Try This in-the-Gym Time-Saver... and Double Your Results

By Jon Benson

Honestly, I do not look forward to my time on the elliptical glider or exercise bike. Some folks love the idea of gliding to nowhere for 30 minutes at a shot. But weight training has always been more appealing to me. As Dr. Sears and Craig Ballantyne have mentioned before in ETR, weight training is more effective at fat-burning than traditional cardiovascular exercise. But by combining the two, you'll get the ultimate weight-loss and body-shaping workout.

Here's a way to work both into the same workout while improving your performance in the gym. Create mini-circuits that feature at least one weight-training exercise. Then follow up with one to two minutes of cardio. You might think that one to two minutes wouldn't do much. But by performing cardio exercises between sets of weights, you are keeping your heart rate elevated throughout your entire workout. Your body receives more oxygen, you will have more energy, and you will burn more fat.

If those benefits aren't enough for you, your cardio time will seem to fly by! Doing two minutes on the glider at 80 percent of my maximum perceived exertion is a snap. (Mentally, not physically.) By the time my workout is finished, I have completed 10 to 15 "sets" of cardio. This, along with the elevated-heart-rate weight training, puts me in fat-burning mode during my entire session.

It's Fun to Know: The Biggest Telescope Ever

When completed in 2017, the $1.2 billion European Extremely Large Telescope will be the biggest optical telescope ever built: half the size of a football field and 21 stories tall. Designed to search for planets outside our solar system, it uses a complex system of mirrors to collect light and capture images of distant galaxies. According to its designers, the EELT is much more powerful than any existing technology.

The European Southern Observatory, the intergovernmental research organization overseeing the telescope, is considering sites in South Africa, Chile, Morocco, Argentina, and Antarctica.

(Source: Popular Science)

Word to the Wise: Chimerical

Something that's "chimerical" (ky-MER-ih-kul) is fantastic, improbable, or unrealistic. The word is derived from the chimera, a monster in Greek mythology that had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

Example (as used by Margaret Wertheim in Omni magazine): "In the chimerical atmosphere of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, it is far from clear where fact ends and fiction begins - or vice versa."

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