Archive for Fat Loss for Men

Core Workout Tips (Video)

Friday, May 4th, 2012

“Why does a core workout have to be different than a regular workout?”10 minute workout from home

That was a WONDERFUL question posed by one of my training clients, and to be totally honest it made my liver smile.

He reads the magazines and surfs the web and always noticed the same thing I did – authors trying ot separate the abs and core from the rest of the body.

He wanted to know why they did that.

Beyond marketing, and simply getting you to read their articles, there really isn’t a good answer, at least to my trainer brain, as to why you have to separate a core workout from a general full body workout designed for fat loss.

A properly designed workout program, be it for weight loss or any other thing, should include exercises that strengthen your core (which is kind of a dubious term anyway).

What do I mean?

Take this video for example where I show you how to turn ANY workout into a core workout and show you two exercises for core strength. Read More→

10 Minute Workout Program

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Hey!

How’s everything in your world?

Today I thought I’d do something a bit different.10 minute workout from home

In the past I have given you my workout programs, both 10 minute workout programs and those that have taken longer, but only in text form.  Rarely have I filmed my actual workouts and shared that with you.

I’ve also given you videos of individual 10-minute workouts to do from home, or on the road, but haven’t really put them together into any type of flow that you can follow for a few weeks (for many reasons).

I’ve given you many, many add-on workouts whether they be for your abs, arms or legs…

…But I haven’t given you a selection of workouts and workout videos that you can print out and follow through with (unless you’ve ordered my Fat Loss To Go program, or became a member of FPF Monthly…hint, hint).

So today I thought I’d share a 10-minute workout program so that you can Bookmark this page, save the videos to your favorites in Youtube and use them as needed.

I want you to put these workouts into practice.

Don’t just read this post, watch the videos and not act.  Results don’t happen via osmosis…you gots to move.

Okay enough of the talky-talky, let’s move on with the worky-worky.

I’m going to share the videos first, with the layout of the workout below.  After those 5 videos/workouts I’ll share a couple add-on workouts with you as well.

Cool?

Okay, let’s roll.

Day 1:

Quick and Simple 10 Minute Workout

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Here’s the layout of that 10-minute workout:

Perform the following 3 exercises in a circuit for 8 minutes…

1A) Alternating Bent Over Row – 8 reps/arm

1B) DB or KB Swing – 20 reps

1C) Push-up w/Jack Knife – 8 reps

After 8 minutes, perform the following exercise in “Tabata-style” where you go 20 seconds on/10 seconds off for 2 minutes

2) Burpees

Day 2:

10-Minute Fusion Conditioning Workout

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Here’s the layout of that home workout:

1A) Stationary Lunge w/Shoulder Press – 8 reps/leg

1B) Burpee – 10 reps

1C) DB Bent Over Row – 8 reps

1D) Stability Ball Jack Knife – 15 reps

Day 3:

Fusion Conditioning Fat Loss Workout

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Here’s the layout of that 10 minute workout:

1A) Medicine Ball Push-up – 10 reps

1B) Medicine Ball Touch & Hop – 10 reps

1C) Squat w/Shoulder Press – 15 reps

1D) Renegade Row – 8 reps/arm

Day 4:

Quick 10-Minute Fat Loss Workout

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Here’s the layout of that home workout:

1A) Push-up – 10 reps

1B) BW Reverse Lunge – 15 reps/leg

1C) Mountain Climber – 20 reps/leg

1D) BW Squat – 15 reps

1E) Squat Thrust – 10 reps

Day 5:

At Home Weight Loss Workout

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Here’s the layout of that weight loss workout:

Perform the following 3 exercise in a circuit for 8 minutes.

1A) Stationary Lunge w/Shoulder Press – 8 reps/leg

1B) Rear Fly – 8 reps

1C) Mountain Climber Push-up – 8 reps

After 8 minutes, perform the following exercise in a “Tabata-style” for 2 minutes

2) Mountain Climber – 20 seconds on/10 seconds off

Alright so there’s the basics of the workout program.

Do you think you can implement those into your schedule?

Remember you can do them from home, while on the road or even while paying gym memberships…but they’re best when done from home.

Also remember that 10-minutes is the base.  If you only have that amount of time to do the workout, that’s fine.

But if you have more time, and more energy, and want to expand and branch out from those 10 minute workouts, then give these add-on workouts a try!

