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Editor's Note: Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. There's stuff you know. Then there's stuff you don't know. But the key to success in anything is the discovery of one other variable: The things you don't know you don't know. Think about that. So many people ask me questions like... -- How can I get rid of my stubborn body fat? -- How fast can I do it? -- What's the best diet plan for me? These are good questions, don't get me wrong. But there are at least 10 questions most people never know to ask. It's the stuff they didn't know they didn't know... make sense? Today we'll cover 3 of the 10... HIDDEN QUESTION 1: "What's The Best Dietary-Fat To Eat To Get Rid Of Bodyfat?" Sounds nutty, doesn't it? The media loves to deceive you when it comes to dietary fats... and I'm here to set the record straight: You absolutely...

By Tom Venuto www.burnthefat.com You may have heard (or, heh, realized), that it's more difficult for women to lose fat than men. Immediately most people think it must be estrogen or hormonal issues. But perhaps the biggest factor is NOT hormones, but the simple fact that women are usually smaller and lighter than men. When you have a smaller body, you have lower calorie needs. When you have lower calorie needs, your relative deficit (20%, 30% etc) gives you a smaller absolute deficit and therefore you lose fat more slowly than someone who is larger and can create a large deficit more easily. For example, if my TDEE is 3300 calories a day (I’m 5' 8" and moderately to very active), then a 20% deficit is 660 calories, which brings me to 2640 calories a day. On paper, that will give me about 1.3 lbs of wt loss per week, rather painlessly, I might add. If I bumped my calorie burn up or decreased my intake by another 340 a day, that's enough to give me a 2 lbs pe...

1. You need to MUSCLE to burn fat. The truth is you don’t gain body fat because of a lack of exercise. You gain it because your blood sugar levels exceed what you are using. You are eating too many calories at one time. 2. Your metabolism slows down once you hit 30. WRONG! Actually, hundreds of research studies have shown that the slowdown in metabolism directly related to a lack of hard physical activity! 3. Pasta and bread are BAD . Anything is BAD! Lettuce can be stored as fat! Any food or drink, which contains calories, can be stored as body fat if it causes your blood sugar levels to exceed what the body needs at that time. Whole Wheat Bread and pasta are actually great sources of complex carbohydrate! The key is how much you eat and when you eat it. (Of anything) 4. Eating after 6pm will make you fat. False! It all depends on whether or not the body needs the extra calories at that time. Keep in mind your body is constantly burning calories, 24 hours per day, just t...

By Nick Nilsson Want to lose stomach fat? Have a problem area you want to tighten up?The bad news is simply training that area to death won't accomplish it! Learn why spot reduction doesn't work and what you CAN actually do about those problem areas. "How can I lose my gut?" "How do I stop my arms from flapping in the wind?" "How can I get rid of this stomach fat?" "How do I lose just the fat on my thighs?" These are questions I hear regularly...the bottom-line question being asked is "how can I lose fat from one specific area?" And I'm sorry to say, the quick answer is... "You can't." But don't panic! Just because you can't spot-reduce from one specific area doesn't mean you'll never lose that fat! It just means you have to look at things a bit differently when it comes to fat loss. THAT is where the pool I mentioned comes in. I would love to give credit to the person who I burgled this analogy...

By Tom Venuto www.BurnTheFat.com No Pain, No Gain. Is this aphorism just a fitness myth and downright bad advice? A lot of people seem to think so. As a bodybuilder with 25 years of training experience and more than two dozen trophies on my shelf, I have another perspective to offer you. Success with your body and in every area of your life is all about stepping outside of your comfort zone and that means embracing pain. To reach high levels of physical and personal success you must approach your training, and your entire life, as an endeavor in constant growth. The ultimate truth is, you are either moving forward or moving backward; growing or dying. There’s no such thing as comfortably maintaining. To grow, you must step above past achievements; beyond your perceived boundaries and limits. That means stepping out of the known, into the unknown; out of the familiar and into the unfamiliar; out of the comfortable into the uncomfortable. You must get out of your comfort zone. The Late C...

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By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS www.TurbulenceTraining.com Recently, I was in Tampa, Florida, at a seminar. Between sessions, a physician from Georgia stopped me in the hall and said, "Hey Craig, you were right about those crosstrainer machines. I've had your program for a few months now and I'm getting better results with the bodyweight circuits." It's always great to meet clients, and I was curious to find out how he heard of me. Turns out, he found me through Google, landing on an article I wrote about "how elliptical machines (crosstrainers) suck for fat loss". That's right, I think those machines are almost a complete waste of time. "I was using one of those machines for a long time and was wondering why I wasn't getting any results," the physician continued, "I'm so glad I found your program and now I'm using the bodyweight circuits from the Dumbell-Bodyweight Fusion Workout", he added. I told him how I wasn't...

