Wow – I’ve got a real powerful post today, I hope you like it. What are your thoughts on the whole ‘You can’t burn fat AND build muscle at the same time….’ debate? Read on and don’t be surprised if you have a change of view….

This past January the guys at over at the Burn the Fat websites completed their first ever body transformation challenge contest. But their contest was NOTHING like the biggest loser.

In fact, Josh Ketter, the overall men’s winner, and Ryan Cochrane, one of the finalists, only lost a pound.

Now, you must be thinking, “what the heck kind of weird body transformation contest were they running where the winner and the finalists only drop a pound?”

Well, it would seem weird if you thought that success at body transformation meant dropping weight on the scale, but did you ever stop to think about the difference
between fat weight and muscle weight?

Think about it – if those contestants on the biggest loser gain muscle – they get penalized, right? Penalize someone for gaining muscle?

Shouldn’t contestants be REWARDED for gaining muscle as well as burning fat?

That’s the problem with weight loss contests today and with a lot of people in the industry in general – they are obsessed with scale weight but they don’t pay any attention to body composition (the fat-to-lean muscle ratio).

Of course, some of the contestants in that contest did drop a lot of fat – 15, 20, even 25 lbs in only 50 days. But the person who dropped the most pounds was NOT necessarily voted as the winner.

That explains how the judging was done – some of the winners were rewarded because they made tremendous improvements in their body composition, even though their scale weight didn’t change that much.

Josh lost 8 pounds of fat and gained 7 pounds of muscle in just 50 days.  He only lost a pound on the scale because the muscle weight replaced the fat weight.

Ryan Cochrane lost 8 pounds of fat while gaining 7.7 lbs of muscle in 50 days. His weight hardly changed.

Sarah kensington actually GAINED a pound, from 119 to 120 but her body fat decreased from 19% to a ripped 12.6%. Thats a 7.9 pound GAIN in lean body mass and a 7 pound loss of body fat – remarkable for a MAN, almost unheard of for
a woman!

When you look at their before and after pictures, you can see that even though their weight changed by less than a pound, they TOTALLY TRANSFORMED THEIR BODIES!

How?

They gained muscle and lost fat at the same time!

Maybe you’re thinking, “wait a minute, I thought it was impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time? Don’t you need a calorie deficit to burn fat and
a calorie surplus to build muscle?”

Well, yes and no. Calories do matter, but according to fat loss expert Tom Venuto, the guy who sponsored the recent body composition fitness contest, it’s much
more complicated than that because of things like within-day energy balance, hormonal fluctuations and “energy partitioning.”

It was these unusual contest results that prompted Tom to dig into the scientific research on concurrent muscle gain and fat loss and create a new program that he calls:

“THE HOLY GRAIL BODY TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM:
How to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time”

This is not an easy goal to achieve – So I’m sorry, but I have no miracle for you. If you’re looking for magic bullets, go elsewhere. This is a serious and very
strategic program.

Concurrent muscle gain and fat loss is the most difficult goal to achieve.

That’s why people call it the “holy grail”; because it’s so elusive.

BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE: IT IS POSSIBLE.

I’m sure you’ve heard this subject debated ad nauseum on discussion forums. Those debates probably left you confused and not sure what to believe either.

This new ebook sets the record straight in such a way that you could say it’s the LAST WORD on gaining muscle and burning fat at the same time; it’s impressively referenced with peer-reviewed research and frankly, it just makes sense.

Tom Venuto’s previous best selling ebook, Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle (BFFM) has become known to many as a “fat loss bible”

Check out the ‘Fat Loss Bible’ here…

But BFFM is designed specifically for fat loss, what if you want to lose fat AND gain muscle?

That’s exactly why this new program was created.

It’s the first course of it’s kind that builds on the techniques of BFFM and teaches a system for gaining muscle and burning fat simultaneously, and explains the process scientifically.

If you’re skeptical, I don’t blame you. Even I was skeptical when I heard about it.

But when you see BOTH; real-world case studies AND the scientific proof, it makes you want to stop and take a look.

Right now the 1st edition of Tom’s new HOLY GRAIL body transformation ebook is available for just the next 2 days in limited release.

It’s actually not even for sale separately yet.

What Tom decided to do was offer the holy grail ebook as bonus with the purchase of his Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle ebook.

