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Iron Master dumbbells review

Today I received my Iron master adjustable dumbbells, 120 lb add on kit, super bench and pull up attachment.

The adjustable dumb bells are absolutely terrific. I've felt the powerblocks and the bowflex adjustable dumb bells in the stores and they've felt awkward to me. The iron masters felt exactly like the hexagon dumb bells you find in gyms. There is no clanking of the plates. True, the method of changing and adding plates takes a bit getting used to, but after you get the hang of it..it goes quite fast.

While it's true that powerblocks can change weights faster it is also true that they cost quite a bit more money if you take into consideration: It's $600 for powerblocks 90 lb dumb bells with NO stand and a 10 to 15 year warranty. You can expand it up to 130 lbs and the cost would be $897. Also the 90 lb bow flex's are about $600 also and you can not drop them and they also come without a stand. Bowflex® SelectTech® Dumbbells are covered by a 2-year limited warranty on all parts, 5-year warranty on weight plates and 1-year warranty on labor.

With the Iron Master you get 75 lb dumb bells AND a stand AND a life time warranty for $489 and you can up grade to 120 lbs each arm for $200 more for a total of $689.00 I think I'll take the extra money saved over a few measly seconds saved. Besides....if you are working out like you should and giving it all you got on each set then you won't be going from one exercise to the next in the blink of an eye anyway. You'll be out of breath...at least that's the situation with me.

The super bench is awesome. It's extremely easy to set the right angle with the foot control. The bench gives you 11 different angles to choose from. I've also got the wheel attachment. What can you say about that? It rolls and makes moving the bench very easy. The pull up attachment is also great. There is no rocking of the bench or the attachment. The attachment feels real solid and is rated for up to 300 lbs. It is very easy to switch out.

Anyone buying anything from Iron Master will be not only pleasantly surprised by the feel of quality but also by the value you get for your money when you start comparing to other similar products. If you are thinking about getting some adjustable dumb bells then these are the only ones to get. You'll just be throwing extra money away if you get any other brand.

The link to their website is on the right hand side of my blog.

The Biggest Loser Pro's and Con's

Here is an article from Tom Venuto's website burnthefatblog.com As you will read...just because something is popular or on T.V. doesn't mean it's healthy or the right way to do things. I will even include fitness magazines because most fitness magazines are owned by a company who is trying to sell you unnecessary supplements and powders.
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The Biggest Loser Pros And Cons: An In-Depth Objective Review of Television’s Most Popular Reality Show
By Tom Venuto

The Biggest Loser – a reality show which is essentially a race to see who can lose weight the fastest - is one of the most popular in Television history. I’ve known about The Biggest Loser since it debuted in 2005 because people ask me all the time what I think of the program and of course, the burning question: “How do they lose so much weight?”

Until now, I’ve only seen video clips, browsed forum threads and read news about the show. To give informed answers to questions in the future, I finally wanted to see first-hand what this was really all about. So I sat through the entire two-hour 8th season premiere on September 15th.

Despite its worldwide popularity, The Biggest Loser is controversial and responses to the show are highly polarized. Most viewers seem to be either die-hard loyal fans who defend the show tooth and nail or critics who loathe the program to the point of disgust or outrage.

Most fitness professionals and personal trainers dislike the show, mainly due to what they say is inappropriate training program design and extreme (teetering on dangerous) overtraining.

The mixed reviews for the show aren’t surprising because The Biggest Loser clearly has pros and cons. Having finally watched a full episode, it reinforced my previous belief that the cons outweigh the pros. But in any complete and objective review, it’s only fair to show both sides, so here they are:

BIGGEST LOSER PROS

The Power of Accountability

Accountability is one of the most powerful motivational forces. The producers of The Biggest Loser have set up the conditions and environment with so much accountability, it’s impossible for contestants not to lose weight. This program uses all four levels of accountability which I have discussed in previous blogs: (1) accountability to self, (2) accountability to a partner, (3) accountability to a group, and (4) accountability to the public.

The Spirit of Competition

The most impressive and dramatic body, health and fitness transformations I’ve ever seen have come as a result of competition. You can count me as one of them. I’ve competed in natural bodybuilding more than two dozen times. Why do I still do it after all these years? Because competition is motivating and competition brings out the best performances.

