6 Workout Tips

In Today’s helping of Men’s Health Tips, they have 6 simple ways to get more out of your workouts.  Check it out!

Random Alpha Numeric Number

Here’s a great function you can use to generate a random alphanumeric number of any length you wish.  You simply open the VBA Editor (Alt-F11), copy and paste this function, then use it [GetRandomNumber(x), where x is the length of the random number you want] as you would any other Excel function.

Generate Random Number

Dirty Data Again

It happened again.  I was working on a project for which I needed a quick list of all of the 50 states and their abbreviations.  I probably had it somewhere— I’m sure I’ve needed this information before—but I was too lazy to look for it.  If I was in 7th grade, I could probably have just typed them in order from memory.  But I’m not and I can’t.  So I did what any half-way smart person would do.  I googled “State Abbreviations”.  The result returned a lot of sites, as you’d expect.  I decided on using the one for our good old United States Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbr_state.txt. Read more of this post

You’ve heard it before, but breakfast..

DO NOT skip Breakfast!

Breakfast is still important.  Extremely important.  The most important meal of the day, in fact.  You’ve heard it time and time again.  But need more proof?  Men’s Health gives you 3 Reasons.  They also have a great quiz to help you make the best decisions when choosing what to eat in the morning.

7 Muscle Building Mistakes

If you want to build muscle you can’t smoke and you must get lots of sleep.  Duh, right?  But what about playing hoops or going for a jog at lunchtime?  And is eating right after a workout good for you?  Learn the seven biggest mistakes people make when trying to build muscle at today’s Men’s Health article: 7 Muscle-Building Mistakes to Avoid.