“…But Tony the Tiger tells us that breakfast is the most important meal of the day!”This rule has become so commonplace throughout the health and fitness community that it’s readily accepted as fact:“Want to lose weight? Make sure you start off with a healthy breakfast, so you can get that metabolism firing first thing in the morning! Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”“Want to lose more weight?
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I went to dinner with some friends recently and one of them told me that he was trying on Intermittent Fasting for size. He explained that it is essentially a daily fast that is broken at the end of the day. So far, from what I could tell, it was working, whatever it was. He seemed more trim and had great energy.
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It’s becoming popular as a fat-loss tactic, but is it effective long-term for a lean physique? Trainer and nutrition expert (and MF cover guy this issue) Scott Baptie takes a look. What is intermittent fasting? Intermittent fasting (IF) means restricting the amount of food you eat for a given period, followed by a period of normal eating.
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Measuring your body weight sucks…It really, really does. It’s a poor metric of what is going on inside your body, and use of it as a metric leads to many of our diet myths and fallacies.Have you ever heard people say that they massively increased their calories and their weight didn’t budge?I did that.During my 7 weeks off from weight training, fasting and dieting, my weight barely changed, going from 176 to 174. Heck, when you look at those numbers alone you may even say I’m lucky – blessed with the genetics to eat whatever I want and still lose weight.
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Home » Uncategorized » The Tabata – an advance Kettlebell workout28/07/2013 admin Uncategorized The Tabata – an advanced Kettlebell Workout What is Tabata training:A Tabata is a form of High Intensity Interval training that is just 4 minutes long. You can use any exercise you wish but it has to be maximal effort for the work period and total rest in the rest period. For example you could do Sprint Tabata, Cycle Tabata or Powerlift Tabata. To follow on form Parallel Coaching’s previous blog we have combined Kettlebells and Body weight for a stomach churning, fat stripping Tabata shown at the bottom of this blogWhat are the benefits: The Tabata is super time efficient – in just 4 minutes you can have a great heart pounding workout
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Parallel Coaching – The Tabata – an advance Kettlebell workout
These days it seems that everyone who wants to lose weight is using intermittent fasting. Yet is this an effective method and if so what are its benefits?What is intermittent fasting?Intermittent fasting is often referred to as the Fast Diet or 5:2 Diet, it involves fasting for 2 days of the week where your calorie intake will not be allowed to exceed 500 calories if you are female and 600 calories if you are male. For the remaining 5 days you are allowed to eat a normal diet.These fast days will create a calorie-deficit that will ultimately result in pounds being lost.SEE ALSO: 3 Steps for Losing Weight without Losing yourself Image Credit: ZenAngie This is not the only benefit of intermittent fasting however as there are also claims that it can help to increase your life span, improve your cognitive function and provide more protection against diseases such as Alzheimer’s.Is intermittent fasting proven?Even though the evidence supporting its claims is growing steadily as with any diet there are going to be doubts about its claims, especially when compared to the efficiency of other calorie controlled diets. There have been positive studies performed such as the 8 week trial performed on a group of 30 obese women to show the effects of intermittent fasting.The study which was published in the 2012 edition of Nutrition & Metabolism involved the women consuming low calories liquid meals for 6 days of the week, with the remaining day being a fast day.After the study had concluded the women had lost an average of 8.8lbs with 6cm being lost from their waistlines.Issues with intermittent fasting?As with the positive evidence there is even less research on the possible side effects of intermittent fasting, although there have been reports of insomnia, bad breath (which is a common side effect of low carbohydrate diets), irritability, anxiety and dehydration.One of the major concerns about this diet is the persons own ability to moderate their food consumption on the ‘feast’ days.Despite stating that you should be eating a normal diet people often believe that the fast day will allow them to eat whatever they want on the other 5 days without suffering any consequences. Unfortunately if you want to lose weight you will still need to stick to a moderately healthy diet for these 5 days.
