Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Athletic Workouts

Use athletic workouts to help build your six pack abs and even more. Athletic bodyweight workouts will blast fat from your body like never before...just try a workout and see for yourself!



Athletic bodyweight workouts are very intense and will improve your body's composition (fat loss, more muscle). These workouts will sculpt your body without your joints taking a pounding from lifting heavy weights!

To get your muscles to improve power (how fast your muscles can produce force), do some or all of the exercises full speed. Also, you will really burn fat and shape your bulkier, fast twitch muscle fibers when doing exercises at full speed!

Athletic bodyweight circuit workouts are a tried and true method to burn more fat, increase strength/endurance and improve heart health.

Do each exercise (10 repetitions) one after the other with little or no rest between exercises. Rest 2-3 minutes and do the circuit 2 more times. Here is a good athletic bodyweight workout:

--Bodyweight squats, moderate pace
--Medicine ball soccer throw (pictured above), full speed
--Pushups, full speed
--Walking lunges/Side Lunges/Tranverse Lunges, moderate pace (one for each circuit)
--2-Handed medicine ball chest pass, full speed
--Squat jumps, full speed
--Back extensions, moderate pace

Use correct form and get after it!

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Barefoot Running

Harvard evolutionary biologist Dan Lieberman believes that modern running shoes may explain why fifty percent of serious runners are injured at least once a year (Nature, January 2010). Modern running shoes have features that cause runners to land on their heels with forces of at least three times body weight at 6-minute mile pace. The faster a runner runs, the greater the force, which causes stress fractures of the feet and lower legs, shin splints, tears in the fascia on the bottom of the feet, knee and hip pain, tendon and joint damage and more.

Hitting the ground with the heel first generates tremendous force because it stops the foot suddenly. On the other hand, landing on the front of the foot allows the foot to keep on moving as the heel is lowered toward the ground to distribute the forces throughout the entire lower leg. If you drop a pen on its tip, it hits with tremendous force because it stops when it hits the ground and then falls forward. However, if the pen were dropped on the side of one end, it would hit the ground with much less force because after hitting on that side, the force would be distributed as the pen falls backward to the other end.

In the 1960s doctors thought that most running injuries were caused by excessive pronation, a rolling inward of the foot after the heal strikes the ground. They felt that the foot rolled inward toward the arch to dissipate the tremendous heel strike forces. This, in turn, caused the lower leg to twist inward and they blamed the frequent running injuries on the inward twisting motion of the leg after heel strike. So they invented running shoes with special arch supports to limit inward rolling, and with padded heels to cushion some of the shock of the heel hitting the ground. However, these features reinforce the runners' habit of landing on their heels.

Dr. Lieberman has shown that barefoot runners are more likely to land on their forefoot or mid-foot. He has shown in elegant experiments that landing on the front part of the foot reduces the force of the foot strike very significantly. However, he has no data to show that running injuries can be prevented by running barefoot. Furthermore, stones and cut glass can cause injuries, and most runners have such thin skin on the bottom of their feet that they couldn't possibly run barefoot.

New on the market are running shoes with very thin soles and minimal heels called Vibram FiveFingers shoe and the Dunlop Volley. Vibram is supporting Dr. Lieberman's studies. Dr. Lieberman has shown only that
• modern running shoes tend to encourage a runner to land on his heels, and
• heel strike generates more force than front foot strike.
He has not yet shown that:
• modern running shoes cause injuries, or that
• injuries can be treated or prevented by running barefoot or in thin-soled shoes.
Dr. Lieberman's website

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Ab Ball Jackknife

Sculpt those six pack abs sooner by doing the ab ball jackknife exercise. Superset the ab ball jackknife with the ab ball rollout to build your six pack even faster!





Do the ab ball jackknife this way:

1. Place both shins on the stability ball with both hands on the ground (arms straight). Keep hands a little wider than shoulder width. Keep your body in a straight line from head to feet.

2. Roll the ball toward your chest with your legs together. Bend your knees to your chest as far as you can. The movement should be controlled and steady throughout.

3. Roll the ball back to the starting position. That's 1 repetition.

The ab ball jackknife will improve your balance. Include this exercise more in your workouts.

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Prisoner Squats

Yes, prisoner squats will help you get six pack abs sooner! When you do these squats correctly, your ab muscles will be activated.



Add bodyweight prisoner squats to your exercise routine. You can do prisoner squats anywhere, anytime (as a warmup exercise also).

As a matter of fact, go ahead and do regular bodyweight squats, one-legged bodyweight squats and Y bodyweight squats. They all work to burn fat and sculpt your body.

You also get strength benefits for your glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps. Prisoner squats also help to realign your shoulder blades.

1.Stand with your feet a little wider than shoulder width apart with your toes pointing slightly outward.

2. With your hands behind your head, keep your chest up and shoulder blades down and back throughout the range of motion.

3. As you descend, push your glutes back as if sitting down, bending at the hips and knees. Keep your knees aligned with your toes (don't let the knees "cave in" or protrude outside the feet). Also, don’t let your knees pass over your toes and stay back on your heels.

4. Don’t lean forward, maintain the natural arch in your back and keep your core braced (as if getting ready to take a punch).

