Posted by Ken Karnack on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 @ 07:44 AM
Frisco, Texas is on the rise as one of the fastest growing cities in the US due to its outstanding location just minutes from the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex. The town is located in the booming "Golden Corridor" along the newly extended Dallas North Tollway.
Frisco straddles Collin and Denton counties, and offers prime real estate on the east and west side of the North Dallas Tollway. It is bordered by the City of Little Elm to the west (Lake Lewisville), Plano to the east which is close to the Northern tip of Dallas. It takes roughly 25 minutes to reach downtown from Frisco, TX.
The City of Frisco has kept up with the population explosion by building new venues for entertainment, shopping and dining. Residents of this exciting city don't have to venture far to find sporting events at the Dr. Pepper Center and Rough Riders Stadium or shopping at Stonebriar Mall. Restuarants and retail outlets are cropping up as fast as they can be built, making Frisco Texas a great place to live!
Frisco Texas Real Estate
You can find Frisco Real Estate for just about every need from the Townhomes of the Bella Casa neighborhood off the Tollway by DR Horton to the new homes in Grayhawk, to the existing homes in The Trails of West Frisco, there is no end to the home and custom homes you'll find.
Frisco also has a number of golf courses and luxury estates by customer builders such as Huntington Homes, Highland and Sotherby. Luxury homes with such features as fireplaces and swimming pools are available in subdivisions such as Stonebriar Creek, Starwood, and the Villages of Stonebriar Park.
Although the majority of housing options are single-family homes, there are some condos and townhouses available starting in the mid-$100,000s. Because of the explosive growth in Frisco, land and lots for custom home builds are available, but they are going fast. Frisco is loaded with new home neighborhoods and local home builders such as Mercedes Homes and David Weekley. Popular neighborhoods in Frisco include: Chapel Creek, Heather Ridge, Heritage Green, Cypress Creek, Pearson Farms, Shaddo9ck Reek Estates, Starwood, Stonebriar and the Trails of West Frisco.
Frisco Entertainment
Frisco is quickly becoming “the place to be” on the weekends with the following options for shopping, concerts, shows and sporting events:
· Dr. Pepper 7/Up Ballpark
· Pizza Hut Soccer Park
· Dr. Pepper Star Center (Hockey Stadium)
· Stonebriar Center (Shopping Mall)
· Westin Stonebriar Resort
Frisco Schools
Frisco Texas Schools are great because of the low teacher-student ratio. It's as much of a privilege to teach in Frisco as it is to be a student here. Frisco ISD is considered to be among the fastest growing school districts growing by 20 to 30% annually for the past eight years. In 1995 Frisco had just four schools, today we have 29 new schools in development with 18 of those schools currently functioning. Frisco continues to raise the standardized test score averages of its students, which are well above state and national averages.
FISD takes security seriously with a number of safety/security systems in place or underway. The security measures implemented for the schools include high resolution cameras in highly traffic areas, security on campus and controlled access.
The sizes of the schools in Frisco are intentionally smaller than the national average. Elementary schools are built to educate 700 students, middle schools serve 800 to 1,000 and highschools serve just 1500 to 1800 students.
The reason for Frisco's commitment to smaller teacher/student ratio is to allow teachers and students to form better relationships and to serve the children's need to be involved in extracurricular activies.
Posted by Ken Karnack on Tue, Jun 01, 2010 @ 05:57 PM
How to Spot Reduce and Burn ONLY the Fat Off Your Stomach...
After having a chance to work at the
Frisco Athletic Center, I'll share with you my top-secret technique for
burning body fat the fat off your stomach. This is spot-reducing at its best...you can even apply this technique to ANY other specific areas you want to tone up!
Yep, it's exciting and I know you're curious so I'll get right into it!
To perform this technique, you're going to need a roll of duct tape, 3 double cheeseburgers, a set of jumper cables and a housecat...
Ok, you're going to hate me for this...
The truth is there IS no top-secret technique for spot reducing and
burning body fat only from your stomach. I made that headline up in hopes that you would at least read far enough into this article to learn the TRUTH about how your body burns fat and WHERE it
burns fat from (and I'll try to keep it entertaining so you actually want to read the whole thing :) ).
You might be thinking to your self, why are you writing about the Frisco Athletic Center, if you do not work there? Because most people would prefer to have a trainer that is qualified to help them and they do not feel comfortable hiring that has only a year or two of fitness experience. They want to pay for a well qualified seasoned
fitness trainer.
And honestly, this type of question is one of THE most frequently asked questions I've gotten in all the years I've been answering questions online...
"How do I burn body fat from just my stomach?"
Bottom line is, you can't. And even those stupid creams and lotions won't do it (one of these days I swear I'm going to get one of those creams and put it only on the left side of my abs and not the right and see what happens...I'm sure I'll have a ripped 3 pack within days).
