Can vegetables help in your fight against stomach fat? Well hopefully we all know that vegetables should be a part of your fat burning diet. You do right? Ok I thought I lost you there for a minute.
So while reading Mike Geary's book, The Fat Burning Kitchen, I was reminded why my Mom always told me to eat my broccoli. I bet your Mom did too? But I bet you don't know WHY your Mom told you that?
Well broccoli is apart of a class of vegetables that contain very specific phytonutrients that actually help to fight against stomach fat. If you already picked up Mike's book then you know about how certain chemicals in our food supply and our environment, such as pesticides, herbicides, and certain petrochemicals from household cleaners, cosmetics, etc can act as xenoestrogens.
Xenoestrogens are chemicals that you are exposed to that have an estrogenic effect and excess exposure can cause hormone balance disruptions for both men and women. So these can wreak havoc in the body whether you're a male or female.
These estrogenic chemicals that we are exposed to on a daily basis can stimulate your body to store stomach fat, along with many other problems.
So here's where this specific class of vegetables comes in
handy...
One of those cool tricks that Mike teaches in his Fat Burning Kitchen program is that cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, etc. contain specific and unique phytonutrients such as indole-3-carbinol
(I3C) that help to fight against these estrogenic compounds...
And by fighting against these stomach fat stimulating estrogenic chemicals, this can help you fight against abdominal fat! (Which also helps optimizing testosterone levels for muscle gains).
I knew my Mom was smart but I never knew she was THAT smart! I wish I ate more broccoli growing up...ha
When I was visiting Mike last summer in Colorado he showed me how to enjoy brussell sprouts too... He would melt some grass-fed cheese on them and some garlic and they weren't bad!
In case you haven't picked up your copy yet, Mike gives away at least 12 other specific foods, teas, spices, etc that help to combat the xenoestrogens and can help you to burn stomach fat faster.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saggy Arm Fat Man Boobs And Thunder Thighs
Thunder Thighs, Saggy Arm Fat and Manboobs rethink the way you do your fat burning workouts.
Are you having any of these (and other) fat storing problems? Are your so called fat burning workouts not getting you the results your after? While we all store fat all over, it’s often most noticeable in certain areas – "the problem areas". And unfortunately, it's the problem areas that we often struggle most to rid of unwanted fat.
Now, if you're storing fat in one or all of the three areas mentioned in this article (your hips, thighs, arms, butt or if you’re a guy, your chest) despite your best efforts with diet and traditional (so called) fat burning workouts, you've got some hormone issues.
ALL problem areas are influenced heavily by your hormonal environment, and where you store that last bit of fat is determined by which of your hormones are out of whack. In this particular case, it's the female hormone estrogen.
High levels of estrogen are terrible for fat loss, which explains why women usually have more trouble losing fat than men.
However, anyone -- male or female -- with high estrogen levels will have trouble losing fat, especially from the lower body. In essence, the higher your estrogen levels, the greater the likelihood you'll store fat in your lower body; mainly in the hips and thighs.
And yes, it IS possible for men to have high estrogen levels. Unfortunately, outside of having to deal with a declined rate of fat loss and lower body fat, these guys ALSO have to deal with the problem of man-boobs.
Rather than try to correct this through medication or steroids, it's possible to address the issue through training.
That is, it is possible to utilize a fat burning workout that will produce hormones which OFFSET estrogen.
And how else would you combat estrogen but with testosterone?
Being clear, you are going to increase testosterone levels naturally, through training. Not only will this increase the net fat-burning effect of all exercises, but more appropriate to our purposes here, it will also facilitate in getting rid of lower body fat.
I should mention something here to alleviate any concerns: it is NOT possible to produce a detrimental amount of testosterone through training. So ladies, you don’t have to worry about any masculinizing effects.
Instead, training produces what we would term a 'high' amount of testosterone from a physiological perspective, relative to what your body normally produces. For the guys, this means that such training will help you put on a bit more muscle–just not steroid muscle.
