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Martha Stewart and Naked Nutrition

Are you bored with your fat loss nutrition?

For many people eating for maximum fat loss can be boring and bland.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

I’m constantly searching in magazines, cookbooks, websites, and FoodTV for great tasting recipes that either are healthy or are very close to being considered “foods that burn fat”. With a couple changes many recipes can be delicious while simultaneously helping pull the fat off your waistline.  It’s the Naked Nutrition way!

I stumbled across a great (and simple) recipe in none other than Martha Stewart Living that fits the Naked Nutrition criteria of delicious, loaded with lean protein, and vegetables.  I’ll be sharing the recipe in the new Naked Nutrition Monthly PDF Newsletter that is coming out on November.

Do They Love Me In Arkansas?

Have you picked up a copy of the Men’s Health Book of Power Training yet? No. Really?

Here is a recent review of the book that was published in an Arkansas newspaper – apparently the author likes calorie containing beverages – read below

Celia (the reviewer) takes an interesting stance on Olympic Lifts and their safety. Whether they are safe or not isn’t a discussion for this blog. However Coach Dos does provide progressions so that you don’t have to do the complete Olympic lifts. You can listen to Coach Dos talk about the safety of Olympic lifts and the alternatives he provides in the Book of Power Training in an interview I did with him on Max-Out Radio.

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Restless reader (by Celia Storey)

 

 

Men’s Health Power

Training By Robert dos Remedios, with nutrition chapter by Mike Roussell (Rodale paperback, November 2007 ), 334 pages with index, $ 19. 95. This is a big paperback. Yes, but it’s mostly charts and photo recipes for exercises. Robert dos Remedios’ guide to designing your own training program for more strength and power includes 650 blackand-white photos. Isn’t strength and power the focus of every training guide ? No. Some are for people who want to lose weight; others focus on flexibility; some address endurance; some train you to lift less weight slowly or more safely; some suggest ways of puffing up so you look like a giant bratwurst. The focus here is on training like an athlete. Note that an athlete is not someone who is easily injured and therefore needs to approach all training as though it was “prehab” — a way to avoid ending up in rehab. But rehab is what nonathletes could be doing if they don’t read carefully. You could hurt yourself reading ?

Ask your friendly neighborhood orthopedic surgeon how much money he makes off Olympic powerlifters. So it’s a bad-advice book ? It’s a well-developed program by an experienced trainer and also interesting and educational. But anyone who stops to consider the bad things that can happen to incautious powerlifters will be more inclined to notice dos Remedios’ advice about moderating workouts when you’re tired and the parts where he quotes kinesiologist Bill Hartman’s suggestions of safer alternatives for presses involving the shoulders.

Thus armed, an aspiring athlete would be more inclined to take seriously this little bit: “It is perfectly fine to stay in the basic category indefinitely. In fact, I would not recommend progressing to the more technical exercises without proper hands-on coaching.”

Power training will hurt you if you don’t do it well.

Also, not every ego is designed to follow a training program this complex. Dos Remedios uses lots of lists, and that requires attention. And selecting the best moves for you on any given day might require an unbearably heavy load of humility.

What are the g uiding principles ? He offers plans for intense workouts two, three or four times a week. The emphasis changes every three weeks, including an optional relative-rest phase every six weeks and a mandatory “unloading” every 12 weeks. Each workout is intended to balance pushing and pulling among the body’s planes of movement. (The body can move between front and back, from side to side, between top and bottom, and then you can twist, right ? Those are the planes of movement as he describes them, but he uses harder words. )

Workouts include many exercises in which only one side of your body handles the weight while the other has to stabilize. Weight is lowered in a controlled fashion but raised as quickly as possible, keeping in mind that sometimes what’s possible won’t be very quick. As much as possible, the work is done standing. He offers no (none ) muscle-isolation exercises (like biceps curls ), although he says you’re free to add some after your workout. “Knock yourself out,” he says.

What equipment is needed ? Olympic barbell and weights, dumbbells, adjustable bench or Swiss ball, chin-up bar. Other things are used in optional exercises, like stretch bands, medicine balls and a cable pulley tower. He also admits you need a squat rack for very heavy lifts.

What’s the nutrition advice ? It’s by Mike Roussell, a doctoral student in nutrition at Pennsylvania State University who wrote Naked Nutrition: five or six meals a day, plus snacks; many more fruits and vegetables and less processed food; lean protein at each meal; starchy foods only after the workout or at breakfast (and that’s a big breakfast ); pre-workout smoothies containing sugar and a proteinisolate or -hydrolysate form of whey; more water and no other calorie-rich beverages (read: bummer !).

Who is the author ? Dos Remedios is director of speed, strength and conditioning at College of the Canyons in Southern California; he was the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s collegiate strength coach of the year in 2006. He was the first community college coach to win that award. He contributes to Men’s Health magazine (of course ) and was a presenter at this year’s JP Fitness Summit in Little Rock.

Pick up a copy a www.BookofPowerTraining.com

Start Losing Fat Today

No fluff today.  Do you want to start losing fat today?  Right now?  This is what you need to do.