The Holy Grail ebook is available only for the next 2 days at:

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle

(offer expires on Friday march 5th, 2010)

On March 6th, he’s going to take the holy grail course off the market for a while, to correspond with some of his new customers and collect feedback and case studies to incorporate in the 2nd edition.

Then the grail ebook will be officially re-released later this year at the regular retail price.

So, this is a great opportunity to pick up Tom’s fat loss bible AND get the holy grail ebook for free at the same time.

If you’d like to be in this first wave of people to try this new combined muscle-building and fatburning system, this is the ONLY wayto order at the moment;

Purchase a copy of Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle ebook, and the HOLY GRAIL body transformation ebook comes along with BFFM for free.

Now what do you think, leave a comment and let me know!

All the best, Paul x My Health And Fitness Today

PS. You may have already heard of Tom’s Burn the Fat, Feed the
Muscle book before, so if you already have it, the other way you
can get his new Holy Grail program is by joining the Burn the Fat
Inner Circle – all members there are also getting access to it
this week up until Friday the 5th. More info on Tom’s inner circle at:

http://myhealthandfitnesstoday.com/inner-circle

Hi and welcome back to My Health And Fitness Today.

Firstly i want to apologise for the scarcity of posts of late. My excuse is the same as my lack of workout training too, let me explain; Last August my partner Zoe became ill, and after a month of her doctors arsing about and generally doing bugger all, i lost my temper and took her straight to the Accident & Emergency Department of the local hospital.

She was admitted immediately with a temperature of 40deg and a very low blood pressure, they told us that it was probable Colitis and that after 2-3 days of intravenous steroids, she’d be fine and able to return home.

5 days later and still no improvement, it was found that her body was rejecting her bowel and would need to be put on immuno-suppressants. This in turn had other implications and required further drug treatment to counteract the I-S’, finally after 12 days in hospital Zoe was allowed home. Sadly she was told that she would no longer be able to breast-feed our baby girl Isabelle, due to the massive dose of steroids she was on which upset her terribly. Unfortunately she was unable to breast-feed our first daughter Olivia, now 3yrs past the first week, as she really chomped down and caused major problems, so when she had got to 3 months with Isabelle she was really loving it and wanted to carry on till 6 months, this was not to be.

Anyhow, at home she had to take a whole raft of different drugs, steroids, I-S’, magnesium, and god knows what else, 29 pills a day, 19 for breakfast and the rest throughout the day and night, but even with all these, by the 7th day you could see she was beginning to go downhill, by the time her first checkup at the hospital at 10 days came around, she was really ill again.

As she was already on the strongest drugs they could give her, the only option left was to remove her large intestine. When the day of her operation came around, i spent an hour with her before she was taken to the operating room, she as gravely ill.

They told me she would be out within 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours and they would ring me, 5 hours later still no call, i’m going out of my mind with worry, fearing the worst, ‘How would i cope without her? What would i tell Olivia? All of this flew through my mind, finally after many frantic calls to the hospital, 5 1/2 hours later she was out and safe, though apparently it was a close call, and they admitted that they should’ve operated sooner!

So after a week she finally came home again, this time she managed two weeks at home before being rushed back in by ambulance, she had a massive abscess on the stump of her colon which was leaking back into her body, making her ill again, another operation, another week in hospital, another few weeks at home and…. her index finger blows up black and blue, another abscess, all related.

While she’s going through all this, i’ve been taking time off to look after the girls, run her to hospital appointments, pick up drugs etc etc… and with all the stress and worry, something had to give, and yes you’ve guessed it, twas my workouts!

Just when we thought she was getting stronger, last week she spent in hospital, again, fortunately this time it was only viral, something caught from a home help, but due to her reduced immune system, it hit her like a tone of bricks, hence the lack of posts.

Anyway, to get to the point (yaay at last…) i’ve just started training again going right back to basics using Craig Ballantynes Turbulence Training and to be sensible i’ve gone right back to the beginners workout schedule, which quite honestly still hit me like a freight train!

Before all the problems started, i was at a steady 13st 6lbs (188lbs) with around 15% body fat, not fantastic, i would never have graced the pages of Mens Health et al, but it was ok, i was fairly solid, reasonably muscly, and felt healthy. Now, well see my stats below, doesn’t take long to lose it, just five months;

Weight: 13st 9lbs (191lbs)

Body Fat: 25.4% (dear god)

Visceral fat:14 (1-12 healthy level, 13-29 needs adjustment)

Muscle mass: 39.2%

So i’m 44 yrs old, have an underactive-thyroid, am pre-diabetic (due to my weight gain years ago, i was 16st or 224lbs) have lost a lot of muscle and gained a lot of fat, so am i worried?

