#Endless sky change flagship

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Endless sky change flagship

In his more adventurous musings, he proposed how humanity could build rotating Pinwheel Stations in space and a space elevator. Considered to be the top contender for the title of the “Father of Rocketry” (the other two being Hermann Oberth and Robert Goddard), Tsiolokovsky is responsible for developing the “ Rocket Equation” and the design from which most modern rockets are derived. Like most time-honored revolutionary ideas for space exploration, the space elevator can be traced to Russian/Soviet rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). This engineering facility specializes in the rapid development and scaling-up of graphene and other 2D materials. Nixene’s flagship publication (the Nixene Journal) is an affiliate member of the University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC). John Knapman, a former AI specialist with IBM, a member of the British Interplanetary Society, and the Managing Director of the ISEC. He was joined by Dennis Wright - the vice president of the ISECIBM and a former researcher with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory - and Dr. The research was led by Adrian Nixon, a graphene and 2D materials scientist, a Royal Society of Chemistry member, founder and editor of Nixene Publishing, and a board member of StellarModal and the ISEC. But as it turns out, this issue may finally be resolved! According to scientists with the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), a cost-effective manufacturing process could produce graphene ribbons that are strong enough to fashion a tether! Their latest findings are detailed in a paper they will present at the upcoming 2022 International Astronomical Congress in Paris. The single-greatest challenge has always been the tether since no known material has ever been strong enough to handle the stresses involved. But every generation or so, new research comes along that causes engineers and space agencies to reevaluate the concept. The engineering challenges and costs associated with such a structure have always been enormous. Our planet’s rotation would keep this tether taught, and a system of “climbers” would transport people and payloads to and from space. Originally proposed about a century-and-a-quarter ago, this concept calls for a tether of supermaterial that connects a station in orbit to Earth’s surface. The s pace elevatoris one of those ideas that seems to have an endless supply of lives.

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Endless sky ships wont folllow through wormhol

#Endless sky ships wont folllow through wormhol password#

Such as systems without planets, rogue/deep space planets, systems with real black holes, etc. I would like to see non-standard systems. 'it are bad ideas as i only want to kill you easily'. My rabbles :), i will try to answer any valid points brought up and all, except those clearly written in the means of The events in the past they will be out of local as they are in a different timeline at that point. I understand the above is a bit hard to implement thinking about current game mechanics, but during the time people witness Short scene of a flagship warping off to a planet while it's almost disintegrating. Have the 'unfortunate' explorer get sucked into an anomoly that warps it back in time for a moment witnessing anĪncient Jove battle orso without the ability to participate and have them warped back to current times where theyĬan use their archeology skills in the remnants of that battle to find some treasures, perhaps leaving hints in the Other professions die off as everyone is going to the gold rush called exploration profit.ĭynamic - I think one could play with 'events' tampering with time and bring back a bit of lore into the game. Nomadic lifestyle - See my first part(s) about the ships.Ĭhance-based income - Sure, but it needs a very, very, very good balance, else you see explorers leave when incomes too low vs risks, or you see Mystery - The random generated area's are the best bet for this, not knowing who or what to expect is in the core of exploration. Not just Combat - I agree, there isn't always treasure in the most dangerous places, it can be in the fields behind your home. Now some loose rabbles about some other points: Uber ship but offers a safish haven for the nomadic people. In this case you still have the chance to get caught by those wanting to get you.

