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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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