Exercise Alone Ain't Enough to Get It Done

Anyone who's read my stuff or followed any of my programs knows that when it comes to losing fat, I say that nutrition is more than half the battle.

Well, now there's some very good research that proves this point.

Basically this research took two groups of sedentary people, and gave one group a well-designed fitness program to follow for 12 weeks, while the other group remained sedentary.

They didn't change their eating patterns at all. The results might surprise you. You can read the details in a post from Dr. John Berardi, who was part of the research team.

Here's the link to the post.

~Dave

14 Fat Loss Experts Share The Goods

Now, I know my fat loss techniques work, but I'm comfortable enough to say that there are other experts out there who have great techniques and programs that work just as well. None of us invented fat loss, we've just honed our own particular ways of attacking it.

If you're interested in seeing what types of tips, tricks, and programs are out there, I've got a great free resource you can check out. You see, I've been selected as one of a select group of fat loss experts and have been asked to contribute some of the fat loss techniques I use with my clients to the rest of the world.

The Free Fat Loss Tips website is where 13 other experts from Australia, The United States, Canada and The UK, join me on this new site.

The best part, of course, is each of us has decided to give up our great secrets for free and the site is now live!

http://www.freefatlosstips.com

You'll find some great information from myself, of course, and my Busy Woman's Fitness Solution, along with these 13 other leaders in the fat loss game:

• Daniel Munday, who specializes in short, intense workouts for busy people who usually don't have time to exercise. He is giving away the Aussie Fatblast Secrets Revealed audio and eBook special report.
  
  
• Ed Scow, the author of Fat Loss To Go, who is giving you 3 hot secret reports on the best ways for men and women to lose that body fat.
  
  
• Mike Grafstein, is a Youth Soccer expert who has some great interval fitness programs if you have any kids that play the world game.
  
  
• Caroline Radway, offers you her Perfect 10 tips to help you achieve your perfect fit for life.
  
  
• Stephen Cabral, a renowned media personality, who is offering The World?s Most Powerful Weight Loss Interval report.
  
  
• Dan Grant, magazine contributor and body transformation coach who will teach you his Degrees of Change system to accelerate your fat loss results.
  
  
• Dr Kareem Samhouri, ground breaking, year long, Lift Hard Play Hard program is one of the internet's premier online training solutions.
  
  
• Eddie Enriquez, who has created the MyTrainer.com website to allow users free access to some of the best fitness videos and audios on the planet. This is You Tube for fitness.
  
  
• John Fell, a Sydney based trainer to the stars who is offering you 3 months online training with access to mp3 workouts, education, and his sought after motivation and support methods.
  
  
• Ben Warstler, runs successful boot camps in small town Vermont and is sharing with you his 4 Secret Hot Spots for fast and effective fat loss.
  
  
• Susan Hill, a renowned personal trainer of the year winner, and author of the Bikini Butt Workout for all the women wanting to look their best in their swimsuit this summer. Susan will give you the best tips for picking the right swimsuit.
  
  
• Jeremy and Alissa Nelms, creators of the revolutionary Mid Year Resolutions Program which is a teleseminar series that addresses your fat loss, financial and relationship success. Jeremy interviews over 20 experts and you can gain access to this for free!
  
  
• BJ Gaddour, a successful real world fat loss expert who has a revolutionary online membership site with audio workout programs to maximise your fat burn. BJ is offering a free, downloadable, cardio workout.
  
  
• and me...:)
  

As you can see, it's a pretty comprehensive list of accomplished and successful Fat Loss Experts.

The site will only be up for a limited time though, so check it out now if you'd like to get inside their heads for free.

Once again, the place to get your freebies is www.freefatlosstips.com.

~Dave

Why Your Diet Doesn't Work

At any given time, more than 60% of people say they are dieting, so if diets really worked, we'd all be pretty damn thin.

But we're not.

Give you one guess why...

Because diets don't work. In fact, they suck.

I've got a video you can watch that will basically explain, in very simple terms, why dieting alone as a means to lose weight doesn't work in the long term. It's about 30 minutes long, but that's because I go into detail and cover lots of info.

And yes, the video is free. Just click the image to the left or see the dieting video here.

So, go get yourself a cold drink and sit back and watch. You'll never go on another diet if you do.

~Dave

Get Through It, or Get Better?

