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Rob Poulos – Fat Burning Furnace creator interview

lewis — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:01:30 +0000

I'm really excited because I just had the chance to interrogate
one of the hottest names in fat loss and fitness, Rob Poulos.
Rob is the author of "Fat Burning Furnace" at

http://budurl.com/fatburningatoz

and specializes in helping both men and women lost fat quickly
and permanently with his brief and infrequent workouts and
simple diet principles.

He and his spouse lost over 100 pounds of fat combined in just a
few months with his methods, and thousands of his readers are
getting similar results (you can read more quotes on his
website).

He really let loose in the interview, so I thought you'd enjoy
listening in…

To your health and fitness,
Lewis

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Q: Rob, thanks for agreeing to let me interview you today. For
those out there who don’t know much about you, can you give us a
little background and how you were able to make such an amazing
transformation in such little time?

RP: Sure, and thanks for having me. You know, I first got
interested in this whole fat burning thing mainly to meet girls
when I was younger and I’m not ashamed to admit it! But
seriously, I kind of struggled with my weight most of my life.
When I was in my early 20s, I got interested in bodybuilding
(mostly through watching too many Arnold Schwarzenegger movies I
guess!). But I saw it as a way to get the kind of lean muscular
body I wanted. Not the blown up steroid bodybuilder look, more
like the look the bodybuilders of the 50’s &60’s had, you know,
the kind that attracts the opposite sex and makes your friends
jealous! But I realized real fast that achieving these goals
doesn’t happen overnight.

I also found out, after years and years of trial and error, that
90% of the fat loss or muscle building programs and products
were just plain garbage. They were either created to simply
make a quick buck, or would only work on people who were already
born with great lean muscular genetics. You know the type. I
had one buddy who would work out lazily, with very little
intensity, and pretty much eat pizza after pizza and still look
dynamite when he was at the beach.

I also learned that most of the programs out there either
required you to spend 4-6 days in the gym with long cardio
workouts plus weight training workouts, restrict yourself of
carbs until you were mad at the whole world, or both!
This stuff just plain frustrated me, and so I went looking to
create a fat loss and fitness method of my own as I couldn’t
find one that allowed me to get in killer shape without having
to give up the foods I loved or most of my spare time.

And after about 10 years or so, I felt as though I had perfected
the method as once I started using all of the techniques
together, I was able to finally drop over 42 pounds of body fat
and 10 inches off my waist. I was also building slabs of lean
muscle and strength, this happened over the course of just a few
months. My wife even lost 59 pounds during this same period and
went from a size 12 to a size 4.

But what really excited me , was that we did it without cutting
carbs out of our diet and by only working out 2-3 times a week
for just 15-26 minutes per workout. And no cardio whatsoever.
We both hated long boring cardio, so we were like a couple of
kids at Christmas.

So, obviously when our friends and family saw the changes we had
made, we got a lot of mixed reactions. Some were jealous and
not supportive, if you can believe that! But most wanted to get
my secrets and kept telling me, "you have to write a book, you
have to write a book".

So that’s what I did. I put everything down to paper and even
shot some videos detailing my method so people could just copy
my plan themselves. And it’s been fantastic helping thousands
and thousands of people from all over the world with my Fat
Burning Furnace program,helping them finally lose that stubborn
body fat and develop a new level of self confidence in
everything they do. So that’s where I am today and it feels
great!

Q: Rob, a lot of people on the cover of fitness products that
have great physiques are just born with great genetics. From
what you mentioned, this is obviously not an advantage you
had. Can you tell us how exactly you were able to overcome your
fat loss and fitness challenges?

RP: I simply wanted it badly . I hated being overweight and just
felt crummy all the time. I had low energy. I was embarrassed
to take my shirt off in the summer, you know, all the
stereotypical stuff, except it was very personal for me.

I also didn’t carry much muscle on my body genetically. I’m
rather tall (6’6") so looking muscular is even tougher for me
than someone of average height. I was over fat, yet under
muscled. Talk about the worst of both worlds. But I’m not the
kind of person that just gives up. I must have tried a hundred
different programs or diets during those 10 or so years.

The steps I took were basically trial and error,and a lot of
wasted money. But you know, it really wasn’t wasted because if
I was able to gain just one new insight or technique to add to
my method, it was worth it. Especially with results I’m able to
obtain for my readers and students now.

At some point I basically realized that exercise and nutrition
for building muscle and getting lean is a science, just like any
other science. There are things that must be included in your
regimen or else you cannot expect results. Period. The beauty
of it is, that for other people, I can show them how to get it
done like my wife and I did in just a few months and without
having super human motivation or spending even 1 year of more
trial and error.

Q: That’s awesome..now Rob, you specialize in teaching people
how to burn fat from their bodies. Can you give us some
nutritional tips for burning the most amount of fat in minimum
time?

RP: Oh yeah. There’s a lot of stuff,but perhaps the most
important tip I can give anyone trying to get and stay lean is
to look at food from a micronutrient standpoint. Most people
look at food from a macronutrient view (protein, carbs, fats).

This is fine, but the big light bulb went off for me when I
started to focus on eating most of my calories from foods that
are super loaded with nutrients. These are vegetables, fruits,
whole unrefined grains, beans, legumes, nuts, and seeds. I’m
not talking about a vegetarian or vegan diet here, but a diet
that supplies the body with the nutrients it requires to burn
fat optimally. When you give your body the required nutrients
without overloading it with nutrient poor or nutrient barren
foods, fast fat loss happens almost magically.

Q: Now I also know you're not a fan of cardio. I usually teach
cardio as a great way to burn fat. Why do your methods not
include cardio?

RP: Let me be extra clear on this one, because my stance here
confuses a lot of people. First off, I think it is a waste of
time trying to "run off" your calories to burn fat. This
attitude will just wear you out over the long haul, and simply
doesn’t work as well as controlling your calories through diet
techniques. Also, studies have shown that regular moderately
paced cardio, where you run or bike at a steady pace for 30+
minutes several times a week actually causes you to store more
fat! Here’s why this is the case.

When you’re doing this
exercise, your body is using stored fat for fuel. This may
sound good, but what this is actually doing is telling your body
that when it encounters this activity again it needs a reserve
amount of fat available to fuel the exercise session. I know it
sounds crazy, but it’s true. On top of that, most avid runners
can tell you about the injuries and nagging pains they have from
the constant repetitive pound their joints and tendons take over
the years…not something I would wish on my worst enemy!

Now, what does work for burning fat quickly is what’s known as
interval cardio. And I know you know all about this , with your
stair routines. This is where you perform a relatively short
cardio workout (usually 15-25 minutes or so) and you alternate
periods of high to low intensity during the session.

So you might spend 1 minute jogging at a light pace, and then
immediately switch to a near sprint for 1 minute straight, and
then repeat the process several times. This type of exercise
uses stored carbohydrates for fuel, not fat, so it sends a
signal to your body to replenish your depleted muscles rather
than storing a reserve amount of fat. Very different from the
standard type of cardio that I loathe!

But believe it or not, I don’t even do this type of interval
cardio in my own method. Why is that? Well, it’s because I
realized a while back that the #1 activity you can do to burn
fat is weight training or some form of resistance training.

This has to do with the fact that adding lean muscle to your
body creates a powerful fat burning furnace that will
automatically burn more calories at rest…significantly more.
What we’ve done with the type of weight training we do in Fat
Burning Furnace, though, is combine interval cardio with weight
training to create one short and simple fat burning, muscle, and
strength building work out. Many people have called it the most
efficient fat loss and fitness work out ever created.

Q: So obviously you are a big fan of weight training when it
comes to burning fat. Should people train the same as when
they're trying to gain muscle?

RP: Yeah , in my experience, they should. But the weight
training we use is not like you see most guys performing in the
gym these days. We don’t use split routines, we don’t throw the
weights around, and we don’t have ladies lifting soup cans or
using rubber bands. From my experience all of these things will
get you worse results or injured. The main goal of my Fat
Burning Furnace exercise program is to burn fat, of course, but
the underlying goal that leads to this is building lean muscle
mass.

And this scares some ladies and even some of the men who read my
book..they don’t want to get too bulky. But, as I said, this is
a near impossibility for 99% of women and even some men due to
the genetic requirements (muscle belly length, testosterone
levels, etc.) of having overly large muscles. Now, sure, you
could gain weight and look bulky by eating a ton of calories
while you’re building muscle, but you’d just be fat and
puffy like I was several years ago.

The only thing more lean muscle is going to do to a ladies body
is make it more feminine, shapely, and se.xy.

Q: That’s right,and it’s something we still need to get the word
out on to women everywhere for sure. Rob, what are some common
mistakes you see people making when trying to lose lots of fat
and get ripped?

RP: Oh man, there are so many . I mean, there are basic large
scale diet mistakes, like restricting yourself of carbohydrates
too much (which won’t work in the long run), eating too few
calories or starving yourself, eating a low fat diet and
eliminating healthy fats, and not eating enough of your calories
from nutrient rich foods.

Then there are big exercise mistakes, like spending 4-6 days a
week in the gym with hours of boring fat storing cardio and then
hours more of low to moderate intensity weight training on top
of it. People are using terrible form with their exercise,
which takes most of the stress off the muscles being worked and
cuts their effectiveness by at least two-thirds. Ladies are
afraid to work out hard in fear of getting to bulky.

I mean I could go on,but I actually have a video I put together
for my newsletters subscribers that tells you my top 7 mistakes
people make.Your readers can watch it after they subscribe at my
website if they wish.

Q: Any other fat burning tips you want to share with us?

RP: Well, I suppose the big thing lately is that everybody wants
to lose their belly fat and get ripped abs. The main problem
here is that people still think they can lose belly fat without
losing fat in any other place on their bodies. But the reality
is you only use fat uniformly, throughout the entire body. It
may seem like it’s not coming off in those problem areas, but
that’s only because you have more of it there. You need to
focus on lowering your overall body fat percentage and that
belly fat, thigh fat, butt fat, or wherever fat will come off.

Also, hours of situps or any of those ab gizmos on late night TV
will not reduce your belly fat. You could have the strongest
abs in the world, but if they’re covered by a blanket of fat,
you’ll never see them.

So to summarize:focus on eating most of your calories from foods
loaded with nutrients. Use interval cardio and/or intense full
body weight training to build muscle and burn fat, 2-3 times per
week. Or if you’d like, you can simply copy my method that I detail in my Fat Burning Furnace book.

You know that movie "Back To The Future", right? One of my
favorites. Man, sometimes I think what I would give to have that
Delorean so I could go back in time a few years and give my Fat
Burning Furnace plan to my former fat and frustrated self. The
money I’d save. The hours and hours of frustration and
embarrassment I’d save. That would be nice!

Q: Now Rob, I understand you’ve just create something special
for those out there who are ready to stick with their new year’s
resolution for fat loss?

RP: Yeah, I have…and here’s what’s happening. You know at the
beginning of each year, everybody and their brother vows to lose
weight as one of their top new year’s resolutions. But I think
the latest figure is that 97% of them do not succeed in doing
this,that’s just crazy. So I wanted to do something to help spur
people to success that thus far has really eluded them. So what
I did is put together 5 additional fat burning bonuses to really
give them no more excuses to finally achieve that lean and fit
body they really want this year…

So first on the list is my 8 secrets to a new year’s fat loss
resolution solution. The reason I put this together is that I’ve
found it’s not usually a lack of discipline that stops people
from realizing their fat loss goals in the new year, but just a
lack of knowledge of some simple but powerful techniques that
those that are nearly always successfully with their resolutions
use themselves. So I’m providing that here.

Next, I am giving away an archive of my most helpful fat loss
and fitness tips and tricks that my newsletter subscribers have
received over the past 2 years or so now this is really cool
because I often reveal a lot of tips that are not in my Fat
Burning Furnace book in the newsletter. So at over 145 pages,
there’s a lot of value there obviously.

And on top of these two, I’m giving away 3 downloadable mp3
audios of my own interviews with 3 dynamite health and fitness
experts. One is with a guy that is an expert at helping you
manage your personal energy so you can really change your
lifestyle for the better fast. Another is with a guy that
specializes in helping people develop unstoppable motivation for
fat loss and other life goals. And the last interview with a
world famous trainer who has the fastest workouts I’ve ever
seen, 4 minutes per workout, it sounds crazy, but there is
actually hard science to how these things work. And all of that
is revealed in these interviews.

