Category: Weight Loss



Fat Loss Best Exercise

Fat Loss Best Exercise

Suppose you are an overweight individual who has just fronted up to your local gym or has just enlisted the services of a personal trainer. Naturally, your main objective is to lose body fat and reduce your overall weight. What exercise protocols do you suppose you are most likely to be given? The average person [...]


Your Weight Loss Resolution Achieving

Your Weight Loss Resolution Achieving

Without doubt, the number one New Year’s Resolution is to lose weight. Whether you are looking to lose fat, or get a little leaner, you probably want to show more of the muscle you’ve worked so hard to build after they’ve become hidden by the holiday overindulgence. For many the problem is not a small [...]


Myths & Fallacies 5 Training

Myths & Fallacies 5 Training

Weight Training Makes Women Big & BulkyBy far as a personal trainer, the most common thing I would hear from female clients is “I just want to tone. I don’t want to get big or put on a lot of muscle like those bodybuilder guys”. After having a quiet chuckle to myself I would reassure [...]


Progression Of Weight

Progression Of Weight

Progression is the key to muscle and strength building. I often tell lifters to use the following approach during each workout: Push yourself on every set. Try to perform as many reps as possible without training to failure. When you can perform the recommended maximum number of reps for a set, add weight the next [...]


During Fat Loss Maintaining Muscle:Density Giant Set Training

During Fat Loss Maintaining Muscle:Density Giant Set Training

Workout DescriptionDensity trainingMax Out and Cut Fat I hear it every time I ask someone their opinion on fat loss.  I see it every time I go online.  Looking to lose fat? Cardio, cardio and more cardio!  Well I have a problem with that, and I think every other muscle-bound guy out there does as [...]


Workout 40 Minute Blast For Abs,Cardio & Resistance

Workout 40 Minute Blast For Abs,Cardio & Resistance

Workout Description Strap on your game face, stretch, get warmed up and let’s roll! This is cardio and abs workout that you can use to break the gym boredom. It also involves resistance training. If you are feeling like you need a break from the same old dull workout routine, but don’t want to train [...]


Best Cardio For Fat Loss

Best Cardio For Fat Loss

 Getting Started When transitioning from offseason to contest prep the first thing that must be established is how many days per week cardio sessions should be performed. This is often where people’s love or hatred for cardio comes into play. Those that love cardio will tend to start with too many sessions per week. This [...]


Without Losing Muscle:Losing Fat & Cutting

Without Losing Muscle:Losing Fat & Cutting

Planning In order to lose body fat we have to have a reason as to why we want to achieve this goal, is it (a) Make you look good (b) Health benefits (reduce heart disease, lower cholesterol etc) (c) Holiday/Vacation (c) Competition (d) or just to see if you can. There are many reasons why [...]


Cortisol:Losing Muscle Due to It

Cortisol:Losing Muscle Due to It

 What is Cortisol? Cortisol if often referred to as the ‘Stress Hormone’ as although it is produced naturally throughout the day it is released in greater amounts as a response to stress. The adrenal gland is where Cortisol is produced and released by the body in varied levels throughout the day. Cortisol levels are generally [...]


Burn Fat With Top 10 Foods

Burn Fat With Top 10 Foods

My 10 top natural starchy carb and whole grains:     Oatmeal (old fashioned)    Yams    Brown rice (a favorite is basmati, a long grain aromatic rice)    Sweet potatoes (almost same as yams)    Multi grain hot cereal (mix or barley, oats, rye. titricale and a few others)    White potatoes    100% whole wheat bread    100% whole wheat pasta    [...]