Weight Loss e-Course

You may need my weight loss e-course to improve your weight loss techniques or learn how to lose weight from scratch. Either way, losing weight and keeping it off is not always easy to achieve. Weight loss management is a simple process---if you do it day in and day out! Its a process like any goal you are trying to reach. You don't reach your goals overnight! And, you didn't gain that weight overnight---it was a process too!There are reasons why this country has an obesity epidemic. All of the reasons have to do with behavioral habits such as:1. overeating2. too little exercise3. sedentary jobs4. negative attitudes5. limiting behaviors6. following bad weight loss adviceWhatever the reasons are for you being overweight, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR...

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Weight Loss Management With Fitness Hut

Weight loss management with My Fitness Hut and Her Fitness Hut is simple...Forget about weight loss and concentrate on FAT LOSS. Building muscle mass will BURN THE FAT (lean out your body) and permanently SPEED UP YOUR METABOLISM. The weight loss will take care of itself over time. Check out this video:You have to know how to get the lean and toned body you want. And, you have to have the perseverance to reach your weight loss goals. I have the plan to help you reach your weight loss and fat loss goals! Just follow the plan!Get My Fitness Hut's Daily Fat Loss Manager! 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 TipsStop playing a guessing...

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Variable High Blood Pressure More Likely to Cause Strokes

Four studies in the British medical journals, Lancet and Lancet Neurology (March 10, 2010), show that people whose high blood pressures go up and down are up to six times more likely to suffer strokes than those who have more stable high blood pressures. The greater the variability in blood pressure, the higher the risk. This is astounding because doctors usually reassure people with intermittent high blood pressure and often do not treat them.• High blood pressure is a powerful risk factor for strokes and heart attacks.• Lifestyle changes and drugs to lower high blood pressure markedly reduce these risks.• Blood pressures that vary over time markedly increase risk for stroke.Ninety-one percent of Americans will have high blood pressure. That...

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Female Fat Loss Manual

Female fat loss strategies are different than those used by men.Men and women store and burn fat differently. It is important for you to know this difference. Men have more testosterone than women (no big surprise!). This allows men to produce more human growth hormone as well as stimulate more muscle and bone growth. And, other factors combine to allow men’s cells to take in more oxygen than women’s cells. This means that when a man is working at 50% of his physical capacity, a woman would need to work at 70% of her physical capacity to stay even. Don’t shoot me! I’m just the messenger! The important thing to know is that I take this into account when I design fitness programs.How does this affect fat loss and weight loss? The differences...

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Saturated Fats Exonerated

A review of 21 studies covering 348,000 adults shows that eating large amounts of saturated fats does not increase risk for heart disease and strokes (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, March 1, 2010). This is incredible because most doctors believe that the close association of heart attacks and strokes with eating meat or whole milk dairy products is explained by their high saturated fat content. Consider the following:• Societies that eat lots of saturated fats in coconut, palm and palm kernel oils are not at increased risk for heart attacks, strokes and premature death (although these oils may raise the bad LDL cholesterol).• Poultry is a rich source of saturated fats but has not been shown to increase risk for premature death, cancer...

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Weight Loss History Revealed

After 100 years of weight loss history, doctors and fitness professionals agree that the best solution for fat loss and weight loss is proper nutrition and regular exercise. How about common sense? Name one thing in life worth having that didn't take alot of hard, smart work? Is your health worth the hard work? Don't look for shortcuts....here's a few tips on diets, etc.1. I don't recommend any diet that omits one of the macronutrients (carbs, protein, fat). Your body's metabolism needs all 3 macronutrients to work efficiently.2. The various "body organ cleansers" out there on the market are not the key to your fat loss and weight loss.....regular exercise (weight training and interval cardio) and good nutrition are your tickets to a permanent...

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Spring Season Body Fat Assessment

Its a good idea to get a Spring season body fat and fitness assessment if you have been inactive for a while. You need to know where you are with fitness and how to begin taking steps to improve your health. If you are overweight or have too much body fat (a skinny person can have too much body fat), your body is not as healthy as it could be....start making changes today! Here are some tips:1. Identify your fitness goals and determine why your fat loss and weight loss efforts have failed or succeeded in the past. You also have to get your motivation right for your exercise program to work for you. This step takes you being "very honest" with yourself! Sometimes it is a painful process. 2. You will learn your body composition (body fat...