Now, I can’t obviously give these 5 bonuses away for free for
too long, so what I’m doing is,I’m going to give them away,
free, to anyone who claims a copy of my Fat Burning Furnace book
at my website before midnight Wednesday, January 30th. That
means the latest you can get your copy is 11:59pm on Tuesday the
29th,so again, you get all 5 bonuses just for grabbing a copy of
my book. We just started giving these bonuses away a few days
ago and people are really digging them. I mean the emails I’m
getting from people are just awesome!

Q: Alright, well thanks again for giving up your time today
Rob..you’ve really shared some fat loss tips.

RP: Sure thing , it’s been great.

Q: Now, you mentioned your newsletter and all of those New
Year’s bonuses with your Fat Burning Furnace book. Where can
people go to sign up for the newsletter and get the bonuses?

RP: Oh yeah, if your readers would like to get my complimentary
eNewsletter, which comes with a free 40 page ebooklet by the
way, as well as learn more about my Fat Burning Furnace plan and
the 5 limited bonuses, they can visit my site at:

http://budurl.com/fatburningatoz

And thanks again for having me. I’m sure we’ll talk soon.

have a great day,
Lewis

Seeing Is Believing If You Want To Burn Fat – Or Is It?

lewis — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:14:41 +0000

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Seeing Is Believing If You
Want To Burn Fat – Or Is It?

By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Creator of 'Fat Burning Furnace'
http://budurl.com/fatbfurnace

As with a good majority of the things we do in life, we rely heavily on our vision or eyesight as the determining factor in whether or not we believe something. And this is unfortunately the case in trying to burn fat as well. What’s the old cliché? A picture is worth a thousand words, right?

Well, when we lock our eyes onto that photo of that buff guy or buxom bombshell on the cover of the latest fitness or weight loss product, something happens. We get excited. We may even get very excited!

Unfortunately, this is something that many in the fitness industry are preying on. They know this and use it to their huge advantage. The process is simple: put a great looking and in-shape guy or girl on a product and it will sell. They don’t even have to tell you you’ll look like that person – they already know your subconscious will assume it will happen. When you're desperate to burn fat, this is an easy game for the fitness industry to play.

And of course a few weeks later if it doesn’t, you may start to lose hope and realize that it’s going to be tough to keep up with the unrealistic and overly strict guidelines. You’ve got a life, right? Sure, you want to burn fat, but you’ve got a job, maybe a family, and other interests in life. Don’t get me wrong, I love a great fat burning workout, but I know you don’t want to spend every waking hour for the rest of your life working out!

All of this happened to me several times over as a young man. I wasn’t happy with my weight, wanted to burn fat, and was in search of the most efficient way to get lean, strong, and healthy, but while not spending too much time in the gym, or having to follow crazy diet plans for long periods of time.

After more than a decade of experimenting on myself, friends, relatives, and perfect strangers, I assembled some of the secrets that I found to work best at burning fat and in the shortest amount of time, on myself and the others that I worked with. Now, what led me to do this was an incredible amount of frustration that I know thousands of others are going through right now.

Why? To answer that, I want you to understand the psychological aspects of what we are up against in the world of health and fitness.

What do you call doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? OK, I’ll answer this one…Insanity! In some ways, the fitness industry is making you insane in your quest to burn fat and get a lean, strong, and healthy body. Their promises are too good to be true and often they can’t typically deliver on them. They are over-promising and under-delivering in many cases.

It’s a big psychological game that the fitness industry is playing with us, and it dates back to our childhood. When we were kids, we were all taught in school that we could do anything we wanted to do when we grew up. Your parents might have even told you that you can achieve anything you want if you believe in it strongly enough. I know mine did.

While this can provide great inspiration in life’s pursuits, it can also be used against you by others, and without you knowing. You are largely a product of your genetic makeup. Just as Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies could never play in the NBA, a guy like Woody Allen could never win a heavyweight bodybuilding competition.

The reality is that these two guys can burn fat and get in the best shape of their life, but our genes are responsible for much of what we end up looking like when in that best shape. But this isn’t what the fitness industry will typically tell you – they want you thinking that anyone can look like a genetic freak of nature…if you just follow their programs, that is.

Please know that I am not saying you are doomed by your genes…everyone can make amazing improvements in their physiques with proper exercise and nutrition habits. It’s when we start comparing ourselves to the guys or gals in the magazines that we get into trouble, and get lost in that vicious cycle of hype and sensationalism all too prevalent in fitness and fat burning today.

As I mentioned before, you’ve got a life. You’re a busy person. We all are. We live in a fast-paced society, the information age, where we have so many tasks to complete and so little time to complete them. I don’t know about you, but I find myself trying to cram everything I do into those few hours between waking up and going to sleep. It’s not easy.

Then comes along the fitness gurus telling you that to burn fat and get in great shape you’ve got to workout everyday or close to it. You’ve got to do aerobics or cardiovascular exercise to burn fat, several times a week. You’ve got to weight train several other days each week, so that you are literally working out 5-6 days each week, every week. If you want it, you’ve got to do it, they say.

I’m here to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth! Many of these programs will also tell you that you’ve got to follow some crazy diet to burn fat. This might include cutting all or most of your carbs, ingesting loads of supplements or other magic weight loss potions. On top of that, when their programs don’t deliver, they’ll tell you that everyone is different and that you’ve got to find what works right for you. Wait a minute…weren’t they just telling you that their program promises the body on the cover?

What they are doing is keeping you in that fitness insanity that I mentioned earlier. They keep you doing the same thing (trying then next hot product or workout and diet regimen) and promising the same great fat burning results. If it doesn’t work, they recommend the next great thing. And too many people go on to that next miracle product or promise and the fitness industry uses this to their advantage!

Unfortunately the fitness industry, in many ways, has become a cycle of hype and sensationalism. Sure, there are some good-hearted trainers and professionals out there, but even some of them are being controlled by the fitness center owners, magazine publishers, and supplement companies. That’s where the money is! Even if they are trying to help you, they can become unwitting victims to the machine.

They advertise their products, programs, and diets by using the cream of the crop in the genetic gene pool. Hey, if it worked for that guy or gal with the amazing physique, it will work for me. I fell for it, too, many times, until I did some serious research and experimentation as I mentioned before.

Then one day I finally woke up and discovered for myself the secrets that few people are aware of. Secrets that will never dominate the fitness industry’s general recommendations because they are unpopular with the people that control the industry. Why?

Because these principles won’t sell loads of crazy exercise gimmicks, gadgets, or magic potions. My Fat Burning Furnace students are schooled in the proper application of brief, progressive, and intense resistance training, eating a diet full of nutrient rich foods, drinking tons of water, and getting plenty of quality sleep and rest.

But our subconscious mind is powerful, and you have to watch out…even today, I can get sucked in to a compelling late night TV ad, even though I know better. So you’ve got to stay on guard.

If people would pay more attention to proven principles like those I teach my students, and spend less time with the latest “butt buster” or “fat stripper” on the market, we’d all be healthier, leaner, stronger, and happier for it. And we'd also be burning a heck of a lot more fat in the process.

Claim your free copy of Rob Poulos's "7 Secrets Of Permanent Fat Loss & Fitness" at his website: http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com

Rob Poulos is a celebrated fitness author, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to Hero Fitness. Rob created the world's most efficient method for fast and permanent fat loss with his "Fat Burning Furnace" system to help those looking to put an end to restrictive fad diets, long boring cardio workouts, and the need for super-human willpower for good.

If you're thinking about using the Fat Burning Furnace system yourself, but still have a few questions, make sure you visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Also, it may help to read about the success stories of others like you to see how people in similar situations have changed their bodies and their lives with the techniques in FBF.

But you may become anxious to get started on your new body right now, so you can also click the button below to get started right now. Remember, you have a full 60 days to decide if it's right for you. If not, just email me and we'll issue you a full refund and I'll thank you for trying it out…it's that simple!

Sincerely,
Lewis

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Rest, Sleep, And Burn More Fat Fast

lewis — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:04 +0000

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Rest, Sleep, And Burn More Fat Fast

By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Creator of 'Fat Burning Furnace'

In order to reap the benefits from the intense exercise I recommend to my Fat Burning Furnace students, you must get adequate rest. I can’t stress this fact enough. In fact, rest is just as important, if not more important that the actual exercise.

During the high intensity resistance exercise that my students perform, the muscles experience tiny injuries or tears. The body’s response is to adapt and repair, getting stronger and larger muscles, which of course leads to burning more fat and a leaner body.

But this growth and repair process won’t take place if the body is not allowed the time to do its job. Too often, people rush back into the gym, as many have been inundated with the “more is better” axiom when it comes to exercise. But if we don’t get out of the body’s way and let it do its magic, we will experience poor results. We won't burn fat like we want to, and we will just end up demotivated or possibly give up our efforts altogether.

If you don’t get enough rest or sleep, you’ll have a very difficult time building the fat-burning muscle that will transform your body. And you’ll also have a tough time burning fat off too! That’s why we can’t work out too long or too often when using a sufficient intensity level. When giving the body an intense stimulus, such as proper weight training, you can’t keep hammering it into the ground.

If you did this, you’d quickly over train your muscles and negate your body’s ability to recover from exercise. Your immune system could become so worn down in fact, that you might even get sick…this happened to me a few times in the past when I wasn’t paying attention to getting adequate rest and sleep.

And this repair and recover process doesn’t happen overnight, it usually takes 2 days or more, So make sure to keep between 1-3 days of rest between your properly conducted resistance training workouts, or you will be short-circuiting your chances of success to burn fat and build lean, strong, muscle.

Now that we know how important rest is to burning fat and building muscle, we also must understand the most important component of rest…otherwise know as sleep. Sleep is the ultimate recovery tool, and not only for recovery from exercise. It’s a recovery tool from any stress you take in throughout the day.

Whether it’s from family pressures, work issues, or finances, etc., increased stress can be dissolved by adequate sleep. And don’t think you can burn fat maximally when you’re over-stressed by other things in your life. A high stress level can shut down the effectiveness of your ability to burn fat, among other things.

So make sure to get adequate sleep. What’s ideal? I would recommend no less than seven or more than nine hours. In fact, seven and half hours per night might be the perfect amount!

Research has shown that we sleep in cycles of 90 minutes or so. It has been suggested that if we wake up too far before or after one of these 90 minute cycles, you will probably feel groggy for a good part of the day. So try the 5 90 minutes sleep cycles, or 7 and a half hours…you’ll most likely wake up feeling well-rested and energized, and your fat burning furnace will show it’s appreciation, allowing you to burn more fat faster.

Claim your free copy of Rob Poulos's "7 Secrets Of Permanent Fat Loss & Fitness" at his website: http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com

Sincerely,,
Lewis

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The Best Way To Fire Up Your Metabolism, Burn Fat Fast & Develop Lasting Health

lewis — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:45:00 +0000

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The Best Way To Fire Up Your Metabolism,
Burn Fat Fast & Developing Lasting Health

By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Creator of 'Fat Burning Furnace'

Ask ten people what type of exercise they should be doing to burn fat and fire up their metabolism and they’ll all probably tell you the same thing. They’ll tell you that you need to do 30-40 minutes of moderately-paced aerobic exercise on a treadmill, elliptical machine, stair climber, etc. for 3-5 times per week.

They’ll probably also tell you that more is better…4 times per week would be better than 3, and 5 times per week would be even better.

People will tell you this because that’s been and continues to be the mainstream recommendation for fat burning by many fitness professionals. Get in a certain target heart rate and stay at that heart rate for 30 minutes or so, several times per week. I am here to tell you there is a better way.

Sure, you’ll burn some calories while you’re running to nowhere on a treadmill, but you won’t make a complete physique transformation with this type of exercise alone.

In fact, this type of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat. Here are just a couple of reasons:

Long duration, lower intensity aerobics calls upon your stored body fat for energy during the sessions. While this may sound good, this can actually cause your body to create more body fat in reserve after the workout is over to have ready for your next workout. Yikes!

What's worse, this type of exercise when done frequently as typically suggested, trains your cardiovascular system to be efficient. Again, while this sounds good, your heart and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work as they are getting more efficient at doing easy work (your long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts), which reduces their ability to handle stress.

