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If you are averse to the gym, its blaring electronic music and sweaty equipments, dont lose hope, there are plenty of ways to lose weight and tone your body that don't involve interacting with overenthusiastic weight lifters and nosy personal trainers. The easiest one being going for a walk daily (bonus: it also doesnt cost a dime). But, you dont have to take our word for it. Take 25-year-old Akhand Pratap Singhs who lost 50 kgs in 12 months by walking everyday for 2 hours.

I was always a fitness enthusiast. But I was not just into fitness; I was into anything and everything that fascinated me. However, in the 12th grade, I was so focussed on excelling in sports that I ending up scoring poor marks through the grade. Consequently, everyone around me, started criticising and judging me on the basis of my marks. They'd completely overlook my great physical capabilitiesI could run for kilometres, play for hours and also withstand difficult conditions. Yet, marks were all that anyone could see! So, to prove my academic mantle, I gave the AIEEE exam and although I qualified, I wasnt admitted into a college of my choosing. But after everything that had happened during this span, I decided I will give my education my 100 percent, and that being said, with this decision my lifes biggest irony also began, he says.

The higher my marks went, the higher my weight went as well. My body type needs regular exercising or I start putting on fat. And by the end of college, though Id topped my course and got a gold medal for my academic excellence, I also got a gold medal for putting on weight!" he adds.

"Post the college routine, I started prepping for competitive exams, and for the next two years I only focused on them and landed up weighing 140 kgs before the reality of my health finally caught up with me, he adds.

It became very difficult for me to move. My back would start hurting if there Id walk for more than 10 meters. I could not even stand for more than 5 minutes without feeling tired. Suddenly, there were also no clothes available for me, except in special XXXL clothing stores. And these werent even half of my problems. I would not fit into any of the chairs in my own home, let alone the ones at a cinema hall."

"It got to a point that I started thinking how will I lose weight now! I have piled up so much fat. I started feeling very sad over my situation, because think about it, to be able to reduce any weight, Id have to walk and move and I wasnt even able to stand for five minutes."

"During this phase, my mom emerged as my biggest support. I asked her if Id be able to lose any weight and she said yes without batting an eyelid. I could also sense fear looming over her that if I didn't whip myself in shape, my body could succumb to multiple illnesses. Thus on August 1, 2018 (her birthday), I decided that by this time next year, I will lose 50 kgs and trim from 140 kgs to 90 kgs. And, as you can see right now, that Ive been able to do so, let me also inform you how I did it.

To lose weight, the first thing I did was make it very clear to myself that I will not take any medication or supplements. I will only eat homemade food and also reduce the portion sizes of the food I was consuming. And lastly, I will become fit by walking.

Walking is the best form of free physical exercise that burns calories and belly fat. It also helps preserve lean body muscle. Club it with a healthy diet plan and routine, youll start noticing an improvement in your body soon. Read more about its benefits here.

I created a simple plan to walk for two hours dailyone hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. I only did this for 365 days to lose weight. I know, reading this right now, it may come across as a very simple, but it took me a long amount to be able to walk so much daily. When I started, Id only walk on my buildings terrace with the help of a railing. But gradually it got better and so did my progress, he says.

"And, while walking helped greatly, my new and improved diet plan also helped me whip my body into shape. You can take at my weight loss diet plan below.

Breakfast: A bowl of fresh fruits or oats or porridge

Lunch: Brown rice and chapatis on alternate weeks + Moong dal or Arhar dal and lots of salad with green vegetables

Dinner: Same as the breakfast

I also ensured that I ate absolutely no sugar and drank lots of water.

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"Now, I have switched to a normal diet. But all the food I consume is cooked in very little oil. And, to not gain any kilos back, I walk for one hour everyday."

Stay disciplinedI walked for 2 hours, 365 days without any break.

Disclaimer: The diet and workout routines shared by the respondents may or may not be approved by diet and fitness experts. GQ India doesn't encourage or endorse the weight loss tips & tricks shared by the person in the article. Please consult an authorised medical professional before following any specific diet or workout routine mentioned above.

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In an emotional interview, a new mother from Irvinestown has spoken of how losing over four stone in weight helped her conceive and give birth to a healthy baby boy.

Prior to losing the weight, Claire Carleton had been told by her doctor that due to her high BMI she would find it difficult to conceive.

I was in a relationship and we were planning to have a baby at some point but I knew that because I was heavily overweight that it would be difficult and obviously I had other underlying health issues so I decided, with the support of my sister who was at Slimming World at the time, to join the Irvinestown group which is local to me.

I suppose my journey started then, Claire explained.

She added: Because I had a focus, I wanted to lose weight for a purpose, it seemed to come off me quite easily.

Claire commented that prior to losing the weight she felt fat, unfit, unhealthy, miserable and just uncomfortable.

My BMI was extremely high and because I was overweight, for the benefit of myself and my baby it would be better if I lost weight, said Claire, who weighed 14 stone 13 pounds before she started losing weight.

A couple of weeks after losing a total of four stone seven pounds, Claire found out that she was pregnant.

Once we started trying, after I lost all that weight, we conceived within a few weeks and I had relatively good pregnancy, she shared.

Five months ago Claire gave birth to her son Eoin.

When asked how it felt to have lost weight which resulted in her giving birth to a healthy baby boy, getting quite emotional Claire said: It felt great, it felt amazing.

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) Hundreds of pills, expensive machines and constant blood testing.

They are among the keys to immortality according the ultra-wealthy who are becoming devout followers of whats known as biohacking.

A rich Dallas and Austin developer is offering CBS 11 News a rare glimpse into the lifestyle.

Ari Rastegar (CBS 11)

Ari Rastegar goes to bed in special clothing on a temperature-regulated bed.

