I've been traveling a lot for business in the last year, and I've noticed that most people totally fall off their fitness routines while traveling...
In fact, eating out at restaurants frequently is one of the biggest reasons why so many people fatten up while traveling. It's almost damn near impossible to eat healthy when you dine out, UNLESS you follow a couple simple tricks i use to make every restaurant meal healthier, reduce calories, and not lose control.
Here's a few tricks you can use to eat healthier and stay lean even while traveling on business or eating out any time for that matter...
The 3 most important things to avoid that are EVERYWHERE at restaurants are:
the deep fried foods
the refined starchy foods
and any sodas, juices, or other sugary foods (except whole fruits, which are great)
This eliminates the major food sources that do the worst damage in our food supply - the evil trans fats, the inflammatory refined vegetable oils, refined starches, and processed sugars.
This means trying to skip the table bread, skipping the french fries (that come with every single sandwich on every menu known to man), and reducing all of the heaping portions of rice and pasta that are often loaded on the plates as well.
Instead, try to order just meat, side vegetables, and a salad, asking for the vegetables or salad as a substitute for the typical fries, rice, or pasta that the meal probably comes with.
Almost every restaurant I've ever been to will always allow me to substitute veggies or a side salad for the fries or chips that almost always come with sandwiches or burgers.
Side note: It always amazes me how many people scrutinize me because I substitute veggies for fries by telling me that I'm "not living" because I won't eat fries...
Yet they are always the first to complain that they are overweight and have "tried everything", yet can't lose weight. I'm not sure why so many people think eating french fries equals "living it up"... I'm all for moderation with many things, but if there's 2 things that should be almost totally removed from everyone's diet because these foods are simply that evil... it's fries and sodas!
Take a look at the typical difference this simple substitution makes between choosing smart and doing what most people do...
Most people will eat a meal out such as this:
Sandwich or burger
fries or chips
soda or other sweetened drink
A MUCH smarter alternative for a leaner, healthier body is very simply this:
Sandwich or burger
veggies or salad
unsweetened iced tea or water with lemon (and no diet drinks -- unless you enjoy drinking carcinogenic poisonous artificial sweetener chemicals).
These 2 simple substitutions save at least 400 - 900 calories EACH time you dine out (depending on drink refills and fries portion sizes)... AND you're cutting out the most harmful foods to your body as well by avoiding the trannies and high fructose corn syrup.
Also, it may be rare to find this in most restaurants, but if you can find some that offer much healthier grass-fed beef burgers, it's a much smarter decision compared to grain fattened beef.
Side note: a little-known way to eat full portions of rice, pasta, and breads and actually get away with it without packing on the bodyfat is to make sure to schedule a high intensity full body resistance training workout before your scheduled meal time.
Sometimes it may be hard to fit the workout into your schedule right before the meal event, but if you can, the meal can be your "post-workout meal", in which case, your body can handle a higher amount of carbs than normal to help replenish the muscle glycogen depletion you had during the intense workout.
A cardio workout WON'T cut it for this... it must be high intensity resistance training to deplete enough muscle glycogen to handle restaurant portions of carbohydrates.
I hope these dining tips help you choose smarter and healthier next time you eat out. Feel free to share this article with your friends:
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Whole bread Fatting?
People often think they are doing something healthy for themselves by switching their white bread for whole wheat bread. Although this is a better option than white, whole wheat bread can still be preventing you from losing your unwanted weight.
I am not a big fan of bread or bread type products. Actually, I think most people could feel a thousand times better if they stopped eating so much bread every single day. Toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, bread basket at dinner…we could feed a small village with the amount of bread I see some people consuming in one day (or several villages depending on who you’re talking about).
No, I am not saying to never have bread ever again (Hey, its life, you gotta enjoy it, right?). What I am saying is that 4-5 servings of some kind of bread type product every day is making thousands of people gain weight, preventing them from losing their unwanted weight and worst of all, bringing about diseases like Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease.
I don’t eat very much bread at all and I really don’t even miss it. I guess I have just come to enjoy all the other delicious food I eat each day that I don’t even feel bread is missing from my meal plans.
Here are my “bread free” strategies and exactly how you can lower your own bread intake each day:
1. When you think of breakfast, don’t automatically think toast, bagels, or a roll. A couple of hard boiled eggs over sliced tomatoes is delicious. You can also make a quick batch of oatmeal and add walnuts and berries. How about cottage cheese and pineapple? The breakfast options are endless.
2. Pack snack foods and take them with you to work. In less than 2 minutes, I can throw natural peanut butter, raw almonds, dried fruit (no sugar added), an apple or banana and baby carrots all in a bag and be out the door. Taking these food items to work with you will help you stay away from the employee room bagels or donuts. (Don’t even get me started on how evil donuts are). Slap some peanut butter on an apple and munch away at that, all while making fun of the people eating donuts (Just Kidding, that’s not nice.)