This can lead to a host of other problems including higher change of heart attack. You are only working within your current aerobic capacity because you're never challenging it to go beyond what it's capable of. And anything that is easy will not yield results even close to what’s challenging for the body to accomplish.

Instead, you should be challenging the body to increase its capacity, so that it is stronger and able to deal with stress more easily. How is this done?

The fastest and most efficient way to rev up your metabolism, burn fat faster, and develop lifelong health and fitness is to add lean muscle to your body through resistance training – period. You want life changing results in the quickest possible time? Get stronger and build some muscle. When you add lean muscle to your body you’ll be literally turning your body into a fat burning machine!

Let’s say that you were eating the amount of calories that allow you to maintain your current bodyweight, but began to add lean muscle to your body through proper resistance training…you’ll need to use some of those calories you’re eating to feed the new muscle, creating a calorie deficit in your body.

In addition, when you stimulate your body with proper resistance training like I teach my students, the repair and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy. This calorie deficit combined with the repair and growth process will allow you to burn fat all day long, every day. You’ll even get these fat burning effects when you’re sitting around doing nothing at all.

Also, properly conducted resistance training actually increases your heart and lung's capacity for work. By placing intense demands on your body, it is forced into being ready for anything you throw at it. This makes you more resistant to cardiovascular health problems that plague most people…even those that exercise with aerobics frequently.

And the beauty is I’ve discovered that you don’t have to spend much time working out to get the fat loss effects, and strength and muscle gains that will create this environment…you can actually get it done with 2 or 3 weekly workouts that last between 20 and 30 minutes, and even less time at an advanced level.

And it’s easy to make this type of exercise part of your life because of its efficiency…and it will help keep you lean and healthy for the rest of it…muscle is the stuff that fat burning furnaces are made of! That I can promise you.

Claim your free copy of Rob Poulos's "7 Secrets Of Permanent Fat Loss & Fitness" at his website: http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com

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Lewis

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The Fat Burning Furnace Reviewed

lewis — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:47:34 +0000

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By Lewis
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With a name like Fat Burning Furnace, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a solution which will burn all the excess fat that you have – fast. Is this the premise behind the weight loss program called Fat Burning Furnace?

That is exactly what we will try to discover here.

Over the years, a lot of similar exercise, diet or combination programs have been sold in the market – with the promise of being the ‘miracle’ solution that will allow you to shed off the excess pounds that you have, and get rid of them permanently. The problem is that most of these programs are merely fad diets which become popular for a short period of time – and just poofs into thin air because the results aren’t what you expected them to be.

On the other hand, if you don’t have enough discipline to make use of an expensive, complicated exercise equipment, you may never really find it in you to get rid of the excess pounds that you have. So is the Fat Burning Furnace set to be the ultimate weight loss solution that you are looking for? Read on to find out.

Product Background & Information

Fat Burning Furnace Review

Te authors of Fat Burning Furnace are Rob and Kalen Poulos. When you check out their official website at http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com , you will read a tagline which goes like this: the diet industry’s nasty secrets finally revealed. The line may sound like any other marketing copy which aims to sell a particular product, but there just might be something to what the co-authors are saying.

The Fat Burning Furnace is a weight loss program which is meant for individuals who are ready to try something different other than restrictive dieting and hours of exercise. The other half of the time Rob Poulos claims to have helped more than 70,000 men and women in over 137 countries to burn more fat faster and keep it off while increasing their strength and energy at the same time. If you’re wondering what the author’s qualifications are, he is the CEO and funder of Zero to Hero Fitness as well as the creator of the Fat Burning Furnace program.

Pros & Cons of Using the Program

Pros:

What the Fat Burning Furnace will teach you is the method to lose fat and not weight. This is the distinction that this program has with alternative fad diets which really helps you lose water weight, with the facet result of you obtaining dehydrated. The Fat Burning Furnace veers far from that principle.The program conjointly teaches you ways not to be enslaved by exercise – you only would like 45 minutes a week rather than operating out daily. Alternative dieting secrets will be revealed, and the end goal is for you to skyrocket your energy, boost your immune system and flatten your tummy.

Detailed guide covers the explanations for exercise as well as telling you what to try to to therefore you know why the strategies work furthermore how they work. Fast workouts with no heat up needed, simply 20 – 25 minutes in length. Long cardio is needed, author states that his system provides a higher cardio workout than long sessions on treadmills etc and tells you why. Access to the author if you get stuck. Gives a way to do a restricted workout just using body weight if you don’t have any weights to use or access to a gym (additionally useful if on holiday).

Cons:

As there are pros and Cons With every program out there. With Fat Burning Furnace I am pretty Stumped to find any Cons At all… It contains the most valuable information for Finally Burning and losing fat. The one thing that I want to mention is that now you MUST listen to an Informational audio Before continuing on through the Website. In light of that, the Informational audio is actually very informative. This Program works PERIOD!

So what are the upsides and downsides of using the Fat Burning Furnace in your goal to shed off the excess pounds that you have? First, the plus points. What the Fat Burning Furnace will teach you is how to lose fat and not weight. This is the difference that this program has with other fad diets which actually helps you lose water weight, with the side effect of you getting dehydrated. The Fat Burning Furnace veers away from that principle.

The program also teaches you how not to be a slave to exercise – you only need 45 minutes a week instead of working out daily. Other dieting secrets will be revealed, and the end goal is for you to skyrocket your energy, boost your immune system and flatten your tummy.

The downside of the program is that majority of the guide revolves around diet and nutrition – and only about 20% is devoted to exercise. Some useful information like the kinds of milk or certain fatty acids to help you achieve your weight loss goal faster are also skipped.

The Verdict: Is Fat Burning Furnace Worth Your Money?

Fat Burning Furnace Review

The truth is that the author Rob Poulos is not extremely fond of long workouts. In fact, he only requires a 45-minute-per-week exercise session in the Fat Burning Furnace program. Are you supposed to meet your weight loss goals if you only spend less than an hour per week working out? Yes, especially if you will make use of the BlowTorch system which is an advanced workout plan to target specific areas of your body.

When you combine this with the fact that the Fat Burning Furnace focuses more on nutrition instead of it being a run-of-the-mill fad diet program, it’s easy to see why the program has achieved a great level of success on the Internet. If you’re the type of dieter who is focused on nutrition and does not have the time nor the patience to workout long hours several times a week, then Fat Burning Furnace

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Lewis

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Ask The Muscle Expert Vince Delmonte

lewis — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:47:24 +0000

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By Vince Delmonte
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One of my favorite sections of Men’s Health magazine is Jimmy THE BARTENDER which is a question and answer column on women, work and other stuff that “screws up men’s lives.”

I’m going to let Jimmy keep helping you out with women and work.

I’m going to take the next 5-days to answer your muscle and six-pack questions.

Question: What is your secret to staying ripped and muscular all year round?

Vince: The secret is that there is no secret; it’s all abut commitment, discipline, sacrifice and passion. You probably won’t like that answer because it’s all about “sweat equity.” It’s all about being in love with the lifestyle.

You need to fall in love with the natural high of working hard in the gym. Genetics can only take you so far, it’s all about taking the little things seriously.

The little things, those daily routines, is what makes or breaks your physique. You’ve got to want it more than anybody else and be willing to put in the extra mile, especially in terms of your diet.

Question: What is the best meal I can eat in the morning to fuel my muscles?

Vince: This is the first thing that should be on your mind when you wake and this muscle muesli breakfast will do just the job. Mentally, having a meal with natural energy sources is the perfect way to set the tone for your day.

Mix 1 cup of cooked oats to get a slow-release carb and to keep your cholesterol in check. Add 2 cups of fat-free live yogurt to get a combination of carbs and proteins and probiotics. Probiotics help absorb magnesium, calcium and iron which are needed to maintain muscle growth.

Add a handful of mixed nuts which are rich in omega-6 fats and helps regulate digestion ensuring that slow release of energy. Add another handful of pumpkin seeds which can improve blood flow to your muscles during exercise.

Add a small handful of raisins, blueberries ans strawberries for an excellent source of antioxidants and to combat free radicals.

Add some organic honey which is high in zinc plus some cinnamon to taste. Cinnamon helps the cells absorb glucose better keeping energy high and controlling cholesterol.

Another trick is to soak the oatmeal in a cup of juice from an orange overnight in a Tupperware container so that when you wake up, add the extra ingredients and you’re good for the road. Make a second batch for a pre-workout meal and you’re lift like a champ.

Question: The body builders at my gym work each muscle group once a week. Is that enough?

Vince: It depends on your compensation curve. This is the wave like response your body has to any given workout. Lets say on Monday you trained your legs with squats and 3 other leg exercises. For the next 2-3 days you will be weaker from the damage your did to your muscles.

Then the wave comes back up and maybe 4-5 days later you’ll be stronger which means you recovered and experienced the training response. Also known as super compensation.

But lets say you wait a complete seven days before you train your legs again when you recovered after 5-6 days, you may miss the wave and actually become weaker than you were the previous week. The secret is finding how many days it takes to hit the top of the wave before it starts to drop again.

Since you’re more focused on building muscle, you’ll probably get better results using my system of working the major muscle groups 2-3 times a week, using different exercises.

Question: I am started to get bulky, but I want to be lean. Should I start doing higher reps or lighter weights?

Vince: It’s very rare that heavy weights will make you look bulky (ladies, listen up); it’s a heavy fork that is the offender. Your muscles grow on calories so if you’re getting bulky, I would be more interested in assessing your meal plan than training plan. Ladies, that goes for you especially.

Extra body fat is what makes you look bulky so put your efforts into fixing your diet. Your diet should be based around eating high-fiber vegetables and high-protein meals.

In the gym, stick to whatever weight training program you are currently doing. The same program that built the muscle will be the same program that keeps the muscle. The biggest difference would be focusing on doing more work in less time. Start to slowly lower your rest periods to 30-seconds to create a metabolic response to fry the fat. You will not need to go any shorter than that to lean down.

You’ve got muscle training problems - here are more answers.

Question: I have been doing various chest exercise for a while now but I am really struggling to get that line down the middle of my chest to give over all definition to the pecs. Are there any exercises that target that area?

Vince: Yes, and I will share an old school muscle training technique known as Pre-Exhaust training which is when you pre-fatigue a certain body part, in your case the chest, using an isolation or “single -joint” movement first followed by a compound or “multi-joint” movement.

Pre-exhaust training can over train beginners but will force your muscles to work twice as hard on the compound movements that follow to ensure you experience metabolic fatigue before neurological fatigue.

I am in fact experimenting with this old school muscle training technique for an upcoming program I’ll be releasing but here is what you can start adding before all your chest workouts:

Exercise 1: DB Chest Flys 2 sets of 10 with 60 sec rest. Focus on the greatest range of motion and keep your elbows slightly bent. Move the weight slow and controlled.

Exercise 2: Wide Grip Parallel Bar Dips 3 sets of 15 with 30 sec rest. Go as deep as possible and lean forward to take the stress off your triceps and emphasize the “middle line” of your chest.

Continue with the rest of your chest workout. This extra 5 minutes at the start will create a button-popping chest.

Question: I want to continue to build lean muscle whilst dropping body fat. Please help and explain how you achieve both simultaneously.

Vince: And I want to date Jessica Alba and Eva Longoria at the same time! You are better chasing one goal and putting all your effort into it. Chasing two goals at once often leads to frustration and very little change in either direction unless you have tremendous genetics, a complete beginner or using drugs. It is possible but typically happens by chance and most guys who experience a gain in muscle and lost in fat, simultaneously, can’t give you a good answer. Why? They got lucky!

Here’s my recommendation, choose one goal at a time. If you’re goal is to gain lean muscle mass and you happen to lose some fat in the process, consider it a bonus. If you’re goal is lose fat and you happen to gain some muscle in the process, consider it a bonus.

You got to give credit to the bodybuilders for figuring this out. They will spend half the year bulking, half the year cutting. The end result? A completely different physique. I recommend you do the same.

Question: What is your opinion on the whole dextrose/maltose/waxy maize with post workout shake? Is all that sugar necessary or is fruit yogurt and oats sufficient with a scoop of whey protein powder and milk?