I’m in shape all year round, but I’ve always hit my best shape – PEAK condition - for competition. An organized event with rewards gives people a goal and helps them get moving and give it their best. Although there are downsides to the way the Biggest Loser competition is judged, a healthy competition is a good thing in my book.

The drive of emotions

The producers of The Biggest Loser have done a meticulous job with contestant selection by finding individuals with touching life stories (as contrived as they may be, to encourage made-for TV drama ranging from romance to backstabbing).

It’s Television, so they need storylines and human interest and there’s no shortage of that here. I’m sure many viewers have to break out the Kleenex – it’s a real tear jerker that pulls at the heart strings.

If this program stirs up some emotions in viewers that stimulate them to get up off the couch and start a health and fitness program, then that’s a good thing. People are not inspired to action with logic, they are driven to action with emotion and only later justify their decisions and actions with logic.

Hope and inspiration

Having inspirational role models moves people from “What’s the use; I’ve tried everything and nothing will ever work for me” to, “If they can do it, I can do it.”

I’m tempted to say that these are not the right role models for the public and I do NOT recommend anyone at home try to duplicate what these contestants are doing. However, I can see the value of extreme role models purely for inspiration.

When a 65 year old runs a 135 mile ultramarathon, it makes a 20 or 30-something runner ask, “What’s stopping me from running a paltry 26.2 miles?” If an amputee sprints around a track on prosthetic legs, it makes sedentary able-bodied people, say, “What’s my excuse?” When a 425 pound person loses half his bodyweight, someone with only 40 pounds of excess fat says, “What’s stopping me?”

Seeing those who have already done it forces you to answer, “Nothing was stopping me but my own excuses and limiting beliefs. Now I see it’s not hopeless… it’s possible!”

The reality of hard work

Unlike most weight loss programs which promise results without effort, The Biggest Loser shows the contestants busting their butts. Arguably the biggest loser goes too far, replete with brutal training montages and plenty of crying, screaming, puking and falling down. That’s television for you.

Fitness for life can be enjoyable and even become part of your fun and recreation time. But to think that spectacular and quick results can be achieved without incredibly hard work is naïve. For above average results, it takes an above average effort. For mind blowing results, it takes a mind blowing effort. With effort and hard work, amazing transformations can happen.


BIGGEST LOSER CONS

The Biggest Loser is judged on weight loss, not body composition.

There is no doubt that contestants are losing huge amounts of fat – far above the average, which is usually 1-2 pounds per week. Even obese individuals rarely lose more than 3 pounds of pure fat per week consistently in a real world situation.

The results on the show – often 10 pounds a week with 20-25 not uncommon for first and last week - should not be surprising when you calculate the massive caloric deficit achieved from 4-6 hours of daily training and physical activity, combined with low calorie dieting.

What many fans seem to ignore is that weight loss is not the same as fat loss. Body weight includes muscle, bones, internal organs, water, glycogen and don’t forget the contents of the digestive tract. The weight loss on The Biggest Loser is deceiving. Much of the loss is water. Many contestants may be losing muscle and other lean tissue.

The solution would be simple: judge the competition on body composition, not body weight. Body fat testing is admittedly prone to error, but with the big budget of this show, there’s no reason they couldn’t use gold standard testing methods such as hydrostatic weighing or DEXA scans. They used a Bod Pod in the last episode, but the contest wasn’t judged on the results of those tests (it was more like, “look how fat you are!”)

What’s most alarming to me is that because the show is judged on weight loss, not body composition, contestants are penalized for gaining muscle and actually rewarded for losing muscle. Think about that one for a while.

Rapid weight loss competition encourages physically dangerous practices

The network, the trainers and other supporters of the show say they do not promote or endorse drugs or any unhealthy methods of weight loss. Official statements notwithstanding, the inherent nature of the show promotes dangerous behavior.

Listen to what Biggest Loser season one winner Ryan Benson had to say on his myspace blog:

“I wanted to win so bad that the last ten days before the final weigh-in I didn’t eat one piece of solid food! If you’ve heard of “The Master Cleanse” that’s what I did. Its basically drinking lemonade made with water, lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. The rules of the show said we couldn’t use any weight-loss drugs, well I didn’t take any drugs, I just starved myself! Twenty-four hours before the final weigh-in I stopped putting ANYTHING in my body, liquid or solid, then I started using some old high school wrestling tricks. I wore a rubber suit while jogging on the treadmill, and then spent a lot of time in the steam room. In the final 24 hours I probably dropped 10-13 lbs in just pure water weight. By the time of the final weigh-in I was peeing blood.

