Top 5 Fat Loss Plateau Busters

Bust through your fat loss plateau by adjusting your exercise routine (and eating routine which I'll deal with later). Make the most of your workout time by exercising smarter not just harder! Here we go:1. Get off of the weight machines! They do too much of the work for you and many of the exercises are done sitting down. You're not engaging enough muscle groups when you work out on machines.....so it means less calories burned, less muscles developed and less fat loss. Don't be afraid to try new exercises.2. Do as many compound strength exercises (with weights or bodyweight) standing up as possible. These types of exercises work major muscle groups and many times are full-body strength exercises. Squats, deadlift, lunges, standing bentover...

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Drop in Performance? Common Causes

1) The most common cause of a drop in performance in cycling, or any other sport, is overtraining: going hard when you should go easy. Hard-and- easy refers to intensity (speed and pressure on the pedals), not to total mileage. On one day, you ride very fast with your group, feel sore on the next day and go slowly for as many days as it takes for the soreness to go away. When the soreness goes away, you ride fast again. If you take hard workouts while your muscles are still sore you can cause chronic muscle soreness.2) A second cause is a low-salt syndrome caused by sweat loss. The only mineral that you need in large amounts is sodium, common table salt. All athletes have to salt food heavily and use lots of salt. Your doctor can check for...

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Top 5 Fat Loss Commitments

You have to make fat loss commitments to lose fat! Just common sense right? And, you have to make the right commitments or you'll end up frustrated and going in circles! So, here is my Top 5 Fat Loss Commitment List to get you started on the way to blasting the fat and getting the lean and toned body that you want:1. Make a commitment to a lifetime of fitness. This commitment trumps all other fitness commitments. Without it, you will always fall prey to the inevitable obstacles and pitfalls along the way.2. Be willing to change your eating habits! Sixty to 70% of your fitness goal success or failure will depend on good nutrition. Since you must eat to survive, get ready to change! Get rid of the fad diets! Start planning your own meals using...

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Top 5 Fat Loss Eating Tips

The top 5 fat loss eating tips will help you achieve your fat loss goals sooner because they give you an easy point of reference....everyone can remember 5 things, right?! The top 2 eating tips for fat loss have nothing to do with actually eating food:1. Start keeping a food journal as soon as possible! Research has proven that you will have a better chance of succeeding with your meal plan and fat loss if you keep a food journal! By logging your actual food choices, you are holding yourself accountable throughout the day. You will also be forced to plan your meals better and avoid binge eating and emotional eating.2. Social support is critical! Get an accountability partner such as a spouse, friend or personal trainer. You can challenge...

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Top 5 Summer Fat Loss Cardio Workouts

Here are my Top 5 Summer Fat Loss Cardio Workouts....if you know me at all, you know that all "workouts" are in the great outdoors! Have fun this summer with your cardio! Get off the machines and be creative! 1. Run sprint intervals on grass or in sand if you're at the beach! Sprints are absolutely one of the best ways to blast fat and sculpt your body. You don't have to be fast, just run as fast as you can!2. Play sports....on a rec soccer team...the "pitch" is huge and you will jog and sprint forever! Flag football works great too!3. Run at the lake trails...beautiful scenery takes you away from it all.4. Biking outdoors.....enough said!5. Go swimming! Laps are great but water volleyball, water basketball, water football or water...

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Memorial Day Weekend Eating Tips!

Just a few Memorial Day Weekend eating tips for you....remember, your workouts will keep everything in check! Here are some tips to help you navigate through the holiday food minefield:1) Don't stop or slack off on your exercise program during the Memorial Day weekend! And, if you aren't exercising, this would be a great time to start. I have a goal of at least trying to maintain my pre-holiday weight during the long weekend.EXERCISE TIP: SOCCER, HIKING OR SWIMMING ARE GREAT EXERCISE CHOICES AND FUN!2) Go easy on the food condiments and other sauces. They are loaded with calories.3) Stick to your normal MEAL PLAN as much as possible during the holiday. Go back to your normal nutrition on Tuesday!4) This rule always applies to any day---if its...

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Farmer's Walk, Jump And Run For Cardio!