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Have You Tried Tabata Training?Posted on 26/07/13 | ExercisesHow To’sIf you regularly exercise, then you most likely have tried workouts like circuit training, plyometrics, or high intensity interval training (HIIT).However, have you ever tried Tabata training?If you are unable to spend 30-60 minutes to workout due to a busy schedule, then Tabata training might be the type of workout that’s right for you.Best of all, you can complete this type of fitness routine in as little as 4 minutes.You have 4 minutes to spare, right?What is Tabata Training?The “Tabata” training method was named after and created by Japanese scientist Izumi Tabata and his colleagues where the method was used to train a Japanese Olympic speed skating team.First studied on male college students training on stationary bikes in 1996, the Tabata training method was tested involving 20 seconds of intense exercise (similar to a HIIT workout) followed by 10 seconds of rest. The exercise is then continuously repeated for 4 minutes for a total of 8 cycles.To compare the results of the Tabata training method, another group of male college students trained on the stationary bikes, but exercised at a moderate pace for 60 minutes.At the end of the study, the male college students who used the Tabata training method 5 days a week for 6 weeks all increased their anaerobic capacity by 14%. On the other hand, the other group only improved their anaerobic capacity by 10%.What does this all mean?Working out for 4 minutes using the Tabata training method proved to be more effective than working out moderately for 60 minutes!Should You Try Tabata Training?As mentioned, if you do not have 30-60 minutes to workout in order to lose weight or to stay in shape, then Tabata training might be right for you.While the male college students were strenuously trained to the point of exhaustion, you can still benefit from using this type of fitness routine by performing 3-4 exercise moves and increasing the time of you workout to 12-16 minutes.It’s not exactly “4 minutes” like it was in the study, but hey…getting in an effective workout to tone and re-shape your body for under 20 minutes is not a bad deal.Besides, doing a Tabata training workout is a nice way to switch up your exercise routines; especially if you have hit a weight loss plateau and are no longer losing weight or burning fat.How To Do a Tabata Workout?Creating your own Tabata workout routine is really simple!Remember, the Tabata method consists of doing a high intensity exercise move for 20 seconds followed by 10 seconds of rest where you repeat the move for 8 cycles. The total time for each exercise should come out to 4 minutes.So, to give you an example of a 16 minute workout routine using this form of training, you can do the following 4 exercise moves.
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KB USA KettleBellsIf the masses are flocking to a specific trend then it goes without saying that there are also companies supplying equipment to fuel the fire.Needless to say, the high intensity interval training, and, directly related, endurance event craze, has spurred new and exciting equipment. Both well-established industry veterans and newcomers to the dance have provided the oxygen, kindling and fuel necessary to keep the blaze roaring. And you can certainly guess that the bottom line is burning up.“Sales have definitely been growing and we have been able to reach out to new market segments,” said Amber Shaputis, Marketing director at MoveStrong Functional Fitness Equipment.
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IHRSA – Home – Market for HIIT, endurance event training is on fire
Tabata and HIIT workouts are here to stay. Both workouts are based on a brief period of intense exercise followed by an exercise of lower intensity or a rest period.In the case of HIIT training, the participant does about one minute of a high-intensity cardio exercise, followed by a lower intensity exercise that can be either cardio or strength based. My favorite form of HIIT training is to do a high intensity cardio exercise (burpees, mountain climbers, power air jacks) followed by a strength training exercise that uses multiple muscle groups (clean and press, split squats with bicep curls, lateral lunges with lateral shoulder raise). It’s a good way to get a full-body workout in a short amount of time.Below is a HIIT workout that you can do at home with minimal equipment. To get the most benefit from the workout you’ll need a set of dumbbells in the five to 10 pound range.Ten Minute HIIT WorkoutBefore you begin, do a warm up for about three minutes. Walk or march in place, or back and forth across the room, while doing arm swings and circles.Then, complete all of the exercises in the following circuit for one minute.*Note – the cardio exercises are intense, but they only last one minute. If they seem hard at first, just know that they will get easier each time you do them.Cardio One – Mountain Climbers – from a plank position with both hands and toes on the floor, quickly exchange your feet as though you’re running place on your hands for one minute. If you can’t do a full minute when you start, no worries. Take a little break and start again when you’re ready.Strength One – Clean and Press – With a dumbbell in each hand, squat making sure you push your hips behind your knees. As you come up from the squat, do a bicep curl with both arms. When you’re back in the standing position, push both arms overhead and do a shoulder press. Return to the squat position and repeat.(This picture shows doing the clean and press with a kettle ball. If you have a kettle ball and want to use it, that works. A dumbbell works as well.)Cardio Two – Plank Jacks – from a plank position with both hands and toes on the floor, do a jumping jack with your feet (hands stay in place) as quickly as you can for one minutes. As with the mountain climbers, do as many as you can at first, rest, then start jumping again.Strength Two – Stepping Lunge with Bicep Curl – with a dumbbell in each hand alternate stepping feet out to a lunge position while arms do a bicep curl.Cardio Three – Burpees – you probably remember these from P.E
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In Memoriam: Mary Sydna Wolf 64 Comments Saturday, July 20th, 2013 My mom died last night at 8:30 after many ups and downs over the past few months when her health really took a turn. The reality of it all is slowly percolating through me…but we had ample time to say good-bye’s and be at peace with things. I never really got to say goodbye to my Dad so I’m grateful for that at least, although the past few months were really hard on my mom.Mom was born in Appleton Arkansas, June 18th 1941, right at the tail end of the dust-bowl and Great Depression. She was one of three kids.
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