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Body Nutrition's Trutein. My favorite flavors are Chocolate Mint and Red Velvet Cake. Also like the banana and Cinnabun. I'm not a PB fan so I haven't had any PB flavors, but I heard they are good as well. Trutein has a fantastic profile (high protein, not a lot of carbs/fat)....offers 3 types of protein that digest over…
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ANY plan can work IF you follow it consistently and persistently over the long haul. I think the 21 day fix is a good program to HELP teach portion control and HELP you learn to eat the right foods. The workouts aren't crazy and there is a modifier. No, the program doesn't promise you'll be where you want to be in 21 days.…
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Two things happen as you become "fitter". First, as you lose weight, you're probably going to burn fewer calories expending the same effort as you did at the heavier weight. This is explained in several comments above. As I have told my boot campers, I will be happier when my weight drops and the calories burned drops…
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Get a heart rate monitor. That's really the only way to somewhat accurately record ANY exercise calories. No way that pre-programmed data on a computer can determine the effort you gave each minute of the workout.
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I can only tell you about my experience with dumping soda. Soda, like many other processed foods, has chemicals in it that cause your brain/body to react much the same way that you would react to drugs. So, when you quit soda, there's going to be a withdrawal period. Since 2011, I've quit soda 3 separate times for long…
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Age doesn't make as much a difference as some folks think....certainly not at 40 anyway. If you eat healthy and move some, you're going to get fit. In 2011, I turned 40 and I lost 80 pounds that year. Kept it off for most of 2012 until some ugly life events happened and I lost focus. Gained back 70 pounds between Sept 2012…
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You either accept your girlfriend as she is or you don't. You have no control over whether she will make positive changes or not. And nagging her will only make it more unlikely that she does what you want her to do (that's human nature). Sadly, until she's truly ready to make a change, ANY statement you make to her…
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The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing....because you're more likely to keep doing it. If your friends prefer the dreadmill, let them at it. If you prefer something else, do that other thing. I like boot camps and boxing classes....they mix cardio with resistance exercises (and very little work on the dreadmills,…
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As far as calorie burn....I push myself hard either with a home workout or at a boot camp at a gym and I burn about 500 calories per half hour (according to my HRM) when I push hard (I'm talking averaging 85-90% of your max HR for the entire half hour). Most folks can't burn 500 calories per half hour. This is why your…
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First off, the amount of weight you lose will largely be dictated by the kitchen. You can't outtrain a bad diet....doesn't matter what you do. With that in mind, as far as the gym goes, I recommend full body exercises that burn a lot of calories and/or HIIT. The reason for HIIT isn't simply for the calorie burn while…
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I'm guessing you mean processed foods and sugars (because there's nothing wrong with eating the natural sugar in fruit). The reason processed foods and sugars create a yearning for more of the crap is because of the chemicals that manufacturers put into these science experiments. They are created so that your body will…
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walking, swimming...and this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1IpApW3c7w
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There are a lot of free workouts on-line. One guy has exercise videos for folks without equipment...he incorporates stuff you have at home. For instance, instead of a battle rope, he has you using a bedsheet. He uses stools, boxes, and just your plain ol' body. Go to NowLoss.com and check it out. Free diet tips as well.
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I'm a Magic fan because of proximity....but I'm also a fan of certain players because they are fun to watch. Steph Curry is, perhaps, the most fun player in the league to watch....and I'm liking the new offense scheme. Hopefully Bogut can stay healthy for the playoffs this year. If he can, GS is a title contender IMO. He…
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Calorie intake (which mostly driven by the number of calories you consume) largely dictates whether you will experience fat loss or not. Its my opinion that eating more real food and less processed foods/science experiments is helpful (without getting into too much detail on this....real foods generally have a lower…
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there are 4 videos in this series. They are easy to find once you paste in this first link. They are a pretty good representation of why you can't outtrain a bad diet. I will also note that exercise is primarily good for: (a) losing water weight; (b) re-composing your body; and (c) improving your cardiovascular health.…
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I just went through a complacency cycle....and its just one of several I've been through in my life. A few months ago, my weight loss ticker showed I lost just over 49 pounds. I was feeling good, indulged a bit...indulged some more...and then the bad habits creeped back until I couldn't just shoo them away quickly.…
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The negative stuff that's going on in life will be going on whether you make healthy eating choices or not. I have found that during these storms, when I eat better, I feel better. At least its a positive force for me while navigating through other parts of life....some of which I have no control over. When I eat poorly,…
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you "tone" by: (a) eating at a deficit so you lose fat around your muscles; and (b) doing exercises that strengthen your muscles. For part (b), lifting weights are fine, but you could also accomplish this by doing various compound bodyweight exercises like planks, squats/jump squats, burpees, lunges, etc. There's no need…
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with sprinting, you have to really stretch the quads, hamstrings, hip flexors/extensors, calves and Achilles. the way I do sprint interval training is go outside and go as fast as I can for roughly 100 meters (so 12-15 seconds). Then either I do a bodyweight exercise to completely exhaust myself or I go straight for the…
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my opinion is that you pick a nutrition plan that you believe YOU can follow for the long haul. EVERY nutrition plan where you eat at a caloric deficit will lead to fat loss. Yes, some diets lead to a faster loss earlier...but its not all fat you're losing and the weight loss slows down. When I didn't have so much…
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I don't agree with the concept of cheat days as a reward. A cheat MEAL, at times, is fine. There is actually a pretty good scientific reason for cheat meals or cheat days .... increasing Leptin levels. Leptin is important in the fat burning process and eating gets the Leptin hopping. In fact, you want to know what works…
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go to dailyhiit.com or sign up with Zuzka Light's ZGym. you will benefit more from 15ish minutes of HIIT rather than the steady state cardio you're doing. and you probably should eat more....focus on eating natural foods for energy.
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you don't really gain muscle with T25 gamma. you strengthen muscle fibers, but you're not gaining enough muscle to cause a scale gain. What you eat/drink is the biggest factor in whether you're going to burn fat. Most of the calories burned during any exercise...T25, Insanity, P90X, etc....is water weight. You burn fat in…
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Agreed that drinking some diet soda will not impede weight loss. However, the reason I asked the OP her purpose for wanting to kick the soda habit is because there is more to getting healthy than weight loss. Most folks actually feel quite a bit better when they kick all soda, diet and regular. So if that's a goal of yours…
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Here's a quote from that article link I provided. In the category of "overall program safety -- reducing the risk of injury", P90X and Rushfit each received a 9 (out of a possible 10). Insanity received a 4 with this note "High plyometric volume, lack of biomechanical coaching and knowledge, lack of understanding of energy…
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I lost about 22 pounds when I did Insanity last summer. I weighed about 240 when I started...and finished just under 220. HOWEVER, I also finished with some pretty intense knee tendonitis in both knees. It got worse as I kept jumping up and down, day after day, doing these workouts. I went on to do 3 weeks of T25 after…
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I think you first need to identity the reason you want to cut out soda. Is it simply to reduce calories (i.e., going from soda to diet soda)? or is it because you remember how much better you felt when you weren't drinking any soda (not even diet soda)...and you want to feel that way again...oh, and it may also have…
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That was an amazing, inspirational post. I'm not necessarily the target of the post as I'm not giving up (or about to give up) ... but I always enjoy reading inspirational things. It adds fuel to the fire.