5. As you ascend, contract your glutes.

Bodyweight prisoner squats are a good variation from the traditional bodyweight squats.

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With A Meal Plan

Your six pack abs won't show if they are covered with a layer or layers of fat! While you're building up those ab muscles, you need to burn ab fat at the same time. You can only do that by following a healthy meal plan.

You can start with eating your daily servings of fresh fruits and vegetables. I've never heard of anyone getting fat by eating too many fruits and veggies. Next, cut out ALL SUGARY DRINKS. Drink only water or unsweetened drinks like tea. If you will do just those two things, you will be well on your way to shedding body fat on your abs and whole body.

So, how much food do you need to eat every day? You have to achieve a caloric deficit (burn more calories than you consume) for the day to lose weight and burn fat.

Set your daily caloric intake based on your basal metabolic rate and your activity level (including exercise). This way, you won't eat too much or too little. Maintaining the right amount of caloric deficit is the key to burning fat and losing weight.

If your basal metabolic rate is 1800 calories a day, 1000 calories of food intake is not enough food for you to function properly! This type of calorie restriction will cause your body to shift to survival mode and store fat. Your body will also be a total wreck if you do this too much!

So, if you eat 1800 calories and burn 2200-2300 calories a day (through movement and exercise), you will lose weight and burn ab fat and total body fat.

Eat foods as close to their natural state as possible. For example, a baked potato would be better than french fries.

Here are some do's and don'ts when it comes to the replacement method of eating:

Cut out these types of foods: sodas, sugary fruit juice drinks, candy, cookies, donuts, fried meats and fried foods, fast foods, ketchup, mayonnaise

Add these types of foods: whole grain breads, whole grain cereals, oatmeal, almonds, nuts, low-fat dairy products, low-fat yogurt, fruits, veggies, unsweetened tea, water, lean meats (baked, broiled or grilled), olive oil, cinnamon, mustard.

Uncover those hard-earned six pack abs by burning the fat covering them!

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Hanging Leg Raises

Build your six pack abs sooner with the hanging leg raise exercise. It is an advanced abdominal exercise.

There is a reason you see more people doing ab crunches instead of hanging leg raises! The hanging leg raise and its variations is very tough to execute. In fact, it is the gold standard for abdominal exercises! Gymnasts have been doing hanging leg raises for decades. A person needs core strength, arm strength and grip strength to perform the exercise correctly. If you can't do one hanging leg raise, you need to strengthen your core, back, arms and grip.



1. Hang from a bar using an overhand grip with arms straight and shoulder-width apart. Let your legs hang straight down.

2. Contract your abs and make sure that your back remains neutral with natural arch. Keep your head still and looking straight ahead. Raise your legs to the midpoint of your body using your abdominal muscles. Don't swing your legs up and use momentum to do the exercise. This is a controlled strength exercise.

3. Hold for 1 to 2 seconds and slowly lower your legs. That is one repetition.

Beginning exercisers can start by trying to bend the knees up to the chest. Intermediate exercisers are able to do a straight leg raise up to the midpoint of the body. Advanced exercisers can usually raise straight legs up to the head or "windshield wiper" bent knees to the left and right.

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Good Carbohydrates Help to Prevent Heart Attacks

This month, separate studies from Denmark and Italy show that heart attack risk is lowered by replacing saturated fats with good carbohydrates that do not cause a high rise in blood sugar, while heart attacks can be caused by replacing saturated fats with carbohydrates that cause a high rise in blood sugar (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, April 7, 2010; Archives of Internal Medicine, May 2010). Those who ate the most foods that cause high rises in blood sugar levels had more than twice the risk of having heart disease as those who ate the least.

In the 1940s, Ancel Keys, of the University of the Minnesota started groundbreaking research that showed that saturated fat in meat causes heart disease and premature death, while carbohydrates from intact plants in a Mediterranean-type diet help to prevent these complications. Further research showed that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats in plants also helps to prevent heart attacks.

Carbohydrates found IN plants are combined with other components that prevent a high rise in blood sugar. When these same carbohydrates are extracted from plants or ground into powders, they can cause blood sugar to rise too high.

• Whole grains are capsules with a tough outer coating that prevents a high rise in blood sugar. They can resist digestive enzymes and pass through your digestive system virtually intact. Grinding whole grains into flour breaks the capsule so the small particles are easily absorbed to cause a high rise in blood sugar.

• The carbohydrates in vegetables and fruits are attached to fiber that markedly slows absorption. When sugars are extracted from plants they pass into the bloodstream almost immediately (see the list of extracted sugars below.)

• Before food can pass from the stomach into the intestines, it must be converted to a liquid soup. No solid food passes into the intestines. When solid food enters your stomach, the pyloric sphincter at the end of the stomach closes and the stomach continuously squeezes the food until it is turned into a liquid soup. This can take up to four hours which markedly delays the rise in blood sugar. Therefore you want to limit foods made from ground-up grains (flour), extracted sugars, and sugars in liquid form including fruit juice, because they can cause the highest rises in blood sugar levels.

