Thursday, February 10, 2011

The 3 Best Abdominal Exercises

The 3 Best Abdominal Exercises that Are NOT Your "Normal" Ab Exercises 
A unique ab workout that doesn't contain your typical boring stomach exercises - no crunches or situps here!


by Mike Geary - Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer
Author of best-seller:  The Truth about Six Pack Abs



Instead of the typical ab routines that we see so often with crunches, situps, leg lifts, etc... I like to give my readers better options for metabolism-boosting high intensity workouts that work their entire body while also working their abs... thus building rock hard abs & core, but also creating a much better fat-burning workout than a typical ab workout.

I'm going to show you an example today of one of my favorite "ab workouts" that doesn't include any direct "ab exercises" at all. It's in a tri-set format (similar to a super-set but alternating between 3 exercises).
Here goes:
1a. Renegade Dumbbell Rows
1b. Front Squats with Barbell
1c. Mountain Climbers on Floor

A good rep scheme to use with this could be 3-4 sets of 8 reps for each exercise, or more sets for less reps, such as 5 sets of 5 reps of each exercise. Mountain climbers can be done for a time interval (such as 30 seconds) instead of "reps".
Exercise Pics & Descriptions:
Renegade dumbbell rows are done starting in a pushup position with the hands on 2 dumbbells. You then row one dumbbell up while stabilizing your body with the other arm. Bring the dumbbell back to the ground and alternate the rowing arm while stabilizing with the opposite arm. This stabilizing effect during the rows creates incredible work for your entire midsection core area. Trust me... you'll feel it in the abs!

 renegade rows start position for solid core

renegade rows - great ab & core exercise
Renegade Rows shown above

Front squats are done similar to back squats, however with the barbell in front of your body on the front of your shoulders instead of resting on the upper back as in back squats. You stabilize the barbell on your shoulders by crossing your arms and pushing your fists into the bar against your shoulders while keeping your elbows out in front of the body.
This takes a little practice at first, so you will want to seek a professional trainer at your gym to help you with the form. Front squats require extreme stabilization strength from the abs due to the barbell weight being shifted to the front of the body instead of the back. Even though this is mostly a leg exercise, you'll feel this one in the abs big time!

 front squats start position for rock hard abs

front squats - surprisingly good abdominal exercise
Front squats shown above

Mountain climbers are done by starting in a pushup position and then shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are moving in under your chest and then back out to starting position. It sort of resembles climbing a mountain but flat on the floor. If you want an advanced version, you can also shuffle your hands 8-10 inches forward and backward in addition to the leg movements. This really makes it a full body exercise and MUCH more difficult than standard mountain climbers.

mountain climbers ab exercise start

mountain climbers - great ab exercise
Mountain Climbers shown above

After finishing each exercise, rest about 30 seconds before starting the next exercise. Rest about 1-2 minutes after completing each "tri-set" before repeating.
This will give you one of the best ab workouts you've ever had without even doing any direct ab exercises. You'll see what I mean after you try it!

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A “Mind Training” Technique That Makes You Stronger

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A “Mind Training” Technique That Makes You Stronger
By Tom Venuto

www.BurnTheFat.com
The word “visualization” sometimes conjures up images of new age gurus teaching esoteric techniques for personal enlightenment and “attracting” what you want into your life. This causes many evidence-based types to scoff. However, piles of research has shown that mental imagery (aka “visualization”) can improve performance. The latest study suggests that a certain type of mental imagery can also increase your strength.