3. Don’t depend on sandwiches as lunch every day. How about some salmon, broccoli and brown rice? Leftover chicken from last night and a sweet potato? Imagine that lunch is another version of dinner and not just a mid day sandwich inhaling contest.
4. Make “the bread basket” a once-in-while experience. You really do not need to be serving a bread basket for dinner at home if you are offering healthy carbohydrate choices like salad, cooked vegetables, brown rice, millet, or quinoa.
5. Oh, and how could I forget? Don’t think that eating “100% Whole Wheat” is any better. It is still refined flour (maybe just not bleached) and a huge contributor to weight gain. I could go on and on about this but I have covered all the details about how detrimental wheat products are to your weight loss efforts in Chapter 9 of The Diet Solution Program.
Start to think outside the “bread box” today for healthy alternatives to your daily bread intake. What one thing can you do today to get started?
I am not a big fan of bread or bread type products. Actually, I think most people could feel a thousand times better if they stopped eating so much bread every single day. Toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, bread basket at dinner…we could feed a small village with the amount of bread I see some people consuming in one day (or several villages depending on who you’re talking about).
No, I am not saying to never have bread ever again (Hey, its life, you gotta enjoy it, right?). What I am saying is that 4-5 servings of some kind of bread type product every day is making thousands of people gain weight, preventing them from losing their unwanted weight and worst of all, bringing about diseases like Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease.
I don’t eat very much bread at all and I really don’t even miss it. I guess I have just come to enjoy all the other delicious food I eat each day that I don’t even feel bread is missing from my meal plans.
Here are my “bread free” strategies and exactly how you can lower your own bread intake each day:
1. When you think of breakfast, don’t automatically think toast, bagels, or a roll. A couple of hard boiled eggs over sliced tomatoes is delicious. You can also make a quick batch of oatmeal and add walnuts and berries. How about cottage cheese and pineapple? The breakfast options are endless.
2. Pack snack foods and take them with you to work. In less than 2 minutes, I can throw natural peanut butter, raw almonds, dried fruit (no sugar added), an apple or banana and baby carrots all in a bag and be out the door. Taking these food items to work with you will help you stay away from the employee room bagels or donuts. (Don’t even get me started on how evil donuts are). Slap some peanut butter on an apple and munch away at that, all while making fun of the people eating donuts (Just Kidding, that’s not nice.)
3. Don’t depend on sandwiches as lunch every day. How about some salmon, broccoli and brown rice? Leftover chicken from last night and a sweet potato? Imagine that lunch is another version of dinner and not just a mid day sandwich inhaling contest.
4. Make “the bread basket” a once-in-while experience. You really do not need to be serving a bread basket for dinner at home if you are offering healthy carbohydrate choices like salad, cooked vegetables, brown rice, millet, or quinoa.
5. Oh, and how could I forget? Don’t think that eating “100% Whole Wheat” is any better. It is still refined flour (maybe just not bleached) and a huge contributor to weight gain. I could go on and on about this but I have covered all the details about how detrimental wheat products are to your weight loss efforts in Chapter 9 of The Diet Solution Program.
Start to think outside the “bread box” today for healthy alternatives to your daily bread intake. What one thing can you do today to get started?
3 Simple, Healthy Meal Plans
Is it possible to put together a simple and healthy meal plan? One that is not going to be complicated and hard to follow? Yes. It is possible and I will show you how.
The healthy meal plans below will help you achieve your health goals while simultaneously shedding fat off your body.
Here are 3 healthy meal plans you can get started on right now.
Breakfast
Protein should be included in every meal throughout the day and breakfast is no exception. Make sure to include organic eggs, cottage cheese, raw nut butter or smoked fish as one component of your healthy breakfast. Carbohydrates should also be included in the form of oatmeal, sprouted grain bread, fruit and/or vegetables.
3 great sample breakfasts are:
Oatmeal with almond butter, topped with fresh berries and a bit of Stevia to sweeten.
2 hard boiled eggs, 1 slice sprouted grain toast and ½ grapefruit
Smoked salmon over sliced tomato and 1 green apple.
Lunch
The same rules apply as breakfast. An easy way to ensure that you always have a healthy protein available for lunch is to pack leftovers from dinner the night before. Leftover hamburger, chicken legs or wild fish are all great to include in a salad or over vegetables.
3 great sample lunches are:
Baked Tilapia over sautéed spinach, green salad with chick peas (oil and vinegar as dressing) followed by ½ cup of pineapple.
Leftover chicken legs with ½ sweet potato and broccoli.
Lean hamburger over portabella mushroom and brown rice. Cooked vegetables or a green salad. 1 orange.
