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Escalating Density Training is not like your traditional
weight training. While traditional weight training
focuses on muscle fatigue, EDT focuses on muscle
performance. In this system, you move increasingly heavy
weights in short periods of time in an effort to boost
your overall power output. You are only dealing with two
variables: time and amount of work. To learn more check
out this week's article on Escalating Density
Training: for enhanced muscle performance. In fitness
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If you are
diabetic or want to lower your blood sugar level, take
the juice of 4-5 bitter gourds (karela) every morning on
an empty stomach. Bitter gourd contains a hypoglycemic
compound (a plant insulin), which has been found to be
beneficial in lowering the blood and urine sugar levels.
If you are taking medications to lower your blood sugar,
adding bitter gourd might make your blood sugar drop too
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Never Give Up
If you want to get somewhere, you have to know where you want to go and how to
get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The secret of life isn't what happens to you, but what you do with what happens
to you. Help other people to cope with their problems and your own will be
easier to cope with. Never use the word impossible seriously again. Toss it into
the verbal wastebasket.
Self-trust is the first secret of success. So believe in and trust yourself.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they
haven't half the strength you think they have.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever
believed possible. How you think about a problem is more important than the
problem itself - so always think positively. Go at life with abandon; give it
all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.
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"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand
pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up
and begin again."
-Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker |
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Lentil Moussaka
Serves: 4
INGREDIENTS:
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3 tablespoons
vegetable oil
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1 onion,
chopped
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4 celery
sticks, chopped
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1 garlic
clove, crushed
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400 g (13 oz)
can chopped tomatoes
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250 g (8 oz)
green lentils
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2 tablespoons
Japanese soy sauce
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900 ml (1 1/2
pints) water
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500 g (1 lb)
aubergines, sliced
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salt and
pepper
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1 tablespoon
oregano, to garnish
TOPPING:
METHOD:
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Heat 1
tablespoon of the oil in a saucepan, add the onion and cook until softened.
Add the celery, garlic, tomatoes with their juice, lentils, soy sauce, 1/4
teaspoon pepper and water. Cover and simmer for 50 minutes, until cooked.
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Heat the
remaining oil in a griddle pan, add the aubergine slices in batches and cook
on both sides until golden. Alternatively, cook under a preheated moderate
grill.
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Cover the base
of a shallow ovenproof dish with the lentil mixture and arrange a layer of
aubergine slices on top. Repeat the layer, finishing with a layer of
aubergine slices.
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Mix the eggs
and fromage frais for the topping, season with salt and pepper to taste, and
pour over the aubergines. Top with the cheese and bake in a preheated
moderate oven at 180oC (350oF), Gas Mark 4, for 30 - 40 minutes, until
golden. Serve garnished with oregano leaves.
NUTRITIONAL
INFORMATION:
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Carbohydrate -
43 g,
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Protein - 26
g,
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Fat - 14 g,
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Energy: kcal -
385
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Escalating Density Training: for enhanced muscle
performance
The Escalating Density Training concept is fairly new
but seems to be pretty solid. With Escalating Density
Training, Charles Staley introduces a whole new training
concept.
Escalating Density Training is not like your traditional
weight training. While traditional weight training
focuses on muscle fatigue, EDT focuses on muscle
performance. In this system, you move increasingly heavy
weights in short periods of time in an effort to boost
your overall power output. You are only dealing with two
variables: time and amount of work.
The idea is that you do as many push-ups and squats as
you can during the 15 minutes, and the next time you
come around to that same exercise set, which might be
one to two weeks later depending on your schedule, you
try to do more push-ups or squats in the same period of
time, or use more weight; doing squats while holding
onto kettle bells or dumbbells, or push-ups with a
weighted vest.
The fun thing about this training program is that it
gives you a numeric goal to beat. You know exactly what
your power factor rating (seconds divided by reps) was
the last time you did this exercise set, so when you're
doing it again, you know what you have to beat. You
begin to compete with yourself, which makes exercise
more fun and rewarding. It's also startling to learn
just how quickly you can gain power.
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