We've always been big fans of nuts at Men's Health—the high protein and fiber content keeps you full and satisfied, and the monounsaturated fats are great for heart health. Plus they're crunchy, delicious, and easy (almost too easy) to snack on after a workout. So when we starting creating our own nut mix with Planters, it was a combo as natural as peanut butter and jelly.
When the Planters and Men's Health teams sat down together to create the nut mix, we didn't dissect competing products already on the market. Instead, we simply tackled a simple question: "What would be the ultimate nut mix for men?" (We also made a lot of nut jokes.)
Following the snacking principles we preach in the magazine, we'd maximize protein and fiber while minimizing sugar and excess calories. We emphasized the importance of a short ingredient list, and decided against flavored coatings (too processed). A bit of oil to roast the nuts and just a touch of sea salt to season them (so little, in fact, that the nuts qualify as low-sodium) were the only additions we needed. Simple snacks are healthier snacks. And because we'd love to hear what you think, we're offering our readers $1 off Planters NUT·rition Men's Health® Recommended Mix—try them out and tell us what you think!
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We've always been big fans of nuts at Men's Health—the high protein and fiber content keeps you full and satisfied, and the monounsaturated fats are great for heart health. Plus they're crunchy, delicious, and easy (almost too easy) to snack on after a workout. So when we starting creating our own nut mix with Planters, it was a combo as natural as peanut butter and jelly.
When the Planters and Men's Health teams sat down together to create the nut mix, we didn't dissect competing products already on the market. Instead, we simply tackled a simple question: "What would be the ultimate nut mix for men?" (We also made a lot of nut jokes.)
Following the snacking principles we preach in the magazine, we'd maximize protein and fiber while minimizing sugar and excess calories. We emphasized the importance of a short ingredient list, and decided against flavored coatings (too processed). A bit of oil to roast the nuts and just a touch of sea salt to season them (so little, in fact, that the nuts qualify as low-sodium) were the only additions we needed. Simple snacks are healthier snacks. And because we'd love to hear what you think, we're offering our readers $1 off Planters NUT·rition Men's Health® Recommended Mix—try them out and tell us what you think!
#ElectrifyUS It's Day 9 of the Electric Car Challenge, and the gang is driving through Arizona, and making great time. Follow the record-smashing, cross-country trip on Twitter or at MensHealth.com.
Want more easy nutrition tips to help you get the body you've always wanted? Pick up a copy of The Men's Health Big Book of Nutrition for hundreds of simple dietary tweaks that can speed up weight loss, slow down aging, supercharge your sex life, and build muscle faster.
EAT THIS, NOT THAT! NEWSLETTER Each week, the Eat This, Not That! email newsletter will take you behind the menus at America's top chains and help you make easy choices that will save you pounds.
EXERCISE OF THE WEEK NEWSLETTER Men's Health Fitness Director Adam Campbell shares the secrets he's learned in the Men's Health exercise lab, delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday.
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Team, Have a great weekend selling! Remember there is no such thing has impossible.
Impossible Is Nothing
Take a certain goal of yours and double it. Or triple it. Or multiply it by 10. And then ask yourself, quite seriously, what you would have to do to achieve that new goal.
I used this game recently with a friend who holds a position in sales. He came to see me because he was selling $100,000 worth of product each month, the most on his team, and wanted to somehow get to %140,000.
I asked him to tell me what is would take for him to sell $200,000 worth of equipment each month. "2000,000!" he shouted. "That's impossible. I'm leading the team already with $100,000, and nobody thought that could be done."
"What would have to do?" I persisted.
"No," he said. "You don't understand. I want to hit $140,000 a month, and even that is so hard that I don't know how I'll do it."
I finally told him the theory behind this game.
If you seriously look at an outrageous goal, such as $200,000." it will open things up for you creatively that wouldn't have opened up if you stayed looking at $140,000. He nodded slowly and reluctantly agrees to play along for a while.
"Okay," he said. "But remember, we're talking about something that's impossible."
"Fine." I said. "But if your life depended on hitting $200,000 next month, what exactly would you do?"
He laughed and then started listing things as I wrote them down on a flip pad. After he got through the ridiculous ideas, like stealing other people's accounts and cooking the books, he began to think of more ideas. At first it was hard.
"I'd have to be two places at once," he said. "I'd have to make twice as many presentations as I'm making. I'd have to present to two clients at once!"
Then it hit him. All of a sudden he got the idea that he might be able to stage a large presentation of his product with a number of clients in the room at one time. "I could rent a room at a hotel and have 20 people in for coffee and donuts, and I could make a big deal out of it," he said.
A number of other ideas came to him- ways to combine his cold-calling with his travel time, ways to utilize e-mail as a sales tool, how to use the administrative staff better. Idea after idea came to him while I wrote furiously on the pad.