Olympic champions and professional athletes have used visualization and mental rehearsal techniques for decades. Not only is visualization one of the most widely accepted techniques in sports psychology, it’s supported by scientific research.
Nevertheless, many people remain skeptical.
Some people agree that mental rehearsal might enhance specific skills, like a golf swing or a basketball throw, but they question whether it could make you stronger, increase muscle growth or help you lose weight.
A new study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research suggests that indeed, mental imagery can make you stronger. This study also begins to explain how mental imagery works on a neurological level…
Twenty two sports students, with a mean age of about 20, participated in the 6-week long experiment. Prior to the study, none had done mental imagery before. The students were divided into a control group and a mental rehearsal group.
The goal was to see if mental imagery could increase bench press and leg press strength.
Each participant was given very specific instructions on how to perform the mental imagery. During the rest period between sets, they were to vividly imagine the exercise movement and the muscle contractions generated from each rep.
After 12 workout sessions, the mental imagery group had significantly increased their strength more than the control group, especially in the lower body (leg press).
The researchers concluded:
“The results provided evidence that mental imagery did contribute to improve strength of the leg muscles without any macroscopic structural change”
What they were saying is that the duration of the study wasn’t long enough that there was any major muscle size increase, so they credited the strength increase to non morphological adaptations.
It’s well known in exercise science that gains in strength occur from changes not just in the muscle fibers and surrounding tissues, but in the nervous system.
That gives us clues about how mental imagery works.
Put simply, mental training techniques, (since they’re working with your brain/nervous system - as the name implies), can trigger some of the same neurological adaptations that occur from physical training.
Apparently, mental imagery can increase synchronization of motor units in muscles, having large corresponding cortical areas in the primary mortor cortex.
There are also psychological benefits, such as increased motivation, improved focus during the set, technique improvements, more confidence and less apprehension or anxiety. But clearly, there’s more to this than just “psyching up.”
Here’s something else interesting. The researchers even suggested that mental imagery could decrease strength loss when athletes are inactive due to injury.
This recent study is a practical one because it gives us one specific technique that you can apply to your next workout: vividly imagine a successful lift for the upcoming set while you’re resting between sets.
NOTE: it’s important to mentally see (visualize) the exercise and mentally “FEEL” the muscle contraction. This is multi-sensory - both visual and kinesthetic.
In some of my previous articles, I talked about density training and superset training as excellent techniques for busy people because these methods reduce rest intervals, making the workout time efficient.
But the rest time between heavy sets doesn’t have to be wasted - now you know what to do with that time…
Instead of chatting with your gym buddies, or scoping out the attractive bods in the gym, you can be mentally rehearsing your next set… and enjoying the strength increase that follows.
Most fat loss programs only focus on diet or physical training. If you want to learn more about how you can add “mental training” techniques to increase fat loss, muscle growth and muscular strength, then be sure to check out chapter one in my ebook, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. Tom Venuto, author of
www.BurnTheFat.com
About the Author:
Tom Venuto is the author of the #1 best seller, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle: Fat Burning Secrets of the World’s Best Bodybuilders and Fitness Models. Tom is a lifetime natural bodybuilder and fat loss expert who achieved an astonishing 3.7% body fat level without drugs or supplements. Discover how to increase your metabolism and burn stubborn body fat, find out which foods burn fat and which foods turn to fat, plus get a free fat loss report and mini course by visiting Tom's site at: www.BurnTheFat.com
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Deep Breathing Exercises

Deep Breathing Exercises

Deep Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing is a critical piece of maintaining good health. Most people overlook it even though the majority of the population breathes rapidly and shallowly, probably indicative of the hurried pace of the world we live it.
Breathing exercises along with muscle relaxation do a number of good things for your life. This is a great exercise as you can see to improve your daily life. It is something you can practice any time you feel the need.
  • It lessens your physical response to stress — use it whenever you feel stress setting in.
    • Relieving stress also helps to relax your bowels
  • Helps to keep your mind clear — use it whenever you feel unfocused
  • In increases the levels of oxygen to your organs — for this reason especially it should be implemented regularly.
    • Because oxygen is key to cleansing, it should be used whenever you perform the 6-Day Advanced Oxygen Cleanse (try for twice daily during the cleanse).
    • It helps when you use it as you sit on the toilet for your bowels to move.

How Do I Do This?

It's a simple practice that you can use regularly or every once in a while.
  • Inhale deeply, slowly, (over a span of about 4 seconds), through your nose
  • Hold it for a count of 16 seconds
  • Exhale through your mouth, (over a span of about 8 seconds)
Repeat this process nine times.
It's important that this be a conscious activity for maximum effect. Remember to consciously control your body's responses. For example, if you're trying to relax your muscles, then you need to focus on the individual muscles telling them to relax. Often tension is an automatic response that turns into a state of being. So, you have to remind your muscles how to behave.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

How to Make $1,000's Weekly with a Health Internet Business of Your very Own

 Wise Online Entrepreneurs know that the best selling products online are health products and health-related ebooks, books, tapes, newsletter subscriptions, etc.

Now World famous Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst has just released her latest "shocker!" that makes it possible for just about anyone to profit from this fact.

She's making it possible for someone to get a fully-operational online "store" that specializes in "health-related" goods and services.

Literally now anyone can get a complete Internet "health" business in a box!

This complete website has a main product as well as up to 90 separate products that all center around breakthrough health products. And where YOU can earn some really HUGE CASH!

It seems that Dr. Suzanne has really done her homework (especially for YOUR benefit!)

First she correctly determined that according to Forrester Research (which is perhaps the most powerful & accurate online research database to date!) "health-related" products and information is by far the most sought after things anywhere online.

Nope! -- Despite what you might have thought, "sex," "porn," and "UFOs" are NOT the most searched for items on the Internet (but "health stuff" is hands down!)

Second, Dr. Suzanne's "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" shook the entire World with its release recently - and she's even made a special lead-capture page that you also get central to this amazing site!

