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Workout For A Slim Feminine Physique

I have just been watching a video by fitness expert Rusty Moore which you can go  straight to by clicking the image above. It makes interesting viewing as it talks about how the fitness industry in many cases is failing the needs of women and what they actually want from a workout. It is quite common these days to see images of women with muscles and that seems to displayed as some sort of benchmark. The truth is that for most women it is not about muscles but looking good and feeling feminine in their day to day lives.

There are of course women who are bodybuilders just as there are men and that is fine if that is your goal but for many this kind of gym culture is not what they want. If you are planning to look good on your wedding day, feel confident on vacation or be in the kind of shape so that you can wear the clothes you like, then a different  sort of workout regime is required. This is why Rusty designed a program to fill this need called Visual Impact For Women. He actually started a blog a few years ago that over the last year had more than 4 million visitors and this is probably due to the fact that he is providing something that the majority of people want.

Visual Impact For Women is a downloadable program and you receive a 89 page manual that is designed to allow you to do exercises you enjoy to reach your goals. It also includes diets if you are preparing for a particular event and a special cardio program. There is a separate 229 page exercise demonstration manual and printable charts of all the routines. At times, a program comes along that seems to match what people are looking for and Visual Impact For Women has been released to help women who are looking for the slim fit and feminine look. If you want to learn more about what this program can offer you then just click here.

Christy Whitman And The Ideal Body System

For many of us when we talk about getting fit, losing weight or building muscle, we want to know that we have the right information in terms of nutrition and workouts. The fact is that if you want to lose weight and feel fitter and more energetic, everything you need is available especially now that we live in the internet age. So why is it that so many of us still do not have our ideal body or feel that we have tried before but still cannot succeed. The missing ingredient is mindset. It is our consistent action that produces results and these actions come from what we think about and the decisions we make.

It is with this in mind that I am pleased to see that a program that helps with this area has been released by Christy Whitman. Christy is very successful in the field of personal development and helping people to create change and her ideal body system is designed to help you reach your fat loss goals.

There is an article that follows from Christy on the power of the mind and her new program.

The Top 3 Things to Create Your Ideal Body
by Christy Whitman

Congratulations on choosing to move down the path to a healthier, sexier body!

You may be thinking, “But I haven’t even started yet!”

And yet you have…

Because guess what?

You already have the first (and most important) of the top 3 resources you need to create your ideal body.

For that matter, you already have your ideal body! You really do. And once you align all the parts of your life, the reality of your beautiful, healthy body can be revealed. When you get your body, soul and spirit into healthy alignment, the rest falls cleanly away.

1. The Power of Your Mind

Your mind – the way you think about things – creates the foundation for all of the life change you have ever been through or will ever face. You may not have control over circumstances (for example, you were born to particular parents, live in a particular place, and so on) but you can always have control over your mind.

Don’t ever give that up! Don’t ever relinquish your most powerful life tool!

Instead, make a conscious decision to use it – and use it well – to create the body and life you were born to have.

Take a moment to consider the silent messages you’ve been sending yourself about your body.

What do you believe about yourself?

What are the thoughts that you have when thinking about losing weight?

Where is your energy focused?

When your thinking becomes positively aligned with what you desire, your actions will come from a place of high inspiration, and your results will naturally flow into being.

By working with your feelings, thoughts, and intentions, you can become a master creator, regardless of your past, regardless of your age, regardless of the special challenges you face.

Once you begin to link your thoughts intentionally to the unlimited wellbeing of your ideal body, you are going to begin to create it.

2. A Plan to Fuel Your Body
It doesn’t matter whether you’ve just had a baby, or whether you’ve carried extra weight your entire life. The only thing that matters is what you plan to do from this moment forward. Set your thoughts on your ideal body, and sit down with a pencil and paper to plan out your new, healthier diet. It doesn’t have to be complicated! In fact, you can get a long way down the road with these 3 simple starting points…

No more white stuff!

This is probably the easiest, most comprehensive way to get started fueling your body in a healthy way. White bread, white pasta, white sugar, pastries, white flour. All the good nutritive value is gone, and these foods are left with little to offer your ideal body except fast-acting sugars.

Eat more meals

That sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it? You really can and should eat 5 to 6 small meals throughout the day to regulate the chemicals that run your body. Don’t skip breakfast, and don’t load yourself up with a massive evening meal. The key to creating your ideal body is to add fuel in the smartest, most useful way possible.

