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Sunday, September 1, 2019

BBcom Featuring: Protein Trail Mix | Quick Recipes and Fitness Re-Imagined: How Dan Reynolds Stays Fit to Perform




Trail mix has gotten a bad rap lately for being a sugary snack masquerading as health food. This recipe sets the record straight and repairs those macros by introducing Oatmeal Cookie protein.

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Dried cranberries and golden raisins add fiber and antioxidants, while pepitas, cashews, and walnuts provide magnesium and essential fatty acids. You can stick to this combination or use any assortment of dried fruits and nuts you prefer to create a high-protein mix that's perfect for a hike, a road trip, or a healthy snack anytime you're on the go.

 | Macros |
362 Calories
51g Carbs
11g Protein
17g Fat

 | Ingredients |
3 cup (1 nlea serving) plain cheerios ½ cup cashews ⅓ cup dried cranberries ⅓ cup, packed golden raisins ¼ cup raw pepitas ¼ cup walnuts ¼ cup honey ¼ cup natural almond butter
4 tbsp Earth Balance butter
1 scoop Signature Oatmeal Cookie Whey Protein Powder

 | Directions |
1. Mix Cheerios, cashews, cranberries, raisins, pepitas, and walnuts in a large bowl.
2. In another bowl, add honey, almond butter, and buttery spread. Microwave in 20-second intervals, stirring between, until mixture is melted and smooth. Stir in whey protein.
3. Pour honey mixture over Cheerio mixture and mix with hands to combine. Spread onto a cookie sheet and place in refrigerator to cool for at least 1 hour before serving.

Fitness Re-Imagined: How Dan Reynolds Stays Fit to Perform from Bodybuilding.com

The lead singer of Imagine Dragons faces a very real foe when it comes to staying healthy and fit, but he also trains for a nightly sporting event: performing in front of tens of thousands of fans. Here's Dan Reynolds' training plan, fitness philosophy, and diet.
Fitness Re-Imagined: How Dan Reynolds Stays Fit to Perform
The typical Imagine Dragons concert lasts two hours a night—right about the same amount of time an elite lifter may spend in the gym each day, or that an experienced runner may devote to a training session.
Coincidence? Not if you've ever seen this wildly successful rock band in person. The music performances might as well be sporting events, given how much energy lead vocalist Dan Reynolds expends flying around a large stage with runways jutting into a sea of fans.
"The whole time, I'm trying to sing songs that are pretty difficult, range-wise, to maintain breath control," says Reynolds. "It's incredibly taxing. Then, on top of it, I'm head-banging and throwing my arms around. We do strange things on stage."
The "we" refers to the Las Vegas friends with whom Reynolds formed Imagine Dragons in 2008. (Their name is a still-secret anagram, the meaning only known to the band's inner circle.) A wildly successful 2012 debut, "Night Visions," led to several years of relentless touring, with Reynolds patterning his animated, passionate performing style after Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine. Of course, that sort of physicality has repercussions, both emotional and physical. On tour, they regularly play 2-3 nights in a row, often in different cities, before taking a night off.
To fuel his onstage effort with the band, Reynolds must consume more than 5,000 calories on show days. When those calories are used up, adrenaline takes over.
At a height of 6-foot-4, with a solid but lean build and visible abs, Dan doesn't look or sound like the stereotypical self-destructive rock star. And yet something pushed a self-destruct button within Reynold's own body; he has a rare autoimmune disorder that makes it tough to get out of bed some mornings, let alone perform in front of 30,000 people. If he were to let it grow unchecked, he could end up immobilized.
Fitness and healthy eating are the only weapons Reynolds has against this invisible, relentless foe, and he takes both deadly seriously. His life, not just his career, is at stake.

An Immune System in Revolt

Reynolds looks like a guy who played high school varsity if not collegiate sports, but he wasn't a jock growing up. On the contrary, he says he ate like a perpetual 12-year-old, scarfing down pizza, burgers, french fries, and a box of sugary cereal every night. Little did he know at the time, his lifestyle may have been kindling for a firestorm of inflammation brewing inside his young body.
Reynolds' immune system showed signs of being overly aggressive and aiming at the wrong targets during his teen years, when he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune disease that inflames the bowels. Unfortunately, his immune system was just getting warmed up. At age 21, he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a form of arthritis that inflames the vertebrae of the spine and other parts of the body, leading to pain and mobility issues. Like most autoimmune disorders, it tends to get progressively worse, and in rare cases, can cause the sufferer's spinal bones to fuse together. AS has no known cure. According to the website of the Spondylitis Association of America, "effective treatments include medications, regular exercise, and various complementary therapies." (As an aside, the singer is very active in the association, even hosting a series of video interviews with other patients.)