Why is this important?

Simple: because Dr. Suzanne's affiliates are making millions right now with what is perhaps one of ClickBank's HOTTEST products (and this same product is the central seller at your new health e-Biz site!)

Third, the site you get also acts as a "database" that never stops growing so that you get 10,000's of customers you can continue to sell to over and over again other things!

Why is this important?

Again, very simple: anyone who's wise online knows that "backend" sales are chief to making long term and extra profits!

Dr. Suzanne's NEW "Health Biz In a Box" complete and fully-operational website you get for next to nothing contains an electronic "Automatic Sales Manager" (like a salesman robot - Ha!) built-in that works to upsell to your list over and over again so that you enjoy additional "automatic" income!

Fourth, Dr. Suzanne health-biz site also includes a complete health-related products Shopping Mall so that your site visitors stopping by are likely to buy at least 1 to up to 90 additional products creating instantly for you up to over a dozen other income streams!

This way you get the "most bang for your buck" so to speak!

As if all this weren't enough, the fifth (and perhaps the very best) thing about this automatic seller is the tiny spokesmodel "Rachel" that literally walks out onto your Health-Biz site and guides your site visitors (like a tour guide) through your entire site and what it has to offer!

Dr. Suzanne carefully tested the site both WITH and WITHOUT "Rachel" and accurately determined that the addition of "Rachel" boosted sites sales by as much as 396% (meaning nearly 4 times as many sales!)

Dr. Suzanne believes that having the spokesmodel adds credibility as well as an informative approach to the site so that it generates a much higher "conversion-to-sales" ration at large.

And ALL these amazing features stand to make YOU very, very rich as you get all of them with your own "Health Biz In a Box" website!

If any of this floats your boat, then I highly recommend you get over to:

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...and because rumor has it that Dr. Suzanne may put a ceiling on the number of these Internet "health-biz" sites she's giving out in order to avoid everyone having one and risking market saturation.

Already people securing theirs have had nothing but great things to say about this:

"I'm so happy with mine! ... Having this site professionally set up by Dr. Suzanne's Team for us was the greatest thing we ever did! ... the site literally is just pouring money into our pockets even while we're doing other things, vacationing, and even crashing out!"
                                   -Cynthia Conrad, Atlanta, Georgia

"I never knew that making money online could be so easy!"
                                   -Richard Bosworth, SLC, Utah

"Health stuff is the real way to make money online easily ... everybody sooner or later has to have it!"
                                   -Carla Dupree, Boise, Idaho

"I'm making about $6,000 a week with mine ... and this after failing on the Net for nearly 10 years trying to sell everything else!"
                                   -Jason Herman, San Dimas, CA

"$500 a day is what this biz is shoving in my pocket! I even went out of town for nearly two weeks and my health biz site completely ran itself!"
                                   -Michael Sorbowski, Mason, Ohio

As you can see by these people's comments, everyone grabbing their own automatic health-products Internet business is raking in the cash! (And now you can too!)

Just grab yours now simply by going to:

  =>> http://thefatlosssecrtes.info/

I guess I should have added above that not only do you get all the things I've described thus far, but you also get professional customized set up at no extra charge!

That's right! - Dr. Suzanne's own Team of web experts actually build your "Health Biz" for you so you don't have to!

They:

 - design your site
 - put all the 90 income streams into place
 - install the electronic sales manager for you
 - add sharp selling graphics
 - add powerful videos
 - add several other webpages
 - and a complete online shopping mall of health products!

All so that you can earn big income online and while you sell product that help people and that you can be very proud to sell.

So all in all this is perhaps one of the BEST instant online ventures worth your time.

Get your now before the ceiling number is reached and maxed out...

  =>> http://thefatlosssecrtes.info/

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Excessive Abdominal Fat Is Not Only Unattractive, But Puts High Risk To Your Health.

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Did you know that most people today have extra abdominal fat? The initial thing that the majority of people believe of is that their excessive abdominal fat is unattractive, is covering up their abs from being noticeable, and makes themselves conscious about their body.

Nevertheless, many  people don't realize is that excess abdominal fat in particular, is not only ugly, but is also a dangerous risk factor to your health. Scientific research has clearly determined that although it is unhealthy in general to have excess body fat throughout your body, it is also particularly dangerous to have excess abdominal fat.