Ever did the farmer's walk with a pair of heavy dumbbells? It is one of the best full body exercises going! Be sure to keep a strong, upright posture throughout the walk....Friday is a good day to keep it light and try something a little different. This is a good cardio workout that I will sometimes do.Try this farmer's walk-based cardio workout:--Farmer's Walk (pictured above) - walk for 2 minutes with the heaviest dumbbells you can carry with good posture.--Squat Jumps - 10, fast--Farmer's Walk - walk 1 minute--Back Pedal 10 yards and Run Forward 10 yards - 5 times, fast--Farmers Walk - 1...

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Medicine Ball Chop With Knee Lift

The medicine ball chop with knee lift is a good exercise to help you prevent injuries in your games, yardwork or running events. You are working multiple muscle groups in different planes of motion (at the same time). Injuries of the torso (such as oblique strains/pulls) hurt like crazy and are hard to recover from....its better to avoid these types of injuries! Trust me, its hard to sleep at night with pulled oblique muscles! Every little movement hurts bad!You should perfect this movement before doing this exercise at full speed. 1. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and a slight...

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My Fitness Hut's Athletic Abs Training System!

My Fitness Hut’s Athletic Abs Training System will give you the sculpted, toned abs that you want! And, you will build those abs using every day movements! We all kneel, stand, walk and run, so your abs and overall body strength and stability should be trained for you to live an active life every day! That is the essence of my Fat Blaster Athletic Training System, which is training movements and not just muscles! Some of you are competitive athletes and some of you are not. Competitive athletes should try Sports Fitness Hut’s Athletic Abs Training System!This training system has 3 levels:...

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How To Burn Low Ab Fat

Burning low ab fat is a priority for many of you....as we age, fat tends to settle in the abdominal area. Because of disease risks, abdominal fat is one of the worst areas to have body fat.Burn low ab fat with these exercises (read how to burn low back fat):--Hanging Leg Raises - The gold standard of low ab exercises.--Captain's Chair Knee-ups, Straight Leg Raises or Hovers----The Captain's Chair is the equipment where you support the weight of your body with your forearms (allowing your legs to hang) and then you lift your knees/straight legs up towards your chest.--V-Ups--Medicine ball diagonal chops with knee lift (or with weighted plates)--Ab Ball Jackknives--Planks with knee up--Mountain climbers--Planks, side planks and bridges (for...

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How To Burn Low Back Fat

Burn low back fat the same way you burn fat in other parts of your body---build muscle in your low back (while burning fat) and eat right! I haven't seen anyone in the health club mirrors scanning their low backs the way they look at their abs, biceps, legs, etc.! Well, pay more attention to training your low back and you'll get more results! So, here's a plan to burn your low back fat:1. Do full-body strength training and interval cardio.2. Do foundational core exercises like planks, side planks and bridges. These types of exercises will strengthen and stabilize your entire core area.3....

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Run, Jump And Step Cardio

Change up your cardio exercise with a run, jump and step routine....some of you don't get significant results with fat loss because you do the same thing most of the time! Get off the treadmill and elliptical machines and challenge yourself!Running, jumping and stepping are some of the best ways to tone and shape your body! You don't need any machines---just get your body ready for some very intense exercise. If you have knee or low back problems, this type of workout is not for you....Here goes:--Run, 30 seconds full speed--Walk, 1 minute--Squat Jumps, 10, fast--Walk, 1 minute--Step Ups (knee high platform), 10 each leg--Walk, 1 minute--Run, 30 seconds full speed--Walk, 1 minute--Jumping Jacks, 1 minute, fast--Walk 1 minute--Mountain climbers,...

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30 Minute Fat Burning Workout

Here is a good 30 minute, fat-burning workout for you to try....you don't need any weights, medicine balls, resistance tubes or stability balls....This workout is a strength and cardio workout so it will save you even more time during your busy day. If you have been doing the heavy weight training for a while, this workout can be a good change of pace for you:--Y bodyweight squats, 12 repetitions, moderate pace--Plank, 10 repetitions, 10 second hold --Pushups, 12 repetitions--Ball Ab Rollouts, 12 repetitions, moderate pace--Pullups, 10 repetitions --Superman, 12 repetitions, 5 second hold --Do this circuit 3 timesDo this circuit with little or no rest between exercises. Rest 2-3 minutes between circuits.Learn how to lose weight the right way...