Becoming a Believer

"Those two autoimmune diseases required me to not only change my diet, but also my way of life," Dan says.
It was important for him to get proper blood flow throughout his body, as well as to strengthen the tendons and muscles that protect his back. He began lifting weights despite, as he says, not knowing what to do, other than whatever moves he could recall from a mandatory high school lifting class.
Enter Brad Feinberg. Reynolds hired Feinberg as a trainer to help him shape up for the video for the 2017 single "Believer." The concept called for Reynolds to spar with Dolph Lundgren, still in amazing shape decades after playing Ivan Drago. To date, the resulting video has been viewed well over a billion times on YouTube alone.
So yeah, a lot was at stake. But Feinberg didn't subject Reynolds to a daily beat-down in the gym to build the physique he needed.
"Brad's major focus from the very beginning was all about recovery, which I had never really thought about," says Reynolds. When you're weight training as a novice, you think, 'Let me exhaust my muscles and build muscle.' You think about exertion, not recovery. Brad was really focusing on me maintaining a proper rest cycle, eating properly, and maximizing my recovery, because before I met him, I did not allocate much time for recovery."
They focused on recovery partly, of course, because it helps keep the damper on inflammation in Reynolds' body. Inflammation is a buzzword these days, but for someone with the singer's tortured medical history, taming it is a constant and necessary preoccupation.
As a side benefit, though, prioritizing recovery allowed Reynolds to work harder in the gym, while giving his body the space to grow bigger and stronger. And to a large extent, so far, they have succeeded; their plan, outlined below, has helped Reynolds build an admirable physique and a world-class energy level to match. But just as importantly, he feels better than ever.
Says Reynolds: "I've been able to live a healthy, strong life. I don't wake up in pain and go to bed in pain pretty much every day, like I had done for the previous eight years before meeting Brad."
Here's a brief rundown on their approach to training, diet, and supplementation, followed by a week's worth of workouts and a full day's meal plan.
Training: Reynolds trains every day while on tour. "Not all days are strength training and high intensity," says Feinberg. "Some days include active recovery such as yoga, deep breathing, and stretching."
When he's not on tour, Reynolds trains 5-6 times per week. According to Feinberg, the main goal of Reynolds' training is to make his body "move efficiently" by practicing the basic movement patterns regularly: pushing, pulling, squatting, lunging, and hip hinging. Some form of these movements is included in pretty much every workout—no bro split here. Supersets and trisets are the norm, giving Reynolds a conditioning boost while he builds strength. "Again, not all days are high intensity," says Feinberg. "Some days are active recovery."
Diet: The goal here is twofold: to fuel Reynolds for both his concert performances and workouts, and to do it in a way that doesn't promote inflammation, and in fact helps dampen it. His food selections are predominantly organic, and Reynolds tops them off with two gallons of water a day. The sample meal plan is for those days when the singer needs to consume 5,000-plus calories because he is on tour. "Those calories are necessary for how much activity he's doing each day and to maintain his muscle mass," says Feinberg.
Supplementation: When you subject your body to what Reynolds does, both inside the gym and outside it, sometimes diet isn't enough. Not surprisingly, he is a big proponent of the benefits of dietary supplements. When he began working with Feinberg, Reynolds found himself taking precise amounts of hard-training staples like creatine, glutamine, branched-chain amino acids, a pre-workout, and post-workout, along with nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin B, calcium, magnesium, and zinc, to name a few. Bewildering, right? They finally had a revelation similar to the one Jim Stoppani, Ph.D., had before launching JYM Supplement Science: If we're taking all this stuff, and none of it is exactly what's needed, why not just start our own line? So, Feinberg is launching a new supplement line, called AI, in several months, and Reynolds is slated to become a brand ambassador.

