Well, everything this week was coming along beautifully until I was ninja'd by a flu on Wednesday. The pesky fever hasn't left me yet (I think it's due to the recent lack of vegetables and deadlifts in my life), so needless to say, I don't trust my brain with putting anything remotely close to intelligent or informative on paper today. As such, I've allowed a few other people to do the writing for me today:

What Women Should Never (but often) Do While Trying to Get in Shape: Part 2 - Dieting by Juliet Deane this one's a bit of an oldie but I thought it would be of great benefit to the women (even the men, too) in the crowd that seem to never make progress in the "dieting" realm.

Top 20 Bodyweight Exercises for Building Muscle & Strength by Jason Ferruggia Jason recently wrote this article on bodyweight training and, given that I've increasingly fallen in love with bodyweight exercises, and have been doing them more and more in my own training, most of what he said resonated home with me.

Lastly, here's a pretty funny diagram on how to make wise food choices at the supermarket. It was tweeted by us yesterday. It's actually scary how true this picture is and many would be smart to pay attention to the first box on there ('Does it have a label?').