Lean Body Training Live on YouTube

Okay, it's not really LIVE but, I've started making videos and putting them on YouTube. This is my first one, basically and introduction of me as well as and introduction to the girl in my life....Scarlett the Doberman. Take a look:



Get ready for more of these as time goes on. Have a good weekend.

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More Complex a Diet is = to Bad

Was reading an interesting study here that talks about how the more complex a diet is, the more likely it is that a person won't stick to it.

Part of the issue is that I think we think that when we are putting quite a bit of effort into following something, that the returns should be above the average than if you didn't put as much effort into it. So if you put a lot of effort into following a diet that has you measuring out everything, eat this and eating that and eating at this time and not this time, you're going to expect to lose weight quicker than a person who is following an eating plan that is more simple.

But then you find out that your results just aren't that much better with all that extra effort.

I think it's human nature: We want the best results we can get by using the least amount of energy.

When you buy one of my Lean Body Training Home Bodyweight Fat Loss Workouts, you also get a copy of the Lean Body Training Fat Loss Nutritional Guide. I'll tell you what, the Nutritional Guide is about as simple as a plan as you can get.

There's no counting calories, no measuring out portions, no timing your meals to the atomic clock, just a few simple rules on what you can eat and not eat. It makes it simple whether you're cooking a meal at home, or going out to eat at a restaurant.

Read what one person thought of the Lean Body Training Nutritional Plan:

"I was a carboholic before I started the nutritional plan and was worried that I wouldn't be able to stick with it. After approximately a week and a half the carb cravings were gone and I actually started looking forward to the meals. There are such a wide variety of food choices that even a picky eater like myself had no trouble finding foods I love to eat. Once I made up my mind to follow the eating plan I didn't find it to be very difficult to stick to it, even with a busy lifestyle." - Cheri Holland, Plymouth Michigan

So if you want a copy of the Lean Body Training Nutritional Plan, go take a read about the Lean Body Training Home Bodyweight Fat Loss Workouts and order one today to get a plan for yourself that not only simplifies your exercise routine, but also your daily healthy eating habits.

http://www.lbworkouts.com/homebwwov1.html

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Back to Fasting

I was bored this week so I decided to do another fast yesterday.

I wrote a review on a fast I did for a couple of months here following the guidelines of the book Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.

I did it a little different this time. Last time, I would have a meal before I went to bed and then wouldn't eat until the following night, 24 hours later. This time I finished up dinner around 5:30 pm on Wednesday and then didn't eat again until around 5:30 pm on Thursday. It was pretty much a breeze. Didn't even phase me all day that I hadn't eaten.

Drank about 4 or 5 cups of green tea, about 3 liters of water, and I got a Diet Coke in there too.

I can't recommend this type of guideline enough and if you follow it with a Paleo Diet on the days that you are eating, I think you're results will be outstanding.

Both the fasting guidelines and the Paleo Diet guidelines are included in the Lean Body Fat Loss Nutritional Guide that you get whenever you order one of the workouts from Lean Body Workouts. Go and check it out and when you get started on one of the 4-week workouts, don't hesitate to e-mail me at mike@leanbodytraining.com to let me know how it's going.

Have a good weekend.

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More Bad Information

I'm really sick of reading mainstream media health and fitness articles where their "advice" is just horrendous.

This article talks about how to burn 9 times more fat (more than what, it's not very clear).

Fine, it talks about intervals. sort of.

Exercisers who alternated moderate- and high-intensity cardio intervals burned nine times more fat than the moderate-only group in a study at Laval University in Quebec.

But then I get annoyed.

When you're toning, change the number of reps and the amount of weight you use between strength sessions. Doing bicep curls? Try this: One day you do 10 reps with 10-pound weights, and then the next 20 reps with 5-pound weights or whatever weight feels right to you.

I thought the article was about BURNING FAT not "toning"?? I don't care if you're "toning" (I hate that word) or trying to burn fat, stop making bicep curls a central part of your routine. Do pushups and rows and chinups instead. You'll burn more calories with those exercises AND you'll get "toned."

This one takes the cake:

Going two days without working out is enough to cause the size of fat cells to increase by 25 percent, according to research at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Hmm. I never heard that before so I looked it up. What do ya know. The author fails to mention that this study that she cites was conducted ON FREAKIN' RATS.

If you want workouts that actually BURN calories without wasting time with bicep curls that aren't going to do anything, go to www.LBworkouts.com and find yourself a low cost 4 week workout that fits what you're looking for.

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Strange Poll Results on Weight

When you look at yourself in a mirror, or sit down to eat a meal, what is it that you really see? If you're active and eat well most of the time, why are you doing that? Is it because you want to lose weight and get in shape and look better, or is it because you want to lead a healthy lifestyle to ward off sickness and other ailments? Or is it a little bit of a combination of both?

I've been meaning to blog on this story for awhile but I had to read it a number of different times because I found it somewhat confusing.

It involves a poll conducted by AP and Ivillage and here are some of the findings:

Half don't like their weight, even 26 percent of those whose body mass index or BMI — a measure of weight for height — is in the normal range. But just a third don't like their physical condition, even though being overweight and sedentary are big risk factors for Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other ailments.

I've read that paragraph a half dozen times and it still doesn't make sense to me. Half don't like the weight that they are at and a third don't like their physical condition. I guess it depends on how you're defining "physical condition" because it seems to be that if half don't like their weight, that those same people don't like their physical condition.

More from the article:

"People can't see the damage that's being done inside their body," says Goldberg. "If you increase your fitness but don't lose as much weight, you still have a lower heart disease risk than someone who is obese and sedentary."

Okay fine, being overweight but continuing to exercise is going to reduce your risk of heart disease but, it would reduce it even more if the excess weight was taken off (yes, I know that might be easier said then done but, it's doable).

Now here's a quote that really bothered me:

"Someone who is fat or even overweight can be healthy if they have a balanced diet and are physically active," Kwan says. "Our culture really does put a lot of pressure on women to look a certain way," taking precedence over health measures.

Maybe I'm just not looking at this correctly but, if our culture puts a lot of pressure on women to look a certain way (skinny, model type), then why are two-thirds of women overweight or obese? I remember that was the common theory back 10-20 years ago (and earlier), but does it really hold today, in 2009? Beauty pageants that involved women that were so skinny if they turned sideways you probably wouldn't know they were even there, have lost a lot of popularity over the last decade to the point that they aren't even shown on the major networks anymore.

If anything, I think what people have started to realize (and the article states as much) is that getting to a point where you look like this:



Not only looks better (and even men will tell you as such), but is more healthier than looking like this:



But again, I just don't see how there's that much pressure out there anymore to even look like either of those two pictures due to the fact that two-thirds of us are not even close to being able to see our abs.

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