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When Guardians of the Galaxy was pitched to me, I said, “I don’t think so.” I just didn’t picture myself getting the role. I didn’t want to go and embarrass myself like I did when I auditioned for G.I. Joe a couple of years previously. I went in there, and halfway through I saw the director’s eyes just glaze over. It made sense—I was a little heavy and out of shape. I was not gonna play someone from G.I. Joe. I did not look like a G.I. Joe action figure come to life.

It’s a thing when it becomes three peoples’ job to mop sweat off of you. The hair person, the makeup person, an assistant. When their primary job becomes stopping you from sweating? But I sweat less now that I’m in better shape. When I was fat, it could be ice cold in a room and I would sweat.

It was getting to the point where I would wake up in the middle of the night and I wasn’t breathing. A little bit of sleep apnea. My neck was pushing down on my throat, so my sleep felt like it was panicked all night.

I like clothes now. I have more energy. I sleep better. My sex drive is up. Blood’s flowing. I’m less susceptible to impulse. I’m in a different mode. When I was way out of shape, the idea of using whitening strips on my teeth seemed terrible. I have to do that every day? I’ll never do it. What you want is instant results when you’re out of shape. You want your teeth whitened in 45 minutes with the use of lasers. But when you’re in shape, you know it’s the result of doing a little bit every day. Moments aren’t just moments. A moment might be a week or a month. So instead of Boy, I’d love to eat this hamburger right now, I’m considering a little further into the future. I’m thinking, I eat that hamburger and that’s 1,200 calories, and I’m gonna work out tomorrow and lose 800 calories. I may as well eat a salad here, still do that workout, and then I’m actually making progress.

You have to eat protein. You can’t have hashbrowns, or burgers, or anything fried. You can’t have carbs. You have to work out five times a week.

But I can do 40-inch box jumps now. Action-hero physical stuff. Jumping that high feels really good. You see a giant hillside, and you think, I wanna get up that. You see a building, you think, I could climb that. When you get in shape, the world around you becomes things you wanna jump on and climb up.

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Goblet Squat

Hold a dumbbell vertically at chest height, both hands cupping the dumbbell head (a). Keeping your chest up and core tight, sit your hips back and bend your knees to lower your body as far as you can toward the floor(b). Pause, then press through your heels to quickly return to start.

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It’s time to lay down some ground rules for this thing. Over the weeks, the rules may grow tougher, slowly removing the crap from our diets and filling them up with healthy, whole foods. The first few weeks will be the hardest hit for some, as week seek to eliminate processed,...

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School has started or will very soon so what would be better to do than to gather some great resources for a better school year?

Evernote - keep your research at one place

Khan Academy - over 4,200 educational videos

Mathaway - helps you solve almost every math problem

Cliffnotes - read and prep for school work

Studious - great way to keep track of schedule

iFormulas - references for mathematical formulas

Pocket - save studies and articles much easier

Science glossary - for those hard science words

Studyblue - online flashcards for your next test

Any.do - daily planner

Dropbox - don’t rely on your computer alone, make sure your notes and papers are safely uploaded online, just in case.

Feed.ly - gather all your fav websites for research or whatever in one place - I love this myself!

Scribd - online library

Self Control - we all know self control during work or school isn’t always around

TED - lots of good presentation by interesting people

Chegg - don’t have all the money for new text books? Chegg lets you rent many text books for much less than it costs to buy

Duolingo - learning a new language? Then I’ll recommend this one

Mint.com - make sure you’ve got your money straight

Alarmy - hard to get up in the morning? Well, this alarm makes you take a picture of your sink to turn it off!

Sworkit - don’t forget that exercise will make it easier to concentrate!

Don’t forget to look at my 27 websites for a new year - where you can find lots of other resources for health, fitness, school/work and div when starting a new year(school year too)

I’ve also got a post called 53 posts for students which contains nutrition and fitness posts especially for students!