Weight loss super tips

Jump Rope For Weight Loss

JP — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:21:27 +0000

If you are trying to lose weight then you know that long, boring, and tedious cardio sessions are out and High intensity interval training is out (HIIT). The good side of the fitness industry (you know the one that isn’t making you buy useless supplements, and expensive machines) has long discovered that running on a treadmill for hours a week is not the best way to lose fat; it messes up your knees and you have to spend another hour in the gym (who has an hour to spare nowadays). HIIT is a much more effective way of losing fat. You can still use the treadmill, stationary bike, etc, all you have to do is switch your intensity.

One example could be: Warmup 3 min a an intensity level of 3 (1 easy 10 you max effort), then continue for 5 intervals switching from 1 min at an intensity level of 7 or 8, with a 2 minute break at an intensity level of 3. At the end do 3 minutes at an intensity level of 3.

One of my favorite ways to do HIIT is with a jump rope. Many coaches don’t use it because it takes some skill and time to learn, but they are missing out on a really fun and powerful tool.

You can get a great fat burning workout with just 5 minutes of jumping rope.

If you don’t know how to jump rope that is ok, just watch my tutorial below.

Jump Rope for Weight Loss Routines

Now that you know how to jump rope here are a few jump rope routines you can use after your workout to help you increase your weight loss.

Jump Rope Workout 1

Tabata Protocol

20 jump max speed and rest for 10 seconds. Repeat this 8 times for a total of 4 minutes.

Fibonacci Ladder

Follow this rep sequence 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 , then do it the other way around 55, 34, 21,13. You can use any other numbers of the sequence.

3 Strikes

Jump for as long as you can until you mess up 3 times. Count how many jumps you managed to do, and write them down. Next time try to break your record.

You can make up your own routines or workouts as well. With time you will find out that the jump rope for weight loss is awesome. It will also help add some variety to your training.

Lie Detection Training

JP — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:23:16 +0000

I began this blog because I am fascinated with super heroes. I wanted to give people tools to make them physically superior to other human beings. I have shown you products to make that simply make you better by making you you stronger, faster, and more explosive. Now being a super hero is not only about being physically superior, it is also about being more sensitive about your surroundings. It’s about seeing things that aren’t evident to the normal human being Spiderman has his super “spider sense” that warns him that he is in danger.

Communication is more than 80% non verbal, that means that in a conversation you are missing out on 80% of what the other person is trying to tell you. Interpreting facial and body gestures is a key tool to knowing exactly what a person is feeling. Verbal communication is a conscious act which can be manipulated into false statements or what we call lying. Micro-expressions, on the other hand, are unconscious and are always sincere.

We are all liars, our society demands that we lie in order to avoid hurting other people. If you have ever seen the movie “The Invention of Lying”, you will agree that it would suck to live in a world were no one could lie. But lies can also be hurtful, and if it would be great if we learned how to detect them.

Watch this TED Talk by Pamela Meyer

Dr. Paul Ekman has been studying Micro-Expressions an body language for over 40 years. He was a consultant for the hit series “Lie to Me” (maybe it wasn’t much of a hit considered it got canceled) featuring Tim Roth. Dr Ekman has created a cool lie detection training software called METT (Micro Expression Training Tool) which trains you in detecting micro expressions.

Try the free demo here

He also has a couple of books on the subject that you can buy from Amazon.

Lie Detecting Books

I’ve been surprised by a lot of things I have learned for these books. Here are a few of them:

1. Liars usually don’t say, ” I didn’t do it.”

2. Liars try to convince instead of convey.

3. Attacking questioner.

4. Build credibility through repetition.

5. Refusal to answer.

6. Inappropiate level of politeness

7.Use of perception qualifiers like “pretty”, “frankly”

8. Shifts in blink rate

9. Saying yes while nodding no, or vice versa.

10. Weak denials.

If you want to test yourself here is a cool slide show from the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-meyer/lie-detector-sarah-palin_b_679271.html#s125533&title=Spotting_Deception_Is

You should check this website out as well:

http://www.liespotting.com

Why Industrialized Food is Unhealthy

JP — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:47:51 +0000

Brief History of Industrialized Foods

What we call food nowadays, is not what it was before. Science, paired up with greed, and has created a monster that we now call the food industry. Food began to be produced in mass around the eighteenth century. Before that, it was obtained from local farmers, or from a few merchants that traveled to far away lands and brought all types of weird and tasty foods.

