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Quick Cardio Workout Video

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Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Hey hey! quick cardio workout

What’s goin’ on in your world? Things are rockin’ and rollin’ I presume…

All’s well on this front.

I’m not going to give you any fancy schmancy openings or rig-a-ma-roll here, I’m just going to cut right to the chase and give you what I’m gonna give you.

I have a sweet little Quick Cardio Workout for you to try (but it’s not a “normal” cardio workout).

The skinny on this puppy is that it’s from a larger workout program I created called “The Puzzle.”

In The Puzzle, you pick different workouts depending upon the area of your body you want to work.

Let’s say this month you are focusing more on craning the intensity up and losing weight. There are workouts in the program (like the Cardio Workout I’m going ot share with you) that are designed specifically for that purpose.

The kicker is that all the workouts will help you lose weight, but the specific Metabolic workouts are designed to crank the intensity up a few notches and really help you burn calories.

Let’s say you want to work your abs, arms or even legs a bit harder – well there are a number of workouts for each of those trouble spots.

You pick 2 or 3 different circuits, or Puzzle Pieces, put ‘em together and you have your workout.

Do the workouts 2-4 times per week and over the course of a month those trouble spots will be improved – your waist will be smaller, your abs will be more defined, your arms, shoulders or legs will be rock hard.

Biff, bam boom!

Okay, here’s the video…

Quick Cardio Workout

Here’s the rundown for this particular workout…

Perform it as a circuit and do the following exercises:

1A) Push-up w/Shoulder Touch – 10 reps
1B) Medicine Ball Touch & Hop – 15 times
1C) Stability Ball Jack Knife – 15 times
1D) Ice Skater – 20 times

Do that puppy as many times as you can in 7 minutes, with the least amount of rest possible, and you’re done with that Puzzle Piece.

Calories burned, metabolism cranked, sweat pouring and the endorphins are flowin’!

All right, I’m gonna let you go now to get on doin’ what you do.

Give that quick cardio workout a try and let me know how you like it!

Talk to ya later,

P.S. – If you want to learn more about the Puzzle and being a member of the Fit Parent Force, click here.

You can also become a member of the Fit Parent Force by grabbing a copy of my Fat Loss To Go program, and can learn more about that by clicking here.

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2 Quick and Simple Workouts For You (Videos!!)

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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

What’s goin’ on!

I have a couple quick and awesome fat bustin’ workout videos for you to try out today and I hope you dig ‘em as much as I do.

They’re from a recent program I designed called “The Puzzle.”

With that program, you are able to pick and choose different circuits that hit your “trouble spots”.

Want to work your Arms or Legs a bit more? You can do that.

How about your Abs and Core? You can do that too!

What if you want to mix and match and hit a few different trouble spots at once? You can do that too by grabbing different circuits and putting them together to form one killer workout!

This program is pretty sweet…and I’m not just saying that because I designed it.

Here’s how the program works.

You decide which parts of your body you want to focus on for the month (the more specific you can be the better), and then take a look at the workouts available.

The circuits are dialed down into 7-minute circuits and you should pick a couple different Puzzle Pieces to form one workout. For the math inclined, that would make the workout last around 15 minutes (2 7-minute Puzzle Pieces with 1 minute break between the two). If you have extra time, you can throw in another Puzzle Piece for a total of approximately 25 minutes.

These workouts will have you feeling fine and dandy by the time you’re finished!

Let’s say you want to lose weight, while also focusing in on your abs and core.

You would then pick 2 or 3 7-minute circuits that are focused on those areas.

Here are a couple videos showing you examples of the Puzzle Pieces.

One is for the Abs and the other is a Metabolic, or Weight Loss, Workout.

Here’s the Abs Puzzle Piece…

Here’s the Metabolic Puzzle Piece…

To do those, you would warm-up for about 5 minutes, then do the Abs Puzzle Piece for 7 minutes, rest a minute or two, then move right into the Metabolic Puzzle Piece and you’re finished!

You could also flip-flop ‘em and do the Metabolic one first, then the Abs…or you could do the Metabolic one twice, or even do the Abs one twice, or even do the Metabolic, then Abs, then Metabolic again.