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and can be left behind in a password protectedįorcefield decreasing it's signature dramaticly so it's really hard to scan down while exploring. Like a hangar to store stuff you find and ammunition etc. So instead of subsystems, you make up a home of several ships attached toĪ special structure making a whole new type of ship that can only fly and offer some basic tools Where you can interconnect several ships together and detach one of them when youĪnchored it in space. Or, If the favour goes towards a 'mobile home' as i had with my orca, you could think into the modular We explorers get some sort of ship that can do the following:Ī ship that has a role bonus to exploration skills, maybe scalable with levels required to fly the ship.Ī ship that can put out DPS and tank in case it needs to.Ī Ship that can 'anchor' a plex so that it cant despawn in case of emergency warpouts.Ī ship that can use some kind of stealth so nomadic lifestyles gets a boost. You get ridiculed by those wanting to enforce their type of gameplay upon you (the pvp players) and i hope I fancy the idea of the Hive ship and even contributed some to that thread before, but as in many aspects, * The presence of 'normal' rats in certain type of sites. * the need for ships that are needed to withstand all the firepower in certain plexes. * The high loss ratio in low/nullsec due to despawning timers when bad people are looking for you. Things that is making the whole exploration feels broken i think are: Since the changes and introduction of the wormholes every 3 week old character had the same chance of finding plexes and sites and the whole concept of investing time into exploration went down the drain as well as the fun and feeling of accomplishment. Investing in training an orca and move along my ships and modules through space was helping, but increased the 'play safe' gametype as moving with such a ship through null/lowsec was hard. I've started exploration roughly 4 years ago and with the help of dnightmare's extensive guides it was painstakingly long but rewarding and fun. First of all i applaud for wanting to change exploration.

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When Department Stores Were Theater

After the hundreds of jobs going poof and the thus-far inadequate discounts, the saddest thing about the closure of Barneys New York is that its signature naughty window displays will recede even further in collective memory.A Hail Mary campaign earlier this year imploring shoppers to go inside even as the store declared bankruptcy (“STRUT STRUT STRUT STRUT STRUT STRUT”) was but a faint echo of the era when subversive tableaus of papier-mâché public figures, found objects, condoms on Christmas trees and the occasional scampering vermin mesmerized crowds, offended cardinals and even sold some clothes.But “we’re in a post-window-display world,” said Simon Doonan, the Barneys O.G. window dresser, in a telephone interview, noting the “impenetrable facade” of Dover Street Market, heir apparent to the luxury avant-garde. Its New York entrance has only small, high apertures above pedestrian eye level.“In the old days, window displays were the primary form of marketing — fashion was the same as butcher shops and fishmongers,” he said. “Now, if you’re waiting till someone walks past your store, you’ve lost the fight.”Indeed, the bustling new Nordstrom on 57th Street dispenses with traditional boxed-in display windows entirely, replacing them with a shallow, wavy facade that John Bailey, a spokesman, assured would be festooned with red and white lights come Black Friday. The facade is “an interactive viewing experience for customers walking by,” he wrote in an email, “connecting the shopping experience in store to the energy of the city.” (And the energy of customers’ phones.) A young employee