If you go back to your high school history you’ll remember that Industrial Revolution began right about that time. Factories were being born, people were fleeing the country side, leaving their land behind seeking a better living. This left the world with fewer farmers and a larger food demand. Thankfully science came in and saved the day by providing new farming techniques that improved yields, and helped pave the way for urbanization and a growing population.

As time passed on, our understanding of plant physiology improved, thus we learned that by applying nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen via synthetic fertilizers that could improve plant growth, which in turn helped develop intensive types of agriculture. This new knowledge soon hit the animal kingdom, and chickens became the first victims.

Chickens were the first animals to be farmed. The discovery of vitamins around the early 1900′s, and their role in animal nutrition, soon led to the manufacturing of supplements, which enabled chickens to be raised indoors. Then came WWII, millions died, countries were destroyed, but our knowledge grew like it had never done before. Science was the big winner. We learned to develop antibiotics and vaccines, not only to improve human health, but to keep a animals packed together in unhealthy conditions. Thanks to these amazing discoveries the US began to farm pigs and cows in the 1960′s. But this is only have the story.

During the Industrial Revolution we also learned to preserve food longer. We were tired of eating salty meet, so in 1809 Nicolas Appert placed food in a vacuum bottle keeping it away from bateria and fungus, which are the ones responsible of making our food go bad, and thus preserving it for longer periods of time.

On a side note: Real food spoils in just a couple days.

A year later Peter Dugand changed the bottle for cans and canned food was born ( Thanks to this guy I was able to feed myself in college). Then came WWII and the Space Race. There are very few if no supermarkets at all outside our atmosphere, so astronauts have to carry food that would last weeks or days with out spoiling. Science was called upon once again and it came up with advances such as… spray drying, juice concentrates, freeze drying and the introduction of artificial sweeteners, colouring agents, and preservatives such as sodium benzoate. In the late 20th century products such as dried instant soups, reconstituted fruits and juices, and self cooking meals such as MRE food ration were developed. YUMMY.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Now lets take a look at the good things and the bad things about this. I’ll begin with the good ones.

1. Modernization: Thanks to the fact that 1 person could produce the same amount of food as 10 people ( I made that stat up), that gave 9 other people the chance to build, and invent stuff that has helped our lives become easier. Thanks to industrialized food we have the internet, radios, ipod’s etc.

2. Saves us time: Instead of spending an hour in the kitchen cooking real food all we have to do is: pop a box in the microwave for 5 minutes and voilá, or open a box of cereal pour milk on it, open another box of juice, and breakfast is served.

3. Kids love it: Parents are too tired from work to have to deal with their kids whining about not liking what they cooked for dinner, so why not please them with the stuff in the box they so much like.

4… that is about it.

Now for the bad things.

1. Destroyed environment: Synthetic fertilizers are responsible for polluting a great deal of our water resources. Why if they help plants grow? Nothing in great amounts is good. An excess of amounts of plant nutrients like nitrates and phosphates provoke what is called an “algae bloom”. You might have seen algae blooms in sewers or by the side of a creek or river. Excess algae causes the water to lose oxygen an enter a state of hypoxia that is not suitable for other living things like fish.

