31 Day Fat Loss Cure

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure (Post twenty seven)

31 Day Fat Loss Cure : Why You Should Be Using Free Weights!

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

You see them in all the big box gyms.

Row after row of pulleys, hinges, and 31 Day Fat Loss Cure stacks. Each one stares you down and promises an easy solution. Each one silently communicates to you, “use me and I will fulfill all of your dreams of a hot body.”

Each one perpetuates 31 Day Fat Loss Cure this big lie.

The lie is a promise of a magic pill, or in this case one of a magic machine. The falsehood that by using some gizmo or gadget, you’ll be quickly turned into the fitness god 31 Day Fat Loss Cure you see on the covers of the fitness magazines. I have two sophisticated words for this: Bull. Shit.

The truth should always be clear — you have to work if you want to see the right results. And as they say, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure the truth does hurt.

It’s also the truth that you don’t need any particular machine or piece of equipment to get into the best shape. There are useful pieces of equipment, and even a 31 Day Fat Loss Cure machine or two, that can help your fitness regimen. But they are by no means necessary.

So what’s this problem with 31 Day Fat Loss Cure machines for successful fitness training?

Problem #1: Forcing the body to move along unnatural lines of movement.

The number one guilty party here is the Smith Machine. I’d really love to put all the world’s Smith Machines into one large heap and melt them down so their raw materials could be more useful – in making stainless steel urinals, for example.

The Smith Machine forces movement into an absolutely vertical path, which is not how the body 31 Day Fat Loss Cure was designed to function. Whether it’s either a squat or a bench press, there will always be slight deviation from a perfectly vertical path as the bar moves.

This deviation aids in the strengthening of stabilizing muscles and is more like movements the body finds outside of the gym in the real world. Stay away from the Smith 31 Day Fat Loss Cure Machine; love that squat cage.

Problem #2: Machines encourage single joint exercises.

The leg curl. The leg extension. The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure pec dec. And please don’t let me start in on the preacher curl machine. Once again with these machines, we are forcing the body to move in ways that are not nature’s way.

You are wasting precious time 31 Day Fat Loss Cure anytime you are doing an exercise where only one joint is involved. This is obviously because if in the same time it takes to do a leg extension where you work the quadriceps you can do a squat where you work the quads, gluts, hamstrings, and the core stabilization of the torso then why are you doing that leg extension?

The time it takes to use the preacher curl machine where you work only the biceps would be better spent on the pull up bar where you work all sorts of muscles from the lats, rhomboids, and deltoids to the biceps.

Use big movements with big effort and avoid single joint machines at all costs.

Problem #3: Inconvenience

If your fitness training is based on the availability of machines you will not know what to do if you can’t make it to the gym.

Having a set of dumbbells in your c31 Day Fat Loss Curet or having a knowledge of body 31 Day Fat Loss Cure exercises gives you a freedom from the gym that will really pay off when your schedule gets packed and there is no room for the gym.

Or when you’re traveling and the hotel is unfortunately not equipped with your favorite workout apparatus.

Relying on machines can limit your options and makes it too easy to miss your workouts.

Ok so I’ve cut down on the 31 Day Fat Loss Cure machines pretty hard so far. While I cannot stand the majority of machines in a gym, there are two of them that I find beneficial and to form a worthwhile part of a fitness workout routine. Each of these provides a healthy workout.

The Concept 2 Rower and the AirDyne exercise bike both receive my stamp of approval. Each of these machines use both lower and upper body motions to create metabolic stress.

Many workouts neglect to 31 Day Fat Loss Cure incorporate the pulling aspect which a rowing machine is perfect for. Rowing is a great natural movement that works the entire body and provides functional training and strengthening for everyday movements.

Overall, it is best to limit your use 31 Day Fat Loss Cure of machines to a minimum and keep your training “organic” so to speak.

Go sprint up a hill while dragging 31 Day Fat Loss Cure an old tire. Do a superset of push ups and pull ups. Lift a barbell or practice with some dumbbells.

Real training doesn’t take place on a machine.