at the central help desk said elliptically that “our windows are our customer service.”Gather ’round, children, and let Auntie Alexandra tell of when department stores, now mostly glassy, anodyne places you go to exchange online purchases, used to put on a show. Sometimes more entertaining than the theater.First, though, a quick gallop through what remains of New York’s holiday windows in 2019, and the hopeful cornucopias within.At the doomed Barneys flagship on 61st Street, there was of course bubkes, just signs reading: “Everything Must Be Sold! Goodbuys, then Goodbye.” Inside on the fifth floor, female customers were listlessly flipping shoes to glance at the soles and calculate the markdown, as if with muscle memory from the much-lamented warehouse sale. Four creaky flights up, the power lunch spot Fred’s, named for Fred Pressman, Barneys’ charismatic chairman who died in 1996, was full — even as a worker held a headless naked mannequin steady by her neck on a hand truck, waiting for the elevator to go down, down, down.A few blocks away preens Bergdorf Goodman, the beautiful princess whose holding company, Neiman Marcus, muscled recently into the Hudson Yards, like a watchful mother-in-law moving into the guest cottage. There are no old-school windows at the gleaming new Neiman, being that it’s high up off the dirty street in a mall (and incidentally charging kids $72 per head for breakfast with Santa). But at Bergdorf, David Hoey, the store’s senior director of visual presentation, and his team have gamely produced a concept called Bergdorf GoodTimes. Literally gamely. Like, filled with actual games.One window was captioned “Queen’s Gambit” (chess); another, “Jackpot!” (pinball); another, “Winner Take All” (casino — perhaps a dry subconscious commentary on the high-stakes state of retail). Around the corner, a life-size board game, “Up the Down Escalator,” was dotted with fictional gift cards, coin of the online-shopping realm.Mr. Hoey’s sophisticated, colorful creations did not seem intended for little ones — and anyway those were scampering around across the street, splashing in small pools and peering into mirror-glass “sky lenses” outside the Fifth Avenue Apple store. Paging Dr. Lacan!Further east on 59th and Lexington Avenue, dear old Bloomingdale’s was flagrantly violating several of the decorative precepts set out by Mr. Doonan in his seminal 1998 book, “Confessions of a Window Dresser: Tales From a Life in Fashion.” Specifically: “do remember that technology is boring” and “don’t incorporate sex.”If Bergdorf is rolling the dice on the future of the department store — eroded perhaps irrevocably by Amazon’s mighty, corrosive flow — Bloomie’s is searching the stars. Not the celebrities whose daffy effigies used to populate Mr. Doonan’s windows, mostly with enthusiastic cooperation (Madonna, Magic Johnson, Norman Mailer, Prince, Queen Elizabeth), but a lavish commingling of astronomy and astrology titled Out of This World.Robots were placing ornaments on a tree and sitting at a synthesizer ready to play the carol of your choice at the push of a button. Google Nest, a sponsor, was poised to turn on the tree, the lights; the fire. And astronauts were floating in a “3, 2, 1, Gift Off,” or was it a “GIF Off?” Female mannequins embodying various figures of the zodiac were outfitted like go-go dancers, all pearls and feathers and curvature: propped up against each other on a pedestal as a recording played of John Legend singing, incongruously, “Christmas in New Orleans.” Inside, on the main floor, one embodying Cancer the Crab hung upside down from the ceiling: eyes closed, suspended over a hoop, hand-claws splayed, rotating slowly. Her bared, inverted legs conjured less the #MeToo era than the infamous “meat grinder” photo of the June 1978 Hustler magazine that feminists used to protest on Manhattan sidewalks.

