Best Exercise To Lose Weight

Best 3 Secrets of Body Weight Exercises

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:42:01 +0000

I have 3 secrets on how to use body weight exercises to build more muscle and burn fat that I used in the new TT Body weight Bodybuilding program.

1) Alter the repetition speed.

Instead of going up and down as fast as you can with little or no control, in the Body weight bodybuilding workouts you’ll see that some exercises are done fast and others are done slow to maximize
the fat burning, muscle building response you get from each movement.

2) Alter the repetition style to increase the amount of tension on the muscle.

By incorporating movements like “one and one-half reps”, we can take a good leg exercise and turn it into one of the most effective leg exercises available – with or without weights. You’ll be shocked by
how this one little change can at least double your results.

3) Maximize the tension through bio-mechanical changes in traditional exercises.

By leaning forward, using one limb instead of two, slightly altering the body’s position from a traditional exercise, and by strategically arranging exercises in “secret combinations”, we can “trick” the body into giving you more results without piling on the weights. That means you can transform your body anywhere, anytime.

I use all three of these secrets to get you MORE results with less time – and NO weights – in the new Body weight Bodybuilding program.

The ONE Mistake ALL Women Make

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:55:08 +0000

I was walking home from the gym when I passed by a young women – she was about 28 years old – who was talking on her phone. And I heard her say, “I’m going for a walk now to get some exercise because I’m going out for a bad dinner tonight.”

No – no – no – no – no!

That doesn’t work. It never has, it never will. You can’t out-cardio a bad diet. This is the one mistake that ALL women have made at ONE point in their life.

And to be honest, it goes for almost all of the guys I know, too.

But at best, this poor girl will only burn an extra 300-500 calories during her walk – if it’s a really, really long walk. However…at dinner, she’s likely to eat 400-700 calories during the appetizer alone, or consume that in liquid calories with wine! (NOTE: By “bad dinner”, I’m guessing she meant a high-calorie meal, and not a dreadful date with a deadbeat ex-boyfriend.)

AND remember, as I’ve mentioned in the past, one British study found that some people OVEREAT in response to cardio exercise. So when dinner comes around, this poor girl might think, “Oh, I did that long walk today, so I can treat myself to a bigger dinner or extra dessert.”

Whatever her reason, a single cardio session will not beat a bad diet.

The only thing that comes close to beating a bad diet is interval training and resistance training.

Back in 2007, an Australian research study on interval training was getting a lot of press for the surprising results. In the study, women who did interval training were able to lose belly fat without
changing their diet.

In fact, one subject, named Louise, said this:

My diet was pretty bad back then, with lots of sweets, lots of junk food…doughnuts and sugar — it was awful.

And yet by the end of this study, interval training helped Louise burn 8kg of fat in just 15 weeks – WITHOUT changing her diet.

Perhaps it IS POSSIBLE for you to out-train a bad diet – but only if you use interval training. And that’s just another reason Turbulence Training is based on this specific type of fat burning exercise.

So please choose intervals and metabolic resistance supersets and circuits to help you sculpt your body…you will get more results than taking a long walk, I promise.

Your friend (still, I hope?),

Best 7 Reasons Why You Do Not Need to Do Ab Crunches

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:27:01 +0000

I just spent two and half hours reading through all your ab questions from last week and I must say I’m shocked. I didn’t realize how many people were still using crunches to try and get a flat stomach and six pack abs.

Unfortunately, I have bad news…doing crunches is NOT going to get you the results you want. (Although you knew this already, of course, as so many of you also wrote in with frustration that the crunches were not working.)

So I’m going to prove today what you already knew, and that’s how you NEVER need to do crunches again…here are the 7 reasons:

1. Crunches aren’t working for you now, and didn’t in the past, so why would they work in the future?

It’s time to give them up for good. You know the old saying about insanity? It’s doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Time to change it up!

2) Crunches are most dangerous when they are most effective.

When you are overweight, there can be a lot of resistance on the abs when you do crunches – and technically that is good. HOWEVER, because your ab and low back muscles are weak, that’s when you use bad form and end up with a pain-in-the-neck or low back pain from crunches. So even though crunches can work your abs as a beginner, they end up causing more harm than good.

As a beginner, you are much better off using the Beginner Turbulence Training for Abs 4-week program AND the bonus DVD, the TT Beginner Total Torso Training program.

3) Crunches get LESS effective as you get leaner and fitter, because there is less resistance on the muscle and you’re now too strong to get anything out of crunches.

Here’s a dramatic demonstration of what I mean. Take your left arm and extend it out to your side. Now clench your fist and do 20 biceps curls. Now tell me, do you really think that will “work your biceps” and make them lean and sexy? Of course not! So why would the same high-rep method of crunches work for your abs? It won’t, of course.