Dinner
You can really be creative with dinner. Look for recipes that are quick and easy and modify them with your own healthy ingredients as needed. Again, always remember to include protein and carbohydrates.
3 great sample dinners are:
Mexican salad: Ground beef over shredded lettuce and tomato, guacamole and brown rice.
Grilled Salmon over asparagus, green salad (oil and vinegar as dressing) followed by a fresh fruit salad.
Buffalo meat balls over rice pasta with sautéed broccoli.
Snacks
You never want to let your body get too hungry. Hunger often leads to binge eating of unhealthy food and makes sticking to a healthy eating regimen much more difficult. It’s important to keep snacks handy so you never experience hunger or a blood sugar low without having a healthy option nearby.
3 great snacks are:
2 Tbsp almond butter on ½ apple
Trail mix made up of walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds and dried fruit (no sugar added)
Cottage cheese and pineapple
Incorporate just a few of these meals into your daily eating regimen and you will see an incredible difference in your weight loss results. Following simple and healthy meal plans like these is the first step in achieving your health and fitness goals.
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The healthy meal plans below will help you achieve your health goals while simultaneously shedding fat off your body.
Here are 3 healthy meal plans you can get started on right now.
Breakfast
Protein should be included in every meal throughout the day and breakfast is no exception. Make sure to include organic eggs, cottage cheese, raw nut butter or smoked fish as one component of your healthy breakfast. Carbohydrates should also be included in the form of oatmeal, sprouted grain bread, fruit and/or vegetables.
3 great sample breakfasts are:
Oatmeal with almond butter, topped with fresh berries and a bit of Stevia to sweeten.
2 hard boiled eggs, 1 slice sprouted grain toast and ½ grapefruit
Smoked salmon over sliced tomato and 1 green apple.
Lunch
The same rules apply as breakfast. An easy way to ensure that you always have a healthy protein available for lunch is to pack leftovers from dinner the night before. Leftover hamburger, chicken legs or wild fish are all great to include in a salad or over vegetables.
3 great sample lunches are:
Baked Tilapia over sautéed spinach, green salad with chick peas (oil and vinegar as dressing) followed by ½ cup of pineapple.
Leftover chicken legs with ½ sweet potato and broccoli.
Lean hamburger over portabella mushroom and brown rice. Cooked vegetables or a green salad. 1 orange.
Dinner
You can really be creative with dinner. Look for recipes that are quick and easy and modify them with your own healthy ingredients as needed. Again, always remember to include protein and carbohydrates.
3 great sample dinners are:
Mexican salad: Ground beef over shredded lettuce and tomato, guacamole and brown rice.
Grilled Salmon over asparagus, green salad (oil and vinegar as dressing) followed by a fresh fruit salad.
Buffalo meat balls over rice pasta with sautéed broccoli.
Snacks
You never want to let your body get too hungry. Hunger often leads to binge eating of unhealthy food and makes sticking to a healthy eating regimen much more difficult. It’s important to keep snacks handy so you never experience hunger or a blood sugar low without having a healthy option nearby.
3 great snacks are:
2 Tbsp almond butter on ½ apple
Trail mix made up of walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds and dried fruit (no sugar added)
Cottage cheese and pineapple
Incorporate just a few of these meals into your daily eating regimen and you will see an incredible difference in your weight loss results. Following simple and healthy meal plans like these is the first step in achieving your health and fitness goals.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Top 5 Fat Loss Myths
There are so many fat loss myths out there in "exercise-land" that I was hired by a fitness magazine to write about one myth each month. After all, by now you've probably heard that if you don't do 60-minutes of cardio in your fat burning zone on an empty stomach while Venus is in line with Jupiter, you'll never burn fat.
The problem with myths is that not only are they wrong and give false hope to millions of people trying to lose weight, but they also waste your time and mental effort. I have also seen these myths used as justification for cheating on a diet, watching countless men and women justify their "treats"because they believe they are on some type of magical exercise program or nutrition plan. I could go on for days about fitness myths, but I cut my list from 30 down to the Top 5 Fat Loss Workout Myths today.
I'll save theother 25 for future newsletters.
Myth #1: You have to do cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Relax. You don't have to hop on the treadmill at 4:30am every morning. Let's allow common sense to dictate when and how you exercise. If you want to work out first thing in the morning, and I know that is the best time for many TT readers, by all means, go ahead and do it. There's nothing magical about this time - although it is often the only time many of day many people have to themselves. We need to think "outside of the hour" of exercise and realize that calorie burning and fat burning goes on for 24-hours. Forget about the theories and look at the big picture. It doesn't matter when you exercise - as long as you exercise intensely and consistently. Focus on relatively high-intensity workouts to increase your metabolism for as many hours after exercise as possible. That is best done with interval training and resistance training.