It has this metallic mechanism inside of it that helps flush lactic acid and eliminate inflammation, says Rastegar.

He also wears a mask.

Orange glasses that illuminate the the light so I dont disrupt the circadian rhythms, he says.

Thats just Rastegars nightly routine.

During the day, he takes nearly 150 vitamins customized to his current needs by his doctor.

Rastegar also gets his blood tested monthly.

The 37-year-old has a $15,000 vapor machine thats supposed to reduce stress and another $15,000 machine designed to calm his brain two hours before bedtime.

He says its paying off and making him healthier than ever.

I am my asset, he says.

Ari Rastegar and his vapor machine. (CBS 11)

Biohacking is all part of an effort to extend life beyond anything humans can imagine.

The data will tell you the folks that are living this type of lifestyle are living well in excess of 120 years old, says Rastegar.

The goal of biohacking is to keep strands of DNA from aging.

Rastegar has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But the real estate developer can afford it with the money he makes as CEO of Rastegar Property.

He owns buildings in Austin and is planning a $100,000,000, 26-story residential tower in the uptown section of Dallas next year.

I dont know if Im trying to live forever. Im trying to live as long as I can contribute, he says.

Rastegars exhausting daily routine also includes a hyperbaric chamber, meditation and he employs a life coach.

Rastegar is one of a growing number of longevity devotees who also undergo hormone therapy.

Others, not Rastegar, have even resorted to blood transfusions and stem cell treatments stay young.

My biological age is now that of about a 4-year-old, he says.

But medical doctors say not so fast when it comes to treatments that promise to slow down aging.

We dont have any long-term evidence-based studies to correlate whatever biohacking techniques people are using to prolong or extend life, yet, says Dr. James Pinckney of Diamond Physicians.

While physicians are cautious, Rastegar says hes seen the proof by lowering his cholesterol and raising his testosterone.

Rastegar along with a number of other millionaires and billionaires are spending vast amounts of their fortunes in the search for immortality.

But he says that doesnt mean he fears death.

I think were all little bit apprehensive, he says. I like to focus more on living, even with all this biohacking and all this stuff you dont know if youre going to make it to the next day.!

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BY CANDIECE KNIGHT

Monday, November 11, 2019

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SO you've gotten your oats, peanuts, roots, nutmeg and everything else that Vybz Kartel prescribed to improve your performance in the bedroom, but your cast member is still exiting the stage before the end of the first scene. Maybe it's time to take a look at not just the star-studded foods that you consume just before the show, but the other foods in your diet that have been working menacingly behind the scenes to close the curtains prematurely.

Could any of these libido killers be the culprits that are turning your bedroom romance into horror? Registered nutritionist at Nestle Jamaica, Janique Watts, recommends that you cut them from your dietary line-up before the next act if you don't want it to be over before the fat (or slim) lady sings.

Sugars

Feel like going for a round after a high-carb dinner? Think again. Watts notes that sugary foods require insulin, which is produced by the pancreas to be absorbed in the body.

The production of insulin, however, does decrease the production of testosterone which therefore decreases your sexual appetite, she warns.

Highly processed foods

The key to a turgid, lasting erection is proper blood flow to the penis. The greatest antagonists of good circulation are obesity, diabetes and hypertension, all of which can be caused by constantly consuming highly processed foods.

These foods contain high amounts of salt and saturated fats, both of which when eaten in excess can lead to weight gain and obesity. This is the precursor to developing non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension. This therefore means arteries are clogged from excessive fat being stored, and this restricts the natural flow of blood. This results in decreased sexual performance, Watts explains.

Trans fats

While you cannot completely avoid some fat in your diet, and some are actually very healthy, you will do your sex life a huge favour if you stay away from trans fats which are found in many fried foods, baked goods, margarines and spreads.

Trans fats are known to negatively affect testicular function, Watts says. This is due to the male sexual organ being made up of very small veins, and with added fat in the body, blood circulation to areas farther away from the heart becomes more restricted. Less blood flow leads to poor erections.

Mint

Are we really saying you can't even have a little mint tea before she comes over? No, we're not. We're saying you should watch it though, because it was observed in a review that menthol (active ingredient in mint) lowers testosterone in women who suffer from PCOS(polycystic ovary syndrome) .

There would need to be further research done for both sexes to have a conclusive claim that testosterone levels would also be affected in men, thus leading to lowered libido, Watts says.

Soy

Got milk? Then drink it if you can, because soy the most popular dairy alternative contains phytoestrogens. These are compounds that mimic the female hormone estrogen.

High consumption of these foods lead to hormone imbalances, and this can then lead to decreased sexual desire and performance in men, Watts notes.

Alcohol

That bedroom tonic might be playing a completely different role from the one that's in the script. While you might feel a buzz after having your favourite beer or tonic wine to take the edge off before the show, it does not increase your stamina.

Alcohol is a depressant and as such will cause a loss in sexual desire and therefore affect the ability of having an erection, Watts points out. Over time, too, heavy drinking leads to lowered testosterone levels and increased oestrogen levels, which results in decreased libido.

Marijuana

While you're feeling high and floating on the clouds, your partner, who has to endure your lackluster performance, might be feeling rather low. Whether you roll one up before the act or consume edibles such as weed brownies or ganja tea to get in the mood, cannabis not only calms your nerves, but also your testosterone levels for up to 24 hours. Watts warns that prolonged use can also lead to erectile dysfunction.