Read More : Doctors Finally Agree: Carbs Are The Primary Cause Of Weight Gain (Not Fatty Foods)

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

“Carbohydrates are a metabolic bully.”

31 Day Fat Loss Cure I couldn’t have said it better myself. . .

That is a quote from a recent article in the L.A. Times that outlines how a diet rich in 31 Day Fat Loss Cure carbohydrate sources such as bread, pasta, and rice is responsible for today’s obesity problem in the United States.

The article even quotes the doctor who is the director of the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at Duke University Medical Center as saying, “At my obesity clinic, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure my default diet for treating obesity, Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome is a low-carb diet.”

31 Day Fat Loss Cure (Post twenty six)

31 Day Fat Loss Cure : 7 Exercises For Maximum Strength And Fat Loss

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

Walk into a commercial gym these days and you’ll see the same thing again and again… a heavy guy walks on the treadmill for a few minutes, then hits the fly machine for some sets, then he gets the curl bar, stares into the mirror, and cranks out 3 sets 31 Day Fat Loss Cure of bicep curls. When he’s done with all that, he grabs a mat and does crunches for about 10 minutes (all while checking out the cute chick on the elliptical). If this sounds like it could be you, you’re in for a very rude awakening…

Let’s think about this rationally for  31 Day Fat Loss Cure a second. Hundreds of years ago we got our exercise as we sprinted through the woods and tracked down big game with a spear; today, we’re 31 Day Fat Loss Cure sitting on a $5,000 machine doing flys and calling it a workout? It’s time to dump this BS and focus on compound muscle exercises that will jumpstart your testosterone, help you look healthy, and  31 Day Fat Loss Cure make you feel like a real man.

Here are the best 7 exercises that will make you  31 Day Fat Loss Cure look and feel like a real man:

Deadlifts

What’s more manly than  31 Day Fat Loss Cure grabbing a bar with the maximum 31 Day Fat Loss Cure you can possibly lift and ripping it off the ground?

The deadlift requires all of your strength  31 Day Fat Loss Cure and all of your focus, a true max effort to be sure. The deadlift is without a doubt the best path to a powerful and strong appearance.

Its emphasis on the glutes, legs, and back  31 Day Fat Loss Cure while being the best overall body developer in your fitness arsenal leads to impressive results. It is vital to know how to deadlift!

Squat

As men, we can feel at times as if the 31 Day Fat Loss Cure of the world is on our shoulders. Well, get used to bearing some serious 31 Day Fat Loss Cure by stepping under the squat bar!

Legs that are pillars of strength and a torso  31 Day Fat Loss Cure that is rock solid are tangible benefits to be had from doing the squat.

So be like Atlas and squat big! If 31 Day Fat Loss Cure you ignore the value of squats because you’re an “upperbody only” type of guy, then it’s time to make a serious change in your workout routine.

Heavy and deep squatting will make you  31 Day Fat Loss Cure look and feel like a warrior inside and out.

Push Press/Shoulder Press

If deadlifting as much 31 Day Fat Loss Cure off the ground as possible is the exercise that makes you feel the most manly, then pushing as much 31 Day Fat Loss Cure overhead as possible comes in as a c31 Day Fat Loss Cure second.

The bench press receives way too  31 Day Fat Loss Cure much credit. It is difficult for me to imagine a scenario in life where we are we caught with our back stuck to the floor and a heavy 31 Day Fat Loss Cure extended towards the ceiling.

However, the functionality of pushing 31 Day Fat Loss Cure overhead from a standing position is incontestible. Need to put away that heavy box up in your attic? Or help lift your buddy over a  31 Day Fat Loss Cure tall fence when it’s time to evade and escape?

The push press will help you move  31 Day Fat Loss Cure heavy objects to high places and give you the broad, rounded shoulders that make women weak in the knees.

Sled Drag

With a chain, rope or nylon strap, connect yourself to a shoulder harness hooked to a tire, 31 Day Fat Loss Cureed sled or other heavy object.

Now, lean forward, begin moving and pull with all your might! Your legs will get the maximum workout, and 31 Day Fat Loss Cure your heart and lungs will be used at full capacity.

