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Every autumn, I dedicate my workouts to strength & power.
I set myself a goal, hit the gym and unleash the beast.
This year, my goal was to press 350 lbs overhead.
And, as that stupid grin on my face can attest to, not only did I achieve my goal, I crushed it by pressing 365 lbs overhead. Woo Hoo!
Unfortunately, along with all this superhuman strength comes some superhuman eating and a wee bit of extra body-fat.
As of this morning, I weighed in at 252.2 lbs @ 15.4% body-fat.

Way too p-p-porky for my liking.
So, as I do every winter, I clean up my diet and start a new training program similar to the one I gave to the Healthy Irishman.
The goal being that I drop my body-fat down to 10% without losing much muscle mass.

What is new for this year is that I will be doing this transformation in front of my millions […]

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Transformation #2 – Me

Every autumn, I dedicate my workouts to strength & power.
I set myself a goal, hit the gym and unleash the beast.
This year, my goal was to press 350 lbs overhead.
And, as that stupid grin on my face can attest to, not only did I achieve my goal, I crushed it by pressing 365 lbs overhead. Woo Hoo!
Unfortunately, along with all this superhuman strength comes some superhuman eating and a wee bit of extra body-fat.
As of this morning, I weighed in at 252.2 lbs @ 15.4% body-fat.

Way too p-p-porky for my liking.
So, as I do every winter, I clean up my diet and start a new training program similar to the one I gave to the Healthy Irishman.
The goal being that I drop my body-fat down to 10% without losing much muscle mass.

What is new for this year is that I will be doing this transformation in front of my millions […]

Original post by healthhabits

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It’s the heart of the Primal Blueprint: understanding that our lifestyle factors direct influence the expression of our genetic code. While the DNA itself is set, the structure fixed, that’s hardly the end of the story – our story. How we live – even where we live – holds significant sway over the final picture. And by picture I mean, of course, the picture of our genes’ activity: when proteins are produced (and how much), when or whether certain genes are turned on or off. This activity, researchers are increasingly finding, is key in the development – or avoidance – of any number of conditions like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and cancer. Rather than a predetermined formula simply set in motion in the womb, our genes demonstrate a much more complex, nuanced interplay. The sum of all our daily choices and exposures direct our epigenetic signaling and the course laid out by […]

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Chris Stolzman heading KnuckleUp Fitness Outer Banks Jiu Jitsu classes

Our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Head Instructor Chris Stolzman just uploaded 3 new BJJ videos to our Youtube Channel and I wanted to post them here so it’s easier to find.
In case you dont know, Chris Stolzman was master Kazeka’s student – and is know heading the Jiu Jitsu program at our gym here in Kitty Hawk.
You can check our BJJ class schedule online here.
On the first video, Master Kazeka Muniz shows the famous sitting sweep – a basic but powerful sweep from the guard:

RSS readers: watch the bjj sitting sweep video here
On the second video, Master Kazeka shows a very common submission from the guard –  the Kimura Lock:

rss folks – watch the kimura from the guard video here
And continuing with the Kimura – the third video shows how to submit an opponent from the side mount using this powerful […]

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Twilight: New Moon has taken the U.S. by storm. More specifically, Taylor Lautner, the “werewolf” in the movie, has taken teenage U.S. girls by storm. It’s no secret that Taylor Lautner got ripped for the movie, putting on a massive 30 pounds of muscle in eight months at only 17. Exactly how he did manage to get ripped for Twilight is a secret though. At least it was a secret…until now.
How Taylor Lautner Got Ripped and Put on Mass For Twilight…Intesity and “Load Under Tension”
Taylor Lautner’s personal trainer was someone named Jordan Yuam. Jordan Yuam is known for specializing in putting on muscle mass, and uses untraditional and work intensive methods. His main principle is to focus 100% on the primary muscles and to completely disregard stabilizers and secondary muscles. The technique to achieve this affect is called load under tension (LUT).
What is load under tension? Previously, the big […]

Original post by rafael@thefitnessadviser.com (Rafi Bar-Lev)

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[Back when bodybuilders were still cool…]
When I first thought of writing an article about bodybuilders and bodybuilding, the first thing I thought was that it was going to be negative. Seriously, aren’t bodybuilders all the guys that grunt in the gym, take steroids, smell bad and never get out of the gym? Someone even suggested to me that I purposely try and rile up the bodybuilders to build controversy and help advertise Passionate Fitness.
Then I realized two things. One, I have no desire to be controversial for the sake of being controversial. It’s important for me that this site gets publicity for giving great fitness tips and having the best fitness community around for support and discussion, not for starting random fights (non random fights are okay though). Two, I don’t approve of bodybuilding as a sport, but I have nothing personal against bodybuilders.
That’s why instead of being article about […]

Original post by rafael@thefitnessadviser.com (Rafi Bar-Lev)

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Grok Tag

There was a time when you could go to any schoolyard and see kids being kids. Kids would run, leap, throw, and exert themselves with the pure joy of uncorrupted youth. They were suddenly realizing their bodies were incredible machines capable of precise, complex movements, and the games they played developed these capabilities. Dirt clod fights, epic dodgeball matches, and tetherball developed hand-eye coordination and agility; roughhousing that never graduated into enmity taught kids the value of a few bumps and bruises (as well as how to dish ‘em out); games like tag, capture the flag, and monkey in the middle emphasized foot speed, lateral agility, and rapid changes of direction. The teacher on yard duty might hand out a citation or break up a little scuffle once in awhile, but recess was generally pretty relaxed. About the only thing your average schoolyard athlete worried about was explaining away the […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

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According to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, “Middle-aged men and women who engage in high levels of physical activity may be unknowingly causing damage to their knees and increasing their risk for osteoarthritis”.
“Our data suggest that people with higher physical activity levels may be at greater risk for developing knee abnormalities and, thus, at higher risk for developing osteoarthritis.”