One third protein, one third veggie, one third carbs

Planning your meals and snacks in this simple ratio will completely shift your body fuel for the better. Stop counting calories, stop worrying about finding fat-free foods, just start here and you’ll see results even before you add the third tool (see below!) to the mix.

3. Movement!

You don’t have to become a gym rat in order to add movement and exercise to the plan to create your ideal body. But you may find that this part of getting healthy is much easier than you anticipated!

Want to know the reason for that?

It’s because our bodies were just made to move.

When’s the last time you saw a little child sit perfectly still? : ) Children are forever dancing, kung fu-ing, and generally moving quickly and continuously until they sink into bed (over protests!) at night.

This is our body’s natural state of wellbeing.

Movement begins simply, and doesn’t require any expensive equipment. How many children do you see who need a giant piece of complex weightlifting equipment in their garage?

Part of moving toward your healthier, sexier you is getting your mindset right, as you saw in the first point above. When negative beliefs and fears about moving around – even taking a walk around the block – weigh us down, they literally weigh us down. You want to mentally release that weight, so that the pounds will melt away!

When you try to lose weight or heal your body from the outside-in (taking medicine, getting surgery, etc.), it just doesn’t stick. Creating your ideal body is about shifting to an inside-out approach.

This is about getting into alignment with the truth – the way you were born and the way you were intended to be, and it’s an integral part of every segment of your life.

Conclusion

As you can see, creating your ideal body isn’t terribly complicated or hard. In fact, the hardest part is simply ‘shifting’ our mindset (retraining our brains).

As I’m sure you know by now, most diets focus on what you should and shouldn’t do. Eat this, don’t eat that. Workout like this, don’t workout like that.

And you know what, that’s all fine and dandy (if you can actually do it consistently).

But you know as well as I do that knowing what to do and actually doing it, are two totally different things.

This is why the Ideal Body System doesn’t focus on restricting yourself and forcing yourself to do things that you don’t want to do. Because forcing yourself to do things, will never work in the long run. Ever!

The Ideal Body System instead focuses on your thoughts, your mind, and how you relate to working out, eating healthy foods, and being healthy.

The Ideal Body System is all about retraining your brain so that you “WANT” to move your body more, so that you “WANT” to eat healthier, so that you “WANT” to be healthy.

You see, once you retrain your brain to “WANT” all of these things, you know longer struggle to do them.

That’s the magic bullet.

Creating your ideal body shouldn’t be about struggling, fighting, trying, and forcing yourself to do things you don’t want to do. It should be fun, easy, and natural.

And it can be. I promise.

Go here and grab your copy of the Ideal Body System today, and let me prove to you that this will be the last weight release program you’ll ever need.

Your ideal body coach,

Christy Whitman
Creator, Ideal Body System

Learn more about my Ideal Body System at:
www.IdealBodySystem.com

Christy Whitman is an in-demand coach, transformational leader and has helped hundreds of men and women create their ideal bodies.

Christy had issues with her self image and body image all her life. She went from being bulimic as a young adult, to trying almost every fad diet out there, spending hundreds of dollars on programs that always resulted in her gaining the weight back, until she found the information that led her to create and maintain her ideal body for years.

She was a size four until the birth of her first baby. Within five months she was back to her ideal body until she became pregnant with her second son. Applying the information she teaches she returned back to her ideal body with four months without being on a restricted diet.

At various times of the year, your thoughts turn to changing your appearance and setting fitness goals whether it be the start of a new year or going on vacation. There are many people who want to know how to get a ripped body and in many cases they want to see results fast. One of the challenges you will face is your own belief system as to what is possible and also finding the right advice. There is so much information out there with so many infomercials for getting ripped abs and so I was interested to read an article from Tom Venuto author of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle.

Tom Venuto is a lifetime natural bodybuilder and fast loss coach and so he is someone who knows what he is talking about.

 

In the article he talks about what getting ripped is and why it is a rare sight in the modern world and yet you would be mistaken if you feel this is for bodybuilders only. As I said at the beginning, fitness is about mindset as well as getting the right information. As Tom explains, he has seen people of all ages and from different backgrounds achieve that ripped look through his Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle program.

Getting ripped is like anything else, you need to focus on your end goal and be consistent with your actions. If you can do that and learn from an expert like Tom Venuto, you will see the results for yourself. You can read Tom’s article on how to get a ripped body by clicking here.

If you are looking for fat burning exercises that work here is an article from Craig Ballantyne, creator of the best selling Turbulence Training program.

