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		<title>Fat to Fit 50% off early bird release from atozfitness.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got the inside scoop from my buddy Ray (the Fat 2 Fit and Commando Bodyweight Guy), that he'll be doing a 50% off special on his COMPLETE training system starting Monday.

He's running it for three days and then that's it. It's a special for his readers only.

(Well thats not true since he knows my subscribers love his work he included me in on this special  as well :)]]></description>
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<p align="center"><strong>   						 						<font size="2" face="Verdana"> 						<a href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://www.AtoZfitness.com" title="(3618 hits)">www.AtoZfitness.com</a>  						<br />
                        Your Internet  						Fitness Resource Site<br />
                        </font></strong><font size="2" face="Verdana">- AtoZfitness  						Special Announcement -<br />
                        </font> 						<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"> 						Fat to Fit 50% off early bird release from atozfitness.com<br />
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><img width="175" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="250" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.fattofitbook.com/images/250cover.jpg" alt="" />I just got the inside scoop from my  										buddy Ray (the Fat 2 Fit and Commando  										Bodyweight Guy), that he&#8217;ll be doing a  										50% off special on his COMPLETE training  										system starting Monday. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										He&#8217;s running it for three days and then  										that&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s a special for his  										readers only. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										(Well thats not true since he knows my  										subscribers love his work he included me  										in on this special&nbsp; as well <img src='http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana,sans-serif">I just got off the  										phone and Ray told me the site is live  										to the public officially on Monday  										however he allowed me to leak it to my  										subscribers today and give you all a  										head start on hi fat to fit program a  										few days early.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana,sans-serif">The site is  										actually live but he has not told his</font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">  										own subscribers yet <img src='http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana,sans-serif"> 										Check it out at : 										</font><font size="2" face="Verdana"> 										<a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://www.atozfitness.com/recommends/ptbook.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" title="(80 hits)"> 										http://www.atozfitness.com/recommends/ptbook.html</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										He gave me a heads up because we&#8217;ve  										worked together in the past and he  										wanted to share the HALF OFF special as  										a thank you to me.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										He sent me over a copy of the EXACT same  										email he will be sending to his readers  										on Monday with a note attached saying &ldquo;Thanks for  										the help Lewis. I hope your readers find  										this useful&rdquo;.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Here is THAT email Ray will be sending  										out Monday morning&#8230;.</span></font></p>
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                                    Subject: &ldquo;THANK YOU!&rdquo;</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Quick Heads Up,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Until midnight on Wednesday the 24th,  										you can get my entire training system  										for HALF OFF.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Here&#8217;s where you can grab your copy for  										half off: </span> 										<a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://www.atozfitness.com/recommends/ptbook.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" title="(80 hits)"> 										http://www.atozfitness.com/recommends/ptbook.html</a><br />
                                    <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										<br />
                                    I&#8217;m holding this special sale as a way  										to say THANK YOU to all the people who  										read this Just The Facts About Fitness  										and Fat loss Newsletter.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Here&#8217;s where you can grab your copy and  										save 50% (( LIVE NOW )): </span> 										<a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://www.atozfitness.com/recommends/ptbook.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" title="(80 hits)"> 										http://www.atozfitness.com/recommends/ptbook.html</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										TRY MY SYSTEM FOR 50% AND GET FIVE FREE  										BONUSES.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										If the 50% discount isn&#8217;t enough to have  										you practically skipping and singing tra-la-la&#8217;s  										over to my half off website, these FIVE  										free gifts will surely do the trick.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										<strong>BONUS 1</strong>: THE JUMP START METHOD!</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										This 17 Minute Video Training Session  										Will End Problem Area Fat Forever!</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										<strong>BONUS 2</strong>: THE 79 MOST COMMON FAT LOSS  										QUESTIONS ANSWERED BOOK</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										This rare manual has been used as a  										quick reference guide by trainers for  										over 6 years</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										<strong>BONUS 3</strong>: BODYWEIGHT ONLY REPORT (15  										PAGES)</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										I was personally given permission to  										release this bodyweight only workout to  										my readers by the creator of the  										mma-ripped program Eric Wong. Yes &#8230;the  										same guy that trains the Mixed Martial  										Arts Stars.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										<strong>BONUS 4</strong>: THE FAT 2 FIT EATING CHEAT  										SHEETS</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Nutrition expert, Dr. John Berardi,  										Ph.D., has created full pre-made, easy  										to follow, fat burning diet plans just  										for this program. This is a 5 day eating  										menu (select from male and female plans  										for your goal bodyweight).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										<strong>BONUS 5:</strong> TOTALLY TASTY FAT LOSS AND  										MUSCLE GAINING RECIPES!</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Will Brink&#8217;s (author for IronMan and  										Muscle and Fitness magazines) &quot;Tasty Fat  										Loss Muscle Building Recipes&quot; is crammed  										full of eating tips and tasty recipes so  										that you can prepare fast and easy fat  										burning muscle building meals.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										WHEW! That&#8217;s a lot of goodies &#8230;and you  										get it all F.REE when you try my entire  										system for 50% off.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Go here right now and claim your copy  										before they&#8217;re all gone&#8230;<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										Talk soon,<br />
