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Do I Have Any Weight Loss Secrets?

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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Hey! What’s happenin?

There have been a lot of things going on in my world, including a very exciting event coming up in the next couple of days – my 10-year wedding anniversary to my gorgeous and sexy wife.

We started dating way back in high school and have been inseparable ever since. It’s pretty cool being married to your best friend and I love her more every day. We just finished up celebrating with a mini-vacation and left Maren at home. We miss her every time we leave her, but it’s always kinda nice to get away and leave the munchkin at home!

Okay, enough of the mushiness and on to the fitness and diet stuff!

I’ve been receiving more and more questions via email lately (which is awesome) and a common theme seems to come up over and over. People want to know if I have any secrets. They may not come right out and ask “Do you have any weight loss secrets?” but it’s usually pretty easy to read between the lines and figure out what they really want.

I can understand the desire to seek out secrets, but to be totally honest I don’t have any secrets – and there really aren’t any secrets to be found…anywhere.

Okay, that’s not totally true.

I do have a couple of secrets that I use on a regular basis to help me lose weight (when I need to) and to keep my fit, strong and trim physique.

But my “secrets” have more to do with “rules” that I hold myself to more than a secret workout technique, secret supplement, or whatever secret weight loss technique you may have hoped I would share.

What do I mean?

I’ll give you a few examples of some of my “rules” (or if you prefer to refer to them as secrets…be my guest)… Read More→

Categories : Fat Loss for Men, Motivation, fat loss for women, fat loss nutrition, fat loss workouts, goal setting, social support

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The Times They Are A Changin’…

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Monday, August 31st, 2009

It’s hard to believe, but 2009 is slowly coming to an end.

The weather is changing.

Kids are back in school.

The bad news is that many people have long since forgotten the goals they set for themselves way back on January 1…you know “I’ll lose weight this year.” “This year will be different – I’ll finally get rid of this stomach fat.”, etc., etc.

The good news is there are still 4 months left to achieve your weight loss and fitness goals.

So let me ask you… Read More→

Categories : Fat Loss for Men, fat loss for women, goal setting

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Physics and Fat Loss Are Related How?

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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Do you like Physics?

I used to hate it. I had to take it in high school and in college because of my original major – a major that didn’t last very long, largely because of all the Physics courses.

I didn’t get it. It was supposed to be ‘simple’…the stuff that makes the universe work and all that, but something about it didn’t click.

I like to blame it on my teachers, as all students do. One we used to call “The Silver Fox” and the other liked to talk about space – as in outer space. Why would I care about outer space when I need to learn about computers?

Now I kind of enjoy it. I don’t know why, but as the years have passed I kinda dig it.

One law of physics in particular has been bothering me lately. Not me personally, but its effect on clients, both offline and online.

That law of physics is inertia.

I’ll spare you the real definition and give you the fitness version. Read More→

Categories : Fat Loss for Men, fat loss for women, goal setting

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Lose Weight For 2009 Starting In 2008

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Monday, November 10th, 2008

Do you know what important date is coming up?

Is it my birthday?

Yes, but that’s not what I’m talking about…although if you’d like to get me a gift please feel free.

Actually my birthday, my wife’s birthday, and my daughter’s birthday are all within a week of each other. I’m turning 30, my daughter’s turning 2 and if I told you my wife’s age she just might kill me…isn’t that how you ladies react to people talking about age or am I just being a sexist man?

Before I get off on a tangent and make every single woman reading this want to reach through the computer and strangle me maybe I should get to the point.

There is a very important date for all you folks looking to lose weight coming up pretty soon.

Actually it’s only around 8 weeks away.

What is that magical date? Read More→

Categories : Fat Loss for Men, fat loss for women, goal setting

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Fast Workouts To Help You Lose Fat Right Now!

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

I’ve got a newfound love for fast workouts.

Why?

Well besides the fact that you can get A LOT done in a short period of time, which is paramount for a busy dad, busy business owner…and a guy who just doesn’t want to spend every waking moment doing fat loss workouts.

Who’d a thought? A personal trainer who doesn’t want to spend all his time doing workouts!

But it’s true. I’ve got better things to do than spend hours doing fat loss workouts and I’m willing to bet you do too.

You’ve got work requirements. You’ve got kids that need to get ready for school, lunches packed, homework that needs to be done, after school sports and activities like band or dance…man kids take up a lot of free time!

But on top of that you probably just don’t like to spend a lot of time working out. The people who enjoy doing long fat loss workouts are few and far between, so it’s probably music to your ears when I tell you that you can get fast workouts in that are just as, if not more, effective than longer workouts.

It’s just a matter of cutting out all the “isolation” movements like triceps kickbacks, crunches, torso twists, etc. and stick to movements that move a lot of muscle which means they burn a lot of fat.

That is the true key to fast workouts. Sticking with big movements and combination exercises, and cutting out the frivolous movements that do little to nothing in terms of fat loss.

But what do fast workouts look like? Do fast workouts have to look like some sort of new-age aerobics class? Read More→