4 Common But Useless Fattburning Exercises

I’m shocked that people still think sit-ups done the old-fashioned way actually work the abs. Even worse, most people have been fooled into believing this actually helps get rid of bellyfat.

Nonsense. Bellyfat is burned off when you have a good nutrition plan and through general exercise, not using exercises for the abs. Ab exercises are fine, but guess what?

I never train my abs more than 3-5 minutes. Today my ab workout took 3 minutes and 12 seconds to complete. And my abs are sore!

But without the nutrition plan, forget it… I’d never SEE my abs at all. I’d just have a nice wall of muscle with a bunch of flab covering it up.

The best nutrition plan for abs is my Every Other Day Dietplan, found here:

Fitness One-liners: The Best Diet/Workout Ever

What is your favorite one-liner?

Most people think of one-liners as either pick-up lines for the ladies or one-liner jokes.

Rodney Dangerfield was a master of one-liner jokes.

One of my favorite was:

“When it comes to women, I never cry…I beg.”

I guess that’s both a joke and a pick-up line! Ha….

Do you need more cardio to get rid of the belly fat?

Do you need more cardio to get rid of the belly fat?

Well, according to the trainer a colleague of mine saw last week, yes. He also told her to eat low fat cottage cheese, low-fat or fat-free cheese, 0% fat yoghurt etc with that same goal in mind. Finally she was told to cut out fried food and rice.

The thing I can agree with, is cutting the fried foods, as long as we’re talking deep fried and not sautéed in a pan with a spray of cooking oil.

Eliminating rice? No, why? Rice is fine, in moderation (i.e. portion control) and as long as you chose the whole grain rice rather than the polished, white variety with all nutrients removed. Oh, and have that rice for lunch, not for supper.

The science behind brevity training

A few months ago I released a book whose title was more reminiscent of a line out of “There’s Something About Mary” than a serious work on fitness. “7 Minute Muscle” — yep, it’s getting more and more difficult to distinguish fact from parody.

Here’s the real irony: Of the 27 testimonials I’ve received so far that I deem worthy of publishing on the web, over a dozen were from fitness professionals. I’m not talking about “doctors” with a gut as large as their paycheck. I’m speaking of men and women with both academic and real-world experience in the fitness and bodybuilding world.

HOW TO RECONCILE WORK AND WORK-OUT

I’m sure many of you wonder how they are going to manage to juggle their private life, working for the boss, and taking time for themselves at the gym. During my first years of work and training, I was lucky enough that I was working at my own gym. This of course made training during working hours pretty darned simple!

For the past two years, I’ve been working from home, training clients on-line and pretty much being master of my own time. Again, training schedule has not been a problem. However, in both cases, I did make a schedule that I stuck to; to make sure I didn’t just let the day pass without having done my workout. You can’t always trust willpower, even as a trainer (yes, we procrastinate too at times).