Add-On #1:

Quick Abs Workout

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Here’s the layout of that add-on abs workout:

Perform the following exercises in “Tabata-style” for 4 minutes.

1A) Reverse Crunch – 20 seconds on/10 seconds off

1B) Mountain Climber - 20 seconds on/10 seconds off

1C) DB or KB Swing - 20 seconds on/10 seconds off

1D) Plank Extension - 20 seconds on/10 seconds off

Add-On #2:

Strong and Defined Arms Workout

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Here’s the layout of that workout:

Perform the following circuit for 5 minutes

1A) Close Push-up Pulse – 15 reps

1B) Bicep curl w/Slow negative – 8 reps

1C) Lateral Raise – 8 reps

Add-On #3:

Six Pack Abs Workout In 4 Minutes

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Here’s the layout of that add-on abs workout:

Perform this circuit in a “Tabata-style” for 4 minutes

1A) DB or KB Swing – 20 seconds on/10 seconds off

1B) Mountain Climber – 20 seconds on/10 seconds off

There you have it!  You are now armed with a 10-minute home workout program that you can do for the next 3-6 weeks and you will absolutely see results.

Want to lose weight?  It’ll do it.

Want to lose stomach fat?  Done.

Wanting to increase your energy and just feel better?  Check!

Trying to improve your posture?  Done, done, done.

Want to do all that and more?  Coolio cause it’ll do it!

Now either print those workouts out, or write ‘em down and come back to this page to watch those videos as needed and get moving!

Cool?

Of course it is!

Do those 10-minute workouts and add-on workouts and you will see results!

later,
ed

Quick and Effective Tabata Workout (8 of ‘em)

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

A few weeks ago on my Facebook page I mentioned the workout I did that day and received a pretty good response – and a good responsetabata workouts for fat loss is either “Awesome!” or “Holy crap that sounded horrible!” – both of those make me smile deep down in my liver.

The kicker was this workout, like most I design, was really quick.

After warming up on the foam roller and doing a few bodyweight exercises, it only took about 18-20 minutes including rest periods.

It left me feeling all kinds of warm and fuzzy and by that I mean I was sweating profusely, had a smile on my face, and felt all kinds of awesome.

Nothing too freaky – I could have quite easily gone and played with the kids and I wasn’t overly sore the next day.

It required no dumbbells, kettlebells or any other equipment.

I did it in the bedroom (get your mind out of the gutter) after getting home from training a few clients.

What was this excellent workout?

It was a Tabata Workout – more specifically it was 4 separate tabata-styled workouts.

If you’re not familiar with the term, a Tabata-styled workout is where you pick 1 or 2 exercises and alternate between 20 seconds of exercise and 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes.

Say you chose push-ups and bodyweight squats as your two exercises.

You’d get on the floor and do as many push-ups as you could for 20 seconds, then rest 10 seconds and then go into squats for 20 seconds, rest 10 seconds and go back to the push-ups.

You’d continue on in that fashion for 4 minutes.

You could do 1 exercise, you could do 2 or even 4, but my favorites are when only 1 or 2 are chosen for the 4-minutes.

I’ll give you a few now that you have a little rundown on what a Tabata workout looks like.

Let’s start with what I recently did:

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Fat Blasting Workout Assignment

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Hey hey!

So how was your weekend?

How have your workouts been coming along?

Have you been doing them consistently?

Have you been working intensely during your workouts or going through the motions?

Those are the two most important aspects of any workout programconsistently and working hard.

If you’re not consistent, you can’t expect results.

If you’re not working hard, you can expect poor results…or none at all.

Remember it doesn’t take long to fit in a quality workout, but you have to work while working out.

On that note, let’s dive into this week’s Assignment.

Last week’s assignment was nutrition related, and if it’s possible, I’d like you to continue on with that assignment because there’s no reason to stop.

This week’s assignment is workout related.

Actually it only involves one exercise, but I’m asking you to do a lot of them.

What exercise might that be?

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A Whole Bunch of Diet Information and Workouts

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Hey!diet help and workouts

How’s your weekend coming?  As of this instant, it is mid-afternoon on a beautiful Sunday and Nolan just woke up from his nap.  I was going to say Nolan was napping and Maren was coloring in her room, but I just heard the tell-tale signs of a 1-year old awakening…crying :)

I am currently sitting in my “office” at home, which is really just a desk in the corner of our dining room – I lost my office when Nolan was born – and started to think.