Best Exercises for Fat Loss

In the 80′s and 90′s workout magazines that I read, fat loss workouts recommended isolation exercises, like the leg extension machine and the chest-fly machine as being best for helping you sculpt your body. But we’ve come a long way since then…

Today I want to show you how to choose the best exercises, and even the right exercise order, to get the most fat loss and body-sculpting in the least amount of time.

Let’s start with some simple rules on how to pick the exercises.

1. Exercises should always work multiple muscle groups.
2. Exercises should be done standing, whenever possible.
3. Exercises should be effective for fat loss even if only the
bodyweight version is used (i.e. squats).
4. The hardest (most intense) exercises should always be first.

Before I explain the rules in detail, let’s first cover the warm-up.

Every Turbulence Training workout starts with a general warm-up. By now, you should know that I don’t like the traditional 5-minute cardio workout (excluding those who need it for injury purposes, according to their health care professional).

The purpose of the warm-up is to specifically prepare your muscles for action. Walking on a treadmill for 5 minutes does little in terms of preparing your body for strength training. Therefore, I start every workout with a general, total body circuit.

When putting together total-body workouts and warm-ups, I think about 4 “hot zones” on the body. And I have to address all four hot zones with exercises in the warm-up. The hot zones are:

a) Back of Legs
b) Upper Back
c) Chest
d) Abdominals

Why do I only worry about the back of legs? Because almost all multi-joint movements that train the back of the legs will also stress the quadriceps, even if only in a static contraction.

Take for example, this general warm-up (to be used in place of the treadmill):

A) Y-Squat (hold your hands over your head in a “Y” formation) – 15 reps
B) Close-grip Push ups (kneeling or advanced) – 8 reps
C) Stick-up – 8 reps

Hopefully you can see how that hits all 4 hot zones through dynamic and static contractions. If you don’t, let me know.

Ok, now we are ready to move on to the meat of the workout.

As stated above in the rules, we must pick our hardest, most intense exercises first, and perform them in sets of low reps.

Here’s a Turbulence Training bodyweight-only, body-sculpting workout routine that I’ve designed to show you the correct exercise order, and the types of exercise that are best for changing your body.

I’ll be using this exact workout with one of my high-profile movie stars this afternoon. She needs to keep her body sculpted without bulking up. But she still needs to be strong, lean, and athletic for her fight scenes in the movie she is filming.

1A) Split Squat (8 reps) [Advanced use the Bulgarian Split Squat]
1B) Elevated Push up (8 reps per side) [Kneeling or Advanced)
2A) Step-up (12 reps)
2B) Bodyweight Row (8 reps) (Beginner or Advanced)
3A) Stability Ball Jackknife (15 reps)
3B) Back Extension on Ball (15 reps)

Each superset (i.e. 1A & 1B) is done 3 times with no rest between exercises A and B, but with a 30 seconds rest after B, before you repeat the superset.

Following the strength portion of the workout, complete the workout with Interval Training.

Each exercise uses multiple muscle groups, so that more calories will be burned during and after exercise.

We also design each superset to use two intense, non-competing exercises. We use low reps where possible. We train for strength at the start of the workout when we are fresh.

What do I mean by non-competing?

That means, you should be able to perform the two exercises back to back with minimal fatiguing effects from the prior exercise. You have to pair exercises that don’t use the same muscle groups.

The rules of exercise selection and exercise order will allow you to get lean, boost your metabolism, and to train with a high-intensity throughout the entire workout.

So when I put the exercises together, it is all about putting them in the right order to get you lean.

Full body workouts sculpt a better body faster,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Creator, Turbulence Training

If you want to learn more about fat burning exercises and for more details you can go straight to the Turbulence Training site here

A muscle gaining, fat burning workout from Vince Del Monte

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This post is super time sensitive as Vince Del Monte’s Maximize Your Muscle system, will be re-opening to welcome new members up until 3 September 2010 only (closing at midnight EST on that day). If you are serious about extreme muscle gain and fat loss, then you will want to take action as soon as you have read this post.

Vince is the first to admit this might not be for everyone, so there is a very generous trial offer you can take advantage of. He is looking for very serious people who want to achieve results. However, if you can make that commitment, he will prove to you that whatever your genetics you can get fast and extreme results from what he is able to teach.

