Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat? The first thing that most people think of is that their extra abdominal fat is simply ugly, is covering up their abs from being visible, and makes them self conscious about showing off their body.
However, what most people don't realize is that excess abdominal fat in particular, is not only ugly, but is also a dangerous risk factor to your health. Scientific research has clearly determined that although it is unhealthy in general to have excess body fat throughout your body, it is also particularly dangerous to have excess abdominal fat.
There are two types of fat that you have in your abdominal area. The first type that covers up your abs from being visible is called subcutaneous fat and lies directly beneath the skin and on top of the abdominal muscles.
The second type of fat that you have in your abdominal area is called visceral fat, and that lies deeper in the abdomen beneath your muscle and surrounding your organs. Visceral fat also plays a role in giving certain men that "beer belly" appearance where their abdomen protrudes excessively but at the same time, also feels sort of hard if you push on it.
Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat in the abdominal area are serious health risk factors, but science has shown that having excessive visceral fat is even more dangerous than subcutaneous fat. Both of them greatly increase your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.
Part of the reason visceral fat is particularly dangerous is that it apparently releases more inflammatory molecules into your body on a consistent basis.
If you care about the quality of your life and your loved ones, reducing your abdominal fat should be one of your TOP priorities! There's just no way around it. Besides, a side effect of finally getting rid of all of that excessive ugly abdominal fat is that your stomach will flatten out, and if you lose enough stomach fat, you will be able to visibly see those sexy six pack abs that everyone wants.
So what gets rid of extra abdominal fat? The first thing you must understand is that there is absolutely NO quick fix solution. There are no pills or supplements of any sort that will help you lose your abdominal fat faster. Also, none of the gimmicky ab rockers, rollers, or ab belts will help get rid of abdominal fat either. You can't spot reduce your stomach fat by using any of these worthless contraptions. It simply doesn't work that way.
The only solution to consistently lose your abdominal fat and keep it off for good is to combine a sound strategic nutritious diet full of unprocessed natural foods with a properly designed exercise program that stimulates the necessary hormonal and metabolic response within your body. Both your food intake as well as your training program are important if you are to get this right.
I've actually even seen a particular study that divided thousands of participants into a diet-only group and an exercise/diet group. While both groups in this study made good progress, the diet-only group lost significantly LESS abdominal fat than the diet & exercise combined group.
Now the important thing to realize is that just any old exercise program will not necessarily do the trick. The majority of people that attempt getting into a good exercise routine are NOT working out effectively enough to really stimulate the loss of stubborn abdominal fat. I see this everyday at the gym.
Most people will do your typical boring cardio routines, throw in a little outdated body-part style weight training, and pump away with some crunches and side bends, and think that they are doing something useful for reducing their abdominal fat. Then they become frustrated after weeks or months of no results and wonder where they went wrong.
Well, the good news is that I've spent over a decade researching this topic, analyzing the science, and applying it "in the trenches" with myself as well as thousands of my clients from all over the world to see what works to really stimulate abdominal fat loss.
The entire solution... all of the nutritional strategies, as well and training sequences, exercise combinations, and more have all been compiled in my Truth About Six Pack Abs Program.
Keep in mind that the point of this whole program is NOT abdominal exercises (that is only a very small portion of it). The main point of this program is showing you the absolute most effective strategies for losing your stubborn abdominal fat, so you can get rid of that dangerous health risk, as well as get a flatter more defined midsection.
If you follow the guidelines, you WILL lose your belly fat that has been plaguing you for years. This is not guesswork... it is a proven system that works time and time again for all of my clients on every corner of the globe that actually apply the information I teach. If you apply it, the results will come. It's really that simple.
The only reason most people fail in their fitness goals is that they have good intentions at first to adopt a new lifestyle, yet after a few weeks or months, they abandon their good intentions and slip right back into their old bad habits that gave them the excess body fat in the first place.
I want to help you succeed in finally getting rid of that extra abdominal fat that is not only UGLY, but also DANGEROUS. A lot of people have emailed me with questions about whether they need any special equipment, if they're too old or too young for this program, etc. Here is where you should go to get answers to all of your questions...
Also, I think you'll want to see some of the reader reviews from people that are using the system and getting killer results...
Don't waste another day allowing that nasty abdominal fat to kill your confidence as well as contribute to your risk for MAJOR diseases.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Effects of Energy Drinks
You may notice I talk a lot about the power of your mind and how this controls the results you get in your body.
This is yet another example of the power of the placebo effect, and probably the only reason anybody gets any results whatsoever from typical supplements.
I recently read about a study (sorry, I don't have the exact citation or the exact numbers involved), but here was the general details of the study...
The researchers split the group into 2 large groups of people. The first group they gave one of these typical "energy drinks" that you see everywhere (which I've mentioned before are a complete waste).
Now here's the important part... they specifically told this first group of people that this energy drink they were receiving would increase their strength and endurance levels and increase their energy output.
The 2nd group received the exact same "energy drink" but was not told what the drink was, so nothing was said about it improving anything. For all these people knew, they were just being given a drink for no reason.
**The results:
Very interesting!