How a high rise in blood sugar causes heart disease: When your blood sugar level rises too high,
• your pancreas releases huge amounts of insulin which
• converts sugar to triglycerides, which clog up your bloodstream to increase risk for clots, so
• you use up huge amounts of your good HDL cholesterol in carrying triglycerides and your bad LDL cholesterol from your bloodstream into your liver.
• Low HDL (good) cholesterol causes heart attacks becaues HDL is not available to carry cholesterol and triglycerides from your bloodstream.
• High insulin levels constrict arteries to cause heart attacks. • High blood sugar levels cause sugar to stick to the surface membranes of cells to destroy them and cause all the horrible side effects of diabetes.
• High triglycerides in your liver cause a fatty liver that can lead to diabetes.

A diet rich in plants has also been shown to help prevent Alzheimer's disease (Archives of Neurology, April 2010). Based on these and many other studies, I recommend that you:

1) Eat unlimited amounts of unprocessed fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts and other seeds.
2) Avoid all sugared drinks including fruit juices (except while you exercise; contracting muscles remove sugar from your bloodstream without insulin).
3) Restrict all ground up carbohydrates (foods made from flour).
4) Choose cereals made from whole grains and with little or no added sugar. See How to Pick a Breakfast Cereal
5) Restrict meat from all mammals. Poultry has not been associated with increased risk for heart attacks, and fish is associated with reduced risk.
6) Read labels on all processed foods. Extracted (added) sugars have many names, including: barley malt, beet sugar, brown sugar, buttered syrup, cane-juice crystals, cane sugar, caramel, carob syrup, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, date sugar, dextran, dextrose, diastase, diastatic malt, ethyl maltol, fructose, fruit juice, fruit juice concentrate, glucose, glucose solids, golden sugar, golden syrup, grape sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, lactose, maple syrup, malt syrup, maltodextrin, maltose, mannitol, molasses, raw sugar, refiner's syrup, sorghum syrup, sucrose, sugar, turbinado sugar, yellow sugar.

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Mountain Climbers

If you want six pack abs sooner, do more mountain climbers! You can do them slow or fast. Just do them. You will also get a total body workout.



Do bodyweight mountain climbers if you're serious about taking your workout to another level. The mountain climber is a versatile exercise in that you can do it on level ground, on an incline, knee-across-your-body, as a warmup, as cardio or as a speed exercise. I like to include mountain climbers as part of a bodyweight cardio session.

You will burn more abdominal fat and overall body fat by doing mountain climbers.

Either way, include mountain climbers in your workouts more often. It is one of the best and toughest exercises out there. It is a compound exercise in that it works the calves, quadriceps, glutes, back, chest, triceps, abdominals and shoulders. You will need high levels of core strength to do this exercise the right way for each set.

Do mountain climbers this way:

From a push-up position, keep your back flat (do not let your back bow) and pump your legs as fast as possible (if doing as a speed exercise) like you are running in place. Don't scrape the ground with your shoes as they run forward. And, don't let your glutes "sag to the ground" when you are fatigued.

If you feel low back pain when doing mountain climbers, stop immediately. It is impossible to do this exercise the right way if you have a bad back.

Include mountain climbers more in your workouts and you'll get your six pack abs sooner!

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Isometric Exercises

You need to do isometric core exercises to get your six pack abs. This is a surprise to many people. Isometric core exercises build up the deep stabilizing muscles and give tone to your entire core area. Isometric exercises help you build strength and burn fat without moving much.



Isometric exercises are very underrated. They are great for building muscles, stabilizing muscles, building strength, improving power and burning fat.

Isometric contractions can be described as a type of muscle contraction where your muscles develop tension without changing length. For example, pushing against a wall and holding for 30 seconds causes an isometric contraction.

You should strength train your muscles with all contraction types (eccentric, isometric, concentric). All muscles function eccentrically (reduces force or deceleration), isometrically (stabilizes force) and concentrically (produces force).

Isometric exercises force most if not all of your muscles to work during an exercise. The stability ball plank exercise (pictured above) is a great example. To do the plank, you get into position and hold for a period of time (like 20 seconds). So, many core exercises are great isometric exercises.

So, here are some other good isometric core exercises to help build your six pack abs:

1. Bridge, 10 repetitions, 20 second hold
2. Pushup and Hold, 20 second hold
3. Captain Chair Knee Ups and Hold, 10 repetitions, 10 second hold
4. Ab Curl Ups and Hold, 10 repetitions, 20 second hold

Now "hold on" and do your isometric exercises to build your six pack abs!

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Ab Ball Rollout

Get your six pack abs on with the ab ball rollout. This exercise might be new to you or you may be afraid to try it....improve your six-pack abs, core strength and balance with the ab ball rollout.

The ab ball rollout is a great core exercise that you should be doing if you have been working out for some time.

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1. Start with the ball in front with your elbows on the ball.

2. Roll the ball out slowly and keep your abs braced (as if taking a punch to the gut). As you straighten your torso you will feel your abs stretch and extend. Return to the starting position.

Superset the ab ball rollout with the ab ball jackknife to get faster results. Try the ab ball rollout the next time you workout.

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Recovery Days: Rest or Easy Exercise?