The reason he is so confident is that he can do this for you is because he was not blessed with the greatest genetics himself. In fact, his claim to fame is that he is the skinny guy who transformed himself into a Canadian fitness model champion.

He can help you go beyond any plateaus you may have reached in your own training. If you want to really crank up your results and turbo charge your metabolism, then Vince is someone you should listen to. He has a track record of helping people to do this. Just in case you are wondering, this is suitable for men and women and age need not be a barrier. However, this is not for beginners and you should always consult your own doctor when undertaking a new exercise regime.

If you decide to stay with Vince’s program after the trial period you will get access to his monthly workout DVD, newsletter and coaching call. The idea is not just to challenge you physically but also on an emotional and spiritual level. When you achieve as much as he has by age 30, you realise it is not just about the correct exercise regime. It is also about mindset and motivation.

You can find out more about this special offer and how the ongoing coaching will work at the Maximize Your Muscle site.

Here is an example of a bodyweight cardio workout from Craig Ballantyne of Turbulence Training.

So you can see this is a fun fat burning workout program that you can do at the park or in the comfort of your own home without equipment.

If you’re sick and tired of boring cardio, or if you’ve even had enough of traditional interval training, these new bodyweight circuit programs can be used to replace both of those fat burning workout methods.

You can also replace your entire workout program with the bodyweight cardio program, because it combines bodyweight strength training with muscle endurance to give you a complete lean body workout.

After all, it often feels like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Between work, family, appointments, and unexpected time-zappers, it’s hard finding time to squeeze in a quality workout.

And it’s even more difficult to workout when it involves navigating through rush hour traffic, dealing with annoying people and dirty machines in the gym, and following a program that isn’t making even the slightest dent in your belly fat.

It’s frustrating, exhausting, and most importantly, wastes your precious time!

What you need is a fat burning workout that you can do anywhere including the park, your backyard or even in a hotel room. With your busy lifestyle, you need a no-equipment workout that will help you burn fat as fast as interval training on a treadmill.

This is what you get with Turbulence Training Bodyweight Cardio 3

This no-equipment, anywhere, anytime workout system has already helped thousands of other men and women to burn fat and sculpt their bodies.

In this program, you’ll get:

4 challenging, zero equipment workouts that will tone your body in all the right places.

New exercises guaranteed to burn more calories all day long.

Fun workouts you can get done quickly.

Fat-blasting workouts you can substitute for interval training and cardio workouts (No treadmill? No problem!).

Plus, you’ll get the never-seen-before 5-Round “fat burning fight” workout that will ignite your fat-burning hormones.

One of the most critical elements to your fat loss success is finding a workout program that fits into your lifestyle, and with the flexibility of this program, things just got a whole lot easier. Get all the details of the Turbulence Training Bodyweight Cardio 3 program here.

Body of F.I.R.E. is a fast fat loss system brought to you by Chad Waterbury, trainer of many world class athletes and celebrities. Chad is used to training people who expect the best and want results fast. His articles have been featured in publications such as Men’s Health and now you can get the chance to use his expertise to get you results in as little as 3 weeks.

The training itself centres around 4 workouts a week with each one including preparation, cardio, strength and stretches. As Chad has experience with working with so many people as a personal trainer, he understands the need to show the exercises to suit either the beginner or more advanced person. You will see full illustrations of how to do each exercise and there are training logs you can print to keep track of your progress.

A clear full color exercise guide shows that there is no need for any special equipment. The nutrition guide that forms part of the Body of Fire system covers the key elements of eating for fat loss and making sure that your energy and recovery levels are increased. The nutrition plans give you what you need to know dependent on your own weight. The idea is that there will be foods you want to eat in different categories such as protein and fruit and vegetables.

So if you feel ready to change your body and learn from someone who is paid to get fast results, you can get more information at the Body Of F.I.R.E. site here.

Okay this is a short post as there is no time to waste. If you are up for a challenge and would like to burn some fat, then you can enter Tom Venuto’s Body Transformation Contest. There are prizes and here is a taster of the top prize.

The entry deadline is May 30th, 2010 11:59 PM (EST), hence the reason I am keeping this brief. Get full details of this Burn The Fat challenge here.

Here is an article from Craig Ballantyne, who has now released his
much anticipated turbulence training for abs dvds.

If you’ve been struggling to get flat, sexy abs and burn belly fat
with traditional workouts, then you are going to love these 5 weird
abdominal exercise and diet tips.

Over the last 13 years as a trainer and athlete, I’ve been studying
every expert and research study I can find about the best way to get
flat abs.

