When most people think about exercise and losing weight, they automatically picture running, biking or swimming - a high intensity workout that burns a large amount of calories. They focus all their effort on cardio and completely ignore any of the benefits a strength training routine has to offer. They...
English can be a complicated thing. If it isn't your first language you know this all too well and if you have a friend from another country, you've probably heard them complain. If you look up fat in the dictionary you'll find out it can be used as an adjective...
Best is defined as, "the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality" and when it comes to working out, everyone thinks their approach is the most excellent or effective. With an almost endless amount of workout routines to choose from, one of them has to be the best, right? The...
Sweating is a way for the body to control its temperature. This water weight loss is unfortunately not the kind of long term weight control you're looking for. Real weight loss, the kind that's involved when the body burns excess fat, is caused by eating less and exercising, not by...
Figuring out your daily calorie needs is the foundation of any weight goal. Gaining, losing or maintaining your weight requires you to eat different amounts and if you don't know how to figure that out, you won't be able to reach your goal. Calorie Balance Every single calorie that you put into...
The sauna is a magnet for overweight people who want to lose weight. While sweating out buckets of water causes a temporary drop in weight, saunas do nothing for long term weight prospects. A sauna, or any hot environment, forces the body to sweat for temperature control. You're not sweating...
In Part 2 of The War on Bulking, I discussed the typical bulking cycle; a period in which a bulker is obsessed with gaining muscle, yet ends up fat and unhealthy. Muscle growth is limited to about 10 pounds per year. This growth isn't limited by calorie intake, and...
1. Use Smaller Plates. If you're used to using a big plate at dinner and filling it up to the rim, you're taking in way too many calories. Instead, use smaller plates so that when you fill it up to the rim, you won't be eating as much. You can...
Dieting has a negative connotation associated with it. Who wants to give up the foods they love, be hungry all day and go crazy counting calories? All that doesn't seem very fun. The truth is that dieting for losing or even gaining weight isn't about depriving yourself or going crazy...
Losing weight requires that you take in less calories than you burn over a prolonged period of time. Your body will then begin to use its fat stores for energy causing weight loss. Since there are two sides of this weight loss equation (calories eaten and calories burned) you can...
