Archive for September, 2009

Boosting Your Body’s Engine For Fat Loss

September 29th, 2009 -- Posted in Uncategorized | 0

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Everyone wants to know about how to boost their metabolism so they can enjoy the benefits of this magic bullet for body fat loss. But just what is this mysterious thing called ‘metabolism’? And how can we control it and manipulate it to help us burn more body fat? Well, the word metabolism refers to how much fuel (calories) you burn each day. You could think of it as your fat burning machinery or your metabolic motor.

It is controlled by many factors, including your age, your hormone levels, your muscle/fat ratio, your activity levels, the food you eat, your stress levels, and your genetics. You can temporarily increase your metabolism with the right type of exercise and you can increase your metabolism long-tem by adding muscle tissue, losing body fat, and eating whole, natural foods.

But if a large number of the metabolic control factors are not right, then your metabolism can slow down. This is what leads to weight gain and this is reflected by the fact that overweight and obesity is at epidemic proportions around the world. Living a Westernized lifestyle is a recipe for a slow metabolism as it includes many poor lifestyle choices such as:

Eating too many highly processed and refined foods

Not eating enough protein, eating too many carbohydrates and too much fat

Eating only 1-2 large meals per day

Not including strength training exercise to build and maintain muscle tissue

Choosing to perform only long duration, steady-state exercise (like walking, cycling etc)

Not getting enough quality sleep

No coping strategies to deal with high levels of stress and busyness

Skipping meals thinking that will help with weight loss

Consuming too much alcohol

Being overweight on its own does not necessarily mean that you had a slow metabolism. But if you become overweight this can lead to an even slower metabolic rate. And that can create an ongoing cycle of more weight gain leading to an even slower metabolism.

Then what generally happens when people start to think they may have a slowing metabolism is they start to miss meals and start to eat less. And the cycle continues that can lead to much frustration along with an increasing waistline.

To turn this around you need to do two main things. Start an immediate strength training program to rebuild lost muscle tissue and get your motor running hot again. Add a couple of interval training sessions each week to further boost your engine.

Start eating 5-7 small meals that each contains at least 20 grams of protein with lots of raw and cooked vegetables. Start eating within an hour of waking then every 2-3 hours throughout the day. Prepare your meals the night before and take them with you wherever you go so you cannot eat the wrong things.

This simple concept of your strength training program combined with interval training, small meals and eating breakfast will give you the very best weight loss plan on the planet. You will burn up body fat in the faster manner thanks to your increased metabolism.


Do you want to discover the secret to rejuvenating your body and improving the quality of your life? Download my free ebook “Ive Found the Fountain of Youth- Let Me Show You Too!” here: Fountain of Youth For Free Fitness Report here Fitness Weight Loss Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger.

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Here Is Something Better Than Cosmetic Procedures To Keep You Youthful

September 29th, 2009 -- Posted in Uncategorized | 0

Our modern society is obsessed with youthfulness and huge amounts of money are spent each year as people try and have the signs of Father Time removed from their bodies. Pills, creams, treatments, nips, tucks and procedures of all sorts to fix something, lift or change something are commonplace. But in reality no amount of these largely external procedures can ever really have any real effect on the aging process

Yet something that will have real impact on the aging process is right under our noses. It is a shame that many people can’t be bothered and would rather spend money on things that can never even come close to the results of a proper exercise program made up mostly of strength training exercise.

One of the most anti aging benefits of this type of exercise is the effect it has on the engine of the body - our metabolism. This is the one thing that if allowed to slow down will drag down your health along with accelerating the aging process. If allowed to dwindle like an aging old engine your body composition (muscle/fat ratio) will change negatively.

You can never have a youthful looking and functioning body without toned muscles. It is simply not possible. After the mid 20’s if you do not do enough muscle building and maintaining exercise you will lose muscle tissue at the rate of one half pound per year reducing the capacity of your calorie burning mechanism. This allows excess body fat to accumulate both on the inside and the outside of your body.

There is nothing more aging that excess body fat. It will totally take away your youthful looking body and add years (if not decades) to the way you look. That extra body fat not only makes you look older it will increase your risk of chronic ‘lifestyle diseases’ such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes along with at least 50 others. This is not a recipe for living a long healthy life.