Virtually all competitive athletes train by taking a hard workout on one day, feeling muscle soreness on the next, and then recovering at a reduced intensity for as many days as it takes for the soreness to go away. Then they take their next intense workout. Intense workouts cause muscle damage, as evidenced by bleeding into the muscles themselves and disruption of the fibers and Z bands that hold muscle fibers together. Significant increases in muscle strength and size come only with workouts intense enough to break down muscles. When muscles heal they become stronger and larger. The faster you move on your hard days, the faster you can move in competition. However, continuing intense exercise when muscles feel sore causes injuries and an overtraining syndrome that can takes weeks and months for recovery.

Most athletes in endurance and strength sports exercise on their recovery days and do not plan to take days off. However, they work at a markedly reduced intensity to put minimal pressure on their muscles. If you develop pain anywhere that gets worse as you continue exercising, you are supposed to stop for that day.

Active recoveries on easy days at low intensity make muscles tougher and more fibrous so the athlete's muscles can withstand harder hard days. Almost all top runners, cyclists and weight lifters do huge volumes or work, and most of it is on their less intense recovery days. The stresses of intense workouts are extreme; the recoveries take a tremendous amount of time and are done at low pressure on the muscles. Top endurance runners run more than 100 miles/week, cyclists do more than 300 miles per week and weight lifters spend hours each day in the gym.

Research data comparing active and passive recovery are scant. I am amazed at how few quality studies are available to answer this question. New training methods are developed by athletes and coaches. Then when these athletes win competitions, scientists do studies to show why the new training methods are more effective. A recent report from The University of Western Australia shows that runners recover faster by taking a relaxed swimming workout 10 hours after high intensity interval running, rather than just resting (International Journal of Sports Medicine, January 2010). However, in another study, runners recovered strength and power faster aftr a marathon by resting for five days compared to those who ran slowly (Journal of Applied Physiology, December 1984).

Active recovery should be of limited intensity that does not interfere with the healing process. German researchers showed a one-hour recovery ride is more effective than a three-hour ride for recovery from 13 days of intense bicycle training. Those who rode for 3 hours on their four recovery days had much lower maximal heart rates and maximal lactic acid blood levels, lower power output and slower 30 minute time trials, showing that they were unable to exert themselves as intensely (Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, June 2009).

What else can you do to recover faster? Athletes in intense training recover faster by getting off their feet immediately after they finish their hard workouts and not even walking until it's time for their next day's recovery workout. Eating a high-carbohydrate meal within one hour of intense workouts hastens recovery (Journal of Sports Sciences, January 2004). Adding protein to that meal hastens recovery even more (Sports Science Exchange, 87:15, 2002). Adding salt and drinking lots of fluids are also necessary for a faster recovery (Journal of Sports Sciences, January 2004). So within one hour after your intense workouts, eat fruit, vegetables, cereals and grains (for carbohydrates), seafood or corn and beans (for protein), add salt to replace what you have lost, and drink plenty of fluids.

IF YOU EXERCISE ONLY FOR FITNESS: Recent research shows that intense exercise is more effective than casual exercise in preventing cancers, heart attacks and premature death. However, you should not exercise intensely more often than every other day. The hard-easy principle applies to all exercisers, even if your hard days are far less intense than those of competitive athletes. Intense exercise can cause heart attacks in people with blocked arteries, so you should check with your doctor before you increase the intensity of your exercise program.

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Ab Ball Curl Ups

Get started sculpting your six pack abs using the ab ball curl up. You can do the ab ball curl up at home or at the park. To add resistance, place a weight on your chest.

The ab ball curl up is a good core exercise that won't injure your lower back, if done correctly. Your rectus abdominis (6-pack part of your abs) and obliques should do most of the work.





Lie on your back on the ball, knees bent about 90 degrees, hands behind head and feet flat on the floor.

Lie on the ball so that your back hugs the ball. Your shoulders and neck shouldn't assist your abdominals during the movement.

The movement should be slow. Curl up and bring your chin towards your chest (to about 45 degrees). Curl up through the upper back and not the neck. Brace your abs during the movement (as if someone is going to punch you in the gut). Keep your ears and shoulders in alignment. DON'T ROUND YOUR LOWER BACK WHEN LIFTING YOUR TORSO!

Use your abdominals to curl your upper back up. Don't move any other body part and keep your arms, shoulders, neck and legs relaxed as the abs pull you up. Your head and arms should curl up with your shoulders.

Don't tilt your pelvis or pull with your thighs to lift your upper body. Hold for 2-3 seconds and return slowly to the starting position.

Use your abdominals to lower your upper back. Don't move your head or arms as you return to the start position.

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Front Chop

Get your six pack abs sooner with power exercises like the medicine ball front chop. Getting six pack abs is all about burning abdominal fat and building muscle.





This exercise is also a great full body exercise that you can do as a regular strength exercise or power (full-speed) exercise. Because of speed and intensity, power exercises help you burn more fat during and after your workout.

Besides burning abdominal fat and helping sculpt your six pack abs, medicine ball front chops are great for improving your flexibility. Medicine ball exercises help you to exercise with natural movements. Your training needs to give you a body that you can use in every day life. Tight, rigid muscles will lead you to many injuries!