2. Terrible food quality: Just like humans, cows, chickens, and pigs get stressed when packed in too close together. Living in an animal farm is like living in a heavy metal concert. Imagine living in a Metallica concert (with no music) for the rest of your life with Lars Ulrich throwing food into the crowd every once in awhile; then they guy next to you sneezes on you, while some one else throws up on you because he is sick (get the picture). In a week or less a great deal of those people would have caught a cold or would have gotten some type of infection. Now instead of people imagine chickens… these are the chickens you eat. Hmmmm… tasty

3. Obesity: With over half the population of the US and Colombia suffering from obesity, I would guess it is save to say that what we are eating is not doing the trick. Obesity is a sickness and more people die from it than from cancer, aids, and (place another creepy disease in here) together. Hell, in Colombia it kills more people than violence does, and we have been at war for the past 60 years, and we are a third world country.

4. Annoying and violent kids: I’m a teacher so I now how annoying and violent kids are nowadays. Some parents may
say”… my boy is just so crazy…”, but the bottom line is he isn’t comfortable in his own skin, thus he is violent. Studies have shown that there is a link between the way we behave and what we eat (click here). People under estimate how food affects they way they feel. As I said before obesity is a disease, so it is save to say that an obese person feels sick all the time, even if they are not lying in bed. Sick people are usually not in a good mood, simply because they don’t feel good. Believe me eating right ( i.e no processed food) during 15 days will make you feel better than ever.

5. May lead to famine: Now you may think I’m crazy, but just listen up. Fruits and vegetables used to grow from seeds that came from other fruits and vegetables. Farmers picked the best specimens, thus selecting the tastiest and best selling. This is a primitive way of genetic manipulation that has been going on for centuries. The seeds selected were the strongest and fittest to withstand a plague. If one plant gets sick there is a good chance the others will survive. The land used was also small so it was easy to control pests and animals that wanted to eat them.

Nowadays, farmers buy their seeds from companies like Monsanto, that manipulate the gene of the seeds. Some seeds have been manipulated to the point that their offspring are not viable. That is, the seeds that belong to the new plants cannot be used again, thus the farmer are obliged to buy new seeds (Read about the terminator gene). Since these seeds are made they are not very genetically diverse, as a matter of fact, they are all genetically equal. This makes every seed vulnerable to the same diseases and pests. Imagine if everyone in you country were vulnerable to the same virus. Funny thing about that example is that that has already happened. When Europeans landed on America they brought with themselves a big stock of new diseases not known to the natives of these lands. The result ended up being the extermination of a lot of natives. Same thing can happen with our wheat and other grains that constitute most of our diet; one disease could leave the world without food.

Solution: I believe the days of industrialized food are coming to an end. More and more people are starting to buy organic vegetables from their local farmers. The few that decide to spend the extra bucks know that they get their money’s worth in health benefits. You may spend more in the market, but less at the doctors. Thanks to the Internet people are learning about how bad the quality of their food is and are taking action. Either we change the way we feed ourselves or die as a species.

Side Kick Health: Healthy Dog Food

JP — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:08:06 +0000

Every Super Hero has a side kick that gets him out of trouble, and helps him or her save the day. Batman had Robin, Superman had… Spiderman had… ok maybe not all of them had side kicks, but hell most of them are not human. Batman was really the only human, and he needed Robin’s help. If you want a Super Hero Body then you need a side kick. He or she doesn’t need to be human, but you do need one. Side kicks help you get your ass out of the house to workout or into the gym when you don’t feel like training (which in most cases is almost everyday); they push and demand more intensity helping you over come plateaus while reaching your fitness goals.

Ain't she a beauty?

My partner in crime at the moment is Lorenza. Lorenza is an 8 year old German Shepard + Beagle that bugs me until I take her out to the park. She knows she needs her exercise as well, and she needs to eat right just like me. If you are dog owner, I know you love your mutt as much as your own children, so I know you are going to want to read what I found out today.

Turns out that dogs don’t live as much as they should. The average American dog lives 11 years, while in optimum conditions they should live around 26 years!!!

Why are they dying so young?

They are dying for the same reason we are… their food is worst than crap. Dog food is so bad my dog prefers to eat crap instead of her food. I’ve tried all different types of brands, and she simply doesn’t like them. I bet she can smell all the preservatives and chemicals in there.