Was this healthy? Heck no! My wife wanted to kill me if I didn’t do it to myself first. But I was in a different place, I knew winning the show could put us in a better place financially and I was willing to do some crazy stuff. All this torture I put myself through has had no lasting effects on me (that I know of) and at the time it was sort of a fun adventure for me – but I am sure it reeked havoc on my system.

In the five days after the show was over I gained about 32 lbs. Not from eating, just from getting my system back to normal (mostly re-hydrating myself). So in five days I was back up to 240 – crazy!”

It’s unknown whether any Biggest Loser contestants have taken diuretics (they’re not allowed, but then again Major League baseball players aren’t allowed to take roids either). The greater the rewards and monetary incentives, the greater the willingness to cheat. One thing that’s clear is that even non-drug manipulation of water and electrolyte balance is incredibly dangerous. Would you trade $250,000 for a kidney?

The media often sensationalizes anabolic steroids as a big problem in sports and performance enhancement. What’s been underplayed is another drug used (un-medically supervised) by athletes to shed water and make weight classes – diuretics. It’s not the steroids, but the diuretics, combined with extreme dieting, which have resulted in more confirmed deaths, coronary events, kidney problems and emergency room visits.

Benson wasn’t alone. Kai Hibbard (season 3) answered a question about this on her my space blog:

Q: I’m curious on just how much did you all dehydrate yourselves before the BIG WEIGH IN?

A: I dehydrated off 19 pounds in the last two weeks before the BIG weigh in. I stopped eating solid food after eating only protein and asparagus (a diuretic) then I had two colonics and spent the night before the weigh in and out of a sauna. there really was no “diet” the day of the weigh in, we weigh in as dehydrated as possible on empty stomachs after 2 hour workouts in the morning.

As with Benson, Hibbard’s final week weight came flying back:

“I actually put on about 31 pounds in two weeks. After my body had a chance to stabilize I spent all last year hovering between 159 and 175, I fight everyday to find some stability.”

The Biggest Loser pushes overtraining to the point of high injury risk

On the first season 8 episode, just minutes after getting off the bus, contestants faced the first workout “challenge.” The group of morbidly obese contestants (weighing up to 460 pounds), were instructed to take a 1 mile run down the beach. It was NOT a go at your own pace type of thing, it was a RACE with a prize for the winner.

One of them collapsed just short of the finish line, at first looking dehydrated and fatigued and then progressing into looking seriously ill, incoherent and unconscious. She was flown by medivac chopper to the hospital. The hospitalization was weaved into the drama of the episode, but alarmingly trivialized.

It was not the first time. Contestants from previous seasons have also been admitted to the hospital and one suffered a stress fracture.

Later during the workout, contestants were shown climbing a Jacob’s ladder, pushing sleds, doing intense cardio and calisthenics, lifting weights and performing plyometrics. These did not look like beginner-level workouts and the form on some of the exercises was sloppy enough to make a professional strength and conditioning coach cringe.

Before the show (off camera), the contestants took a stress test to screen out people who might be at risk for a heart attack, and no doubt, they all signed airtight liability releases. There was also a disclaimer on the screen for the viewing audience. But aside from that, there seemed to be a disturbing absence of proper risk warnings in light of the physical tasks they were asked to perform.

There was also no mention that 4-6 hours of training per day for weight loss is gross overtraining, almost certain to bring overuse injuries, and something that no one at home should EVER try to emulate, even if they could.

The Biggest Loser has no relevance to real world situations

The producers of The Biggest Loser have created the perfect environment for success. Contestants have personal trainers, nutritionists, group support, accountability, a national audience, and the biggest carrot imaginable – a prize of $250,000 and a potential platform to launch a motivational speaking or fitness career.

The participants move out of their homes and onto The Biggest Loser “Ranch” where they have no job other than losing weight. There are no kids to worry about, no work, no social obligations, no chores, nothing – just working out and dieting.

This is a totally artificial and controlled environment with no relevance to the average person. In the real world, people who work out 4-6 hours a day for weight loss are not called inspirational and dedicated, they are called obsessive-compulsive or exercise anorexics.