Got it?
At this point, you're thinking, what do I do?"
Great question. And the answer is DENSITY TRAINING.
Training in a way that seeks to increase training density is one of the best ways to spur your body to produce and release more testosterone, which will (obviously) help you lose that estrogen related fat storage.
Training density can be defined as the amount of work you do in a given amount of time during a fat burning workout. If you want to increase density, you can do more work (sets, reps, or both) in the same amount of time, or do the same amount of work and decrease the time in which you do it.
However, there is a method of density training that is specific to RADICAL fat loss, and this means that not only will you produce the testosterone necessary to mitigate your regional fat issue, but you'll also lose more fat on the whole.
As an example, let's pick 3 exercises: the overhead press, the dumbbell row, and the squat.
Setting these up in a circuit fashion, you perform them one after another with little rest in between.
Instead of having a set number of reps, we're going to be forming each of these exercises for TIME–you simply have to do as many as you can in a given time period.
To make it easy, let's say you did each of the above exercises for 30 seconds. In performing such a circuit, your results might look like this:
Overhead Press: 25 pound dumbbells for 20 reps
DB Row: 40 pound dumbbells for 18 reps
Squat: 100 pound barbell for 22 reps
Not too shabby. Now, HERE is where it gets crazy.
We’re going to take advantage of some cool things that happen in the body; triggers that happen which will make you more efficient and more capable.
To do that, we're going to INCREASE the weight by 10-20% and try to do MORE reps.
Does that seem impossible? It isn't. Due to neuromuscular junction and neural activation, in almost ALL cases, you'll be able to do just that.
Your second attempt at that circuit might look like this:
Overhead Press: 30 pound dumbbells for 23 reps
DB Row: 50 pound dumbbells for 20 reps
Squat: 120 pound barbell for 25 reps
Density training is fun, challenge-based, burns a heck of a lot of fat, and –- most importantly –- is one of the best fat burning workouts around for increasing testosterone production and release.
If you want to fight your estrogen issues, you NEED more testosterone. And for that you need a fat burning workout using density training. Using this type of fat burning workout, you're one step closer to fighting off your stubborn hips, thighs, arms and god forbid, "manboob" fat for good.
Are you having any of these (and other) fat storing problems? Are your so called fat burning workouts not getting you the results your after? While we all store fat all over, it’s often most noticeable in certain areas – "the problem areas". And unfortunately, it's the problem areas that we often struggle most to rid of unwanted fat.
Now, if you're storing fat in one or all of the three areas mentioned in this article (your hips, thighs, arms, butt or if you’re a guy, your chest) despite your best efforts with diet and traditional (so called) fat burning workouts, you've got some hormone issues.
ALL problem areas are influenced heavily by your hormonal environment, and where you store that last bit of fat is determined by which of your hormones are out of whack. In this particular case, it's the female hormone estrogen.
High levels of estrogen are terrible for fat loss, which explains why women usually have more trouble losing fat than men.
However, anyone -- male or female -- with high estrogen levels will have trouble losing fat, especially from the lower body. In essence, the higher your estrogen levels, the greater the likelihood you'll store fat in your lower body; mainly in the hips and thighs.
And yes, it IS possible for men to have high estrogen levels. Unfortunately, outside of having to deal with a declined rate of fat loss and lower body fat, these guys ALSO have to deal with the problem of man-boobs.
Rather than try to correct this through medication or steroids, it's possible to address the issue through training.
That is, it is possible to utilize a fat burning workout that will produce hormones which OFFSET estrogen.
And how else would you combat estrogen but with testosterone?
Being clear, you are going to increase testosterone levels naturally, through training. Not only will this increase the net fat-burning effect of all exercises, but more appropriate to our purposes here, it will also facilitate in getting rid of lower body fat.
I should mention something here to alleviate any concerns: it is NOT possible to produce a detrimental amount of testosterone through training. So ladies, you don’t have to worry about any masculinizing effects.