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Muscle Soreness, Exercise Injuries and Vitamin D

When doctors don't know the cause of a patient's problem, they often give it a fancy name so you will believe they are giving you a useful diagnosis. A perfect example of this is "idiopathic inflammatory myopathy", which means you have chronic muscle soreness and your doctor doesn't know why. Researchers recently reviewed the effects of exercise on people with chronic muscle soreness and found that exercise is beneficial (Current Opinion in Rheumatology, 04/07/09):• The muscles of many of subjects with this condition did not get a sufficient oxygen supply • Exercise increases endurance-type fibers after a 12-week exercise program• Creatine supplements plus an exercise program are more beneficial than exercise alone• Intensive resistance training...

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Manage Your Fat Loss---Every Day!

Managing your fat loss and weight loss is a day-in, day-out process....how many times have you followed your meal plan and exercise program all week and then blown it on the weekend by going on an eating binge? If that's you, then you need a daily fat loss plan to follow!Staying on your fat loss track through all the events of life can sometimes throw us all off kilter...a daily fat loss manager would tell you exactly what to do!Are you still doing the same poorly designed workouts and getting the same "little or no success results" from your workouts? This can leave you feeling OVERWHELMED AND READY TO GIVE UP!And, if you haven't yet figured out how you need to be eating, you need a meal plan to follow! It takes more than just working out...if...

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Build Bigger Calf Muscles With Circuit Workout

Build your calf muscles with a weight training circuit...with summer almost here, people are concerned about how every visible part of their body looks! I've had quite a few people ask about how to build bigger calves. Some people, because of genetics, have bigger calves than others and they don't have to do any extra work to make them look great. Other people have very small calf muscles and want them to look more proportionate to their thighs.This calf muscle building circuit helped Chris increase his calf size pretty fast! Read his testimonial here.Here is the circuit (alternate between heavy weight rep days and full speed light rep days):--Donkey calf raises, 25 repetitions--Standing dumbbell calf raises, 25 repetitions--Toe lifts on...

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Lower Body Fat Burning Circuit

Need a good lower body fat-burning circuit? Burn more lower body fat with a bodyweight leg exercise circuit....Bodyweight leg circuits is a tried and true method to burn more leg fat, increase strength/endurance and improve heart health. Since this workout is circuit-style, you also get the benefit of a great cardio workout. Do each exercise (10-12 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 bodyweight leg circuit program:--Bulgarian split squats--Step ups (with knee high platform)--Squat jumps, Depth Jumps (set 2), Tuck Jumps (set 3)--Reverse lunges--Side lungesLearn how to lose weight the right way and get My Fitness Hut's 7-Day Weight Loss And...

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Fructose More Likely than Glucose to Cause Diabetes

Sugared drinks are fattening because the human brain does not recognize liquid sugar as calories to make you eat less food. We get our sugar in drinks in three forms: glucose, fructose and sucrose (glucose and fructose bound together in a single molecule). Now a report from the University of California Davis shows that taking in too much fructose increases your risk for diabetes and heart attacks (Journal of Clinical Investigation, May 2009). Thirty-two overweight men and women drank 25 percent of their daily energy requirements in either fructose or glucose- sweetened drinks. In 12 weeks, both groups gained similar amounts of weight, but the people taking fructose-sweetened drinks had higher triglycerides and more abdominal fat, and were more...

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Michael J. Fox Teaches About Fat Loss

Yes, I learned about fat loss from Michael J. Fox last night! What an incredible dude he is! Unless you have been living in a cave, you know that he has had Parkinson's Disease for years.The lesson he teaches us is how he deals with his disease....he had everything you could ever want: beautiful wife, beautiful kids, super stardom and mega-money! He still has all those things along with dealing with his debilitating disease.Watching his special show last night, he talked about being an "incurable optimist." Its this attitude that has allowed him to not let Parkinson's Disease change his great attitude about life. He's using his situation to help others.And, that's the lesson for me and you when it comes to fat loss (and life)....don't...