Vince: There is no debate that the type of carbohydrate consumed and the time it is consumed post workout can influence your results positively or negatively. Marketers have leveraged this research to sell you the latest new “miracle” carb sources and waxy maize is the latest gimmick to claim more superior to dextrose and maltodextrin. The majority of info on this new “miracle carb” source is downright misinformation and from skewed research. Dextrose remains the fastest absorbing sugar and is dirt cheap, I don’t understand why you would even spend money on waxy maize.

Dextrose hits your blood stream faster than fruit or oatmeal so mixing dextrose with some protein powder is your top choice and may be more anabolic than the other combination’s you mentioned, but will not determine whether you grow or not.

As long as your seizing the “window of opportunity” with a 2:1 ratio of carbs to protein (50 grams of carbs and 25 grams of protein post workout suits the average build), you’ll create a superior anabolic environment rather than missing this window that eventually closes after 1-2 hours.

Leave oatmeal for your post workout meal 1 hour after your post workout shake as it’s a slow-releasing carb. Use high GI carbs like honey, fruit, yogurt, chocolate milk or dextrose as your source of carbs and a whey protein powder as your form of protein. These foods will ensure you create an anti-catabolic environment to build muscle, not lose it.

No Nonsense Muscle Building, the #1 best-selling skinny guy muscle building on the Internet (as ranked by Clickbank.com), is a instantly downloadable 199 page muscle building manual. The same book that is changing the lives of thousands of skinny guys and gals. The book promises to build natural muscle mass in the shortest time possible.
As the title suggests, “No Nonsense” gets right down to it. It is not just another e-book with a bunch of boring pages that you won’t even finish reading. It’s actually the opposite!

It is direct and to the point, but is packed with the most comprehensive system I’ve ever seen! It will empower you with every tool required to short-cut your success to insane muscle gain!

No fluff. No B.S. No hype! It’s designed for one thing and one thing only… to show you the skinny guy the most direct and uncomplicated methods to building more muscle mass and gaining weight. Quickly and easily.

Trust me, no one has worse genetics (for building muscle) than a long-distance runner who ran 80-120 km a week for 10 years...so if you think you have bad genetics – throw that excuse out the window!

Whether you are an aspiring bodybuilder, fitness model, competitive athlete or just want to look good in a bathing suit – this system has been proven to work time and time again!

Now is the time!

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Tick…tick…tick…Boom!

lewis — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:21:12 +0000

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Hi ,

Just a quick note to remind you that you have until Sunday Feb.22 midnight only to copy Rob Poulos' step by step Fat Burning Furnace plan...

...AND get your fair share of the 2300 dollars in cash p.rizes he's giving away to the w.inners of his upcoming NEW BODY Challenge..SO-

-If you are ready to take some REAL action on finally looking your best and feeling proud of the body staring back at you in the mirror every morning, claim your copy of Rob's Fat Burning Furnace step by step plan by 11:59 PM Sunday February 22nd... and he'll also give you 3 New Body Bonuses "on the house".

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These bonuses are valued at 77 bucks...but if you claim your copy of Rob's fat loss plan (Fat Burning Furnace) now, you'll get them all F-R-E-E...

...but when the clock strikes Midnight Eastern Time on Sunday February 22nd, IT'S ALL OVER-

-The 3 New Body Bonuses go back into Rob's fat loss and fitness VAULT, and anyone who has claimed their copy will be eligible for the 2300 dollars in cash p.rizes.

If you miss out, you won't get the bonuses and you won't be eligible to win the cash.

Go ahead and tap the link below to grab your fr.eebies and make yourself eligible for the cash now:

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Here's to looking great naked with the lights on

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Free e-book download : Top 6 Sources of Omega-3s

lewis — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:50:57 +0000

Here is another great article from Alwyn and another great f.ree e-book download. I received 3 from Alwyn and sent you 21st Century 6 pack Abs on Friday and if you did not receive that e-mail you can download it from this link here.

Yesterday I sent you Top Secret Fat Loss Strategies and you can download that e-book here.

Today I am sending you the final f.ree e-book titled Top 6 Sources of Omega-3s with another great article from Alwyn.

Here is today’s article and the direct download lnk is below as well. Have a great Saturday everyone.

p.s. for more great articles visit the AtoZ Fitness Article blog at http://articles.atozfitness.com

Lewis

Lose Fat in the Morning
by Mike Roussell PhD(c)
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One of the best ways to ensure you burn maximum fat is to get it done first thing in the morning. A common fat loss tip people often give out is just this – exercise in the morning to burn more fat. Does exercising in the morning burn more calories? Unfortunately there is no scientific evidence to prove that exercising in the morning burns more calories but it may increase your fat loss.

How? Because it guarantees that you’ll get your workout done! If you are having trouble losing weight, sticking to your diet, and getting in all your exercise sessions then working out first thing in the morning could be just the thing for you.

In a recent episode of Naked Nutrition Radio and the guest was behavior change expert Kara Mohr. Kara and her husband Chris Mohr hold exercise bootcamp for women in Louisville, KY at 5:30 in the morning. Why? They call it the "No Excuse Hour". You don’t have any excuses not to be there and not to do it. My friend and Men’s Health Expert Bill Hartman exercises at 4:00am to ensure that he gets his workout in – No Excuses. Bill runs two PT clinics, a gym, and is a family man. He has every reason to have excuses but he makes the time.

Success coach Brian Tracy always says that if you to be successful just find successful people and do what they are doing. If you are having trouble getting your workout sessions in because you day is too busy. Follow the example of these successful people and embrace the No Excuse Hour. You will feel invigorated, your metabolism will be blasting at its highest level, and you’ll burn more fat.

The second important piece to the puzzle is diet. You need rock solid fat loss nutrition first thing in the morning to fuel your day. One important factor for many people (especially if they are exercising in the morning as well) is time. That is why I recommend you use a nutrition packed shake to get fueled and get going with your day. Here is a sample of the kind of shake that you should be making to burn maximum fat.

Add to a blender: walnuts, a greens supplement (such as Emerald Balance or Superfood), protein powder, and frozen blueberries. Take 2-3 grams of fish oil while drinking this shake and you’ll be ready to go. This shake contains low impact carbs, a blend of essential and heart healthy fats, antioxidant, vitamins, and minerals. You could not find a better way to start your day and start burning fat.

You need to decide. Are you going to starting losing weight tomorrow morning? Are you going to take advantage of the "no excuse hour"? Are you going to start your day with a fat burning breakfast or coffee and a bagel like the rest of the country? Jumpstart your fat loss first thing in the morning and you will reap the benefits throughout the day.

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Warp Speed Fat Loss is a complete 28 day diet and training system crafted to help you lose 10,15, or 20lbs of body fat in just 28 day. To start losing weight fast visit http://tinyurl.com/65hwje. Alwyn Cosgrove, M.S., C.S.C.S. is a nationally renown fat loss expert whose work has appeared in magazines such as Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Men’s Journal, Self, Oxygen, and Muscle & Fitness HERS. His Warp Speed Fat Loss system is a complete Done-for-You A-Z Fat Loss Blueprint that gives you exactly everything you need to eat and exactly what to do for exercise to lose weight in record time. http://tinyurl.com/65hwje

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How To Avoid 8 Years Of Poor Health In A Fat Body

lewis — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:36:09 +0000

How To Avoid 8 Years Of Poor Health In A Fat Body

By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Author of "Fat Burning Furnace"

I was puttering around on the internet this morning and I saw something that caught my eye. It was the latest data regarding our current life expectancy as humans from the World Health Organization, along with a history of how that’s changed over the years.

This info went all the way back to the Neanderthal period (the guys from the Geico commercials) up to present day humans. Those poor Geico guys only lived to be 20 years old on average, while today’s humans can expect about 75 years of life.

But did you know that today’s people have an average healthy life expectancy of just 67 years? In other words, this is saying that you can expect 8 years of your life in poor health. 8 years! That’s 2900+ days of poor health. I don’t know about you, but that’s not something I’m looking forward to.

I sure think we can do better than 67 years of good health on this planet. And you know what? We can. This number is an average. Like anything else, you don’t have to be average if you don’t want to be. The average person doesn’t exercise properly, if at all. The average person doesn’t know how to make the right foods selections and maintain a healthy diet. The average person doesn’t apply themselves mentally and emotionally to maintain relatively stress free living.

If this sounds a little bit too much like you, the good news is you don’t have to be this person any longer. While it is a shame that today’s health, fitness, and diet industry is simply confusing more people than it’s helping, there are a few people and organizations out there that can provide a realistic, effective and efficient approach to breaking past the average healthy life span and living those years full of energy, strength, and vitality.

I get questions from my Fat Burning Furnace readers all the time, after going through the FBF materials, about how they can’t believe how little exercise I recommend. And even though I’ve told them up front that they can let go of the aerobics or traditional cardio, many still have trouble doing that. And what I tell them is directly related to the subject of life expectancy and just how much time we really have in our lives.

I tell them that having a lean, strong, and healthy body is great. It’s one of the most important things we can attain. Period. But, how much time is it worth to you? That’s the question I asked myself over and over when seeking out my own methods and developing the FBF methods.

Most people, after years and years of trial and error, come to realize that spending several days and hours a week working out is just not worth the trouble. And carefully measuring your food, counting calories, and depriving yourself of nutrient rich foods like whole grain carbohydrates is also something that shouldn’t be necessary to enjoy a healthy and energy filled life. And it isn’t.

What we really should be focusing on is how much time and effort is minimally required to get the results we’re looking for. Think about that. Not how much, but how much is minimally required. Remember, we’ve got just 67 healthy years as a starting point…If I valued my time on this planet, this is what I would be searching for.

If it really took hours and hours a week and all of that crazy nutrition manipulation to burn fat, build muscle, strength, and cardiovascular health, I’m not sure I’d do it. Not for very long anyway. I’ve tried that approach, for years, and if you have you know it’s no fun. And it’s just not realistic given the demands our lives place on us in today’s world.

But as I’ve mentioned before, you don’t have to worry about that kind of stuff anymore. The principles in my FBF system allow you to approach your genetic potential for a lean, strong, and healthy body in just minutes each week and with very simple lifestyle changes.

I’ve been using the FBF principles for a while now. I work out twice each week. I even take a week off entirely every few weeks or so. I don’t count calories. I don’t deprive myself of the foods I love. If it’s my daughter’s birthday, I eat a piece of cake. I just work the FBF principles and continue to stay in great shape day after day, week after week, year after year.

I work out so little because of the way the workouts are performed and created, and I eat with such flexibility because I stick with the FBF lifestyle, which gives you the power of flexibility and variation that is lacking in most programs.

What I’m saying is that I’ve discovered what is minimally required to give me the health and body that I wanted. And many of my FBF students are doing it as well. Sure I could add another day a week to my workouts, but at this point it would actually be detrimental to my results. I could also start messing with my diet in all sorts of crazy ways, but that would just make my body angry and cause me unneeded stress.

So, I ask you, are you trying to find what’s minimally required to get you the results you want? If you truly value your time and the other worthy pursuits in your life, I’m suggesting that this is exactly what you should be doing. If you don’t, you may just end up being an average 67 year old with 8 years of poor health to look forward to.

Claim your free copy of Rob Poulos’s "7 Secrets Of Permanent Fat Loss & Fitness" at his website: http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com

Rob Poulos is a celebrated fitness author, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to Hero Fitness. Rob created the world’s most efficient method for fast and permanent fat loss with his "Fat Burning Furnace" system to help those looking to put an end to restrictive fad diets, long boring cardio workouts, and the need for super-human willpower for good.

Warning, this disaster will inspire you…

lewis — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:00:19 +0000

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Warning, this disaster will inspire you…

"Sunday almost became the worst day of my life"

Those are the words of my pal Rob Poulos’s wife Kalen, the
Monday morning after the car accident that almost killed him…

…and his 2 kids Sarah and Ryan…

It came out of nowhere. And Kalen wasn’t in the car when it
happened.

You really should check out the video footage (and what it means
to your body) here…right now:

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…but why am I telling you this?

Well, after the near death experience, Rob (creator of his
bestselling Fat Burning Furnace system) had come to understand
more than ever that if you want something in life (like the joy
of living in a lean, strong and healthy body), you have to go
out and get it…

…you can’t sit around and wait, because like Rob, you may
never get a second chance.