Razzle-Dazzle in the Mezzanine

Mr. Doonan had called from Los Angeles, where he was, among other activities, promoting a monograph to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Maxfield, the boutique there. This even though when he was in the window-dressing business, “I was very anti-anniversary and I vetoed all of them. They just made the company seem old and boring. It looks dusty.”Though I agree 100 percent and moreover think the ascription of significance to particular numbers is as ridiculous as astrology, it also happens to be the 40th anniversary of a seismic and undersung event in department-store history: when the performer Elaine Stritch was the M.C. of an elaborate fashion show at Liberty of London, the emporium known for its fine fabrics. (Many women in those years still sewed household clothes from patterns.)Arranged by Peter Tear, then Liberty’s head of marketing and publicity, and choreographed by Larry Fuller of “Evita,” the show somehow managed to cross-promote the low-tar Silk Cut cigarette with a silk congress happening in London. Concordes were deployed with top models on board. Cocktails were concocted by the Café Royal down the road. Fifty-odd designers contributed special outfits for the occasion, including Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Yves Saint Laurent.Another was David Emanuel, who, with his wife and partner, Elizabeth, would design the show’s bridal gown (and later Princess Diana’s).“People gasped,” he said, remembering the Liberty event on a crackly trans-Atlantic phone line. “They were aching for ‘larger than life.’” Mr. Emanuel described Stritch — subject of my recently published biography, “Still Here” (hey, it’s the selling season) — in a sequined tuxedo jacket, singing among other numbers “Falling in Love Again” à la Marlene Dietrich to the enraptured ladies who lunch who had paid five quid admission apiece for the show, which ran thrice daily over the course of a week. “It has more punch and pulchritude packed into its 51 minutes than most West End musicals twice as long,” one newspaper commented.Mr. Doonan theorized that Liberty, fighting a dainty, twin-set image, had taken inspiration from what the storied retailer Marvin Traub was doing then at Bloomingdale’s. “The whole thing was that the store was the stage — the razzle-dazzle of flash and pizazz and lo and behold, there’s a swimwear fashion show with Pat Cleveland coming down the escalator,” he said. “Every day was ‘curtain up!’ at Bloomingdale’s.”Truly, what could be more of an ultimate fantasy set than the department store of yore, with its infinite “costumes,” props and built-in risers, its endless potential for comedy, dance, drama and even horror? Florenz Ziegfeld’s pre-code movie “Glorifying the American Girl,” showcasing his Follies, starts in one. The heroic airman in “The Best Years of Our Lives” returned to work as a soda jerk in another; ennobled by the theater of war, he chafed at his diminishment in the feminine one of trade.Barbra Streisand gamboled through Bergdorf in 1965 for her TV special, trying on fur coats and hats, spritzing perfume and singing a Fanny Brice-ish medley of “Second Hand Rose” and “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” to funny and glamorous effect. James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s “Twilight Zone”-inflected broadcast musical, “Evening Primrose,” was set in a department store called Stern’s, and featured a poet played by Anthony Perkins remaining after-hours, giddy at the idea of the creativity that his solitude, enhanced by all the products he needs, will stimulate. At one point he stands on an escalator belting, “I’m here! I’m here!” foreshadowing the famous anthem in Goldman and Sondheim’s own “Follies” taken up late in life by Stritch. (Later a young woman he discovers there sings of remembering snow: “Soft as feathers/ Sharp as thumbtacks.” She had been left there, in Hats, as a child by her preoccupied mother, but now with climate change the lyric sounds like prescient ecological lament.)Even after the fiasco of Andrew McCarthy at Philadelphia’s Wanamaker’s (R.I.P.) in “Mannequin” 20 years later, and the slow creep of the suburban mall, there was yet another remake of “Miracle on 34th Street.”“Where did Auntie Mame go when she lost all her money?” Mr. Doonan reminded. “Selling roller skates at Macy’s.”It’s hard to imagine, though not impossible, that department stores will remain important sites of commerce and culture much longer. But the largest one in the city is not about to go quietly. At Macy’s, which takes up an entire block, there is a jumble of every sort of window.There are old-fashioned windows devoted to the story of Virginia O’Hanlon, the little girl who wrote to The New York Sun in 1897 asking if there was still a Santa Claus. Around the corner, there are high-tech windows giving voice to a little girl who wants to be Santa Claus. And around another corner: still other windows filled simply with giant Barbies. Being female in the early 21st century is nothing if not a series of mixed messages, but this attempt to empower seemed already antiquated; if Mr. Doonan were still working on windows, surely he would have gone straight for Mx. Claus?The ghost of Barneys yet to come is at Saks Fifth Avenue, which has licensed its former rival’s name, and where windows have been themed with glittering corporate efficiency to the international blockbuster “Frozen 2.” This may delight the tourists, but city dwellers remembering the craft and chance and silliness of the old holiday extravaganzas — when the designers and the famous people and the window dressers were all sticking pins in each other, and the audiences crowded four-deep on the pavement for the free sideshow — will probably be left cold. Source link Read the full article

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Osaka Guide: Umeda

Umeda is a major city center in Osaka with endless dining and shopping options, check out the gigantic food malls inside the mega department stores, take in the city view from HEP FIVE FERRIS WHEEL, and ride the floating escalator in the cool slick Sky Building.

Umeda is the go-to destination for shopping and dining choices in Osaka, with the major transport hubs Osaka Station and Umeda Station, flanked by Hankyu, Hanshin, Daimaru, and other super-sized retail shops,

Osaka Station

Osaka Station

Umeda cemented its place as the center of transportation in Kansai area when Osaka Station open in 1874. Subsequent train and subway lines were added to the area including Umeda Station. A similar comparison for Umeda in Osaka would be Shinjuku in Tokyo.

