Recommendations For Beer Bellies & Man Boobs

Resistance type training is the most effective way to exercise for someone wanting to burn fat. Weight training burns more calories than cardiovascular exercises.

If you don’t drink beer and still have what looks like a beer belly then you will need to lose the visceral fat. Given that visceral fat is an indication of severe insulin resistance then the first step is to manage insulin levels by limiting certain carbohydrates and sugary processed foods.

Eliminating breads, pastas, ready-made meals and basically anything that comes in fancy packaging with unpronounceable ingredients including so-called healthy cereals is the fastest way to drop fat.

Beer is a bad choice of drink for someone who wants to lose body fat. Beer has empty calories and has an estrogenic effect. Hops are highly estrogenic and are considered the main causes for beer bellies and man boobs on men.

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How To Save Time When Exercising

Do full-body movements and use multiple muscle groups. It takes less time and burns more calories.

Examples:
Swiss Ball Push Jackknife
Barbell Deadlift Row Combo
Squat + Press
Single Leg Romanian Deadlift Row Combination
Box Step Up Dumbbell Press
Barbell Deadlift + Push Up
Dumbbell Backward Lunge Curl and Press
Push Up To Side Bridge

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Metabolic Finisher

A metabolic finisher is an intense way to burn more calories and fat at the end of a workout.

Here’s a metabolic finisher I did earlier.

Renegade Rows (using dumbbells)
8 each side

Sandbag Cleans (to shoulder)
8 each side

3 Rounds with little to no rest in between each exercise.

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3-Minute Abs

I have found a way of training the abs as hard as possible in only 3 minutes. It is best to try different abdominal exercises to see which ones you respond best to. Choose 2 exercises and work them back to back (with no rest in between) for 30 seconds each until you have done 3 rounds = 3 minutes.

Here is a 3-minute abs for the gym.

AB Exercise 1
Swiss Ball Crunches

AB Exercise 2
Incline Sit Ups

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The Worst Carbohydrates For Fat loss

Wheat products including bread, pies, biscuits, breakfast cereals, cereal bars, ready-made soups and sauces need to be avoided for best fat loss results. Wheat influences blood sugar levels in the same way as plain table sugar.

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Tips To Boost Your New Year’s Resolutions

Tip 1 » Set a goal.
Tip 2 » Don’t use exercise as an excuse to continue post-Christmas binge eating.
Tip 3 » Stay hydrated. Drink plenty of fresh clean water everyday.
Tip 4 » Add variety to your exercise programme.
Tip 5 » Get plenty of sleep. “Workout” and “work-in.”
Tip 6 » Include some posture-correcting exercises and stretching in your routines.

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2011 in Review

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 43,400 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take over 7 hundred trips to carry that many people.

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Fitness Motivation For The New Year

Master Your Mindset…
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” –Winston Churchill

Plan…
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” –Laurence J Peter

Take Action…
“The real risk is doing NOTHING!” –Denis Whitley

Believe…
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.” 
-Michelangelo

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Are You Worried About The Consequences of Christmas Indulgence on Your Waistline?

3 Quick Exercise Tips For Rock Hard Abs

1. Engage the abs on every exercise you perform, especially on multi joint exercises such as squats, lunges, rowing and pressing.

2. To achieve a balanced six-pack don’t limit your abdominal exercises to just crunches. Include exercises that cover the 3 planes of movements the abdominal muscles are used for. These include flexing (crunches), side flexion (side bends – standing or laying over a Swiss ball) and twisting (twisting crunches, wood chops).

3. Make sure the majority of your exercise programme consists of functional exercises. Isolation exercises aren’t as beneficial as multi joint exercises for burning calories and creating a fat burning response.

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Fat Burning

Perform short intense intervals to boost fat loss and improve conditioning. Steady pace aerobics isn’t as effective for weight loss as interval training according to research.

Resistance type exercises need to be used to achieve the best weight and fat loss results when doing intervals. Just two exercises per circuit are enough to get the desired response. Repetitions or time can be used switching back and forth between exercises with little or no rest for a set amount of rounds.

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