Myth #2: You have to do your cardio in your "fat burning zone".Again, nonsense. While you might burn a larger proportion of total calories as fat when you exercise in your fat burning zone, you burn fewer calories overall by exercising at such a low intensity. When you increase your workout intensity and get out of your so-called "fat burning zone", you burn more total calories, and as a result, more fat. In addition, the "fat burning zone" training doesn't put "turbulence" on your muscles...so you don't burn many calories in the post-exercise time period. But with interval training, you burn a significant amount of calories for hours after training, and that leads to more fat loss. I've worked with hundreds of people that have avoided the fat burning zone while still managing to lose dozens of pounds of fat.The "fat burning zone" is one of the biggest fitness myths of all time.
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Myth #3: You have to do cardio for 20 minutes before you burn fat. When I hear this, I picture a fat-burning switch in my body that turns on only after I've been doing "cardio" for 20 minutes. But what if I only exercise for 19 minutes and 59 seconds? Areyou telling me that I won't have burned any fat? That's ridiculous. What if I did it on an empty stomach in the morning and in my target heart rate zone? (read that one sarcastically!) I'll say it one last time. We need to be more concerned with our 24-hour metabolism, not how much fat or even how many calories are burned during the workout.
Myth 4: Drinking ice cold water will help you burn calories and lose fat. Standing in line at the grocery store is a great place to pick up the latest fat loss myths. You'll also find this one all over the Internet.This myth often comes along with some calculations showing that by drinking 8 glasses of ice-cold water you can burn 70 calories per day. I don't believe that actually holds true in real life. Regardless, drinking cold water is not going to burn any more fat off your body than drinking room temperature water.Don't get me wrong, I strongly believe you should drink 12 glasses of water per day, but the temperature of your water won't have any effect on your overall fat loss success.
Myth #5: Adding one pound of muscle will burn 50 extra calories each day.Uh-oh, now I'm cutting down a myth that supports my use of strength training in a fat loss program. But I have an obligation to set the record straight about this extremely prevalent myth (even though I just saw a big name fitness expert perpetuate this myth in a recent article!).This myth sounds so good. Add a pound of muscle, boost your metabolism 50 calories. That doesn't seem out of line at all.But do the math for a guy that puts on 30 pounds of muscle. Does his metabolism really increase by 1500 calories? Absolutely not. For an average guy, that would require his resting metabolism to increase from 2500 calories to 4000 calories per day. How would he be able to keep any of that muscle with a metabolism like that? He'd have to eat like a pig forever. So when you look at the big picture, you can see this little myth start to fall apart.That's not to say you should stop your strength training, but just don't use this myth as an excuse to cheat on your diet.
Bonus Myth: Negative Calorie Foods Cause You to Lose Weight According to the "experts", a negative calorie food requires more energy to digest than it provides you when you eat it. And included in the negative calorie food list are apples and bananas. So by this logic, I would actually starve to death if I had nothing to eat but apples (because I would have a net energy loss fromeating a so-called "negative calorie" food).There is no such thing as a negative calorie food. It's a shame “experts” are out there promoting this stuff, and that so many people fall for it. Instead, let the common sense fat loss principles apply. It's going to take consistent effort, working hard at your workouts and with your nutrition to get the results you want.
I guarantee you that Turbulence Training will successfully guide you to the fat loss you deserve and desire.
Sincerely, Nathan Barrett,
Owner, Abdominal Success
P.S. Here's the truth on fat loss from TT users..."I Coach busy women with no time to look in the mirror, let aloneadopt a whole foods lifestyle or exercise yet already! And yet,your Turbulence strategies show almost everyone that everyone hasall of the time they'll ever need to include exercise as a fun,performance-promotion essential to their lives. This program isamazing and plenty challenging because it is simple. Clear but letsno one off the hook. I'm thrilled to say this is a great additionto any woman's arsenal of "what to do." Ann G. Burgess, President, Pathfinders' Fitness by Design,Arlington , MA
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"I have been in possession of TT for a several weeks now; Iabsolutely enjoy the program. I can get in to the gym and ripthough the supersets work up a great sweat and pump my energylevels up before I even get to the cardio portion of my work-out. II have recommended this program to both beginner and veteran alike.Since starting TT I have dropped almost 2% of body fat and lookforward to making my goal of 10% body fat in no time. This programis absolutely one of the best anywhere on the Web." Alejandro B. Villalobos
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The problem with myths is that not only are they wrong and give false hope to millions of people trying to lose weight, but they also waste your time and mental effort. I have also seen these myths used as justification for cheating on a diet, watching countless men and women justify their "treats"because they believe they are on some type of magical exercise program or nutrition plan. I could go on for days about fitness myths, but I cut my list from 30 down to the Top 5 Fat Loss Workout Myths today.
