Posts Tagged ‘Metabolism’

Tricks For Professional Weight-Loss

If you’re looking for some of the secrets pros use for manageing weight and diet, you’ve come to the right place.You will find these methods especially helpful when it comes to losing fat. Learn more about this at http://www.fatlossfactor.com

I spend a lot of time getting beginners off to a good start. That’s why I have such a huge rollcall of things newbies should be doing to start their weight loss journey. If you are approaching your goals and want to continue working on your body, here are some things you need to look out for.

One: Don’t restrict your caloric intake beyond reason. Some people pull back on calories as their progress slows, but this can contribute to the problem. Your metabolism needs enough fuel to keep it working properly. If you cut back calories too much, you will find out that your metabolism can slow down and sputter out. This will result with even slower progress and you may even lose ground. This is key if you want to lose 20 pounds now.

So, reducing your calorie consumption beyond reason will affect your hormones by sending them the message to close bat-burning in order to conserve energy.

On reader who cut calories too much and was eating nothing but vegetables. When she upped her calories by eating more nuts, she started losing weight again.The reduction of caloric content should be avoided, especially if it will put you below the threshhold that you need on a routine basis.

Two: Avoid excess exercising. What happens with exercise is that your body adapts. You will find that more exercise won’t benefit because of the way your body adjusts to it. Another problem is that you never get to recover, so your body doesn’t heal from the stress.

Some people forget that exercise is stressing your physical systems and that too much stress is bad for everyone. Talk about this more in the best weight loss forum.

03

07 2010

Why Is Interval Training More Effective For Fat Loss?

Question:

What is the theory behind interval training? I always do interval training as they say it is the best to lose fat. They say with high intensity interval training you burn fat all day long. If there are carbs in the muscle wouldn’t those burn? I am a little confused about when fat burns and when muscle glycogen is burnt for energy. 

Answer:

The theory behind interval training is as follows:

It is a myth that low intensity cardio training is best for fat loss just because more fat is burned for fuel as a percentage of the total calories burned.

When you exercise, you are always burning a combination of fat and carbohydrates (in the form of glycogen - the stored form of carbohydrates). This ratio varies depending on the type of training you do.

Low Intensity (L.I. for short) burns about 50% fat for fuel while High Intensity (H.I.) burns about 40%. This is not a big difference.

Say, for example, you burn 100 calories in 20 minutes of L.I. work compared to 160 calories in 10 minutes of HI work, you’ve still burned more total fat doing HI.

Low Intensity
100 calories x 50% = 50 calories

High Intensity
160 calories x 40% = 64 calories

High intensity interval training will also boost your metabolism long AFTER the workout is done due to the increased demand on your cardiovascular and muscular system. This doesn’t occur with low intensity cardiovascular training. This is the reason it is said that interval training burns fat all day. Your body will also be burning carbs at the same time, of course, but since your metabolism has been raised, you will be burning more fat too.

The basic idea when you’re trying to lose fat is to create a caloric deficit. The type of training does not matter as much as creating that deficit. High Intensity training just creates the deficit more efficiently than Low Intensity training.

08

06 2010

Fat Burning Furnace

To become a fat burning machine and increase your fat loss, most people know, that you need to increase your metabolism by working out and adding lean muscle mass to your body.  When you live your life in a very healthy way you will enjoy many other benefits.  For this Fat Burning Machine guide we are going to look at how you can use intensity, volume and frequency and progression to lose weight and keep it off forever.

Of all the people I see working at the gym performing weight training or resistance training most are spending too much time with the exercise and not working hard enough.  They will burn very little fat with this low intensity workout.

The key elements to train for lean muscle and strength is the proper application of three vital elements.

The secret I’ve found is that training for lean muscle and strength requires the proper application of three vital elements that are often overlooked by those who try it.  These three elements are:

     1.   Intensity

     2.   Volume & Frequency

     3.   Progression

The intensity is how hard it is to perform for you, given your current physical condition.  The volume and frequency are how much weight you use and how often you perform the exercise. The progression is related to how much the demands increase from workout to workout. You will become a fat burning machine with these 3 key elements.  The Fat Burning Machine system will take you from beginning to lose weight to learning how to keep the weight off permanently.

It is essential that you keep the number of your weekly workouts in check and remember not to workout for too long.

Two entirely different forms of exercise are fat burning aerobic and anaerobic exercise. In fact, they are complete opposites.

The definition of Aerobic exercise is high volume and frequency, low to moderate intensity, and not much progression. Anaerobic exercise, or weight training, must be performed at a high intensity, lower volume and lower frequency, and with progression to be as effective as possible. Only with anaerobic exercise will you become a fat burning machine.

Performing weight training at a low or moderate rate of intensity will not give you significant muscle or strength building beyond a few weeks.