Pretty sweet, huh?

By the way, if you’re a member of Fit Parent Force Monthly, this month’s Workout Of The Month is a gigantic Puzzle Workout where you pick and choose between 8 different Puzzle Piece workouts.

These puppies are awesome. When filming them, I couldn’t help but think to myself “Holy crap! Everybody’s gonna love these workouts!!” and by love, I of course mean hate because they’re pretty dang tough…but in a good way.

If you are a FPF Monthly member, click here to access this month’s issue.

If you’re not an FPF Monthly member, click here to learn how to become one. You won’t regret it!

That’s it for today!

P.S. – The Nutrition section of this month’s magazine dives into the truth about fruit. I get the question of whether fruit makes you fat all the time, so I decided to write a big article uncovering the truth. I grabbed a few of the most common reasons you shouldn’t eat fruit, and then gave my response. It’s a pretty sweet little article…but you have to be a Fit Parent Force Monthly member to read it.

If you are a FPF Monthly member, click here to access this month’s issue.

If you’re not an FPF Monthly member, click here to learn how to become one. You won’t regret it!

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Quick and Easy Bodyweight Workout

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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Ready for an AWESOME Bodyweight Workout?!

There are certain aspects of workouts that I love…

…and others that I absolutely hate.

For instance, I hate running. I hate it with a passion. Okay, that’s overstating. I don’t hate it with a passion, but I do greatly dislike running. If it were on Facebook, I would ‘unlike’ it – if that were possible….ah scratch that, I actually do hate running.

I also don’t like silly workouts. Dancing, doing 50,000 reps of one exercise, doing one exercise for an entire song (I’ve heard of classes where people do triceps extensions for 3 minutes!!!), saying that an ancient cannon ball with a handle is the best dad-gum thing since sliced bread (for the record, I do like kettle bells…but they’re just a tool in a quality workout)…none of those sit well with me.

You know what I love?

Short and sweet workouts.

Workouts that respect yours and my time.

Workouts that seem to say “Hey there kind and jovial person, I like you and want you to get some fine and dandy results, but that still let you get on with your day, spend more time with the kiddos and kick it (that’s relax for the un-hip).”

Those workouts are my homeboy (or homegirl depending upon your point of view).

Want to know one of my all-time favorite bodyweight workouts?

It only involves 2 exercises and it’s pretty dang sweet.

Quick and Easy Bodyweight Workout

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How To Fit In Workouts With A New Baby!

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Monday, March 14th, 2011

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Hey there! Fit Dad back with a quickie for ya…

I’m sure that by now you know I’m a daddy once again (at least hopefully you’ve been reading…) and we’re rolling with it. Nolan is doing awesome – growing like a new baby should – and all is well on the home front.

The ONLY downside is my workouts have been thrown way out of whack – even my short and sweet 10-minute workouts haven’t been happening and it’s driving me crazy…and workouts are just a wee bit important for a guy in my position.

I had to re-group and come up with a new plan that gets my workouts in – no matter the time of day – and will still get the job done.

It may sound odd at first glance given my love for 10-minute workouts, but it has been tough and I’m sure I don’t have to explain it to any parents with new babies. Trying to come up with a normal routine is a new struggle to contend with.

So here are a few things I’ve come up with for myself, as well as for all new parents trying to fit workouts in when they have more than one wee-one at home.

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Quick Abs Workout

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Howdy, howdy! How’s your day going?

I won’t wine and dine you with some fancy rhetoric; instead I’ll cut right to the point.

I did a quick abs workout that was more like a “finisher” yesterday and it has my abs singing today.

I define something as a workout “finisher” as a quick circuit or super-set that I do at the end of my regular workout that’s meant to take my muscles to the tipping point…make ‘em burn a bit.

Many of the add-on workouts I lay out in Fat Loss To Go are good examples of “finishers” and the one I did yesterday was specific to the abs.

It was a 3-exercise abs circuit and it didn’t have one single crunch…it was all about stabilization or flexing the abs in a different way.

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Different Types of Planks

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Plankety, plankety, plank.

We all love Planks…right?