Instead, training produces what we would term a 'high' amount of testosterone from a physiological perspective, relative to what your body normally produces. For the guys, this means that such training will help you put on a bit more muscle–just not steroid muscle.
Got it?
At this point, you're thinking, what do I do?"
Great question. And the answer is DENSITY TRAINING.
Training in a way that seeks to increase training density is one of the best ways to spur your body to produce and release more testosterone, which will (obviously) help you lose that estrogen related fat storage.
Training density can be defined as the amount of work you do in a given amount of time during a fat burning workout. If you want to increase density, you can do more work (sets, reps, or both) in the same amount of time, or do the same amount of work and decrease the time in which you do it.
However, there is a method of density training that is specific to RADICAL fat loss, and this means that not only will you produce the testosterone necessary to mitigate your regional fat issue, but you'll also lose more fat on the whole.
As an example, let's pick 3 exercises: the overhead press, the dumbbell row, and the squat.
Setting these up in a circuit fashion, you perform them one after another with little rest in between.
Instead of having a set number of reps, we're going to be forming each of these exercises for TIME–you simply have to do as many as you can in a given time period.
To make it easy, let's say you did each of the above exercises for 30 seconds. In performing such a circuit, your results might look like this:
Overhead Press: 25 pound dumbbells for 20 reps
DB Row: 40 pound dumbbells for 18 reps
Squat: 100 pound barbell for 22 reps
Not too shabby. Now, HERE is where it gets crazy.
We’re going to take advantage of some cool things that happen in the body; triggers that happen which will make you more efficient and more capable.
To do that, we're going to INCREASE the weight by 10-20% and try to do MORE reps.
Does that seem impossible? It isn't. Due to neuromuscular junction and neural activation, in almost ALL cases, you'll be able to do just that.
Your second attempt at that circuit might look like this:
Overhead Press: 30 pound dumbbells for 23 reps
DB Row: 50 pound dumbbells for 20 reps
Squat: 120 pound barbell for 25 reps
Density training is fun, challenge-based, burns a heck of a lot of fat, and –- most importantly –- is one of the best fat burning workouts around for increasing testosterone production and release.
If you want to fight your estrogen issues, you NEED more testosterone. And for that you need a fat burning workout using density training. Using this type of fat burning workout, you're one step closer to fighting off your stubborn hips, thighs, arms and god forbid, "manboob" fat for good.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Fast Food Fat Loss Tips
Fitness madman Jon Benson is at it again... this time telling us you can get "skinnny eating fast-food..." And he intends to prove it. Naturally you have to modify the way you eat fast-food (duh!) but his tips are really clever. Here's 3 for you today...
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3 fast-food fatloss-tips
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Believe it or not you can get lean by eating fast food.
I know, it sounds crazy... but in a few weeks I'm going to prove it to the world with the release of my newest mini e-book "Fast Food Fitness: How I Dropped 40lbs Eating Fast Food Every Day."
Do you think I'm joking? I'm not.
Of course there's a WAY to eat fast food and drop the pounds. You can't just eat like everyone else does. That's common sense.
And believe me, there are more healthy ways to drop the pounds than eating fast food... for sure.
But the way I figure it: Would you rather be healthIER and lean or UNhealthy and overfat?
Silly question... so consider "Fast Food Fitness" a path to the lesser of two evils... and one that actually got me to 10% bodyfat (that's pretty lean!) a few years ago.
Here's how it started:
I simply hate to cook! I have since solved that problem... I hired a part-time chef (it's cheaper than it sounds)... but until two years ago I was eating out every single meal... I mean EVERY MEAL.
Most of the time... not all of the time, but most of the time... these meals were fast food joints like burger joints and even fried chicken places.
But I had to keep my physique, so ... what to do?
Well... you'll have to wait. At least a few weeks.
If you want the book for half-price, you have to own a copy of "Every Other Day Dietplan"... everyone who owns a copy before "Fast Food Fitness" hits the Internet will get half-off.