Shouldn’t contestants (and viewers) be taught to exercise in a way that fits into a normal person’s daily life, between work, family and social obligations? Achieving health and fitness as part of total life balance is probably one of the biggest missing pieces in the obesity crisis, yet you won’t find solutions for that challenge on The Biggest Loser.



The Biggest Loser trainers are walking a fine line between tough love and abuse

I’ve listened to an interview or two with Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels and she was motivating, informative and seemed like a good spokesperson for fitness. That’s why I was shocked by her yelling profanities in the face of the contestants. She was dropping F-bomb after F-bomb.

I believe strongly that a good coach sometimes has to get in a client’s face and be very tough. People are motivated by different styles of leadership and coaching, but in general, most people need to be pushed, not coddled, out of their comfort zones and they will always perform beyond what they believed they could accomplish when they are put under pressure.

Read the biographies of some of the great coaches like Vince Lombardi. Read about the great military leaders like General Patton. You’ll see they were not soft on their players or troops. It was tough love. It was necessary for victory. It was not however, disrespectful, rude, humiliating or unprofessional (when Patton crossed the line, he was reprimanded… watch the movie, it’s a classic).

Then again, this was television and Jillian makes for good TV, I‘ll give you that.

On The Biggest Loser, normal rates of weight loss are penalized and frowned on as failure

One of my first exposures to this show was a video clip of the weigh ins, which I saw a couple years ago. A blue team member lost 20 pounds in one week. Mouths were open, gasps were heard, jaws were hitting the floor, followed by congratulations and applause.

When the other blue teammate stepped on the scale and registered “only” an 8 pound loss, the congratulations quickly faded, heads were shaking, facial expressions turned to contempt and blue team member number two sulked off in shame because it appeared as if she did something horribly wrong and that only one member of the team pulled her weight .

When an 8 pound weight loss is seen as a failure, imagine what viewers at home will think about a perfectly normal 1-2 pound weekly weight loss.

The Biggest Loser encourages unrealistic weight loss expectations

Surely any clear-thinking person realizes The Biggest Loser is a contest and at home they are NOT going to drop 25 pounds their first week and 8-10 pounds every week after that. However, more and more people are posting on forums online and asking their trainers why they “only” lost 3-5 pounds their first week or why they can’t lose more than 2 pounds per week.

When people get discouraged with perfectly reasonable weight loss, it makes our job as fitness professionals and health educators much harder. This is a big reason why most trainers hate this show.

Do you know how difficult it is to persuade a Biggest Loser fan that 3 pounds per week is exceptionally good fat loss? A 3 pound weekly weight loss of pure fat is outstanding and above average, but it’s more difficult than ever today to get people to accept slow and steady weight loss as a best practice for healthy, maintainable results.

Is it fair to pin the blame on one reality TV show? Well, not entirely. We can pin blame on a combination of human nature and the approach of the weight loss industry at large, including diet program, pill and supplement advertising, especially those which show “results not typical” (or even phony) before and after pictures. But reality TV courtesy of The Biggest Loser is certainly one of the culprits.

The Biggest Loser teaches you absolutely nothing about setting realistic goals. It actually encourages the opposite.

The Biggest Loser does not teach real-world lifestyle strategies

I haven’t watched enough of the show to assess whether the participants are given any kind of nutrition, exercise and health education that they can take home with them and make a part of their lifestyles for the long term.

Even if the contestants get psychological counseling, fitness education, motivational tools and time with dieticians - off camera or on - the structure of the competition leads me to think it is all for naught.

Participants and viewers are not learning about nutrition and training as a lifestyle, because the inherent nature of the show only teaches them how to crash diet, crash exercise and achieve short-term weight loss.

In particular, where is the emphasis on nutrition? I guess there’s not much time to film nutrition education when 45 minutes of the show is spent on the high drama of the weigh-in and elimination round.

The Biggest Loser doesn’t focus on lifelong maintenance

Weight loss is easy. Whether you lose 1-2 pounds a week or 10 pounds a week, either way, maintenance is going to be the true challenge.

A study from Oxford showed that 80% of weight losers will gain all the weight back within 3-5 years. A report from the National Weight Control Registry suggested that this relapse rate could be as high as 95%.