Enjoy the feeling of your heart  31 Day Fat Loss Cure pounding strong and know that you are training like a real man.

Sledge Hammer Drills

Manual labor is always, well, manly. And in 31 Day Fat Loss Cure modern society’s sea of white collars and cubicles, it is beneficial to your health to create some physical work even when your paycheck doesn’t require it.

Repeatedly slam the sledge hammer with all of your might into an old tire or some soft dirt. Your forearms, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure midsection, shoulders and back will reap the rewards of this  31 Day Fat Loss Cure manly workout and sledge hammer drills are excellent for stress relief as well!

Sandbag  31 Day Fat Loss Cure Clean

Another reversion to manual labor, the  31 Day Fat Loss Cure sandbag clean is a handy exercise for overall physical development a well as for strengthing the grip. Sandbags with handles are not to be used.

Grip the bag by the cloth only and work on developing some man-hands. A strong grip equals a strong man.

31 Day Fat Loss Cureed Pull-Ups

It’d be great it if the common gym  31 Day Fat Loss Cure question of “How much can you bench?” were replaced by “How many pull-ups can you do?”

Most guys cheat the pull-up by  31 Day Fat Loss Cure failing to fully extend their arms at the bottom or get their chin completely above the bar at the top, and this creates problems.

If you can finish 10 real manly pull ups, try adding some 31 Day Fat Loss Cure. You can hold a dumbbell between your ankles, sport a 31 Day Fat Loss Cure belt and hang some plates, wear a 31 Day Fat Loss Cureed vest or back back, or put your wife or girlfriend on your back if you’re up to it (and if they’re willing, of course).

The added 31 Day Fat Loss Cure on the pull-up will help add width to your back and give you that tapered V-shaped look.

Read More : Why You Should Be Using Free Weights!

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

You see them in all the big box gyms.

Row after row of pulleys, hinges, and 31 Day Fat Loss Cure stacks. Each one stares you down and promises an easy solution. Each one silently communicates to you, “use me and I will fulfill all of your dreams of a hot body.”

Each one perpetuates this big lie.

The lie is a promise of a magic  31 Day Fat Loss Cure pill, or in this case one of a magic machine. The falsehood that by using some gizmo or gadget, you’ll be quickly turned into the fitness god  31 Day Fat Loss Cure you see on the covers of the fitness magazines. I have two sophisticated words for this: Bull. Shit.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure (Post twenty five)

31 Day Fat Loss Cure : Should You Train Your Legs?

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

You always see them in the gym. You know the guys who’ll brag about their bench press prowess and crank away at the lat pull down machine?

When they take their shirts off, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure you can see they are fitness mag cover ready… from the waist up at least.

Barring a medical restriction, there is  31 Day Fat Loss Cure absolutely no excuse to avoid the big lifts that involve the muscles of the lower body.

And I’m not talking about wimpy leg  31 Day Fat Loss Cure curls here. I’m talking about squats and deadlifts and all their different versions.

Listed below are the 6 most important  31 Day Fat Loss Cure reasons you should be working out your legs if you aren’t already.

1. Without leg strength, the real world  31 Day Fat Loss Cure will knock you on your ass. Imagine pushing your neighbor’s car when it’s stuck in the snow, or, hauling bags of mulch out of your trunk, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure or perhaps moving your couch to the perfect spot in line with your big screen TV. In all of these tasks, and most of life’s physical  31 Day Fat Loss Cure tasks, your lower body muscles are going to be the primary movers. Your squats and deadlifts will pay off immensely when you find yourself in these situations.

2. More metabolic bang for your 31 Day Fat Loss Cure buck – Did you know the muscles of the legs are the biggest muscles of the body?

Moving large muscles requires a  31 Day Fat Loss Cure lot of energy – meaning more burned calories.. You can bench press from dawn till dusk, but nothing is going to jumpstart your metabolism  31 Day Fat Loss Cure like some heavy squats and deadlifts.

