Archive for May, 2009

May
10

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

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May
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Robert Payne is founder of www.Fat-Loss-Breakthroughs.com, which offers in-depth information and weight-loss success stories for the Jen Fe Fat Patch

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May
08

When you receive the Seal you will start to care about your health. That means you will eat healthy foods and get enough exercise. A new study shows that the exercise is more important–especially for older adults–than losing weight.

The study was conducted at the Cooper Clinic in Texas over the period of 12 years. Doctors monitored 2600 senior citizens by giving them a cardiovascular test while they walked on a treadmill.

At first the results seemed to show that obesity was causing people to die twice as fast as those who were not obese. But then the doctors saw the results in the light of fitness, and they found that obesity was no longer a major player.

Fit people have a lower rate of death than unfit people. And fitness is defined here for these senior citizens as the ability to walk briskly for 30 minutes a day for 5 days in a row.

If senior citizens could walk briskly that much then they were less likely to die, even if they were obese. So aging obese people can save their lives just by getting enough exercise.

And everyone else can extend their lives by getting exercise too. Youth are getting less exercise than youth got in the past. And if they do not start exercising more during their lifetimes they are at much greater risk for early death.

The study was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association and gives hope particularly to obese people as they age. If they can just get enough exercise they can extend their lives, even if they do not lose much weight.

What is sad about aging people is that they sometimes lose reasons to live any longer. They retreat into a sedentary lifestyle. They may not exercise much and they may not even get out much.

They do not have their career anymore and their children are grown up. They may lose sight of the wonders and beauty of life. They may lose hope and surrender to the end.

But there are many benefits of exercise beyond just the avoidance of disease. Exercise increases energy, self-esteem, and mental focus. It does not take away energy but gives energy.

And someone who exercises feels better about themselves emotionally with higher self-esteem. And mental acuity is something some lose when they age. Exercise is known to preserve the sharpness of the mind.

Strength, stamina, and endurance are increased by regular exercise. But there are even more emotional benefits. A person who exercises regularly will avoid depression due to the release of endorphins into the bloodstream.

Exercise is also known to alter the mood of people experiencing stress. Stress can linger with you, but when you exercise stress will pass away. And exercise helps you sleep better and helps digestion among the many other benefits.

When you are sealed you will start to notice your health more, and not just when you have health problems. You will want to know how to become healthier and remain healthy.

Exercise is now considered an integral part of any health program. It is the remedy for many ailments and the prevention of many diseases. God does not want you to have those ailments and you will not want them either when you receive the Seal.

Jason Witt is a sinner healed and sealed. He has been transformed by Jesus, who came and made His Home in Jason’s heart and in his mind. Come and see what Jesus foretold that is starting to happen today. Jason Witt dot org

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May
08

One of the biggest challenges with travel, outside of finding your luggage and your way around the airport, is maintaining your healthy lifestyle. However, with some creative ways, you can still take care of yourself while traveling, regardless if it’s for business or pleasure!

This past year, I had the pleasure of coaching employees of a large corporation. This was a new niche for me; not my typical client. A glimpse into corporate life showed me that individuals working for corporate America face a wide range of challenges quite different than those of us who are in business for ourselves. One of those challenges is sticking with healthy habits while traveling for business. When you need to be on the road two, three or even four times a month, sticking to a regular routine is not the norm.

This month I am finding that I will be getting a taste of a lifestyle that involves business travel. I will be on the road twice this month, and neither is for a vacation or fitness conference. So, this has me thinking about how to incorporate some of the strategies my corporate clients and I brainstormed during our work together. I hope some of these tips will help you stay fit on the road, regardless of your reasons for travel. Happy trails!

Tips to Stay Fit While Traveling

  1. Whenever possible, book a hotel with a fitness facility. No doubt about it, convenience is key to fitting in fitness. When you are only an elevator ride away from the gym, the chances that you’ll use it increase. Check meeting schedules and appointments, and plan your workout time in advance.
  2. Wear your sneakers while traveling. Airports and train stations always include long corridors and long waits. Use them to include brisk walking. Avoid moving walkways, and take stairs rather than escalators. Make sure your carry-on is on wheels so that it won’t hinder your movement. If driving, take a break every 90-120 minutes, and walk around the parking lot of a rest stop.
  3. If your travels include long layovers in the airport, find out if there is an airport fitness facility. Most large airports in major cities have areas to work out and shower. Some even have spa amenities such as massages or nail services. To find out if the airport you will be passing through has these facilities, check out www.airportgyms.com/.
  4. Ask the hotel concierge for a map of walking/running trails that are nearby and safe. Ending a long day of back-to-back indoor meetings with some outdoor exercise is rejuvenating, and a great way to burn some calories before a business dinner.
  5. If your hotel does not have a fitness facility, ask if they have a relationship with a nearby health club. Most hotels without fitness facilities have established a relationship with a club where hotel guests can go for free or for a nominal fee.
  6. Pack resistance tubing and a jump rope and turn your room into a mini gym. Even a 20-minute routine including push-ups, crunches, squats, and lunges, will help maintain your fitness level while away.
  7. Rather than a business meeting at breakfast, or cocktails at the end of the day, suggest talking while working out. Your business associate might be thrilled with the chance to get in his/her workout as well.
  8. Be determined and committed to maintaining your fitness, but be flexible with your routine. Don’t allow your travels to be an excuse to stop working out, but recognize that even if you need to shorten your workout, some activity is always better than none.