It’s not a foregone conclusion that you’ll regain weight after a large and or rapid weight loss. Some can keep it off. Most won’t, and if you lose weight rapidly, the odds are against you. Without a plan for maintenance, the odds are close to nil.

Where is the focus in The Biggest Loser on teaching contestants maintenance strategies for keeping the weight off after they get back into the real world?

“The Biggest Loser”: Much worse than a clever name

I have one final con; more of a personal pet peeve, really. I despise the name of the show. No one wants to be a loser. Anyone who sets a goal and achieves it is a winner, but in this show, if you win, you’re a loser.

The words “lose” and “loser” should be stricken from your vocabulary. Release, shed, discard, incinerate or burn the fat, but don’t lose it and for your own sake, please don’t call yourself a loser.

“But it’s just semantics, Tom.” Precisely, and the hidden meanings of words, names and labels carry great power. They can shape a person’s identity, affect self-esteem and influence behavior.

Conclusion

As a show so widely broadcast and publicized, which spotlights the worldwide obesity problem and encourages people to do something about it, The Biggest Loser could have been something great. But it falls short in many areas. There are unredeemable flaws weaved into the very fabric of the show.

The trainers and physicians get on their soapboxes and tell the contestants how sick they are. But is this show really about health? Depending on how you approach it, getting skinny doesn’t always mean getting healthy – physically or psychologically.

Not only do the cons outweigh the pros, if you go back and look at my list of positive qualities in the show, you can find every one of them somewhere else in a more healthy context. It’s important to have role models, but this show is no model for physically and emotionally healthy weight loss.

The Biggest Loser is just Television, where the bottom line is ratings and sponsors. If you can, draw some inspiration from the show, but not your education. If you watch, then please recognize this show for what it is – entertainment; show business. Nothing more. nothing less.

Tom Venuto, author of:
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle & The Body Fat Solution

Founder & CEO,
Burn The Fat Inner Circle


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About Tom



Tom Venuto is a fat loss expert, lifetime natural (steroid-free) bodybuilder, certified personal trainer, freelance writer, and author of the #1 best selling diet e-book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle: Fat-Burning Secrets of The World’s Best Bodybuilders & Fitness Models( e-book) and The Body Fat Solution (Hardcover, Avery/Penguin Books). Tom is also the founder and CEO of the Internet’s premier fat loss support community, the: Burn The Fat Inner Circle.


Here is the direct link....http://www.burnthefatblog.com/archives/2009/09/the_biggest_loser_pros_and_con.php

I encourage you to take a look at Tom's websites, you will benefit immensely from it.

Changed my Insanity routine

I changed some of the specifics of my Insanity routine (plyometric cardio circuit) on my cardio days. The second set contains pushups with running in place while in the plank position. Because I don't want to work my chest twice within the same week I substitute that sequence with burpees while they are doing the pushup and running sequence, I then follow along on the ski abs and the in & out abs. It gives my chest more of a recovery time and the burpees add more of a cardio/endurance/stamina factor than a strength factor, which is what I want on my cardio days.

Mental Aspects

Let's talk about some mental aspects to help you achieve your goals. First thing to remember when just starting out as a beginner....

1. You don't know what you don't know. When starting out on a pre-determined exercise routine, such as P90x, all the details are laid out in front of you. Because you have done it a week, read an article here or there you now think you are qualified to determined if you are smarter than the maker of the pre-determined exercise routine. You haven't even completed anything yet....but yet you are suddenly on your way to becoming the next Tony Horton or Shaun T. Just stick to the routine that is given to you, complete it and then modify and make changes on the next go round. You are not smart enough yet to determine what is and isn't correct, what is and isn't beneficial and what is and isn't going to help you. Sometimes it takes a few weeks or a few months to determine this. This is a big pitfall in achieving your goals. You simply do not know what you do not know yet. The best advice that you most certainly will NOT follow is.....follow the advice of people who have been all the way through it before you, follow the advice of people who know more than you and follow the advice of people who seem to make the most sense.

2. Think POSITIVE. What this means is do not tell yourself, "I do not want to be fat any more". That's negative and keeps you focused on the negative. Instead tell yourself, "I want to be healthy", "I want to be fit", "I want to be in shape". Those are positive things. Tell your self these positive things over and over and over again. You can become, have, be or do anything that you think about the MOST. In order to unlock this door, the key is to believe it. If you simply do not believe it, then it will not happen, if you focus on what you don't want, don't want to happen, worse case scenarios then you will also get that. Why?