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Analysis: most commonly associated with cheating athletes, steroids occur naturally in our bodies and play an important role in modern medicine

By Dipali Ahuja, University of Limerick; Laurie Ryan, University of Limerick and Emer Browne, TCD

"And the winner is!" - or is it? The prevalence of doping at major sporting events such as the Olympics has called into question the rightful winner of many competitions. In the 2012 European Athletic Championships women's 1500 metres final, the first, second, third and fourth placed athletes subsequently faced bans for testing positive for using performance enhancing substances. The athlete who originally finished fifth, Nuria Fernndez, was eventually deemed the rightful winner.

The most commonly used class of performance enhancing substances are steroids. It's a word which evokes images of fallen athletes such as Lance Armstrong and Ben Johnson. However, what many people may not know is that steroids occur naturally in our bodies and play an important role in modern medicine.

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Steroids are hormones produced by the body to help cells, tissues and organs function. Our body'snaturally occurring steroids are created using cholesterol as a starting material. This occurs mainly in the adrenal glands, which are located just above the kidneys.

There are two main classes of steroids: corticosteroids and androgenic steroids. Corticosteroids control many natural processes in our bodies such as responding to inflammation and regulating salt and water balance. They can be produced naturally in the body or synthetically manufactured. Sometimes the body does not produce enough corticosteroids, such as in Addison's disease, and taking synthetic steroids can be lifesaving. Similarly, steroids are often prescribed by doctors to help patients to recover from illness.

The use of corticosteroids as medicines is only possible thanks to the work of several medicinal chemists who enabled the cost-effective synthesis of cortisone. When cortisone was first synthesized in the 1940s, it required the bile of 2,500 cows as a starting material, before a complicated 36 step chemical process was applied to produce 15 milligrams of cortisone (which is onlyapproximately 0.5% of a teaspoon!).

FromRT Radio 1's Drivetime, Galway GP Dr Barry Higgins andJim O'Sullivan from theRivers Edge Gym in Cork discuss dangerous steroid use

The discovery of a new starting material, diosgenin, from the Mexican yam (a vegetable from the sweet-potato family), dramatically reduced the cost of producing cortisone and enabled its use as a medicine. Many other medicines have since been developed in the corticosteroid family including; inhalers to treat asthma, tablets for inflammatory conditions and creams to treat psoriasis.

The other major class of steroids are the androgenic steroids, also known as sex steroids. These include the female sex steroids like estrogen and progesterone and the male sex steroid testosterone. Just like the corticosteroids, androgenic steroids are produced in our bodies but sometimes we use synthetic versions of the androgenic steroids medicinally to treat a wide variety of conditions.

The combined oral contraceptive pill used by millions of women worldwide, for example,is a combination of a synthetic estrogen and a synthetic progesterone. The combination of these steroids at the right doses inhibit ovulation and thus prevent pregnancy. Interestingly, progesterone may also be used to support pregnancy during fertility treatment, but at a different dosing regimen.

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While the use of female sex steroids for medicinal purposes is widespread, the use of testosterone is more often associated with illicit use. Testosterone is known as the primary male hormone:when boys go through puberty, testosterone causes a deepening of their voice and growth of body hair. But the effect that testosterone has on increasing bone and muscle mass is often the reason why it is abused. These are known as anabolic effects, and where the term "anabolic steroid" comes from.

While testosterone is used medicinally by men who dont produce enough testosterone naturally, its abuse dates back to when it was first synthesized in 1935. During the Second World War, it was discovered that malnourished soldiers treated with artificial testosteronegained weight and displayed improved performance.

Using testosterone to improve athletic performance dates back to 1954, when the Russian weightlifting team injected themselves with testosterone prior to the World Weightlifting Championship in Vienna. Seeing the advantage this substance gave to the Russian athletes, American doctor John Ziegler returned to America and started work developing a novel anabolic steroid. This culminated in the creation of methandrostenolone, which was sold under the trade name "Dianabol". With this, the era of anabolic steroid use in sports began.

From RT 2fm's Game On, a discussion on how the huge rise in 18 to 34 year olds abusing steroids

Aware that the use of these substances was resulting in an uneven playing field, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) banned the use of performance enhancing substances in 1967. However, it wasnt until 1976 that a reliable test that could detect anabolic steroid use was developed.

Despite the reputational damage athletes faced if caught, anabolic steroid use was widespread in elite sport in the 1980s and 1990s. As well as putting their careers at risk, athletes using anabolic steroids put their health at risk. This is because prolonged, unsupervised use of anabolic steroids can result in side effects such as liver and heart disease, infertility, depression, aggression, acne and hair loss. Moreover, as anabolic steroids are commonly bought on the black market, the quality and safety tests that are required for legitimate medicines are unlikely to have been performed.

Ultimately, from a medicinal perspective, steroids are an excellent resource that have transformed modern medicine. However, the medicinal use of steroids means that you have been advised by a professional to use a specific steroid dose for a particular amount of time to treat aspecific condition. Furthermore, when you get a steroid from the pharmacist, its quality and efficacy have been tested under stringent regulations.

From RT Radio 1's News At One, RT Investigates Barry O'Kelly on theillegal trade in steroids which can lead to catastrophic health consequences for users

Problems occur when healthy individuals buy unregulated products, which are labelled as steroids, on the black market. In this scenario there is no quality assurance and no medical professional to monitor side effects. Under these conditions, steroids can be dangerous.

This doesnt appear to have stopped the influx of illegal anabolic steroids onto the Irish market, as 98,055 anabolic steroid dosage units were detained in 2018 by the Irish regulatory body for medicines, the HPRA. In light of this, there is a greater need to educate the public about the dangers of abusing steroids and how we should treat them with respect as medicines.

Dipali Ahuja is a PhD researcher with SSPC, the SFI Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals, at the University of Limerick.Laurie Ryan is a PhD researcher with SSPC at the University of Limerick.Emer Browneis a pharmacist and PhD researcher with SSPC at TCD.

