All Posts Tagged With: "nutrition"
The Body Fat Solution Reviewed
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle BFFM ?). You’ve made your plan and started out on your journey. You hold the reins of your team of horses (see stagecoach above), but somehow they keep pulling you off to the side … …
That’s because you have one horse pulling alone in the front, your Goal horse, and two behind, Workout and Nutrition. You’re missing the fourth horse to pair up with Goal in order to bring balance and keep you going forward on the chosen path.
A Shocking Protein Supplement Discovery!
Which protein works best at building muscle? The answer will SHOCK YOU!
If you follow popular bodybuilding advice you’ve probably heard that different types of protein powders are consumed at different times for different reasons.
For example, “Casein Protein” (a very slow digesting protein) isn’t as bio-available to your muscle.
But because casein forms a solid “clot” in your stomach, it’s digested and absorbed very slowly, reportedly helping to prevent muscle breakdown over a longer period of time.
Exercise Toxicity
This is an interesting topic…
Some people try too hard when they work out, not realizing they are actually sabotaging their own efforts. There is a such thing as overtraining, and it doesn’t only lead to injury. Overtraining can absolutely lead to decreased fat loss, less definition, and greater cardiac risk. I know that this sounds odd, but bear with me as I explain the 3 principles of overtraining that make exercise toxic when you do too much. These principles are:
The Creatine Grave Yard
Looks like another “high tech” form of creatine has got one foot planted firmly in the creatine grave yard. What is the creatine graveyard? It’s where forms of creatine – other then monohydrate – go when either science has shown them inferior to monohydrate, and or it’s life cycle of hype has come to and end.
I refer specifically to creatine ethyl ester (CEE). As with the many “high tech” forms of creatine before it, all manner of claims were/are made about how superior it is to creatine monohydrate (CM). It always starts the same. First the company will invent a long list of negatives about CM such as “poorly absorbed” or “causes bloat” or “is not stable” and then goes onto claim their form of creatine has solved all those invented negatives.
Lose Fat in the Morning
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.
Exercise And The Brain
If you ever needed another good reason to exercise, I’ve got one for you:
Exercise makes your brain bigger.
Actually this isn’t entirely accurate. To be more specific, exercise was found to increase brain size slightly, but far more important to increase “spatial reasoning.”
This is the ability to recognize patterns, remember phrases, numbers, and so-on. This was discovered by researchers at the Universities of Chicago and Pittsburgh.
It is also one of the most important factors to the prevention of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Carbohydrates and Fat Loss: What’s the Deal?
Carbohydrates play an important role in any fat loss diet. You need them to help you recover from your workouts but you need to limit them so that they don’t inhibit your fat loss. So what is the right balance of carbohydrates in your diet? When you eat carbs and what kind of carbs you eat depends on your body type and the time of day. Let’s look at this idea a little more closely.
How Long To Rest Between Sets
A lot of my readers ask me how long to rest between sets while exercising.
The answer is: It depends on your goals.
If you are training to increase strength, I recommend resting a bit longer – up to two minutes for exercises like squats and heavy dumbbell work. But if you want to burn the most amount of bodyfat and gain lean muscle, I recommend resting for very short periods of time.
“The Iron Guru” Vince Gironda used to recommend leaving your hands on the bar between sets — now THAT is short rest intervals! He would frequently rest only 15-20 seconds between sets.
Fire Your Diet – It’s Your Only Guarantee To Get Ripped Abs
Fire your diet, I’m serious. Staying on your diet may be the worst decision you could ever make. Restricting calories is not fun. Eating foods you don’t like – forget about it. Nobody wants to live this way, and no one is going to permanently. Therein lies the problem:
Unless dieting is the way you want to eat everyday for the rest of your life, Stop Dieting Now!
You see, it all comes down to a basic principle of homeostasis, or equilibrium. Your body seeks homeostasis, no matter which condition you subject it to, in order to be able work as an efficient machine. The greater the equilibrial state in your body, the less work it has to do to survive. It’s basic science.
Hungry ?