3. Improves your athleticism – All athletic  31 Day Fat Loss Cure movement involves the opening and closing of the hip. Think about punching, throwing and jumping. All of these movements  31 Day Fat Loss Cure commence with the hip closing to some extent and then opening powerfully. I don’t care if it’s smacking a home run or playing catch with your son, the power for these movements is grounded in the lower body muscles..

4. Moving big 31 Day Fat Loss Cure is gratifying. Nothing can replace the feeling of grabbing the bar and pulling several hundred pounds off the floor.

Your deadlift should be the strongest  31 Day Fat Loss Cure of all your lifts. And if it isn’t, with training it will quickly catch up and surpass your bench press.

Moving big 31 Day Fat Loss Cure is what being strong is all about – and the strength you build up in the gym with lower body training will carry over well into real life..

5. You’ll see your biggest strength and  31 Day Fat Loss Cure muscle gains. Anyone who has ever done a typical muscle magazine workout that doesn’t include squats and deads, will see the  31 Day Fat Loss Cure fastest and largest strength gains in their life once they start doing squats and deadlifts.

Single joint movements like calf raises  31 Day Fat Loss Cure will make you laugh after you see the gains squats and deads can give you.

6. You’ll have a great ass. There. I  31 Day Fat Loss Cure said it. Guy or girl, straight or gay, I don’t  31 Day Fat Loss Cure know any healthy person who doesn’t appreciate a firm and shapely butt on their significant other.

We all know guys love a nice  31 Day Fat Loss Cure ass, and studies also show that girls find a guy’s butt their most attractive body part.

Either way you need to start working  31 Day Fat Loss Cure on your legs as they set the foundation for making the rest of your body look good!

Read More : 7 Exercises For Maximum Strength And Fat Loss

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

Walk into a commercial gym these  31 Day Fat Loss Cure days and you’ll see the same thing again and again… a heavy guy walks on the treadmill for a few minutes, then hits the fly machine  31 Day Fat Loss Cure for some sets, then he gets the curl bar, stares into the mirror, and cranks out 3 sets of bicep curls. When he’s done with all that, he  31 Day Fat Loss Cure grabs a mat and does crunches for about 10 minutes (all while checking out the cute chick on the elliptical). If this sounds like it could be you, you’re in for a very rude awakening…

Let’s think about this rationally for a  31 Day Fat Loss Cure second. Hundreds of years ago we got our exercise as we sprinted through the woods and tracked down big game with a spear; 31 Day Fat Loss Cure today, we’re sitting on a $5,000 machine doing flys and calling it a workout? It’s time to dump this BS and focus on compound muscle  31 Day Fat Loss Cure exercises that will jumpstart your testosterone, help you look healthy, and make you feel like a real man.

The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure (Post twenty four)

31 Day Fat Loss Cure : The 5 Biggest Fitness Myths

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

I could write an entire book on the subject of “fitness myths”

I’ll spare you the 200 page  31 Day Fat Loss Cure book though, and boil it down to the 5 biggest myths when it comes to getting in shape.   Here they are…

5. Looking fit is the same as being  31 Day Fat Loss Cure fit.

Oh how I love it when the former  31 Day Fat Loss Cure high school football jock walks into my gym for the first time. He’s ten years or so removed from his varsity jacket, but he still looks to be 31 Day Fat Loss Cure in decent shape. Hell, he still tries to maintain himself by going to the gym three days a week and he IS in better shape than your average Joe.

But his fitness magazine workout built  31 Day Fat Loss Cure muscles hide the truth about his level of fitness. They give him an unmistakable machismo and I can’t help but satisfy this urge to serve him some humble pie.

So I feed him a simple 4 minute  31 Day Fat Loss Cure workout of Tabata squats. There is no added 31 Day Fat Loss Cure mind you – just his body. His face flushes, his legs tremble, but he makes it to the end. And then he curls into the fetal position over in the corner.

Being “fit” should be able to give a  31 Day Fat Loss Cure person a relatively high level of performance across a broad spectrum of physical attributes including strength, coordination, flexibility, balance and endurance. You can look like a swimwear model and still  31 Day Fat Loss Cure get humbled and exposed by having to move heavy appliances.