Here's a question for you...

When you are working out, what is going through your mind? Are you just forcing yourself to go from exercise to exercise so you can "just get through your workout"? Is your sense of accomplishment that even though you didn't want to do it, you dragged your butt to the gym and got through your workout?

Or, when you are working out, are you doing it with the intention of getting better? Getting better by losing more fat, gaining more muscle, doing one more rep, lifting 10 more lbs, etc?

If you start walking into your workouts with the mindset that you want to be a bit better than your last workout, I guarantee you will get better results than if you are just trying to get through it.

~Dave

Healthy Weight Inner Circle

Okay, I know I've been a slacker when it comes to blogging lately.

What can I say? I've been busy.

I actually have been writing lots of stuff. Been filming even more stuff.

It just hasn't been for here.

I'm working on a new web site that will be the final destination for those of looking to lose weight, get healthy, and do it the right way. The site will be called Healthy Weight Inner Circle, and it will be for those of you ready to break the dieting cycle for good.

If you want to see what Healthy Weight Inner Circle is all about, just watch the short video below.



~Dave

Today Is The Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday, part 2

In a previous post I wrote about how most people's reasons for not working out weren't really reasons at all, but excuses.

For those of you still having trouble fitting in your workouts, see if any of these excuses sound familiar.



~Dave

You Can't Out-Train Lousy Nutrition

I see lots of people who are faithfully following a proper exercise program, but are frustrated because they aren't losing weight or inches. For some reason, many people think that just because they exercise regularly, they can then eat like crap and get away with it.

Well, I guess you can, as long as you don't care if you look and feel like crap as well. But if your goal is to lose weight, then you've got to get as serious about your nutrition as you are about working out. If you're not willing to do that, then don't expect to see great changes in the mirror or on the scale.

And as I said in a previous post, that doesn't just mean eating well. You've got to eat well, but what you've really got to do is eat well and create a caloric deficit.

That translates into 'stop eating crap and eat fewer calories than you burn'.

Combined with an appropriate training program, that is how you lose weight, because no matter how you try, you can't out-train lousy nutrition.

~Dave

The 12 Days of Fitness

If you're interested in receiving tons of health and fitness info for free this holiday season, then read on.

My friends Dax Moy and Pat Rigsby are coordinating a great program called The 12 Days of Fitness, and I'm happy to say that I'm one of a handpicked group of just 250 health and fitness experts from all around the world to participate in the largest fitness gift-giving program ever.

This means that, as well as getting your gifts from me, you'll be able to download a wealth of videos, audios, ebooks and special reports on just about every area of health and fitness from Diet & Nutrition, to Fat Loss, to Strength Training, to Back Pain (that's one of mine) to Mom's Fitness and just about EVERYTHING in between.

Dax and Pat have ensured that only top quality gifts have been allowed into this year's gift-giving, meaning that many of the contributors have created gifts that you would happily pay for...

But you get each and every one of them for free!

All you have to do to get your hands on these gifts is to register at www.12daysoffitness.com and you'll be notified when the first set of gifts are available. (In case you haven't figured it out, they'll be spread out over 12 days so you aren't overwhelmed with hundreds of choices all at once.)

Just my way of saying thanks for reading my blog.

Well, what are you waiting for? Get on over to www.12daysoffitness.com now!

~Dave

Eating Right and Not Losing Weight?

Here's a quote I hear fairly often:

"I'm eating right and I'm still not losing any weight. How can this be?"

Well, it's usually pretty simple. By 'eating right', most people mean they aren't eating junk food, they're staying away from sugar, eating plenty of fruits and veggies, eating frequently, etc.

That's great.

That doesn't mean you'll automatically lose weight though.

As an example, I just had a routine physical exam. I get one every 2 years and my weight this year was within a pound of where it was 2 years ago. And I'd say that I eat right (well, most of the time anyway).

But, what you need to realize is that if your goal is to lose weight, simply 'eating right' is usually not enough. The bottom line is you need to be disciplined, making sure that in addition to making the good choices listed above, you are also eating such that you are creating a caloric deficit (calories in has to be less than calories out).

Now, that doesn't mean starving yourself. You still need to make good choices, eat frequently, etc. But, you also need to make sure you're following a proper exercise program designed to burn fat and build muscle, so that you are burning more calories every day.