                                    Ray</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">										<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> 										P.S. This special half off sale ends at  										midnight on Wednesday the 24th. If you&#8217;d  										like to get the revolutionary training  										system so many people are raving about  										&#8230;and save 50%, then go here now:</span></font></p>
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		<title>Three Stunning Weight Loss Mistakes You Can Easily Fix</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial">Three Stunning Weight Loss Mistakes You Can Easily Fix  </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">O.k. Right From the start,  it&#8217;s not just three weight loss mistakes (see also the articles</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">- &quot;Why Can&#8217;t I Lost  Weight&quot; and &quot;Workout Mistakes&quot;)but a smorgasbord. For some</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">reason, a lot more people  than usual felt like personally emailing me their weight loss problems to answer  in the newsletter this month.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Since it&#8217;s going to rain  today, I thought, &quot;What the heck, lets put some of them down so the next time  this happens others will have a place to look up the same weight loss mistakes.&quot;  So lets start with the first one..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Hi Ray,&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I am finishing up with  reading Fat 2 Fit. And I am really enjoying it! The way it is presented keeps it  real.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I have downloaded the  nutrition info, and am starting to manipulate it into my new workout  routine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">The thing is Ray, I go to  the gym 3 days a week, make sure my calories do not exceed 1700 per day and my  fat content is below 50 grams per day. And have been doing this consistently for  6 months. I have a personal trainer twice a week and she is great&#8230; my fitness  levels have really improved! But my weight and inches aren&#8217;t going  anywhere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I&#8217;ve even asked her to  figure it out for me, but neither does she have an answer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">During my reading of your  Fat 2 Fit Program, I have come to respect what you have to say.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Therefore I would like to  ask you, Where Am I Making Mistakes?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I am almost (in 4 weeks)  21 years old, weigh 95 kilograms and am 168 cm&#8217;s tall (or short) &nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">My BMI is 34.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">If you can help me, &#8230;  you have no idea what it would mean to me. Nadia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Answer From Ray  Burton:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Hi Nadia, most times when  I get an email like this from people it can only be a few things. Here are three  of the most common weight loss mistakes and before I forget, the BMI is a load  of crap so forget about that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">1. The ratios of protein  to carbohydrates to fats (Basic Nutrition).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">2. Mistaken  Identity</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">3. Lifting light (for the  ladies)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">For the first one, what I  mean by the ratios of proteins to carbohydrates to fats is that most people only  worry about total calories and fat. Now that&#8217;s a good thing but you also have to  make sure about the sources of your carbohydrates, the amount of protein and the  types of fats your eating.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">A great example is  liquorice. You look at the label and it says low fat. AWESOME!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Not really. Now this is a  silly example but if you ate 1700 calories of this &quot;low fat&quot; snack, you would  get hit over the head with the sugar stick and have almost zero protein for you  muscles to grow and recover on. You&#8217;ve just started to play with the diet in the  book so this eating stuff wont be a problem for you soon, just follow the eating  plan in the program. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Now for the second one,  mistaken identity. VERY often with women their bodies respond fantastically to  weight training but their trainers do not do bodyfat tests.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Just measurements and  weight. Then after a couple of weeks, they don&#8217;t see a weight change because  they have lost 5 pounds of fat and put on five pounds of muscle. The net change  shows zero but, oh how far that is from the real story of what is going on with  their bodies. Of course they feel a ton different but that damn scale plays a  really heavy role on your motivation when you look down at it no matter how  great you feel or how many dress sizes you have gone down.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">The third major weight  loss mistake I see is clients lifting light. When they come in they say they  &quot;don&#8217;t want to get big, so I&#8217;m lifting light&quot;. What a mistake. You couldn&#8217;t be  any more wrong with that approach. You lift weights to change the shape of your  body and you adjust the speed of your training to elevate your heart rate to  burn calories. Then you make up for any mistakes with a dash of intense cardio  now and then. That&#8217;s how it works but people lift light and their bodies laugh  at them. If the weights are light then there is absolutely no reason for the  body to respond to the training in any way shape or form. It&#8217;s just a waste of  time. You just have to remember that &quot;heavy&quot; is a relative term. If you have  trouble lifting something on the 12th rep, then it&#8217;s heavy for you. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I hope that helps a  little. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">The Max Heart Rate  Question &#8211; Is Pushing To Hard A Mistake?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Hi Ray,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I have been receiving  emails from you for a long time and this one I truly like due to the simplicity  of it. I truly enjoyed the past article on carbohydrates. I have subscribed as  well to your fat to fit program and I have to say it was also very informative.  My only regret is the fact that I never gave you feedback on the program in the  checkup form. Just know that I do follow it but I tend to stay on it for a bit  then do something else, then start over again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">In any case I guess I am  writing to you to find out exactly how heart rate comes into play. I usually do  a 4 day 2 split and I do cardio on the elliptical for 30 minutes all four days.  I enjoy doing a &quot;hard&quot; cardio so when it tells me to slow down for max heart  rate, I feel as if I am not doing a good job. Can you explain this to me as I am  trying to understand if your heart rate should ever go above the max and if it  does, is this a mistake?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Thanks Ray.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Answer From Ray  Burton:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Your max heart rate  actually changes with how in shape you are. A 37 year old who is in shape has a  higher safe max heart than a couch potato of the same age.