I was doing a bit of brainstorming on what topics I should write on in the coming weeks and began to think about all we’ve talked about over the past several weeks, minus a missed week due to exhaustion from other projects.

We’ve gone over quite a bit in terms of all of the Assignments/Challenges, and I have one more coming up for tomorrow (and it’s awesome!), but I thought it would be a good idea to recap everything.

Why would I want to do that?

I suppose if you think about it, all that we’ve talked about over the past several weeks is kind of like a Report, or mini-book, that’s just chunked out into separate articles and blog posts.

If you were to take all the articles and put them together, them focus on putting them into action for a few weeks, you could make some pretty big strides in your overall weight loss and fitness lifestyle.

Simple and easy.

Take the information, put them into a manageable plan, take action and watch the results.

You can do that, right?

Of course you can!

Click the links below to see all of the Assignments/Challenges we’ve done over the past several weeks…

Weird Diet and Nutrition Tip To Change Your Eating Habits

Eat These 3 Healthy Weight Loss Foods Every Day

Nutrition Challenge (Fruit)

10-Minute Bodyweight Workout

New Challenge – Water and Weight Loss

10-Minute Workout and Abs Workout

Healthy Smoothies Is This Challenge!

Bodyweight Workout Challenge

Want To Lose Weight and Live a Healthy Lifestyle?  Eat These 3 Foods Daily 

Simple and Effective Bodyweight Workout

Okay now that you have all those links to the previous Assignments/Challenges…get to work!

Come up with a simple plan on how you can implement some, or all, of those Challenges into your life and then take action.

Life rewards action takers.

Will you be rewarded?

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

Before I go, here’s another article you will find helpful…

Diet Help – Make The Mental Switch 

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Hey!

How’s it hangin’?

I got away from the Nutrition Assignments for a couple weeks and that’s because I’ve been working frantically on a few projects.

So I’m kinda sorry and I’m kinda not.  I’m sorry because I want ot help you lose weight and live a lean and strong lifestyle.

I’m not sorry because these projects directly effect you and are pretty stinkin’ awesome…but we’ll save those or later :)

Back to the task at hand…

This week’s assignment is nutrition related.

To be more specific, I’m going to share a few foods that you may, or may not eat on a regular basis, but that I want you to eat most days this week. 

When I give you this type of assignment, it’s to help break you out of an eating rut.  Sometimes we get stuck eating the ‘same old, same old’ and while that may be okay, it gets boring.

For some, these foods are already eaten on a regular basis.  Others may avoid them because they’re afraid.

Afraid of the sugar content or afraid of the fat content and those fears creaped into their head (maybe your head) from some tricksters.

What are these weight loss foods?

Here’s the quick list, followed with my “reason why.”

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Ever been confused about what to eat and when to eat it?

Should you eat a protein only breakfast or have some carbs and fat too?

What about meal timing for a workout?  Do you have to have a protein shake immediately after your workout if you want to see results?

Do you need to have a protein and carb snack before your workout to provide you with the energy you need to make it through the workout and perform at the level you want?

What about nighttime eating?  Is it okay to eat after dinner?

Should you have a protein shake, or other high protein food before you go to bed to help your muscles repair?

That’s a lot of questions and to be totally honest I could go on because I’ve received so many questions about this one topic in the past couple months it’s making my head spin.

I know the root of the questions and we’ll cover that in a bit, but first let’s clear something up…

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Story About A Busy Dad…and a 10-minute workout

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

I have a sweet 10-minute workout program you can do from home for you today, but before we get10 minute workout from home to that I want to share a quick story with you.

A couple weeks ago I did a ‘phone consultation’ with a potential client and we were at an impasse.

He wanted to train with me, but between our crazy schedules, it wasn’t going to work out.

He was a busy fella.  He wasn’t totally self-employed, but his boss let him do as he pleased because he was a workaholic…which also meant he was stressed to the bone, had a lot of jiggly fat around his stomach and manboobs.

He drank too much, supplemented his stress with too many carbs and didn’t sleep well.

Good times, right?

The great thing was that he was finally ready to make changes.  He knew he was living horribly and was finally ready to lose stomach fat and get control of his life.

