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I wasn’t feeling so great about how I looked and I was approaching 40 and wanted to look fabulous!

Friday, August 27th, 2010

“I started working out at Precision Personal Training to look great when I turned 40. I had no idea how great I would look after training with Marlon. I reached my goals and then some! Working out at PPT is not only motivating, but completely addictive. I have recommended all my friends to the gym and I even have my kids working out there now. Everyone is so friendly and accommodating. I will never go to another facility again! The BEST personal training experience EVER! Bonus- No gym fees!!”

-Allison, Homemaker 40

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How to Build Muscle Quickly

Friday, August 27th, 2010

We, as human beings, tend to want what we want right now! Unfortunately for us, this almost always is never the case. But that desire is still there so when we see advertisements like “10lbs of muscle tomorrow!” and “You’ll never build muscle without super muscle maker powder!” we tend to think that we need them to achieve our goals. But nothing will ever replace fundamentals when it comes to working out. Hands down the most important step to transforming your pudgy belly into a fantastic body is proper nutrition. If you’re eating junk, your body is going to look like junk. If you’re eating great, your body is going to look great. It’s that simple. Furthermore when it comes to nutrition, you must eat healthy, but also eat constantly. By changing the typical, 3 meals a day diet into a 6 meals a day diet, you keep your metabolism high so your body is constantly burning fat, but you also continuously feed your muscles with the nutrients they need to grow larger and stronger.

Also a very important thing that people tend to overlook when they work out is rest. We are naturally inclined to think that working out harder means we’ll get better looking bodies. True enough, you can’t expect to look great if all you’re curling are potato chips while you sit on the couch. However gains in your body aren’t made in the gym. They’re only made if your body has enough calories and rest time to fully recuperate from the stress you put it under in the gym. If you’re lifting and working out 6 days a week, how do you expect your body and muscles to recover and grow stronger? They can’t! They never get a break! Incorporating proper rest periods into your workout is essential to making strides.

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Tips For Amazing Abs

Friday, August 27th, 2010

The cardio serves as the metabolic switch, which puts your body into peak state for fat burning and muscle building. To get effective results in anything you need to create an initial movement or momentum.

- Once you stroke the fire of your metabolism everything else comes easy. The fastest way to kick start your metabolism is through HIIT(high intensity interval training). This is short intense exercise that uses both moderate intensity exercise with periods of high intensity exercise. You can see startling results from just 20-30 minutes of this type of training. Ideally, you are trying to give yourself enough time to start your metabolism. Try to do at least 30 minutes. Once you have finished HIIT, you want to finish with a bang.

- From years of conditioning and limiting beliefs we tend to hold on to highly useless, meaningful, and counter productive thoughts, emotions. So much so that it can actually sabotage our own success. To experience the full benefits of real mind power, it is extremely essential to free the mind of any blocked, negative energy. EFT, hypnosis and NLP are 3 techniques to deliver extremely liberating and self-empowering benefits. With these 3 tools you literally create a vacuum sucking out all the limitations and creating major leverage through powerful belief re-patterning.

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Cardio Tips

Friday, August 27th, 2010

- It all begins with your hormone levels and blood. Your biological state is the first priority to everything else. If your insulin levels, or cortisol levels are high you are already putting your body in a catastrophic state for negative results. the same as if your growth hormone or blood pH levels being low. It is critical that these things are balanced at the right levels.

- In doing such, you must ensure certain basic conditions in your life. Various foods which spark insulin and cortisol like refined carbs, refined sugars, high glycemic carbs, sodium, transaturated fat must be taken out of your diet.

- To keep growth hormone and testosterone levels high, you need to ensure sufficient strength training exercise each week, like at least 3-4 times and a proper balance of dietary intake. Eating a high-protein low carb, moderate fat(consisting only of polyunsaturated fat like omega 3 from flax seed, salmon, olive oil, walnuts) will keep testosterone and GH levels more balanced.

- Do not overtrain. Training longer than 1 hour actually raises cortisol levels and actually burn s muscle and stores fat. Keep your workouts short and intense and focused for the best results.

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Tips to Go From Skinny to Muscle

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Many people who are skinny wish that they could build a muscular physique but don’t know where to start. In this article we’ll look into the biggest reason why people are naturally skinny and how they could achieve their muscular physique. People are naturally skinny since they have a high Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). The BMR determines how many calories your body needs to consume for basic bodily functions such as digestion and pumping blood around your body. This does not take into account the amount of calories needed for movement. The 5 Tips To Go From Skinny To Muscle are shown below:

1. Eat more. Easier said than done. Hardgainers have a hard time with eating since it requires a lot of preparation and also the difficulty in consuming large amounts of food. One way to combat the problem of consuming large amounts of food is to exercise more at a greater intensity. Your body will require a lot of calories for this type of activity hence signalling your brain to stimulate your appetite.

2. Choose calorie dense foods. Calorie dense foods allow you to get enough calories for muscle growth without having to resort to shoveling large amounts of food into you. Choose high calorie, high carb, high protein and high fat foods. Complex carbs include wholegrain bread, brown rice, oatmeal, potatoes, pasta and legumes. Proteins include chicken, beef, fish, eggs, tuna, full cream milk and cheese. Fats include nuts and beans, olive oil, flaxseed oil and butter. Butter is infact healthy for you in small quantities in that it doesn’t clog the arteries since it contains short and medium chain fatty acids.

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Why We Should Eat More Fruits and Vegetables

Friday, August 27th, 2010

With healthcare spiraling out of control and the actual outcome of the recently passed public health care law in American, doesn’t it make sense for each person to take care of their bodies through good nutrition, regular exercise and steering clear of harmful toxins?

