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Rom fast exercise…uh thing. Are you kidding me?
Posted by: | CommentsYou know every once in awhile you come along something revolutionary, something extraordinary and something that makes you question everything you know or thought you knew. This isn’t that something.
4 minute exerciser
Now maybe this thing provides a heck of a workout but I will probably never know. Curiosity will not over power my stinginess to subtract 15 grand (yeah you heard me) from my bank account in order to try it out. This thing promises to provide a world class workout in as little as 4 minutes including the muscles that push pull and squat. Perhaps it does but like I said at a hefty price tag of 15 thousand big ones, I’ll never know.
But I do have some questions.
What about “core stability”?
What if your sport requires you to go longer then 4 minutes?
Is this 1 size fits all? If yes that means that an NFL player should leave Defranco’s gym will be able to use it and a sedentary woman will be able to leave Curves for this?
No supervision required? Idiot proof?
And here is a simple observation. One of the selling points is that it only takes 4 minutes which makes it easy to fit into a busy schedule. Well judging by the size of that thing that means you aren’t going to be taking it anywhere so that means you would have to go back to wherever it is to use it. Doesn’t seem so easy to fit into a schedule for a lot of people.
And if 4 minutes is all you have to spare for exercise…how valuable is your time that would justify the purchase of this thing over something else that takes a little bit longer? Does that mean that a 20 minute workout using an $80 piece of equipment isn’t worth your time? Are you Donald Trump? (If you are what are you doing reading my blog if your time is worth that much money?) To conclude, are you kidding me?
What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Why?
The Fastest Fat Loss Diet Period
Posted by: | CommentsYou know it really is a small world.
I was at a wedding over the weekend (the bride looked beautiful btw and the look of her back is testament to the fact that women should be lifting heavy because her back looked fantastic) and the next morning I was at the hotel with another person from the wedding. This was a dude I had talked to previously and he knew that I was fairly knowledgeable on fat loss training and nutrition and was telling me his friend had gotten ripped abs really fast using “some diet with a 5 day cycle where he goes to McDonald’s and eats whatever he wants once a week.”
I said to him “Is it the Xtreme fat loss diet by Joel Marion?”
“Yeah.”
Awesome! You see I have a copy of Joel Marion’s Xtreme Fat Loss Diet and it promises some big time, almost near impossible results. His plan of attack did make sense to me though but I wanted to see if it was more then theoretical. The general basics of it are;
Gorge yourself to up your metabolism. (the spike)
Create an extreme caloric deficit taking in only branch chain amino acids to prevent muscle wasting. (the dip)
Work your way back up to normal eating over the next 2 days. (the climb back up)
Repeat. (of course their is more to it then that and I recommend you check it out before trying it on your own)
This “friend of a friend” basically proved this diet works in the trenches. Great news!
If you think about it, taking the slow methodical approach I had taken with nutrition like before though it did work and I got ripped still lost 17lbs over 84 days. This approach promises 25lbs in 25 days. That is extremely fast.
at the beginning
What if this happened 25 days later?
At the same time look at training, steady state cardio though it can work, is not nearly as fast as high intensity interval training. Previous nutrition experts recommended the slow steady approach to nutrition. Joel Marion is recommending a sort of interval training version of nutrition. Sounds like he is on to something big. What do you think?
The REAL Secret To Six Pack Abs
Posted by: | CommentsYou know as much info that is out there on how to attain six pack abs you could be learning it all but STILL not get what you are after. Believe me I have done my fair share of studying but I do have the secret.
Many will say that its crunches that you need. Its not.
A lot of people will say “Diet” Its not
You have probably heard me saying its a combo of full body movements that place tension on the core coupled with a proper nutrition program. Well that is certainly part of it but it isn’t the “secret”.
There isn’t even a word for the secret…but I’ll try to come up with one.
StickToItivity or StickToItness
See for the most part people know what to do for for fat loss…well kind of. There are still a lot of myths like crunches reduce belly flab and running is the best to lose weight and all sorts of things that piss me the F__k off. They know that diet and exercise will make you lose weight. They just might not be sure of the best things to do.
For the exercise portion of it full body movements and high intensity conditioning will boost your metabolism to soaring new heights. My kettlebell workouts fit the bill. Your exercise portion has been taken care of because I don’t need to tell you the whys of exercise…just the hows. Stick to the f’ing program.
The Diet portion of it though…lets rename it to nutrition because that’s what its really about…it gets a little bit trickier. You see what you might think is healthy is not always the case. You would not believe the amount of things the food companies can get away with when they label something as “good for you” Believe me I know a couple because I ran the fitness department in a major food companies headquarters.
Well hope isn’t lost. I took notice of this book by Mike Geary the Author of the Truth About Six Pack Abs when everybody in the fitness industry around me started talking about it. It caused quite a stir. The book the Fat Burning Kitchen brings to light a lot of insider tricks to what they do to keep you down and a lot of little tricks to keep your body burning fat faster. You want to be lean? Buy that book, follow my workouts and for f__k’s sake stick to the f__king program.
Eric Moss out
sigh when will they ever learn?
Posted by: | CommentsYou know people are STILL stuck in the isolationist mentality where they think they can target individual sections of the abs and there are multiple parties to blame. Take for example this video. This video was sent to me by one of my clients because he gets these in his email box every once in awhile
Now she didn’t actually come out with the word “isolation” but the premise is still the same. Newsflash other fitness pros. You can’t “isolate” or “target” individual regions of the abs. For the simple fact that the abs are a one muscle that is actually interwoven with other muscles. Even if it were comprised of different muscles the law of irradiation says bzzzzt! wrong!
Why?
Because a muscle under any kind of significant tension will call on its neighboring muscles for assistance.
And fitness pros everywhere are negligent of that fact. Now excuse me while I go do some “non isolation” snatches….and maintain having abs even though it really isn’t that important to me…but it is nice I have to admit.
Eric Moss out
training blog 9/25/08
Posted by: | CommentsAll exercises were done with a 53lb kettlebell
Snatches with rest periods of 50 seconds between sets
10 sets of 10 for each side (always starting on my left side since I am right side dominant)
thats 200 total snatches (thanks to Dave Whitley RKC for that program)
rest 1 minute
1 turkish getup on my left side (lunge style)
rest 1 minute
1 turkish getup on my right side (lunge style)
rest 2 minutes
40 swings
1 clean and press on each side
training notes = I was a bit tired today since I didn’t sleep well last night