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">The machines at the gym  are made to be super conservative and safe so no one gets sued. This is why I  always put the machine on manual and adjust the intensity myself instead of  letting the machine monitor and adjust according to my heart rate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Once you are in shape and  the doctor says you are healthy and safe, you should just push it hard whenever  you want. Those poor gazelles don&#8217;t wear heart rate monitors when lions chase  them&#8230;that&#8217;s how nature designed us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I&#8217;m Not Making Any  Mistakes And I Still Don&#8217;t Lose Weight! &nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Hi Ray,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I know you see the subject  line and think, ok, just like every other excuse maker out there. I promise you  I am not. I have been trying so many different angles of diet and exercise for  years now, and I&#8217;m stuck. I just turned 30, I&#8217;m 5&quot; 9&quot; and today weighed in at  152. I have never been obese, and I&#8217;m not trying to lose weight as much as body  fat. I&#8217;ve worked out with trainers that feed me 2100 cals a day and hard  training workout, plus I am a runner and run on most days of the week as  well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I run about a 10 minute  mile for at a minimum of 30 mins.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">2 weeks ago I started the  Jillian Michaels program from her book &quot;Making The Cut&quot; and have been working  out harder than ever, eating a 40-30-30 (or 40-35-25) diet for 2 weeks, stepped  on the scale today and I gained a pound!! I&#8217;ve followed the instructions to the  letter, my meals are VERY balanced and I&#8217;m eating better this last year than I  have my entire life (and I&#8217;ve always eaten relatively healthy) I have logged all  of my meals on ShapeFit&#8217;s FitTracker meal plan, and make sure that I do not go  over 1500 calories in a day. I&#8217;m eating 6 times a day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">A typical days food for me  is: &nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Breakfast: Kashi Go Lean  -1 cup; 1/2 cup fat free milk, 1/2 a protein shake (Body Fortress Chocolate 26g  protein, 110 cals)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Snack: 20  almonds</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Lunch: Chicken or Turkey  Breast (not cold cuts, but real breast meat) 3-5oz, Broccoli 1-2 cups, Fat Free  Italian Dressing, 3tbsp.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Snack: Grapes (1 cup) or a  small tangerine or plum; string cheese (Frigo Low Fat -60cals)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Dinner: Egg Beaters, 2  servings (65cals), spinach 1cup, and Fat Free Cheese (graded,  110cals)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Snack: Yogurt (1 cup) or  Fruit</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I&#8217;m getting so discouraged  at everyone telling me that my body just doesn&#8217;t want to lose weight. That&#8217;s  fine, but my body fat is staying strong at 25% even with the high intensity  circuit training workouts, cardio and diet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I need help, or any  thoughts you may have on why I seem to be resistant to weight loss?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Thank you in  advance,<br />
                                    Jennifer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Answer From Ray  Burton:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">You&#8217;re right, everything  does look very good except your protein intake looks a little low for my tastes.  The only other things I can think of is to total the calories for all your  activities and see if you are underfeeding for the work load. The other is when  is the last time you took a break? Is your body catabolic and stuck with the fat  burning because of a catabolic hormones ramping up from the workload?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">I always try to go as  simple as possible to track down mistakes. Is it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">1. Underfeeding</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">2. Overfeeding</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">3.  Undertraining</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">4. Overtraining</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">5. Macronutrient  Ratios</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">6. Balance between cardio,  resistance training</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">7. Lifestyle  stresses</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">8. Medical</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Hope that helps a little.  It&#8217;s a hard thing to do over email without watching you train and meeting  you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial';">Well that&#8217;s it folks. We  covered a LOT of ground and I put in links to several other resources for  further reading if something looked similar to the weight loss mistakes you  might be making.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial"><font size="2"><strong>How To Get Rid Of Flabby Arms And A Belly At Home</strong></font><br />
            <font size="2">By Ray Burton<strong><br />
            </strong>Author of FAT 2 FIT <a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://snipurl.com/fattofitatoz" title="(570 hits)">www.FatToFitProgram.com</a></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">This is a common question I get from Fat 2 Fit subscribers when the New Year starts creeping up and people are starting to think about getting in shape again!<br />
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Hey Ray, I&#8217;m not fat, but I do have a bit of a belly and flabby arms going on! Now I have started doing cardio &quot;exercise bike&quot; 30 minutes a day, that&#8217;s going to burn the fat! But I was wondering how do I shape up these trouble areas? I have a hard time doing press-ups, so what stuff could I do at home to help me get rid of flabby arms and tone up the abs?</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Answer:</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">First, what I am about to tell you will only work when used with a total approach to getting in shape. That means proper diet, cardio and resistance training.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">The easiest thing you can do to tighten up flabby arms and a droopy chest is the press up. I know you have difficulty with them but that&#8217;s because they are hard, but they also work VERY well. We will call the press up a pushup from now on just because that is the term that most people use. The pushup has many variations and I am sure that one of the ones I give you will be well within your ability to do until you get to the full military pushup variation and beyond.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">A quick word on pushup form. You want to keep your core tight. What you do not want to happen is that when you push up, you look like you are peeling yourself off the floor. I call this worming. A lot of people do it when they get tired. First you will see them raise their heads, then their chest and finally their hips leave the floor. What should happen is that you contract your core so that everything from the base contact point (feet or knees) is lifted off at the same moment.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">The other important point to consider when doing pushups is the arm and shoulder angle. A common mistake when doing the pushup is having your shoulders and arms too close to your head. If you are lying on the floor in the proper pushup position and someone looked down on your from above, you would want to look like an arrow head and not a &quot;T&quot;. Your hands should be below your shoulders or even a little further back towards your hips. The farther back you go the harder the pushups becomes. This sets up your arms so they are slanted back on a 45 degree angle if viewed from above.