There are two common kinds of fat that people have in their abdomen. The one that covers up your abs from being noticeable is called subcutaneous fat and place directly under the skin and on crest of your abdominal muscles.
The other type of fat that people have in their abdomen is called visceral fat, and that lies at the bottom of the abdomen under your muscle and nearest your organs. Visceral fat also the culprit in giving most men that "beer belly" look where their abdomen extends beyond extremely.
 Both of these fat types in the abdominal area are sincerely health risk factors, but science has shown that having too much visceral fat is even more risky than subcutaneous fat. Both of these fat types boost the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.  Too much belly fat has been linked in studies with higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an indicator of inflammation within the body that can lead to heart disease.
So what gets rid of extra abdominal fat? 
Is there any REAL solution further than all of the misinformation that you see on commercials and TV ads for "miracle" fat loss solutions?
You have to realize is that there is completely NO instant fix solution. There will be no pills or supplements of any kind that will assist you lose your abdominal fat quicker. Also, none of the gimmicky abs rockers, rollers, or abs belts will aid get rid of abdominal fat either. You can't diminish your abdominal fat by means using of any of these insignificant apparatus. The process doesn’t work that way.
The only solution to truly lose your abdominal fat and keep it off for good is to unite a good and balance nutritious diet full of natural foods with a properly planned tactical exercise program that stimulates the essential hormonal and metabolic reaction inside your body. Both your food intake as well as your training program is important if you are to get this right.
Learn the Truth about Losing Your Stomach Fat Permanently

The whole answer... all of the dietary strategies, as well as training sequences, exercise combinations, and more have all been compiled in my Truth About Six Pack Abs Program.
Keep in mind that the point of this whole program is NOT abdominal exercises (that is only a very small portion of it). The main point of this program is showing you the absolute most effective strategies for losing your stubborn abdominal fat, so you can get rid of that dangerous health risk, as well as gets a flatter more defined midsection.
If you follow the guidelines, you WILL lose your belly fat that has been plaguing you for years. This is not guesswork... it is a proven system that works time and time again for all of my clients on every corner of the globe that actually apply these strategies. If you apply it, the results will come. It's really that simple.
The only reason most people fail in their fitness goals is that they have good intentions at first to adopt a new lifestyle, yet after a few weeks or months, they abandon their good intentions and slip right back into their old bad habits that gave them the excess body fat in the first place.
I want to help you succeed in finally getting rid of that extra abdominal fat that is not only UGLY, but also DANGEROUS. A lot of people have emailed me with questions about whether they need any special equipment for these workouts, if they're too old or too young for this program, if the diet tips will apply to them, etc.  I've made a page that should answer all of your questions...
FAQ - Questions about the Truth about Six Pack Abs abdominal fat loss program
Also, I think you'll want to see some of the reader reviews from people that are using the system and getting killer results...

Reader Reviews of the Truth about Six Pack Abs abdominal fat loss program
Don't waste another day allowing that nasty abdominal fat to kill your confidence as well as contribute to your risk for MAJOR diseases.
Get the solution to rid yourself for life of this problem by reading more details about this unique workout and diet program at the home page -- Losing Dangerous Abdominal Fat
Train hard, eat right, and enjoy life!



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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Simple and Healthy Chicken Pizza


Eating healthy does NOT mean bland and boring food. They say the proof is in the pudding. Well, I don't have a recipe for pudding today, but how about one for pizza?!

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Yours in health,

Robert Magnaye & Team
Weight Management Consultant


PS - This mouthwatering "Healthy Chicken Pizza" is just ONE of the 197 Healthy and Delicious Recipes my partners over at Prograde Nutrition have compiled.


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What Are The Signs That You Need to Lose Weight?

Each day millions of people say to themselves, “I need to lose weight.”  Are you one of those persons?  While a lot of of the individuals who say to themselves that they have to to lose weight do need to lose weight, not all do.  So, the question that many ask themselves is “do I really need to lose weight?”  If that is a question that you have asked yourself before, you will want to continue reading on.
One of the various signs that you could possibly need to lose weight is if you are obese.  Many individuals do not understand that there is a difference between being overweight and being obese. While many health care professionals have different definitions for obese, it is often believed that those who are thirty or forty pounds overweight are obese.  If you are obese, you shouldn’t only be concerned about your looks, but your health as well.  Obesity has been associated to numerous health complications, including the early onset of death.

One of the many signs that you must lose weight is if you have been told that you need to do so.  Whether your physician suggested losing weight or if someone that you know on a personal level has, it is advised that you at least take their suggestions into consideration. Unluckily, a lot of individuals are humiliated or become upset when they are told that they need to lose weight.  What you need to keep in mind is that the person mentioning your weight to you possibly isn’t as concerned with your appearance as they are with your health.