A recent study from Johns Hopkins University presented data from two nationwide surveys, which included roughly 24,000 participants. During a 24-hour period, only 11% reported consuming the recommended two or more fruits and three or more vegetables. If you want to optimize your health, five or more servings a day of vegetables and fruit would support your nutritional needs.

Following are erroneous beliefs about why we don’t eat enough of these important foods in our daily diet and why we should eat more fruits and vegetables.

Erroneous Belief #1: Eating fruits and vegetables is not convenient.
Eating healthy fruits and vegetables are just as convenient as picking up a cookie or a potato chip. What often happens is, we don’t have fruits and vegetables around and ready to pick up and eat, so we go for the easy, unhealthy alternative.
Erroneous Belief #3: I go to restaurants for most meals
Even those who eat in restaurants can order different fruit and vegetable choices. Many serve steamed, roasted and grilled vegetables as well as a variety of salads. You can also get fruit at most restaurants. Salads are a mainstay and you can ask for extra vegetables on top of the salad. Be creative – your wait staff will be happy to help you out.

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Advanced Pushups

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Do pushups take skill to perform? Can pushups be classified as advanced? I guess the answer to these questions is “it depends”. Your standard pushup is pretty straightforward. Begin with your hands shoulder width apart, keep your shoulders, butt and feet in a straight line, keep your eyes focused two feet in front of your head and lower yourself under control. Most people can handle this pushup.

Pushups become classified as advanced when you start to really change the level of difficulty. One way to change the level of difficulty is by incorporating the clap in the pushup. When you push your body off the floor, push with enough force so your hands come off the floor and quickly clap your hands together. I say quickly because your hands have to come back to the floor so you can lower your body under control to the floor and repeat. Clap pushups engage the core to a greater degree than the standard pushup and help you develop explosive power. Start with as many as you can handle, but be careful to not perform these to failure until you are very experienced with this type of pushup. Clap pushups can add some spice to your standard pushups workout.

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Healthy Eating Choices

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

So what is healthy eating? It may surprise you to know that nothing in the U.S. food guide is actually unhealthy. There is really nothing that can be considered healthy either. Also note that making choices based on the portions set out in the food guide will probably not help you lose weight. The only thing that determines the healthiness or unhealthiness of a food is how much of it you choose to eat and how often you eat it. We already know that eating too much fat is unhealthy so lets look at it a different way here. If you tried to eat zero fat and survive it would be impossible. You would die of starvation first. A lot of naturally occurring foods have fat in them even if it’s only trace amounts. Vegetables are very healthy but they also contain small amounts of fat.

We know that fibre is healthy for us but what would happen if you ate 6 – 10 bran muffins every day and nothing else at all. I don’t think I need to tell you what would happen just trust me when I say you would become increasingly unhealthy the longer you did that. The trick to healthy eating is balance and I’m sure you’ve heard that before. A good way to balance your meals is to make sure you choose at least three different food groups for each of your meals. This article is for meat eaters and doesn’t apply to vegetarianism since that is a complex diet that requires proper iron and protein from sources other than meat. Most people know the food groups but lets go over it real quick for reference.

-Group 1
Meats, Legumes, Nuts and Alternatives

-Group 2
Grain Products

-Group 3
Dairy Products

-Group 4
Fruit and Vegetables

-Group 5
Oils and fats

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Why a Whole Foods Lifestyle is Critical For Your Health

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Statistics show that more and more people are developing diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. While some of these conditions do have hereditary influences, there are ways that people can be prevent many diseases by simply adopting a healthier lifestyle which includes making healthier food choices along with incorporating regular physical exercise into one’s daily routine. More people are trying to eat healthier to increase their longevity and reduce the risk of obtaining certain diseases. In order to do this it is very important for people to adopt a healthier lifestyle that includes changing the types of foods that are consumed on a daily basis for the rest of their lives. The consumption of whole foods is indeed critical for one’s health.People cannot underestimate the power of a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle consists of eating foods which provide the body with the proper nutrients for nourishment while eliminating the consumption of foods that are filled with preservatives and other types of additives that are more harmful then good to the body. There are many reasons why a whole foods lifestyle if so beneficial to a person’s health.Understanding the importance of adopting a lifestyle that focuses on eating the best foods that nature has to offer will help more people remain committed to a whole foods lifestyle.

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Refined Foods and How it Affects Our Body

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Refined foods are considered to be the “in” thing nowadays. Almost all people prefer convenience foods instead of home cooked meals because they are just too busy and too caught up with their day to day activities to actually have time to cook. They are considered a blessing by those who do not know how to cook or those who simply do not have time to do so because they are either sold as hot, ready to eat, ready to cook or refrigerated and frozen products that will just require heating. One does not need too much time in preparing convenience foods. Convenience foods, like how they’re called give more importance to convenience than nutrition. This may be a blessing to some people but when you really think of it, your health is a high price to pay for having this kind of convenience. During present times, refined foods are everywhere, it’s nearly impossible to avoid them. Decades ago, people would only eat foods that are rich in vitamins, fiber and minerals. Our ancestors would only eat unrefined foods, and thus, making them very healthy.

Refined foods are simply foods that have undergone several processes to make them purer. But in reality, these processes remove the things that are good for our body such as nutrients and fiber and thus making it difficult for our body to digest refined foods. The synthetic nutrients that are added also affect how our body digests the foods. On the other hand, when we eat whole foods, our body can digest them properly. Whole foods are helpful to our digestive system. Aside from this, our body actually needs time to digest the food. Just imagine removing every part or component of a food until there’s nothing more to remove. That is how our digestive system should work. When we eat refined foods, the processes that the foods have undergone already removed the parts or components of the food, thus making the foods get metabolized very quickly. This greatly affects how our digestive system works. This is also considered to be the cause of having poor digestive system, poor health and what most people avoid having, a belly fat.

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