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">HOW YOU CAN WORK UP TO A FULL PUSHUP</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">The first and easiest version of the pushup is the wall pushup. This is simply standing face into a wall and doing your pushups by pushing against the wall until you are standing straight. You lower and push over and over. If you can do 15 to 20 reps of these two to three times then it is time to go onto the second version.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">The second version on the scale of difficulty in pushups is the box pushup. Instead of pushing against the wall, you will push against something that is 1-2 feet off the floor.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">You should probably do these with your base being your knees instead of your feet like in the full military pushup. The couch will work and so will the coffee table. Make sure you position yourself so that when you touch the couch (or whatever) in the bottom position your lower chest is the contact point.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Aim for the nipples if you want an exact spot.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">After you can do 3 sets of 15 on this version, you are ready for the next step in your pushup evolution!</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">The third version on the scale of difficulty in pushups is when the pushup is done on the knees.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Everything about this version is the same as the regular full pushup except that your knees do not leave the ground. This cuts out the extra weight from the knees to the toes making the pushup a little easier than the full version. Again, when you get 3 sets of 15 repetitions, you are ready to move on.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">The fourth version in your journey to a full pushup is the knee pushup with a full pushup negative. Now we are getting somewhere! The trick with this version is to do your pushup as in the above version and lower yourself in the regular full pushup version. The reason you do this is because you are always stronger in the negative or lowering portion of the movement than in the positive or raising portion. So we do the heavy full pushup to lower and the easier knee pushups to raise your self up. When you get your 3 sets of 15 repetitions here, you are now ready to do full military pushups!</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">If you find yourself in a place a couple of months from now where pushups are like butter then you can keep the ball rolling. In the beginning we took the upper body from the wall to the box and then to the floor. We made it harder by adding more weight over the chest area in little bits. To make it more difficult, we do the exact opposite.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">First put your feet on the box, then at 45 degrees on a wall and before you know it, you will be doing handstand pushups! By raising the feet slowly over time, you shift even more weight onto the chest until you hit a point and the working muscle flips.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Once your feet get high enough and you are almost vertical, feet up, you will be putting most of the tension square on the shoulders. This is very hard but you can do it if you put in the time.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">HOW TO GET RID OF THE BELLY AT HOME.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">If you are just starting out, the best way to safely get into training off that belly is the simple crunch.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">You&#8217;ll hear a lot of experts jumping on the bandwagon saying the crunch isn&#8217;t the most effective ab exercise.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It&#8217;s not if you are a gymnast and you have been training for years and are an athlete. If you can&#8217;t do a couple of sets without your abs burning though, it&#8217;s a great place to start without killing yourself!</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Here is how I teach my clients doing Fat 2 Fit to do them. Place your hands behind (support, but don&#8217;t pull) your head. I like to support my head by using the finger tips to cup the ears. It&#8217;s a light support but it keeps you from cranking your neck forward.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">From here, c.url your upper torso forward. As you do this you want to keep your lower back in mind and push it into the floor. Bring your rib cage toward your pelvis until you feel a contraction in your abs. Holding your hands down by your hips is an easier version. Pause for the contraction and slowly return to the starting position. Exhale on the contraction &#8211; this breathing advice applies to all abdominal exercises.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Three sets of crunches for 20 reps a set is a nice place for a beginner to start. You can rest anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute depending on how hard of an effort that was for you. If that&#8217;s not a problem then superset each set of crunches with the next exercise called hip rolls.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Superset is just a fancy personal trainer term for no rest. This means then that the first set of crunches is immediately followed by a brief 30 second rest to let the burn fizzle a bit. Do three sets of this combination.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">To do hip rolls correctly you lie on the ground pushing down on the floor with your hands by your sides. Keep your feet off the floor and bent 90 degrees at the knee the whole time. You then raise your pelvis off the floor so the tail bone comes right up and squeeze the abs! You should now be rolled into a ball with your knees over your chest. At the top if you get really good, not only will your pelvis be off the floor but also a portion of your lower back.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">NOW STAND ON ONE FOOT AND PAT YOUR HEAD..(just kidding)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">If you watch your diet and do your cardio along with your full body workout, you will see that six pack come out. The last step in the beginner ab routine is to add in some bridges or &quot;planks&quot; as the yoga folks like to call them.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">This is basically a pushup position but you don&#8217;t rest on your hands, you rest on your forearms and just hold it for 30-60 seconds. Don&#8217;t let your lower back sag! Keep a slightly inverted c posture like your trying to pull your hips toward your chin.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Now to combine all these fine ab exercises into an abdominal workout you can do at home and get a little sweat on.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Beginner home abdominal workout</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Crunches x20</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Hip rolls x20</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Planks for a 30-60 second hold</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">So there you go. If used with proper diet, cardio and full body training this will tighten up flabby arms, a saggy chest and a pokey belly in the comforts of your own home.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial">Do Your Best Until You Become The Best, Ray Burton, ISSA-CPT, Crossfit Author of FAT 2 FIT <a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://snipurl.com/fattofitatoz" title="(570 hits)">www.FatToFitProgram.com</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">A question I run into a lot from personal  		training clients is &quot;What diet and exercises are the best for me to do  		so I can see my abs?&quot; For some reason there is a misconception that  		there is something special that you do different from regular training  		in order to get a six-pack.