Another indication that you may want to consider about losing weight is if you are finding that your clothes no longer fit you.  Of course, it is ordinary for some individuals to gain weight or to have their weight change, but you may want to think about enrolling into a weight loss program or increasing your own weight loss plan if you find that your clothes no longer fit or are hard to get into.  Unfortunately, many individuals do not just have a little weight gain. Small weight gain often leads to more, which could have a depressing impact on your health.  It is also significant to talk about the cost of new clothes, which you may not be capable to afford.
If you find many easy tasks or activities, similar to walking up a flight of stairs hard, you may want to consider about losing weight.  Certainly, becoming out of breath from simple activities may not inevitably just be a weight problem, but there is a good chance that it is. When you lose weight, even just a little bit of it, you will probably find it easier to perform many of the activities that you love or even the tasks that you want to do, like walking to the park with your kids.



The signs mentioned above are just a few of the many signs that you may need to lose weight.  Should you wish to lose weight, you are advised to go on with caution. There are a number of weight loss stuffs on the market, like diet pills or exercise equipment, which effective. To save money and to shield your health, you may feel like to consider consulting with your physician before considering any weight loss plan, even one that you develop yourself.

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Train hard and expect success,

Robert,
Weight Management Consultant

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Can You Transform Your Body From Mush to Muscle In Only 49 Days?


Guys, I just want share with you this article written by one of the well known  Fitness Author and Fat Loss Coach, Tom Venuto.

YES, it really is possible to transform your body from mushy with rolls of fat, to muscle with six-pack abs in Just 49 Days. 


I’ll show you how in this article and the before and after pictures will prove it (more stunning transformation pictures below).
I’m sure some people are thinking, “Yeah right – I’ve heard this before, and I’m surprised to hear it from you Tom, because you’ve never been a quick fix guy.”
If you had that reaction, I'm glad, because it means you’re a critical thinker. You analyze things and look closer before taking them at face value.
It also tells me that you’re probably as fed up with quick fixes and tired of hearing false weight loss claims in the magazines, on TV and all over the Internet as I am.



But What I'm About To Share With You Is No Quick Fix...
It's the Real Hidden Secrets to Getting Maximum Results In Minimum Time 
 

amandas 49-day body transformation
I’ve seen all those crazy ads too: A quick web search on “lose pounds” brought up these results in just seconds:
“Drop 30 pounds in 30 days”… “Cut 10 pounds this weekend”… “Lose 9 pounds every 11 days” … Lose 7 pounds in 7 days” … “3 day diet - lose 10 pounds in 3 days”…
...And that's only a fraction of the ads that popped up in the first few pages of Google.
The entire diet industry is based on claims of quick weight loss in a short amount of time – it’s the most powerful promise - and usually the word “easy” is part of the pitch.
I don't know about you, but I sense that a lot of people are getting sick of this. After years of trying all the miracle diets and magic pills that promised fast results, but failed to deliver, people are becoming distrusting and downright cynical.
And yet in all my 22+ years as a fitness professional and fat loss coach, I’ve learned that people WANT answers about this. These are the questions that never stop coming in:


"How long will it take?” "How quickly can I lose weight on your program?"
This isn’t just because people are impatient by nature, it’s because human beings don’t like uncertainty – they want to know what to expect.
I don’t blame them. This question deserves an answer. In fact, I think it’s a MUST to set specific goals for specific time frames.
But this can get tricky: If you set your goals too high, you set yourself up for disappointment. If you set your goals too low, you sell yourself short.
We’ve now proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can create measurable, visible results – dramatic results that others will notice – in as little as 49 days.
This is true whether you’re already fairly lean or you’re seriously overweight...
  • If you’re already lean, you can get ripped with 6-pack abs in 49 days
  • If you’re average, you can get lean and start to see your abs show through in 49 days
  • If you’re overweight, you can drop so much fat, you’ll need a whole new wardrobe in just 49 days (so please don’t yell at me about your clothes shopping bill)
  • If you’re obese, you can lose enough fat to dramatically improve your blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipids - while also dropping several waist sizes and feeling like a million bucks - in only 49 days


How Do I Know You Can Do This… And Why 49 Days?

Burn the Fat Feed The Muscle
Hundreds of thousands of men and women have used the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM) fat burning system world-wide since it was first released in 2002.
But just in the past two years, something extraordinary happened that made us re-think everything we thought we knew about realistic vs. unrealistic goals… about typical vs. extraordinary results…
The turning point was when we started hosting body transformation contests that were only 49 days long. At first there was no particular reason for the 49-day time frame except this:
We held the contest over the holidays, from Thanksgiving through the new year into early January. That “holiday challenge” just happened to be a 7-week period… 49 days.
At first people said we were crazy to have a body transformation contest during the busiest, most stressful and most temptation-filled time of the year.
The skeptics also said that 7 weeks wasn’t long enough to see any really major body changes. You needed at least 3 or 4 months for that, they scoffed, much longer if you were obese or overweight.
In spite of the naysayers, thousands of men and women of every body shape and size; every walk of life, and every age group, accepted my 49-day challenge.
After documenting their results with photos, weigh-ins, body fat testing, weekly progress reporting and strict date verification, hundreds of them finished the challenge… and by day 49, the end result was:


They achieved more body changes in those 7 short weeks than they ever thought possible!!!
Re-thinking Your Fitness Goals:
Have You Set The Bar TOO LOW?
Maybe you’ve heard the S.M.A.R.T. goals formula: Specific, measurable, accountable, realistic and time-bound. That’ a GOOD acronym to remember, and making your goals realistic is an important part of it.
It’s been said that there are few unrealistic goals, mostly just unrealistic deadlines.
But the results of our new challenge made us realize that under a certain set of circumstances and with just the right goal deadline, the odds of a spectacular “results not typical” body transformation increase dramatically.
This doesn’t change anything I believe about setting long term goals, embracing goal setting as a habit or making health and fitness a lifestyle… it only adds a new twist.
Long term goals – those that span a year or more – are vitally important. But there’s a problem if you only think long term: It’s difficult to keep up your motivation and action in the present moment with the target so far away. You tend to rationalize: “I have plenty of time, so if I miss this one workout, or cheat on this one meal, it won’t matter.”
Short term goals are equally important because reaching daily goals gives you a confidence boost. Weekly results serve as a compass or guidance system which tells you exactly what to tweak in your nutrition and training each week to keep the results coming.
If you don’t get frequent feedback by setting short term goals and measuring your progress against them, you easily drift off track. By the time you make a course correction, you’ve wasted days, weeks or even months without payback.


This brings me back full circle to that “How long will it take” question...
I wondered… what if a shorter time frame actually INCREASED the urgency to produce results? What if you picked a time frame that was:
  • Short enough that you knew every workout and every meal mattered, which maximized your motivation and kept you totally focused
  • Long enough that you could measure and see dramatic results
  • Broken up into one week blocks allowing easy progress tracking and fast course corrections
And what if you attacked this goal under highly-motivating conditions which included:
  • Social Support
  • Accountability
  • Rewards, recognition and prizes
What we discovered is that the urgency of a 49-day goal combined with the right motivational leverage conjured up the “perfect storm” for breathtaking body transformations.


So what’s the bottom line?
What kind of results can you achieve in 49 days?
It is pretty well-established that "typical" weight loss on a well-designed program is usually 1 to 2 pounds per week. One percent of total body weight or 3 pounds a week is not uncommon if you have a lot of weight to lose. (larger and heavier people can lose weight faster than short, lean or smaller people).
Beyond that, I can't make any claims or predictions about your 49-day results.
The truth is, I don’t know what you’ll accomplish – only you can decide that by how hard you're willing to work at it.
What I can tell you is that above average results ARE possible with the right program, under the right conditions, combined with a healthy dose of hard work.
I can also tell you that if you do it the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle way, you won’t just lose body weight, you’ll lose body fat and keep the lean muscle. If you choose, you can even gain lean muscle while losing fat at the same time: that rare achievement also known as "body re-composition."
The best way to demonstrate all this is not with more talking, but by showing you some of the inspiring body transformation results that our clients and members achieved during our most recent 49 day challenge.



PROOF That You Can Transform Your Physique Only 49 Days... Let me first introduce you to Chris Sohayda, the most recent winner of our 49-day Burn the Fat Body Transformation Challenge:
eric's 49-day body transformation
From the back, what you see there is called the classic "V-taper" - that much-envied, much sought-after wide-shouldered, wide-backed, tapering-into-a-small-waist look. You're also sure to notice this: Love handles.... GONE!
From the front, Chris looks a lot like a bodybuilder. Truth be told, Chris doesn't compete on stage. He's just a regular dude - a 42-year old dad - who woke up one morning and said to himself, "I've become one of those "skinny fat" people...
Chris only weighed 171 pounds in the before photo - clearly not overWEIGHT by any height-weight chart standards, but his body fat before was 19%... that's pushing the upper range for men where you're borderline "overFAT."
Chris came across Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle and learned about body composition and how to alter it naturally with nutrition and exercise. He received the invitation to the Holiday challenge and dove in head first. After just 49 days, Chris's body fat had dropped from 19% to 10%. His body weight dropped down to 158 pounds.
If you do the math on that, you'll calculate that Chris burned 16.7 pounds of fat and gained 3.7 pounds of lean body mass. That is a VERY large drop in body fat relative to a 171 pound starting weight and you can clearly see the new muscle in the pictures.
Chris is a spectacular example of what many natural bodybuilders know and practice: You don't need huge amounts of muscle bulk to display a physique so impressive it looks something Michelangelo carved out of stone. It's all about the symmetry, proportions (having muscle in the right places) and being nicely cut, with a low body fat percentage.