Don’t let that happen to  31 Day Fat Loss Cure you.

4. Targeting specific muscle groups  31 Day Fat Loss Cure is the best way to work out.

How many times have people said to 31 Day Fat Loss Cure you “Today I’m doing bi’s and tri’s” or “Tuesday is my chest workout day”? How you should plan a resistance training program  31 Day Fat Loss Cure depends on several factors, but the fitness goal you have in mind is the most important one that we’ll concern ourselves with here.

Why are you doing this strength  31 Day Fat Loss Cure workout? Instead of designing programs around muscles, I  31 Day Fat Loss Cure prefer to design them around movements.

The real world is never going 31 Day Fat Loss Cure to give you a task that focuses only on your “bi’s”. It is important to treat the body as the one piece that it is and exercise accordingly. The  31 Day Fat Loss Cure staples of any workout should include full body movements like presses, power cleans and deadlifts.

Or at least any program whose aim is  31 Day Fat Loss Cure to get you looking good AS WELL as being in shape!

3. You need supplements to get  31 Day Fat Loss Cure in good shape.

Supplements should only be used  31 Day Fat Loss Cure for what their name implies: to “supplement” an already healthy diet. Pills, powders, potions, and drink mixes are not the miracle workers they  31 Day Fat Loss Cure are advertised to be.

Most supplements have little use, and the  31 Day Fat Loss Cure few that are helpful should be applied only after solid nutrition is in place. What supplements do I recommend?

A multi-vitamin is never going to get  31 Day Fat Loss Cure bad mouthed by me. An omega-3 supplement if you are unable to get it from your diet first (and few of us can) is acceptible. And maybe, and I said maybe, a protein powder if you not able to get the  31 Day Fat Loss Cure required amount of protein in your diet.

Keep the Horny Goat Weed to yourself.

2. Long slow running is the best way to 31 Day Fat Loss Cure fat

I so wish this myth would pass the way of  31 Day Fat Loss Cure the dinosaur.

But I still hear people saying how they’re running 5 miles a day in order to 31 Day Fat Loss Cure 31 Day Fat Loss Cure. I tell them that if they really want to run and 31 Day Fat Loss Cure 31 Day Fat Loss Cure they should sprint their ass off until they are dizzy and then walk until their stability returns. Then repeat this cycle until they feel like they can’t go on..

The reality about long slow cardio  31 Day Fat Loss Cure training of any type whatsoever – whether it’s pounding the pavement or watching the wheels go ’round on the eliptical is inefficient  31 Day Fat Loss Cure to put it kindly and a waste of time if you want to be more direct. And for all of you gerbils rocking the treadmills, don’t get me started on the “fat burning zone” of the digital read out.

Just like your prom date saying  31 Day Fat Loss Cure that you’re her first time, they are liars – don’t believe what it says.

1. Crunches will get rid of belly fat.

Oh man, this one is right up there with  31 Day Fat Loss Cure long slow cardio as far as getting my blood boiling goes. In a very broad sense, getting rid of fat is simply burning more calories than you take in.

And doing a crunch, which manuvers the body through a short range of motion, is not going to use many calories.

Jumpstarting your metabolism with some solid strength or body31 Day Fat Loss Cure workouts is going to go a hell of a lot farther in deflating your spare tire than racking up your crunch total.

I’ll even go this far to say you can get a 6 pack without doing a single crunch.

Any more myths I need to put to rest?

Read More : Should You Train Your Legs?

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

You always see them in the gym. You  31 Day Fat Loss Cure know the guys who’ll brag about their bench press prowess and crank away at the lat pull down machine?

When they take their shirts off, you can  31 Day Fat Loss Cure see they are fitness mag cover ready… from the waist up at least.

Barring a medical restriction, there is  31 Day Fat Loss Cure absolutely no excuse to avoid the big lifts that involve the muscles of the lower body.

And I’m not talking about wimpy leg  31 Day Fat Loss Cure curls here. I’m talking about squats and deadlifts and all their different versions.