As you can imagine, Rob has done some crazy things over the past
few weeks because of his ‘world-rocking’ experience…

-He’s visited places he’s been wanting to see but never got
around to going to before

-He’s bought things he’s always wanted, but had put them off
before his accident

And Rob wants to share some of that ACTION TAKING ATTITUDE with
you so you can get the things in life you want faster and easier
than ever.

So here’s what he’s doing:

Rob is officially declaring 2008 ‘THE YEAR OF TAKING ACTION’!

This means it is your year for finally getting the flat stomach,
tight, lean and strong body you’ve been putting off.

See, he went out and begged the top names in fat loss and
fitness for help in making this a fool-proof, no brainer for
you, and has put together a wild group of 12 fat loss and
fitness guides, audios, and videos…

…AND GET THIS…THEY’RE COMPLETELY ‘NO CHARGE’, ON THE HOUSE
FOR YOU when you claim your copy of Rob’s bestselling Fat
Burning Furnace system-

-But only if you grab your copy by 11:59PM EASTERN, THIS
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH.

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action…but you’ve got to take the first step…and now it’s
easier than ever before…

…and as you think about claiming your copy of Rob’s FBF system
along with the 12 bonuses by Thursday, you begin to wonder how
great it will feel to have your very best body ever staring
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now…

…so now you can understand why it is so important to do this
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Heres how to burn fat and stay healthy on your vacation

lewis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:43:19 +0000

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Here’s how to burn fat and stay healthy on your vacation

You’ve heard it a million times from people trying to burn fat, "I just don’t have time to get to the gym". Well that really shouldn’t be a problem once you understand how you can get a proper fat burning workout done with basic or minimal equipment.

In order to get a great high intensity fat burning workout, like readers and students of my Fat Burning Furnace eBook and advanced system get,.one that stimulates the growth of lean muscle tissue, accelerates your metabolism and fat burning, and provides cardiovascular conditioning, you need to perform a variety of exercises that work all of your major muscle groups in the same workout.

You have a few choices in what equipment to use. But I am here to tell you that you don’t need fancy equipment or a membership at the h.ot fitness center in your area. All that is really required for your fat burning workout is good old-fashioned barbells and/or dumbbells…or less.

In fact, you can work your entire body from head to toe with a good set of adjustable dumbbells and a simple bench. Keep this in your home and it takes very little space and is always accessible for those fat burning workouts you’d have to skip otherwise.

After all, the proper workout I’m talking about averages about 15-20 minutes, but if you factor in the transit time to and from the gym, it can become more difficult to stick to your routine.

I highly recommend getting a basic setup at home for those times, or you can even use this exclusively. I personally always workout at home and it has its advantages. You don’t have to wait for the next station or machine on your routine at home.

This is very important in relation to pulling the maximum cardiovascular benefits out of the same muscle building and fat burning workout…keeping your time between exercises down to 60 seconds or less. Home workouts are also great for those that might be a bit intimidated by working out with weights in public at the gym. If you feel this way, don’t fret, you’re not alone.

This is especially true for some of the ladies, as weight training is traditionally thought of as the guy’s territory in the fitness center. Nothing could be further from the truth, but if you’d rather perform you fat burning workout at home, then do it!

Another excuse for skipping workouts that I hear a lot is related to travel. For busy people, this is a reality. You go on business trips. You go on v.acation. You go to visit out of town f.riends and family. Now, when working out properly, like I teach my Fat Burning Furnace readers and students, you’re only exercising for 2-3 days p.er week, but if you’re workout day falls on a day when you’re out of town, what to do?

Yeah, you could try and find a local gym to go to, but that can be a hassle. There are actually several fat burning bodyweight exercises you can do without the use of any equipment.

Movements like the pushup, chin-ups, sit-ups, etc. can provide enough muscle stimulation to keep you conditioned until you get back home. You’re using your bodyweight as the resistance, rather than dumbbells, barbells, or machines.

So don’t let those standard excuses work their way into your vocabulary…you can get a great fat burning workout wherever you are, anytime.

If you’d like to take your fat burning, health and fitness success to the next level, and you haven’t read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook yet, then you need to go and do that right now.

It cost me years and several thousands of dollars to learn all of the techniques and secrets I used to totally reshape my body, boost my energy, and develop lasting health…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes here:

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Lewis + Sarah
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The truth about cardio…part 1

lewis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:33:27 +0000

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The truth about cardio…part 1

Just in from Rob ,
I’ll send part 2 on Wed.
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Hi lewis,

If you’ve read any of my past newsletters or articles regarding exercise and its role in burning fat and getting healthy, you probably already know that I don’t recommend performing cardio or aerobics as your primary exercise method.

And I’m not only talking about traditional moderately paced long duration cardio, but that interval cardio stuff too. I’m not saying interval cardio doesn’t work, it does, and I’ll talk about that a bit later. But even still, I have a lot of people angry at me…in fact I get emails almost every day from people who think I’m nuts for telling them they don’t have to perform exclusive cardio of any kind.

Well, I’m kinda tired of answering all of those questions ‘one on one’, so I thought it was time to let loose some of the solid reasons why I make these bold r.ecommendations I’m going to go into some depth here, so this email is ‘part 1′…I’ll finish the topic off in a couple of days in ‘part 2′.

First let’s tackle the traditional cardio…you know, the type that has you on a treadmill or something similar where you try and stay in your target heart rate for fat burning. This has you jogging at a slow to moderate pace for typically 30-60 minutes at a time, 3-5 times each week. If you’re trying to burn fat off, this is a big mistake. Here’s why:

With this type of exercise, your body will be burning stored body fat as its primary source for fuel. While this may sound good, its actually bad news. What happens after the workout is far more important that what happens during the workout. After this type of workout is over, your body responds by holding on tightly to its stored body fat so that it’s available the very next time you perform this exercise.

Even worse, what you are doing here is telling the body to make more fat when possible, just in case it encounters this type of
cardio again. Guess where your post workout meal is
going…that’s right, your fat stores. It should be obvious that we would want to avoid this exercise if we want to burn fat and stay lean.

From a health perspective, this type of cardio can actually reduce your body’s n.atural ability to deal with stress (or life, as I like to call it!). You see, long duration moderate intensity exercise conditions your body and cardiovascular system to be efficient. And efficiency means a smaller everything…heart, lungs, muscles, etc.

In effect, you are shrinking the core elements of your body’s powerhouse, and while it may get better at jogging for hours at a time, when faced with something truly stressful, you’ll be outmatched and in big trouble. How often does life require you to continuously jog for great distances? That’s right, almost never.

Now if you want to be good at taking long hikes or running a marathon, then this type of cardio will help you. You’ll become better by increasing your endurance. But this is a trade off, as you’re making your body more efficient, but reducing it’s ability to deal with life’s activities and burn fat maximally.

There are also long term health implications associated with this exercise, including overuse injuries and muscle imbalances from the repetitive pounding on your joints and targeted muscle groups. There’s a reason there are injuries named after this type of activity! (anyone heard of ‘runner’s knee’?)

One last point about long duration moderate intensity cardio…most of these problems occur when performing this exercise for more than 10-15 minutes…that’s when the body taps into its fat stores for fuel…that’s also the point when you start getting efficient and shrinking your powerhouse. Sure you could stop after 10-15 minutes, but the low intensity level will have little effect on burning body fat or providing significant health benefits.

Alright, hopefully I’ve scared you off of the treadmill with that information. But wait, you say, many health and fitness experts have started to realize the same things about long duration cardio…and they’ve found the answer…interval cardio training! OK, let’s talk about that…in ‘part 2′ of this topic which I’ll cover in the next eNewsletter…keep you eyes peel for it in the next couple of days.

By the way, have you had a chance to read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook yet? If not, you need to go and do that right now.

I lost over 40 pounds of fat, totally reshaped my body, boosted my energy and health immensely…and I did in just a few months with workouts that last just 15-20 minutes performed 2-3 times each week. It took me years to learn all of the secrets I use…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes here:

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How To Properly Judge Your Fat Loss Progress + F.REE e-book 7 SECRETS OF PERMANENT FAT LOSS

lewis — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:58:49 +0000

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If you don’t know how to properly judge your fat loss or fat burning progress from a particular exercise or nutrition regimen, you’re probably not going to be very successful. It’s just like in sports…you have to know the score if you want to know who wins the game. So in our fat loss and fitness efforts, we have to know our body’s score if we want to know if we’re winning, or in this case, losing.

I’ve found that a big mistake a lot of people make in judging their fat loss progress in the pursuit of a fit body is to be a slave to the scale. The scale is a useful tool, no doubt, but I’ve seen far too many people stop doing the right things (like proper weight training) just because they gained a pound on the scale. But you can’t blame yourself if you’ve been in this mode before…for years most of us were taught to watch the scale carefully when measuring if we did or did not burn fat. But your body can fluctuate a few pounds up or down at different times of the day, every day. This doesn’t mean you’ve burned or gained fat, so following the scale can play games with your mind. Another big problem with using the scale as your sole judge of progress has become clear with many people adding lean muscle to their bodies recently.

Muscle weighs more than fat, so let’s say you been following a properly conducted resistance training routine for the past few months. You’ve gotten stronger and you’ve also added muscle to your body. If you’re adding pounds of lean muscle to your body, you might see an up-tick in what the scale says. But assuming you’re not gaining fat weight, it’s a good thing. It’s not about weight loss, it’s about fat loss. More muscle means more calories devoted to building that muscle and keeping it alive. It also means your metabolism will get faster and become more efficient at burning fat. You’ll see that number on the scale drop soon enough, as the new muscle has created a calorie deficit in your daily food intake.

What we really should be looking at here is body fat percentage, or how much your total weight is made up of body fat. Most men will be more than happy with their bodies when they get into the 12-15% range, and most women will be satisfied with a fat percentage of around 16-20. So go out and get a skin caliper, which is fairly inexpensive, or another measurement device so you can keep track of your relative body fat percentage. If it’s going down, keep doing what you’re doing, and don’t even look at that scale!

Another tool I recommend using when judging your fat loss progress is the tried and true mirror in your bathroom. Now, this may sound simple, but use the mirror to judge your fat loss and muscle gain. Combined with liberal use of your scale and keeping tabs on your body fat percentage, your mirror will provide all you’ll need to judge your progress. The great thing about the mirror is that you’ll get great motivation from seeing your body change right before your eyes, and it will spur you on to even further progress!

The other important aspect of judging your fat loss progress is creating realistic expectations of your new body. As I teach my Fat Burning Furnace students, our friends in the fitness industry often use the genetically superior to advertise their products and programs, and this can easily deceive you subconsciously into thinking all you have to do is follow their advice to look like the cover boy or girl. Well, I’m here to tell you that even if you have the most efficient plan or program, you still may never look like your favorite physique superstar or model.

Research tells us that we are a product of our genetic inheritance. We all have our own inherited physical characteristics. For instance, some of us carry more fat in our bellies than others. Some of us have more muscle fibers in our legs and arms. Some of us carry more fat cells in our hips and thighs. Some of us are short, some are tall, some have dark hair, some have blue eyes, etc. Some of us lose fat and gain muscle easily, some don’t. While this may come as no surprise, it is important to remember so we don’t sabotage our efforts in the gym or at the dinner table trying to burn fat. What I mean by that is, just because you don’t lose fat in your belly at the same rate as your best friend doesn’t mean you’re doing the wrong things to lose it.

You can only compare yourself to you. Lying in you right now is your very own best body – your own strong, lean, and healthy physique. Everyone’s is different. Yours might be highlighted by broad shoulders and powerful arms. Or maybe it’s your slender and muscular waist that frames your body. So don’t feel chained by your genetic makeup, feel liberated, knowing that you have the power to reshape and transform what you were given.

With the combination of the right knowledge and developed habits, you can burn fat fast and make such improvements in your body that you’ll impress almost everyone you know. I’ve seen it happen with my friends, family, and students…I’m talking about people seeing them and saying wow! And more importantly, you’ll feel great knowing you’ve done all you can to live the rest of your life with the body you’re truly capable of…and that is just an awesome and empowering feeling.

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Want to triple your weight training results?

lewis — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:22:00 +0000

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Want to triple your weight training results?

Do you want to know how to triple your results from your resistance training? Why wouldn’t you?

Properly conducted resistance training can give you startling fat loss results, along with muscle and strength gains. On top of that, when using the techniques I describe in the Fat Burning Furnace system, you’ll also receive "top drawer" cardiovascular health benefits. And all from 2-3 workouts each week lasting just 15-25 minutes on average.