Yes, there is a need for 6 escalators

Osaka Station went under a major renovation in 2011 and is now composed of South Gate and North Gate Buildings. Besides the many dining and shopping choices, South Gate Building includes the department store Daimaru and the North Gate Building houses Lucua shops as well as a movie theater on the top floor.

Department Stores in Umeda

If you are looking to shop in Osaka, then Umeda is where you want to be. There’s no shortage of large department stores surrounding the station. However, there aren’t many tourist attractions in the Umeda area. What we do highly recommend checking out for any foodie is the “depachika” the food mall underneath the department stores. We really liked the one at Hanshin so you have limited time go check that one out.

Hanshin Department Store Umeda

Hanshin’s history in Umeda goes back to the early 1930s. Like many other department stores in Japan, it’s home to many high-end boutiques, fashionable attires, restaurants, and cafes. However, the best way to peek into the daily Japanese life and what people buy and eat is in the food mall.

The food mall in Hanshin sells everything from ready-to-go food to delicate desserts, wine, tea, and many other gifts. The packaging and gift wrap for the purchases are exquisite and free of charge.

Roast pork from Kobe Chinatown shop

One of the conveniences the food mall offers is there are many famous stores from the nearby area (Kobe, Kyoto, etc) that will operate a booth there so you don’t have to travel all over to buy them. The photos we’ve shared below is just a small sample and it’s easy to spend an hour checking out all the different foods.

Fruit juice and other fruit products

Croquette ready to be eaten!

Bread and bakery shop

Honey shop L’ABEILLE

Home-cooked style food

Unagi and Anago Sushi

Salted fish shop

Japanese confectionary shop

Ippodo tea shop – 300 years of history and we love their hojicha

Tsukemono – Japanese pickled vegetables

Each shop beside offering their most popular products and items throughout the year, seasonal and limited time goods are often featured. One of our favorite indulgences during the summer is the white peach jelly. Eating the chilled white peach jelly on a hot summer day is simply too incredible to describe. At $10 per jelly, it’s really pricey so we usually share 2 between 4-6 people.

White peach jelly

Dessert made from biwa fruit

Mizu yokan jelly dessert

Kasutera honey cake from Kyoto

Kombu (kelp) shop

Hankyu Department Store Umeda

Another prominent department store in Umeda is Hankyu and it actually merged with Hanshin in 2008. It is the premier department store in the Umeda area. Between its main store along with the HEP NAVIO mens store, the combined retail sq footage is the second largest in Japan.

In the pedestrian walkway along Hankyu, the window display are decorated with incredible detail and changes based on the current theme or season.

Window display at Hankyu

In the Hankyu flagship department store in Umeda, there is also a plethora of food options in depachika.

Hankyu department store

The food mall at Hankyu is focused on Japanese and Western confectionary as well as ready to go Japanese dishes and meals. The feeling there is different from Hanshin’s depachika, with a higher ceiling and a more refined feeling. However, there are a lot fewer options with a smaller number of vendors compared to Hanshin.

Food mall depachika at Hankyu

The walkways at Hankyu are much wider between the vendors and not as crowded.

There are plenty of shopping choices at the department store. If you are specifically looking for men’s fashion, head on over to HEP NAVIO

HEP Navio (men’s fashion store)

HEP FIVE FERRIS WHEEL

Now we got the shopping out of the way, let’s check out some landmarks around Umeda. One of the most popular landmarks is the red HEP FIVE FERRIS WHEEL on top of HEP FIVE (Hankyu Entertainment Park) building.

HEP FIVE FERRIS WHEEL

The HEP FIVE building is targeted at a younger demographic with over 170 stores. It gets an impressive 14 million visitors per year.

Giant whale sculpture by Tatsuya Ishii (former vocalist for Kome Kome Club)

Although the Ferris wheel is not particularly high, you get a great bird-eye view of the Umeda area. The cost is 600 yen per rider and children give and under are free.