4) A couple of years ago, Men’s Health magazine made a big deal about a research study proving you would need to do 20,000 crunches to burn 1 pound of belly fat. Twenty thousand!

Even a “crunch fanatic” would need a few days to do 20,000 crunches. The bottom line is that ab crunches are a HUGE waste of
time when you are trying to lose belly fat.

5) Even those lean, mixed martial artist guys don’t do crunches.

On the weekend, I was reading an interview with the trainer of world champion fighter, Georges St. Pierre, and the trainer explained
how they don’t do crunches, but instead do anti-rotation and extension exercises for the abs. Not sure what those are? Don’t worry, you’ll get some of those in the TT for Abs workout DVDs.

6) Interval training works your abs harder than crunches.

Whether it’s sprints or kettlebell swings, your abs will shape up faster with interval training than they will with crunches. Guaranteed.

7) Crunches don’t make your abs “pop out”.

This was a big problem mentioned in so many of your questions. A lot of TT readers had lost the fat, but still couldn’t see their abs because they didn’t “Pop out”. Listen, crunches will never do that…but the exercises we use in the TT for Abs DVDs will, I promise.

So when you’re ready to give up crunches (like right now, right?) and use proven ab exercises and workouts, then you’re ready for the TT for Abs DVDs.

One more thing: Nutrition also beats crunches EVERY time.

That’s why I also filmed the Simple Nutrition DVD for you and you’ll get that DVD and manual as well as another bonus gift.

Say goodbye to crunches and hello to sexy abs!

Best 5 Tips to Lose Fat

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:58:01 +0000

Some folks struggle with sticking to their nutrition, workouts, and motivation…so here are 5 of my top tips to help you.

1. To lose fat…You must figure out what works for you.

That’s why tracking your workouts and nutrition is so important, especially for beginners and for folks who want advanced results (such as our Transformation Contest winners). Once you know what works for you, it becomes almost impossible for you to gain the weight back. So get testing and tracking.

2) Hit a personal best in your workouts.

Hit a personal best in your workout – in at least one exercise. Do an extra rep for an exercise or the same number of reps with 2-5% more weight. Every workout do a little bit better. That’s how you
change your body.

3) Turn healthy actions into habits.

We are what we repeatedly do. At first you might need a checklist or some reminders to drink 2 glasses of water first thing in the morning or to have Green Tea as a 10am break. But eventually these healthy actions will become fat burning habits.

4) Baby step your way to success.

If things are hard, just take it one step at a time. Take baby steps to success. You don’t have to change everything overnight. Make one small change in your fitness and nutrition program every day.

5) Make yourself accountable to others.

Research shows that being accountable to a friend or fitness professional are both proven ways of helping folks lose fat. Get a nutrition buddy at work, a workout partner for your Turbulence
Training sessions, or a trainer who you see once per month to check your form and fat percentages.

Bonus Tip: Include some type of challenge workout in your program at least once per month.

It could be the 500 workout or the TT 30-minute body weight challenge, or even just a test of your body weight squats, chin-ups (or rows), push-ups and 200 meter run time. Testing and tracking that info will help you stick to your program and show you what works.

And all of that will help you finally lose fat.

Why Fat Loss Programs Fail

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:26:36 +0000

Fat loss programs fail because we end up eating more and exercising less on the weekends.

Monday to Friday you are a fat burning robot. Your fat loss program is kicking butt.

You do a fat burning Turbulence Training workout first thing in the morning, eat breakfast, have a high-protein salad for lunch, a healthy afternoon snack, and then a sensible dinner. It all adds up to a pound of fat loss per week.

Or so it should, if it were not for the 2 fat loss killers, Saturday and Sunday.

Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine recruited 48 men and women and put them on a year long weight loss program. At the start of the program, subjects were already gaining weight on weekends while losing weight during the week.

Why?

Researchers say that subjects reported eating more on Saturdays, and exercising less on Sunday.

During the year long research study, half of the subjects were put on a calorie-restricted diet while the other half was put on an exercise program.

Both groups lost weight during the week, but weekends stopped both groups of subjects from losing weight because both groups ended up eating more calories on the weekend.

As a result, the researchers concluded that many exercise and diet programs fail because of weekend lifestyle behaviors.

Here’s what you need to do to stop your fat loss program from failing.

First, identify all the problems that come up on weekends causing you to eat more or exercise less.

Second, brainstorm two solutions for each one of these problems. If you plan and prepare your weekends just as hard as you do for your weekdays, you’ll continue to lose fat week in and week out.

Best Exercise Interval Training

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:12:56 +0000

Last Wednesday I put myself through a tough interval workout in High Park near my place in Toronto.

Afterward I headed right back to the office and went straight to my computer to answer questions in the TT member’s area and to see how all the members were doing with their Transformation Workouts.

