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Issue: #40 March 31st, 2010
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The top picture shows our winning San Francisco stair team.

The bottom picture is the monster X Gym dominated  down there!
The X Gym manual on fitness, nutrition and brain training!
X Gym Biggest Loser after
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Greetings!

Is Chocolate the New Anti-stress Super Food?
The use of dark chocolate as a cure for emotional stress has received support from a recent clinical trial. The study found that eating about 1.5 ounces of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones.

The problem with most commercial chocolate is that it is full of sugar, which cancels out the health benefits. Raw cacao is best, but that's pretty hard to find and it doesn't taste very good by itself. Taz has a solution though! Her fitness fudge has extra protein and uses Xylitol instead of sugar, so check out her site today! www.xo-good.com


X Gym Dominates The Tallest Building in San Francisco!
We dominated the Seattle Big Climb on 3/21, and we did it again 6 days later at another climb down in California. X Gym had a small hit squad (pictured left) which won 3 age categories and broke 2 course records for the 35 year old climb up the tallest building in San Francisco. Check out the details at www.stairsport.com. 


Will You Help X Gym Win Best Kirkland Fitness Center?
We are competing for the title of best fitness center in Kirkland. Will you help? Please click here to vote for the X Gym! It will take less than a minute if you click straight through to the "Kirkland Businesses" page and vote for us as the best "Fitness Center."

Train Your Brain Today
Did you find some reasons to laugh? Did you ask yourself, "What could be funny about this in 5 years" when you thought of something bad that happened to you recently? Will it make you laugh? Well, why wait 5 years? Laugh now!

For your next suggestion, pick some expectations you have for your life and change them. It doesn't matter which ones. They can be big or small, but the exercise is vital. More on this in the next issue...

Thanks,

PJ Glassey, CSCS
X Gym (www.xgym.com)
Author, Cracking Your Calorie Code (www.crackingyourcode.com)
Fitness blogger: www.pjfit.com
Fitness tweeter: www.twitter.com/xgym
Email: pj@xgym.com
P.S. Chocolate also releases chemicals in your brain that improve your mood and make it easier to laugh, so get some healthy chocolate today!

Is saturated fat really that bad?
A Danish study seems to suggest that it can actually help you lose weight and may even be good for you. We know that coconut fat is one of the healthiest fats on the planet, and it's saturated too! Grass-fed beef also promotes fat loss with its high concentration of CLA. Mike, our Alki trainer, even wrote a blog post about saturated fats. Click here to check it out!

Does fat loss get easier as summer approaches?
Spring and summer do indeed bring faster fat loss - if you work out. There seems to be a link between a lower post-exercise appetite and increased heat, so this is a great time to start at the X Gym and get a jump on your summer body!

"Today's Quote: Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." ~ Helen Keller

Next issue: New brain training tips, interesting research, and more!
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