In fact, through my own research I discovered dog food contains at least 6 deadly chemicals that have been banned from human foods because they cause:

Kidney cancer
Bladder cancer
Skin cancer
Stomach cancer
Spleen cancer
Leukemia
Liver dysfunction
Major organ failure
Immune system collapse
Severe allergic reactions
Birth Defects
Blindness
Chronic Diarrhea
Hair Loss and

Behavior problems, including increased aggressiveness –> very dangerous if your dog is around children.

How can I make my dog live longer?

Start feeding your dog some well-balanced home made healthy dog food recipes . I have a huge collection I’m happy to share with you.

Now don’t think you can just give your dog left overs and that is it. Dogs have a different digestive system as ours, and thus they have different nutritional requirements. It’s very easy, if you know how to cook specifically for dogs. Just cook a large batch, freeze it and it can be eaten over several days.

But be sure you have a good source of healthy dog food recipes written especially for dogs because they have very specific requirements, different to humans.

It’s possible to love your dog to death with too much of the wrong foods, just like most people do with their kids.

If you you love your dog as much as I love mine I know you will be willing to spend a few more minutes in the kitchen, just to keep him or her alive for a lot more years.

Give your Side Kick the Health that he deserves and order these dog food recipes NOW!!!

Fit Clicks: Parkour Conditioning Edition

JP — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:26:34 +0000

Parkour Tip of the Day

Learning Parkour is tough and dangerous, but this is no reason why you shouldn’t include some of its moves in your training. One of the drills I enjoy the most from parkour are the stability exercises like cat balance and precision jumps (might have to register to view this or you can watch this video). These two exercises are a wicked way of strengthening the core, and developing six pack abs, while having a cool goal.

The best way to learn parkour tricks is patience. Learning these things takes time. On youtube there are some good to tutorials that have a step by step process. DON’T SKIP ANY STEPS!!! Before you go from one step to the next be sure you have enough confidence in yourself. Lack of confidence in this sport, and others like gymnastics, can make you hesitate and get injured.

Another tip I wanted to give you is, “don’t underestimate the small frame most traceurs have”. These guys and gals are strong. Down below I have a couple of parkour conditioning videos that will help you develop the strength and power necessary to pull off some of these stunts.

My last tip would be, ” BE CAREFUL”. I don’t want to lose any readers. If you have a gym near by where you can train, go ahead and sign up, or look up a parkour group in your home town. Parkour is very popular nowadays, there might be some good instructors in your area.

Want to Learn Parkour

I bet there are various good programs out there, but I have only followed two sources: American Parkour and Learn more Parkour. Both of them have free tutorials, which really help you learn how to do the tricks.

Parkour Video of the Day

I loved this video from the first day I saw. This has to be one of the coolest gyms ever.

Parkour Conditioning Video of the Day

Parkour is all about strength and very little muscle. Just look at the stunts these guys pull. Here are some tough exercises you can do to increase your strength.

Parkour Tricks for Beginners

JP — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:49:29 +0000

Parkour tricks are something that really blow my mind. They just seem so super heroish it is almost impossible to believe that a human can do them. I personally feel envy towards these guys and gals. Now who wouldn’t like to fly around all over the place as if they gave a damn about gravity? I know I do. Problem with Parkour is that it seems a bit difficult, and I have to admit I’m a bit of a… chicken (there I said it).

I’ve looked up tutorials on the web, and some are good, but none of them explain the real keys to each trick. It seems they leave stuff behind, considering how close I have come to breaking my neck doing some of the stunts. A couple months ago my friend Logan Christopher from the Lostartofhandbalancing.com introduced me to the Tapp Brothers and their Parkour Training System called Crash Course into Parkour and I just love how they explain how to do Parkour Tricks.

Here are some of their videos:

How to do the Human Flag

Want to Learn Some More Parkour Tricks Click Here?

Fit Clicks: Glute Exercises for a Perfect Butt, Butt Models, and more

JP — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:45:57 +0000

Note to self: I going to have a ball writing this edition.