Entrance to HEP FIVE FERRIS WHEEL

view of Osaka Station

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Umeda Sky Building

Another landmark in Umeda is Sky Building. It’s an observatory platform connecting two buildings. The building looks like an upside down U. It’s quite a futuristic experience as visitors go up an elevator shaft that’s mostly glass. After arriving at the top, you then go up the escalator that’s suspended in the air.

Umeda Sky Building

If you are limited on time during your trip to Osaka then skip the Sky Building. The elevator ride and the escalator was the most fun part and there are other places to get better views.

A very young Nami with our son

Dining Option in Umeda

So, we will not give any recommendations for dining in the Umeda area at this time. Why you might ask? There are over 6,000 restaurants choices within 1 km (roughly 1/2 mile) of Umeda Station according to Tabelog. You can probably find whatever food you desire around there so explore and be adventurous! During our visit to Umeda we had dinner at Mamesuke.

Mamesuke 個室居酒屋 豆助 梅田マルビル店

We were able to meet up with Nami’s family for dinner at Mamesuku near Umeda. Mamesuke is an Izakaya restaurant with an extensive menu. What’s convenient about it is that there are plenty of semi-private rooms. It’s great for big groups as they can fit between 4 – 40 people. This is rare in Japan as most restaurants have a hard time accepting a large number of people due to the limited space.

The food at Mamesuke was quite good and they had a few interesting dishes. One of is their famous gluten skewers. The grilled gluten skewers are topped with various sauces including chili mayo, cheese, and five different types of miso including yuzu and tomato.

Grilled gluten skewers

Deep fried asparagus with nori

“Cloudy” sashimi platter with dry ice

Fried fishbone

Thank you for reading our quick guide to the Umeda area in Osaka. It’s a great place to spend the afternoon browsing through the stores and grabbing a bit to eat at the many restaurant choices nearby. If time allows, take the HEP FIVE FERRIS WHEEL or go up the glass elevator in Sky Building. We’ll see you in our next post – Tempozan.

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Interview with NBC’s Strong Chris Ryan and Wes Okerson at TheFitExpo Chicago

This post is sponsored by TheFitExpo Chicago who gave me the opportunity to interview Chris Ryan and Wes Okerson whose interview is provided below.

TheFitExpo Chicago is an annual 2-day family-friendly event that happens in Rosemont for the Fitness and wellness connoisseurs.

  TheFitExpo brings together different types of health and fitness fans ranging from cross fitters, bodybuilders, and powerlifters to martial arts fans. The event also attracts many personal trainers, physical therapists, and competitors. If you are into health and fitness, you don’t want to miss this amazing event that is going to take place May 6-7, 2017 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.

  The exhibitors gathering here from all across the globe will showcase a wide range of products and services. The expo is full of fitness celebrities and special guests within the health and fitness industry, supplement companies, all the latest gear, sports apparel, competitions and much more. You can have a chance to meet Instagram fitness “icons” you follow and are inspired by. You have a chance to experience what this lifestyle is about and have access to health and wellness products, free supplement samples, free fitness classes, and live fitness competitions. You will also finally have a chance to take a picture with celebrities like Chris Ryan and Wes Okerson from NBC’s show STRONG.

  Why would you want to miss meeting the amazing fitness celebrities that are coming to the TheFitExpo Chicago?

  To purchase a ticket today and join TheFitExpo, go to TheFitExpo Chicago tickets.

  I had the pleasure of interviewing two special guests, Chris Ryan and Wes Okerson, from NBC’s show STRONG. I was truly humbled and honored to have this amazing opportunity as it’s something I’ve always wanted to do; interview fitness inspirations that can bring value to you and motivate you in your fitness journey.

  I invite you to read my interview and see what these experts have to say!

  WES OKERSON INTERVIEW:

  How did you get started in health and fitness?

  I got into health and fitness when I was very young I started playing baseball when I was five years old that lead to playing in high school and eventually in college.

  Do you have any morning rituals? What are they?

