Exercise and Diets Today: A Sad State of Affairs!
Now, we’re just about to get into the first secret, but let me talk for a minute about why I believe so strongly that the methods I recommend are among the best choices compared to the other various methods out there today:• Popular and mainstream methods of losing fat call for going on a strange fad or crash type diet. Well, these diets can work in the short term, but fail every time because they are based in a short term mindset and are too restrictive. They’re unrealistic and your body knows it. While they may cause weight loss initially, a good deal of this weight loss is water weight and metabolically active muscle tissue. If you lose muscle tissue you’re making it harder to lose fat because you’re lowering the amount of calories it takes to sustain your bodyweight. I don’t have to tell you that once you go off these diets you’ll end up fatter and more de-motivated than ever! That is not healthy.
• Popular and mainstream methods also call for the heavy reliance on aerobic exercise as the primary and often only method of exercise for fat burning. Aerobic exercise must be performed too long and too frequently for most people with a life, and let’s face it, most aerobic machines end up as coat hangers, because for most people spending 2-4 hours or more a week doing aerobics is flat out boring. Heavy reliance on aerobic exercise can also bring about a host of other issues, including muscle loss, and overuse injuries and muscle imbalances. What’s worse, long duration aerobic exercise can actually reduce the capacity of your heart and lungs to perform work…which can be terrible for long term health, increasing your risk for heart attack. Now, I’m not saying you should sit on your couch all day to avoid cardiovascular exercise. What I am saying is that there is a much more efficient way of literally transforming your body than spending hours a week running to nowhere (and it only takes 15-26 mintues, 2-3 times per week!). The bottom line is if you focus on making a solid lifestyle change with techniques that you can realistically implement and follow for the rest of your life, the problems with the typically recommended methods described above will be eliminated entirely. So considering all that, let’s take a look at a hypothetical example of two people and their fat loss and fitness options. Let’s say both people are about 30 years old and want to lose about 20 pounds of fat. They also want to add improve their physical appearance and their overall level of fitness, getting stronger and gaining endurance so that they increase their energy in everyday physical activity. They also have an eye on health and want to reduce their risk factors for heart disease, cancers, and other far too common diseases.
PERSON A: DAVE
Let’s say person A (we’ll call him Dave) follows the typically recommended diet and exercise methods available today. Dave goes on a variety of diets periodically, because each time he loses weight on one, it starts to come back once he goes off of the diet, so he hops onto the next one that floats his boat. He also start exercising performing 30 minutes of moderately paced aerobic or cardio sessions three times per week to burn calories and fat. After a few weeks, he doesn’t see the progress he’d like to, so Dave bumps it up to 45 minutes, 4 times per week. Still, though, progress is not satisfactory, and he might start to notice some aches and pains in his knees, hips, or ankles. Dave then starts to think it might be his diet that isn’t working (after all he’s “putting in the work” in the gym), so he eats even less food or cuts his carbs out almost entirely. Meanwhile, depriving himself of various essential foods has left. Dave on the edge of a mental breakdown and a major pig out (I’ve been there before too!). A few more weeks pass and Dave is growing increasingly de-motivated as he is getting very little results for all of the effort he’s putting forth. By now he’s probably lost a few pounds but doesn’t look much different in the mirror. So he decides to add in some resistance training, because he read it is good to have more muscle mass on your body for fat loss and other health benefits. So now he’s in the gym 5 or 6 days a week, for up to 2 hours per session! Dave’s close friends and family wonder where he is all of the time. At this point he may be having trouble sleeping at night from being overworked, may end up getting a cold or flu from too much stress imposed on his body from the exercise frequency and lack of results, and all but give up on his weight loss and fitness goals for a while. But you know the craziest part? The worst part of this story? Dave will probably return to some form of the above recommendations in a few months, when the next fad diet, miracle weight loss pill, or exercise gimmick strikes his fancy. So at the end of this period, he will probably have made a little fat loss progress if any, and little or no muscle or strength gain. Now what’s really unfortunate is that Dave’s story happens time after time after time with, dare I say, 99% of people trying to lose fat around the globe. Let’s take a look at what person B is doing instead:
PERSON B: JULIE