You got to admit there is nothing sexier than a round butt. There is something about curves that is sexier than straightlines. Going back to my high School geometry, I’m going to go ahead and formulate the Beltranian Law of Sexiness: All curves are sexier than any straight line. You don’t believe me, I’ll prove it to you.

I’ll begin my proof by stating the Beltranian Postulate of Sexiness, which says, ” All men and women prefer their sexual partners to have round butts.” I know this to be a fact and I have proved it through various observations. Every time a guy or a girl with a perfect butt walks down the street, the men or women around him or her will bite their lower lips as a sign of “Hold me back or I will bite it.” Believe me I know, I haven’t missed an episode of Lie to Me.

This postulates as well as others like, “not all men and women are genetically gifted when it comes to having a round perfect butt“, and “having a round perfect butt will give you a better chance of landing a sexual partner” that have been formulated thanks to years of careful observation (I began this study around my teen years), have led me to the conclusion that:

“ALL MEN AND WOMEN WANT TO HAVE A ROUND AND PERFECT BUTT”.

Why? I don’t really have an answer, but I just guess it gives you something to hold onto for those rough rides. It also gives you a good chance of being famous with little talent (e.g Jennifer Lopez), or going out with tons of pro athletes and rappers (e.g Kim Kardashian).

Taking all this into account I introduce to you the Perfect Butt edition of Fit Clicks.

I Want A Perfect Butt Program of the Day

I know of at least 4 perfect butt programs that have awesome glute exercises, but today I’m only going to show you one of them. Now don’t think I’m holding back, because I’m not. I just don’t want to saturate your head with tons of information, which eventually lead you to not take action.

The program I about to show you today was created my Nick Nilsson. With this program you get:

The Fastest results possible.
18 complete programs to follow so you know what to do to reach your goals.
Unique glutes exercises that target your butt like smart bombs.
Step by Step videos that will teach you how to do each exercises so you can get results faster.
and of course a nutrition plan to take full advantage of your training.

Why is this program different? Nick is known as the Mad Scientist of Muscle, he try different methods and exercises for a living, so he knows hat works best and faster. As prove I’m going to leave you with…

Note: Everything you need to know about developing a perfect butt by clicking here

Best Glute Exercise of the Day

These are just some of the exercises and workouts you will find in the Gluteus to the Maximus program. Fell free to try the workout out.

Perfect Butt Male Models of the Day

No decent picture to put on here (Sorry Girls). The one I had found was taken down for some reason.

It is not easy to find male model pictures with perfects for various reasons: 1) I’m not into that; 2) Most of them are Gay Porn; 3) not that many sites appear on Google. Anyhow, I was not about to leave my female readers without something to waste their time on, so I found this thread on a forum that has tons of hunks for you to entertain yourselves with.

Perfect Butt Female Model of the Day

Vida Guerra is a perfect example of how you can become famous for having a perfect round butt. Like all the great ones, she got teased about in in school, and now she is in the big leagues. She has dated Jeremy Shockey, and is desired by men all over the world.

She became famous when her boyfriend took some pictures of her and sent them to some magazine. Here is the Gallery to some of her pictures.

Big Butt Music Video of the Day

I can’t think of another song more representative of the Beltranian Law of Sexiness than Sir Mix a lot’s ” Baby Got Back“. I know you know the lyrics so don’t feel embarrassed and sing along (I know I will).

Big Butt Music Video of the Day II

Since the last video really doesn’t show much back, I had to include Sisqo’s Thong Song. Girls, I tried finding music videos featuring guys with cute butts, but to tell you the truth, there ain’t to many of them (I didn’t look to hard either).

Omega 3 Fatty Acids Reduce Muscle Soreness after Workout

JP — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:33:58 +0000

If you have ever worked out at high intensitys and woken up with every muscle in your body aching, then you have expierienced Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS). DOMS is characterized by stiffness and tenderness in the muscles, which some people love (like me), and others hate. This soreness is caused by the eccentric phase of exercise. The eccentric phase in a dumbell curl, for example, is when you find yourself lowering the weigh (same goes for pullups, pushups, and squats). The pain usually occurs within the first 24 or 72 hours (I usually feel it 24hrs after) after you finished working out.