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I have been training the baby boomer and beyond fitness enthusiast for over 25 years and I can tell you the biggest fear is slowing down with age.

Although its changing, there are still many people over 50 who believe that its too late to build strength or give in to aging. This is a huge mistake!

Studies show that one of the biggest contributors to aging is inactivity, not aging itself.

So this is why its most important to begin a regular exercise program when over 50 more than any other time in your life.

Unfortunately, if youre inactive everything declines from muscle mass to cardiovascular capacity, balance etc

When this happens thats when you start to age.

We all have seen those in their eighties move and perform activities like they are ten or more years younger than their calendar age. I know I certainly have!

So what can we do to increase our chances to live a long and quality life?

Other than having good genes, there are some simple things we can do to help slow aging to a crawl.

For the sake of keeping this article brief, I will give you some basic tips. If you have any questions and would like me to explain further, please send me an email.

1. Eat more omega 3 fatty acids- Fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel is a good start and nuts like walnuts, almonds and pistachios. Blueberries or any of your berry fruit family is a good choice as well.

2. Eat smaller meals and try intermittent fasting

3. Limit sugar consumption.

4. Exercise- Cardiovascular exercise at least three times per week and move every day. Strength train twice per week.

5. Limit alcohol consumption, dont smoke and limit stress!

6. Train your brain with constant reading of books, attend workshops and lectures.

7. Have a large social network and maintain a positive attitude.

8. Stay on your feet- Try and stand every 20 minutes. Excessive sitting contributes to heart and many of other diseases.

At Silver Stars Fitness were on a mission to help improve the fitness level of as many men and women over the age of 50 not only in the NYC, but throughout the country.

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Why ClassPass Is the Perfect Holiday Gift to Yourself

The holidays are coming and youre almost certainly going to overeat. Theres no shame in that thats the point of holidays, right? However, if you dont want to feel like a glutton and would prefer to avoid weeks of stomach aches, its a good idea to plan some exercise during the holidays, too. Turns out, youre in luck, because ClassPass is offering up to a full monthfree trial for new members.

ClassPass is a subscription service that lets you visit boutique fitness classes in your area without having to pay for a full membership. With ClassPass, you pay for monthly credits that you can use to sign up for a wide variety of classes, from boxing, yoga, and cycling to weight training, pilates, HIIT, and much more. Everything is booked through the app, giving you easy access to expensive exercise and training programs for a reasonable price.

New members are allowed to take up to nine classes over the course of a month. (That number may vary depending on your location however.) That may just be the most intensive monthof exercise of your life. You can go to any class offered on the app, so you can try out spinning and also go with your friend to that rowing class she keeps talking about.

After your free month, youll be auto-enrolled in a monthly membership so if youre not completely satisfied, be sure to cancel your membership before.

If you do want to continue with ClassPass, your monthly membership fee is based on your city and how many classes you want to take each month. The lower membership tier starts at $9 but you should generally expect to pay between $39 to $49 per month for four to nine classes.

Bounce back fast after the holidays with a monthof intensive workouts through ClassPass.

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DAWN'S RAYS ARE creeping west across the Mojave, crawling up Joshua trees and barrel cacti, as a group of U.S. Special Operations warriors sit cross-legged, all lined up and scanning the dry horizon. These exquisitely tattooed, overmuscled rogues have descended upon this desert from across the nation. Alongside them are a handful of first responders and a few civilians. Chests slowly rise and fall as each person inhales and exhales the cool, dry air. One among their ranks breaks the silence. Ready? asks Alex Horton, a commander in the Joint Special Operations Command. All nod.

Im there anticipating some reenactment of Desert Storm. But what I get is closer to Desert Om. Close your eyes to begin this meditation, Horton says. I want you to focus on the sensation of the breath. When thoughts arise, notice them without judgment. And then she occasionally reminds the group to feel the breath or notice and let go, until after 15 minutes she announces, Times up.

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Were at a weekend retreat held by SOFLETE, a fitness-content company owned by Special Operations personnel that isnt following the long-held narrative of how people in the military, first responders, and other active men and women should train, live, and do their jobs. Army Rangers and Green Berets, Marines, firefighters, police, and SWAT members, along with an accountant, an electrical lineman, a roughneck, and others: Most of the 25 people here have taken lives, saved lives, and undoubtedly seen some shit. Together this group is seeking something like enlightenment: zenning out, exploring the psychedelic landscape of Joshua Tree National Park, and speaking the capital-T truth about the state of being an elite serviceman or -woman in 2019.

Each of them landed in the Mojave after a bout of burnoutfrom too many stressful deployments or hours on duty or patrol; from military-style beatdown workouts and the nagging injuries that ensued; from the idea that those who keep us safe, or even civilians simply interested in military culture, must be part of a stoic, tougher-than-thou caste. The SOFLETE peeps are here doing something about that burnout. But they also know that the feeling extends far beyond the Mojave. Which is why theyre also scaling up their efforts on various media channels and through a training appto bring the next generation of Special Operations training and tactical thinking to the masses.

CALL IT THE military-fitness complexand its now at industrial scale. Its the thousands of books, podcast episodes, Instagram feeds, seminars, and fitness programs that promise to reveal the physical and mental magic that makes Special Operations warriors so tough. The space is dominated by testosterone-emboldened vets and brands whose messages are basically this: The answer to all your problems is to adopt a military mind-set, or mental toughness, which is loosely translated as grinding harder and longer than the next guy and never quitting or showing weakness.

SOFLETE PARTNER Doug Kiesewetter has served 14 years, mostly with the Army Special Forces, including a stint in Baghdad as an advisor to the Iraqi army in 2017.