What changed his mind after all these years?

Simple.  His kids.

He couldn’t play with his kids.  He took the afternoon off one beautiful fall day to take his 2 kids to the park and he couldn’t keep up with them and he was embarrassed.  He saw other moms playing with their kids, and he was the only dad there, and he flat out couldn’t do it and it not only hurt his ego, but he felt bad for his kids and was pissed at himself.

That became his ‘reason why.’

After some schedule wrangling, what we came up with was a plan of working with me once a week, then me giving him workouts to do from home 3-4 days the rest of the week.

The workouts would be chunked into 10-minute workouts so he could expand them if he had the time, but if he could only muster up 10-15 minutes he could still lose weight and get a great workout in.

Here’s a sample of one of the workouts in his program…

Quick and Simple 10-Minute Workout

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In case you didn’t get a chance to write that workout down, here’s the rundown:

10 Minute Workout From Home:

1A) Alternating Bent Over Row – 8/arm

1B) DB or KB Swing – 20 reps

1C) Push-up w/Jack Knife – 8 reps

Do that circuit as many times possible in 8 minutes, then move on to…

1D) Burpees – 20 seconds on/10 seconds off (Tabata style) for 2 minutes

Beyond that 10-minute workout base, we also came up with a few add-on workouts that would help carve some stomach fat off and give him better looking arms.

He’s a guy after all and we all want better looking arms!

Here’s a sample of the Abs Workout that he did AFTER the 10 minute workout listed above.

Quick Abs Workout

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Here’s the rundown for that home abs workout:

2A) Reverse Crunch – 20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest, and then…

2B) Mountain Climber – 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, and then…

2C) Swing – 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, and then…

2D) Plank Extension – 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, and then back to 2A

That little add-on Abs Workout was designed in “Tabata-style” where you do each movement for 20 seconds, followed by a 10 second rest.  Move through that workout as a circuit, continuing for 4-minutes (2 rounds).

And here’s a sample arms workout to help give him bigger, stronger and more defined arms…

Arms Workout To Get Stronger and More Defined Arms 

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3A) 1 ½ Push-up – 6 reps

3B) 1 ½ Bicep Curl – 8 reps

3C) 1 ½ Shoulder Press – 8 reps

Go through that circuit twice.  If you do it correctly – push-ups in proper tempo, use enough resistance for the curls and presses – you shouldn’t want to, or need to do it anymore than twice.

But remember, he didn’t do those extra 2 workouts if he didn’t have the time or energy.  Sometimes busy parents like you and me just can’t squeak out any more than 10 or 15 minutes to devote to a workout and that’s totally fine.

However, there are times when you do have more time, and have the energy, and those add-on workouts are for those times. Ideally you’d do those add-ons a couple times per week.

So what’s the end of my client’s story?

Well, it wasn’t always easy.  Sometimes he skipped workouts, sometimes he missed our training sessions and sometimes he was flat out pissed at his lack of results, but…

…He kept moving forward and kept progressing.

He knew what he wanted.  He kept a firm hold on that ‘Reason Why’ and remembered why he was doing what he was doing.

Sometimes he only did those 10-minute workouts and other times he did more.

The best part was that he learned to listen to his body and understand when it was telling him to stop working and relax, other times he listened when it told him to relax on the workouts and work and just play.

It’s awesome what can happen when you sit back, give your body what it wants and watch what happens.

After a couple months he had lost about 15 pounds, but the cool part was that he lost a few inches off his stomach and his shoulders started to broaden.

Not only that, but he looked and felt better. His wife could tell that he was feeling better and he could play with his kids.

He’s well on his way of achieving his initial goals and more – all because he started with 10-minute workouts and busted his butt.

He worked hard in those 10-minutes and expanded when he could.

He was consistent in his efforts and kept moving forward.

Do you think you can do the same?

Of course you can!

Now get up, take those workouts that I just gave you and start using them!

Talk to you later,

Ed

P.S. – If you’re ready to be like my awesome client and finally get your body and life under control, then you really need to check out my Fat Loss To Go program.  It’s a 10-minute workout and nutrition system designed specifically for busy moms and dads.   The nutrition system is simple and easy to follow…and is NOT a diet and the 10 minute workout program is killer (in a good way).  Click below to discover more…

10 minute workout from home