Introducing the Reader Mailbag: Your Intermittent Fasting Questions …

March 7, 2013
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Welcome to the first Reader Mailbag!I’m taking a page from the playbook of one of my favorite sportswriters, Bill Simmons, and answering a boatload of your questions today. Questions are rolling in all the time — mostly through the free newsletter or Twitter — and I love hearing from you. Keep them coming! I’m happy to help however I can.My hope is that this mailbag (and the ones that follow) will bring useful answers together in one place and make it easier for you to find the information you need to make the changes you want. My goal is always to make it easier for you to lose fat, gain muscle, and live healthy.Boom.

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10 best fat-blasting exercises | Ghanamma.com

March 7, 2013
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Interval trainingInterval training, whether you do it on a bike, on a rowing machine or through running, is one of the best fat-blasting exercises. When you do interval training sessions both your adrenaline and growth hormone levels increase. These hormones help to burn fat and they also suppress your appetite, which is good news if you want to lose weight.The plankAs well as firming up your core, the plank will help you to lose weight because it requires your body to use up calories. To make this exercise harder push your body up from the plank position and support your weight using one hand, before bringing up your other hand and supporting your weight with that too.  Once you are in this position return to the plank before repeating.Kettle bellsKettle bells have been around for hundreds of years and it’s easy to see why. Not only are they excellent at toning up flabby areas, the aerobic nature of common kettle bell exercises helps you to burn fat because these exercises increase your heart rate.

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Intermittent Fasting Part III – The 16/8 Protocol | CrossFit 269 …

March 6, 2013
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This is part three in our five part series on intermittent fasting.As challenging as it is to implement the Warrior Diet, implementing the 16/8 protocol is equally easy. You just skip breakfast! There are numerous diets that follow the 16/8 protocol – the LeanGains method, the Renegade Diet, etc. We aren’t going to focus on one diet in particular but instead focus on the protocol in general.The theory behind the 16/8 protocol is virtually the same theory behind the Warrior Diet – your body performs better when it isn’t in a constant state of digestion. Though your eating window is longer than on Warrior, you are non-eating is window is still 16 hours long, which  promotes better gut health than shorter (8-12 hour) non-eating windows.Because there are so many different dietary programs that follow the 16/8 protocol, they each have different reasons for why you should follow it.

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How Does Intermittent Fasting Work?

March 6, 2013
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Home / Diet & Nutrition / How Does Intermittent Fasting Work?How Does Intermittent Fasting Work?byFiora StevensonMarch 6, 2013Fasting has been a dieting strategy for decades, and a common spiritual practice for even longer. In terms of dieting, there has been little consensus as to whether calorie restriction is helpful or switches your body into fat-saving survival mode. In recent years, however, a new diet-minded fasting technique has become more popular: intermittent fasting. Read on to find out if it works, and how it works. The DietIf you’re not in the know, intermittent fasting (IF) involves strategically planning for periods where you do not consume any food other than low-calorie liquids (water and black coffee, for example).There are many proposed ways of structuring this diet.

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Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss, a Bad Idea | Timi Gustafson RD …

March 6, 2013
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| E-mail| PrintA new diet has become all the rage in Britain and is now making landfall on our shores as well. It’s called the “Fast Diet” and millions of weight loss candidates already swear by it.Like all commercial diet programs, this one promises quick results without much effort and little changes in established eating habits. Followers can eat anything they want for five days but then have to undergo a fasting period of 48 hours where they cannot consume more than 500 to 600 calories per day.The authors, Dr. Michael Mosley, a medical journalist, and Mini Spencer, a food and fashion writer, claim they both have experienced amazing weight loss successes themselves while experimenting with various forms of intermittent fasting

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HIIT It Hard at Fusion – Fusion Fitness