There is, for instance, David Goggins, a retired Navy SEAL and ultra-endurance athlete who has roughly 2 million Instagram followers. A typical post features the participation-trophy-hating Goggins running while shouting into the camera about how growth requires suffering. He rails against soft bullshit like feeling pain, not exercising hard enough, and quitting. In his best-selling book, Cant Hurt Me, Goggins brags about breaking fellow SEALs with workouts that were punishing physically and how he would lose all respect for the men who questioned the efficacy of those injurious sessions. He thinks a lot of people are fucking pussies. Or theres Jocko Willink, a retired SEAL with some 850,000 Instagram followers as well as a popular podcast and books, who regularly posts photos of his 4:30 a.m. wakeup times, plus black-and-white shots of sweat puddles, overloaded barbells, and massive kettlebells, with captions like The Altar of Pain, Blunt force trauma, and Torture with [insert weight].

Then youve got groups of exSpecial Ops guys who host events that allow the average man to experience the hell of Hell Week. An event put on by SEALFit called Kokoro, for example, bills itself as the premier training event for forging mental toughness. About $2,500 buys you a 50-hour Hell Week physical and emotional thrashing that, like one of New Yorks hottest clubs in a deranged Stefon skit on Saturday Night Live, has everything: multiple ice baths, group log carries, heavy rucking, the CrossFit workout Murph, calisthenics in the frigid Pacific Ocean, and more!

If Instagram comment sections are a reliable measure, these messages and events seem to have motivated a wave of sedentary guys to get off the couch. Which is undoubtedly a good thing, what with 72 percent of Americans now overweight or obese. And theyve helped guys with soul-sucking office jobs find meaning by letting them feel the often-unknown bodily sensationslike cold, exhaustion, hunger, and painthat lie beyond a comfort zone.

There are plenty of companies out there who do hard for hards sake, says George Briones, 31, a Marine recon operator and a SOFLETE employee. Thats not what we do. Were often working against that mind-set. Most [military personnel] push too hard and work through an injury and make it worse.

SOFTLETE DIRECTOR and Army Green Beret Brian Hueske has served 12 years, deploying seven times: to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Congo, and in 2013, Afghanistan.

As more troops and first responders have adopted these hard-line training and mind-set tactics, more and more of them have become mentally and physically beaten up and broken down. That can put them and their teams in dangerous positions, or just ruin their ability to live a healthy civilian life. The U.S. Army has publicly stated that injuries are a modern military epidemic, and a study funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory discovered that about 20 percent of its Spec Ops soldiers each year experience injuries that require medical attention. For every 100 soldiers, there are 25 annual injuries. The top cause of those injuries? Not bullets or IEDs. Exercise. Going too hard, too often. Team workouts consisting of ten-mile hikes while wearing 60-pound packs, followed by more pushups, situps, and flutter kicks than you can count, followed by whatever else a soldier does on his own in the gym, be it CrossFit, ultrarunning, or bodybuilding. In fact, the researchers say, 77 percent of these injuries could be avoided with improved injury-prevention programs.

Another problem, says Briones, is that many Special Operations guys are either bodybuilders, bodyweight ninjas, or pure endurance athletes. Theyre fitness specialists in a job that requires strength, speed, stamina, and mobilitythe capacity to drag a 200-plus-pound fallen comrade in full gear, sprint for cover during a firefight, ruck through the mountains to a mission point, or hold a covered-but-contorted shooting position in a sniper nest.

The military branches are fully aware that the way their personnel train isnt exactly optimal. And theyre working on itwith varying degrees of success. The Army says its on a bold mission to change its culture of fitness so that training transfers to combat more effectively, reduces the risk of injury, and improves soldier readiness and resiliency. Major General Lonnie Hibbard, who commands the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, calls it holistic health and fitness. Its loosely described as physical fitness and performance enhancement, but also mental and spiritual fitness.

But whether the plan will make it out of the bureaucratic swamp and onto basesand then survive thereis anyones guess. In 2009, for instance, U.S. Special Operations Command funded the Armys creation of Thor3, a fitness program with its own facilities staffed by physical therapists, strength and conditioning coaches (poached from Team USA and elite sports programs), and sports nutritionists. It focused on optimizing the physical and mental conditioning of Special Forces operators and helping injured ones recover. It worked when it was implemented, improving fitness and reducing injuries, but it was slowly defunded and often neglected by untrained team leaders who didnt realize its value.

You also have the unseen scars, of course. The suicide rate among veterans is 50 percent greater than that of the general public, and police officers and firefighters are more likely to die by their own hand than in the line of duty. The New York Times recently reported that more than 45,000 veterans and active-duty service members have killed themselves in the past six years. That is more than 20 deaths a dayin other words, more suicides each year than the total American military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Mental toughness isnt just doing more reps or miles than the next guy or getting through a selection course; its using smarter-not-harder approaches to fitness, even if that means you wont be the strongest, fastest, fittest-looking guy in the gym. Its knowing when to back down and take a day to take care of yourself. Its checking your intentions, and even asking for help and recognizing your vulnerability. As the branches slowly trudge forwardthe new fitness assessment test, for example, has been in the works for years and wont be ready for rollout until late 2020SOFLETE is filling a gap.

Now heavily meditated, the group rises from the seated position. Next up at the Mojave retreat: yoga. Nope, these SOFLETE dudes are not what you might expect from top military personnel. Surfers, hippies, hipsters, and snowflakes...who also happen to have body counts is how they describe themselves. But they may be onto something. The company began in 2015 with the intention of providing fitness programming exclusively for Special Operations guys. For them, the stakes of military fitness are much higher than looking cool on the Gram. The wrong fitness program can prevent servicemen and -women from advancing past a Special Ops selection course, stalling their career, or, even worse, put them in harms way on the battlefield.