Next, Meet Linda McVetty:
eric's 49-day body transformation
Linda shredded 17 excess pounds, slashed her body fat 8.6% (down from 27.9% to 19.3%) added on 2.1 pounds of lean body mass, and flattened her belly - all in just 49 days (not to mention, she survived a bikini photo shoot in the snow!)
Like Chris, Linda is another person who understands the importance of body composition versus body weight. Linda wrote: "Becoming just a smaller version of myself just wasn't good enough anymore. This time I was focusing on building and preserving lean muscle."
As her pictures reveal - Linda succeeded! Just look at that back double biceps pose! the muscularity is stunning! A mom with a 6-year old daughter, her goal now is a triathalon... or maybe even a figure competion. We think either one is within her grasp!
Oh, and about the before snapshot, why the santa cap and the red bikini out in the snow? Well, this was the Burn the Fat holiday challenge and Linda was showing some real holiday spirit!
The 5 Common Denominators of Body Transformation Success
Ok, now this is the part where you'll want to pay close attention because these are THE success secrets that every one of our champions used to get the kind of "beyond typical" results you see in the photos.
By looking closely at what Chris, Linda and hundreds of our Burn the Fat champions had in common, we may have cracked the code on why some people routinely blow past “average” results and achieve more in 7 weeks than most people do in 7 months:
1. Proven Program. All of our champions used Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle - most importantly, they were using strategies for improving body composition - that means fat loss, not just weight loss.

2. Positive Association/ Support. All of our champions participated in a support forum using the power of association with like minded people

3. Accountability System. All of our champions used an accountability system – “keeping score” by tracking results weekly, and posting the results for others to see

4. Rewards/External Motivation. All of our champions achieved their transformation during one of our official Burn the Fat body transformation challenge competitions and the prizes/rewards were pretty "juicy."

5. Hard Work. All of our champions worked their butts off. As Thomas Edison once said, "There is no substitute for hard work." None.
If you follow the same success strategies that our Burn the fat champions did, you too can achieve an incredible body transformation in 49 days.
All of these success strategies are available to you - even the rewards part. If you don't have a contest with prizes to enter at the moment, then think about how else you might reward yourself for a goal achieved; How about a vacation? A spa treatment or massage? What about sharp new clothes?


The CRUCIAL Difference Between a Goal and Lifestyle
It’s important to know that Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is not a “49-day program.” That would imply that it’s over in 49 days. If a program ends in 49 days, what then? 49 days is just a goal; it’s a motivational challenge. Burn the fat is a lifestyle.
Here’s how the program will work for you, long-term:
Use the program to lose all the fat you want, until you reach your ultimate goal. When you’re satisfied with your current body weight and body composition, you can simply move into a maintenance phase with maintenance calories (or start building muscle, if that's what you want). But the nutrition guidelines and foods you’ll eat are mostly the same.
How long it takes you to hit your long term goal depends on where you are now…
We have people using the program at every stage along the journey...
You can use the program whether you have 100 pounds or more to lose or just the last 10 pounds (so you can finally see your abs!) You can use it whether you’re a year away from your goal or just weeks away.
Health and fitness is not a 7 week program, it’s a lifelong journey. But along the way, you need short term goals and motivational challenges to help yourself achieve your longer term goals.
Look at them as stepping-stones, and each time you step from one level to the next, you’ll look back and amaze yourself with how far you’ve come.
Start today and 49 days from now, I know you’ll surprise yourself and everyone around you with your killer new body. Your co-workers, your friends, your family… jaws will drop everywhere.


We Make Getting Started Easy For You...
If you’d like to make amazing body changes like our burn the Fat Challenge champions did, everything you need can be found in the "bible of fat loss" - Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle - the same fat-burning program our champions used.
It’s an e-book available right on this website and it’s downloadable so you can get started literally just minutes from now.
Included with the Burn the fat e-book, you get 60 days of membership in our Burn the Fat Inner Circle: The internet’s premier fitness motivation and support community. This is where you get the accountability and support that are so vital if you want results that are far beyond the norm.
As a confirmed and registered Burn the fat owner, you’ll also receive private invitations for all our Burn the Fat Challenges – we hold these exciting competitions twice a year – once in the summer and once in the winter (the original 49 day holiday challenge).
Put your trust in this system – and in your own potential to do so much better than you're doing now – and you could shave weeks or even months off the time it would normally take you to reach your most desired body shape and fitness goals.
You can order the Burn the Fat program right now, direct from the secure order page by clicking the link below:





Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto, author of:
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
Founder and CEO,
Burn the Fat Inner Circle
PS. By the way, about the "reward" I mentioned earlier that we use in our contests... Every year, we send the winners of our Burn the Fat challenge to Maui or some other tropical island for a week-long, all expenses paid, luxury vacation. That certainly takes care of the "Motivation" part of the formula! I hope you'll join us for the next Burn the Fat Challenge... who knows, the next winner could be you!