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">The truth of the matter is that developing a six  		pack comes back to the same information that we have heard before. You  		need to train your whole body, and eat properly in order to reduce your  		body fat so that your abdominals become visible.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">It&#8217;s just not possible to wake up one day and  		decide that you would like to have a lean, fat free stomach and that you  		can achieve this through some quick &quot;plan&quot; that will zero in on your  		stomach to the exclusion of the rest of your body.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">You can have the main goal of seeing a massive  		change to your stomach but if you take the correct actions to attain a  		six-pack in the fastest manner possible, you MUST see changes in your  		whole body.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">What I am saying is that even though it may seem  		indirect, you will see greater visual changes to your stomach in a  		shorter period of time from doing three whole body workouts a week, some  		cardio and eating 5 small meals a day then you ever will from the best  		ab gadgets and fat burning pills out there.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">Let&#8217;s just say for the sake of argument that  		some of these ab machines work excellent for stimulating the abdominals.  		They still don&#8217;t do anything to remove the layer of fat that is covering  		them and making them impossible to see.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">In order to remove that layer of fat, you need  		to burn off calories and you also need a way to keep that layer from  		coming back. This brings me to the fat burning pills.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">First let me say that fat burners are a joke and  		that you can get the same effect from drinking coffee and green tea.  		That effect is a temporary high in energy and kick in the pants to your  		nervous system. You MAY burn slightly more calories because of your  		heightened energy levels but when you crash down and need a nap, you&#8217;re  		not burning very many calories then are you?</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">Let&#8217;s just say that there was a fat burner that  		could be the answer to all your prayers and that just by taking it would  		give you a six pack in a couple of weeks. What happens once you have  		that six pack? You&#8217;d need to keep taking and paying for those pills in  		order keep what you have. In other words, you&#8217;d be an addict with no  		spare cash.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">That&#8217;s assuming that fat burners did work, which  		they don&#8217;t. There was a time when some of them did, but these days the  		ingredients that make them work are now illegal.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">Remember, the quickest route to a fat free, flat  		stomach is getting rid of excess body fat. You&#8217;re abs are already there!  		Reach down and touch your stomach. Dig deep into any cushioning you have  		there and you will feel lumps! Those are your abs.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">If you take away the cushioning, you will see  		them.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3" face="Courier New">If you want to see a six pack in the shortest  		possible time, get working on a full body resistance training program  		that includes some abdominal work and cardio work. Start eating the  		right foods. Foods that will fire up your metabolism and give you more  		energy. Combine these factors for a couple of weeks and you will see  		more results in a couple of weeks then any ab gadget or fat burning pill  		could ever give you.</font></p>
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            By Ray Burton<br />
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">Have you ever been working out and notice while you were doing your exercises that you could feel what I would describe as a &quot;burning&quot; sensation in the muscle? Nothing indicative of injury, but just felt the muscle working outside of it&#8217;s usual comfort zone?</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">This is a good thing!</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">This is called training to failure and I do it in 85% of my training with clients. I usually do not have clients stop a set until they cannot move the weight another inch. If that takes them past the rep range they are supposed to be working in on that exercise for that day, then I make an increase in the weight for their next workout.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">This one technique is the core principle of progressive resistance training and it holds the key to continued progress in building muscle and burning off large amounts of body fat all at the same time.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">Study after study has shown it&#8217;s a fact that how much heart or intensity you put into your training is much more important than how long you train.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">This is great on two fronts. First, if you are short on time you don&#8217;t have to worry because a quick intense workout will get you better results anyway! Second, it makes life easier. Who wants to own a great body if it takes hours every day to get and then maintain it?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">If you want to see visual changes to your body on a daily basis, you must put everything you have into quick, intense cardio and weight training sessions.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">When you combine intense (for your level) training sessions with proper nutrition that contains foods that will prime your metabolism, you&#8217;ll see and feel changes to your body very quickly!</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">A lot of people think that it takes months to burn fat, build muscle and get stronger. This just isn&#8217;t true! When you combine the proper training program, with a great nutrition plan you will get immediate feedback.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">If you have been training on a regular basis and not seeing the results you deserve from all that time spent dieting and working out, maybe you need to take a hard look at your fitness program.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">Something is wrong. Maybe you have been putting in long hours at the gym at 50% of what you are capable of. Maybe you have been cutting your food back too much and have shut down your metabolism.</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">There are only three variables that you can play with. These are resistance training, nutrition and cardio. Train quickly and intensely with big compound exercises. Eat the proper foods in the right amounts and burn off some extra calories with cardio done in the most productive ranges for the level of fitness you are at.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">If you get these three factors lined up with each other, everyone sees quick and rapid results on the scale and in the mirror. No exceptions unless it&#8217;s medical.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">Regardless of your genetics, time constraints or finances, you can transform your body so you feel great about the skin you&#8217;re in.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3">The first thing I would do is give your training a kick in the rear, bump up the intensity and get out of that gym faster! You&#8217;ll be able to fit your workouts into your day and still have energy left over to do some other fun things in life!</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="3">Making Fitness A Part Of Daily Life<br />
            </font><font size="2">By Ray Burton</font></p>