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Caffeine Reduces Muscle Burning During Intense Exercise

Researchers at the University of Illinois report that 300 mg of caffeine (the amount in four cups of coffee) reduces muscle burning during intense exercise in both regular coffee drinkers and in those who do not drink coffee at all (International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, April 2009). One of the researchers, Robert Motl, PhD, says that caffeine blocks spinal nerves that transmit pain messages to the brain. This means that people can exercise longer because they feel less pain.Athletes take caffeine because they know it helps them to exercise longer. When muscles run out of their stored muscle sugar, they have to burn more fat which requires more oxygen. Lack of oxygen is the limiting factor in how fast and hard you...

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Fat Loss Comes With Hard, Smart Workouts

Step up and get your fat loss with hard, smart workouts and good nutrition of course....all you have to do is read this testimonial of My Fitness Hut's Fat Blaster Athletic Training System:"I have lost over 60 pounds in the last 5 months using My Fitness Hut's workout programs, nutritional advice and just staying with it and not quitting....and my body fat percentage has decreased from 45% to under 30%!" ---JorgeAs with anything, if you stay with it and have a good roadmap, you'll probably be successful. Many of you have not succeeded with your fat loss and weight loss because you either relied on bad information or you gave up too fast...Stop guessing about fat loss and follow my proven fat loss process---day in, day out to get the body you...

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Fat Loss Begins With Self Worth

Yes, like many things in life, your fat loss begins with your self worth...in my new Daily Fat Loss Manager, I have written one of my "wise" sayings:“Lose fat and weight because YOU ARE WORTH IT!” Are you worth the effort that it takes to change your body composition to what you want?Their are many different mindsets that motivate us to do things....in my opinion, the best two motivations that perseveres:IDENTIFIED REGULATION - You workout because you're worth it and its good for your health and lifestyle. This is a very positive behavior and will lead to permanent lifestyle changes.INTRINSIC MOTIVATION - You workout because you enjoy it! If you don't like something, you will eventually quit! Learn how to lose weight the right way and get...

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Fat Loss And Your Food Journal

Help your success with daily management of fat loss with the use of a food journal! Don't underestimate the value of a food journal! Until you get your eating under control, you definitely need to keep a food journal!Research has proven that you will have a better chance of succeeding with your nutrition plan and fat loss if you keep a food journal! By logging your actual food choices, you are holding yourself accountable throughout the day. You will also be forced to plan your meals better. In your food journal you should note: 1) List food, calories and serving sizes for every snack or meal. List details such as meats, drinks, vegetables, fruits, etc. For each meal, list why you ate--such as you were angry, sad, happy, hungry, etc. This...

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My Fitness Hut's Daily Fat Loss Manager

Get My Fitness Hut's Daily Fat Loss Manager because, well, you need to manage your fat loss! That's right! You can manage your fat loss and weight loss just like you do everything else in your life....and you will be more successful with your fat loss and weight loss efforts!You get: 1. Daily fat loss guidance, 2. FREE MEAL PLAN, 3. Fat Blaster Workouts,4. Daily Food Journal,5. Weight and Body Fat Log and6. Numerous Fat Loss Tips Stop playing a guessing game with your fat loss, fitness and health! This Daily Fat Loss Manager will take you through the process!Click here and grab your Daily...

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Burn Fat For Summer With Bodyweight Workouts

Burn your unwanted body fat and get ready for summer with My Fitness Hut's Bodyweight Workouts! Four months are down for the year and you still don't see the fat loss progress you want!? Its time for a change....a change to a workout program that works! Stop wasting your time and money on fat loss supplements and long, boring workouts and get some real results! My bodyweight workouts incorporates my Fat Blaster Athletic Training System so you will get the toned body you want with time-efficient workouts! Read testimonials!I have designed all of my exercise programs based on a Fat Blaster Athletic Training System. There is not a better or faster way to sculpt your body. You also get superior heart health. Research and my personal experience...

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