Grab a medicine ball about 10% of your body weight. You might need a lighter ball if you are a beginner or have been inactive. Shoot for 3-4 sets of 20 repetitions (if doing this as a power exercise, then do 8-10 repetitions).

--Stand with your feet slightly greater than shoulder width apart.

--Keep your arms straight but don't lock your elbows.

--Hold the medicine ball above your head.

--Bend forward at the waist (into a squat position) and mimic throwing the ball between your legs (don't throw ball). Keep your back straight and your head in line with your torso (don't let head drop down or rise up)

--Reverse the movement and stand with the ball above your head. That's 1 repetition.

Do this exercise more often to sculpt your six pack abs!

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Sculpt Your Body With Explosive Strength Training

Sculpt your body better and faster with explosive strength training. This type of training will burn fat like crazy and sculpt your body like never before....just give it a try!



Just as you can do medicine ball exercises, plyometric exercises and light dumbbell exercises explosively, you can also lift heavier weights explosively.

Lifting weights explosively is an advanced form of exercise and shouldn't be done by beginners or youngsters. Your body should have the needed stabilization and strength before beginning explosive lifts.

Especially at the start of the lift, explosive lifting can be done for exercises like (5-6 repetitions):

--Bench press
--Shoulder press
--Squats
--Leg press
--Hamstring curls
--Calf raises

Bodyweight exercises, like (6-8 repetitions):

--Power step ups
--Bodyweight squats
--Pullups
--Pushups
--Inverted rows

Medicine ball exercises, like (8-10 repetitions):

--Throws
--Chops
--Slams
--Rotational exercises

Lift explosively, safely and burn more fat!

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Arginine: Will it Make You Faster?

It pays to be skeptical. An article from the University of California at Los Angeles showed that cyclists over age 50 who took a commercially available supplement containing the amino acid, arginine, and antioxidants gained a 16.7 percent increase in their anaerobic threshold at three weeks (Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, March 23, 2010).

Muscles need oxygen to convert food to energy. Anaerobic threshold occurs when lactic acid starts to accumulate in the muscles, meaning that a person cannot bring in enough oxygen to cover the amount of fuel muscles use for energy, so the person becomes severely short of breath and has to slow down. Arginine is an amino acid protein building block that can stimulate the blood vessels to increase production of nitric oxide. This dilates blood vessels which can increase blood flow to muscles. The authors demonstrated that arginine did not increase the maximal amount of oxygen that a person can take in and use (VO2max).

1) The only people who can benefit from increased anaerobic threshold are those who are exercising as hard as they can. It does not benefit people who are exercising at less than their maximal capacity. If you take these supplements and do not exercise at your maximum, you are wasting your money. Several studies show that nitric oxide releasers may help athletes exercise longer, but the data are weak, sparse and not very impressive. If you are already exercising as hard and as fast as you can, taking these supplements may let you do more work, which may make your muscles stronger (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, December 2000).

2) Promoters of these supplements recommend doses of 6,000-10,000 mg per day and most athletes who use them take far more than that. Each pill used in this study contained 5200 mg. Side effects include nausea, stomach cramps, diarrhea, gout and a worsening of asthma. High doses may drop blood pressure which could harm performance. During exercise you need higher blood pressures to enhance ciruclation to muscles. A person with resting blood pressure of 120/80 can expect it to rise to 200/80 while jogging.

3) The study subjects took arginine at bedtime. We do not know if arginine taken at night would have any effect whatever on nitric oxide production the next day. Exercise, by itself, raises blood levels of nitric oxide (American Journal of Hypertension, August 2007). So if you want your arteries to make more nitric oxide, go out and exercise.

4) Arginine is so readily available from food that deficiencies of arginine are virtually never reported. Your body can make it and it is abundant in meat, poultry, seafood, diary products, all grains, nuts, legumes and other seeds, and in chocolate.

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Burn Fat With Complex Strength Training

Complex strength training burns fat better than traditional strength training. Complex strength training should not be tried by beginners or those with inadequate body strength. It is a high-risk, high-reward type of superset strength training.



Power, or speed strength (how fast your muscles can produce force) is one of the best ways to improve your workout efficiency. Plyometric exercises help you to increase power. When plyometric exercises are paired with a similar strength exercise, your strength will improve.

Complex training to improve strength supersets a power exercise with a biomechanically similar strength exercise. An example would be pairing repeating full-speed squat jumps with barbell squats. The barbell squats would be performed 1-2 minutes after the squat jumps to get maximum neuromuscular adaptations.

You would do a set of full-speed repeating squat jumps (8-10 reps). Rest 1-2 minutes and then do 3-5 barbell squats at 85%-90% of 1RM. This is an advanced training method and should not be performed by those who do not have adequate stabilization strength and muscular strength.

Other strength and plyometric exercises can also be superset this way (such as shoulder press/explosive medicine ball 2-handed upward throw).

Complex training to improve strength is designed to increase strength throughout the full range of motion.

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R U Xercising 2Day?