  I actually don’t have any morning routines I like to change it up. I pretty much take it day by day. I like to see how my body is feeling and adapt my workout.

  What inspires you each day?

  Inspiration is everywhere it’s all around you. I get it from a TV show, a film, a book, a piece of art, could be anything.

  What has been your biggest challenge in life and how did you overcome that?

  I think the biggest challenge in life is fear of the unknown -trying new things, every day you do a little bit more and you overcome a little more.

  Why do you follow a Keto Diet? What are Ketones?

  I don’t follow a keto diet specifically but I do eat more quality fats and less starchy carbs–I do this because there is a tremendous amount of research showing that ketones are better for the brain- the body operates better burning fat as energy not only do you look better, you perform better- your brain functions better- it’s just an overall better quality of life.

  Who is a Keto diet ideal for?

  Ketones are essentially fats broken down and used as energy – usable energy that is you can take them exogenously which means outside the body in the form of a supplement one that’s called keto OS. This is probably the best way to get your ketones without having to follow a very strict diet.

  What is the biggest roadblock your audience or clients come to you with? How do you help them fight that?

  The biggest block is always going to be time it’s pretty much universal for everyone I try to tell people that there’s always time. Always.

  What suggestions do you have for busy people and how they can still get a killer workout on a time constricted schedule.

  Everyone should lift weights. The idea of only doing cardio work is nonsense the body has to have muscle in order to maintain its structural integrity as you get older your body loses bone mass and that’s very important to save as you get older.

  Can you tell my audience (women) what are the benefits of lifting weights? Many have a mental block that they will get bulky and look manly.

  I would tell people that in order to achieve the body they want lifting weights is imperative – as muscle burns a tremendous amount of extra calories while you’re at rest -so as you lift weights the body uses more energy therefore will burn its fat. If you only do cardiovascular training the body will use up its muscle and you’ll become what’s known as skinny fat.

  What are your best tips to achieve a beach body physique?

  My best advice to achieving a “beach body” is to just simply work very hard in your workouts and maintain a healthy lifestyle of eating. And most importantly get out of your comfort zone if you’re someone that likes to spin go run if you’re someone that likes to run take a HIT class.

  What is the best advice you can give to someone starting as a Fitness and Health Entrepreneur?

  Someone whose starting out as a health and fitness entrepreneur you got to just stay on grind each day –you’ll be introduced to somebody that could potentially introduce you to somebody else that will give you an opportunity. There’s always a door somewhere just keep looking for that door that’s unlocked and walk through it and you’ll find ten more just like it.

  Where do you see your career headed in 5 and 10 years?

  I’m not quite sure where my life will be in five or even 10 years. I just know that the fitness world has brought me so many opportunities and as I continue to push down different roads I can see myself eventually moving outside of fitness and doing some other things in my life that I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve always been fascinated with TV and film and I can see myself hopefully working in that area in the later years of my life.

    CHRIS RYAN INTERVIEW.

  How did you get started in health and fitness?

  It was always my calling in life. I had been an athlete since I was young and was fortunate to be a D1 scholarship athlete. I was always into business and entrepreneurship in my 20s, and after selling a business at age 28, I followed my passions in fitness. I did a photo shoot for a friend in the fitness world and was picked up by Wilhelmina Models in NYC. After that, the rest is history. I put on my entrepreneur hat and built a career around the health and fitness world. I train clients both in-person and online, model and consult for the biggest names in fitness, am partnering in an amazing new flagship group training studio opening in NYC this summer, write for the top fitness magazines and appeared on STRONG on NBC. Follow your passions, and only great things will come your way.

  What are you the best at in life?

  Getting the best out of people. I have a knack for helping people achieve more than they ever thought they could. I thrive on it and it always fulfills me to see other people’s success and the smile it brings to their faces.

  Do you have any morning rituals? What are they?