I'll save theother 25 for future newsletters.
Myth #1: You have to do cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Relax. You don't have to hop on the treadmill at 4:30am every morning. Let's allow common sense to dictate when and how you exercise. If you want to work out first thing in the morning, and I know that is the best time for many TT readers, by all means, go ahead and do it. There's nothing magical about this time - although it is often the only time many of day many people have to themselves. We need to think "outside of the hour" of exercise and realize that calorie burning and fat burning goes on for 24-hours. Forget about the theories and look at the big picture. It doesn't matter when you exercise - as long as you exercise intensely and consistently. Focus on relatively high-intensity workouts to increase your metabolism for as many hours after exercise as possible. That is best done with interval training and resistance training.
Myth #2: You have to do your cardio in your "fat burning zone".Again, nonsense. While you might burn a larger proportion of total calories as fat when you exercise in your fat burning zone, you burn fewer calories overall by exercising at such a low intensity. When you increase your workout intensity and get out of your so-called "fat burning zone", you burn more total calories, and as a result, more fat. In addition, the "fat burning zone" training doesn't put "turbulence" on your muscles...so you don't burn many calories in the post-exercise time period. But with interval training, you burn a significant amount of calories for hours after training, and that leads to more fat loss. I've worked with hundreds of people that have avoided the fat burning zone while still managing to lose dozens of pounds of fat.The "fat burning zone" is one of the biggest fitness myths of all time.
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Myth #3: You have to do cardio for 20 minutes before you burn fat. When I hear this, I picture a fat-burning switch in my body that turns on only after I've been doing "cardio" for 20 minutes. But what if I only exercise for 19 minutes and 59 seconds? Areyou telling me that I won't have burned any fat? That's ridiculous. What if I did it on an empty stomach in the morning and in my target heart rate zone? (read that one sarcastically!) I'll say it one last time. We need to be more concerned with our 24-hour metabolism, not how much fat or even how many calories are burned during the workout.
Myth 4: Drinking ice cold water will help you burn calories and lose fat. Standing in line at the grocery store is a great place to pick up the latest fat loss myths. You'll also find this one all over the Internet.This myth often comes along with some calculations showing that by drinking 8 glasses of ice-cold water you can burn 70 calories per day. I don't believe that actually holds true in real life. Regardless, drinking cold water is not going to burn any more fat off your body than drinking room temperature water.Don't get me wrong, I strongly believe you should drink 12 glasses of water per day, but the temperature of your water won't have any effect on your overall fat loss success.
Myth #5: Adding one pound of muscle will burn 50 extra calories each day.Uh-oh, now I'm cutting down a myth that supports my use of strength training in a fat loss program. But I have an obligation to set the record straight about this extremely prevalent myth (even though I just saw a big name fitness expert perpetuate this myth in a recent article!).This myth sounds so good. Add a pound of muscle, boost your metabolism 50 calories. That doesn't seem out of line at all.But do the math for a guy that puts on 30 pounds of muscle. Does his metabolism really increase by 1500 calories? Absolutely not. For an average guy, that would require his resting metabolism to increase from 2500 calories to 4000 calories per day. How would he be able to keep any of that muscle with a metabolism like that? He'd have to eat like a pig forever. So when you look at the big picture, you can see this little myth start to fall apart.That's not to say you should stop your strength training, but just don't use this myth as an excuse to cheat on your diet.
Bonus Myth: Negative Calorie Foods Cause You to Lose Weight According to the "experts", a negative calorie food requires more energy to digest than it provides you when you eat it. And included in the negative calorie food list are apples and bananas. So by this logic, I would actually starve to death if I had nothing to eat but apples (because I would have a net energy loss fromeating a so-called "negative calorie" food).There is no such thing as a negative calorie food. It's a shame “experts” are out there promoting this stuff, and that so many people fall for it. Instead, let the common sense fat loss principles apply. It's going to take consistent effort, working hard at your workouts and with your nutrition to get the results you want.
I guarantee you that Turbulence Training will successfully guide you to the fat loss you deserve and desire.