February 27, 2013
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We know you love it when we Shock Your Body–and we love it so much that we’re constantly researching the newest and most effective trends in the fitness world to do just that. With all of our recent class additions, its important to us that you guys–our amazing Fusionistas–know exactly what we’re up to, and why we are continually evolving to regularly add workshops and new classes.Something we’ve been working with for a while and incorporating into all of our instructor trainings is known in the fitness world as HIIT–High Intensity Interval Training. Add an ‘S’ to the beginning, and “oh ya, that’s what I’m thinking in my head during all those sneaker classes.” If you know us well, you know we like to make you cuss and grunt and sweat because we know just how to push you to your max, giving your bodies and minds the biggest challenge, release, and bang for your buck.What is HIIT?There are all sorts of names you may have heard–tabatas, fartleks, tempo runs, intervals–but they are all forms of High Intensity Interval Training–meaning alternating between high and low intensity intervals for the duration of your workout.

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Metabolic Resistance Training – Part II | MNFitnessBlogger

February 21, 2013
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Before I get into the specific types of workouts that qualify as MRT, let me tell you a little bit about why these workouts are so effective.For quite a long time now, health and fitness researchers have been preaching that strength training is an important component in a weight loss program. But over the past several years, with the advent of commercial programs like P90X, Insanity, CrossFit and others, strength training has evolved from something involving long hours of slow sets in the gym to something approaching what I would call balistic movement with resistance. And the truth is, both forms of strength training can be effective for weight loss (as well as for building muscle and gaining strength, obviously), but there is a problem with both of these types of workouts – they are not safe for the majority of the population, and not even for those who are quite fit.An old-school weight workout, which the fitness world has lately given the shiny new moniker “High-Intensity Resistance Training (HIRT)”, involves lifting very heavy weights for a few (6 or so) repetitions, resting for two or three minutes, then doing it again three or four more times before moving on to the next exercise. This type of training creates major metabolic changes in the body (especially the muscles and the systems servicing those muscles), but it is A) very time-consuming and B) very hard on the joints of anyone over the age of 30, regardless of how fit or strong they are

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Melissa Bender Fitness: 15 Minute HIIT Interval Workout: Body Weight

February 16, 2013
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Hi Everyone!I woke up today ready for a great workout! I had my morning cup of coffee and some breakfast, and I was ready to go. Normally I have (a lot) of french vanilla creamer in my coffee, but I have been changing things up and trying to kick some processed foods out of my diet. Today I used Unsweetened Coconut Almond Milk, and one tablespoon of Coffeemate’s Natural Bliss Lowfat Vanilla Coffee Creamer. I also had Peanut Butter Greek Yogurt and I dipped in some celery sticks for a tasty, healthy snack

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Strength Training To Increase Metabolism | Gnet Health and Fitness

February 14, 2013
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Strength Training To Increase Metabolism Category : Athletic PerformanceWhether you’re an athlete taking your sport very seriously or someone just trying to lose weight or improve overall fitness, strength training can be an invaluable tool. In fact any form of resistance training created to challenge your body to work harder than normal, will bring many added benefits! But of course the correct form of exercise is crucial as the metabolic rate can vary from person to person!So Can You Simplify This?You certainly can my friends – the crux is how different and how much strength training can boost the metabolism. This can also include endurance training like running or jogging

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3 Tips For a Faster Workout | Fat Loss Accelerators

February 14, 2013
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No time for boring cardio?Join the club.Metabolic training is the “go-to” method for fast fat loss results and getting the lean, athletic look. Cut your training time in half and triple your fat burning capacity, compared to traditional cardio methods.3 Tips for a Faster WorkoutMetabolic Resistance TrainingI love to shorten everything (it’s the Aussie in me), so you can simply refer to it as “MRT”. There is a bit of debate out there as to what metabolic resistance training is, and I can guarantee every trainer has a different definition of MRT for you. At Fat Loss Accelerators, you will always get correct, up-to-date information on this topic.Metabolic Resistance Training involves non-competing supersets/circuits of multi-joint exercises with resistance in the form of bodyweight, dumbbells, Kettlebells combined with minimal rest periods. That’s our underlying theme. The goal is to maximize calorie burn and save you at least 15 minutes training time.The major draw card is this can elicit a physiological response similar to that of interval training, accelerate your fat loss results and let me tell you, it’s nothing like slow, steady cardio.

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