So, texting nation out there: R U Xercising 2Day? R U Xercising 2Morrow 2? And so on.....U gt d idea (You get the idea). Use your TXT MSGs to help U n UR buddies Burn F@ (BURN FAT) n LUZ WGT (LOSE WEIGHT).



Why do people text so much? IDK (I don't know)! It seems easier sometimes just to talk to the person. I'm not a big texter on my cell phone but many of my clients and friends are so I'm GWTP (getting with the program).

So, hre R sum QIK WGT loss TXT MSGs 4 U 2 snd:

1. d/l My Fitness Hut WGT loss eB%K (Download My Fitness Hut's Weight Loss e-Course)

2. do BOD WGT XRcZs 4 Cardio (Do Bodyweight Exercises for Cardio)

3. e@ ryt 2Day n Evryday (Eat Right Today and Everyday)

4. gt XRcZ pRtnR (Get an Exercise Partner)

5. wlk 30 mins evryday (Walk 30 minutes everyday)

6. TXT pRsNL trainer a Q (Text personal trainer a question)

7. LUZ WGT n BURN F@ W intNse XRcZ of 20 min (Lose Weight and Burn Fat with Intense Exercise of 20 minutes)

8. do fun XRcZ lk danciN (Do Fun Exercise like Dancing)

9. wrt dwn wotU e@ (Write Down What You Eat)

10. *t xercising alrdy! (Start Exercising Already!)

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High Blood Pressure During Exercise

Does an exaggerated rise in blood pressure during exercise predict who will develop high blood pressure in the future?

For athletes, probably not. Many research articles have shown that people who develop very high blood pressure during exercise are the ones most likely to develop high blood pressure in later years (American Journal of Hypertension, April 2004). Textbooks explain that these people have arteries that do not expand as much as normal arteries when blood is pumped to them. When your heart beats, it squeezes blood from inside its chambers to the large arteries. This sudden bolus of blood causes normal arteries to expand just as balloons do when they fill with air. The walls of arteries have sensors that allow arteries to expand with each pulse of blood. If the arteries do not expand enough when blood enters them, blood pressure can rise very high. So exercise-induced systolic blood pressures greater than 190 in non-exercisers predict high blood pressure in the future. It's different for athletes who have the strongest hearts that push blood with the greatest force, so they have the highest rises in blood pressure during aerobic exercise (American Journal of Hypertension, November 1996). Blood pressure is determined by the force of the heart's contraction times the resistance in the blood vessels. Normal blood pressure is no higher than 120 when the heart contracts and 80 when it relaxes. During exercise, blood pressure increases markedly, with the highest blood pressures in experienced weight lifters occurring during a double-leg press where average values are 320/250 mm Hg, with pressures reported as high as 480/350 mm Hg (Journal of Applied Physiology, March 1985). It is normal for conditioned athletes to have blood pressures of 200/70 when they run on a treadmill.

The good news about exercise is that just 20 minutes of running on a treadmill or lifting weights lowers blood pressure for about seven hours of normal physical activity (Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, November 2009).

Ninety percent of North Americans will develop high blood pressure, which increases risk for heart attacks, strokes, kidney damage and sudden death. If you have an exaggerated blood pressure rise during exercise and you are an athlete, you probably need only be concerned with your blood pressure at bedtime, but we have no good data on this. If it is above 120, you have high blood pressure and need to be treated.

However, if you are not a regular exerciser and your exercise-induced blood pressure is above 190, you should go on a heart attack prevention program that includes a diet that is high in plants and low in meat and refined carbohydrates, check with your doctor for clearance to start exercising regularly, lose weight if overweight, avoid smoke and stimulants or drugs that raise blood pressure. Diet to control high blood pressure

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Lose Weight Safely

Lose weight safely and steadily and it will stay off (if you continue your exercise program). If you lose weight this way, you are also building muscle and burning fat. Your body will gradually change to lean and toned. And, you will be healthy and look great. This process takes time and hard work folks! No quick remedies will give you the "killer body" you want.

I was reading this article about a fad diet, "Lose 18 Pounds In 4 Days." That's crazy and if you fall for that you will be sick and maybe hospitalized!

I have said this before so here it is again: losing weight and burning fat is not the most important thing in your life (it improves the quality of your life). Television commercials try to make you feel that way because they are trying to sell you their quick weight loss program! Don't buy in! These programs almost always lead you to yo-yo dieting and even more weight gain, frustration and bad health.

It is safe to lose about 2 pounds per week (on average) as a part of your exercise program. At the beginning of your program, you might lose more weight and then level off in later weeks.

So, if you want to lose 30 pounds the right way, expect it to take about 15 weeks. Your genetic makeup and compliance to your meal plan are two factors that could increase/decrease this time frame.

What is the right way to exercise? A combination of interval cardio exercise (3-4 days a week) and resistance training (at least 3 days a week) is a proven effective permanent fat loss/weight loss combination. Resistance training will cause the majority of your weight loss to be fat loss (increasing lean mass at the same time) and it will also speed up your metabolism.