1. Because what I said is true. You are thinking about this aspect the most.
2. You are creating a self fulling prophesy.
3. It's easier for you to believe the negative, because that is what most of us have been doing all of our lives.

It's just as easy to create the positive side as it is the negative side.

Start here...

1. Create a goal that you can 100% truly believe will happen. Instead of saying..."I need to lose 80 pounds", instead try something that you can believe in much more such as...."I will lose 10 pounds". Perhaps the thought of losing 80 lbs might sound good to you, but you don't believe it will happen as much as believing you will lose 10 pounds. So create a goal and state of mind that you will believe 100%.

2. To determine if you actually believe it, the thought of it should make you feel good. If you do not feel good about it, then you do not believe it. Go with your feelings. If you feel bored, unmotivated, ect....these are all signs and symptoms that you really do not believe you can achieve your goal. So you will need to modify your goal or your thinking. Make sure you are thinking about the positive instead of the negative. Are you thinking about your lack or are you thinking about what WILL happen? Remember...do NOT think about what you don't want to happen. Think about what WILL happen.

3. You need to think so positive and feel so good about this that you actually believe that you have ALREADY achieved your goal and you are just waiting to receive it in person. It's kind of like Christmas as a kid. You know it's Christmas eve, you know that presents will be under the tree the next day but you just haven't received then yet. Same thing with your goals....you must believe 100%, your thoughts and feelings must be positive and you must get to the point that you have already achieved your goal.

It's just that simple.

Your mind and attitude WILL make or break you. Your determination, your desire, your thoughts, your feelings. All of these are equally as important or even more important that your diet or exercise. What the mind thinks and believes, the body will follow. It has to. That's why the fight or flight response works....first it is set in motion by the mind, your thoughts, your feelings and then the body takes over AUTOMATICALLY. Same thing with achieving your goals. Get your realistic goal set, believe it, think positive about it, this feeling should make you feel good and at a certain point you should actually believe that you have already achieved your goal. Presto...you are 10 pounds lighter. Repeat this over and over again and then down the road you will wake up one day and be 80 pounds lighter, which was what you originally wanted, but didn't really believe could happen.

3. Another important key to this is: DO NOT SET A TIME LIMT ON ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL. For various reasons, this is stupid and self defeating. The people that tell you to set time limits are categorically and 100% wrong. No matter who they are. Don't believe me....it's simple, just try it out and see for your self. If it does not work 100% of the time, then it is wrong. That is just luck.

Do not tell yourself..."I need to lose 80 pounds in 3 months". Your body may not be set up for that kind of weight loss, things may happen in your life that prevents you from working out for about a month or something, sometimes pushing and pressing yourself too hard and too aggressively is exactly what you want just so you can set yourself up to fail on purpose and perpetuate your cycle of being a loser. Strong words? Yes, but also very true. If you purposely set yourself up to fail then what are you? You are a loser. If you set yourself up to win, you are naturally a winner. It's simple logic. Forget....1000% about setting time limits on your goals. The universe, God, Jesus, or whoever knows the perfect timing to give you your wish or prayer, not you. You only think you know.

To achieve your goal...it is just this simple. If it fails, then you are not thinking something correctly. Go back and ask yourself if your thoughts are correct, because if it fails then your thoughts are 100% incorrect.

You have the power to change what ever is in your life or happening in your life because the things that are happening in your life is brought there by you and by how you are feeling. If you are feeling frustrated MOST of the time....doesn't matter about what, you will 1000% bring more people, situations and things into your life that perpetuate that feeling. Get the idea? What you feel and think about MOST of the time is what brings things, people and situations into your life.

Try it out and see for your self. Just remember to follow the steps until you do it subconsciously and it will work 100 percent of the time and heres the best part...it will work for ANY goal you have in life. Want a mate? Set your goal...don't say "I want someone who doesn't smoke, doesn't curse, doesn't do this...doesn't do that..." Why? Because that is focusing on the NEGATIVE. Instead say..."I want a mate who leads a healthy life style, is a hard worker, is understanding" ect...that is focusing on the postive. If you think about how bad of a person your last mate was...guess what? You will attract the same type of person over and over again. Why? Because of the principles I've outlined for you. This is what you think about MOST of the time. The things you DON'T want, instead of the positive things.