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Cardio That Burns More Fat

Doing the right type of cardio will burn more fat. First, stop doing 60-minute cardio sessions unless you are walking to get back in shape. Too many long, slow cardio sessions will waste away your muscle mass. Having less muscle mass will slow down your metabolism.Cardio is a favorite exercise for gym-goers. Any activity that makes you burn calories is good. The question that should be answered is "how to do your cardio" to get the fat loss and weight loss results you want. Aerobic exercise is an activity that is done continuously for more than 2 straight minutes.Here are some fat-burning...

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Exercise Improves Quality of Life

No one can dispute that REGULAR EXERCISE improves your QUALITY OF LIFE. Regular exercise doesn't cost you much money, just quality time. If you have 20 minutes to exercise, that's enough time to get in a quality workout. Twenty minutes to improve the quality of your life. Get started already! Some fitness infomercials make it seem as though "losing 30 pounds in 30 days" is the most important thing in life.....well, its not! Adopting a lifestyle of health and fitness is important and will definitely "IMPROVE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE!" Losing body fat and permanently shedding the pounds should be your goal.....that takes hard, smart work on your part. And, that will give you the best chance to live longer and healthier.....start making attitude...

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Atrial Fibrillation in Older Athletes

A study from Norway shows that 13 of 78 (16 percent) older competitive cross country skiers have atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the upper chambers of the heart flutter and collect blood (European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation, February 2010). Blood that is not moving collects in the upper chambers of the heart where it can form clots that travel to the brain to block the flow of blood to cause a stroke. Almost all people who suffer from atrial fibrillation at any age are treated with drugs to prevent clotting, since they are at increased risk for strokes and heart attacks. However, the older endurance athletes are different from other people with atrial fibrillation.• The incidence of atrial fibrillation...

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Weight Loss Goals For Spring Season

Weight loss goals for the spring season are pretty much the same as any other time. But, sometimes during the spring, we are ready to make some positive changes in our lives. So, while you're making positive changes, set your weight loss and fat loss goals! Goal number one never changes: make a lifetime commitment to health and fitness. This one commitment is the foundation for your future weight loss success. It will carry you through the setbacks and failures.While making that lifetime commitment, make an honest assessment of why your weight loss goals have failed in the past. Scheduling a free assessment with a trainer can help you with this process. You will also visualize realistic and challenging goals at this time. Get ready...

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Reach Weight Loss and Fat Loss Goals

Reach your weight loss and fat loss goals with the right motivation shift. Your motivation needs to be right and realistic. Unrealistic goals (like lose 30 pounds in 10 days) can leave you mentally and physically exhausted with disappointing results.One thing I do know: MAKE THE COMMITMENT TO HEALTH AND FITNESS BECAUSE YOU ARE WORTH IT! THOSE AROUND YOU WILL BENEFIT TOO! FOCUS ON FAT LOSS, NOT WEIGHT LOSS! BUILDING MUSCLE MASS BURNS THE FAT, KEEPS IT OFF AND SPEEDS YOUR METABOLISM.Here's some motivation tips for you:1. Get your overall motivation right! These types of motivations will work: a) exercise and eat right because its good for YOU and YOU CARE ABOUT YOU and b) exercise because you enjoy it (find exercise types that you enjoy)!2....

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Why You Should Exercise Every Day

Researchers at the University of Michigan show that exercise helps to control blood sugar only while you do it and for a few hours afterwards (Journal of Applied Physiology, February 2010). The authors also showed that restricting food after exercising does not clear blood sugar any better than eating a regular meal. The second point is very important because eating after exercising helps you to recover faster for your next exercise session, and you recover faster from exercise by eating a sugar- and protein-rich meal within one hour after you stop. Previous studies show that contracting muscles remove sugar rapidly from the bloodstream, without needing insulin, during and up to one hour after exercise. The effect tapers off to zero at about...