Eating right is a good thing. It can help lower blood pressure, control diabetes, lower your bad cholesterol, and any number of other healthy benefits. But, by itself, it is often not going to be enough to get you the weight loss results you want.

~Dave

How To Lose Weight and Why Diets Don't Work

If you've had a hard time losing weight (who hasn't?), check out this video.



www.DietVictims.com
~Dave

My Anniversary Present to You, Part 1

So, it's my 17th wedding anniversary this week.

Doesn't seem nearly that long, but if you include the time we dated, my wonderful wife Wendy and I have been together for more than half my life.

Most people can't make that claim. I'm obviously a very lucky man.

And she's not the only wonderful girl in my life, as I am also proud to have two beautiful daughters as well.

Life is good.

So, to celebrate, I'm going to start giving stuff away. Yup, for my anniversary, I'm giving you gifts.

First up, you can now grab my ebook "A Healthy Back in Ten Minutes a Day" for free.

No strings attached. Simply go to www.YourHealthyBack.com and sign up and you'll get a free copy. Kind of hard to beat free.

I'm not sure how long I'll keep that offer up, so go over there now. If you miss out, well, don't worry. There will be more free stuff coming very soon. Although I haven't decided exactly when or what it will be, I have decided on the price.

$0.

Stay tuned...

~Dave

Whose Fault is it if You're Overweight?

A new report by a British government-sponsored think-tank states that obesity does not simply result from over-eating and a lack of exercise, but is a consequence of modern life.

"Although personal responsibility plays a crucial part in weight gain, human biology is being overwhelmed by the effects of today's 'obesogenic' environment, with its abundance of energy-dense food, motorised transport and sedentary lifestyles.

"As a result, the people of the UK are inexorably becoming heavier simply by living in the Britain of today."

Excuse me, but that's a pile of crap.

Not only do we have individuals who refuse to take responsibility for their own situations, instead choosing to blame fast food restaurants, soda companies, junk food manufacturers, and whoever else happens to be a convenient target, but now we have the British government encouraging people to abdicate personal responsibility for their weight issues.

Give me a break. I think they created this report just so they could coin the word "obesogenic".

Nobody forces you to eat all of the energy-dense food available at every corner in the form of fast food restaurants. Just because there is a McDonalds on every block doesn't mean you have to eat there.

And motorized transport is now a culprit? Buy a bike. Take a walk. If you are taking your car to go around the block to buy a cheeseburger, that isn't society's fault, pal. Look in the mirror.

And don't even try to tell me that a sedentary lifestyle is caused by anything other than personal choice. Society doesn't glue your lazy ass to the couch to watch Oprah. You do. If you don't exercise, there is nobody to blame but yourself.

And, as expected, you have the pundits and know-it-alls lining up to say that this report proves that governments aren't doing enough to tackle the obesity issue. According to this report, "Tackling obesity, like tackling climate change, requires a range of changes in society, from increasing everyday activity through the design of the built environment and transport systems to shifting the drivers of the food chain and consumer purchasing patterns to favor healthier options."

Puh-lease. Let's over-complicate matters so that we can continue to justify expanding waistlines.

You're overweight? Don't blame McDonalds for making hamburgers or Ford for making inexpensive cars. You, and only you, made the choice to drive a block for a cheeseburger.

~Dave

Today is the Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday

"I don't have time to exercise."

"I'm too busy."

"It takes too long to work out."

Want some cheese with that whine?

Every day people tell me the reason they can't exercise is because they simply don't have time. That's not a reason. That's an excuse. Big difference.

Most of these people have time to watch Survivor or The Bachelor though. They also have time to keep up with the latest on Britney Spears. No wonder they don't have time to exercise.

Guess what? Fit people are just as busy as you.

You can't tell me you don't have 15 minutes to get a workout in. Wait, don't think you can work out in 15 minutes?

I just did.

I did a quick warmup of some arm circles, bodyweight squats, and pushups. Then I did a circuit of dumbbell lunges, incline dumbbell chest press, and 1-arm rows. I did the circuit 3 times and finished off with a set of ab wheels.

Worked hard, hit all the major muscle groups, used weights that challenged me to do 10 or so reps per set, and finished in 15 minutes.

Please stop telling me you don't have time to work out. More importantly, stop telling yourself that you don't have time to work out as you watch Survivor.

~Dave