Some people say that you shouldn’t train if you are sore, others say you should. I believe you should and can, as long as you do something different than what you did the day before. I personally believe that getting back to training will help you relief some of the pain, plus you will continue to grow muscle and lose fat.

Here are a few things you can do:

1. “Active” Recovery with Intu-Flow. Is usually what I do if I’m sore all over. I choose to do some mobility drills from Scott Sonnon’s Intu-Flow program. Depending on how sore I feel my sessions may go from 10-15 min. Getting those joints moving will help you fight the soreness, and help your muscles and joints recover faster.

2. Change the intensity. If you got sore will lifting a lot of weight and doing little reps, then lower the weight and increase the reps. This will help you continue training while you work different muscle fibers.

3. Supplement with Omega 3 fatty Acids. Omega 3 fatty acids are a precursor to prostoglandins which are powerful hormone like substances that help fight inflammation and improve blood flow. Supplementing with this oil has been proven to help patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, Crohn’s disease, among other inflammatory diseases.

In a study published recently by the Journal of Sports Medicine a group of scientists discovered that ingesting Omega 3 fatty acids for one week reduced clinical markers of localized inflammation as measured 48 hours after eccentric arm curl exercise.

This is how they did it:

“We tested the hypothesis that omega-3 supplementation reduces inflammation that is induced by eccentric arm curl exercise. Healthy adult men and women (n=11; 35±10 y) performed eccentric biceps curls on
two occasions, once after 14d of dietary omega-3 restriction (control trial) and again after 7d of 3,000 mg/d omega-3 supplementation (omega-3 trial). Before and 48 h after eccentric exercise, signs of inflammation was assessed by measuring soreness ratings, swelling (arm circumference and arm volume), and temperature (infrared skin sensor).”

The results showed a 15% less soreness in people that took omega 3 compared to those that didn’t.

Omega 3 has also shown to increase insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake, thus helping fat loss and diabetes prevention.

Dosage: I recommend 3000 mgs a day, but I typically recommend more, in the range of 1-1.5 grams per body fat percentage point, which can be much as 45 grams—that’s right, 45,000 mgs a day. Anyway, before to start taking it you should consult it with your physician.

References. Jouris, K., McDaniel, J., Weiss, E. The Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation on the Inflammatory Response to Eccentric Strength Exercise. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2011. 10, 432-438. (view article here)

Fit Clicks: Garlic, Clubbells, Obi Obadike and more.

JP — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:51:23 +0000

Habit I Must Adopt of the Day.

According to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition a while back (1980) garlic and onions help reduces lipid synthesis and influences glycogen metabolism in the liver of rats. In English that means that it helps reduce the production of fat and lower blood sugar levels.

This eventually leads me to say that you must eat garlic and onions. They are not only good for weight loss, but good for your heart. Yes, they are bad for your breath, but hell they can’t be good for everything.

I personally eat garlic in almost all my meals except breakfast, I just love the taste. I know some people that are allergic to it, but if you are not you must definitely include this food in your diet.

Chang MLW, Johnson MA: Effect of garlic on carbohydrate metabolism and lipid synthesis in rats. J Nutr 1980, 110:931-936

Training Technology of the Day

I got my first pair of clubbells a about 2 months ago and my training way of viewing my strength changed completely. I wrote a post a couple months go on clubbells (read it here). One thing I love about clubbells is how they improved my overall strength. I don’t care how much you can bench press, clubbells will make you feel like a little girl when you try them. The constant change in center of mass is something you will never find in your typical machines or dumbells. If you are up for a challenge you can get them at RMAX International.