If not, you should.

Well, if you don’t love them, you should at least tolerate them…mildly.

The problem is that the regular plank is boring! Just the thought of holding myself in that position to make it count makes me want to take a nap!

I get comments from people on YouTube all the time about how they can hold a Plank for 3, 4 or even 5 minutes and my response is always the same…

…Why would you want to hold a Plank for that long?

Stick hot pokers in my ear, but never make me hold a Plank for 5 minutes!

So what’s a fella to do?

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Fat Loss Workout Twist To Turn The Heat Up A Notch Or Two!

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

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Buenos Dias!

How’s life treating you? Life’s rockin’ and rolling around here. It’s cold, the streets are slick and evidently we’re supposed to get a crap-ton of snow.

How much is a crap-ton?

Evidently it’s a lot and I’ll be sure to let you know once I figure that out.

I wanted to share with you an exercise tip that I’ve been using to create my personal fat loss workouts, and even some of the workouts for my training clients here in the studio.

It’s a way to combine strength work, metabolic work and “burner” work all into one sweet little 7-minute circuit workout and I’ve been loving it.

I know that it’s not “pure” strength work, as I’ve been told before by the hard-core strength training Nazis, but I don’t care. I live in the real world and deal with real world issues and, like you, have limited time to devote to workouts and have to work within the parameters I’m given.

Anyway, enough of the ranting, let’s get on with it.

What I do is pick 3 exercises…just 3. Read More→

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Bodyweight Cardio Workout In 10 Minutes

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Monday, December 6th, 2010

What’s goin’ down!

I hope your week is off to an awesome start and I hope you had an awesome weekend!

Mine was pretty sweet. My wife and daughter’s birthdays were last week and today is my birthday. I turn 32 and feel pretty darn good about it. I hear some people say how they wish they could go back to their 20’s and never age beyond that decade, but I don’t agree. I liked my 20’s, but I wouldn’t want to go back to them, although my hairline was a bit lower (which is also why I’m keeping my hair long as long as I can!).

Anywho, on with the message!

Remember that quick little 10-minute bodyweight cardio workout I shared with you not too long ago?

If not, click here to check that butt-kickin workout video out.

I have another one of those little devils…err… I mean sweet bodyweight workouts, for you!

Same concept – quick, intense bodyweight workout that you can do anywhere and virtually any time.

I’m going to touch on this after the video, but whenever you do a 10-minute workout such as the bodyweight cardio I’m going to show you, you must focus and pay attention to what you’re doing. It sounds overly simplistic, and maybe even stupid, but trust me when I say it’s not. It’s a common problem and can make or break your results.

To check it out, watch the Bodyweight Cardio Workout below…

Also, don’t forget to focus on your muscles while doing these workouts. I know that may sound weird, but it’s important. I work with people every day here in my studio and one of the most common problems I see is people not “focusing.” They go through the motions and hope to be done – don’t be that person. This bodyweight workout is quick and is meant to work your entire body, burn lots of calories and crank your metabolism…but you have to do the work – you can’t just go through the motions.

Focus on what you’re doing.

Focus on the muscles worked.

Work hard.

Make sense?

If you’re not “present” and thinking, concentrating and actively flexing the muscles you’re working, you won’t achieve the results you’re after…or any results you do achieve will be horrible.

You might be able to get away with going through the motions in longer workouts (although you’re still wasting your time), but with these quick workouts (that are meant to be intense), you need to focus!

So if you’re doing a push-up in your bodyweight workout, really focus on flexing your chest (pecs) as you press your body up off the floor. Focus on keeping your abs and butt muscles tight and make sure you use a proper tempo.

If you’re doing something like Mountain Climbers in your bodyweight cardio workout, focus on keeping your body in a straight line (just like push-ups), keep your abs tight and make the reps count.

See what I’m saying?

You can do quick workouts, you can use your own bodyweight, and you can still see phenomenal results, but you must FOCUS and be present. Don’t go trhough the motions hoping to be done as soon as possible.

Crank it.

Work and your body will thank you. It’ll thank you by dropping body fat like crazy!

Have an awesome day and I’ll talk to you soon!