Frisco Burning Body Fat Continued
To burn more body fat from any one specific place in your body, you're going to have to lose it from EVERYWHERE ELSE, too. There's really no getting around it.
I like to use the analogy of a swimming pool (I "borrowed" this one from fat-loss guru Tom Venuto)...
When you're filling up a swimming pool (the pool is your total amount of body fat), the deep end fills up first, right? Then the shallow end fills up as the water level rises.
Generally speaking, the deep end can be compared to the areas where you put on fat FIRST. The shallow end is where you put on fat LAST.
When you go to begin burning more body fat, look at the swimming pool again...when you drain the swimming pool, you can't drain water from just the deep end! It drains from the whole pool at once...the shallow end shows it first, THEN the deep end last.
So basically (and fairly depressingly!), the fat you want to get rid of FIRST is the fat that's going to come off pretty much LAST. To burn just stomach fat (or thigh fat or back fat), you'd have to figure out a way to defeat the entire system your body uses to store fat.
Sticking a vacuum into your belly with surgery is one way to do it - taking useless pills like Acai Berry definitely WON'T do it, no matter how many "simple rules" you follow (in that case, the simple rule is "give us all your money so you can't afford food anymore" - I guess that one actually WILL work).
And that's not even all your options for burning body fat from the stomach...
1. Starvation dieting - this is THE best way to lose weight...of course, it'll be mostly muscle, which will send your metabolism into a nosedive, which will make it harder to continue to lose weight, which will make it easier to REGAIN weight, which will keep that lovely stomach fat firmly where you left it, even though the precious scale shows a smaller number...oops, somebody changed the calibration on it...you actually weigh more now...never mind.
2. Diet pills - pretty much all of these will work for you, especially the ones that say you can eat anything you want and still lose weight (just make sure you're never more than 15 feet from a bathroom). You know the manufacturers are only interested in your success and well-being, after all! And don't forget, the heart is a muscle and the faster it goes, the more calories you burn, right! Who wouldn't want to have their heart-rate up in the "training zone" while they're sleeping...talk about efficiency!
3. High Impact Aerobics For Beginners - the good news is, soft tissue injuries require a LOT of calories to heal up, so bust out those Step Tae Bosu Dance tapes and go nuts!
Okay, let's move on to some of the more "radical, unproven" stuff ;)...
1. Eating natural, wholesome foods - what a crock! The only thing anybody has ever lost from eating this garbage is fat. Oh wait... Not a good burning fat recipe
2. Weight training - even more useless than good nutrition, weight training is something to stay away from. All it will do is build muscle, burn fat and increase your metabolism. Total B.S. Same with interval training...it's the worst.
3. Supplementing with multivitamins, minerals, fish oil and protein - I know...I can't make this stuff up! Some people actually USE these things to support their nutrition while eating natural foods and training with weights for fat loss. I guess their quack doctors wouldn't write out a prescription for Orlistat or Xenical or Gottapoopital.
So bottom line, fat loss isn't rocket science...just don't eat anything, take a lot of pills and thrash around for hours on end until you hurt yourself.
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Posted by Ken Karnack on Mon, Jan 11, 2010 @ 01:08 PM
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The official Frisco Fatten Up Fallon Official Weigh In Started Tuesday December 22, 2009 4pm
Frisco Athletic Center. Mr Fallon is going to give the
City of Frisco $25,000 if he doesn't lose 40 pounds. So far it states that his blog is tracking the progress of his weight loss resuts of the Frisco Fatten up Fallon weight loss. yet there is nothing posted.
There is however, a link for you to give your money to him, and the other links are not linking anywhere. So since December 22, there is no comments, no blog, or no weight loss total on it at all.
Maybe we should rename the contest, Fatten Up Fallon's Wallet?
Here is what is posted on the site.
Read it for your self...
Like many of us, Frisco City Councilman Patrick Fallon wants to get in shape and fortunately for Frisco Family Servicees, he is putting his money where his mouth is. To give himself a little extra incentive to lose 40 lbs in fours months, Mr. Fallon has promised to make a $25,000 donation to FFSC if he does not reach his goal.
As much as we would like to see him succeed, we have a vested interest in receiving his contribution. This significant donation plus the additional pledges would fund more than 5000 lunches for qualifying children each year through our Summer Lunch Program for the next two summers, cover supplemental food pantry needs such as meat, dairy, perishables, and hygiene products for 2 1/2 months, or provide financial assistance for one month to more than 70 families for rent/mortage or utilities. Because this donation is very important to those in need in our community, we encourage everyone to help us FATTEN UP FALLON. If you see him around, cheer him on in his quest to get fit and healthy, but also feel free to buy him lunch, share a dessert, or bake him some cookies to ensure he only loses 39 lbs.
Councilman Fallon asks you to join him in his support for Frisco Family Services by making a donation in his honor or pledge an amount for each pound he loses between December 22, 2009 and April 22, 2009.
Mr. Fallon will be posting his progress through a blog.
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