No, because i have the tools and the knowledge to sort this out, and quickly, how quickly, well we’ll see, and if anyone wants to join me on this, then please leave a comment below.

I will be using Turbulence Training mostly throughout for the workouts and Jon Bensons Every Other Day Diet 2.0 for my nutrition program, why these two programs particularly? Simple they both work! They are what are i used to burn my fat the first time, and successfully maintain that weight-loss too

I will be posting some pics, and maybe some video if i can snag a camcorder.

Sorry it was such a long post, but it had to be explained, please stay in touch, and leave a comment if you will, thanks from Paul and My Health And Fitness Today!

The fastest way to lose weight is a relative concept, and the subjective issue should always be taken into consideration. The speed of weight loss depends on individual metabolism. The general accepted rule is that you should combine a healthy diet with optimal physical exercises in order to eliminate fat for good. Nevertheless, people often embrace other solutions such as weight loss pills and all sorts of herbal supplements that suppress the appetite, just to lose one pound per day. Considered the maximum accepted safe value, the one pound per day is not possible or desirable for everybody.

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Calorie cycling or calorie shifting represents the fastest way to lose weight, but this is just one example. The metabolism enters a state of confusion because of the different caloric intake. There are good and bad bits about this shift. The good side consists in the capacity to secret more substances responsible for weight loss, but the bad part is the reduced amount of nutrients that you feed the body. Many weight loss programs sold or promoted on the Internet rely on calorie shifting as one very efficient program to lose weight. The problem is that too rapid weight loss is not a healthy way of stripping fat.

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Meal planning and calorie counting are also very popular, particularly when they get support from very intense physical activities. The problem is that the solutions available are very confusing. They are contradictory and uncertain in claims. While traditional fitness training considers cardio extremely efficient for weight loss and body health, some e-guides come up with novelties calling cardio useless or insufficient. It’s hard to tell whom we should believe!

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Pressure also comes from the part of the companies that manufacture weight loss supplements. There are dozens of wonder pills and each is promoted as the fastest way to lose weight. Before you start using any such products, read their instructions and you’ll certainly come across recommendations for a healthy lifestyle a balanced diet and lots of sports as the elements that make the supplements work. Isn’t that contradictory and even paradoxical? If the balanced lifestyle, healthy food and lots of physical activities are the solutions for a slim body, why are we then in search of the fastest way to lose weight? We make some mistakes along the way. Let’s find those and we may have reached the source of the problem!

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Hi, i hope you’re going to enjoy this post from My Health And Fitness Today. After watching the recent run of Strictly Come Dancing, what struck me was the level of weight loss amongst the celebrities, so her goes;

People still see Ballroom dancing as the exercise for the rich or the old.  This thinking cannot be further from the truth.  Ballroom dancing has gained wide popularity in the recent years and is a one of the best ab workouts you can find.

There is a some truth to the fact that you must have a certain income comfort level to embark on Ballroom dancing.You have to, after all, pay for the dance class and learn it under a qualified dance instructor before you have the confidence to sashay and glide across the dance floor.  However, it is possible to dance and at the same time not having to spend too much money on it.

You can consider attending dance class in a neighbourhood dance school, and not in those classy dance studios in town. Neighbourhood dance schools will certainly charge a lot less for the school fees.  You can focus on getting the basics right by attending the beginner course. Thereafter, you need to practice real hard at home by watching a dance program or from DVD that can be obtained for free from the library.You have the options to move on to the more difficult level.You can start dancing socially as long as you get the basics right. And you will get better and better as you practice.

So which Ballroom dance step to start? There are many to choose from, the  Tango to Quickstep. I would advise you start with the faster pace dance. This is because the fast pace dances tends to hide a dancers flaws easier  compared to the elegant ones such as the Rhumba. Just one tiny mistake and the audience will see it. Anyone can dance Ballroom. All you need is the passion for music and dance and you are good to go. Want to get abs quick – through dance. Learn more about health at How to get abs quick.

That’s all for now from Paul at My Health And Fitness Today!

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