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<p align="left">It seems kind of funny to me when people ask how can they make fitness part of their daily lives because I often wonder if they really want the truth. The reason I say that is because fitness is a lot like any other hobby. You have those that dabble and then you have those that are, well, a little farther out of the norm.</p>
<p align="left">It reminds me of that quote where Jack Nicholson says &quot;Truth? You can&#8217;t handle the truth!&quot; You see, the fact of the matter is that some of the fitness crowd do things on a daily basis that to &quot;normal&quot; people seems a little strange.</p>
<p align="left">If you want to answer a question like how to make fitness a part of your daily life you have to look at who you are talking to. For the average person just getting into fitness, you would say a very politically correct bunch of tidbits like what is about to follow:</p>
<p align="left">1. Walk to work instead of driving.<br />
            2. Park further from the mall and walk more.<br />
            3. Take the stairs instead of the elevator.<br />
            4. Walk during your lunch hours.</p>
<p align="left">That all sounds pretty familiar doesn&rsquo;t it? It&#8217;s pretty standard fair for a personal trainer to blurt out when trying to give some general guidelines. But what about that other part of the population that would like to make fitness a part of their daily lives? You know, the ones that are a little &quot;out there&quot;. The people that the normal folk would call, &quot;fitness nuts&quot;.</p>
<p align="left">Here is how is how a fitness nut would act on a regular day because they love fitness and moving is a joy that has no comparison.</p>
<p align="left">You wake up and immediately drink a glass or two of water. You know you are dehydrated after all night. You jump into the shower and let the hot water warm up your muscles and you start your stretches. A couple chest stretches using the shower wall, some deep squat holds, a couple lunge holds for the hip flexors and some forward bends to ease up the hamstrings from your previous leg workout. Funny I know but all these stretches make shaving your legs a whole lot easier!</p>
<p align="left">After the shower you have to get your daily clothes from the laundry downstairs, so you bear crawl down the stairs. Once you have your laundry, you jump up the stairs taking them two at a time. Then you bear crawl back down because you dropped a sock and your t-shirt.</p>
<p align="left">After you have breakfast, you go to brush your teeth and hang from your doorway chinup bar to get a good stretch. You&#8217;re feeling pretty good this morning so you throw in 5 chinups too while your at it.</p>
<p align="left">After work you didn&rsquo;t feel like going to the gym and that&#8217;s o.k. because you know how your body works and you know you need a nap before you can really pound out a super intense workout.</p>
<p align="left">After your nap you go over to your laptop and crank up your favorite tunes. You decide to workout at home today because that&#8217;s what you feel like doing. You decide on this workout:</p>
<p align="left">5 Handstand Pushups<br />
            10 One Legged Squats<br />
            15 Chinups</p>
<p align="left">You set your watch to 30 minutes and decide to do as many rounds of the above circuit as you can before the alarm goes off. 10 minutes later you are sweating like crazy. Your spouse thinks your insane and your kids are laughing their heads off. The most important thing is that they admire you for taking care of yourself so that you will be around for many, many years to take care of them.</p>
<p align="left">30 minutes later you&#8217;re all finished and only 10 feet from your own shower and family. After everything is said and done you lay in bed with a smile on your face and slip into a deep sleep with a smile on your face. You&#8217;re physically tired and very happy because you are one of the rare few that make fitness a part of your daily life.</p>
<p align="left">Ray Burton<br />
            ISSA CPT<br />
            Calgary Personal Trainer</p>
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            By Ray Burton</p>
<p><strong>Everyone wants the magic pill to swallow or secret exercise that will burn fat. The truth is that while permanet weight loss may not be easy, the concepts are simple. This is a practical guide to releasing fat and keeping it off.</strong> </p>
<p>            Today&#8217;s society is about speed. We no longer have to wait for the oven to warm our food because we have microwaves ready to do the work in less time. Breaking news events don&#8217;t travel by telegraph across the great oceans; they are transmitted instantly with live video over the Internet or bounced from the array of satellites that float in constant, geosynchronous orbit. It comes as no surprise that supplement sales are on the rise as we continue to seek out quick, convenient ways to lose fat &ndash; fast! </p>
<p>            Losing fat is not difficult. I have been coaching clients to break through plateaus and send their fat cells running for cover for years now. So why does this continue to be an elusive goal for so many people, who &ldquo;struggle&rdquo; just to lose a few inches? </p>
<p>            We can address this by creating a practical guide to lose fat. Is this a special diet that will have the pounds melting off? No. Is it a secret workout program that causes you to burn fat while you sleep? Nope, not that, either &mdash; your body already does it. So what on earth can we share? </p>
<p>            There is a secret, over 2,000 years old, that was leaked to the general public by the father of medicine, Hippocrates. Somewhere along the way, it was lost again. Let&#8217;s bring it back to light. It goes like this: </p>
<p>            &ldquo;If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.&rdquo; </p>
<p>            Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn&#8217;t it? </p>
<p>            The problem is that in our efforts to find something &mdash; fast &mdash; we tend to resort to equations and formulas that should magically spit out the right number of calories, or eliminate entire food groups like sugars or carbohydrates in our quest to make our fat cells cry (what some people call &ldquo;sweat.&rdquo;) </p>
<p>            Everyone will benefit by reducing fat and increasing muscle. It&#8217;s not so much your weight that may slow you down, it&#8217;s the percentage of that weight that comes from fat! So how do you target the love handles and saddle bags without losing your guns or wheels, as biceps and thigh muscles are affectionately termed in the bodybuilding world? </p>
<p>            1. Move more, eat more. </p>
<p>            Whoa &mdash; wait a second! We all understand the idea behind moving more. That means burning more calories. But eat more? You thought it was eat less, didn&#8217;t you? </p>
<p>            The truth is that you must eat more: more intelligently. You must eat more nutrient-dense foods. In turn, you will consume fewer calories. Less calories does not mean less nutrition, when done correctly. </p>
<p>            Even engineered foods (shakes, bars, and sports drinks) contain little nutritional value for the calories that go with them. There is nothing that beats nature&#8217;s own packaging &ndash; fruit, vegetables, lean proteins, healthy fats, and so on. If you want to remain satisfied and full, try consuming over 50% of your calories from fresh fruit and vegetables. Your calories automatically go down, while your intake of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients goes up. The idea is to consume foods as close to their natural state as possible. This means you&#8217;ll do most of your shopping on the outer edge, or perimeter of the grocery store where the meats, eggs, and fresh produce exists, rather than in the middle, where everything comes in boxes, bags, and cans.</p>