The goal is simply the combination of sufficient intensity, coupled with increasing either the number of repetitions of a weight training exercise or the amount of weight used each and every workout. This will keep your body evolving into the ultimate fat burning machine!

When you are creating an effective and efficient workout routine for maximizing your workout and minimizing the time spent in the gym remember to pay attention to the details.  Why?  Because perhaps even more important that the workout itself is the rest period that follows.When you get adequate rest and enough sleep you will become stronger and increase your muscles.

When you strength train in the proper way you are causing small injuries to your muscles. When you allow your body to restore itself, it will overcompensate and increase the amount of muscle that you have. 

 If you workout again before that process is completed, you’ll experience lackluster results, if any, muscle building or fat burning results. You will also be overworking your muscles to the point where they will not respond to your workout.

So make sure to get proper rest between workouts, which typically means a minimum of 1 to 3 full days of rest between properly executed resistance workouts.

Many women are saying “But I don’t want to get bigger, I want to lose weight” after they hear that you need to add muscle to your body to be sure that you will become a fat burning machine!” 

But this is such a shame, because it’s very unlikely to happen, and countless women are losing out on these fat burning benefits because of it. 

You see, most men and almost all women simply lack the necessary genetic traits required to produce such muscle gains that would cause them to look bulky or overly developed to most people. Among these traits are muscle fiber makeup, testosterone levels, muscle belly length, and other traits.

Those competitive bodybuilders you’ve seen on TV and in the magazines are the genetic cream of the crop for muscle development and they are typically on heavy doses of anabolic steroids, growth hormone, and other bodybuilding drugs. 

 Don’t be fooled by these images, or those that scare you into thinking this way. Do you realize that you will actually be getting smaller because you are replacing the fat on your body with lean muscle and lean muscle is more compact that fat.

Whoever you are, if you want to be in the best position to succeed with you fat loss and also your fitness goals you will perform properly conducted intense resistance training.

But make sure you understand and apply the three critical Fat Burning Machine principles I discussed above.   

Here they are again:  Intensity, Volume and Frequency and Progression.

If you do not apply these three elements your ability to burn fat and get the lean, strong, and healthy body you deserve eventually will leave you unhappy with your results.

 

 

27

05 2010

Fatloss 4 Idiots

Hey there, my name is Alex Cameron and im a personal fitness trainer at a major American gym. My job means im fit, but how do YOU get the sort of beach body you wish for? Well, like me you could hit the gym 5 times a week and eat a very strict plan of food. Or you can try a reputable diet and one thats achieved alot of press over the last year is called ‘Fatloss 4 Idiots’.

I have heard people talking about it, and asking me about it, so I combined my love of writing with a love of all things fitness, into this review of the product.

I bought the program and shared it with some good clients of mine, as well as used it myself. Im more than pleased with the progress, but how will it fare for you…?

Read on for the best review of this hugely popular product. Be sure to read my conclusion at the end!

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Some of you out there might have a notion that this diet is like most others that ‘work’. You simply eat squat all, hit the gym many times a week & that weight slides off. Thats NOT how this plan works, this is refreshingly different, and I can assure you right here-no exercise is involved! The Fat Loss 4 Idiots program doesn’t come into the usual “diet” class as you know it. Its basis, is that your body is switched’ metophysically, by shifting the metabolic processes, and shifting the bodies dependance on calories for fuels.

This is a powerful secret that the fitness industry has kept its own for years, and finally its good to see it out and about for everyday people like you.

So how about we take a look over how this program changes this for you….Before I go spilling how Fat Loss 4 Idiots actually goes about keeping your metabolism steady, I should probably explain just why a steady metabolism is great for your weight loss goals.

The more steady and consistent of a metabolism you have, the less ups and downs you will experience throughout the weight dropping process. Its going to smooth out the irregular aspects of the weight loss drop so you do not become disheartened as you end up shedding weight, gaining it all back then losing it all again, which is bad for the body and for you! Essentially, this means that the 6 lb you drop in the 1st week, wont be undone by throwing on 4 pounds the week after etc etc.

Lets now look at fatloss 4 idiots second key feature, ‘calorie shifting’

The fatloss 4 idiots weight loss model, ensures that you can eat foods that seem to you as ‘normal’ yet offer extraoridnary benefits to your calorie intake when consumed together in a meal. If I was to tell you that a chicken wheatmeal sandwich with tomato was ‘normal’ food, you would agree right? Sure. But….did you know that by eating this food as one, markedly increases calorie shifting in the body, which makes you speedely consume fat? Now you can understand the level of workings behind this great package…..

Calorie shifting is definitly healthy for you. Since your not starving your body of specific types of foods, you are getting a large amount of nutrients your body needs. This allows your body to shed fat fast, and keep it off long term.

