Exercise Won't Help You Burn Fat...Really?

Monday, August 17, 2009

If you haven't already, the recent Time Magazine cover story about the Myth of Exercise is a must read for you. According to Time, exercising is basically a waste of time if your goal is to lose weight. They cite various studies to back up their position, and what's truly ironic is that to a degree, they're right, but more so by accident than anything else.

Follow this link www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.html  to read the TIME article and then spend a few moments afterward  basking in the knowledge and warm afterglow  that you are officially better informed than Time magazine...HA!  Of course, this IS the same magazine that named Adolph Hitler "Man Of The Year" back in 1939, so I'm thinking their judgment should be questioned till the end of all time just for that alone ; )

Now...Allow me to give you the TRUTH, as I know it to be.

Your weight needs to be controlled at the point of entry...your pie hole (mouth), this is true. You can't out-exercise a bad diet, as it takes a loooong time to burn calories which can then be replaced in a heartbeat with the wrong food.

Traditional exercise; "SLD"...slow, long distance cardio (running, elliptical, aerobics, etc) is absolutely the worst way to try to lose weight. It beats up the body, eats your muscle tissue, is boring, causes stress injuries to the body and doesn't lend itself to allowing you to become truly strong and athletic.

This is where the article and the studies shot themselves in the foot, as they were using studies that were using inferior forms of exercise as their benchmark.

The proper way to train is in a short and intense manner which will elicit a response to the body called EPOC (standing for Excess Post Oxygen Consumption...which I wrote about in my last blog) which will cause your body to burn, calorie for calorie, NINE TIMES MORE FAT than traditional exercise.

Look gang, not to toot my own horn, but I've taken probably a million pounds total off of thousands of people over the last 32 years, and I unconditionally guarantee you that the right exercise program coupled with a tight nutritional program will strip off the fat FAST.

Stay the course and remember the famous words of Albert Einstein;

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"

Live With Passion AND get your butt over to my nutritional seminar this Saturday, August the 22nd, 10am to noon, right here at Body Construction, to get all the tools you need to get lean, hard and sexy!

Roy

                           20 Pounds Of Fat Lost in 5 Weeks With NO change In Diet 
                                           While Using High Intensity Program.

Workout Of The Day
"ANGIE"
Warmup:
50 Double Unders
25 Box Jumps
15 50lb Keg Swings
2 Bag Drags, 100 feet each time 125lbs-M / 65lbs -W
Then...
100 Pullups
100 Pushups
100 Situps
100 Squats

Paleo Recipe
Zucchini with Tomatoes, Apples & Onions
1 ½ pound small zucchini, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 apples, chopped
2 fresh tomatoes, peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley
Fresh ground black pepper to taste

Set a small pan of water to boil. Drop the zucchini slices into the boiling water for 30 seconds. Remove immediately and drain. Heat the oil in a fry pan and sauté the onion until it is transparent. Add the apples and stir well to coat. Add the tomatoes and the blanched zucchini. Stir well, and then add the parsley. Season this mixture, and leave it to cook, covered over a gentle heat for 5-10 minutes, until the zucchini is soft. Serve hot.

3900 Saturdays

Monday, December 07, 2009

Here's a great story that I just heard, definitely a great lesson in perspective....Enjoy!

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday morning. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it:

I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whomever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles." I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say.

"Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. It's too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital," he continued; "Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles."

"You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.

Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3,900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to the important part.

It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail," he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1,000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear.

Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.

There's nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.

Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time.

It was nice to meet you Tom. I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. This is a 75 year old man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!"

You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter.

Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast."

"What brought this on?" she asked with a smile.

"Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. And hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles."

Live With Passion,

Roy


                  We could train with normal equipment, but this is so much more FUN!!


WOD
"FRISBEE LIPS"
For Time:
100 Deadlifts M-185lbs / W-135lbs
While performing the deads, do 5 pullups at the top of each minute. Continue until you finish 100 deads.

PALEO RECIPE
Chez Lorraine's Baked Salmon
4 salmon steaks (about 1 ¾ pounds)
4 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon dill weed
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives
Lime wedges

Place individual salmon steaks on pieces of aluminum foil large enough to wrap each steak. Pour a tablespoon of lemon juice over each steak, sprinkle with dill and seal each steak in an aluminum pouch. Put the aluminum sealed steaks in a Pyrex dish and bake at 350 F for 30 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Serve salmon with sprinkled chives and lime wedges.

Quote Of The Day
“To live each day as though one’s last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character.” – Marcus Aurelius