  I get up at 4:45am (such is the life of a busy trainer) and always do 2-3 minutes of basic stretching first thing before I hit the shower. Simple toe touches and arms to the sky; just loosen up the posterior chain, hips and shoulders. After my shower, I give my wife and kids a kiss while they sleep and take a few seconds to stare at them in their peaceful sleep. Lastly I grab my coffee and mix my Keto Kreme in it and walk to the gym; almost 2 miles (I never take the subway or taxis first thing in the AM) there is something surreal and energizing about walking the streets of Manhattan as it wakes up each day.

  What inspires you each day?

  My family. My wife and kids are everything to me. They want me to be a better man; better provider; better father; better husband. Each and every day. They help me focus and strive to do “better,” it’s a principle I pass along to my clients and instill in all the work I do.

  What has been your biggest challenge in life and how did you overcome that?

  I was lost after I sold the business I was a partner in with my brother and our childhood friend. At 28 years old we had done well, but knew I wanted more. It took a while to “discover” what I really wanted to do with my life–thankfully I found out after a couple years of “aimlessness.” It’s funny how you can prepare your business and sell it successfully, but then you don’t prepare your life for what happens next. Once I looked at life as an endless book with a series of chapters it made more sense to me. One day I had some clarity and I asked myself two simple questions: what my ideal day would look like? How could I combine my passions and entrepreneurial capabilities together to make a living at it? Funny how the answers are easy once you ask yourself the right questions.

  What kind of nutrition system do you follow and recommend our clients? Keto, IIFYM, carb cycling or any other?

  I think in terms of nutrition, not diet and food as fuel. I have had great success with clients following Keto and/or paleo-style nutrition programs and believe these are great options for most people. I firmly believe carbs should be “earned.” We have been abusing this macronutrient for 50 years through the help of our dysfunctional food pyramid and lobbyists in Washington. Big sugar is as bad or worse than big tobacco ever was.

  I think carb cycling works. I am a big fan of fasted cardio and think this is a good option for most people looking to lose fat. You will lose a little amount of muscle if you do long steady state cardio like this, but if you keep the workouts shorter and more intense you will get ripped beyond belief. Think in terms of a sprinter vs a distance runner with your cardio options and you will build muscle along the way to burning fat.

  What is the biggest roadblock your audience or clients come to you with? How do you help them fight that?

  Consistency.  Nothing is more important than consistency to be successful at anything in life. There are always “challenges” that come up daily for everyone. You can either let them affect you positively or negatively. I help my clients “see” their success before it happens so they can only see the positive side of being consistent with their training and nutrition. It really is more mental than physical.

  Can you tell my audience (women) what are the benefits of lifting weights? Many have a mental block that they will get bulky and look manly.

  Look at the women on STRONG. You saw them all come in at 30-35% body fat and leave with body fat a few months later in the low 20s. They all built a lot of muscle yet all looked amazing! Why? Muscle burns fat. Don’t worry about what the scale says; look in the mirror, how your clothes fit, and most importantly celebrate what your body can do each and every day. Newfound functionality and energy levels will take you to places and let you do things you never thought possible. It’s very empowering. That is the healthy body image women should strive for.

  What is the best advice you can give to someone starting as a Fitness and Health Entrepreneur?

  Be professional and treat it like a business. If you treat it like a hobby, you will have just that a simple hobby.

  If there is a phrase or quote that someone can remember you by? What would it be and why?

  Success isn’t what you accomplish in life; it’s what you inspire others to do.

  Where do you see our career headed in 5 and 10 years?

  The online training space is still very new. I have been fortunate to help train clients online all over the world for the last few years and have now developed an amazing app available on chrisryanfitness.com that offers awesome training programs with video tutorials, write-ups and motivational accountability. I also see there being a movement toward the high-end of the group fitness world, where people want more of a fun and engaging “live” experience at the high end. The big box gyms from the 80s to today and machine-based equipment are being phased out for more natural movement and fun ways for clients to “experience” fitness.

  Please do yourself a favor and go purchase your tickets today and attend this amazing event full of fitness inspiration. Get your health going and get inspired to live a healthy lifestyle today.

  Thank You,

Mary Miranda Fit

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