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Quick and Simple Abs Workout Tips (video)

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Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Hey!

What’s goin down in your world today? I have a sweet little video demonstrating a couple abs workout tips that I’d like to share with you.

For some reason, anytime I start to write about abs workouts and exercise my mind tends to wander to infomercials.

I love watching infomercials. Sunday morning seems to be the best day to get your fill because they’re on virtually every channel.

Get rich quick schemes, real estate schemes (because the banks are really excited about loaning money right now…), and of course weight loss.

My favorites are the exercise gadgets that target your abs – and always give the impression they have super secret abs workout tips in the title.

They throw in these smokin’ hot fitness models, who you know wouldn’t touch that gadget with a 10-foot pole if they weren’t getting a fat paycheck and a chance to show their hot bodies to millions of people.

On the one hand it makes me sick because they’re stealing money, but on the other hand, they’re quite entertaining and teach valuable marketing lessons.

I think my favorite right now is actually something I thought vanished from existence because it was that ridiculous and that’s the shocking belts. Those thingies you can strap to your waist and let a defibrillator shock the living crap out of your abs until you’ve whittled away all that fat and now have the chiseled midsection of the fitness model – who always seems to be doing the weirdest things in those commercials while wearing what appears to be the WWE Championship belt.

Silly.

I would like to share with you a couple of wicked core exercises and a few killer abs workout tips that do actually help you lose fat and strengthen your abs/core like gangbusters. Read More→

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Does Fruit Make You Fat? Is Fruit Dangerous?

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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Does Fruit Make You Fat? Is Fruit Dangerous If You’re Trying To Lose Weight?

I’ve been noticing a scary trend over the past couple years, and it seems to have only gotten worse lately and that is scare tactics when it comes to diet.

Scare tactics are nothing new. They’ve been around for quite some time.

This guy's a bad guy...not an apple

I don’t know if this is true or not, but I remember reading that Henry Ford (the car dude) stopped eating sugar after seeing some under a microscope while hanging out with his good buddy Thomas Edison. The sharp edges freaked him out so much that he thought it would rip apart his insides.

I suppose that could be a good scare tactic?

But I digress…

The scare tactic I’ve been seeing lately is people asking, “Does fruit make you fat?”, or at the very least hinder your weight loss results.

There seems to be no shortage of “experts” telling you it does, including writing entire books about the subject. The argument, and they may even cite studies to prove their point, is that the fructose in fruit is easily converted to fat and stored around your stomach.

But is it true? Does fruit make you fat? Even if it were true does it make that much of a difference?

Let me answer that by asking you a question… Read More→

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Quick Abs Workout In 7 Minutes (Video)

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Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Hey! quick abs workout to lose stomach fat

What’s happenin?

All’s well on this end of the computer screen. Family’s doing awesome, workouts are going awesome and my abs have been poppin’!

How’s that you say?

How does a dude like me get his abs to pop?

First, I cut the crap out that I’ve been eating lately. I eat pretty damn well most of the time, but have let myself have a few too many treats – I justified the foods by saying I was stressed, or could work it off later, but that was just stupid.

Then I started doing some of the abs workouts I’ve been designing for other people.

Imagine that! I actually do the workouts I design for my clients (and you)!

When I decided I wanted to sharpen up my abs and trim that stomach fat, I picked one of my favorite programs called “The Puzzle.”

The Puzzle allows you to pick and choose the body parts you want to work…and I wanted to work my abs.

I also wanted to do a bit more Metabolic stuff, so I picked a few of my special bodyweight cardio workouts to add to the mix.

Here’s a sample of one of the Core Workouts from the program.

Quick Abs Workout In 7-Minutes

Here’s the rundown on that quick abs workout…

Perform the following abs exercises as a circuit and complete as many circuits as you can in 7 minutes:

1A) Dumbbell Swing – 20 times
1B) Burpee – 8 times
1C) Reverse Crunch – 15 times
1D) Butt Raise – 10 times

Repeat that circuit as many times possible in 7 minutes, while limiting the amount o rest you take. We’re shooting for a major metabolic disruption that maximizes calorie burn and cranks up the intensity on the abs and causes that fat to melt off.

You would then pick either another Quick Abs Workout, or do what I did and pick another Bodyweight Cardio workout and complete your entire weight loss workout.

Total time is about 17-20 minutes and you should be spent by the end (told you it was a quick abs workout!!).

If you have the time, you can do another 7-minute abs circuit, but that’s not necessary.

Sound good?

I know it does!

Now rock on with this abs workout and get to melting that fat off your gut!

