domestic prices on gourmet goods at an all time low, you can achieve this without breaking the bank and with these tips, you won’t have to worry about having to skip on any the fun ghoul and goblin spooky flair. Instead of the endless amount of sugar cookies caked with sugar and frosting, why not invite your guests to partake in delicious puff pastries or blinis topped with crème fraîche and orange Salmon roe and black caviar to look like pumpkins. This way, your guests will feel guilt free because they are eating a high protein snack, rather than a fatty cookie.

Keeping with your Halloween gourmet theme, substitute your bagged chips for tasty Crescent Moon inspired toast topped with sour cream or a low fat aioli spread and then topped with black caviar. The caviar will give your moons just the right amount of that Halloween feel.

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Tags: Diet, food, foods, halloween, high-protein, nutrition, protein, recipe, Recipes

Swole 101: The Elusive Quest for a Six Pack

October 20th, 2011 Posted in Bodybuilding, Conditioning, Diet, Fitness Tips, HIIT Routines 5 Comments »

Nowadays, it seems everyone is after a toned midsection. Some people won’t even stop until they achieve shredded washboard abs. A six pack has come to be an important quest for many persons, however, many are misled as to the method to obtain it.

One common misconception is that cardiovascular exercise is the most important aspect of dialing in a six pack. Another misconception is that doing 1000 crunches a day is most important. Wrong on both accounts! Diet possibly plays the greatest role in obtaining a six pack. Let’s see why.

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Tags: 6 pack, ab training, abdominals, abs, bodybuilding, Diet, myth, myths, nutrition, six pack, swole 101

Transitioning From Cutting Phase to Lean Mass Phase

October 19th, 2011 Posted in Bodybuilding, Diet, Nutrition Tip 1 Comment »

Transitioning from bulking to cutting can be complicated. Most often, the transition is done improperly and we end up either losing precious muscle mass during a cut or gaining too much fat during a bulk. I’ve been there and so have you, don’t kid yourself.

When switching from cut to bulk, we might overestimate the rate at which we can gain muscle, which results from a lack of knowledge about the human physiological response to dieting. Some inexperienced bodybuilders might make an immediate switch from a strict diet to free eating, which results in the immediate reversal of any recent diet progress.

Of course strategies will differ dependent on the individual, but the basic concept should remain the same. You will have to accept that your first couple attempts at bulking will result in either very little muscle gain or unnecessary fat gain. It is all a matter of trial and error.

Let’s examine a couple different diet transition strategies.

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Tags: bodybuilding, bulking, cutting, Diet, dieting, eating, fat loss, lean mass, lose fat, lose weight, nutrition, weight loss

Strength is the Product of Struggle

October 17th, 2011 Posted in Celebrity, Quote of the Day 2 Comments »

First a quote, then an excerpt from Henry Rollins’ The Iron

“Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.”

“Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.”

Henry Rollins – a legend

Tags: bodybuilding, henry rollins, muscle, powerlifting, quote, strength, struggle, the iron

Project Swole is Looking for Investors

October 15th, 2011 Posted in Healthy Lifestyle 3 Comments »

Remember that post about ecdysterone a couple days ago? Let me refresh your memory – Build Muscle with Ecdysterone.

The post was a hit. People are flocking to the site buyecdysterone.com, which is where you can place orders and pre-orders, as well as learn all about ecdysterone and Ecdisten. Sales are coming in, which is a good thing, but they’re coming in too fast for me to fill.

Ecdisten is on Backorder

If you’ve read the post or visited the site you know by now that Ecdisten is sold out. However, I want to get the backorders filled ASAP. The problem is that I need to place a large order to fill my inventory for some time. In fact I need to come up with a couple thousand dollars to place my next order. After all, Russian scientists need to get paid too.

Since I put up the option to pre-order Ecdisten without an initial payment, I’ve had more people placing pre-orders than pre-sales, which basically leaves me up a creek without a paddle as I don’t have enough capital to place the next order.

I Need Some Investment Money to Replenish Inventory

So now I turn to you, Project Swole readers; I turn to you to help me raise investment capital.

Personal Use – Those of you who want to try Ecdisten for its strength and muscle gain benefits, now is your chance. You can order just a couple bottles at the current sale price. (Once inventory is restored, the price of Ecdisten will increase by $10 per bottle.)

Make a Profit – Those of you who would like to resell this stuff yourself, now is YOUR chance too! For a limited time you can buy Ecdisten in bulk at mega-cheap near-wholesale prices! You will definitely be able to double your investment money by buying up Ecdisten at these prices.

1 bottle costs $50
2 bottles cost $49 each
5 bottles cost $47 each
10 bottles cost $44 each (12% savings)
25 bottles cost $40 each (20% savings)
50 bottles cost $35 each (30% savings!)

What you might not realize is that my business associate is getting $99 per bottle on eBay! You can stand to double your investment here.

You Can Trust Me

I’m not out to scam anyone with this offer. My name and picture are all over social networks. I have several websites online. My reputation needs to stay clean. If anything goes wrong, everyone will get their investments refunded.

Place Your Order Now

So that’s it. I’ve stated my case.

Go to BuyEcdysterone.com and place your order today. I recommend 5 bottles for personal use, as that should last 3-4 months depending on how much you use.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Swole 101 – How to Avoid Training Plateaus

October 13th, 2011 Posted in Fitness Tips, Motivation, Weight Training 4 Comments »

Don’t let Your Workouts Get Stale!

Going to the gym and doing the same workout over and over again is a sure way to prevent progress when it comes on to muscle growth. Repetition is a surefire way to make progress… in moderation. Too much repetition will leave you tired, bored, sore, lazy, and overtrained. Enough emphasis cannot be placed on the necessity of having a properly designed fitness program.