1. Reduce your intake of rice, sugary drinks, potatos, bread, etc to after your workout

2. Increase your intake of green leafy vegetables (preferably to every meal).

3. Eat 5-6 times each and everyday.

4. Eat more protein (every meal)

5.  Participate in Metabolically demanding strength training and interval training 3-5 times a week.  You’re two best options are Afterburn Training or Turbulence Training.

6. Rinse and Repeat (okay don’t rinse but repeat these steps everyday and watch your pants fall off your waist).

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74 Days…

74 Days…

That’s right only 74 days left until the new year.

Did you lose the weight that you promised yourself you were going to lose when you made your resolutions on January 1st 2007?

Where you able to whittle-down your waistline to the size you wanted?

I hope so. It feels great to reach a goal.

What if you haven’t achieved your new years resolution?

Are you just going to make same the same resolution again in 74 days?

What if you never had to make a weight loss resolution again?

What if you solved your fat loss problem permanently?

What if you committed yourself to one of the world’s most powerful fat loss programs and the results were amazing? So amazing that you finally have that “look” that you have been trying capture for years.

You know the look I’m talking about. The one where the fat has been abolished from your “trouble spots”. The one where your abs are visible from across the room.

To make that happen there are two key pieces of the fat loss puzzle that need to be in place.

1. Nutrition Designed to Stimulate Fat Loss

2. Strength and Interval Training Designed to Ignite Your Metabolism

Unfortunately, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of fat loss training “experts” on the internet trying to convince you that they have the secret to unleashing your metabolism allowing you to lose maximum body fat.

Unfortunately most of them are lying crooks just out for your money.

But a few are good. Really good.

One of those guys is Craig Ballantyne.

Craig has put together a fat loss system that is efficient, effective, and addictive.

That’s right addictive. When the fat starts falling off your body, you’ll get addicted to his workouts because you don’t want the fat loss to stop.

What’s even better is that Craig’s fat loss system is soooo easy to follow. He outlines everything. There are only a handful of fat loss systems that I will use (personally and with my clients) and Turbulence Training is one of those systems.

If you never want to make another new years weight loss resolution again then you have 76 days to make it happen and Turbulence Training will get you there.

Go here and make it happen

=> http://www.TurbulenceTrainingNow.com

WAIT!! Don’t click the link yet!!!

Like I said there are “two key pieces” to an effective fat loss program. We just talked about training. The second is nutrition.

That’s where I come in.

I am going to hold a special bonus fat loss nutrition tele-seminar where I will answer any (and all) questions you have about fat loss nutrition. If I have to stay on the phone for two and a half hours I will. I will stay on the phone until I have answered every question you have.

But there is a small catch (there’s always a catch right?)

I need to limit the tele-seminar to 37 people so that everyone will have a chance to get ALL their fat loss nutrition questions answered.

This message is going to be read by thousands of people (it has already been email to a couple thousand people) so don’t hesitate.

Use this link:

=> http://www.TurbulenceTrainingNow.com

Pick up a copy of Turbulence Training. You will receive an email from me next week with the details about the seminar.

Remember….74 days.

Let’s make this happen together,

Mike Roussell

P.S. It is important that you use this link

http://www.TurbulenceTrainingNow.com

to be eligible for the bonus tele-seminar.

The “Best” Diet

There are so many diet plans and diet books available today that it is almost impossible to determine which one is the “best” (Author’s Note: Your Naked Nutrition Guide is the best ). Recently a manuscript was published in the Jounal of the American Dietetics Association that compared the “diet quality” of the country’s most popular weight loss programs/plans.

These are the diets that were compared:

• New Glucose Revolution
• Atkins Diet
• Weight Watchers
• South Beach Diet
• Zone Diet
• Ornish Diet

The quality of each of the diets was determined by the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI). This is a rating system that was developed from another diet quality system called the Healthy Eating Index (HEI). The HEI was developed to measure the adherence to the 1995 USDA Food Guide Pyramid. There was a paper published from a group of Nutrition Superstars from Harvard concluding that the AHEI was a 2x better predictor of heart disease than the original HEI.

So which diet won? The Ornish Diet.

Who lost? Atkins.

Does this mean that we all should go on the Ornish diet? No. While the Ornish diet may have recieved the highest AHEI score. In a 12 month weight loss study published a couple years ago the Ornish diet had the highest drop-out rate. It should also be noted that in the same study the Atkins diet was tied with the Ornish diet for the highest drop-out rate.

So Ornish has the highest diet quality score but it is the hardest to follow AND the Atkins diet has the lowest diet quality score and it is also the hardest to follow. Isn’t this confusing??

Here is the important information that you need to know.

1. The HEI was BASED on adherence to the 1995 USDA Food Guide Pyramid. The Atkins diet is essentially the complete opposite to the food pyramid so it isn’t a huge surprise that is received a poor “grade”. Always know your frame of reference.

2. If you follow the Ornish diet or Atkins diet you will get good results. IF you follow the plan. If you hate eating meat then the Atkins diet isn’t for you. If you love meat then the Ornish diet isn’t for you. You need to find a nutritional plan that fits your tastes, preferences, and lifestyle. That is the largest factor that will contribute to your success – Pick a plan that you can follow.

Now ask yourself – “What plan will I follow the best?”

My money is on Your Naked Nutrition Guide

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