But, you’ve got to do them right, not like the average resistance trainer is taught these days. Walk into any fitness center or gym and you’ll see at least half if not more of the exercisers performing their workouts in a less than optimal way…and that’s being kind.

So let’s get right to one of the ways you can triple your resistance training results immediately. It has to do with how you specifically perform the repetitions. To better understand this, let’s examine our 3 different strength levels in any resistance exercise.

Take the dumbbell c.url exercise for the biceps for example. In this movement, you begin with the weight down at your sides.

You proceed to smoothly and slowly c.url the dumbbells u.p to your shoulders. This movement trains your positive strength level. You should then pause briefly and contract your biceps at the top of the movement. This trains your static strength level.

Finally, you would want to lower the dumbbells slowly back to the starting position. This trains your negative strength level.

Now the problem is that most people don’t even bother with the static or negative strength levels. They put all of the focus on the "lifting" or positive portion of the movement, while not pausing or contracting sufficiently at the top, and not taking nearly enough time on the negative portion.

In effect they are getting only one third of the benefits that this exercise can give them. Actually, it’s less than that because the static and negative portions can actually create deeper inroads into your existing strength levels. This is something you want, as it will lead to greater progress faster assuming you give your body appropriate time to recover.

Why do we care so much about strength? Outside of the obvious reasons, strength leads to muscle growth, which leads to a faster resting metabolism, which leads to faster fat loss and various other improved health factors that could take up another couple of pages at least .

In the Fat Burning Furnace system, we take these concepts to the next level once you reach the advanced stage. Here we are using techniques to maximize your static and negative strength levels in order to push the limits of your genetic potential to the max. That’s when the real fun begins.

So make sure not to neglect the static and negative strength levels when performing your next resistance training workout.

Don’t waste the o.pportunity to triple your results!

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Here’s how to ‘outmuscle’ your fat cells

lewis — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:09:40 +0000

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Got this great article in yesterday from Rob Poulos , creator of the fat Burning Furnace system e-book.
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Ask ten people what type of exercise they should be doing to burn fat and fire up their metabolism and they’ll all probably tell you the same thing.

They’ll tell you that you need to do 30-40 minutes of moderately-paced aerobic exercise on a treadmill, elliptical machine, stair climber, etc. for 3-5 times p.er week.

They’ll probably also tell you that more is better…4 times p.er week would be better than 3, and 5 times p.er week would be even better.

People will tell you this because that’s been and continues to be the mainstream r.ecommendation for fat burning by many fitness professionals. Get in a certain target heart rate and stay at that heart rate for 30 minutes or so, several times p.er week. I am here to tell you there is a better way.

Sure, you’ll burn some calories while you’re running to nowhere on a treadmill, but you won’t make a complete physique transformation with this type of exercise alone. In fact, this type of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat.

Here are just a couple of reasons:

What’s worse, this type of exercise when done frequently as typically suggested, trains your cardiovascular system to be efficient. Again, while this sounds good, your heart and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work as they are getting more efficient at doing easy work (your long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts), which reduces their ability to handle stress.

This can lead to a host of other problems including higher change of heart attack. You are only working within your current aerobic capacity because you’re never challenging it to go beyond what it’s capable of. And anything that is easy will

not yield results even close to what’s challenging for the body to accomplish.

Instead, you should be challenging the body to i.ncrease its capacity, so that it is stronger and able to deal with stress more easily. How is this done?

Get stronger and build some muscle. When you add lean muscle to your body you’ll be literally turning your body into a fat burning machine!

Let’s say that you were eating the amount of calories that allow you to maintain your current bodyweight, but began to add lean muscle to your body through proper resistance training you’ll need to use some of those calories you’re eating to feed the new muscle, creating a calorie deficit in your body.

In addition, when you stimulate your body with proper resistance training like I teach my students, the repair and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy. This calorie deficit c.ombined with the repair and growth process will allow you to burn fat all day long, every day. You’ll even get these fat burning effects when you’re sitting around doing nothing at all.

Also, properly conducted resistance training actually i.ncreases your heart and lung’s capacity for work. By placing intense demands on your body, it is forced into being ready for anything you throw at it. This makes you more resistant to cardiovascular health problems that plague most people…even those that exercise with aerobics frequently.

By the way, if you want to fast track your fat loss, health and fitness success, you’ll want to read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook right now.

I take you step by step through all of the techniques and secrets I used to totally reshape my body, boost my energy, and develop lasting health…it took me years and thousands of dollars to find these techniques…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes

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Don’t judge a fat loss book by it’s model..continued…

lewis — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:19:27 +0000

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Don’t judge a fat loss book by it’s model..continued..

Rob Poulos sent me part two last night so here it is.

Hi lewis,

In the last eNewsletter, I talked about the power that putting a genetic freak of fat burning nature on the cover of a fitness product has…and how it fools with our minds. Let’s get back to what exactly is happening here, and how we can prevent it and get back to improving our health and creating a lean and strong body…

Many of the fitness and fat loss programs out there will tell you that you’ve got to follow some crazy diet to burn fat. This might include cutting all or most of your carbs, ingesting loads of supplements or other magic w.eight loss potions.

On top of that, when their programs don’t deliver, they’ll tell you that e.veryone is different and that you’ve got to find what works right for you. Wait a minute…weren’t they just telling you that their program promises the body on the cover?

What they are doing is keeping you in that fitness insanity that I mentioned earlier. They keep you doing the same thing (trying then next h.ot product or workout and diet regimen) and promising the same great fat burning results.

If it doesn’t work, they recommend the next great thing. And too many people go on to that next miracle product or promise and the fitness industry uses this to their advantage!

Unfortunately the fitness industry, in many ways, has become a cycle of hype and sensationalism. Sure, there are some good -hearted trainers and professionals out there, but even some of them are being controlled by the fitness center owners, magazine publishers, and supplement companies.

That’s where the money is! Even if they are trying to help you, they can become unwitting victims to the machine.

They advertise their products, programs, and diets by using the cream of the crop in the genetic gene pool. Hey, if it worked for that guy or gal with the a.mazing physique, it will work for me. I fell for it, too, many times, until I did some serious research and experimentation as I mentioned before.

Then one day I finally woke up and discovered for myself the secrets that few people are aware of. Secrets that will never dominate the fitness industry’s general r.ecommendations because they are unpopular with the people that control the industry.

Why?

Because these principles won’t sell loads of crazy exercise gimmicks, gadgets, or magic potions. My Fat Burning Furnace eBook readers and students are schooled in the proper application of brief, progressive, and intense resistance training, and how to easily eat a diet full of nutrient rich foods, drinking tons of water, and getting plenty of quality sleep and rest.

But our subconscious mind is powerful, and you have to watch out. Even today, I can get sucked in to a compelling late night TV ad, even though I know better. So you’ve got to stay on guard.

If people would pay more attention to proven principles like those I teach my students, and spend less time with the latest "butt buster" or "fat stripper" on the market, we’d all be healthier, leaner, stronger, and happier for it. And we’d also be burning a heck of a lot more fat in the process.

By the way, if you want to fast track your fat loss, health and fitness success, you’ll want to read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook right now.

It took me years to learn all of the techniques and secrets I used to totally reshape my body, boost my energy, and develop lasting health…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes here:

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Don’t judge a fat loss book by it’s model

lewis — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:09:12 +0000

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Rob poulos sent me this last night and as always it is a great read.

Hi lewis,

A picture is worth a thousand words, right?

Well, when we lock our eyes onto that ph.oto of that buff guy or buxom bombshell on the cover of the latest fitness or w.eight loss product, something happens. We get excited. We may even get very excited!

They don’t even have to tell you you’ll look like that person – they already know your subconscious will assume it will happen.

When you’re desperate to burn fat, this is an easy game for the fitness industry to play. Now I’m not talking about images of people who’ve made great body transformations, but of those genetically perfect model types who are plastered all over fitness products.

And of course a few weeks later if it doesn’t, you may start to lose hope and realize that it’s going to be tough to keep up

with the unrealistic and overly strict guidelines. You’ve got a life, right?

Sure, you want to burn fat, but you’ve got a job, maybe a family, and other interests in life. Don’t get me wrong, I love a great fat burning workout, but I know you don’t want to spend every waking hour for the rest of your life working out!

All of this happened to me several times over as a y.oung man.

I wasn’t happy with my weight, wanted to burn fat, and was in search of the most efficient way to get lean, strong, and healthy, but while not spending too much time in the gym, or having to follow crazy diet plans for long periods of time.

After more than a decade of experimenting on myself, f.riends, relatives, and perfect strangers, I assembled some of the secrets that I found to work best at burning fat and in the shortest amount of time, on myself and the others that I worked with.

Now, what led me to do this was an i.ncredible amount of frustration that I know thousands of others are going through right now. Why? To answer that, I want you to understand the psychological aspects of what we are up against in the world of health and fitness.

What do you call doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? OK, I’ll answer this one…insanity! In some ways, the fitness industry is making you insane in your quest to burn fat and get a lean, strong, and healthy body. Their promises are too good to be true and often

they can’t typically deliver on them. They are over-promising and under-delivering in many cases.

While this can provide great inspiration in life’s pursuits, it can also be used against you by others, and without you knowing.

You are largely a product of your genetic makeup. Just as Mini -Me from the Austin Powers movies could never play in the NBA, a guy like Woody Allen could never w.in a heavyweight bodybuilding competition.

Please know that I am not saying you are doomed by your genes…e.veryone can make a.mazing improvements in their physiques with proper exercise and nutrition habits. It’s when we start comparing ourselves to the guys or gals in the magazines that we get into trouble, and get lost in that vicious cycle of hype and sensationalism all too prevalent in fitness and fat burning today.

As I mentioned before, you’ve got a life. You’re a busy person.

We all are. We live in a fast-paced society, the information age, where we have so many tasks to complete and so little time to complete them. I don’t know about you, but I find myself trying to cram everything I do into those few hours between waking up and going to sleep. It’s not easy.

I’m here to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth! I’ll discuss why in the next eNewsletter, OK? Keep an eye out in the next day or so… (editors note: As soon as I receive this followup I will send it out to you )

If you’d like to take your fat burning, health and fitness success to the next level, and you haven’t read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook yet, then you need to go and do that right now.

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How to lose more fat by slowing down? Free e-book download.

lewis — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:34:38 +0000

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Another great article by Rob Poulos from http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com

Great stuff !

In one of my previous eNewsletters, I talked about how to triple your resistance training results by taking full advantage of your three levels of strength.

A big part of getting those benefits I discussed previously relates to how you’re performing your repetitions…or more specifically, how slowly you’re performing those repetitions.

In my Fat Burning Furnace eBook and advanced program, I outline what I’ve found to be the perfect range for repetition speed for almost e.veryone.

I say almost e.veryone because ideal repetition speed depends on a host of other factors, including individual tolerance for exercise. While individual tolerances do vary, most people fall into a general range that will produce top notch results.

That being said, this repetition speed is ideal most of the time.You can, however, benefit from exaggerating the speed of your repetitions occasionally. What we are doing here is creating a variation on the stimulus our bodies adapt to after a certain period of time with any type of exercise.

This is just one of the ways FBF readers and students can blast through the barriers and plateaus that plague most other resistance trainers and exercisers.

For instance, take the barbell squat for example. One of the best exercises you can do for fat loss and fitness, period. It works the majority of the body’s musculature (not just the legs) in just one simple movement. But if you find you need to spice up your squats every so often, try this…

Forget the bar. Forget the weights. Lower yourself into the full squatting position (thighs about parallel to the floor) and begin squatting upward slowly. Ridiculously slowly. Try taking 15-30 seconds before reaching a standing position. Then at the top of the movement, don’t lock out your knees, and squeeze your quadriceps (front thigh muscles) before slowly lowering yourself back to the starting position in another 15-30 seconds.

That’s right, each repetition will take 30-60 seconds to perform. If you’ve never done this before, you’ll be lucky to finish even 3 or 4 of these. Talk about a new way to shock your body past a plateau!

Take this a step further and see how slow you can go. Can you perform 60-90 second squat reps? Believe me, when you finish one set of this exercise, your body will be telling you "no m.ore!". That’s a good sign, by the way…a sign that you’ve forced your body to adapt and get better. And all with just 1 measly set of bodyweight squats!