About Fitness Author and Fat Loss Coach, Tom Venuto
Tom Venuto is the author of the #1 best seller, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle: Fat Burning Secrets of the World's Best Bodybuilders and Fitness Models. Tom is a lifetime natural bodybuilder and fat loss expert who achieved an astonishing ripped 3.7% body fat level without drugs or supplements. Discover how to increase your metabolism, burn stubborn body fat and find out which foods burn fat and which foods turn to fat by visiting the home page at: BurnTheFat.com

Really Cool New Research On Fat Loss


Ever hear of Nutrition Partitioning?

Well, the research is showing that it allows your body to burn fat and build muscle at the same time.
Talk about cool!

Here's an easy-to-understand article on the subject from my partners over at Prograde.
Nutrition Partitioning

Yours in health,
Robert

Monday, January 31, 2011

The #1 Fat Loss Tip Of The Year

By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com


If you stopped me on the street to ask me what my number one fat loss tip for this year is, there are a hundred different directions I could lead you. Of course, there is one strategy that stands out among the others, and in almost all cases, this would be the first thing I suggest. This is the one absolute requirement for weight loss, and it’s something you’ve probably heard of before. However, there’s one critical distinction about this familiar advice that you might not have considered – and this one thing makes all the difference in the world…

Let me quote Melvin Williams, PhD, professor emeritus of exercise science at Old Dominion University and author of the textbook Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport (McGraw Hill): “Human energy systems are governed by the same laws of physics that rule all energy transformations. No substantial evidence is available to disprove the caloric theory. It is still the physical basis for bodyweight control.”

There are a variety of diet programs and weight loss “gurus” who claim that calories don’t count. They insist that if you eat certain foods or avoid certain foods, that’s all you have to do to lose weight. Dozens, maybe hundreds of such diets exist, with certain “magic foods” put up on a pedestal or certain “evil fat-storing foods” banished into the forbidden foods zone. Other weight loss “experts” invoke the insulin/carbohydrate hypothesis which claims that carbs drive insulin which drives body fat. That’s akin to saying “Carbs are the reason for the obesity crisis today, not excess calories.” They are all mistaken. Of course, there IS more to nutrition than calories.

Food quality and nutrition content matters for good health. In addition, your food choices can affect your energy intake. We could even point the finger at an excess of refined starches and grains, sugar and soft drinks (carbs!) as major contributing factors to the surplus calories that lead to obesity. However, that brings us back to excess calories as the pivotal point in the chain of causation, not carbs. A caloric deficit is a required condition for weight loss – even if you opt for the low carb approach – and that’s where your focus should go – on the deficit. Now, here’s that critical distinction…

You’ve heard it said, “exercise more and eat less” a million times. However, saying “focus on the deficit” is NOT the same thing. If you don’t understand the difference, you could end up spinning your wheels for years. You could exercise more, but if you compensate by eating more, you cancel your deficit. You could eat less, but if you compensate by moving less, again you cancel your deficit.

This type of compensation can happen unconsciously, which leads to confusion about why you’re not losing weight or why you’re gaining. That often leads you to make excuses or blame the wrong thing… anything but the calories. Therefore, “focus on the deficit” more accurately states the most important key to weight loss than “exercise more and eat less.” Make sure you understand this distinction and then follow this advice. Last but not least, keep in mind that there are a lot of ways to establish a deficit and many of those ways are really dumb. Eating nothing but grapefruits, cabbage, twinkies… but in a deficit?… Dumb! A calorie deficit is required for fat loss, but once your deficit is established, the composition of your hypo-caloric diet DOES matter.

That’s why any good fat loss program starts with calories but doesn’t stop there – you also need to look at protein, essential fats, macronutrients, micronutrients, food quality and how the diet you choose fits into your lifestyle. Don’t let the simplicity of this idea fool you. This is the #1 key to your successful weight loss this year, and every year: Focus on the deficit!

Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto, author of
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle
www.BurnTheFat.com


About the Author:
Tom Venuto is a fat loss expert, lifetime natural (steroid-free) bodybuilder, freelance writer, and author of the #1 best selling diet e-book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle: Fat-Burning Secrets of The World’s Best Bodybuilders & Fitness Models (e-book) which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: www.BurnTheFat.com or http://www.BurnTheFatInnerCircle.com