Dan Reynolds' Sample Week of Workouts

Monday
1
Warm-up
After treadmill include some dynamic stretching targeting hips and shoulders.
Walking, Treadmill
1 set, 10 mins
2
Horizontal Pull Triset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Pendlay Row
4 sets, 8 reps
Seated Cable Rows
4 sets, 10 reps
Inverted Row
4 sets, to failure
3
Quad superset
3 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Front Barbell Squat
3 sets, 10 reps
Leg Press
3 sets, 12 reps
4
Dumbbell Shoulder Press
3 sets, 20 reps
5
Rowing, Stationary
16 sets, 60 sec
Tuesday
1
Warm-up
Step Mill
1 set, 10 mins
Step Mill
light to moderate intensity
1 set, 20 mins
2
Vertical push superset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Barbell Strict Overhead Press
4 sets, 6 reps
Side Lateral Raise
4 sets, 12 reps
3
Horizontal push superset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Incline Dumbbell Press
4 sets, 10 reps
Dumbbell Flyes
4 sets, 12 reps
4
Parallel Bar Dip
3 sets, to failure
5
Cable Incline Triceps Extension (Rope Extension)
3 sets, 15 reps
6
Core triset
3 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 1 min. between rounds.
Sit-Up
3 sets, 10 reps
Sit-Up
Perform as Straight-leg Sit-up
3 sets, 10 reps
Russian Twist
3 sets, 10 reps
Wednesday
1
Warm-up
Walking, Treadmill
After treadmill include some dynamic stretching targeting hips and shoulders.
1 set, 10 mins
2
Hinge triset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Barbell Deadlift
3 sets, 8 reps
Good Morning
3 sets, 10 reps
Glute Ham Raise
3 sets, to failure
3
Horizontal push superset
:3 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Dumbbell Bench Press
3 sets, 10 reps
Front Dumbbell Raise
3 sets, 12 reps
4
Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown
3 sets, 20 reps
5
Sled Push
6 sets, 50 m
Thursday
1
Warm-up
Step Mill
1 set, 10 mins
Step Mill
light to moderate intensity
1 set, 20 mins
2
Vertical pull superset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Pullups
4 sets, to failure
Underhand Cable Pulldowns
4 sets, 10 reps
3
Auxiliary superset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Face Pull
4 sets, 10 reps
Bent Over Two-Dumbbell Row
4 sets, 12 reps
4
Band Assisted Pull-Up
3 sets, 10 reps
5
Preacher Curl
3 sets, 15 reps
6
Core superset
3 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 1 min. between rounds.
Plank
3 sets, 20 sec
Hollow Hold
3 sets, 20 sec
Friday
1
Warm-up
Also perform dynamic stretching targeting hips and shoulders
Walking, Treadmill
After treadmill include some dynamic stretching targeting hips and shoulders.
1 set, 10 mins
2
Horizontal and vertical push triset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Barbell Bench Press - Medium Grip
4 sets, 8 reps
Barbell Strict Overhead Press
4 sets, 10 reps
Push-Ups With Feet Elevated
4 sets, to failure
3
Horizontal pull superset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds.
Bent Over Two-Dumbbell Row
4 sets, 10 reps
Seated Cable Rows
4 sets, 12 reps
4
Anaerobic threshold conditioning triset
4 rounds, resting as little as possible between movements and 2 min. between rounds
Bicycling, Stationary
4 sets, 2 mins
Running, Treadmill
4 sets, 160 m
Saturday
Active recovery such as yoga, stretching, low-intensity cardio
Sunday
Active recovery such as yoga, stretching, low-intensity cardio
After each training session, Feinberg spends 10-15 minutes stretching Reynolds' entire body.

Dan Reynolds' Sample Daily Meal Plan

Meal 1: Post-Workout (around 11 a.m.)
Brown Rice
500g
Carrots (chopped)
2 cups
Chicken
6 oz.
Pineapple
200 g
Meal 2: 1-2 Hours after Meal 1
Sweet Potato
500 g
Broccoli (chopped)
2 cups
Chicken
6 oz.
Avocado
1
Apple
1
Meal 3: 1-2 Hours after Meal 2
Brown Rice
300 g
Kale
2 cups
Lamb
6 oz.
Meal 4 (shake): 1-2 Hours after Meal 3
Banana
1
Strawberries
2 cups
Almond Butter
2 tbsp
Coconut Oil
2 tbsp
Protein Powder (vanilla)
30 g
Unsweetened almond milk
1 cup
Meal 5: 3 Hours before Showtime
Brown Rice
500 g
Chicken
4 oz.
 
 Olive Oil
2 tbsp
This fitness and meal plan was designed for Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons by his personal trainer Brad Feinberg, who can be found at bradassfitness.com and on Instagram at @bradfeinberg88.

About the Author

Jeff O'Connell

Jeff O'Connell

Jeff O'Connell is the editor-in-chief for Bodybuilding.com. Train ranked him 19th on its 2015 list of 50 influential people in the fitness world.

The Truth About Cancer Featuring: 3 Breast Cancer Prevention Tips for Your 40s and 50s




When it comes to beating breast cancer, prevention is your best bet. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women – and the most deadly. Fortunately, there are many things you can do to reduce your risk and stay healthy.

 When it comes to breast cancer prevention, forming the right habits is key. For women in their 40s and 50s, following these three tips can help reduce your risk of cancer and help you live a long, healthy life.

Step #1: Check your hormone levels. Fibroid tumors, menstrual inconsistencies, mood swings, insomnia, and thyroid imbalances are all common for women transitioning into menopause. When it comes to making this transition gracefully, getting specific tests to check your hormone levels is a great place to start.

 Step #2: Reduce stress. Maybe you got used to “burning the candle at both ends” when you were in your 20s and 30s, but do you really want to keep up that stressful mindset now that you are in your 40s and 50s? Chronic stress lowers immune function and leads to depression as well as a host of other diseases, including breast cancer. Prayer and meditation are excellent tools for maintaining peace and combating stress.

