Adding More Muscle Isn’t The Ideal Way To Lose Unwanted Fat

Adding More Muscle Isn’t the Quickest Way to Your Fat Loss Goals!

I am sick and tired of hearing trainers tell their clients that they need to gain muscle to lose fat quickly. If this was the case, wouldn’t all of the big guys be much leaner? In most instances it is the guys with a regular amount of muscle that are the leanest guys in the gym.

Gaining Muscle is a Slow and Ineffective Way to Burn Body Fat

The math simply doesn’t work out…you burn an extra 12 calories per day for each pound of lean muscle that you gain. Let’s say you gained 10 pounds of pure muscle (which would mean that you probably had to gain 10 pounds of weight). You would burn an extra 120 calories each day from that 10 pound muscle gain.

Want to Lose Fat MUCH Faster? Then Diet and Cardio is the Way to Go

A tough cardio workout can easily burn 600 calories. If you reduced you daily intake of calories by 600, then the total calorie deficit would be 1,200 calories…this is 10 times the calorie burning effect that a 10 pound muscle gain had.

Too Much Muscle Can Ruin the Look of Your Physique

When women or polled they always say that too much muscle is not attractive. They are attracted to guys with regular physiques, but with exceptional muscle tone. Women with too much muscle look manly…and that is not a look to shoot for. The ideal look for a woman would be similar to a model in Shape Magazine. Guys are better off with physiques similar to Hollywood sex symbols, not Bodybuilders.

If you want to gain muscle, then work on gaining muscle. If you want to burn body fat, then diet and cardio is the way to go!

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Coffee Mixed With Exercise Will Reduce Chances Of Getting Cancer!

A recent study at Rutgers University found that caffeine and exercise may help prevent skin cancer. The tumor suppressing protein, phospho-p53, is boosted by 18% with exercise and is boosted 27% by drinking two cups of coffee. When exercise and caffeine are combined the effects are much more dramatic…the levels of this protein are doubled!

Increasing the level of this tumor bocking protein may prevent cancer in cells damaged by the sun. This can be accomplished by drinking coffee and exercising together. You gotta like that!

The study’s senior researcher, Allan Conney, believes that further research needs to be done with this combination of caffeine and exercise…”We think this points out a need for more studies to see if the combination will protect people against sunlight-induced skin cancer”.

This study was a result of an interesting finding during a green tea study. It was found that decaffeinated green tea had no effect on repairing damaged skin cells, but the caffeinated green tea did.

Here is a Great Way to Combine Caffeine and Exercise for Maximum Benefits

1) Don’t eat anything 4 hours before working out

2) Drink 3-4 cups of green tea or two cups of coffee, 30 minutes before your scheduled workout

3)Hit cardio hard for at least 30 minutes, since the caffeine will have an increased fat burning effect on an empty stomach

It looks like mother nature wants us to drink coffee! So Starbucks is a health food store…I knew it! Don’t go crazy here…coffee and green tea is great as long as you don’t load it down with sugar and cream. Stick with black coffee. My drink of choice is a “Double Tall Iced Americano”. This is basically a fancy way of making iced coffee with espresso shots, water and ice. You can make a similar drink with brewed coffee, but it isn’t quite the same.

I have always been a big believer of drinking a calorie-free caffeinated beverage on an empty stomach to have the best fat burning workout. Little did I know that caffeine was also reducing my chances of getting skin cancer. This is great news to all coffee drinkers out there!

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An Outline Of Jessica Biel’s Workout

Jessica Biel has become the new fitness role model for women. Seriously, is there any woman with a better body in Hollywood? Luckily for us her trainer, Jason Walsh, recently revealed her workout. Now we can see her approach to getting that rocking body!

If you saw the movie Blade 3 you would have noticed that Jessica has a toned, yet feminine look. It is very important for women to make sure that they don’t get too bulky or too ripped you still want to look like a woman! I want to highlight some of the great techniques that Jessica uses and why her workout is so effective.

So here is a summary of Jessica Biel’s Workout (along with my comments)

1) Cardio…for her cardio she likes to do Interval Training. Here is how she structures this. First of all, she jogs for a 1/2 mile to warm up. After her warm up, she gets ready to begin the intervals. Her intervals consist of 6 sprints with a short rest of 30-60 seconds in between. She sprints for two sets of 200 meter sprints, two sets of 150 meter sprints, and two sets of 100 meter sprints.

My Comments: This is exactly the type of cardio I recommend. High Intensity Interval Training has been shown to burn up to 6 times as much body fat as steady state cardio.

2) Plyometrics…”These hurt,” says Walsh of stair jumping. “Even athletes hate them. After Jessica did these the first time, she would’ve punched me if she had the energy.” How-to: Jump from the bottom step of a flight of at least 20 stairs to the third. Keep going, skipping a stair each jump.

My Comments: Her trainer, Jason Walsh, understands that plyometrics tone the body in ways that can’t be duplicated in the gym. It makes sense that he would recommend these, because Jessica will get better muscle tone as a result. This is one of the reasons why I believe that athletes have better looking bodies than people who only workout in the gym.

3) Weight Training”We tend to use lighter weights and do more reps,” he says. “We keep moving, so it becomes a cardio workout too.”

My Comments: This type of circuit training is outlined extremely well in the book by Craig Ballantyne, Turbulence Training. He isn’t a big believer in cardio and has a workout where people get ripped by resistance training alone. Jason Walsh, combines cardio along with this type of “Turbulence Training” workout.

4) For the Abs…”Hanging leg raises don’t build a six-pack, but they flatten,” says Walsh. “Jessica hates them, but she powers through!” They also do the Russian Twist. Sit down and lean back slightly. Hold a 5-lb. medicine ball and twist from side to side, 15 twists per side, three reps.

My Comments: I don’t recommend hanging leg raises, because I believe it shortens the hip flexors too much and pulls the pelvis out of alignment. I am a big believer in an exercise called planks. They will do wonders for the abs.

Summary…Jessica Biel’s Workout is very similar to a high level athlete. It makes sense that she would have a better looking body than most other actresses in Hollywood…she is training at a higher level. Her approach is intense interval workouts, which have proven time and time again to burn more body fat than “slow and steady” types of workouts. No wonder why she looks so good!

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