The strength and size stigma

There has always been a strength and size stigma in the world of weight lifting. You have all of these guys who are genuinely afraid to burn fat and think if they loose any weight that they will turn into Pee Wee Herman or something. Well that is far from the truth. Fat is not productive. All fat is there to do is store energy. It does not give you any added strength advantage at all. So why are all these guys so weight conscious? Well here is the deal. If you loose weight too fast like most people do your body will also loose muscle mass. If you loose muscle mass you get weaker right. So the only solution to the problem is to loose weight slowly. If you loose it slowly you will be able to retain more of your muscle mass so you can retain most of your strength. In order to be successful at this you have to target your fat. By doing this you will breed an environment that is conducive to burning fat and building muscle. So the weight is not so important it is the body mass that is important. Muscle has always weighed more than fat. So there is more mass in muscle than there is in fat and you will look better. So why be so focused on weight? Focus on your body mass instead.

See your self there!!

All the time I am asked how do you keep on going and pursuing the things you do? I have been working out seriously for the past 18 years. Most of which I have accomplished without the aid of a training partner. The best way I can describe how I maintain my focus and keep my eyes on "the prize" as they say is visualization. If you can visualize what you want and where you will be by a certain time then you will be able to achieve it. If you rely on someone else they can turn into a crutch. I will give you a good example. You are training with your friend Joe. Joe does not want to train on Wednesday because he would rather watch TV or whatever. You are now discouraged because your "partner" is not going any more. This severely increases your chances of not going as well. So why put yourself in that situation to start with. Do not get me wrong there are some awesome partners out there. But it only takes one bad one to derail your training regiment. Keep focused and see your self were you want to be. Don't forget to follow me on Google plus or by E- Mail. Thanks.

The power of thinking positive!!

Everywhere you look today people are feeding off of negativity. When you go to work, school even home sometimes. Well don't believe in all the hype. If you don't like things the way they are wait a minute they will change. If you want to make them change faster then you need to take good positive action and stick with a plan. Trust me this will work. Yes there will be those "haters" that will tell you you will fail and this wont work and you should quit like them. Well guess what kill them with your kindness and success. Do not! allow someone else negativity to affect you. If anything I always try to help those people by inspiring them and throwing them some hope. Most of the time I get about one or two million excuses in return but I don not care I just keep on going. If you stay focused on your goals and positive you can achieve whatever it is you are setting out to accomplish. This always holds true in the gym with your training but also in life. Do not give up never surrender keep your chin up and stay positive. Do not forget to subscribe to my site via Google plus or E- mail. Thanks.

Common Health Threats You Can't Ignore | Yahoo! Health

 This is a good article it is so true that men often ignore there bodies warning signs. Check it out. Don't forget to subscribe via Google plus or e-mail. Thanks.


Common Health Threats You Can't Ignore | Yahoo! Health

7 Best Supplements for Weight Loss

 By The Editors of WOMEN'S HEALTH | Healthy Living – 16 hours ago

You can lose weight without starving yourself or drastically restricting your food choices. You can eat reasonable portions and put in reasonable workouts at the gym, and you can shed fat while you do it.

How? It all comes down to eating the right combination of foods--foods that will shift your body out of fat-storage mode and into fat-melting mode. Specific vitamins and nutrients can actually help to flip an internal switch that signals cells throughout your body to burn more calories, wasting many of those calories as heat. Without these important nutrients, the opposite happens. Your body holds onto fat. Your metabolism slows and your weight-loss efforts become an exercise in futility.

Optimize these critical fat-melting nutrients so you can finally drop those stubborn pounds and keep them off for good. In this way, you can still consume reasonable portions and put in a reasonable amount of exercise. Yes, you still have to watch your portions. Yes, exercise is still important. But fat-melting foods work in your favor so you can eat and move in a way that is reasonable, effective, and realistic for life.


Vitamin D
How It Melts Fat: Study after study shows that vitamin D helps to ensure body cells listen and respond to insulin, a hormone secreted from your pancreas. One of its jobs is to help glucose get into body cells, which burn glucose for energy. How well insulin pushes glucose into cells is called "insulin sensitivity." The more sensitive your cells are to insulin, the better. The less sensitive they are to insulin, the more likely the calories you eat will end up in your fat cells.

When levels of D are low, levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) rise. Higher than normal levels of PTH trigger a series of reactions that eventually lead to fat cells converting sugar into fat and hoarding fat rather than releasing it to be burned, explains Michael B. Zemel, PhD, director of the Nutrition Institute at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

A lack of vitamin D may also interfere with leptin, a hormone that signals your brain to stop eating. Your body doesn't know when it's full, so you continue to eat.

Calcium
How It Melts Fat: Calcium is a mineral that works in tandem with D to help you shed fat. Calcium is stored in fat cells, and researchers think that the more calcium a fat cell has, the more fat that cell will release to be burned. Calcium also promotes weight loss by binding to fat in your GI tract, preventing some of it from getting absorbed into your bloodstream.


