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1-minute fatloss tip for this week

Posted on 03 March 2010

[ Readers Please Note:The following post was created by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you and know that you will enjoy it as much as I did and will find that it will help you on your way towards a healthier body]

Got a minute?

That’s all I need to share my first of many video-based 1-minute fatloss tips.

Go here for the first of many….

click—–>  How To Eat Your Favorite Foods And Drop Bodyfat

My new design is something to see too.

I have my weekly live 1-minute video, tons of new features… even a “diet quiz” if you care to test your fatloss knowledge.

Plus my main presentation: “1 Tip To A Flat Belly!”

Just don’t laugh at my ballcap/unshaven look in the video… I wanted this to be super-casual, but I may have taken it a bit too far… ; )

Oh… speaking of a flat belly… I’d like to give you yet another reason to eat and workout the way I suggest in “Every Other Day Diet” and “7 Minute Body”…

I had to go to the hospital last week. No worries… I’m fine… just a bit of a scare. Definitely enough to wake you up from walking through life like it will never end! But fortunately for me, only a scare.

Anyway, the doctors in the hospital were amazed when they looked at my heart and lungs (they had to make sure I did not have any infection… and I didn’t.)

“Most 46-year-olds do not have these around their heart,” the doctor said as he showed me the pictures they took. You could see all these vessels around the heart and branching off the main arteries.

“Peripheral vessels… they were formed by your exercise program. Well-done! These help keep your heart strong and healthy.”

Every doc that listened to my heart said, “Wow… strong heart!”

Indeed… resistance training makes it so.

Before I left, after the scare went away, I asked the doctor his opinion on my dietary plan. “Well, obviously you are very lean and in fantastic shape for a man of any age.”

Thanks doc, but I wasn’t fishing for a compliment!  Since this was a heart doctor I was curious as to his thoughts.

“If you had heart disease, or if you want to prevent it, this is the exact dietary plan I would recommend.”

While I expected to hear this, it was still music to my ears.

So, my higher-than-normal dietary fat and protein, lower-carb, and relatively frequent “fun food” dietplan is “ideal” to combat heart disease according to the good doc. And according to my family doctor.

Nice to know.

Read more about my plan here…

click—–>  How To Eat Your Favorite Foods And Drop Bodyfat

Remember:  A good dietplan and exercise is not always sufficient to keep you disease-freee… but I love what the doctor told me.  “People who exercise and eat like you LIVE through it and recover much faster.”

Fortunately I didn’t have a nasty virus to recover from… but if I did, I know my condition would have helped me do just that.

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Men’s Fitness Isn’t Just About Bodybuilding

Posted on 26 February 2010

Men’s fitness isn’t just about body building because there are a number of fitness programs available for men who want to lose weight. Most men associate losing weight with body building and lift weights.

There are other options for men such as Pilates and yoga. As well as, men can use exercise equipment like an elliptical machine to lose weight. In short, losing weight requires setting a goal and making healthy choices.

Men are at risk for heart disease, prostate cancer and diabetes. Also, the risks will increase with age. In addition, a good exercise routine starts with eating breakfast every day.

Eating breakfast will help with increasing metabolism. The best way for a man to lose weight is through a healthy diet, cardio and strength training.  Most guys tend to spend more time lifting weights but more time should be spent on doing cardio. It is important to build an exercise routine. This will help to boost the metabolism and help the body become fit.

Men’s fitness isn’t just about bodybuilding and some of the exercising from body building can be used with regular exercising. In addition, it is important to use a variety of exercise when improving men’s fitness.

For example, you can workout with weights around two days a week and run on the treadmill for three days a week. Also, resting the muscles is important after doing any type of working out.

Most people who are into body building don’t really enjoy working out their legs with weight. An alternative is using the treadmill for exercising the legs.

Most men want to build muscle and can spend too much time on weight lifting for muscle building. It is important to include some type of cardio with lifting weights. Most people are able to burn 150 to 200 calories with cardio exercising.

The amount of calories burn will depend on the intensity of the exercise, a person’s weight and the amount of time spent doing the exercise. As well as, most people are able to do cardio workouts without worrying about straining the muscles or getting an injury.

It is important for men to find other ways to exercise besides body building. In addition, men have a number of exercise options such as playing sports, running and using an exercise machine.

Men’s fitness is important because of the need to lose weight and to prevent becoming sick from obesity. Furthermore, men’s fitness isn’t just about bodybuilding and involves making a healthy lifestyle change to become fit.

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3 Ways To Eat Fast Food And Drop Bodyfat!

Posted on 02 February 2010

[ Readers Please Note:The following post was created by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you and know that you will enjoy it as much as I did and will find that it will help you on your way towards a healthier body]

Believe it or not you can get lean by eating fast food.

I know, it sounds crazy… but in a few weeks I’m going to prove it to the world with the release of my newest mini e-book “Fast Food Fitness: How I Dropped 40lbs Eating Fast Food Every Day.”

Do you think I’m joking?  I’m not.

Of course there’s a WAY to eat fast food and drop the pounds. You can’t just eat like everyone else does. That’s common sense.

And believe me, there are more healthy ways to drop the pounds than eating fast food… for sure.

But the way I figure it: Would you rather be healthIER and lean or UNhealthy and overfat?

Silly question… so consider “Fast Food Fitness” a path to the lesser of two evils… and one that actually got me to 10% bodyfat (that’s pretty lean!) a few years ago.

Here’s how it started:

I simply hate to cook!  I have since solved that problem… I hired a part-time chef (it’s cheaper than it sounds)… but until two years ago I was eating out every single meal… I mean EVERY MEAL.

Most of the time… not all of the time, but most of the time… these meals were fast food joints like burger joints and even fried chicken places.

But I had to keep my physique, so … what to do?

Well… you’ll have to wait. At least a few weeks.

If you want the book for half-price, you have to own a copy of “Every Other Day Dietplan”… everyone who owns a copy before “Fast Food Fitness” hits the Internet will get half-off.

So go here if you don’t have EODD yet …

click—–>  My Favorite Foods Fatloss-Plan

Here’s 3 of my top 25 fast-food diet-tips… just these 3 will take you 1/3 of the way there…

First, use my Half-n-Half Principle. Order whatever you are going to order and then have the person behind the counter cut the order exactly in HALF.

Half to go… half to eat there.

Eat half now…. then the other half 3-4 hours later. Believe it or not you will store less bodyfat and even increase your metabolism eating like this.

Simple trick… give it a shot.

Second, ditch all the starch. That means buns, bread and anything made of flour. BUT here’s the “still tastes good” trick I use. I keep ONE of the pieces of bread from, say, my hamburger. Then I “pick” at it while I enjoy the meat and either a small diet soda or tea. Eat no more than 5 “picks” at the bread… about half a slice. You still get the exact taste of a burger with none of the stuff that makes most people over-fat.

Third, for you chicken lovers, split your order between fried and baked chicken. KFC has excellent baked chicken… try it. Then strip most of the skin off the fried chicken. Not all… most.

You still get the taste, but with far fewer bad food-stuffs and calories…. make sense?

Enjoy the tips… but remember, the healthiest (and tastiest) way to eat is still my Every Other Day Dietplan, which works in your favorite foods each week….

click—–>  My Favorite Foods Fatloss-Plan

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