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How To Lose Weight

Do you know how to lose weight and keep it off? Did you know if you don't burn fat while losing weight, you will probably regain that weight and more? Its time to stop guessing about weight loss, right?My Fitness Hut's 7-Day Weight Loss And Fat Loss e-Course will help you manage your fat loss and weight loss day-in and day-out! THIS e-Course is ABSOLUTELY FREE! 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 this 7-day e-Course!Staying on your weight loss and fat loss track through all the events of life can sometimes throw you off kilter. This 7-day e-Course will tell you exactly what to do!Are you still doing the...

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March Madness Medicine Ball Workout

Its March Madness time again! As you watch the NCAA basketball tournament, get in a workout or two during the first 4-day basketball weekend fest. I have the perfect workouts for you! Use medicine ball workouts to exercise in the transverse plane of motion. This plane is not worked nearly enough by many people. Your body goes through many transverse motions during the day when you twist, turn and rotate your body (like basketball players).Your training needs to reflect how you live day to day. Its not that difficult to adjust your workout routine. Here are some good medicine ball transverse...

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Jump Off Body Fat

Jump more when you exercise and you'll jump off more body fat---guaranteed! Have you been doing the same workout for 2 months, 6 months, 1 year or 3 years? If you're doing the same basic workout you've always done, you're probably not making any progress with fat loss or weight loss. You're frustrated but you can do something about your stalled progress!One of the best ways to "wake up and change your body's composition" is to add intensity to your workouts with jumps. Sixty minute cardio sessions won't lean out your body but they will waste away your muscles (and your muscle tone). Exercising...

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Lose Weight And Keep It Off

Its not enough to just lose weight. I could lose 10 pounds in 2 days by starving and dehydrating myself. I would also look and feel miserable. More than likely, I would binge eat the next 2 days and gain more weight than I lost. That's the general result of "quick weight loss" and yo yo dieting tactics. There has to be more to it than just losing weight, right?! What about eating right, exercising and being healthy? You may say, "I've tried that and it didn't work!" I say, "Try it again!" Or, maybe, you didn't stay with your exercise and meal plan long enough to see real results. Either...

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Leg Curl With Medicine Ball

Leg curls are very important for strengthening your hamstrings and avoiding injuries. Hamstring injuries can have a long recovery period. Its best to avoid hamstring injuries. And, weak hamstrings can lead to other serious injuries. For example, females tend to have weaker hamstrings because they use their quadriceps muscles more while walking and running. This means females use their strong quadriceps muscles and do not adequately activate their weak hamstrings. The two opposing muscle groups would not be balanced in this situation. The hamstring muscle group acts to protect the anterior...

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Pushup Plank Exercise

Try the pushup plank exercise to change up your routine and challenge your body. You should always be concerned with improving your core strength. The pushup plank will help you progress with your core strength. Get in the pushup position and balance on your toes while keeping your body in a straight line. Hold the plank position for the required count without moving. Keep your head in line with your torso and brace your torso (as if taking a punch to the gut). The pushup plank is an isometric bodyweight exercise which helps you build strength and burn fat without moving much. They are great...

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Co-factors that Increase Cancer Risk

Many things you do increase your risk for cancer and the more risk factors you have, the greater your risk. Avoiding these risk factors after you are diagnosed with a cancer can increase your chance for a cure.Smoking and being infected with the human wart virus (HPV) both cause fatal squamus cell cancers of the head and neck. A study from the University of Michigan shows that smokers who have an HPV-linked cancer are six times more likely to have a recurrence than those who have never smoked, and two- thirds of patients with HPV-linked tumors were current or former tobacco users (Clinical Cancer Research, February, 2010). Among those with HPV-linked tumors, six percent of those who never smoked had recurrences, compared to 19 percent of those...

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Vary Workout Intensity, Burn More Fat

Vary your workout intensity to burn more fat. The more intense your workout, the more fat you will burn. Stop spending 2-3 hours in the gym. Quality workouts are the key to fat loss and weight loss success.Thirty minute circuit weight training workouts and 20-minute interval cardio sessions will give you the results you want. Intense, speed-based workouts will also give you maximum benefits in minimum time! One 20-minute, speed-based workout will burn tons of calories and fat---during and after your workout!Speed-based workouts don't have to be "running only" workouts. But, running sprints...