SOFLETE is rethinking warrior fitness with sane fitness programming served with a side of woo, which just may be what military men and women need to be better at their jobs. Yeah, I meditate. Yes, I do yoga. Yes, I do all these things that some people may associate with femininity or something, says Brian Hueske, 38, a career Green Beret whos built like a grizzly bear and who now also works for SOFLETE. But Im doing this stuff to maintain performance. At the end of the day, Im doing this stuff because it makes me better at killing bad people.

Modern-day Rambos with a softer side and no pretension to badassery? Could my experience in the desert have all been some strange hallucination? I needed to find out.

AND SO IT is that a few weeks later I find myself at SOFLETE headquarters in Durham, North Carolina. In the desert, I saw the restorative side of SOFLETE. Now Im about to experience how the company builds elite war fighters and glean insights into its special marketing sauce thats part rah-rah inspiration, part parody of bro science. That it took just four years for the company to go from a single workout shared by PDF to a 6,000-square-foot building and a reach of 2.5 million people each month speaks to the efficacy of SOFLETEs workouts and the thirst for military-themed merch.

There are eight of us performing a mobility warmup on the 50-foot strip of turf that runs through SOFLETE HQ, which is part no-expenses-spared CrossFit-style gym, part content-creation studio, and part office. By the 2010s, the SOFLETE brain trust had started to realize that the message of the military-fitness complex was all wrong. Between deployments, each of them was running an elite gym, all looking for the fitness sweet spot where a warrior is optimized to performat a moments notice, over an entire career. Special Operations guys never know when theyre going to have to go on a mission, says Doug Kiesewetter, 38, an Army Special Forces weapons sergeant and partner at SOFLETE. Any day could be the Super Bowl. So imagine Tom Brady doing a burner workout and endless miles of rucking with an 80-pound pack every day leading up to the Super Bowl. How would he play? Not great, right? But thats essentially what many other military-fitness companies were and still are asking from their users.

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In 2011, Id spent the year doing a popular military athlete program, says Hueske as he adjusts the settings on a camera hell use to capture video that SOFLETE will post to its social-media channels and website, dieliving.com. The site covers fitnessy topics like how to avoid boot-camp injuries and how to eat for performance, as well as mind-set stuff like dealing with failure, the trials of coming home from deployment, and grappling with the badass identity that society forces on military guys. Every day, Id do an hour of 80-pound sandbag Turkish getups, followed by these crazy high-intensity workouts. I always felt crushed, but thats what I was told would work. It didnt.

We had a training mission to raid an enemy compound, and to do that we had to climb up this huge hill in full kit with all of our breaching equipment, which is like 90 or 100 pounds of gear, he says. By the time we reached the top, I was smokedand the actual mission hadnt even started.

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For someone like a pro CrossFit athletewho can eat perfectly, sleep eight hours a night, get massages, and all thatregular all-in workouts can be effective. But military guys typically eat shitty food, get shitty sleep, and have shitty access to recovery practices (no ice baths in Tora Bora). Pounding away at balls-to-the-wall workouts eventually hurt Hueskes back. So then I was forced to recover, he says while snapping photos of the group performing the warmup routine that will mobilize our legs, hips, and shoulders, three areas that military personnel commonly injure. During Hueskes rehab, a colleague called him aside and, in the furtive tone you might use when confessing to another man that you like to sing along to Taylor Swift when youre driving to work, said, This training youre doing...I know you think its cool, but youre totally wrong. Heres what you need to do....

The guy began explaining that how hard youre dragging your skull across the dirt does not correlate with a workouts efficacy, says Hueske. It only sets you up for injury and crap performance. A military strength coach gave him some programming that ticked a lot of fitness boxes and pushed Hueskes limits but also stressed recovery and improving his mobility. I was working out less, Hueske says. I felt like I was sandbagging, but I stayed the course.

Soon after, he was sent on another training mission. It was a six- or seven-hour infiltration where we were carrying heavy gear through the woods slowly and deliberately, he says. When we arrived at our destination to start the mission, I still had 95 percent left in the tank. It was a meathead revelation. The other SOFLETE guys had similar come-to-fitness-Jesus moments. Briones was once involved in a four-hour firefight in Afghanistan when a burned-out team member went down with heatstroke in hour three, putting the entire team in danger as they tried to evacuate him.

I watched my peers break themselves from overtraining and spend years trying to rehab while still needing to go to war, says Kiesewetter. Running patrols in Afghanistan and Iraq, theyd walk with a hitch in their step, fail to turn on speed and power when they needed it most, and just generally move like dudes a decade older. Christian Hines, the SOFLETE employee who models many of the exercises in the app and who came from the Armys 82nd Airborne, watched as many of his teammates were removed from their daily duties and training because they injured themselves trying to one-up the next guy in some timed workout or deadlifting session.

Now warmed up, were moving on to a strength phase. Well do three sets each of back squats, box jumps, and bench presses. The squat-and-jump combo leverages a phenomenon called post-activation potentiation, which research shows may give you a boost in strength and power.

Two of the cofounders of SOFLETE, whom well call Bill and Greg (they wished not to be named due to their roles in the military), saw the same issue of overkill. The original idea for SOFLETE was inspired by a peer of mine, says Greg. He was perpetually hurt from military fitness programs, which is so common among SOF guys.

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In 2014, Greg went on a deer-hunting retreat with a nonmilitary friend named Aron Woolman, a successful Wall Street trader then in his mid-30s. Theyd spent the weekend discussing the problems with military fitness programming, and after talking with Woolman, an astute business mind, Greg decided they should do something about it.