Remember, you have to create an environment in your exercise that forces your body to adapt and change. If you don’t, why would you expect anything but the same old you?

By the way, if you want to fast track your fat loss, health and fitness success, you’ll want to read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook right now.

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Weapons of FAT destruction?

lewis — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:22:16 +0000

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By Rob Poulos
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A new one from my friend Rob,
Hope you enjoy it.
Lewis

Hi lewis,

In the war against unwanted body fat, one of the key factors that will determine your success relates to the exercise tools, or fat burning ‘weapons’ you have at your disposal.

I’d like to provide for you some of the pluses and minuses of the top two choices of equipment we can use in our resistance training efforts. After all, the minute you start thinking exercise machines are great, along comes someone telling you they’re junk.

And the minute you feel like f.ree weights are where it’s at, your buddy tells you how he threw his back out using f.ree weights. So let’s put some rumors to rest and get the real deal on these weapons of fat destruction we can arm ourselves with in the battle of the bulge.

This is another big topic, so I’m going to cover machines in this newsletter and tackle f.ree weights in the next one. Sound good? OK, let’s get started.

First off, let’s talk about exercise machines. For years in resistance training, all we had to work with were dumbbells and
barbells. Heck, I even started out using my grandfather’s old
rusty barbell set. So as man typically does, man set out to improve upon this with the use of exercise machines. And improve on them he did.

The major advantage to a good exercise machine is that it allows you to apply constant resistance to the full range of motion of an exercise. This is not possible with some f.ree weight exercises. Take the barbell c.url for the biceps for example.
At the top of this movement in the contracted position, all of the stress on the biceps is r.emoved.

Sure, you can squeeze your biceps hard and contract them here, but that’s nothing compared to applying severe resistance to the muscles like a good machine can. This allows you to work that third level of your strength (the static level) and the point of contraction, which I’ve discussed in previous tips. You just can’t properly work the top of this movement with f.ree weights.

One other big advantage to machines is the ability to isolate a particular muscle group that, again, would be either impossible or downright dangerous to do with f.ree weights. How are you going to perform a leg extension for the quadriceps with f.ree weights? A pulldown without a pulldown machine? (Yes, I know you can do a chinup instead, but I think you get the idea).

Now, just like with anything else, there are some great machines out there, but also some decent ones and some quite crappy ones too. Out of all of the machines I’ve used over the past few years, the two top manufactures I’ve come across are Hammer Strength and Nautilus.

Both companies provide exercise machines that work your muscles over the entire range of motion consistently. The exercise is just as hard at the start, in the middle, and at the finish.
This is a very different feeling from the norm, and if you’ve never used these machines before you’re in for a fat burning and muscle, strength, and cardiovascular health building treat.

Now, I know not e.veryone has access to these machines, but your gym or fitness center still probably has a handful of good ones to use. And that brings up one of the only drawbacks of machines. Most are just not built for e.veryone in mind. Sure, there are settings for the seat height and other adjustments, but sometimes the movements can really feel un-n.atural.

If you’re trying out a new machine and just can’t get a good n.atural feel to the movement, make sure to adjust the settings if possible. If it still feels uncomfortable, ditch it and look for an alternative.

Alright, that gives you a good idea of what to look for in a good exercise machine. In part 2 of this topic, we’ll talk about the pluses and minuses of f.ree weights in our fat burning and fitness efforts.

By the way, if you want to fast track your fat loss, health and fitness success, you’ll want to read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook right now.

It took me years to learn all of the techniques and secrets I used to totally reshape my body, boost my energy, and develop lasting health…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes here:

http://www.fatburningfurnace.com

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Can you spot reduce your belly, thigh, or butt fat?

lewis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:27:05 +0000

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April 16 2008

Another great one from Rob Poulos over at http://fatburningingfurnace.com

Hey lewis,

One of the most common questions I get from my newsletter readers has to do with spot reducing some area of fat from their body…

…I wanted to make it very clear that you CANNOT, WILL NOT, EVER spot reduce fat from your belly, thighs, butt or anywhere else. (unless you suck it out with a s.tainless steel tube via liposuction – please don’t do that)-

Understanding why is important:

Your fat, to be used as energy, travels to your liver where it is converted into fatty acids. These fatty acids are then sent to your muscles as fuel.

The problem is that this fat comes from fat cells all over your body, not just one area or another. AND what’s EVEN WORSE is that the fat that is used for fuel is typically the fat that has been on your body the longest…

…that’s one of the reasons why losing fat from your trouble areas is so difficult…places you have more fat cells (your trouble areas) are typically the last places the fat is drawn from! SO-

-You must apply these two methods over at least a few weeks to see noticeable differences in your problem areas:

1. Create a calorie deficit each day through proper dieting and water intake. This ensures the liver can do it’s job of converting the fat for energy.

2. Create a larger calorie deficity by adding lean muscle to your body. Proper strength training will not only raise your resting metabolic rate, it will also ensure the w.eight loss is from fat, not muscle. It will also shape and define your problem areas, and even smooth overlying fat and skin, helping to reduce cellulite appearance if present.

So that’s it…NO SPOT REDUCING, just FAT REDUCTION & MUSCLE PRODUCTION…got it? Great!

Now, if you haven’t read my FBF eBook yet, and you want to finally get serious and be accountable for your fat loss success, I urge you to consider taking me up on my FBF NEW BODY Challenge…we’ve only got 5 days left…

…this is where you can not only burn off that stubborn body fat faster and easier then ever before, but also G.ET PAID to do it (I’m paying 2300 Dollars CASH out of my own pocket to the people that make the most startling body transformations over the next 10 weeks…).

And I’m giving away a 10-week summer shape up guide to anyone who claims a copy of the FBF eBook before Monday April 14th, plus 3 more bonuses…

…Get in your best shape ever AND g.et paid to do it! How cool is that? Go ahead and check out the details before it’s too late

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Weight Loss’s Little Known Secret: Weight Control Diet & Exercise

lewis — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:33:02 +0000

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March 17 2008

Weight Loss’s Little Known Secret: Weight Control Diet & Exercise
By: Rob Poulos

Have you lost weight recently? Great! But if you don’t mind, I’d like to issue a warning to you and anyone else who has lost weight recently. Why? It’s simple. More often than not, people who lose weight end up gaining it back fast and then some. This is a big problem with people’s weight loss efforts these days.

How and why does this happen? I’m going to tell you exactly what you need to know to keep the fat off once you’ve lost it. This is a piece of the weight loss puzzle that many people don’t pay much attention to. And it’s called weight control. Or as I like to call it, weight loss’s big brother.

If you’ve ever lost weight before, chances are you’ve gained it back. And before you knew it, you were even heavier than before you started that weight loss diet or exercise program. All of that hard work and restrictive dieting with nothing to show for it. It’s enough to drive a person right to the donut shop! Take it easy, there’s a reason that this happens so frequently to those trying to lose weight around the world, and there’s also a simple answer to ensure it doesn’t happen to you again.

There are basically two reasons why most people who’ve lost weight put it right back on. The primary reason is that most people who lose weight lose it because of following a diet. That’s right, simply trying to adhere to a popular fad diet plan can actually prove counterproductive. Why?

Most diets, especially the most popular ones, are quite frankly overly restrictive ways of dictating your calorie intake. They typically call for deleting various essential foods from your daily eating habits, and almost always included severe calorie reduction.

These typical diet components can create fast weight loss to be sure, as you’re taking in less calories than you’re expending each day. But, no one in their right mind, or body, will stay on most popular diets for very long. They’re not natural and your body knows this. Once we go off the diet that created the quick weight loss and revert back to our old habits (including the increased calories) we gain the weight back, and fast. Surprise, surprise.

We also unfortunately add a bit of extra fat when coming off of that diet because our bodies are attempting to make up for the deprivation that was at hand during that dieting phase. It makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? This calls to attention the second reason we gain our weight back, and more, after going off of a diet. You body doesn’t want to be deprived of certain food types. I’m talking about nutrient rich foods that our bodies were designed to thrive on, including quality whole grain based carbohydrates.

Perfect evidence of this are the tens of thousands (several of my own acquaintances included) who have become low carbohydrate yo-yo dieters. They can lose 10-15 pounds in just a few days, but when they can no longer stand the food deprivation, they return to their old eating habits and bodies.

It should be obvious that this method of weight loss (typical fad dieting) is ineffective, because it doesn’t last. What is required for permanent weight loss is a not a weight loss diet, but a proper weight control diet and exercise program. These are two very different things.

I’m talking about a lifestyle change, where you adopt healthy eating and exercise habits into your life. This is the only true path to permanent fat loss.

This can be accomplished on the diet side of things by:

-Eating smaller meals more frequently

-Counting portions instead of worrying about exact calories

-Focusing on plant based foods like fruits and vegetables

-Drinking plenty of water throughout the day (64oz. minimum)

Taking this a step further, you can combine this healthy eating lifestyle with proper exercise to create a perpetual fat burning furnace in your body that continues to mobilize your stored body fat for energy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Now this is true weight control, where you’re literally burning fat while sleeping.

You’d be wise to heed this exercise advice when creating this weight control diet and exercise lifestyle:

-Ignore long and frequent cardio workouts. They actually encourage your body to store fat.

-Incorporate high intensity resistance training 2-3 times per week for about 15-25 minutes per session. You’ll be building lean muscle and teaching your body to ignore fat as an energy source…the exact opposite of traditional cardio workouts.

When you make these changes in your life, you’re no longer dieting. You’re no longer restricting the body of the nutrients it needs to succeed and as a result you lose weight naturally. You’ve created you own weight control diet, but it’s not really a diet at all!

Can you see how this will make a huge difference in your health and fitness and put an end to the lose some/gain more madness experienced by masses of dieters around the world today?

Getting that lean and healthy body can be as simple as saying no to dieting and saying hello to a healthy eating lifestyle you can call your own. Now that is something that any big brother would be proud of.

Rob Poulos is a fat loss and fitness expert and author. His internationally popular Fat Burning Furnace system continues to help thousands get and stay lean, strong, and healthy without fad diets or cardio. To learn more and grab your copy of Rob’s fat loss and fitness gifts, click here => www.fatburningfurnace.com

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Excuses, Excuses, EXCUSES…

lewis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:32:33 +0000

Excuses, Excuses, EXCUSES…
By Rob Poulos
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Just in from Rob….

Lewis I’ve got ask you…do you really want to lose more fat?

I ask this because as with most anything else one aspires to achieve in life, most simply would LIKE to lose more fat, but simply don’t WANT to lose it bad enough…

…it’s kind of like in competitive athletics. E.veryone would like to win rather than lose, but there are very few that are driven with a purpose…

…those that WANT to win…in fact, they MUST win to be satisfied, and nothing less will do.

As you might imagine I get loads of emails from readers of this newsletter and my FBF eBook every day about a variety of subjects…and you know what I hear the most?

excuses, Excuses, and more EXCUSES about why this or that person can’t lose their body fat.

Look, I know there are some REAL issues out there, but for the most part the excuses I hear are just hollow reasons that keep most people from succeeding with their fat loss and fitness goals-

-so, I wanted to go over with you some of the top excuses I hear about every day from would be fat burners, so you can judge for yourself…

…are they holding YOU back? If so, what can YOU do about them right now? And ultimately, what kind of person are you really?

Someone who would like to win…or someone who MUST win…

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Hollow Excuse #1: "I Can’t Find The Time To Eat Right"

Look, we’re all busy, but how is it that some people can do it and others just complain about not having enough time to cook healthy meals or prepare healthy snacks?

Do you want it or don’t you? Get serious, get organized, and prepare your meals/snacks the day before if you must. Cook in large quantities, for the whole week even, so that you can refrigerate or fre.eze the leftovers to eat at later meals throughout the week. This is less time spent cooking and more time spent enjoying delicious healthy foods.

Carry healthy snacks with you. Keep some at the office. Keep some in your car…make it easy on yourself so you’re not stuck in a hunger panic at the nearest fast food restaurant.

Hollow Excuse #2: "I Can’t Find The Time To Exercise"

Again, I’m busy too. But seriously, if you can’t find 15-26 minutes two to three times in a week (as we use in the FBF workouts), you need to fix your schedule. That’s less than 1 hour p.er week out of the available 168 hours. Are you even a little bit serious about losing more fat? Yeesch!