Sincerely, Nathan Barrett,
Owner, Abdominal Success
P.S. Here's the truth on fat loss from TT users..."I Coach busy women with no time to look in the mirror, let aloneadopt a whole foods lifestyle or exercise yet already! And yet,your Turbulence strategies show almost everyone that everyone hasall of the time they'll ever need to include exercise as a fun,performance-promotion essential to their lives. This program isamazing and plenty challenging because it is simple. Clear but letsno one off the hook. I'm thrilled to say this is a great additionto any woman's arsenal of "what to do." Ann G. Burgess, President, Pathfinders' Fitness by Design,Arlington , MA
Get your very own copy of Turbulence Training & the Nutrition Guide here: => TURBULENCE TRAINING
"I have been in possession of TT for a several weeks now; Iabsolutely enjoy the program. I can get in to the gym and ripthough the supersets work up a great sweat and pump my energylevels up before I even get to the cardio portion of my work-out. II have recommended this program to both beginner and veteran alike.Since starting TT I have dropped almost 2% of body fat and lookforward to making my goal of 10% body fat in no time. This programis absolutely one of the best anywhere on the Web." Alejandro B. Villalobos
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Best Exercises for Fat Loss
In the 80's and 90's workout magazines that I read, recommended isolation exercises, like the leg extension machine and the chest-fly machine as being best exercises for fat loss and helping you sculpt your body. But we've come a long way since then...Today I want to show you how to choose the best exercises for fat loss, and even the right exercise order, to get the most fat loss and body-sculpting in the least amount of time.
Let's start with some simple rules on how to pick the exercises.
1. Exercises should always work multiple muscle groups.
2. Exercises should be done standing, whenever possible.
3. Exercises should be effective for fat loss even if only thebodyweight version is used (i.e. squats).
4. The hardest (most intense) exercises should always be first.
Before I explain the rules in detail, let's first cover the warm-up.
Every Turbulence Training workout starts with a general warm-up. By now, you should know that I don't like the traditional 5-minute cardio workout (excluding those who need it for injury purposes,according to their health care professional). The purpose of the warm-up is to specifically prepare your muscles for action. Walking on a treadmill for 5 minutes does little interms of preparing your body for strength training. Therefore, I start every workout with a general, total body circuit.
When putting together total-body workouts and warm-ups, I think about 4 "hot zones" on the body. And I have to address all four hot zones with exercises in the warm-up. The hot zones are:
a) Back of Legs
b) Upper Back
c) Chest
d) Abdominals
Why do I only worry about the back of legs? Because almost allmulti-joint movements that train the back of the legs will alsostress the quadriceps, even if only in a static contraction. Take for example, this general warm-up (to be used in place of thetreadmill):
A) Y-Squat (hold your hands over your head in a "Y" formation) - 15reps
B) Close-grip Pushups (kneeling or advanced) - 8 reps
C) Stick-up - 8 reps
Hopefully you can see how that hits all 4 hot zones through dynamicand static contractions. If you don't, let me know. Ok, now we are ready to move on to the meat of the workout. As stated above in the rules, we must pick our hardest, most intense exercises first, and perform them in sets of low reps.
Here's a Turbulence Training bodyweight-only, body-sculpting workout routine that I've designed to show you the correct exercise order, and the types of exercise that are best for changing your body. I'll be using this exact workout with one of my high-profile movie stars this afternoon. She needs to keep her body sculpted without bulking up. But she still needs to be strong, lean, and athletic for her fight scenes in the movie she is filming.
1A) Split Squat (8 reps) [Advanced use the Bulgarian Split Squat]
1B) Elevated Pushup (8 reps per side) [Kneeling or Advanced)
2A) Step-up (12 reps)
2B) Bodyweight Row (8 reps) (Beginner or Advanced)
3A) Stability Ball Jackknife (15 reps)
3B) Back Extension on Ball (15 reps)
Each superset (i.e. 1A & 1B) is done 3 times with no rest between exercises A and B, but with a 30 seconds rest after B, before you repeat the superset. Following the strength portion of the workout, complete the workout with Interval Training.
Each exercise uses multiple muscle groups, so that more calories will be burned during and after exercise.We also design each superset to use two intense, non-competing exercises. We use low reps where possible. We train for strength at the start of the workout when we are fresh. What do I mean by non-competing? That means, you should be able to perform the two exercises back to back with minimal fatiguing effects from the prior exercise.
You have to pair exercises that don't use the same muscle groups. The rules of exercise selection and exercise order will allow youto get lean, boost your metabolism, and to train with a high-intensity through out the entire workout. So when I put the exercises together, it is all about putting themin the right order to get you lean.
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Full body workouts sculpt a better body faster,Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MSCreator, Turbulence Training
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I'll let these female clients answer...
"Everywhere I go, people who I haven't seen in a long time see meand are shocked at my transformation. For a 37 yearold, married, mother of 4 to hear that she looks "hot" or"terrific" is the ultimate compliment! Your program hascompletely changed me. I have tone muscles in places I neverthought would be tone again! Thank you for your sincere dedicationto those of us who want to make a difference in our lives."Terri Stuckey, Chardon, Ohio
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Let's start with some simple rules on how to pick the exercises.
1. Exercises should always work multiple muscle groups.
2. Exercises should be done standing, whenever possible.
3. Exercises should be effective for fat loss even if only thebodyweight version is used (i.e. squats).
4. The hardest (most intense) exercises should always be first.
Before I explain the rules in detail, let's first cover the warm-up.