So Greg, Bill, and Woolman did. They saw an opportunity in fitness plans that prepare men and women for Special Operations selection camps, which have low pass rates. Most other programs mimicked the hell of selection, following the train how you fight mantra, says Greg. Think daily miles of heavy rucking and anything else that sounded militaryish and awful. But while they zigged, Greg and Bill zagged. If you throw on a 70-pound ruck and walk for 12 miles, you get tired pretty quick, says Greg. Then every step is sloppy, on uncontrolled terrain, while youre weighted down, so the potential to twist an ankle or knee is extremely high. If that happens, there go your chances of passing selection.

Gregs and Bills experiences at selection told them that a better strategy is to strengthen all the muscles involved in rucking and to build an aerobic base. If you can back-squat 400 pounds and run a respectable ten-mile time, youre going to do well in the ten-mile ruck run, says Greg. The three men put together a PDF of a selection-prep program, which included lots of military-specific strength and conditioning fundamentals but very little heavy rucking, and tossed a brand on the file: SOFLETE, a combination of SOF, the acronym for Special Operations Forces, and athlete. Then they uploaded it to the Internet.

The PDF took off, says Bill. It got a shocking number of guys through selection camps. We were running SOFLETE as a small passion project, but by October of 2015 we realized that we should focus on running it as a business, says Woolman, a laid-back type who acts as the CEO and mom of the company. The othersKiesewetter, Briones, and Huesketook notice, everyone started talking, and SOFLETE gained speed.

That initial PDF has evolved into more than 100 different programs based on your goalbuilding strength, endurance, or muscle, for example, or prepping for a huntall accessible on the SOFLETE app for $34 a month, making them easy to do on bases and in gyms around the world. They tick all the boxes a war fighter needsraw strength, explosive power, all-day endurance, and killer speedwhile sneaking in, through nutrition coaching and extended mobility warmups and cooldowns, the never-say-die durability that helps modern servicemen and -women survive deployment after deployment and thrive in kinetic modern warfare.

Peter Bohler

Durability is critical for todays Spec Ops personnel, as America increasingly leans on its elite war-fighting teams. Special Operations are now active in over 90 countries, and members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees have even testified that the constant deployments are taking a physical and mental toll.

SOFLETE workouts are hard, and we encourage people not to flip the idiot switch, but the recovery components are key, says Kiesewetter, the funny brother of the group, who, thanks to his sleeves of military-style tattoos, appears in many SOFLETE videos. This idiot-switch-free approach to holistic fitness training is why this band of irreverent servicemen has amassed a hell of a following. The company has grown 2,000 percent since the end of 2015.

Each training program is like a symphony, every workout building to a larger goal. The 12-week Juggernaut program, for example, stresses developing muscle and power. It does this via compound lifts like the deadlift, back squat, and power clean. But it doesnt neglect durability and stamina. Juggernaut has plenty of mobility and accessory work, plus biweekly days featuring sessions such as eight sets of 400-meter runs at a slow pace. Harmonized programs are common in professional sports, but not every military-fitness company has caught on.

Each SOFLETE program goes through the meathead brain trust: six combat-experienced Special Operations personnel who have an alphabet soup of fitness credentials. This hive mind sets them apart. Many other military-style programs are written by a single guy. And that guy may be a fitness pro who has no military background, which oftentimes causes him to measure success by a servicemans numbers in the gym, rather than his performance at war.

Peter Bohler

That gym-based mind-set is dangerous. Because the more you push your performance limits, the greater the toll your training takes on your body. SOFLETE prioritizes durability over absolute performance, says Kiesewetter. Having enough fitness and durability is what allows you to stay out of harms way mission after mission. With SOFLETE programming, youre probably going to have to give up being the absolute biggest, fastest, strongest guy in your unit, says Hueske. But you will be third or fourth best in all those metrics over 20 years, while the guys who are number one keep rotating because they get injured.

The group is cranking out the strength exercises before we move on to a stamina phase, which will entail doing as many rounds of 1,000-meter rows, 400-meter runs, and 400-meter farmers walks as possible in 13 minutes. Beyond the SOFLETE brain trust, theres John Warren, an Army sniper; Mike Crellin, a police officer in Houston; Nolan Bastien, a firefighter in Indianapolis; and Phil Sussman and Dave Ploch, of different wings of Army Special Operations. These men are the converted. SOFLETE programming helped with the back pain that Bastien, 39, had due to subpar exercising programs and overtraining. Thats made him, his team, and the public safer. Im a more functional part of my crew, he says.

The apps nutrition programming helped Crellin, 37, lose 80 pounds and Warren, 30, eat well consistently. The app calculates your carb, fat, and protein needs based on your size, goal, and activity level. Not into counting macronutrients? Cool. Who is? The app also spits out a days worth of recipes that fit exactly into your macros. The recipes are complexfor example, pork chop with veggie-loaded orzo or chicken with sweet-potato mash and roasted sproutsbut if youre kitchen-phobic, each week youll prep meals on Sunday and eat the same meals every other day.

When the workout ends, we form a sweaty circle around Sussman, who found yoga after an armored-vehicle accident sidelined him with pain and depression. He leads us through a series of poses that hit areas that tend to be particularly tight in war fighters and desk jockeys alike. Ploch digs the yoga part. He enlisted in 1996, has been deployed 14 times, and may be seeing more. I now know I have to work out smarter to keep mobile and flexible, he says. SOFLETE stuff is keeping me in the fight.

WE COMPLETE THE LIFTING part of the workout and now the gym is functioning as a full-fledged content studio, like Peloton but with less spandex and spinning. Im curious to finally learn what the heck the logowhich is stamped on everything from bumper plates and med balls to T-shirts and water bottlessymbolizes. First, though, Hueske has set up lighting and is interviewing Bastien for a series on how first responders have benefited from SOFLETE. Were trying to reach out to more guys with jobs like those, says Kiesewetter. And average guys. Theyll do that by holding more events like the one in Joshua Tree and by expanding the app.

