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Matthew J. Kurz /// Intrepicon Photography

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Icelandic Nature

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Animals of Iceland (top to bottom):

Humpback Whale

Icelandic Horse

Icelandic Sheep

Seal

Seagull

Icelandic Sheep

Humpback Whale

Icelandic Horse

Puffin

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Churches of Iceland

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Iceland Map (Ring Road, Golden Circle, and Points of Interest)

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Frescos on the ceilings of various Roman churches

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Some magnificent domes and altars

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Florence, Italy

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The Colosseum

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These are a few shots I snapped of various people on the streets of Rome.

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Kayaking shots on the Wekiva River in Florida

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Took some pictures with the new GoPro today out at a lake in Florida

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Some random pictures from my adventures in Washington/Canada over the past few months :)

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Trying to explain RFM to chapter officers and alum advisors

I’m like:

And they’re like:

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I am totally trying this today.

An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.

“There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,” says Chris Jordan, the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla., and co-author of the new article.

Work by scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and other institutions shows, for instance, that even a few minutes of training at an intensity approaching your maximum capacity produces molecular changes within muscles comparable to those of several hours of running or bike riding.

via NYT

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