And in case you didn’t know…Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that causes pain, swelling and stiffness. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and affects approximately 10% of the American population.
The Study
The study involved 236 asymptomatic participants who had not reported previous knee pain – (136 women and 100 men, age 45 to 55, all within a healthy weight range.)
The participants were separated into low-, middle-, and high-activity groups based […]

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Okay so one of the best parts of our success at Warrior fit Body Solution is the Afterburn Effect of the workouts we do.

So you say what the heck is the Afterburn huh? Well let me tell you…or I should say lets have Joel Marion tell you what it is.

Enjoy this and don’t freak out because you have been wasting your time doing aerobics for years without much results. We will show you how to get those results you are looking for and we Guarantee it!

Now read up,
-Darrin
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by Joel Marion

In the last update I talked to you about the massive shortcomings of “slow-go” aerobic exercise for fat loss and began to briefly touch on the benefits of something much more effective – short duration, high intensity exercise.

Simply put, if you are looking for the fastest fat loss results, high intensity exercise is a MUST.

Short duration, high intensity exercise comes in two major forms: metabolic resistance training and interval training. Today, I want to take a DEEP look into the benefits of each.

First up, metabolic resistance training:

As mentioned in my previous post, metabolic resistance training is simply “cardio with weights”, and when speaking of the most effective form of exercise for the fastest possible fat loss, this is it.

A couple of studies to support this that my buddy Alwyn Cosgrove dug up:

Schuenke MD, Mikat RP, McBride JM.
Effect of an acute period of resistance exercise on excess post-exercise oxygen consumption: implications for body mass management.
Eur J Appl Physiol. 2002 Mar;86(5):411-7. Epub 2002 Jan 29.

In this study a 30-minute circuit style metabolic resistance training session was put to the test. The result was a 38 hour increase in metabolism – massive AFTERBURN.

Let’s put this in perspective: Say that you worked out at 8AM on Friday. By way of metabolic resistance training, you’d still be burning calories from that workout while out at the movies on Saturday night.

You want to burn calories by watching Wolverine? Now you can.

Here’s another:

Kramer, Volek et al.
Influence of exercise training on physiological and performance changes with weight loss in men.
Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 1320-1329, 1999.

This study showed that those who added metabolic resistance training to a reduced calorie diet burned up to 44% more fat than those who dieted alone.

Don’t get me wrong, diet is the NUMBER ONE component of the fat loss puzzle, but once you’ve got that down, metabolic resistance training can really take your results to a whole new level.

And here’s one more:

Bryner RW, Ullrich IH, Sauers J, Donley D, Hornsby G, Kolar M, Yeater R.
Effects of resistance vs. aerobic training combined with an 800 calorie liquid diet on lean body mass and resting metabolic rate.
J Am Coll Nutr. 1999 Apr;18(2):115-21.

This study compared “slow-go” aerobic exercise to metabolic resistance training and found that the resistance group lost significantly more fat without losing ANY lean muscle even at an extremely low calorie intake (not so for the aerobic group).

In fact, believe it or not, while the aerobic group experienced a decrease in metabolism (and lost muscle), the resistance training group actually increased overall metabolic rate.

THAT’S the power of metabolic resistance training.

Convinced that metabolic resistance training flat out WORKS? Good. Next up, interval training:

Interval training is simply a form of high intensity cardio in which you alternate back and forth between periods of high effort and periods of active recovery.

For example, you may run very hard for a period of one minute and then follow it up with walking for one minute, repeating 8-10 times for a less-than-20-minute workout.

Does it work?

Tremblay A, Simoneau JA, Bouchard C.
Impact of exercise intensity on body fatness and skeletal muscle metabolism.
Metabolism. 1994 Jul;43(7):814-8

Are you sitting down? If not, take a seat.

You want to know what happened when this research group compared 20 weeks of endurance training vs. 15 weeks of interval training?

While the aerobic/endurance group actually managed to burn more total calories during exercise, the interval training group lost NINE TIMES more body fat. NINE TIMES.

Nine times more fat loss in half the time? The clear choice for fat loss is interval training.

And it all comes down to elevated metabolism after your workout is completed – the afterburn.

Are you experiencing the afterburn?
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See that is what I am talking about…9 times the fat loss.
If you want a part of it then lets go! Call us up, send an email what ever you have to do to get started…Just get started!

Our 21-Day trial program is getting underway so you better hustle. Click the link and see what I mean.

Get into the Afterburn,
-Darrin

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Part two of my interview with nordic body fitness champ and intermittent fasting user Kristine Weber.

Me: Could you describe your training routine – for example, do you have a preference for lower or higher volume, or lower or higher rep ranges? Do you stick with the basics or do you include a lot of assistance movements to target smaller muscle groups?
Kristine: I like to variate my training when it comes to volume and rep ranges. I have stuck with a 2-split since I started and it works good for me. I prefer lower reps with higher volume, so I often train a 5×5 program. Then I usually go over to high reps with lower volume, I try to have a period of 3-4 weeks before I change it around again. I have since the summer trained after something called “myo-reps” and it has worked very well. It emphasizes the importance […]

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