<p>Want some nutrition-packed snacks? Try dates or figs with raw cashews. Roasting nuts may damage some of the healthy fats. You&#8217;ll notice that roasted or cooked nuts are addictive, while raw nuts are not. Can&#8217;t take the blandness? Buy roasted, lightly salted and raw nuts, then mix the two together for a compromise. Afraid of the fats? Don&#8217;t be. These come loaded with fiber, protein, and carbohydrates, along with a healthy dose of fatty acids. My personal favorite is celery sticks with all-natural peanut butter. </p>
<p>            2. Make Your Muscles Resist! </p>
<p>            As your calories decrease, there is a chance you may lose muscle mass. Avoid this by making your muscles resist. Your muscles don&#8217;t know the difference between gravity or any other form of resistance. The way to keep them active and toned is to engage in weight bearing activity. While the majority of your training will be focused on endurance, don&#8217;t neglect the power of strength training. Strength training will improve your bone density, build lean muscle mass or preserve it while you are trimming the fat while providing explosive power when you need that kick during your competition. It also helps maintain joint integrity and strength, which is necessary to combat the repeat-use syndrome many runners develop in their ankles, knees, and hips. </p>
<p>            Because your goal is not to stand on stage in a bodybuilding competition, but instead an endurance goal, keep your workouts to two or three short, intense training sessions &mdash; 20 or 30 minutes each &mdash; every week. Get in, give it 100%, and then recover and focus on the rest of your training. Stretch thoroughly. </p>
<p>            There is an added benefit as well: resistance training burns calories for hours after you are finished, and studies show the combination of resistance training and aerobics burns more fat than aerobics alone. </p>
<p>            3. Slow and Steady </p>
<p>            Want a recipe for disaster? Try doing too much, too soon. Most people grasp this concept with training, so why do they fall short when it comes to nutrition? Think &ldquo;better,&rdquo; not &ldquo;perfect&rdquo; when changing your nutrition habits. You want to crash? Go on a diet. You want to change? Transform your lifestyle. Small changes over time tend to last longer than quick-fixes like fad diets or magic bullet pills and supplements. </p>
<p>            As an example, if you currently drink soda, don&#8217;t go cold turkey and jump straight to water. Most will find themselves chomping at the bit for something cold and fizzy! Instead, make a gradual transition. First, switch to diet soft drinks. After you are used to the change, try sparkling mineral water with a lemon or lime. Finally, transition to water. Make small changes, get used to them, and you will be well on your way to trim, fit body. </p>
<p>            <strong>Conclusion</strong> </p>
<p>            If you are like most people, you did not suddenly gain fat overnight. It was a gradual transition. So why should you expect losing the weight to be any faster? Take it slow. A pound of weight per week is a good rule of thumb for permanent fat loss. Anything faster may be too restrictive and could be lean mass (even muscle) instead of simply fat weight. Perhaps the most useful tool for losing fat isn&#8217;t a nutrition guide or workout program after all &mdash; it is a trait. Patience is by far the most powerful tool to lose fat and keep it off.</p>
<p>Ray Burton<br />
            ISSA CPT<br />
            Calgary Personal Trainer</p>
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            </font><font size="2">By Ray Burton</font></font></o:p></p>
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<p>First there are two kinds of pulling movements that fall in the chin-up category. The chin-up and the pull-up. Pull-ups are performed with palms pronated (facing away from you). Perform the pull-up just like a lat pull-down, except that the body rises up to the bar, rather than the reverse where you pull the bar down to you. Make sure you clear the bar with your chin at the top, and pull the scapulae back at the bottom position. Think of &quot;pulling the elbows to the ribs&quot; rather than lifting the chin over the bar. Chin ups are the same movement but your palms face you and the arms stay closer to the sides.</p>
<p>Most people like to start out with chin-ups and the palms facing you, as for most it is the easier version. It doesn&#8217;t matter which version you do as long as you do them!</p>
<p>How to work up to a chin-up if you can&#8217;t do them:</p>
<p>The Jumping Chin-up: This is a simple yet great way to get the feel for the full blown chin-up. If you have a doorway chin-up bar, you can set it up at a height that allows you to grab the bar with a slight bend in your knees if you are standing below it.</p>
<p>If you are at the gym, pull up a box or bench to place it beneath the chin-up bar so you can get the jump off that.</p>
<p>From here it is simply a matter of how much leg power you want to put into your &quot;jump up&quot; to determine how hard the &quot;chin-up&quot; is for you. When you get comfortable, you can start off with a couple normal style chin-up attempts followed by the remaining reps performed &quot;jump style&quot;.</p>
<p>You can also jump up and do a very slow negative or lowering portion of the movement to build up your strength. Soon you will be able to pull all the way up and not just lower.</p>
<p>Why do I suggest the jump style method of chin-up over certain machines that can take of resistance? Because for what you are trying to accomplish here, which is fat burning and a wicked &quot;V&quot; taper, you want to burn calories and build your back. Jumping does that much better than the machines!</p>
<p>What to watch out for:</p>
<p>Make sure you get full extension at the bottom.</p>
<p>Make sure you get your chest up to the bar or at least your chin over the bar.</p>
<p>Avoid pulling with only the arms. This is a back exercise with the arms helping.</p>
<p>Here is an awesome little workout you can do anywhere. Yes, anywhere because chin-ups can be done hanging onto the top of a door, a tree branch a playground set, you name it!</p>
<p>The anywhere &quot;V&quot; taper workout: You are going to combine pushups and chin-ups for a total of 50 reps each. You alternate between the two exercises every rep. One chin-up and then one pushup until you hit 50. Time it and then try to beat it next time, and yes, you can use the jumping chinups!</p>
<p>Ray Burton<br />
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<p><font size="6">When Cheat Treats Become Binges<br />
            </font><font size="2">By Ray Burton</font></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://fattofit.atozfitness.com" title="(2489 hits)"><img class="" alt="" hspace="5" align="left" border="0" src="http://www.buildingbodies.ca/exercise-pictures/get-fit.jpg" /></a>Once I released my last weight loss article on managing social pressure when it comes to eating out, I received a lot of questions regarding the cheat day. The common problem seems to be that most folks have a hard time keeping their weekly cheat day down to a treat or two. What seems to happen is that people go nuts and starting binging once they get a taste of the &quot;good stuff&quot;. Now I&#8217;d like to make things easy and say that if that&#8217;s the case for you, then just don&#8217;t have a cheat day but I know that&#8217;s not going to work. We need a better solution. So lets set up the scenario and see what we can come up with.</p>
<p>So lets say you have been giving yourself a cheat day once a week. You follow the Fat To Fit Program to a T, six days a week and have been losing about one pound per week. Not bad at all. This has been a great track record for you for the past three weeks you have been on the program. But here is where the plot thickens. During the cheat day, you find yourself going hog wild, and eating every single treat you can get your hands on just because you know that you shouldn&#8217;t allow yourself to eat those kinds of treats the other six days of the week if you want great results. You do the crime and get grouchy during your cheat day because you inadvertently make yourself sick. Your body is so shocked from all of the sugar, fat and extreme surplus of extra calories that you have consumed in your frenzy of taste sensations. Oh bother! Your intuition screams that what you are doing to yourself is very bad for your body, and that these actions are NOT what I had in mind for including the cheat day into this fat loss program.</p>