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Benefits of High-Intensity Interval Training

To be competitive, all athletes must train very intensely some of the time. New research from McMaster University in Canada shows that short term, high-intensity interval training on a bike can also provide you with all the health and fitness benefits of exercising less intensely for a much longer period of time (The Journal of Physiology, March 2010). Subjects used a standard stationary bicycle and performed a workout of ten 1-minute sprints with a 1-minute rest between each at 95 percent of their maximal heart rate, three times a week. This takes less effort than an all-out sprint at close to 100 percent of maximal heart rate. The study supports other research that shows that high-intensity training improves speed and endurance far more than long slow distance and is necessary for training for athletic competition.

The same authors showed that a similar short workout of all-out sprinting at maximal heart rate took about 90 minutes per week (three workouts of 30 minutes each) and was as effective in achieving fitness and health benefits as many hours of exercising at a much more leisurely pace (The Journal of Physiology, September 2006). High intensity, short-interval training improves fuel and oxygen delivery to muscles, helps the removal of waste products, and increases the number and efficiency of mitochondria that help muscles use oxygen to burn food for energy. These changes have been shown to reduce risk for heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, weight gain and even some cancers.

The authors make no mention of alternating intense stress and low-intensity recovery workouts, in which you spend more than 80 percent of your exercise time going at a very low intensity. Training intensely without recovery workouts markedly increases your chances of injuring yourself.

High-intensity training can cause heart attacks in people with blocked arteries and muscle injuries in anyone. Before starting, a) check with your doctor to make sure your coronary arteries are open and b) you should be able to pedal on a stationary bicycle slowly for at least an hour a day for several weeks. A program of high-intensity intervals:

• will improve speed and endurance much more than slow long- distance workouts

• should not be done when muscles feel sore or you feel sick because it increases your chances of injuring yourself

• should be part of a "stress and recover" program in which you go intensely never more often than three times a week and spend far more time exercising less intensely.

High-intensity interval training causes muscle burning and severe shortness of breath, so don't do it unless you enjoy the thrill of competition.

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Power Cardio Burns Fat

Power Cardio is intense exercise and burns fat like crazy. You won't get bored doing power cardio but you will be exhausted!

Power cardio will help you break through your weight loss plateau. All of the early success associated with starting an exercise program can send you into a tailspin when you reach a plateau. You become frustrated and wonder "what am I doing wrong?" You probably just need to change up your exercise routine and you'll be okay.

There are many ways to change up an exercise routine----do new exercises, adjust the intensity, adjust the amount of weight, adjust the repetitions/sets, etc. One of the best ways to get you "out of your exercise funk" is to add some power exercises to your cardio routine! Shorter, more intense workouts (weight training or cardio) will give you more fat loss gains!

Here's an example: instead of doing cardio on the elliptical machine, do your cardio with a pair of power exercises. All it takes is 20 intense minutes! It can go something like this:

--Full speed medicine ball diagonal chops, 1 minute
--Slow jog for 2 minutes
--Full speed medicine ball front chops, 1 minute
--Slow jog for 2 minutes

Just do this rotation for 20 minutes and you have a very intense power cardio workout! And, on your weight training days, you could mix in some power exercises. Before you know it, you will have broken through your plateau! Try it! From personal experience, I know it works!

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Portion Control Is Key To Weight Loss

Portion control will help you stay with your meal plan and control your calories during the day. Don't ruin great workouts by eating bad food with a million calories! Its possible to hide those hard-earned muscles with a thick layer of fat! Don't fight against yourself!

We are kings and queens of "too large" servings of food and that's without even "super-sizing" anything! Keep your daily food journal to track what, how much and why you are eating! This will help you with portion control.

Make needed changes to your eating habits and reach your fat loss and weight loss goals!

MAKE THE COMMITMENT TO CHANGE YOUR EATING HABITS AND DON'T "GIVE UP" EVEN IF YOU "GIVE IN" AT TIMES! PERSEVERANCE IS THE KEY TO BEING SUCCESSFUL WITH ANYTHING!

It will be easier to keep your commitment if you plan your meals for the week. And, instead of eating out during the day, pack your food. This will protect you from binge eating and haphazard eating (i.e. grazing).

Here are some common sense do's and don'ts when it comes to eating:

Cut out these foods: sodas, sugary fruit juice drinks, candy, cookies, donuts, fried meats and fried foods, fast foods, ketchup, mayonnaise

Add these foods: whole grain breads, whole grain cereals, oatmeal, almonds, nuts, low-fat dairy products, low-fat yogurt, fruits, veggies, unsweetened tea, water, lean meats (baked, broiled or grilled), olive oil, cinnamon, mustard. You get the idea!

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Stability Ball Exercises Activate More Muscles

Stability ball exercises can activate more muscle fibers if done correctly.

The stability ball is one of the most versatile and cost effective pieces of exercise equipment. You can take it with you and do exercises at home, work or on vacation. Doing your ab crunches on the stability ball is superior to the traditional floor crunches. According to researchers in the Department of Kinesiology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, crunches performed by 41 test subjects on the stability ball showed significantly greater abdominal muscle activation than the traditional floor crunches.

I recommend doing the ab ball curl up (pictured below) instead of crunches to avoid low back injuries.





The results found heightened activity in the upper rectus abdominis, lower rectus abdominis and external oblique activity by 31%, 38% and 24%, respectively, when compared with the traditional floor crunch. The rectus abdominis muscles are affectionately called the "six-pack" of the abdominal region.