Ellen Goldman created her company, EnerG coaching, LLC to help people struggling with issues such as weight loss, stress management, getting in shape, life satisfaction, and other health related problems that can be affected by lifestyle changes. Learn more about her fitness and wellness coaching programs, and receive two free quizzes to assess your readiness to make positive lifestyle changes in your life when you subscribe to her Fitness & Wellness From the Inside Out Monthly Tips at http://www.EnerGcoaching.com

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May
06

Carolyn Hansen, a fitness centre owner and a national bodybuilding champion, has recently released a brand new fat loss program that will help those who wish to lose weight achieve their desired results.

She is heavily involved in the health and fitness industry, and has intimate knowledge of the problems that most people face.

For example, many people think that to lose weight, they have to do two things. Firstly, they are supposed to go on a diet. Secondly, they must embark on some kind of exercise program that involves mostly cardiovascular related exercises such as jogging of cycling.

Unfortunately, both do not work. Dieting does not work because the human body needs to be conditioned to burn fat faster. To achieve that, signals need to be sent consistently to the body, letting it know that it is alright to burn fat. In other words, an individual trying to burn fat and lose weight should prevent the body from going into starvation. And that is exactly what happens when someone goes on a diet.

When the body is starved, it tends to store fat instead of burn fat. This is due to the simple fact that the body is genetically coded to go into survival mode when it goes hungry. To survive, it needs to store energy (in the form of fat), so that the body has a constant stream of energy even when there is less food consumption. That is why dieting is backfiring.

Carolyn helps clients to understand this simple fact on a daily basis. She recommends that anyone who wants to lose weight should keep to a diet that consists of smaller meals. Each meal should contain between 200 to 300 calories, and a meal should be consumed once every two to three hours. On a daily basis, it is far better to take four to five small meals a day, then to take three big meals. The goal is to avoid letting the body starve. The end result is that the metabolic rate of the body increases, and fat burning takes place naturally.

Recently, she put together all her knowledge into a program that is packed with her most valuable fat loss secrets. The program is known as “Fat Loss For Keeps”.

Unlike other fat burning programs, this is a comprehensive program that helps clients discover all the secrets to losing fat quickly. The information includes:

* How to create an eating plan that suits any lifestyle

* How to create delicious home-made meals quickly.

* How to “eyeball” and assess food portions with uncanny accuracy.

* How to lose weight and not go hungry.

* And more!

This dieting program is for anyone who had tried dieting and realized that dieting does not work. A complete dieting program can be developed based on the information in this guide.

As a fitness expert, Carolyn firmly believes in losing weight naturally. The guide offers valuable advice on what foods to eat, but does not involve counting calories or fat grams. The steps are so simple and practical that even working mothers find it easy to implement the strategies.

To start burning fat effectively, one has to start by having a good understanding of how the body stores and burns fat. Therefore, Carolyn has included useful pieces of information in the guide that cannot be found anywhere else. For instance, a reader will discover the impact of ancestral genetics on dieting.

Such information helps the reader decide on the type of food to prepare and consume, as well as the type of food to avoid. It is also important to learn that it’s not only the food portions that matter, the frequency of the meals matter too.

But it is all to easy to discuss dieting on paper. In reality, the reader needs practical advice, and that is what Carolyn possesses in abundance. Through her “Fat Loss For Keeps” guide, she hopes to be able to share what she had learned and experienced in the past 30 years with those who need help in burning fat and losing weight.

Every few weeks, she releases a new product, and “Fat Loss For Keeps” is one of her latest additions. She also does personal coaching

, and sells other fitness related products.

Interested parties may get in touch with her via one of her websites.

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Do you want to discover the secret to rejuvenating your body and improving the quality of your life? Download program “Fat Loss For Keeps” here: Fat Loss Diet Closely guarded Fat Burning secrets! Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger.

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May
06

Would you like to try out an 11-day sample menu?

The Calorie Shifting Diet is a revolutionary dieting breakthrough.

This diet succeeds where others fail.

Low-calorie, low-carbohydrate, low-fat, and low-sodium diets are all doomed to fail.

It’s very hard to maintain those diets without running the risk of falling into temptation and sabotaging your own diet.

Calorie Shifting works on an entirely different principle: Eat as much food as you want at each meal until you are completely satisfied. You can eat foods from all four major food groups.

Is there a catch? There sure is, but once you learn what it is, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

You’ll kick yourself for wondering why you wasted your time on other diets when you should have been following the Calorie Shifting diet!

The Calorie Shifting diet even offers its own customizable Online Diet Generator to help you create fool-proof diet plans that are guaranteed to help you lose at least 9 pounds every 11 days!