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Break Fat Loss Plateau By Varying Workouts

Some of you can break through your fat loss and weight loss plateau by varying your workouts. If you have been doing the same workout for 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year or 5 years, your progress has probably stalled.Your body has the amazing ability to adapt to your workouts and bring your fat loss and weight loss progress to a grinding halt. You MUST be willing to vary your workout routine every 2-3 weeks to keep your body guessing. Actually, you could vary your workout every workout session in different ways (like changing intensity).Surprisingly, I talk to many people who are unwilling...

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Saturday Exercise On-The-Go

If Saturday is a busy crazy day for you, get your exercise on-the-go. There are many ways to exercise besides going to the gym or waiting until your "workout time." On a busy Saturday, if you wait until "workout time," you probably won't exercise at all!"So, here are some "on-the-go exercise tips" for you on a busy Saturday:1. If your kid has a team practice, don't just watch. Take a walk or jog. 2. Join a league soccer or basketball team. You will usually have a game or practice on Saturday.3. Do your yardwork or household chores.4. If you take your kids to the mall, walk around the mall while they spend your money!5. Remember to pack and plan your meals instead of eating fastfood on-the-go.6. Participate in that dance class, spin class...

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More Fat Loss With Increased Growth Hormone

You can have more fat loss by increasing exercise-induced growth hormone. Yes, your body can produce more growth hormone without any illegal drugs. Growth hormone is important for building muscle and burning fat. Intense circuit weight training and interval cardio workouts will increase your body's growth hormone. Research has also proven that the benefits of anaerobic exercise (like sprint interval cardio) is superior to aerobic exercise for fitness and heart health. The progression of your cardio exercise should be low-intensity aerobics to moderate/high-intensity aerobics to high-intensity anaerobic exercise. Rest 20 minutes between sessions if you do weight training and cardio during the same workout.Doing a second workout during the...

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Healthy Snacks

Healthy snacks are important for the success of your meal plan and for energy between main meals. Snacking doesn't have to be bad. Eat healthy snacks with low to moderate calories and your energy level will improve throughout the day. The American Dietetic Association also recommends healthy snacking. Snacks bridge the gap between meals and can help you eat less at mealtime. Going too long between meals can cause you to load up on sugary carbohydrates to get quick energy. These types of snacks are usually high in calories, not very nutritious and cause rapid ups and downs in blood sugar levels (you will crash). Here are some good guidelines for healthy snacking: Snacks can really skyrocket your calorie count if you're not careful!...

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Replacements for Partially Hydrogenated Oils

Now that partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) have been removed from many processed foods, which substitutes are acceptable and which should be avoided? Most of the foods previously made with trans fats now use saturated fats from palm, palm kernel and coconut oils. As far as I know, these tropical oils have not been shown to cause heart attacks or other health issues in any large population studies. However, they raise levels of the bad LDL cholesterol, while Canola oil (high in monounsaturated fat) and soybean oil (high in polyunsaturated fat) do not (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2006). I believe that they are more healtful than saturated fats from animal sources, and certainly better than the trans fats they have replaced.Fats...

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Restart Exercise--Today!

Restart your exercise program today! Don't put it off! The biggest barrier to starting any project is "getting started." The top reasons I see for people not starting exercise are 1) "not knowing what to do or where to start" and 2) "fear of setting and attaining goals."Research has proven that setting low goals or no goals will bring you very little success. There are many reasons why you might not want to set fitness goals. A trainer can help you visualize your goals during the first consultation. One quick way to start getting active again is to just start walking every day. You don't...

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Any Fat Loss After 2 Months?

Do you have significant fat loss after 2 months of exercising this year? Are you making any progress with your fitness, health, fat loss and weight loss goals? If the answer is not yes to all questions, you need a better exercise program or you need to commit to consistent exercise (or both)!Two months is plenty of time for you to see progress with fitness, health, fat loss and weight loss! Your clothes should be fitting looser, your body should be more toned, you should be able to do some type of interval cardio (instead of slow-paced cardio), you should be able to get through a 30-40 minute circuit weight training workout, etc.Are you feeling overwhelmed from the whole exercise/fitness/meal plan/fat loss/weight loss puzzle? Don't think...

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