Later,

The Fit Dad

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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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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4 Foods To Help You Lose Stomach Fat

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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Are some foods better at helping you lose weight than others?

Of course they are! It would be silly to think that all foods are created equal, especially when it comes to slimming and toning your figure.

The big “secret” though is that many of the foods being marketed to you are not good, and won’t help you lose weight, because they’re manufactured and processed foods that are made in a factory.

Whenever I talk to a client about healthy foods to add to slim down, I always start by asking if they would feed their toddler those pre-packaged foods. If they say “I don’t know,” or “No,” I them ask why they would eat them themselves.

If it’s not good enough for their toddler, why is it good enough for them?

It’s not.

So if you’re really serious about losing stomach fat, I want you to first focus on eating REAL FOOD. If you focus on that first, you can still make room for some of the other stuff – but I promise you won’t want to, nor have room.

Here are 4 Foods To Help You Lose Stomach Fat

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3 Weird Weight Loss Foods

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Monday, July 18th, 2011

I have a few weird weight loss foods for you today.

Why are they weird? I don’t know. Probably because they’re not commonly thought of as foods that specifically help you lose weight. Sure they’re in the category, but when we usually think of weight loss foods, these foods don’t usually hit the list and that’s too bad because they’re awesome.

Here are a few weird fat loss foods that not only help you drop a couple pounds, but are loaded with nutrition and will keep you healthy and energetic:

How’s that for the world’s shortest opener? Anywho…

Here’s your quick list of Weird Weight Loss Foods

1) Raspberries

I love raspberries and I especially love telling my clients to eat them regularly to help them lose weight because they’re the perfect weight loss food.

They’re low in calories, rich in vitamins and phytonutrients and loaded with fiber per serving.

You can munch on ‘em by themselves, add them to a nice little fruit cocktail, or like me, add them to a homemade smoothie.

You could also add them to yogurt (don’t buy yogurts with fruit already added), or add them as a topping to oatmeal or granola.

My mouth is watering just thinking about raspberries!

2) Cashews

You’ve probably been told before that almonds are weight loss foods, and it’s true because they are.

But have you ever tried cashews? If not, you’re missing out because they’re just as healthy as cashews, but they’re just a wee bit sweeter where almonds are a bit drier tasting.

I absolutely love cashews and have ‘em most days of the week. I munch on them with some homemade trail mix my wife makes up for me, or add them to all-natural yogurt, along with some berries, or mix ‘em in with granola.

Make sure you eat plain cashews and don’t get stuck in the thought process of “any almond is a good almond” because that’s not true. If you buy cashews that are honey roasted, heavily salted, or otherwise altered you are turning an otherwise healthy, weight loss food, into a fat-gaining food. Don’t do it!

Do be careful on how much you eat because it is a calorie-dense food, especially if you’re just enjoying it as a snack. Go overboard and you can turn a great diet food into a gut bomb!

Last on the list of weird weight loss foods is…

3) Kale

I’m going to be the first to admit that I don’t really like Kale, but that wasn’t going ot stop me from adding it to the list because it’s too powerful.

Kale is loaded with nutrition and is low in calories, which makes it a perfect food to help you lose weight.

Not only will it help you lose fat, but it’s also great for your skin – by eating it, not letting it rest on your face . It strengthens the skin from the inside out and supplies it with nutrients it needs to protect itself from our damaging environment.

The great thing about these 3 foods is that they’re easy enough for the whole family to enjoy.

I’ve always insisted that if you can eat healthy as a family, long-lasting weight loss is easy. Get your significant other and kids to eat like you, and watch the health of your family soar!

Sure your kids may poo-poo on the kale, but you could turn it into chips and they might enjoy it…or you could hide it in other foods

That’s it for today!

later,

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Ready To Lose Weight? Here’s Your Fast Start Plan!

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

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The weather is so, so sweet, the birds are chirping and the flowers are poppin’…

…and my allergies are in full swing, which can mean only one thing!

Summer is here!

Wooo-hoooo!!

What’s that you say? You’re not ready for summer? You’ve let yourself go into hibernation mode and have accumulated a layer of goo that’s hiding the body you’re wanting to have?

Wow! That sounded very infomerical-like, didn’t it?

Okay, let’s back off the silly-voiced overly excited pitchman and get down to the nitty gritty.

Fall and winter oftentimes bring on a few extra pounds, but not to worry. Even though the weather is getting nicer and you’re getting more anxious about pool and yard-work season, doesn’t mean it’s too late to make progress.

It’s never too late!

Here are a few tips to get you started and rolling. Read More→

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