<p>So the question then becomes, &quot;How do I maintain a relaxed, do whatever I want because it&#8217;s cheat day attitude while still enjoying a &quot;couple&quot; of my favorite treats in MODERATION?&quot; Well the first point to contend with is that you cannot do whatever you want because its cheat day. Its called discipline and sacrifice. If you didn&#8217;t want to hear those words, then work on those skills if you want your weight loss efforts to yield any results.</p>
<p>The purpose of the cheat day is to cause a slight temporary increase in your bodies caloric intake so that your metabolism stays high and strong. As a side benefit, most of us fitness coaches say to get the bugs out of your system and enjoy a treat on your cheat day to kill two birds with one stone. (No animals were harmed in the making of this article.) It is a shift in perception that is important. The treat is not the reason for the day. The treat is a side benefit. Would you get better results if you increased your calories through increased complex carbohydrates and some high quality protein? You bet you would.</p>
<p>The thing is, most people want a treat now and then. As a fitness and weight loss coach you can either be right with your clients or you can get results for your clients. If your going to cheat on the program, you should at least do it in a controlled fashion in the context of a cheat day.</p>
<p>Now that the nuts and bolts are out of the way. I&#8217;m going to give you some tips on how I personally handle my cheat days of heavenly taste sensations.</p>
<p>First if the guilty feeling sets in fast for you even when you keep your cheat days sane, try this. I like to do some sort of workout or light activity. I almost always keep treats confined to the post workout replenishing window. A walk to the video store or a jog in the park before you have a cheat meal just makes you feel like you are creating a deficit that you can replace without any harm. You are actually, but its more fun to think you are getting away with something. Let me also say that 90% of the time I eat treats, my conscience makes think about what the treats doing to my abs. Listening to this little voice is the key to keeping your cheat day to just one meal or treat.</p>
<p>After reading this article, you know you should increase your daily calories on the cheat day so you follow my advice and do that to maintain progress with your fat loss. What keeps you from going hog wild is that there is no temporary sensation that food can offer, that replaces the permanent feeling of pride you will have when you look at your new found levels of self discipline, physical achievements and over all feeling of well being.</p>
<p>Feeling like crap all day long does not do it for me and I&#8217;m guessing it doesn&#8217;t work for you either. So enjoy your treat but stop there because now you should be thinking ahead about how it always makes you feel mentally and physically for the rest of the day when you go overboard. The joy of food pleasures is a couple of minutes. The joy of a tight waist, butt and rapid weight loss lasts all day long.</p>
<p>Think of a cheat treat like sex. A couple of minutes of bad decision-making can have crazy long-term effects. Even better and much less graphic, think of it like drinking. It feels good at the time. Its fun in moderation, but push it too far and a couple of hours fun one night, leads to feeling like crap the whole next day.</p>
<p>The key to stopping anything you do not want to do is looking at the cost to benefits that the action gives. Learn to talk yourself into and out of things!</p>
<p>I hope this helps you in you weight loss and fat burning efforts!</p>
<p>Ray L Burton is the owner of Buildingbodies Fitness Consultants and creator of the <a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://fattofit.atozfitness.com" title="(2489 hits)">FAT TO FIT PROGRAM</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ray Burton<br />
            ISSA CPT<br />
            Calgary Personal Trainer</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi again, Sarah and I got our hands on a copy of Ray&#8217;s e-book Fat to Fit which goes with the previous article The Practical Way to Lose Fat&#160;I sent this morning written by Ray. I should have put it at the bottom of the article but Sarah just gave me her review, She reads [...]]]></description>
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<p>Hi again,</p>
<p>Sarah and I got our hands on a copy of Ray&#8217;s e-book Fat to Fit which goes with the previous article <a title="(No click) (715 hits)" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://www.atozfitness.com/wordpress/the-practical-way-to-lose-fat/"><strong><font color="#0066cc">The Practical Way to Lose Fat</font></strong></a>&nbsp;I sent this morning written by Ray.</p>
<p>I should have put it at the bottom of the article but Sarah just gave me her review, She reads faster then me I&#8217;m still digesting it BUT IT IS GOOD !</p>
<p>Below is Sarah&#8217;s review of <a target="_blank" href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://fattofit.atozfitness.com" title="(2489 hits)">Fat to Fit</a> by Ray Burton.</p>
<p>Btw it is short and sweet and only takes a minute to read .</p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt">W</span></strong>hat can I say? WOW? I&rsquo;ve said that before, no? Well, at the risk of repeating myself, W O W.</div>
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<p>So what am I all excited about this time, well, I&rsquo;ll tell you! In a minute.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">After reading the entire 159-page e-book in one day (all the while taking care of other business, cooking and cleaning, yes it&rsquo;s that good) I was left with one single question. And it simply concerned the composition of the post workout shake.</span></p>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">My overall impression of the book is that we at AtoZFitness are backing it fully, no hesitation what-so-ever. I like it. I like the kick-butt, no bs approach, nothing wrapped in cotton or pink fluff, just hard iron and facts. It&rsquo;s a little like &hellip; what can I say, like having Jillian from the Biggest Loser, only a little less pushy, right there with you. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Ray Burton is telling it to you straight. Simply. No fancy words, no scientific mumbo-jumbo, and even with a link to get your calorie-requirements worked out without you having to twist your mind around any numbers (well, the numbers crunching does turn up afterwards, a little bit). You get different training programs for different levels of fitness, cardio recommendations, eating recommendations (recipes are in a separate bonus download, as are 3 menu samples each for men and women), a motivational speech chapter &hellip; all you really need to do, once you&rsquo;ve bought this great book, is to decide why you want to follow a fitness lifestyle, and then chose between the different workouts depending on your level of fitness. It&rsquo;s that simple!</span>&nbsp;</div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">I&rsquo;m not going to go on and on about <strong>Fat to Fit</strong>&nbsp;and try to push it on you at all, but this &ldquo;little big book&rdquo; is really worth owning, truly!</p>
<p>            Check it out at <a href="http://atozfitness.com/wordpress/go.php?http://fattofit.atozfitness.com" title="(2489 hits)">http://fattofit.atozfitness.com</a> </span></p>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Sarah, CPT</div>
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