Try it out. Remember, if you think it's bullshit, then it is. If you think it's a valuable tool, then it is. YOU are in total control. You are either a winner or loser in life. There is no in between. If you don't care about your health or weight, then it's because you simply do not believe you can change it. I've never seen anyone say..." I want to be fat and sick because it makes me feel good about my self." If you don't care about money, it's because you believe you cannot have more of it. The list goes on and on....Like the diet aspects of my blog I am starting out in this aspect also. How do I know it works? What is the proof? Well, for one thing every single principle is in the Bible. For another....I for one have been thinking the opposite way that I SHOULD have been thinking all my life and that is why I have exactly what I have in my life. You can put positive things, people and situations in your life just as easily as you can the negative things.

Whether you believe these principles or not...it doesn't matter. Just like the law of gravity, these principles do not require belief for them to work. If you don't believe in gravity and you walk off the top of a building you will still plummet to the ground. Same thing with these principles....whether you believe in them or not...they work and are working in your life at this very moment.

YOU are responsible

If you are out of shape, unhealthy and over weight then it is 99% certain that it is entirely your own fault.  The 1% being due to genetic defects or being born with certain diseases and conditions.

There is absolutely NO excuse what-so-ever for you to be unhealthy OR over weight.  With the vast amount of FREE information available on the internet these days covering "eating healthy", "foods that promote weight loss", "how to exercise for fat loss", "how to exercise for a healthy life style", ect...there is no excuse.  Bottom line is most people are completely lazy and simply do not care.  Oh, they care when they develop diabetes, heart conditions, high blood pressure, ect...Well, on second thought...most do not even care then.  But if you simply read then you will discover that you can reverse these conditions if you have them and if you do not have them then you can decrease your chances of NOT getting conditions like these by changing your eating habits and exercising.

Here is something to keep in mind....once you get into shape and get down to a healthy weight your food cravings WILL change, your decisions WILL change as far as what foods to eat and how much and not only that....it's much easier to maintain your healthy body than it is getting it healthy after you've been out of shape and over weight.  So consider you getting to your "healthy condition" as temporary.  Once you've reached that point it takes much less effort to maintain it because you've already developed healthy eating habits and you can eat more food to maintain it.

Think of it this way....an airplane takes a lot of effort and fuel to take off from the runway and climb high into the sky, BUT once it's reached it's proper altitude it takes much less effort and fuel to maintain it.  Same thing with your weight and/or body.

You will have to put in some serious work.  Burn the fat off by exercise, do not starve it.  Starving it is extremely stupid and unhealthy for a variety of reasons.

Everything I say on my blog can be easily verified by simply reading CREDIBLE sources and what's more...it's all available for free on the internet.  All  you have to do is care enough about yourself to do it.  I will not take the time to give you a bibliography and give out a bunch of links.  I refuse to do ALL the work for you.  If you do not believe what I am telling you is the truth, then simply research what I am saying.  My progress documented by picture updates should show you that what I am saying actually works.  I am not selling anything nor am I making any money by passing along what I find or by helping others.  The only agenda I have is simply trying to help others obtain their own starting point.  Many times it's the "starting point" that is the hardest.  Hopefully my blog and seeing my progress through my periodically updated pictures will help you with your own personal starting point and perhaps even get you motivated to take action.        

A new High rep

Today I hit a new personal high rep of 15 unassisted chin ups...not only that, it was while wearing a 15 lb weighted vest AND I did 15 unassisted reps again on the second set/round.  This was in the Legs and Back routine.

It may not sound like much of an accomplishment, but I'm proud of it.  I started out being able to only do 4 reps while struggling with NO weighted vest and the second round I was only able to get 2-3 reps.

All of my unassisted reps went up today.  It was a turning point in my training.

I'm also experimenting with a supplement that is an estrogen inhibitor which helps lowers/inhibits estrogen (which is a hormone that both men and women have, but it is a fat storing hormone that you really don't want when trying to lose body fat) and therefore frees up testosterone.  As we get older, this hormone increases and testosterone decreases.  I will update at a later date to give my opinion whether or not it's worth the money and what, if anything, I've noticed.