Weight Loss: The Exercise Trap

Read anything about weight loss and you will see something about exercise. It might be referred to as “physical activity”, but that’s just a codeword. They mean exercise.


Actually, many people have tried exercise and given up on it because it just didn’t seem to work for one reason or another. Here are some explanations of why someone might think that exercise ISN’T working, when it IS!


THE BEGINNING OF THE EXERCISE PROGRAM FOR WEIGHT MANAGEMENT


Exercise is activity, movement you might say. People have been moving all their lives, so they know how to do it, right? Well, if you are just talking about “getting some exercise”, you might be right. However,

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if you are talking about exercise for the purpose of losing weight, things change a little.


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Elite Personal Trainer Shares 5 Tools to Melt the Fat This Winter

Don t be held hostage to the obligatory holiday weight gain. Instead, melt the fat by sculpting your own fitness and nutrition program. If you feel that you need earmuffs and blinders to withstand the blizzard of health and fitness information, use these 5 simple tools from personal trainer and sports nutritionist Lynn VanDyke to chisel your perfect body.


Tool 1- Strength Training: Every pound of muscle burns 35-50 calories per day. Adding lean muscle mass is the best way to kick-start your metabolism, fight osteoporosis and melt the fat. Try doing 3 sets of 12 repetitions for each major muscle group. Sprinkle in different exercises such as bicep curls, lunges or tricep kickbacks. Work

Weight Loss: The Exercise Trap
...much exercise, your body and your brain will be screaming at you to "knock it off!" To be effective for weight loss, exercise should become a regular activity and if you are dreading the next workout, you will eventually find ...
each muscle 1-3 times per week and always use perfect form.


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R.I.P.P.E.D. Weight Training Weight Lifting Book, The Elite Weight Lifting Book

In this article we will go over some concepts that are contained in the R.I.P.P.E.D. Weight Training weight lifting book, but nowhere near the power of the information contained in the book itself. Weight lifting can protect you from devastating fractures in several ways. Weight lifting, when done properly will increase your lean muscle.


Lifting


Lifting weights is probably the best medicine to enhance you’re health. Lifting weights is an effective way to burn calories because increasing muscle mass may help to increase your metabolic rate. Lifting weights doesn’t burn many calories, but it does rev up your metabolism. These principles must be organized in a weight lifting program that allows you to grow consistently

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and build muscle. Smart weight lifting, intelligent nutrition and quality rest are the real keys to optimal weight lifting and building muscle.


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Your Goal Setting is Stopping You From Being In Shape

The most prevalent cause of fitness failure may not be what you think it is. It has nothing to do with heredity, gender, attitude, laziness, motivation or the always-prevalent gimmick, quick-fix diet market. Many strong-willed and positive thinking individuals have let their workout programs and health falter for long periods of time gaining extra pounds, loosing muscle strength and sending their systems way out of balance.


Take a deep breath… this does not mean you are a failure! It only means you haven’t used a system of goal setting that guarantees results every time you do it.


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How Alcohol Makes You Fat

If you glanced at the title of this article, you might have cringed. When it comes to
fitness, nutrition, weight loss, and overall health, many of us have trouble areas.
There are some individuals who have a glass of red wine with dinner every night.
Others skip the drinking completely on the weekdays, then start throwing a few
back on Thursday or Friday night, and keep it up until Sunday. Still others won’t
drink for two to three weeks, then have a weekend binge of a few dozen drinks or
so (you know who you are!). Finally, while there are scores of individuals out there
who don’t drink any alcohol at all and really won’t find this article personally

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...sending their systems way out of balance. Take a deep breath... this does not mean you are a failure! It only means you haven't used a system of goal setting that guarantees results every time you do it. It doesn ...
useful,
I encourage you (if you are one of those people) to read it anyways, and share the
information with someone you think it might help.


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