The 1st group, which was told that the energy drink would improve their strength and endurance, actually DID increase their strength outputs and endurance tests.
However, the 2nd group, which received the EXACT SAME "energy drink" was NOT TOLD that it would help anything, and therefore, they showed no measurable signs of improvement on any of the tests!
Wow... yet another powerful example of how it's ALL IN YOUR MIND!
One way this can be applied to your nutrition and workouts:
1. When you're performing certain exercises, you need to really strongly BELIEVE IN YOUR MIND that those exercises are transforming your body... in return, that strong belief will improve your results in the gym MUCH more than just mindlessly going through the exercises.
2. When you're eating healthy food, you need to really strongly believe and think about how much that food is making you leaner, stronger, and more energetic. If you believe strongly how much that food is helping you, it WILL help you much more than if you didn't think about what you were eating positively.
This is very powerful stuff! http://bodyfitness.blinkweb.com/
This is yet another example of the power of the placebo effect, and probably the only reason anybody gets any results whatsoever from typical supplements.
I recently read about a study (sorry, I don't have the exact citation or the exact numbers involved), but here was the general details of the study...
The researchers split the group into 2 large groups of people. The first group they gave one of these typical "energy drinks" that you see everywhere (which I've mentioned before are a complete waste).
Now here's the important part... they specifically told this first group of people that this energy drink they were receiving would increase their strength and endurance levels and increase their energy output.
The 2nd group received the exact same "energy drink" but was not told what the drink was, so nothing was said about it improving anything. For all these people knew, they were just being given a drink for no reason.
**The results:
Very interesting!
The 1st group, which was told that the energy drink would improve their strength and endurance, actually DID increase their strength outputs and endurance tests.
However, the 2nd group, which received the EXACT SAME "energy drink" was NOT TOLD that it would help anything, and therefore, they showed no measurable signs of improvement on any of the tests!
Wow... yet another powerful example of how it's ALL IN YOUR MIND!
One way this can be applied to your nutrition and workouts:
1. When you're performing certain exercises, you need to really strongly BELIEVE IN YOUR MIND that those exercises are transforming your body... in return, that strong belief will improve your results in the gym MUCH more than just mindlessly going through the exercises.
2. When you're eating healthy food, you need to really strongly believe and think about how much that food is making you leaner, stronger, and more energetic. If you believe strongly how much that food is helping you, it WILL help you much more than if you didn't think about what you were eating positively.
This is very powerful stuff! http://bodyfitness.blinkweb.com/
Discover How to Manipulate Training Variables
Everyone will inadvertently hit a frustrating plateau in their training at on time or another. You're cruising along for awhile, gaining strenght, losing fat, and looking better, and then all of a sudden it hits. Suddenly, you find yourself even weaker than before on your lifts, or you find that you've gained back a couple of pounds. It happens to everyone. Most of the time, these plateaus occur because people rarely change their training variable over time. Many people stick to the same type of exercises for the same basic sets and reps and rest periods with the same boring cardio routine. Well, I hope to open your mind and bring some creativity to your workouts!!
There are many ways that you can strategically modify your training variables to assure that you maximize your fat loss and/or muscle building reponse to exercise. Most people only think about changing their sets and reps performed, if they even think about changing their routine at all. However, other variables that can drastically affect your results are changing the order of the exercises (sequence), exercise grouping (super-setting, circuit training, tri-sets, etc), exercise type (multi-joint or single-joint, free-weight or machine based), the number of exercises per workout, the amount of resistance, the time under tention, the work (sets x reps x distance moved), rest periods between sets, repitition speed, range of motion, exercise angle (incline, flat, declined, bent over, upright, etc), training duration per workout, and training frequency per week.
Sounds like a lot of different training aspects to consider in order to achieve the best results from your workouts, doesn't it?
Well, that's where a knowledgeable personal trainer can make sense of all this for you to make sure that your training doesn't get stale.
http://bodyfitness.blinkweb.com/
Everyone will inadvertently hit a frustrating plateau in their training at on time or another. You're cruising along for awhile, gaining strenght, losing fat, and looking better, and then all of a sudden it hits. Suddenly, you find yourself even weaker than before on your lifts, or you find that you've gained back a couple of pounds. It happens to everyone. Most of the time, these plateaus occur because people rarely change their training variable over time. Many people stick to the same type of exercises for the same basic sets and reps and rest periods with the same boring cardio routine. Well, I hope to open your mind and bring some creativity to your workouts!!
There are many ways that you can strategically modify your training variables to assure that you maximize your fat loss and/or muscle building reponse to exercise. Most people only think about changing their sets and reps performed, if they even think about changing their routine at all. However, other variables that can drastically affect your results are changing the order of the exercises (sequence), exercise grouping (super-setting, circuit training, tri-sets, etc), exercise type (multi-joint or single-joint, free-weight or machine based), the number of exercises per workout, the amount of resistance, the time under tention, the work (sets x reps x distance moved), rest periods between sets, repitition speed, range of motion, exercise angle (incline, flat, declined, bent over, upright, etc), training duration per workout, and training frequency per week.