Protein
How It Melt Fat: In addition to keeping hunger in check, eating protein at every meal helps to keep body composition--the amount of fat relative to muscle--in better proportion. Along with calcium and D, protein helps you to preserve muscle mass as you drop pounds. A recent study out of the University of Illinois found that women who consumed protein twice daily lost 3.9 percent more weight than women who consumed less of it on a diet. They not only lost more weight, they also got stronger as they did so, with their thigh muscles alone ending up with 5.8 percent more protein at the end of the diet than before.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids
How They Melt Fat: omega-3s enable weight loss by switching on enzymes that trigger fat-burning in cells. They also help to boost mood, which may help reduce emotional eating. And omega 3s might improve leptin signaling in the brain, causing the brain to turn up fat burning and turn down appetite. Fatty fish like salmon (which are also high in vitamin D) are one of the richest sources of this fat. Other foods, such as some nuts and seeds, contain a type of fat that can be converted into omega-3s after ingestion.

Monounsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFAs)
How They Melt Fat: One Danish study of 26 men and women found that a diet that included 20 percent of its calories from MUFAs, a type of fat found in olive oil, nuts, seeds, avocados, peanut butter, and chocolate, improved 24-hour calorie burning by 0.1 percent and fat burning by 0.04 percent after 6 months. Other research shows that MUFAs zero in on belly fat. Specific foods that are high in MUFAs--especially peanuts, tree nuts, and olive oil--have been shown to keep blood sugar steady and reduce appetite, too.


Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)
How It Burns Fat: CLAs are potent fat burners that are found, along with D and calcium, in dairy products. They are fatty acids that are created when bacteria ferments the food in the first part of the stomach of cows, sheep, and other ruminant animals. The CLA that is created through fermentation then makes its way into the meat and milk of these animals.

When we consume these foods, the CLA helps blood glucose enter body cells, so CLA can be burned for energy and not stored as fat. CLA also helps to promote fat burning, especially in muscles, where the bulk of our calorie burning takes place.

Note: There's a downside to this fat melter. Most of these studies involving CLA were performed using huge amounts of CLA--amounts that you'd only be able to consume if you ate 40 pounds of beef at once. (We don't know about you, but we certainly can't eat 40 pounds of beef for dinner.) While you might not be able to consume enough of it through food alone to melt off a huge amount of fat, but you can consume enough of it to help nudge your metabolism into a fat-burning state. And when you add it to the other fat melters--especially the D, calcium, and protein--you will create the perfect environment for total-body fat burning.

Polyphenols
How They Melt Fat: Polyphenols are the antioxidants that give green tea its health-and metabolism-boosting punch. Research shows they boost resting metabolic rate by up to a whopping 17 percent, helping the body to burn more fat. One recent study done on rats found that EGCG, the polyphenol in green tea, blocked weight gain and prevented metabolic syndrome when rats were fed a high-fat diet. You can actually feel this effect after you drink the tea. Your body will literally heat up as your cells waste calories as heat. Green tea is a great winter elixir for that reason. Drink a cup whenever you feel chilled and are tempted to eat even though you are not really that hungry. The tea will warm and soothe you, reducing hunger and cravings.

"Good Fatty oils" More than meets the eye!

There are several good fatty oils for your body. These substances are referred to as fatty acids or omega fats but they are naturally in oil form so I call them fatty oils. What ever you want to call them I call them amazing. They can help almost every system in the body. They are associated with everything from helping with joints, heart disease and repairing the Myolyn sheath around nerves ect. I do realize that some of these claim are a bit of a stretch but how can one compound be associated with so many things? Well there are several reasons there are several articles that show the blood thinning and cholesterol lowering abilities of these oils. Most people take them for there heart health as a matter of fact. Whatever you take them for they seem to be an essential part of the diet that everyone should be taking advantage of.
Here is most of the hype when it comes to the supplement side of things. People will tell you that animal sources are better than plant sources and vise verse. Here is the deal just get on a supplement you like and stick to it.  This is the way to keep things going in a positive direction. I am sure that your body does not care if it comes from a plant or animal. Most of this is probably hype. One thing that isn't hype is the essential fatty oils ability to burn fat. These compounds are known for there fat burning ability. This is sited on many different studies. There are other fatty oils with a stronger affinity for this fat burning ability such as CLA. This is a well known fat burning supplement. It has also been shown to have other benefits. Just like the omega fatty oils that I have been discussing up to this point. So go get some fish or flax oil your body will thank you in many ways. Don't forget to follow my site via email or Google plus.

"SUPERIOR LIFE FOOD" 12 Foods All Nutritionists Eat | Yahoo! Health

This is a good article that outlines the so called super foods. These are all good to aid in several health concerns people have these days. I love articles like these because they can actually help to educate and aid people into eating healthier food options. These foods are superior life foods. They can truly enrich peoples lives. You will also like this article that talks about foods that boost energy. You can see that article here.
12 Foods All Nutritionists Eat | Yahoo! Health