The best aspect is, that this program makes it really easy for you. In your Fat Loss 4 Idiots member’s section, you get an awesome online diet calculator to use. You just enter some basic info about what you enjoy eating, then the diet generator throws out ideas for you with a list of great meal suggestions. Ive included a few below to show you what I mean:

Day 1:
Meal 1: Banana Milk Shake

Meal 2: Fruit salad (natural)

Meal 3: Scrambled Eggs with Vegetable Side

Meal 4: Cottage Cheese on wheat cracker

Day 2:
Meal 1: Oatmeal porridge or cereal

Meal 2: Tuna Salad

Meal 3: Any Type of fresh Sandwich

Meal 4: Chicken breast 

 

The best thing I liked about this ‘calorie shifting’, is that its not an unachieveable fad, or a dangerous scheme to trick your body into shelling weight fast, like the low carb, aitkens or liquid diets. Its sustainable long term, and is good for you. As a side note please, please, please always ensure your body gets the natural nutrients you need to function, or you risk harm. Never go on no carb diets. You will harm yourself in the long run!

So now know the basis behind fatloss 4 idiots, but I bet your wanting to know just how much weight you could actually lose…? Sure, results are the maker and breaker!

Myself, being trim at 12% body fat, dropped down to just over 10% body fat in 2weeks, which I thought was impressed with.

One middle aged lady client of mine of medium to large build, who changed nothing but the diet program (to fatloss 4 idiots) lost a total of 12lb in 3 weeks, and is continuing to lose at my last check in. She told me that the diet was the most simple to implement that she had used and wished to keep going on it. I’ll bring more from her later…

All in all, my opinion is that fatloss 4 idiots scores a definate 9/10. I definitly recommend it first to people who have tried diets before with limited success or are first timers to weight loss. If your goal is to become Liv Tyler or Arnie Schwartzenegger in a month, I would aim for something more detailed and specialised. But hold up there, lets not run before we walk!

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What I didnt like about Fatloss 4 idiots

-The sales page and intro page are a little bit ‘cheesy’ and have pretty pictures and horrible colours, which I think puts me off a bit. But lets be honest, if the diet works, twhy worry how its packaged.

-In additon to the diet calculator tool, perhaps an exercise plan tool would be worthwhile. I have forwarded this area of concern to the authors. HInges on if your into exercise or not…

What i thought was great about fatloss 4 idiots

-Fat Loss 4 Idiots has a superb diet meal calculator that works out all the meals without you doing it. The food is quality, the choices are broad and it would be hard to imagine getting bored. The choice is great. Just stick at it, dont mix it up to much from what the tool says to do!

-Theres a great 11 day reward time of 3 days, that lets you cut loose on yum treats for keeping up the 11 day progress. Its great, its motivational and it rewards you.

-The program is nice and simple. If its your desire to understand the metabolism & calorie shifting you can, but you can also just get on with it, without the jargon. Its layout and great, easy to follow ideas are the best ive seen.

-Fat Loss 4 Idiots is right up there, because it has worked out how to finally keep the weight off for good. The great metabolism control lets you stay lean for good because you have changed your body process. Im not aware of any other popular diet that does this for you.

-The 60 day money back guarantee is as good as it gets. You get a riskfree trial period.

Try it out now, and become a new you!

                                                                    FATLOSS 4 IDIOTS

29

05 2009

Lose stomach in simple steps

One question I regularly get asked on my travels is “What are the best exercises and workouts to burn body fat?” . To be quite honest the answer is not as straight forward as some people think. The first stage in order to burn body fat is that you need to raise the bodies metabolic rate.  By raising the bodies metabolic rate it is possible consume body fat and reveal that lean hard body. As individuals we have varying levels of body fat covering our stomachs but the good news is, we all have abs. It is our main goal to burn off this layer of body fat, but I hear you ask “How do we burn off stomach fat?. If you want to lose stomach fat forget just ab workouts.  It is more important to focus on an overall fat burning workout program that will rid you of that stomach fat permanently. The best exercises that need to be included in your fat burning working program are major multi joint exercises and here are some examples below:

·         Squats

·         Clean and Presses

·         Deadlift

·         Bench Presses

·         Sprinting

As you can see from the exercises listed above the emphasis is to work the whole body, which will raise your metabolism and trigger your fat burning hormones. For the best fat burning results it is important to construct your weight training program correctly. By directly working the large muscle groups you are indirectly working your entire mid section in the process.Direct ab exercises should form only a small percentage of your overall fat burning workout.  

  There is one other vital area you need to take control of in order to burn body fat and that is your diet. There is an old saying, that abs are made 80% in the kitchen. Cut out all processed foods and go for the natural alternatives, include healthy fats into your diet in the form of oily fish and nuts. With a good diet and the right fat burning exercises you can achieve a lean hard body. 

Learn the secret lean body workouts and diet tips that are used by models to get those hard rippling six pack abs.

01

05 2009