Got a question for you:
Should you “stay hungry”?
Let me explain what I mean.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made a movie a while time ago called “Stay Hungry.” Only a handful of people saw it.
I was one of them.
I loved the idea of “staying hungry” — of never sitting on your rear end too long… of never being totally comfortable… and of always progressing.
Speed Eating and Fat Loss: Diet Advice Your Mom Was Right About All Along
A new study just published in a recent issue of the journal Obesity has revealed that thin people eat very differently than heavy people at all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants.
Researcher Brian Wansink and his team from the Cornell University Food and Brand Laboratory observed diners at 11 different Chinese buffet restaurants across the United States.
Their goal was to find out whether the eating behaviors of people at all-you-can-eat buffets varied based on their body mass.
Trained observers recorded the height, weight, gender, age, and behavior of 213 patrons. The various seating, serving and eating behaviors were then compared across BMI levels.
Find Out If You Too Are At Risk
Want to know what your real odds are of having a heart attack?
How about a stroke? Diabetes?
Okay, this isn’t sounding like a positive letter… but hang in there. It gets a lot better and more positive.
I was having lunch today with my CPA and my good friend Sherry Strong. Sherry’s upcoming book is a must-read. I will let you know when she’s ready to release it.
Since Sherry has been here visiting me in Dallas I have learned SO much about natural food preparation and what really causes disease.
1 Rep Fitness – Reviewed by Sarah
Ever hear of him? French bodybuilder and model, good friend of Jon Benson’s and rapidly becoming a good friend of mine as well.
He has written a program the like of which I’ve never seen.
Sure, there are lots of training programs out there, you know that as well as I do. When I got my hands on this one, I was puzzled though.
All I had were the basics, and training programs for 1 week. Three versions (2, 3 and 4-day programs) for men, three for women. But … this is a 12-week program, where was the rest of it? Why were there different programs for men and women?
Stop Cravings and Stop Binge Eating: Advice from a Pizza Man
In a surprising comment made during a popular UK radio show, the founder of one of the largest Pizza chains in the United States and United Kingdom told listeners not to eat too much pizza!
In an interview with host Adam Shaw on BBC’s Radio Four program, John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John’s pizza, was asked whether he was concerned about the British government’s recent actions in the fast food restaurant business to help put the brakes on obesity.
Schnatter said, “Pizza is actually healthy for you if you don’t eat too much of it. You can’t eat five or six slices but if you eat one or two slices it’s very nutritious.”
The Secret To A Better Lovelife
Today we need to chat about your hormones.
Yeah, I chat a lot about hormones. That’s because I have been to Hormone Hell and back. Twice.
I’ve lived to tell the tale.
It’s scary… and it’s one of those hidden illnesses that you might not even know you have.
I had it at 27. I did not affect my lovelife, but that was probably due to my youth. If I did not treat it then, I would have no lovelife or drive at ALL right now.
8 Reasons Why You Keep Falling Off The Diet Wagon
Clearly, we have an obesity problem in America and many other countries across our planet. Yet, I propose that we do not have a weight loss problem today. In case you’re confused at this apparent contradiction, consider these statistics:
According to a study from Oxford University published in the International Journal of Obesity, within 3 to 5 years, about 80 percent of all ‘weight losers’ have regained the lost weight, and often gained back a little extra.
According to research by the National Weight Control Registry, that relapse rate may be as high as 95 percent.
New Research: Fat Is Contagious?
Let me tell you about the AD-36 adenovirus. Adenoviruses are the same nasty bugs that cause the common cold. We all have these viruses in various forms in our body all the time. That last bit is a critical distinction.
Remember that.
The Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana has been doing some really ground-breaking research on AD-36. AD-36 affects stem cells… more specifically fat cells, both pre-formed and post-formed.
Burn More Bodfyat With Spices
It’s the spice of life.
Food that is. Or opinions. I guess there is a lot of things that are officially “the spice of life.”
I think spices are the spice of life.
I have a new-found love of spices since hanging around a killer healthy-food chef for the past week.
Wow oh wow… I had no idea.