Coach of the Day

Scott Sonnon is by far the best coach I have found on the web. He is so good I have decided to invest around 1K on getting the chance to certify myself as a CST instructor. Scott is a 4 gold medal winner in various martial arts. He was the first American to teach the Russian Spetsnaz. This is a great honor considering Russians don’t think very highly of Americans (had to do with a little something called the Cold War).

Scott’s focus towards fitness is something you have never seen before. His methods of training actually translate to real life situations. That is why he trains fire fighters, police officers, military (Israeli Special Forces) etc. This is no functional training like Cross Fit, this Tactical training where your body learns how to transition from one movement to the other like we do in real life. If you want to look at some of his programs you can go to RMAX International, or you can read my reviews about some of his programs.

TACFIT Warrior and Commando.

Hot Male Model of the Day

Ladies turn in this edition so I present to you Obi Obadike. I know, I suck at choosing male models. True be told I don’t spend as much energy searching them as I do their female counter parts. If you don’t think Obi is that hot, you have to handed to him for having a fit bod. Just how ripped can a man get? As I’ve said in past issues I would love for you to give me suggestions. Here are more Obi pictures.

TACFIT Video of the Day

This is a pretty advanced workout, because of the complexity and strength requirements of some of exercises. The man in the video is Scott Sonnon creator of the TACFIT programs, and one of the best coaches I know. Enjoy and don’t injure yourself try to do this workout.

Sexy Fit Clicks: Sexy Swedish Buns, Elsa Pataky, and much more

JP — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:32:17 +0000

Good Habit You Must Adopt of the Day

Stop eating carbs past 4 o’clock pm. The only exception should be if you train late in the afternoon.

Why? You ask.

Carbohydrates are our main energy source. They are the first thing our body burns when we train. After a grueling workout your muscle energy reserves are depleted. If they are not fed something they will enter what is called a catabolic state (muscle break down). SO in order to create an anabolic state (muscle build up) you must feed your muscle some carbohydrates and protein within a 2 hour window after your last rep.

On the other side, if you don’t train your muscle energy reserves WON’T be depleted, and they won’t require the energy. If you happen to feed it some high energy foods like carbs, guess what is going to happen to that excess energy? That’s right. Your going to store it here:

Ok. So why 4 o’clock and not 5 or 6? 4 o ‘clock is usually when most people go out for an afternoon snack before leaving work, and when most physical activity seems to cease. Usually after 4 o’clock most people won’t be engaging in intense physical activity which means they won’t be needing extra fuel. If your day ends a little later, go a head and push the time a little further.

Your late afternoon meals should mostly be constituted by protein, fat, and tons of vegetables. Avoid potatoes, rice, bread, and other carbs at all risks. A piece o salmon with a nice salad would be a much better choice.

Speaking of not eating carbs…

The Recipe of the Day

Click on image for recipe

This is a recipe you definitively want hold on to for your cheat days. Yes, you read correctly. Cheating on your diet is a must. First of all it helps you stay mentally stable during your diet, and it helps you lose fat. If you want an explanation you can read about it here. These sexy buns are courtesy of my favorite chef Jamie Oliver. You can grab the recipe by clicking the image above or you can just click here.

Hot Model of the Day

I’m definitely speechless right now. This woman is beyond your regular hotness. If you saw the Fast and Furious 5 you might recognize spanish model Elsa Pataky for playing the Brazilian cop that helps “the Rock” catch Dominic and is team. As a thank you to all my male viewers I leave you this gallery. You can stare for a while, but don’t get in trouble at work or at home, you can get lost in those eyes.

Stupid Fitness Video of the Day

This video just brought back a lot of memories, of when I used to watch In Living Color. Most of the actors in this show turned out to be “good comedians”. Heck, even J-Lo used to be one of the Fly Girls.

Music Video that will get Your Ass off the Couch of the Day

This song is part of the Fast and Furious 5 soundtrack. It’s preformed by Don Omar featuring Lucenzo. As you can tell I saw the movie yesterday and liked it a lot. Turn your speakers on pump up the volume and get ready to sweat.