Listed below are the 6 most important reasons you should be working out your legs if you aren’t already.

The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure (Post twenty three)

31 Day Fat Loss Cure : The 5 Best Exercises For Beginner’s Looking To Build Muscle And Food Fat

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

Whether it is your first gym  31 Day Fat Loss Cure membership, or you’re a veteran who has finally found the willpower to get in shape, there are five exercises you must learn if you want results.

While bodybuilding magazines  31 Day Fat Loss Cure and websites are bombarding you with isolated muscle exercises, beginners in fitness need to focus on the basics called compound movements.

Compound movements use many  31 Day Fat Loss Cure different muscle groups at the same time, thus maximizing strength gains and boosting 31 Day Fat Loss Cure. If you focus on these 5 lifts, you’ll be well on your way to tangible results in 4-8 weeks.

The 5 exercises are:

    * Squat
    * Deadlifts
    * Pull ups
    * Shoulder press
    * Bench press

#1 – Squats

The squat is another  31 Day Fat Loss Cure effective full body exercise that places its main emphasis on the glutes and the quads. Hamstrings, calves and lower back are also exercised during squats.

Make sure you start with a small amount of 31 Day Fat Loss Cure when you start out doing squats and work on your form. Also, do NOT use the Smith Machine for doing squats no matter how much easier it seems to make them. While using the Smith Machine, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure many things can go wrong because it promotes an unnatural range of motion which can result in improper knee flexion and problems with  31 Day Fat Loss Cure the lower back because of foot positioning.

Learn how to squat properly the  31 Day Fat Loss Cure old fashioned way with a bar in the cage and you’ll see major improvements in your muscle gains.

#2 – Deadlifts

The deadlift is excellent 31 Day Fat Loss Cure for overall body development. I firmly believe that the deadlift and the squat are the two most useful exercises you can do while at the gym.

The deadlift exercises the lower  31 Day Fat Loss Cure back muscles primarily, the abdomen, quads, hamstrings and glutes. As you see it works a load of muscles. The deadlift feels  31 Day Fat Loss Cure awkward to new lifters, and it takes a while to perfect the technique. Start training with only the bar or with a very light 31 Day Fat Loss Cure until you have refined your technique.

#3 – Pull Ups

Pull ups are a great test of upper body  31 Day Fat Loss Cure strength and endurance. It is without a doubt the best compound pulling exercise you can practice. The pull up mainly exercises  31 Day Fat Loss Cure the lat muscles but also works many other muscles like the biceps, triceps, delts and muscles in the chest.

Pull ups can be done different ways, including 31 Day Fat Loss Cureed pull ups, one arm pull ups or kipping pull ups. Adding 31 Day Fat Loss Cure to your pull ups is an excellent way to vastly increase your strength once you are able to do a decent number of these on  31 Day Fat Loss Cure your own.

#4 – Shoulder press

The shoulder press is the  31 Day Fat Loss Cure best exercise for developing your shoulder muscles. When performing the lift while standing, the shoulder press also works the arms, abs, back and  31 Day Fat Loss Cure obliques. The stabilizing body muscles, especially in your core can be strengthened by doing this lift with the use of dumbbells.

#5 – Bench Press

The bench press is an excellent upper  31 Day Fat Loss Cure body exercise for increasing muscle size and strength. The bench works your pec muscles primarily, as well as the delts, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure triceps, serratus anterior and other smaller muscles.

Using the bench press and doing pullups really helps you build your upper body. Make sure you are using a spotter when you decide to raise your 31 Day Fat Loss Cures and start doing heavy 31 Day Fat Loss Cure/low rep combinations.

* If you don’t have a spotter available, or just want to do something different every few sessions, try using dumbbells for working your stabilizing muscles.