All of the ideas were a result of his thinking big- "How would I sell $200,000 if I absolutely had to?"
He surpassed his goal of $140,000 the very next month!
Team, Have a great weekend selling! Remember there is no such thing has impossible.
Impossible Is Nothing
Take a certain goal of yours and double it. Or triple it. Or multiply it by 10. And then ask yourself, quite seriously, what you would have to do to achieve that new goal.
I used this game recently with a friend who holds a position in sales. He came to see me because he was selling $100,000 worth of product each month, the most on his team, and wanted to somehow get to %140,000.
I asked him to tell me what is would take for him to sell $200,000 worth of equipment each month. "2000,000!" he shouted. "That's impossible. I'm leading the team already with $100,000, and nobody thought that could be done."
"What would have to do?" I persisted.
"No," he said. "You don't understand. I want to hit $140,000 a month, and even that is so hard that I don't know how I'll do it."
I finally told him the theory behind this game.
If you seriously look at an outrageous goal, such as $200,000." it will open things up for you creatively that wouldn't have opened up if you stayed looking at $140,000. He nodded slowly and reluctantly agrees to play along for a while.
"Okay," he said. "But remember, we're talking about something that's impossible."
"Fine." I said. "But if your life depended on hitting $200,000 next month, what exactly would you do?"
He laughed and then started listing things as I wrote them down on a flip pad. After he got through the ridiculous ideas, like stealing other people's accounts and cooking the books, he began to think of more ideas. At first it was hard.
"I'd have to be two places at once," he said. "I'd have to make twice as many presentations as I'm making. I'd have to present to two clients at once!"
Then it hit him. All of a sudden he got the idea that he might be able to stage a large presentation of his product with a number of clients in the room at one time. "I could rent a room at a hotel and have 20 people in for coffee and donuts, and I could make a big deal out of it," he said.
A number of other ideas came to him- ways to combine his cold-calling with his travel time, ways to utilize e-mail as a sales tool, how to use the administrative staff better. Idea after idea came to him while I wrote furiously on the pad.
All of the ideas were a result of his thinking big- "How would I sell $200,000 if I absolutely had to?"
He surpassed his goal of $140,000 the very next month!
University of California, Los Angeles; UCLA (Photo credit: COG LOG LAB.)
NWA’s ” Straight Out of Compton” turned on, taking me right back to my freshman year at UCLA. I am at the gym, leg pressing 300 pounds, arm curling 50 pounds feeling like a beast. I was 18, a wanna be mustache dancing on my lip, Gangsta rap in my blood. I felt bad ass as I pushed out 10 reps. 2 more circuits to go. That was then, this is now. I push out 540, and curl 100 but the gut sticks out, and my 40 years feels like 400 on me. I am not UCLA Sanjay anymore, more like Useless Sanjay but that’s just my self-pity talking.
A few years ago, I had the same goals as I did today, but the only difference was passion. Whereas, before I just wished to be in better shape, I now WANT to be better. I know I can get to a six pack, the only regret being that it would be 22 years AFTER the fact, but you know what, it’s how it makes me feel NOW that matters. Everything else is just mere whining. Turning 40 can work miracles for someone like me who quite honestly has been quite comfortable for quite a while.
I start each day knowing that one day closer to my goal of being in the best shape of my life. The real reason: I don’t want to die needlessly. I don’t want to die because of something I could have prevented, but most of all I don’t want to die before I really do accomplish all that I want from my life. It really is that simple. I want to live my life not live day-to-day.
Nothing could stop this man after suffering severe burns on his legs at the age of eight, Glenn Cunningham was given up by doctors who believed he would be a hopeless cripple destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. " He will never be able to walk again," they said, "No chance."
The doctors examined his legs, but they had no way of looking into Glenn's heart. He didn't listen to the doctors and set out to walk again. Lying in bed, his skinny, red legs covered with scar tissue, Glenn vowed," Next week, I'm going to get out of bed. I'm going to walk." And he did just that.
His mother tells of how she used to push back the curtain and look out the windows to watch Glenn reach up and take hold of an old plow in the yard. With a hand on each handle, he began to make his gnarled and twisted legs function. And with every step of pain, he came closer to walking. Soon he began to trot; before long he was running. When he started to run, he became even more determined.
"I always believed that I could walk, and I did. now I'm going to run faster than anybody has ever run." And did he ever.
He became a great miler who, in 1934, set the world's record of 4'06". He was honored as the outstanding athlete of the century at Madison Square Garden.
We've always been big fans of nuts at Men's Health—the high protein and fiber content keeps you full and satisfied, and the monounsaturated fats are great for heart health. Plus they're crunchy, delicious, and easy (almost too easy) to snack on after a workout. So when we starting creating our own nut mix with Planters, it was a combo as natural as peanut butter and jelly.
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