Then I stumbled across an unusual post from a fellow Canadian and new member, Mike Cheliak. He and I had been discussing off-day body Weight circuit training, and he wrote in this inspirational
story to share with you…

“I did the Total Body Ten Body Weight Circuit today as my day off ‘activity’. When I got to the gym there were a couple guys and a girl beginning their usual Eliptical routines…

…but I convinced them to join me in the Aerobics room and we gutted out 3 circuits of the Total Body Ten program. It was great!

What a perfect way to get some good intense activity in without tiring yourself out on a day off! We may all start a “club” on Wednesdays to do this. I think it was a great motivator doing it with other people. We all pushed each other and had fun doing it.

I highly recommend this to anyone looking for some fun activity. You could easily do it at home but I have to say that it was a LOT more fun doing it with a group!”

Mike’s right, and the Total Body Ten is a great workout that I included in the TT for Fat Loss manual to give the “go-getters” something to do on their off-days from TT. You can also use this circuit in place of regular interval training, if you don’t have access to a cardio machine. The general format of the circuit goes like this…

Easy lower body exercise for warm-up.
Moderate upper body pushing exercise for warm-up.
Single-leg exercise.
High-rep upper body pushing exercise.
High-rep Squat.
High-rep total body ab exercise.
Single-leg exercise.
Tough upper body pushing exercise.
Lower body posterior chain exercise.
Tough upper body pulling exercise.

Best Exercise to Break Through The Fat Loss Plateau

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:59:06 +0000

Are you stuck at a fat loss plateau with slow, boring cardio? Then read these two testimonials.

“Been running for 6 months with minimal weight loss. Since starting TT, I have lost 10 lbs. in 2 months. A God Send. Thanks.”
– Chris Schwartz, M.D.

“I’ve just finished my third week of Turbulence Training and I already see amazing results. I’ve been weight training for about five years, so I really thought I knew a thing or two.

Then I found Turbulence Training. I quickly realized what a waste of time all those isolation exercises were and how much time I had wasted doing them. After my first TT workout, I knew this was something big.

This was something that would change my life.

And in three short weeks, it already has. I now look forward going o the gym and knocking out my workout in less than an hour. I walk in with a plan, instead of walking around aimlessly trying to decide what to do next. Those days are over! My clothes are already feeling looser, and my waistline is shrinking. I didn’t even realize how much fat had slowly crept up on me, but once I started seeing such positive changes, I realized this was only the beginning. I can’t wait to see what the next few months will bring!”
– Wilhelmina Seamans

Best Exercise to Burn Belly Fat

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:21:00 +0000

I often get asked, What’s the best way to burn fat and lose my belly? People want to know if aerobics is better than strength training, or if traditional cardio exercise is better than intervals. Cardio is not the best way to burn fat. Intervals are a better fat burning workout to burn belly fat.
With over 15 years experience helping others, training myself, training for sports, spending countless hours in the gym, AND actually conducting laboratory research studies on different exercise methods, I’m pretty confident in knowing what works and what does not.

But first of all, I want to frame my responses. I’m going to talk about what works for people that have a limited amount of time to exercise, mostly because I expect your readers don’t have 90 minutes per day to devote to a workout, unlike the typical audience of a fitness magazine.

That’s why there is a huge disconnect between some of the information found in magazines and the ability of the reader to apply it to their lives.

We just don’t have 6-8 hours per week for exercise, nor do we need it. If you’re a triathlete, you might need that, but not someone that just wants to lose fat and gain muscle.

Having said all that, the bottom line for getting a better body is…

Use body weight exercises to warm-up, strength training supersets to build muscle, and then finish your workout with interval training to burn fat in a short amount of time. I’ve structured my system so that you are in and out of the gym in 45 minutes, three times per week.

You’ll do 5 minutes of body weight exercises to warm-up. This is a much more efficient approach than spending 5 minutes walking on a treadmill, which really doesn’t prepare you for anything except more walking on a treadmill.

Then we move into the strength training supersets, where we use two exercises performed back to back with minimum rest between each. This cuts our workout time, while still giving us maximum results. We only need 20 minutes for this, and we’ll use basic exercises, and sometimes even more bodyweight exercises, depending on the client’s goal for muscle building.

And finally, we’ll do 18 minutes of interval training. A warm-up, followed by six short intervals at the appropriate fitness level for the client, interspersed with short periods of low-intensity recovery. Finish with a cool-down. And that’s the workout. Again, about 45 minutes total.

Compare that to what most people do, which is run, jog, cycle or use the cardio machines for 45 minutes straight. Sure, that will burn calories, but it doesn’t build a better body.

In fact, there are a few “dark sides” to long slow cardio, including less-than-optimal results, the potential for overuse injuries, and it is an inefficient form of exercise. If you only have 30-45 minutes for your workout and you spend it all on a cardio machine, when are you going to train the rest of your muscles and sculpt a better body?