Today, you’ll discover 5 weird tips you might not know when it comes
to getting a flat stomach and firm abs.

#1 – The best interval training work-to-rest ratio for losing belly
fat might be 1-to-1.5.

In an Australian study, researchers found that doing intervals for
8 seconds followed by 12 seconds of rest resulted in significantly
more belly fat burning than long slow cardio.

Now I know that 8 seconds on and 12 seconds off sounds a little
annoying (just try doing that on a machine), but the good news is
that these researchers found that going for 24 seconds followed by a
36 second rest works just as well for boosting fat burning hormones.

#2 – Dr. Chris Mohr’s #1 weird diet tip is…

I just finished up a fat loss nutrition interview with Dr.
Mohr and he told me that his simple, yet slightly weird #1 diet tip
for fat loss is…

“Get almost all of your carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables.”

I really liked that tip because I’ve been telling people this for
years, and it’s part of the Fat Loss Foundation you’ll discover in
my Simple Nutrition manual & DVD.

#3 – You need to be able to do a Plank exercise for 2 minutes.

Dr. Stuart McGill, the world’s leading expert on low back health,
says in his book that a person with fit abs should be able to do a
plank exercise for 2 minutes straight.

If you can’t do the plank for 2 minutes, then you need to lose belly
fat and you need to get an abdominal workout DVD program that works
your abs properly.

Here are the best abdominal exercises DVDs you can get:

>>>TT for Abs DVDs<<<

#4 – New research shows that supersets training burns more calories
than traditional straight set resistance training.

And that’s exactly what you’ll get in every short, burst exercise
workout.

The short, burst superset programs save you time (getting you done
in half the time of a traditional resistance workout) while helping
you burn more fat.

#5 – To see your abs, a man will need to be close to 10% fat and a
woman will need to be at about 16% fat.

Of course, the more muscle you have, the easier it will be too see
your abs, so you’ll still be able to see a 4-pack on muscular guys
when they have 12-13% fat.

But the bottom line is that you need to use the Simple Nutrition
plan combined with the short, burst exercise workouts to burn
belly fat to see your sexy abs.

BONUS Tip – A great way to work your abs harder than normal planks
is the Stability Ball Plank.

Research reported in Men’s Health magazine reported this exercise to
be 30% harder on your abs than a regular plank.

And last Friday I used an interesting technique with this exercise
that caused my abs to be sore for days. But that’s another story for
another weird abdominal exercise article – coming soon!

Remember, for the best flat abdominal exercises and belly fat burning
circuits, you need the TT for Abs Home Exercise DVDs & Simple
Nutrition plan from this website:

>>>Turbulence Training For Abs DVDs>>>

[ Note: I really like to bring you quality content from fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I hope you like it too. ]

Ever heard the phrase, “Fat-n-Happy?”…

Of course you have. We used to refer to obese guys as a “jolly fat-man”… or perhaps someone who is overweight as “fat-n-happy”.

Is it true? Can (gasp) being overweight actually make you happy?

Rather than giving you my opinion on the matter, I take a look at three national studies on this page.

The presentation is only 5 minutes long… and I reveal the number one case for alarm in the United States and Canada.

Read that again:  The Number 1 Cause For Alarm.

And I’m NOT an alarmist… I’m a rationalist. But stats like these do not lie.

They cannot lie.

And this deals with our children.

Please… go see:

click.here—>  Fat-n-Happy Study

P.S.  I can tell you from my own first-hand experience, which I document in “Fit Over 40″, that my personal 10-year-journey through the muck of obesity was ANYTHING but happy.

I was depressed, to the point of suicide at times (thankfully I never went that far.) I was socially hidden. I wore “fat-clothes” all the time. The few times I HAD to wear jeans or dress pants I rushed home to change into sweats because they were just too damn uncomfortable to tolerate.

Bottom line:  I was “fat-n-miserable”.

I think most people who are overweight or obese feel more despair, sadness, or perhaps just really frustrated than “happy”. Of course you can be happy and be any size, color, shape, etc. But I’ll tell you from my experience that I am MUCH happier now that I’m fit and trim.

Part of that is just because I feel better. The other part is how the brain functions. When you’re more active, you release more “feel-good” hormones… and these are powerful anti-blues hormones… they really make you feel like a champ. At least that’s been my experience.

But go watch the 5-min video and see what you think…

click.here—>  Fat-n-Happy Study