Now let’s assume person B (we’ll call her Julie) chooses another path, the road less traveled, that most people are completely oblivious to (like I was a few years back). Julie starts out the right way with her diet adjustments and makes sensible choices and understands that starving herself or limiting certain wholesome foods like complex carbohydrates is not the long term answer. She focuses on foods that are rich in nutrients, and drinks plenty of water throughout the day. She’s naturally satisfied when she eats, and she’s not holding back an urge to shove the next fat laden sugar loaded thing she sees down her throat. As a result she’ll most likely start seeing fat come off relatively quickly and it will have seemed fairly easy, almost natural. Julie also uses resistance exercise properly two or three times each week, for 15 to 25 minute sessions. She’s in and out of the gym, quickly, getting her workout done and back home to allow her life to continue on her terms. She’s rapidly increasing her strength, endurance, and adding shapely and sexy lean muscle to her body. She starts to take notice of the differences in the mirror in just a few weeks, and so do her friends, which spurs her on to even further progress. She tracks her improvements from workout to workout, which is very self-motivating. After a few more weeks, her friends really take notice and ask Julie what her big secret is and when she starts to reveal some of her strategies, their friends laugh it off…”Twice a week in the gym, that’s it?”, “You’re eating carbs too? Oh, I can’ t do that, it wouldn’t work for me…” they might say. Meanwhile her body continues to evolve into a fat burning machine and she’s able to maintain permanent fat loss and fitness for the rest of her healthy life, while severely reducing their risks for disease, and all with little time
commitment. Now, that’s just a hypothetical example, but it is entirely possible if you use the right approach along with the techniques I’m going to share with you. If you take the steps to change your lifestyle correctly, you have the potential to literally change not only your body fat percentage, but all aspects of your life. When you are truly happy with what you see in the mirror every morning you feel empowered to conquer anything. Charles Atlas, one of the pioneers of health and fitness from the 1950’s, once said that he didn’t care if everyone in the room was smarter than he was, because he knew that he could KICK EVERY ONE OF
THEIR BUTTS! I love this statement, because it speaks to the truth that when you are confident about your body, you feel incredibly strong and powerful in everything else you do. Any investment you make today to improve your knowledge on how to take the steps like Julie did in our example can truly make the difference in your long term fat loss, health and fitness. It can be like flipping on a light switch in a pitch black room…it can be that drastic, as it was for me and thousands of people who have learned the material you’re about to.
A LEAN, STRONG AND SEXY BODY AWAITS… Now that you have this eBooklet, you’ll be able to start reaping these rewards too. What kind of benefits am I specifically talking about?
• No longer will you have to be a slave to the gym, spending countless monotonous hours each week on a treadmill, elliptical machine, or something similar.
• No longer will you have to rush to be on time for an aerobics class. No longer will you have to be in the gym for 4, 5, or 6 days per week, performing various different forms of exercise to get all of the benefits you
seek.
• No longer will you have to follow some wacky fad or crash diet plan calling for the elimination or severe reduction of carbs or something similar.
• No longer will you have to maniacally watch your diet every second of the day, wondering if that cookie you had will require another 45 minute aerobic session.
• No longer will you have to feel bad about yourself for not being able to live up to all of these popular recommendations and more.
• And most importantly, no longer will you be a slave to the multi-billion dollar fitness industry that is keeping you from reaching your goals. Imagine having the confidence in knowing that the little time and effort you’re spending each week is creating a healthy environment inside your body that is simultaneously burning fat and building muscle, strength, and endurance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Imagine knowing that you must eat carbohydrates every day as a major part of your food intake, and not having to worry about it all going to your belly, hips, or thighs. Imagine knowing that you’re greatly reducing your risk of disease and other physical and health problems as you age, and looking and feeling years younger than you actually are.
Imagine impressing almost everyone you know with your new body and self confidence, how that will transfer over to more success in all other aspects of your life, and how everyone will want to know your secrets. And imagine having the extra time to enjoy your hobbies and interests, and what really matters in life…your family and closest friends. Now stop imagining, because this really is all within your grasp…and it all starts with the principles I reveal in this manuscript. So get excited…the best is within you!
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