Read More : The 5 Biggest Fitness Myths

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

I could write an entire book on the subject of “fitness myths”

I’ll spare you the 200 page book though, and boil it down to the 5 biggest myths when it comes to getting in shape.   Here they are…

5. Looking fit is the same as being fit.

Oh how I love it when the former  31 Day Fat Loss Cure high school football jock walks into my gym for the first time. He’s ten years or so removed from his varsity jacket, but he still looks to be in decent shape. Hell, he still tries to maintain himself by going to the gym three  31 Day Fat Loss Cure days a week and he IS in better shape than your average Joe.

But his fitness magazine workout built muscles hide the truth about his level of fitness. They give him an unmistakable machismo and  31 Day Fat Loss Cure I can’t help but satisfy this urge to serve him some humble pie.

The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure (Post twenty two)

31 Day Fat Loss Cure : How To NOT Skip Your Workouts…

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

Life gets in the way.  When you let it to get in the way.

Oh sure, there are those  31 Day Fat Loss Cure unforeseen emergencies like having to run little Johnny to the hospital for falling off of his skateboard or having to unexpectedly crank out that project for your boss that he needed yesterday but didn’t tell you about  31 Day Fat Loss Cure until 5 o’clock.

The curve-balls of life will surely  31 Day Fat Loss Cure tempt you to miss a workout here and there, but with a little forethought your training schedule can go on uninterrupted.

1. Train first thing in the morning. Does  31 Day Fat Loss Cure working out first thing in the morning jack your metabolism into a fat burning inferno the rest of the day?  I don’t know and I don’t care.

What I do know is that if you hit your  31 Day Fat Loss Cure workout as soon as you roll out of bed, you avoid a litany of potential pitfalls for missing your workout that day.  Traffic jams, flat tires, and all-too-tempting invites to happy hour have not yet had the time to rear their ugly heads when the sun is barely out.  And starting the day with  31 Day Fat Loss Cure accomplishing an important task that you know is helping you reach your goals is sure to put you in a positive mood for the rest of the day.  So get up and get at it!

2. Make a date. At the beginning of each week, get out your calendar and write exactly what times and what days you will be working out.  Be sure to allow for travel time if you will be going to a gym.  Now treat these scheduled training times like they are appointments  31 Day Fat Loss Cure with someone that you would NEVER cancel on.  Maybe that’s your significant other, your kids, your most important client, Brad Pitt, Scarlett Johansson, or the President of the United States.  Whoever it is, treat  31 Day Fat Loss Cure your training appointments as sacred blocks of time that cannot be missed.

3. Bring the pain. No, I’m not talking 31 Day Fat Loss Cure about the wonderful sensation of barely being able to walk down the stairs the day after a brutal squat session.  I’m talking 31 Day Fat Loss Cure about instituting a penalty, something so painful you’d do anything to avoid it, for missing a workout.

For this tactic you have to enlist  31 Day Fat Loss Cure the help of someone you trust to keep you in check – someone who will keep you accountable and force you to follow through on the “penalty” if you miss a training session.  Money can be a great motivator.  Write a  31 Day Fat Loss Cure check for an amount that makes you wince to an organization or person that you HATE.  Now give this check to the person who is keeping tabs on your workouts and instruct them to deliver the check if you miss 31 Day Fat Loss Cure a training session.

But money isn’t the only  31 Day Fat Loss Cure penalty to consider.  Is there a task or chore around the house that you despise?  Make a deal with your spouse that if you miss a workout you will finally  31 Day Fat Loss Cure clean out the garage, change the kitty litter for a year, or scrub the bathroom with a toothbrush.  The key is to find something so repugnant that you would do almost anything to avoid it – and  31 Day Fat Loss Cure then link it to missing your training.

It’s easy to let outside 31 Day Fat Loss Cure circumstances dictate your training habits.  But getting that lean and fit body you want is no easy task.

Stack the odds in your favor and avoid  31 Day Fat Loss Cure missing workouts by training first thing in the morning, scheduling your workouts each week, and linking a penalty to missed sessions.

Read More : The 5 Best Exercises For Beginner’s Looking To Build Muscle And 31 Day Fat Loss Cure Fat

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

Whether it is your first gym membership, or you’re a veteran who has finally found the willpower to get in shape, there are five exercises you must learn if you want results.