But you can control your weight and preserve a youthful body shape with a strength training program, and, over time, bring your body fat percentage back into a healthy range. But only strength training will do this, do not expect these benefits from any ‘cardio’ type activity such as walking jogging or cycling.

These recreational activities are great as part of an active lifestyle but are too low an intensity to be able to stimulate muscle tissue for a metabolic increase. They have the ability to burn some calories but only while you are performing them. As soon as you stop so does the fat burning. Whereas with strength training increased calorie burning continues for hours or sometimes days depending on how much effort you put into it.

So instead of looking to cosmetic fluff that can only have short term benefits on the rate and way that you are aging, look to the magic of strength training and get right to the source and the very heart of the matter - your metabolic motor.

Add in some interval training - 8-12 short bursts of intense activity 10-15 seconds long followed by slower periods of recovery to really top off your exercise program for a great anti aging energizing total body boost.

This is a much more effective solution to slow the aging process and a far less costly one to boot. You will also receive the bonuses of keeping your muscles and bones strong, your energy levels high, your metabolism cranking as well as greater disease protection. These are things no expensive cosmetic surgery or other procedures will ever give you so get started and watch your youthfulness return.


Do you want to discover the secret to rejuvenating your body and improving the quality of your life? Download my free ebook “Ive Found the Fountain of Youth- Let Me Show You Too!” here: Health Related Fitness For Free Fitness Report here Fitness Weight Loss Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger.

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What You Are Missing Out On If You Don’t Exercise

September 29th, 2009 -- Posted in Uncategorized | 0

If you want to lose excess body fat, improve your health or change your body shape the most important thing you can do is to have a strength training program in place. If you have hesitated starting this type of exercise program in the past it may help to motivate you to know that this is what you can expect that such a program will:

* Help raise your metabolism (your body’s engine). Toned muscle tissue

will increase the amount of calories you burn all day and night..

* Strengthen your bones, especially important for women.

* Make you stronger so everyday tasks and activities are easier.

* Increase your energy and ‘get up and go’.

* Increase your confidence and self-esteem

* Help you destress from the worlds busyness

Strength training is ideal for weight loss - For decades we have been told to go on restrictive food diet to get rid of the excess fat from our bodies and to throw in some fast walking to hasten the process. The trouble with this is that the low calorie restricted diet usually backfired and would send the body into ’starvation mode’. This is an ancient survival mode to protect the body from starvation and in this situation the body holds on to its body fat stores and even uses its precious muscle tissue for energy.

Strength training exercise comes to the rescue to tone up the muscle tissue that drives the metabolism. This keeps the body’s fat burning machinery running properly and helps keep muscle tissue from being burnt for energy which can lower the metabolic rate making fat loss almost impossible.

Your friends enjoy using the weight machines and free weights at the local fitness center. And you see the results of their hard work - firm, toned muscles and an overall improved more youthful looking body. You would like to start a strength training program, but you are not sure you have the time. Well, think again. Strength training is not as time-consuming as you think.

Just 2-3 sessions each week is all that is needed to get you and keep you in top shape. These sessions may only be 30-40 minutes long but, if you work at the correct level of intensity (degree of effort required) you will get results in the fastest possible time. Make sure you get proper help in setting up your program by a fitness professional who can teach you correct exercise technique and monitor your progress along the way.

Reap the rewards - Your muscle tissue decreases as you get older if you do not do enough muscle building and maintaining activity. If you don’t do anything to replace the muscle loss, it will lead to weakness, frailty and loss of physical function which could land you in a nursing home down the track.

But strength training exercise can help you reverse the trend - at any age. Studies show that a proper program will increase the quality of your life and you will be more productive. As your muscle strength increases, you will be able to work harder and longer before you get tired. This means you will have time and energy left over after your work tasks to enjoy active leisure activities which can add some ‘fun’ into your life.

You will maintain joint flexibility, increased bone density and better manage your weight better and easier. You can even improve your mental health and reduce the risk of depression - all excellent reasons to include strength training in your fitness program.


Do you want to discover the secret to rejuvenating your body and improving the quality of your life? Download my free ebook “Ive Found the Fountain of Youth- Let Me Show You Too!” here: Physical Wellness For Free Fitness Report here Fitness Weight Loss Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger.

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