Hollow Excuse #3: "Healthy Food Is Too Expensive"

I know that this is true in some cases, but you must realize where most of your grocery money is going…to the stuff in the boxes on the shelves…not to the stuff that is grown and comes out of the ground.

Are organic fruits and veggies more costly than non organic varieties? Sure, but cutting down on the next few box of cheesie poofs will more than make up for it.

Plus, once you start eating more nutrient rich foods, you’ll automatically eat less…which means you’ll be b.uying less too.

Hollow Excuse #4: "I Hate Exercise/Diets/Water, etc."

Oh really? Well I bet you don’t hate those things as much as I
hated being more than 40 pounds overweight, having low energy, and basically sleepwalking through life for 10 years. Of course, I found that you don’t have to go on "diets" to succeed.

Decide what YOU hate more and be prepared to live with your answer.

Hollow Excuse #5: "I Eat Out All The Time"

OK, first, you can eat out and still eat reasonably healthy and keep that fat burning furnace going. BUT, you can’t expect to
eat out too often…the healthy choices are restaurants are far and few in between.

Eat out for special occasions…even once or twice a week is fine. Don’t let it become a every day event or you’ll look like you eat out every day…makes sense doesn’t it?

Hollow Excuse #6: "It’s Too Expensive For A Gym Membership"

Really? How much do you spend a month eating out? On fast food? On DVD’s you end up watching once and other miscellaneous expenses?

Here’s a better question: How much are you willing to pay for medical costs and the time spent at the doctor and the hospital as you get older and your health starts to break down?

The longer you can avoid this scenario the better…and all for 30-50 bucks a month or less?

Why not get yo.ur own gym at home like I have? All you really need is a simple bench and a set of Powerblock Dumbbells (editors note: we have a set and LOVE them)

Hollow Excuse #7: "I’ve Tried Everything…Nothing Works For Me"

My guess is you’ve tried everything for a few weeks at a time, never giving ANYTHING long enough to see if it will really work for you.

This is where most people end up after trying fad diet after fad diet. That’s why diets don’t work in the long run.

Instead, try integrating some of the tips I give you each week into your existing lifestyle. Before you know it, you’ll have totally reshaped how you eat, exercise, and metabolize calories.

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Alright, there’s 7 of the top hollow excuses I see from readers all the time. Believe me, there are a lot more…but we’ll save those for another day…So-

-again, ask yourself: ..are excuses like these holding YOU back?

If so, what can YOU do about them right now? And ultimately, what kind of person are you really?

Someone who would like to win…or someone who MUST win…

By the way…if you haven’t read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook yet, you should claim your copy right now-

-In it, I take you step by step and teach you how to copy my plan, including how to create an almost endless amount of fat burning meals and snacks combining the world’s best and delicious foods…

…I lost over 42 pounds of fat, totally reshaped my body and dropped my waist measurement by 10 inches, boosted my energy and health immensely…

…m.y wife lost 59 pounds and went from a size 12 to a size 4 (you can see her pics on the website below)…and we did it in just a few months with workouts that last just 15-26 minutes performed 2-3 times each week.

It took me years to learn all of the secrets we use…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes here:

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Lets take a walk?

lewis — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:35:00 +0000

Just got this from my friend Rob Poulos from :
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Hi lewis,

I’ve been getting a lot of great questions lately about fat burning and fitness, and I wanted to share a couple of them (and my answers) with you.

Here’s one I got the other day…

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Hi Rob,

I walk for 30 min every evening. Does this help me burn enough fat or should I be walking more than 30 minutes every day?

Thanks

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Alright, if you’ve read anything from me about walking before, you’ll know I’m not a big fan of this activity for fat burning…here’s why:

1. Walking for 30 minutes (even every day) hardly burns enough calories to lose a significant amount of body fat.

2. Moderate steady state walking, repeated day after day, week after week will teach your body to STORE MORE BODY FAT as a reserve that will be available for your next walking session.

This is because your body primarily burns fat during this exercise…which in turn teaches the body that it needs fat available to use as fuel if it encounters this exercise again.

Unless you’re extremely obese and sedentary, this type of exercise has little value and will just leave you frustrated with all of the time spent and such little results to show for it…

…What you need to be doing (if you want to burn off that thick blanket of blubber and totally reshape your body) is exercising with various high and low points of intensity. You should also be strengthening your body and building metabolically charged lean muscle tissue (like we do with the Fat Burning Furnace exercise routines)-

-here you are burning carbs as your primary fuel source, and teaching your body to store incoming calories as fuel for your muscles, not as fat.

Wouldn’t you rather burn fat like a machine while building lean and se.xy muscle tone, strength, and flexibility with only 2 or

3 workouts each week f.or only 15-26 minutes at a time? It’s a NO BRAINER!

Okay, here’s another great question I got recently…

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Hey Rob,

I have been reading your newsletters for some time now. I am ready to b.uy your eBook too, however, I was not sure if there would be any detrimental effect on my health with your program as a lot of programs out there can wreak havoc on your body.

Let me know, Thanks Rob.

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I totally understand where this reader is coming from. Back in the days when I was testing out all kinds of fat loss and fitness products, pills, and gizmos, I had that same feeling many, many times-

-and when you think about it, people only want to lose fat for 2 main reasons:

1. Because they want to look better

2. Because they have to lose fat for their health

Well, call me selfish, but I want to feel dead se.xy AND be healthy!

The reality is that, yeah, some stuff is dangerous, but I can tell you that my Fat Burning Furnace method uses scientifically tested principles of exercise and nutrition that are proven to not only burn ugly body fat and build a lean and strong body…

…but these methods also make you the healthiest person you can possible be! And I’m not lying…how is this so?

First, the nutrition priciples we use feed the body as it was meant to be fed, using the world’s best disease-fighting foods, as well as a host of other n.atural dietary tricks that keep your body energized all day long.

Second, the revolutionary exercise routines in FBF actually make your structural system (bones, tendons, ligaments, etc.) and your entire cardiovascular system (heart, lungs, etc.) stronger and work better!

This exercise is also proven to reduce the likelihood of heart attack and other illnesses as you age.

And this doesn’t even begin to touch upon how these changes in your body affects your mental health –

-when you wake up every morning feeling dynamite, looking in the bathroom mirror and admiring your new body, the world seems quite a bit better…I mean everything…the weather, your job, yo.ur boss, your spouse, your kids…you name it…

…the fact is, a properly developed body goes hand in hand with mental health and happiness…and there’s nothing more important than that.

Just a reminder…if you haven’t read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook yet, you should claim your copy right now-

-In it, I take you step by step and teach you how to copy my plan. I lost over 42 pounds of fat, totally reshaped my body and dropped my waist measurement by 10 inches, boosted my energy and health immensely…

…m.y wife lost 59 pounds and went from a size 12 to a size

4 (you can see her pics on the website below)…and we did it in just a few months with workouts that last just 15-26 minutes performed 2-3 times each week.

It took me years to learn all of the secrets we use…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes here:

http://www.fatburningfurnace.com/specialoffer

Here’s to getting lean, strong, and healthy for life, Rob Poulos Zero to Hero Fitness

Sincerely,
Lewis
www.atozfitness.com

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The skinny fat disguise

lewis — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:32:36 +0000

I just read a great newsletter on fat loss that I though you’d enjoy. It comes from fat loss and fitness expert Rob Poulos, author of the bestselling book ‘Fat Burning Furnace’
( http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com )

Here it is, enjoy…

Lewis

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Hi lewis,

You know these people. Perhaps you’re one of them.

They look skinny in clothes, perhaps even "in shape". But when the shirt comes off, or the shorts come out, yikes!

The ‘skinny fat’ disguise.

This is a very common problem…in fact I just received another question from one of my readers about this:

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Hi Rob,

Your recent article was quite interesting but I do have a problem with my body. I do exercise but my body is not that firm and toned,it really irritates me when someone pokes my bum …all they do is laugh and say my body is like jelly. This is mostly from my abdomen to my knees. What effective exercise can I do to tone my bum, and my thighs?

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Okay, this is an easy one, really. When someone tells me they workout and exercise but are not firmed or toned, it is usually because they are doing the wrong type of exercise. (Usually some form of traditional aerobic or cardio exercise).

To get that firm feeling and toned look, you must add lean muscle to your body, and you must burn off the body fat layer on top of that muscle.

The best way to do this is to use an intense form of resistance training, forcing your body to adapt quickly by adding muscle mass, strength, and stripping away body fat.

Further more, use a full body workout including several exercises that work your entire musculature (make sure to include the squat, which is the best bum and thigh toner in existence). Work each of them slowly and safely but hard, to the point where you cannot continue despite your greatest effort.

If you do this right you’ll be in an out of the gym in 15-25 minutes or so. And you won’t have to (and won’t want to) come back for another 2-3 days.

Let’s also address the fact that this reader also is most concerned with the area between her stomach and her thighs. Of course a typical problem area for women due to genetics and thousands of years of evolution.

These spot reducing concerns have an almost mystical aura surrounding them for some people…I sometimes think they wonder to themselves, "What is this magical force that makes all of my fat land in my belly or my butt or thighs?".

Well, as I’ve said before, the only way to reduce fat from your problem areas is by reducing your overal body fat percentage.

Fat comes off uniformly, not in specific areas…that is a fact.

Focusing on whole body fat loss is the ticket…and keeping your eye on that body fat percentage will result in fat loss all over your body, including the problem areas.

There’s really nothing mystical or magical about it, but when you put these ideas into practice consistently, for a few weeks, it starts to feel like it. And soon enough it starts to look like it as you’ve just made your ‘skinny fat’ disguise disappear…POOF!

By the way, if you haven’t yet read my Fat Burning Furnace eBook, you need to go and do that right now.

http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com

Here’s to getting lean, strong, and healthy for life, Rob Poulos Zero to Hero Fitness

Your ideal weight finally revealed…

lewis — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:14:31 +0000

Just in from Rob Poulos auther of The Fat Burning Furnace

Here is Rob’s comments on one of the most common questions he get from readers of his newsletter in regards to how much a person should weigh, or what their ideal weight should be.

In fact, He gets these questions nearly every day from a handful of new readers…here’s one he got recently:

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Hi Rob,

I am 38 years old, and just 5’1 inches in height. I’m really overweight, but not sure what my goal weight should be. I want to fit into a size 4…I’m in a size 12 now. Can you help?

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Why is this such a big mystery to people? Okay, there is a simple answer here, but it’s a two part answer…

First off, while it’s awfully tempting to measure your progress by what the scale says and what dress size or waist size you want to get to, this is often a big trap. Why?

Because the ultimate measure of fat loss is your overall body fat percentage. If you’re reducing your body fat percentage significantly, and you’re still not at your "goal weight" or have a waist measurement that’s not where you think it should be, you may become frustrated for the wrong reasons.

For instance, for many men a 30 inch waist is one of the true measures of leanness and health. But, what if your bone structure doesn’t allow for this measurement? What if you’ve surrounded your waist with rock hard muscle?

I’m a prime example, being rather tall (at 6’6"), even at a year round body fat of around 10-12%, my well defined waistline hovers around 32 inches. Does that mean I’m doing something wrong?

What matters is your overall body fat percentage. So, what’s ideal? For men, anywhere from 14-17% will draw plenty of stares from the opposite s.ex, while women who get in the 19-22% range will make most of their f.riends green with envy.

Trust me, get into those ranges or a bit below and you’ll stop caring so much about your body weight or dress sizes or waist measurements…You’ll look so good you won’t have time to care!

And what’s the best way to lower your body fat percentage quickly? Use an intense form of full body resistance training, forcing your body to adapt quickly by adding fat burning muscle mass while training your body to store calories in your muscles instead of fat cells.

You know, this is the exact exercise I teach you in my Fat Burning Furnace eBook, and if you haven’t read it yet, you need to go and do that right now.

I lost over 40 pounds of fat, totally reshaped my body and dropped my waist measurement by 10 inches, boosted my energy and health immensely…and I did in just a few months with workouts that last just 15-20 minutes performed 2-3 times each week.

It took me years to learn all of the secrets I use…but you can download my eBook right now and discover them for yourself in just a few minutes here:

http://fatburningfurnace.atozfitness.com

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