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Strength and Conditional Specialist
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3 Foods That Will Boost Your Metabolism
John Barban
A commonly held belief about food is that you need to eat frequent meals to keep your metabolism going and to keep burning calories. I'm not exactly sure where this idea came from but it makes absolutely no sense to me. In fact, to me it sounds like this nonsense about eating food to keep your metabolism going is a clever myth that only supports the food and nutritional supplement industry. The latest fad in nutrition is eating 6 small meals per day instead of 3. That is 3 more meals the food industry can sell you products for! It won't be long until you will be told to eat 9 small meals per day. . . . keep reading
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How To Get A 6-Pack Without Doing Crunches
John Barban
Crunches are probably the single most misunderstood and abused exercise in the entire fitness industry. Somewhere along the way, people realized that if they squeeze their midsection together they will end up 'feeling it' in their 'abs' and some how they equate this to having a flat stomach or mid section. In the case of doing crunches for a flat stomach and showing off your abs we can just throw logic right out the window. Trainers and many people who know better still ignore the most basic principles of anatomy and physiology all in the quest for a flat stomach. . . . keep reading
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Workout With a Purpose
John Barban
Anything you do in your life that provides a sense of gratitude and is really worth something is usually done with a sense of purpose behind it. Things of little or no value have no purpose behind the . . . keep reading
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The 2 Golden Rules of Healthy Eating
John Barban
I think it would be safe to assume that most people understand the importance of exercise and eating some sort of healthy diet to maintain their overall health. I highly doubt anyone would argue that . . . keep reading
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How Often Can You Do "Core Training" Part 1
John Barban
The buzz about working "core" muscles seems like it will never go away. First of all, most people don't even know what the word "core" means. As a matter of fact neither do I! The word 'core' does not come from any scientific anatomy text I have ever read. As far as I can tell it is a term created by the fitness industry to promote all kinds of ab training products. . . . keep reading
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How to Boost Your Metabolism on a Diet
John Barban
In order to lose weight you must eat less calories than you are currently burning off. This simple advice becomes complicated by the commonly held misconception of 'starvation mode'. The basic idea with 'starvation mode' is this: If you don't eat enough calories in a day your metabolism will slow down and end up storing most of what you eat as fat. Or when you eat very low calories for too long, and you go back to eating 'normally' you will store more fat than before. . . . keep reading
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How Baby Boomers Build Muscle
Brad Pilon
Last week, I had a couple of old friends drop in on me for dinner. As usual, it only took a little bit of time before the conversation turned to nutrition and working out. One of my friends was in his late 50's. He has always been in great shape. He maintains a great workout program and always pays attention to what he eats. Yet, on this particular visit, he seemed a little discouraged with his progress. . . . keep reading
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Timing Your Cardio Workout For Maximum Fat Loss
There is a theory that you can time your cardio workouts to burn more fat. Typically the theory goes that if you do your cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach you will be burning more fat. The idea is that after a meal you will most likely be burning some of the sugars from that meal instead of stored fat. From a scientific stand point this doesn't make any sense. Let's review exactly how we store and lose fat. . . . keep reading
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5 Ab Exercises Better Than Crunches
Crunches are an overused and under productive exercise. They present a considerable risk to the health of your lower back and spine and only work a limited range of your core muscles. They never have and never will burn fat off of our 'stomach' or midsection and if you do enough of them will simply cause you to grow bigger and stronger abs muscles without working your lower back and oblique muscles. Doing excessive amounts of crunches could very well lead to imbalanced abs and core development as well as potential lower back and spine pain and problems. Here are 5 exercises that work your abs and core in better, safer and more balanced positions than any crunch can. . . . keep reading
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The Number 1 Way to Prevent Muscle Loss While Dieting
Brad Pilon
As you can imagine, after writing a book about fasting for weight loss, I've had an amazing amount of questions pouring into my In-box, with the most common question being about fasting and losing muscle. Most people are still very concerned that they will lose muscle if they don't eat every 3 hours. My answer has always been, don't worry, from my experiences if you are resistance training then you won't lose muscle while dieting. . . . keep reading
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How Much Protein Do You Need To Eat?
Brad Pilon
I'm beginning to hate protein. I know it sounds funny, but it's true. Protein could be one of the most popular and controversial topics in all of nutrition. Protein has become the golden child of muscle building and fat loss. Wanna build big muscles? Eat your protein. Wanna lose fat and look like a fitness model? Eat your protein. After all, every one knows you need to eat a minimum of 30 grams of protein every two to three hours. . . . keep reading
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1,950 Things You Should Stop Eating So You Can Lose Weight
Brad Pilon
3,900 - According to an article by Michael Pollan that was published in the New York Times, this is the amount of food calories produced every day for each American citizen.Think about this number for a minute. 3,900 calories is easily a thousand more calories than almost any of us will ever need in a day- but they are being produced so someone has to eat them. This is what I like to call the North American paradox. Food companies and food producers need us to consume more and more calories to keep their profits coming, yet we want to consume less and less calories to maintain our health and weight.This is why it is not an exaggeration when I say it is a constant battle to try to avoid overeating, and to make sure that the foods we do eat are healthy, nutritious foods. . . . keep reading
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