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May
04

Right now, in this economy, money is tight for just about 90% of Americans. If you are in a place where finances have got you down and holding you back from exercise, because maybe you cannot afford the gym membership, there are solutions for you. Yeah, we all know that you can go run on the street for free or perhaps workout with a friend, but I am talking about money saving exercise ideas that do not break the bank, but still give you the high level workout your body needs.

First, we can talk about that free stuff. Running, hiking, swimming (if you have a pool or lake), biking, these are all great activities that can give you a great cardio workout. So for now cardio workouts are a check. Very easy to accomplish and free, but what about muscle exercise.

As you know a gym membership can be fairly expensive, that is unless you pay an arm and a leg up front in order to get your monthly membership rates down. Well there are better, and cheaper ways to get a good workout. The problem with a gym is that you are the only motivation for yourself. If you have a gym membership, ask yourself how many times you have used the membership in the last 2 weeks.

I will ask the people in my office right now… I am working with 4 other people all of which have gym memberships. Dain has been to the gym 4 times in the last 2 weeks, Michelle has been to the gym 2 times in the last MONTH, Brianna has been 3 times in the last 2 weeks and Steve has been 4 times in the last 2 weeks. Get this NONE of them have been to the gym even 30% of the days that they pay for it. I, myself, do not have a gym membership, I use my money other ways and exercise in ways that are much more motivating and give myself a “personal” in home trainer to keep me going.

I am talking about getting a home video workout program. Right now I am going through the Chalean Extreme workout. I have exercised 10 of the last 14 days, and that is because the program calls for 2 rest days a week. The best part about this is that the program did not even cost me as much as just the start up costs at a gym would cost. The workouts in this video are extreme effective and I am saving tons of money. There are some really great home workout videos you can use to get an amazing workout. One of the reasons a home video is so affective in getting you to workout everyday is because it is like you are a trainer guiding you through a whole fitness program. There is a clear start and a clear finish.

If you do not have a gym membership right now try picking up one of many great home DVD workouts, they usually last 3 months or so, and they are extremely effective if you repeat them. This small tip could save you hundreds of dollars in gym membership fees. Let’s face it, you will probably be just like everyone in my office and hardly use the membership anyway.

Brad is a young man that has a passion for exercise and living a healthy life. Brad suggests trying the px90 workout to get in amazing shape. Brads favorite personal trainer is Tony Horton, the creator of p90x and the 10 minute trainer.

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May
04

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

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May
02

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

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May
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Resolving to shed unattractive flab, acquired during the course of a lot of years, is probably a daunting idea. In spite of this, stepping up the quality of foodstuff that you consume does result in significant weight loss  benefits.

Resolving to shed unattractive flab, acquired during the course of a lot of years, is probably a daunting idea. In spite of this, stepping up the quality of foodstuff that you consume does result in significant weight loss  benefits. Vitamins, minerals and enzymes (both from your food and supplements) work together to let the body work optimally and as a result utilize fat. If you focus on building fitness, rather than just losing weight, you will quickly start the pattern of unconsciously selecting better options. More or less by default the weight will begin to melt away.

For best results, exercise should unquestionably be an element of a weight loss program. Not only does it make good health sense, it is an indispensable part of burning fat and, more importantly, enhancing muscle, which is the “engine” that turns fat to energy.

Additionally, right nutrition is imperative when attempting to modify your body shape for the better. To develop muscle, your body must have protein. Sources of protein include lean meat, fish, eggs - preferably organic, yogurt and cottage cheese, all of which provide amino acids that are the building blocks of your body. Still, choose sensibly when sourcing your protein.

To keep costs low, the majority of factory-bred animals are fed nutrient-low food, produced only to put on weight (saturated fat). They are housed under stressful settings – thus flooding their bodies with hormones, and pumped full of antibiotics. This will not make food that is high-quality for your body. Rather, hunt for top-quality, organically-raised beef, pork, lamb and poultry. It might cost more but in accomplishing your goals of developing health and slimming down, smaller servings of excellent-grade protein is just what you want.

If you are a vegetarian you can get your protein from pulses, legumes and whole grains.

Fresh vegetables provide fiber, nutrients and enzymes. The whole gamut from this plant group may be eaten. Potatoes, squashes, sweet potatoes, turnips and other root vegetables contain a higher starch factor. Use these starchy foods in moderation. Understand that as soon as vegetables are harvested, their nutrients and enzymes begin to deteriorate, so try to purchase locally grown produce.

Owing to many undesirable side effects, artificial chemical sweeteners such as aspartame and saccharin have had an enormous back lash from consumers. Stevia and Xylitol are natural sweeteners and correspond perfectly into your aspiraiton to improve heath and diminish body fat. Xylitol is created from birch trees and it has no lingering aftertaste.

By upgrading your nutrition, concentrating on building health and exercising

, you will soon be on your way to melting away those extra pounds.

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Robert Payne is founder of  http://www.fat-loss-breakthroughs.com/, which offers in-depth information and weight-loss success stories for the Jen Fe Fat Patch

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