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If you want to lose stubborn abdominal fat faster, don't make these 3 common fat loss mistakes below… 1. Relying on Abs-Specific Training: For some reason, the misconception of spot reduction continues.  No argument has ever convinced me that you can lose fat in a specific area by contracting the muscle in that specific area.  Fat loss just does not work this way.  Yet for some reason, we see hundreds of people every day at the gym doing hundreds of crunches and situps and thinking that they are somehow burning fat from their abdomen, when in reality, they're just wasting time! Fat loss is a systemic effect that takes place as your body morphs into a healthier you.  Fat storage patterns vary person to person according to hormonal levels, genetic fat storage patterns, myofascial restrictions, and inflammation.  Reducing body fat in those areas through exercise is only done if you are working to modify hormonal levels that have related fat storage...

QUESTION: Tom, Is it possible to not lose body fat because you're eating too little? -Linda ANSWER: Yes and no. This gets a little complicated so let me explain both sides. Part one of my answer: I say NO, because if you are in a calorie deficit you WILL lose weight. Most people have heard anecdotes of the dieter who claims to be eating 800 calories a day or some starvation diet level of intake that is clearly in a deficit and yet is not losing fat. Like the mythical unicorn, such an animal does not exist. Every time you take a person like that and put them in a hospital research center or metabolic ward where their food can be counted, weighed, measured and almost literally "spoon fed" to them, a calorie deficit always produces weight loss. There are no exceptions, except possibly in rare diseases or mutations. Even then metabolic or hormonal defects or diseases merely lead to energy imbalance via increases in appetite, decreases in energy expenditure or cha...

I was at the grocery store yesterday and had to shake my head at all of the deceptive labels with everything claiming all sorts of things that are supposedly "healthy", but aren't really.  One of the things that really disturbed me was that I saw several examples of healthy foods in their natural state, but I saw counterfeit versions of these foods claiming that they were healthier than the original… Yet in reality, all of these "counterfeit" versions were actually MUCH worse for you than the original, and more highly processed… and they still have the balls to claim that their overly processed "junkified" versions are better. This is food marketing deception at it's worst! Example #1:  Product claiming "Better than peanut butter" by being a low-fat peanut butter This product is ridiculous!  I can't believe anyone would ever believe that this junk is better for them than natural peanut butter. What I'm talking about...

Of course, you've probably heard a million times now how bad trans fats and high fructose corn syrup are for your health… so I'm not going to give you that same old story. Instead, we need to look at a couple common foods that are probably in your diet in large quantities and may be causing major problems such as weight gain, headaches, sicknesses, indigestion, etc, etc… and those possible culprits are:  Wheat and Dairy Don't worry, I'm not going to tell you that both of these staples need to be eliminated permanently from your diet… but read on to see an interesting test that may help you a great deal… In all of my years of personal training and nutrition counseling, if I had to choose a couple VERY simple dietary changes that have made the biggest difference for my clients in allowing them to FINALLY see fat loss results (and other health problems solved), it would be this following test: 1. Test removing all wheat products from your diet for 2 entire weeks...

It seems like most fat loss programs focus on one main thing: to burn fat, you have to expend more energy than you take in.Such a focus makes sense of course, because if there is a universal truth to fat loss, that's it. This is what we call "energy balance." In order to lose fat, you have to create what we call "energy debt" or "energy deficit" – that is, eliminate the balance and instead be on the negative side of the balance scales. Of course, that works very well for "beginning" fat. However, success doesn't last forever. As anyone who's ever been on a diet and exercise program of any kind can tell you, at first it's pretty smooth sailing. Eat less, do more, lose fat. And then it stops! And as those same people can also tell you, it usually stops suddenly. Of course, the first instinct people have is a very natural one…to simply do more of what was bringing them success in the first place. So they eat even less and ...

If you've been looking for a different training technique to break out of a rut, eliminate the boredom, and bring on new results, workout "complexes" may be just what you've been looking for. What are workout "complexes"? If you've never heard of "complexes" before, the basic concept is that instead of repeating the same exercise for multiple reps to complete a "set", you sequence one rep of several different exercises right after one another and repeat the sequence several times to complete a "set". It's basically like performing a routine, instead of just mindlessly performing a typical "set". This type of training is excellent to work a huge amount of your body's musculature in a short amount of time, and definitely takes your workouts to a whole new level of intensity. The conditioning aspect of this type of training is amazing, as you'll find yourself huffing and puffing after repeating a se...

This article will give you at least 41 tips and ideas for gaining more muscle and getting more ripped than you can imagine. Muscle building expert Vince DelMonte has helped over 50,000 skinny guys and consults with fitness experts all around the world on the most critical and supporting elements to build muscle mass and to experience consistent muscle growth. In this article, Vince unmasks his own secrets that he used for building 41 pounds of solid muscle in only 6 months – without any drugs or steroids, without bogus supplements, and while training less total hours than before. Find out his advanced muscle building strategies on how to build muscle, fast! Whether you approach your physique as a hobby or a job, you should not leave any element to chance and hope it works.  In order to defeat plateaus and forge a ripped and muscular body you need all the tips and tricks you can get.  None of these techniques will work alone but by combining as many together...