There is also another great reason to do your ab curl ups on the stability ball: you achieve a greater range of motion during the exercise because you are able to go back further and extend your trunk along the contours of the ball. When you first try ball curl ups, it will feel very unstable to you. Don't let that stop you---you will adjust to this exercise!

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Bird Dog Exercise

The bird dog exercise is a great core exercise with special emphasis on strengthening your low back. Low back pain affects nearly 85% of all adults at one time or another. The best solution for any injury is prevention. Include the bird dog exercise in your program:



1. Start by placing yourself on hands and knees.

2. Slowly raise your opposite arm and opposite leg and extend them out away from the body. Keep your back straight. Your extended arm and leg should line up with your torso. Tighten your abdominals and contract your glutes. Hold for 3 seconds.

3. Return to the starting position and repeat with the other side.

4. Repeat for the desired repetitions.

5. Always keep this movement slow and controlled.

The bird dog exercise will also improve your balance. Have fun!

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Vitamin D Deficiency May Be Genetic

A report from University of Toronto shows that genetic factors cause some people to develop severe vitamin D deficiency while others do not (Clinical Biochemistry, July 2009). An earlier study showed that some people and mice have abnormal Vitamin D binding protein (VDBP) and therefore cannot respond to vitamin D normally (Endocrine Reviews, June 2008). They are at increased risk for heart attacks, strokes, certain cancers, depression, athletic injuries, muscle weakness and so forth.

Over the years I have been unable to run effectively in the winter and injuries forced me to miss six Boston Marathons. This same pattern of winter-time weakness and injuries plagued me when I switched to cycling. It wasn't until a few years ago that I drew blood and found that my vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) was 22 nmol/L (normal is greater than 75). Taking as much as 3000 IU of vitamin D failed to get my blood levels much over 30. I moved to Florida and rode my bike very well last winter. This winter was extremely cold and often cloudy, and my injury and weakness pattern recurred from January through March. I notice that a good day in the sun allows me to ride well for about three or four days, but the weakness and injuries recur until the next day of warm sunlight. My skin has never been damaged by sunlight, has no pre-cancers and looks much younger than my 74 years.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated directly with muscle weakness (Scandanavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, October 2009) and athletic injuries (Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, November 2009; Molecular Aspects of Medicine, December 2008). It is my opinion that:

• Certain people are genetically susceptible to vitamin D deficiency
• These people are likely to be injured when they try to exercise vigorously in the winter
• Vitamin D pills will help some athletes, but many do not regain their athleticism at conventional doses
• These people may get better when they are exposed to sunlight during exercise. Of course they should be concerned about skin cancer from excess sunlight, but I think that people who are at high risk for vitamin D deficiency are at reduced risk for skin cancer. However, I have no available data to support that impression.
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Burn Fat With Cardio Workouts--Only 20 Minutes!

Yes, you can burn fat with cardio workouts--with the right cardio workouts! You might have to change your thought process about how you do your cardio. If your cardio workout sessions are 45 minutes to an hour, get ready to change (if you want to burn fat and tone your body)!



Long, slow cardio sessions wastes time and your precious muscle mass also wastes away! Anaerobic cardio sessions, like sprint intervals, have been proven to give superior heart-health and fat-burn! So, stop wasting your time and start building your lean, mean fat-burning machine! Devote more time to strength training and less time to cardio! That way, you will build more muscle mass and speed up your metabolism!

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Burn Fat Using Strength Exercises

Strength exercises will burn fat and lean out your body. Build more muscle mass to speed up your metabolism and burn more fat.

To recruit more muscle fibers during workouts and improve your success, focus more on MULTI-JOINT OR COMPOUND EXERCISES.

COMPOUND EXERCISES will help you burn more fat because you are working large muscle groups in your body. For example, the largest muscle in the body is the gluteus maximus and squats/lunges would target this area (among other areas). You will also burn more calories after your workout.

Examples of SINGLE-JOINT EXERCISES are biceps curl, seated calf raise, leg extension, leg curl and triceps pushdowns. Spend less of your time on these exercises.

Here are some top strength exercises that will help you burn fat:

Squats - Bodyweight, dumbbell or barbell....do your squats!

Deadlift - Deadlift is a must for your exercise program. It is also one of the best ways to build muscle thickness in your lower back. Lower back fat is a problem for many people.

One-arm dumbbell rows and Pullups - These two are a must for any routine so I'm counting them as one exercise.

Clock Lunges - Clock lunges work your body in all planes of motion. Lunge with your right leg at 12 o’clock, 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock, 5 o’clock and 6 o’clock. That’s 1 repetition for your right leg. Lunge with your left leg at 12 o’clock, 10 o’clock, 9 o’clock, 7 o’clock and 6 o’clock. That’s 1 repetition for left leg. Maintain upright posture throughout to improve core strength.

Dumbbell Chest Press on Ball - Doing the chest press on the ball forces you to balance while lifting. Each arm also has to do equal work.

You should also include exercises like standing shoulder presses, step ups, pushups on medicine ball and tricep bar dips in my workouts.

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