By Tom Venuto http://tinyurl.com/qz6h89 On a recent episode of the Oprah show, one of the guests was a 51 year old man with the heart of a 20 year old. He's been following a calorie restriction plan and they said he might be one of the first people to reach 120 years old by following this plan. There have been stories both in the lay press and scientific press about calorie restriction for years and it has been a frequent talk show topic on other many other TV shows. However, before you cut your calories in half in hopes of adding another decade onto your life, you'd better get the other half of the story they didn't talk about on Oprah. I’ve seen a lot of strange things in the health field, and although calorie restriction (CR) is the subject of serious and legitimate scientific study, I consider CR to be one of those strange things. Of course, that’s because I choose a different lifestyle - the muscle-friendly Burn The fat, Feed The Muscle lifestyle - but there’s more t...

If you want to reduce your body fat, focus on increasing the amount of exercise, you get rather than decreasing your food intake. A recent national study was done using two groups of sedentary men, one group in their 20's and the other over age 65. A lot was learned from this accumulated data and it is interesting to note that there was a significant relationship between lack of physical activity and fat. Not surprisingly, the most sedentary men had the most body fat. These studies have also indicated that the government’s current recommended daily allowance for calories does not correlate with the body's actual energy needs. For example, although 2400 calories have been calculated for older men, they in fact burned an average of 2800 calories daily. The leading experts now recommend that people who want to lose weight start increasing their physical activity. Just being more active in general (such as climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator, moving around instead of...

By Nick Nilsson Not gaining muscle? Use this quick troubleshooting guide to fix what's wrong and get yourself back on the right track to building maximum mass FAST. So you're stuck...haven't gained any muscle in months...the scale hasn't gone up and neither have the weights you're using... What do you do? How do you step back and assess what you're doing and where you're going wrong? Just randomly changing things with your program and your eating isn't going to cut it... That's where the Muscle-Building Troubleshooter comes in. This step-by-step guide will walk you through what you need to do to analyze what's stopping you from achieving the results you want and help to get you back on the right track to muscle growth. And, don't be shocked when I don't start throwing out info about your NO2 deficiency and the need for some expensive crap supplement with ingredients you can't pronounce...this is the real deal. STEP 1 - NUTRITION There...

By Nick Nilsson Save yourself from the heartbreak! Find out why "toning up" as a training goal can leave you high and dry with NO results at all. And find out exactly what you can DO about it! I have to be honest...the first thing I do when someone tells me they "just want to tone up" is slap my palm to my forehead and groan. It's not because I'm frustrated with that person...quite the contrary! The reason is the whole insidious but popular myth that it's possible to just "get toned" in the first place! It's a myth that is found every aspect of popular fitness and it's time to put a stop to it once and for all before it robs yet another unfortunate person of their results. Please realize, I'm NOT frustrated with the the person asking me the question about how to "get toned," but I AM frustrated with a fitness industry and popular media that LEADS people to believe they can make changes to their body without any real meanin...

Editor's Note: Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. If I had to pick out the number one reason most people fail to achieve good results in the gym, guess what it would be? Over-training. Exercising too much. Sounds counter-intuitive, but trust me: It's quite real. Folks write to me all the time and say... "Jon, I don't get it. I cannot lose body fat and I'm running six days a week for an hour and training in the gym five days a week for 45 minutes!" My answer back is usually: "You are training 4x more than me, and I'm a fitness pro!" Look, do you take 21 aspirin for a headache, thinking the more you take the faster your pain will go away? No? So why apply the same logic to fitness? Only a certain amount is required. Beyond that, you are spinning your wheels. When I wrote 7 Minute Muscle (available here: http://tinyurl.com/ddsak5 , I exposed all the lies about training too long and why t...

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By Registered Dietitian Jayson Hunter It’s unfortunate, but true: Many women feel the need to starve themselves when they have twenty pounds they want to lose so they can look great for a special occasion. Whether it is a wedding, class reunion or some other special event there is a tremendous amount of pressure on women to look great. And this pressure often leads to the yo-yo dieting and weight gain that is so prevalent in our society today. You know the pattern: You starve yourself and seem to drop a ton of weight fast. But then when you go back to your normal eating patterns you gain not only the weight you lost back, but you gain even more! And it’s all the result of one thing: Starving your body of the nutrients it needs. As you’ve probably read somewhere by now, your body’s metabolism actually burns more fat when it’s fed more often. So if you want to lose dress sizes and inches fast you need to be good to your body. And that means eating the foods it craves to help it melt fat....