So go here if you don't have EODD yet ...
click-----> The Every Other Day Diet
Here's 3 of my top 25 fast-food diet-tips... just these 3 will take you 1/3 of the way there...
First, use my Half-n-Half Principle. Order whatever you are going to order and then have the person behind the counter cut the order exactly in HALF.
Half to go... half to eat there.
Eat half now.... then the other half 3-4 hours later. Believe it or not you will store less bodyfat and even increase your metabolism eating like this.
Simple trick... give it a shot.
Second, ditch all the starch. That means buns, bread and anything made of flour. BUT here's the "still tastes good" trick I use. I keep ONE of the pieces of bread from, say, my hamburger. Then I "pick" at it while I enjoy the meat and either a small diet soda or tea. Eat no more than 5 "picks" at the bread... about half a slice. You still get the exact taste of a burger with none of the stuff that makes most people over-fat.
Third, for you chicken lovers, split your order between fried and baked chicken. KFC has excellent baked chicken... try it. Then strip most of the skin off the fried chicken. Not all... most.
You still get the taste, but with far fewer bad food-stuffs and calories.... make sense?
Enjoy the tips... but remember, the healthiest (and tastiest) way to eat is still my Every Other Day DIetplan, which works in your favorite foods each week....
click-----> The Every Other Day Diet
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3 fast-food fatloss-tips
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Believe it or not you can get lean by eating fast food.
I know, it sounds crazy... but in a few weeks I'm going to prove it to the world with the release of my newest mini e-book "Fast Food Fitness: How I Dropped 40lbs Eating Fast Food Every Day."
Do you think I'm joking? I'm not.
Of course there's a WAY to eat fast food and drop the pounds. You can't just eat like everyone else does. That's common sense.
And believe me, there are more healthy ways to drop the pounds than eating fast food... for sure.
But the way I figure it: Would you rather be healthIER and lean or UNhealthy and overfat?
Silly question... so consider "Fast Food Fitness" a path to the lesser of two evils... and one that actually got me to 10% bodyfat (that's pretty lean!) a few years ago.
Here's how it started:
I simply hate to cook! I have since solved that problem... I hired a part-time chef (it's cheaper than it sounds)... but until two years ago I was eating out every single meal... I mean EVERY MEAL.
Most of the time... not all of the time, but most of the time... these meals were fast food joints like burger joints and even fried chicken places.
But I had to keep my physique, so ... what to do?
Well... you'll have to wait. At least a few weeks.
If you want the book for half-price, you have to own a copy of "Every Other Day Dietplan"... everyone who owns a copy before "Fast Food Fitness" hits the Internet will get half-off.
So go here if you don't have EODD yet ...
click-----> The Every Other Day Diet
Here's 3 of my top 25 fast-food diet-tips... just these 3 will take you 1/3 of the way there...
First, use my Half-n-Half Principle. Order whatever you are going to order and then have the person behind the counter cut the order exactly in HALF.
Half to go... half to eat there.
Eat half now.... then the other half 3-4 hours later. Believe it or not you will store less bodyfat and even increase your metabolism eating like this.
Simple trick... give it a shot.
Second, ditch all the starch. That means buns, bread and anything made of flour. BUT here's the "still tastes good" trick I use. I keep ONE of the pieces of bread from, say, my hamburger. Then I "pick" at it while I enjoy the meat and either a small diet soda or tea. Eat no more than 5 "picks" at the bread... about half a slice. You still get the exact taste of a burger with none of the stuff that makes most people over-fat.
Third, for you chicken lovers, split your order between fried and baked chicken. KFC has excellent baked chicken... try it. Then strip most of the skin off the fried chicken. Not all... most.
You still get the taste, but with far fewer bad food-stuffs and calories.... make sense?
Enjoy the tips... but remember, the healthiest (and tastiest) way to eat is still my Every Other Day DIetplan, which works in your favorite foods each week....
click-----> The Every Other Day Diet
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