05th June 2009
No Pain, No Gain. Is this aphorism just a fitness myth and downright bad advice? A lot of people seem to think so. As a bodybuilder with 25 years of training experience and more than two dozen trophies on my shelf, I have another perspective to offer you....
01st June 2009
The fitness industry is full of misconceptions and myths as well as blatant scams and lies. As Winston Churchill said, "A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." If Churchill could only see the Internet today...
18th May 2009
Most people are literally eating poison every day without giving it a second thought. Eating this substance can make you fat and even small amounts (2% of total energy intake) are consistently linked to coronary heart disease. The research also confirms ...
13th May 2009
You've probably seen the advertisements:
"Drink Wu-long tea and lose a jeans size every 7 days!"
"Burn 20 lbs of fat in 30 days with green tea!"
Maybe you even watched Oprah a few years ago when Dr. Perricone said that switching your coffee for g...
01st May 2009
Irvingia gabonensis is the newest supplement to hit the weight loss marketplace, saturate the internet with ads and light up the discussion forums. But is it all it's cracked up to be? In the fat loss marketplace, this may gain the dubious distinction of ...
01st May 2009
I admit it. I bought the National Enquirer. I know, you should never admit you bought the Enquirer, but the headline GOT me! "Hollywood's Deadly Skin And Bones Diet: Stars Risking Their Lives To Be Thin." Not to be outdone, IN TOUCH magazine's cover story...
24th April 2009
Why do you always hear that 2 pounds a week is the maximum you should lose? If you train hard while watching calories carefully shouldn't you be able to lose more weight without losing muscle or damaging your health? What if you want to lose fat faster? H...
22nd April 2009
So far, at least 7 scientific studies have provided strong evidence that energy containing beverages (i.e., "liquid calories") do not properly activate the satiety mechanisms in the body and brain and do not satisfy the appetite as well as food in solid f...
01st February 2009
Clearly, we have an obesity problem in America and many other countries across our planet. Yet, I propose that we do not have a weight loss problem today. In case you're confused at this apparent contradiction, consider these statistics:
According to a...
01st February 2009
If you want to burn off fat and keep it off permanently, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one.
Previous research has concluded without a shred of doubt that high level...
17th January 2009
It's 2009. Your old excuses for not getting in shape won't work. As Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) said, ZIP IT! I don't want to hear them anymore! Read em', then haul your excuseless butt to the gym!
1. I have no time
According to a story in a recent iss...
17th January 2009
Why do new year's resolutions usually fail? Why do you start with guns blazing on January 1st, but by February, you're losing motivation, cheating on your diet, skipping workouts, and slipping back into old patterns? John LaValle, a master trainer of Neur...
30th October 2008
A new study just published in a recent issue of the journal Obesity has revealed that thin people eat very differently than heavy people at all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants.
Researcher Brian Wansink and his team from the Cornell University Food and B...
05th September 2008
I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight. "Big losers" don't impress me, for numerous reasons. For example, weight is not fat. "Weight" could be composed of mostly lean tissue or water ...
05th June 2008
Fat burner supplements are advertised everywhere these days - on the internet, in magazines and even on TV. The ads almost always feature a very lean fitness model or bodybuilder and claim that these products, usually pills, are the secret to their six pa...