Every Turbulence Training workout starts with a general warm-up. By now, you should know that I don't like the traditional 5-minute cardio workout (excluding those who need it for injury purposes,according to their health care professional). The purpose of the warm-up is to specifically prepare your muscles for action. Walking on a treadmill for 5 minutes does little interms of preparing your body for strength training. Therefore, I start every workout with a general, total body circuit.
When putting together total-body workouts and warm-ups, I think about 4 "hot zones" on the body. And I have to address all four hot zones with exercises in the warm-up. The hot zones are:
a) Back of Legs
b) Upper Back
c) Chest
d) Abdominals
Why do I only worry about the back of legs? Because almost allmulti-joint movements that train the back of the legs will alsostress the quadriceps, even if only in a static contraction. Take for example, this general warm-up (to be used in place of thetreadmill):
A) Y-Squat (hold your hands over your head in a "Y" formation) - 15reps
B) Close-grip Pushups (kneeling or advanced) - 8 reps
C) Stick-up - 8 reps
Hopefully you can see how that hits all 4 hot zones through dynamicand static contractions. If you don't, let me know. Ok, now we are ready to move on to the meat of the workout. As stated above in the rules, we must pick our hardest, most intense exercises first, and perform them in sets of low reps.
Here's a Turbulence Training bodyweight-only, body-sculpting workout routine that I've designed to show you the correct exercise order, and the types of exercise that are best for changing your body. I'll be using this exact workout with one of my high-profile movie stars this afternoon. She needs to keep her body sculpted without bulking up. But she still needs to be strong, lean, and athletic for her fight scenes in the movie she is filming.
1A) Split Squat (8 reps) [Advanced use the Bulgarian Split Squat]
1B) Elevated Pushup (8 reps per side) [Kneeling or Advanced)
2A) Step-up (12 reps)
2B) Bodyweight Row (8 reps) (Beginner or Advanced)
3A) Stability Ball Jackknife (15 reps)
3B) Back Extension on Ball (15 reps)
Each superset (i.e. 1A & 1B) is done 3 times with no rest between exercises A and B, but with a 30 seconds rest after B, before you repeat the superset. Following the strength portion of the workout, complete the workout with Interval Training.
Each exercise uses multiple muscle groups, so that more calories will be burned during and after exercise.We also design each superset to use two intense, non-competing exercises. We use low reps where possible. We train for strength at the start of the workout when we are fresh. What do I mean by non-competing? That means, you should be able to perform the two exercises back to back with minimal fatiguing effects from the prior exercise.
You have to pair exercises that don't use the same muscle groups. The rules of exercise selection and exercise order will allow youto get lean, boost your metabolism, and to train with a high-intensity through out the entire workout. So when I put the exercises together, it is all about putting themin the right order to get you lean.
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Full body workouts sculpt a better body faster,Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MSCreator, Turbulence Training
P.S. You've asked, "Can women use Turbulence Training"?
I'll let these female clients answer...
"Everywhere I go, people who I haven't seen in a long time see meand are shocked at my transformation. For a 37 yearold, married, mother of 4 to hear that she looks "hot" or"terrific" is the ultimate compliment! Your program hascompletely changed me. I have tone muscles in places I neverthought would be tone again! Thank you for your sincere dedicationto those of us who want to make a difference in our lives."Terri Stuckey, Chardon, Ohio
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"Wow! I have been a Certified Personal Trainer for 7 years and I have not seen any other program that works as quickly or effectively. Within 3-4 weeks of doing the Turbulence Training program, I lost the last 8 pounds, and am now happy to be at my pre-pregnancy weight- and stronger than I was before."Annette Allen
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
New Review of The Diet Solution
Hello everyone, i just wanted to let you know that the team at Abdominalsuccess.com has just finished up there review of the Diet Solution Program. The Diet Solution program was designed by Isabel De Los Rios. The Diet Solution is not a "diet" but more of a lifestyle change. Including a great insight on so called healthy and low fat foods that are supposed to help you lose weight. Isabel shines a light on everything the diet industry has led you to believe.
Read how well the Diet Solution program works just click the link below
www.abdominalsuccess.com/The-Diet-Solution-Review.html
Till next time
get healthy & get lean
Nathan Barrett
www.abdominalsuccess.com
Read how well the Diet Solution program works just click the link below
www.abdominalsuccess.com/The-Diet-Solution-Review.html
Till next time
get healthy & get lean
Nathan Barrett
www.abdominalsuccess.com
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
There are 3 major reasons that set up 98% of all the fat loss diet programs for failure. This article will help you identify each of them and understand the 3 major reasons better.
1) Times have changed, but our bodies have remained the same; this is the first reason why 98% of fat loss diet programs fail.