While bodybuilding magazines  31 Day Fat Loss Cure and websites are bombarding you with isolated muscle exercises, beginners in fitness need to focus on the basics called compound movements.

Compound movements use many different muscle groups at the same time, thus maximizing strength gains and boosting 31 Day Fat Loss Cure. If you focus on these 5 lifts, you’ll be well on your way to tangible results in 4-8 weeks.

The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure (Post twenty one)

31 Day Fat Loss Cure : Why Most Ab Exercises Won’t Actually Give You Abs…

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

Want abs like this? Then stay away from crunches & situps!

You can’t miss them.  There they are, 31 Day Fat Loss Cure gleaming from every glossy fitness magazine cover you see… lean sexy abs.

And you want them too.  You want to  31 Day Fat Loss Cure feel the eyes on you as you walk out to the swimming pool and everyone is amazed at your lean and toned midsection.  Who doesn’t want that?

So you do sit-ups and you do crunches  31 Day Fat Loss Cure and you do leg lifts. . .  and your abs look exactly the same.

But why?  Why after all of your hundreds  31 Day Fat Loss Cure of repetitions of ab exercises does your midsection look exactly the same?

Here’s the secret the “8 Exercises For Sexy Abs” purveyors don’t want you to know. . .

You may get strong abdominal muscles  31 Day Fat Loss Cure from doing sit-ups or other ab training.  But that six-pack will NEVER be visible until you drop your body fat.  Dropping your body fat to a level that lets the world see your lean and toned abs takes WORK.  31 Day Fat Loss Cure And work doesn’t sell magazines.

But I’m here to tell you the truth.  And  31 Day Fat Loss Cure the truth is that you can get lean sexy abs without doing a single sit-up, crunch, or other traditional ab exercise.  To get the lean and toned midsection that makes you proud to take off your shirt, you  31 Day Fat Loss Cure have to do three things.

1.  Stick to a solid nutrition program. A solid nutrition program does not have to be complicated.  It comes down to eating lots of vegetables, some fruit, lean meats, and a small amount of nuts.  Avoid starchy carbohydrate 31 Day Fat Loss Cures like bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes.  Keep dairy to a minimum or eliminate it completely.  Keep your portion sizes to no more than your body actually needs for fuel.  And of course, NO JUNK 31 Day Fat Loss Cure!

2.  Strength training. You can lift 31 Day Fat Loss Cures, use body 31 Day Fat Loss Cure exercises, or even train with odd objects like sandbags.  However you do it, strength training is necessary for building muscle.  Increasing your muscle mass will lead to a higher resting metabolic rate – which means you’ll burn more calories even when you’re sitting on your butt.

3.  High intensity interval training. Hill sprints, jumping rope, kettlebell swings, and the workouts found in the 31 Day 31 Day Fat Loss Cure Cure manual are all excellent choices for cranking your heart rate.  If you can go longer than 20 minute sessions with this type of training, you are not pushing yourself hard enough.  All of the crunches in the world will not get your heart thumping the way it needs to for 31 Day Fat Loss Cure.

I didnt get abs like this with situps & crunches :)

It’s important to realize that you cannot spot reduce – doing ab exercises will not burn the fat directly off of your midsection.  As you reduce your body fat through proper nutrition and training, your body will get leaner everywhere.

And when you do the work and get leaner everywhere, your abs will be ready to show off as much as you like.

Read More : How To NOT Skip Your Workouts…

By Vic Magary, Author of The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure, Personal Trainer and Former U.S. Army Soldier

Life gets in the way.  When you let it to get in the way.

Oh sure, there are those unforeseen emergencies like having to run little Johnny to the hospital for falling off of his skateboard or having to unexpectedly crank out that project for your boss that he needed yesterday but didn’t tell you about until 5 o’clock.

The curve-balls of life will surely tempt you to miss a workout here and there, but with a little forethought your training schedule can go on uninterrupted.

1. Train first thing in the morning. Does working out first thing in the morning jack your metabolism into a fat burning  31 Day Fat Loss Cure inferno the rest of the day?  I don’t know and I don’t care.