Positively Fit

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...

10 TIPS TO FAT LOSS 1. Eliminating all junk foods like like snack foods, pizza, desserts, pasta, bread, and dairy products. 2. Exercise to increase lean muscle mass. Resistant training is highly recommended!!! 3. Have your thyroid checked if you're not losing fat. One in two Americans has an under active thyroid. 4. Not enough protein is consumed for breakfast. Protein regulates insulin levels, when you eat high sugar meals, your insulin levels become elevated, you store fat. 5. Cut out the butter, salad dressing, fried foods,cookies, candies. 6. Keep your sugars to minimum. 7.Eat your largest meal at breakfast, dinner should be light since you're sleeping; no energy is needed to sleep;-) 8. Eliminate or minimize your alcoholic drinks, because it only slows down the metabolism. 9. YOU must EAT at least 5 small meals everyday! If not your body goes into starvation mode, where it uses muscle for energy and leaving you fat.* Never skip a meal! 10. Visualize your success. Look into...