 Step #3: Ensure early detection. Catching breast cancer early is extremely important. Did you know that thermography can detect abnormalities in the breast area up to seven years before they become detectable by conventional imaging? Also, remember to perform regular self-tests as well.

 To get more information on ways to prevent, treat, and beat breast cancer, check out our archive of breast cancer information here: http://bit.ly/breast-cancer-archive.

Police Activity Featuring: Officer's Friend Poses as Cop With Borrowed Badge & Gun To Get Free Food Presented by TacFit Survival


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 ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) ** A police officer is out of a job and her friend faces felony charges after the officer let her friend borrow her badge and gun to get free snacks from QuikTrip, police said. Gwinnett police told Channel 2's Tony Thomas that the officer worked for the Department of Community Supervision. Her friend was a former officer for the department. Thomas learned that it is a fairly common practice at some convenience stores that first responders get free snacks. Police said the DCS officer waited in the car and let her friend use her badge and gun to go into the QT and get free food. Gwinnett police Officer JT Smith saw the incident and didn't recognize the officer. When Smith pulled the woman's car over, she was still wearing the gun and badge. Video shows the moment Smith confronted Pektra Edgerton, 33. Edgerton claimed she worked for DCS. 
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 "Are you a police officer, or are you not a police officer?" Smith asks on the tape. 
 "So a black person walks into a store with a badge and a gun and it's an issue?" Edgerton asks on the video. 
 "It has nothing to do with you being black," Smith says. 
 After several seconds, Edgerton finally told the truth. 
 "You don't have to be a police officer to go in there. I've been doing it for three years," Edgerton said, claiming she was still a DCS officer. 
 Smith then turned his attention to the passenger, Brandi Green, a real DCS officer who the gun and badge belonged to. Thomas contacted DCS to find out if Green was still employed as an officer. A spokesman said in a statement: "Upon being made aware of Ms. Green's conduct, an internal investigation was initiated and Ms. Green was immediately suspended After Ms. Green was made aware of the forthcoming investigation, she resigned ... on the same day." Police charged Edgerton with felony impersonating an officer. Records show Edgerton bonded out of jail. She has not responded to Thomas' phone calls seeking comment. 
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The Rock Almighty Devotional, Praise, and Worship with Stryper




September 1 from CDM

 

“People may be right in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their heart” (Proverbs 21:2, NLT).


We can have a tendency to do what we think is right at the time, but in retrospect discover we made a mistake. When we ask God to guide us in all our decisions, we won’t be in danger of making that mistake. 

Creflo Dollar Ministries Featuring: Unfulfilled Part 2 and What’s wrong with pornography



Brandon Bentley was introduced to porn on TV and Playboy, on such a regular basis that it became his ritual. He grew up dreaming about sex. He lost his virginity when he was 16, and she was the first of over 100 encounters. Despite Brandon’s obsession with sex, he really just wants a steady relationship with a woman who really cares about him. Can Dr. Dollar speak into his life?

 

Q: What’s wrong with pornography From KCM

A:

“Pornography encourages people to treat one another as objects or pleasure-giving machines,” says Dr. James Dobson, founder of “Focus on the Family,” which has published several excellent articles on the effects of pornography. “It plants the seeds of alienation and leads to unhealthy relationships and the loss of individual self-respect…. Pornography is addictive and progressive, and it creates a passion for fantasy, which destroys the passion of reality. The use of obscene materials leads to perversions and conflict between husbands and wives.”
The Bible is clear that the lust of the flesh left unchecked will bring sin and sin’s consequences (James 1:14-15). Research reveals that 77 percent of child molesters of boys and 87 percent of child molesters of girls admitted imitating the sexual behavior they had seen modeled in pornography. Rape rates are highest in states which have high sales of sex magazines and little enforcement of pornography laws. (Research by Charles Keating of Citizens for Decency Through Law, sociologists Murray Straus and Larry Baron, and psychotherapist David Scott.)
So how does one stop using pornography?
The first step in walking free is to repent before the Lord and ask for His help. You can do this by simply saying a prayer from your heart:
“Father, I sinned against You and right now I choose to turn away from that sin and leave it behind me. I ask Your forgiveness for my sin, and by faith I receive cleansing from all sin by the blood of Jesus. I receive Your empowerment to live a holy life right now, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!”
Next, realize you have been given the power to stay free. First John 5:4-5 says, “For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.” God’s grace is supernatural empowerment for you to live a holy life (1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). If the pressure to engage in pornography seems to overwhelm you again, understand that you have the ability to turn your heart to God and ask for His help. Hebrews 4:16 says, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”
James 4:6-8 tells us when we humble ourselves before the Lord, He gives us the power and authority to resist the devil and watch him flee! Always remember that through Christ Jesus you are an overcomer, and when you resist the temptations and lies of the enemy, he must flee!