In the early days, humans were hunters and gatherers, and our bodies still function as though we don’t have reliable food sources. This was a time before we had drive-thrus for a quick bite on the way home from work and fully stocked refrigerators just 10 feet away. In fact, our ancestors had to work very hard to find food; the alternative was not eating at all. Sometimes, they were forced to go without substantial nutrition for a period of time.
So, for them to survive, their bodies had to figure out a way to make it through such times of scarcity. Their bodies adapted by slowing down their metabolisms and storing calories as fat when there was enough food; this could then be used as fuel in times of scarcity. Unfortunately, this survival mechanism endures, even though most of us in the developed world no longer need it.
So, when you follow a diet program that restricts your caloric intake, your body responds by shifting into survival mode, preventing you from achieving results. This approach will make your metabolism slow and sluggish; you will burn less fat and, at the same time, store more of it. This also leads to huge amounts of lean muscle tissue being wasted.
2) 98% of fat loss diet plans fail because they leave us feeling hungrier.
Fat loss diet programs that restrict calorie intake will leave you feeling hungrier, with a constantly growling in your stomach and subsequent discomfort. (To add to this, you’ll be preoccupied with nothing but thoughts of food).
Do you really think that you can keep living in that state for long?
I think it’s doubtful! In fact, the hunger pains will stay as long as you are on such fat loss diet programs, and you’ll need to resume eating normally to make them go away. I don’t know anyone who can live under such circumstances permanently, and I think 99% or more of the population can’t either.
How can you expect to lose weight and keep it off when you’re on fat loss diet programs that just don’t work and are impossible to maintain? there is NO way!
3) 98% of fat loss diet programs fail because reasons 1 and 2 work together to make your goal unattainable.
Even after you give up on these low-calorie fat loss diet programs, there’s more in store for you.
This food deprivation has trained your body to burn less fat and to store more of it. Eventually, when you resume your normal diet, you will end up piling on more pounds than before. (I’m sure you’ve heard of “yo-yo dieting”!). ”)
Unfortunately, even the weight you lost, if any, when you were on such fat loss diet programs was mostly that of retained water and lean muscle mass. You might have reduced the number on the scale, but you didn’t actually lose any body fat.
With all these factors involved, it’s no surprise that 98% of fat loss diet programs fail.
This article is sponserd in part by THE DIET SOLUTION PROGRAM
1) Times have changed, but our bodies have remained the same; this is the first reason why 98% of fat loss diet programs fail.
In the early days, humans were hunters and gatherers, and our bodies still function as though we don’t have reliable food sources. This was a time before we had drive-thrus for a quick bite on the way home from work and fully stocked refrigerators just 10 feet away. In fact, our ancestors had to work very hard to find food; the alternative was not eating at all. Sometimes, they were forced to go without substantial nutrition for a period of time.
So, for them to survive, their bodies had to figure out a way to make it through such times of scarcity. Their bodies adapted by slowing down their metabolisms and storing calories as fat when there was enough food; this could then be used as fuel in times of scarcity. Unfortunately, this survival mechanism endures, even though most of us in the developed world no longer need it.
So, when you follow a diet program that restricts your caloric intake, your body responds by shifting into survival mode, preventing you from achieving results. This approach will make your metabolism slow and sluggish; you will burn less fat and, at the same time, store more of it. This also leads to huge amounts of lean muscle tissue being wasted.
2) 98% of fat loss diet plans fail because they leave us feeling hungrier.
Fat loss diet programs that restrict calorie intake will leave you feeling hungrier, with a constantly growling in your stomach and subsequent discomfort. (To add to this, you’ll be preoccupied with nothing but thoughts of food).
Do you really think that you can keep living in that state for long?
I think it’s doubtful! In fact, the hunger pains will stay as long as you are on such fat loss diet programs, and you’ll need to resume eating normally to make them go away. I don’t know anyone who can live under such circumstances permanently, and I think 99% or more of the population can’t either.
How can you expect to lose weight and keep it off when you’re on fat loss diet programs that just don’t work and are impossible to maintain? there is NO way!
3) 98% of fat loss diet programs fail because reasons 1 and 2 work together to make your goal unattainable.
Even after you give up on these low-calorie fat loss diet programs, there’s more in store for you.
This food deprivation has trained your body to burn less fat and to store more of it. Eventually, when you resume your normal diet, you will end up piling on more pounds than before. (I’m sure you’ve heard of “yo-yo dieting”!). ”)
Unfortunately, even the weight you lost, if any, when you were on such fat loss diet programs was mostly that of retained water and lean muscle mass. You might have reduced the number on the scale, but you didn’t actually lose any body fat.
With all these factors involved, it’s no surprise that 98% of fat loss diet programs fail.
This article is sponserd in part by THE DIET SOLUTION PROGRAM
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