Sounds like a lot of different training aspects to consider in order to achieve the best results from your workouts, doesn't it?
Well, that's where a knowledgeable personal trainer can make sense of all this for you to make sure that your training doesn't get stale.
http://bodyfitness.blinkweb.com/
Do They Really Work?
Let's start by tackling 5 Important Facts You Must Understand if You Are Ever Going to Lose Your Belly Fat and Get Six Pack Abs.
1. Many so called "Health Foods" are actually just cleverly disquised junk foods that actually stimulate you to gain more belly fat...yet the diet food marketing industry continues to lie to you so tey can maximize their profits.
2. Ab exercises like crunches, sit-ups, and ab-machines are the least effective method of getting six pack abs. We'll explore what types of exercises REALLY work in minutes.
3. Boring repetitive cardio exercise routines are NOT the best way to lose body fat and uncover six pack abs. you"ll learn exactly the types of unique workouts that will produce 10x better results.
4. You don't need to waste your money on expensive "extreme fat burning" pills (that don't work) or bogus supplements. A special class of natural foods is much more effective. You"ll learn about these natural foods and their power.
5. Ab belts, ab rocker, and the other infomercial gimmicks... they're all a complete waste of your time and money. Despite the misleading infomercials, the perfectly chisled fitness models in the infomercials did NOT get their perfect body using ab "contraptions"... they got their body through REAL workouts and REAL nutritional strategies. Again, you will learn many of the secrets that really working coming newsletters.
Today's Tip: Who says that men and women need to train differently to get lean? The TRUTH is that they DON'T. The bottom line is that the best exercises for increasing the metabolism and stimulating the fat burning hormones are the best exercises regardless of gender. The only thing that is going to change is that in general the female will require fewer calories, and usually lighter weights than men, but the fact remains that the best training and nutrition strategies apply equally to both genders. To be honest, one of the main reasons that so many women struggle to make progress is taht they are not training the right way to increase their metabolic rate and trigger the proper hormonal response from the exercise. The majority of women spend way too much time with monotonous endless cardio routines, and tiny little 3-lb Barbie weights. This kind of training will get you NOWHERE!
Now keep in mine this information and the workout programs we are and will be discussing in future newsletters is for both men and women. You're going to get just what you ask for, ever tip you need to get a rock hard body that not only looks great, but is truely healthy and strong for life.
http://bodyfitness.blinkweb.com/
Best Regards
Nathaniel Askew
1. Many so called "Health Foods" are actually just cleverly disquised junk foods that actually stimulate you to gain more belly fat...yet the diet food marketing industry continues to lie to you so tey can maximize their profits.
2. Ab exercises like crunches, sit-ups, and ab-machines are the least effective method of getting six pack abs. We'll explore what types of exercises REALLY work in minutes.
3. Boring repetitive cardio exercise routines are NOT the best way to lose body fat and uncover six pack abs. you"ll learn exactly the types of unique workouts that will produce 10x better results.
4. You don't need to waste your money on expensive "extreme fat burning" pills (that don't work) or bogus supplements. A special class of natural foods is much more effective. You"ll learn about these natural foods and their power.
5. Ab belts, ab rocker, and the other infomercial gimmicks... they're all a complete waste of your time and money. Despite the misleading infomercials, the perfectly chisled fitness models in the infomercials did NOT get their perfect body using ab "contraptions"... they got their body through REAL workouts and REAL nutritional strategies. Again, you will learn many of the secrets that really working coming newsletters.
Today's Tip: Who says that men and women need to train differently to get lean? The TRUTH is that they DON'T. The bottom line is that the best exercises for increasing the metabolism and stimulating the fat burning hormones are the best exercises regardless of gender. The only thing that is going to change is that in general the female will require fewer calories, and usually lighter weights than men, but the fact remains that the best training and nutrition strategies apply equally to both genders. To be honest, one of the main reasons that so many women struggle to make progress is taht they are not training the right way to increase their metabolic rate and trigger the proper hormonal response from the exercise. The majority of women spend way too much time with monotonous endless cardio routines, and tiny little 3-lb Barbie weights. This kind of training will get you NOWHERE!
Now keep in mine this information and the workout programs we are and will be discussing in future newsletters is for both men and women. You're going to get just what you ask for, ever tip you need to get a rock hard body that not only looks great, but is truely healthy and strong for life.
http://bodyfitness.blinkweb.com/
Best Regards
Nathaniel Askew
Out of 1440 minutes each day how may do you use for fitness?
There are 1,440 minutes in every day. Schedule 30 of them for physical activity!Regular exercise is a critical part of staying healthy. People who are active live longer and feel better. Exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight. It can delay or prevent diabetes, some cancers and heart problems.Most adults need at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity at least five days per week. Examples include walking briskly, mowing the lawn, dancing, swimming for recreation or bicycling. Stretching and weight training can also strengthen your body and improve your fitness level.The key is to find the right exercise for you. If it is fun, you are more likely to stay motivated. You may want to walk with a friend, join a class or plan a group bike ride. If you've been inactive for awhile, use a sensible approach and start out slowly. Get the whole scoop @ http://bodyfitness.blinkweb.com/
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