SOFLETE is still a young company experiencing growing pains. The current version of the app, for example, offers a ton of programs, and its not clear how, say, one 80-plus-day strength program differs from the 14 other programs. In January, it plans to launch the app 2.0, which will include a more streamlined process of putting users into the programs they need. Youll be able to link it to an Apple watch, and your training, recovery, and nutrition will automatically scale based on recovery metrics from the watch. Anyone can comply with a three-month exercise program, says Kiesewetter. The challenge is how to make them comply with recovery practices as well.

Hueske, the brands media maven, elaborates. The word yoga has so long been synonymous with, like, leaf eating, he says. To get guys in my unit to do stuff like this, wed call it tactical stretching. So it is with SOFLETE, which often has to shape its message for testosterone-addled men who would perhaps rather not tread the same workout territory as their girlfriend.

We move off the turf to some couches. Im spent and feel like Ive put in hard work, but Im confident Ill be able to walk down the stairs tomorrow. I sip a shake of SOFLETE Fruit Hoops cereal-milk-flavored protein powder and water as the guys talk about SOFLETE products. We wanted a protein powder that tastes like the milk thats left after you eat a bowl of cereal, says Kiesewetter. They also sell a cinnabun-flavored protein powder and a melatonin, chamomile, and lavender nightcap called Teddy Bear Night Night.

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Each guy is wearing some version of a SOFLETE T-shirt, which all feature the brands logo: a spade with a skull and two crossbones. The logo is also prominent in the brands dieliving.com stories. But what is it, exactly? An homage to the death cards that American troops would leave on Vietcong theyd killed in battle during the Vietnam War.

When that first PDF dropped, they shared it with friends and family on Facebook, says Woolman, where the logo and the mission caught the eyes of service personnel, law enforcement, first responders, and people interested in military fitness. We have just enough of the badass imagery to get people in the door, like the logo, and our military backgrounds probably help, says Kiesewetter. But then once people are in, its like, Hey, heres the yogawe give them the workouts and lifestyle advice they need.

The vernacular of the instruction is also uniquely direct. Take, for example, a recent Instagram video about correct pullup form. Caption: Were here to help if your pullups are hot garbage. Or the caption of a similar video about squats: If your front squat is jank as fuck you need to watch this video.

But sometimes that marketing humor borders on offensive. Take the description of a SOFLETE camo hat: Whether youre two steppin through Compton or playing IED hop scotch outside of Kabul, this snapback will drop every pair of panties within a six block radius. SOFLETE also once sold a cologne called Flex Offender. I spent two nights on the couch after my wife found out about that one, says Woolman.

While SOFLETE is making real progress with fitness, its not always as on point when it comes to helping break down the stereotype that military guys arent the most culturally sensitive creatures. Some of that is the brand trying to maintain authenticity, writing product descriptions that mimic how Spec Ops guys talk in a team room. And some of the blowback may be a consequence of a way-too-woke culture that has an amplified voice in social media. Woolman says SOFLETE is evolving and that the more offensive stuff is held over from the beginning of the brand. And I will say weve always been equal-opportunity offenders.

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Its a theme Kiesewetter takes up. We all learned that that humor is a way to avoid uncomfortable situations, he says, speaking of the awkwardness that not only a trained killer but any person with a Y chromosome might feel opening up to the softer side of life. Hueske adds, And we just dont take ourselves too seriously. Lots of other militaryish companies do. They hope this makes SOFLETE videos and other content more accessible.

Theres an uncanny valley of how badass someone is in the military, says Hueske. In my career, Ive found that the most badass guys whove done the hardest stuff will never tell you about it. They never want to be recognized as badass. As we sit around laughing, Gogginss book, Cant Hurt Me, comes up, and its message doesnt resonate. Ploch (who, as a reminder, has deployed 14 times) smiles and says, You can get hurt in this job.

In 2017, a venture-capital firm approached SOFLETE. The team met a few Patagonia-vest-wearing finance types. Big money was on the lineenough to make SOFLETEs founders rich. They had just invested in another military brand, and they asked us, What are you guys against? says Woolman. We didnt understand the question. So they said, Well, are you against hipsters, liberals, people for gun control? What are you against? We said, Were not against anything. Were for helping people, for being authentic, and for pushing your personal boundaries and living your best life.

And then the SOFLETE guys all went to practice yoga.

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A brief from an unusual coalition of challengers, including the N.A.A.C.P., Microsoft and Princeton University, acknowledged that the Trump administration was free to make a different policy judgment than its predecessor had. But the termination, the brief said, was not based on a discretionary policy judgment.

Instead, the brief said, it was grounded in a legal determination by the attorney general that DACA is unlawful.

That approach, the brief continued, allowed the administration to tell the public that it could not permissibly maintain DACA, and that Congress and the courts, rather than the president, thus bore responsibility for the terminations human consequences. The government must now live with the consequences of claiming that its hands were tied.

The Trump administration argued that the program was an unlawful exercise of authority by the executive branch, relying on a ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, concerning a related program. The Supreme Court deadlocked, 4 to 4, in an appeal of that ruling. Judges in the DACA cases said the two programs differed in important ways, undermining the administrations legal analysis.

Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, which employs more than 60 DACA recipients, said there were lawful ways to shut down the program.

Our brief acknowledges very explicitly, based on the issues that weve raised, that were not suggesting that there would be no basis for a rescission of DACA, he said, using the legal term for ending the program. But if there is going to be a rescission of DACA, it has to be done in the right way and it has to be done for sound reasons.

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