So the best way to burn belly fat is with a combination of strength training and interval training. It’s fast, it works, and it’s fun!

Compare that to what most people do, which is run, jog, cycle or use the cardio machines for 45 minutes straight. Sure, that will burn calories, but it doesn’t build a better body. It might even leave you hurt!

So if you want to burn belly fat fast, drop the slow cardio and try interval training. Use strength training to sculpt your body and boost your metabolism. You’ll be shocked at the results from this new way of training to burn fat and lose that belly!

“The LESS you do, the MORE you LOSE!”

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:08:26 +0000

The other week a new TT member named “Kari” started on the TT forum, and like many folks, she was very skeptical that cutting back on her workout time would give her the results she wanted.

After all, she was stuck at a plateau for a long time – even though she was exercising hours and hours each week.

In fact, she was so skeptical that she “called me out” on the forum and told me she just didn’t think it was possible.

Here’s what she wrote after her first workout…

“So today I finally kick off my TT (buff dudes and hot chicks). I’m so used to doing traditional bodybuilding splits that this didn’t feel like I did enough work per muscle group. I lifted as heavy as I could for the amount of reps specified but I’m so used to doing isolation exercises that this was hard. Did anyone else feel this way when they started. Other then that it was a great workout and the cardio intervals kicked my butt!”

After a few TT Members re-assured her that she was doing TT right, we then got these amazing new updates every week from Kari…

“Ok, so for the past year I have been stuck at 120lbs. This was my first week on TT and I lost one pound! I know it’s not much but it’s past my plateau and this was after my carb loaded cheat meal!!!! I’m excited. Hopefully I will get to 115lbs without working out so much.”

And then the next week…

“Down another 1.5lbs this week!!!! I posted last week about doing steady state b/c I was getting the itch again that more cardio is better. Well I held to no steady state and have stuck with just doing TT on Mon, Wed, Fri and then on Tues/Thurs doing yoga. I can’t believe that I’m losing weight by working out less! My diet is the same as it was before. Thank you so much for developing this system!”

And finally, just yesterday she wrote…

“Down another pound this week. I’m now at 116! One more pound and I’ve reached my goal and I’ve done this from doing LESS! Completely blows my mind!”

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How cool is that?!

I get so excited when I hear these success stories…because I now know that another TT member has discovered the one shocking secret to success that most “Cardio folks” at the gym never learn, and
that is…

“The LESS you do, the MORE you LOSE!”

It goes against everything you were ever taught in running circles, at the gym, or in your favorite fitness rag, but it is the TRUTH!

Transforming your body is all about quality training and whole, natural food nutrition.

Plus, to keep your progress going, I want to make sure you have the same workouts and support as Kari.

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“Craig, I want to thank you for the continuing education I am receiving by being a TT member. I get the best workouts of my life all in a small area of my basement using the Turbulance Training manuals.”
– Gary Schenkelburg, Ohio

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Best Exercise 7 Day Fat Loss Guide

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:22:01 +0000

You might not know this, but I’m a picky eater. I didn’t eat salad, yogurt, or spinach until I was 21. And I didn’t eat avocado or asparagus until after 25. Now, as you know, they are part of almost every day’s meals. So if I can improve my diet, you can too!

Here’s some tips on eating better, along with a complete 7-Day guide to Fat Loss with lots of secrets to get the most fat burning results in the least amount of time.

Sunday
Okay, picky eaters, you’ve got some work to do. Your goal this week is to try one new fruit and one new vegetable.

C’mon, you can do it!

And don’t forget to get at least 30 minutes of fun, easy activity. I’ll be walking around London before I fly back to Toronto tonight.

Monday
Do your TT workout and add a 6-minute abs workout at the end.

Tuesday
If you are up for a challenge, try the TT Member’s weekly workout competition. Each week we come up with a new challenge that every TT Member can try. You’ll find this week’s program on the TT Forum. It’s tough, but still appropriate for most folks to do on their off-days (unless you are a beginner).

Wednesday
After today’s TT workout, take 5-10 minutes to lie down, and breathe slowly and deeply from your belly. Just relax, focus on the breathing, and inhale and exhale some of your stress away. You’ll be amazed at what this simple 5-minute break can do for you.

Thursday
Get 30-minutes of light activity and include an extra round of all the stretches from your TT manual. For desk workers, do an extra 30-second stretch for the chest, hip flexors, and hamstrings.

Friday
Finish off your TT workout with a round of 3-minute arms – or two if have time. If you have Halloween duties, then do your workout on the weekend and spend today walking the kiddies around the ‘hood.

Saturday
Get rid of all the Halloween junk that you don’t need to have in the house. Tell your kids to hide their candy. Give away the extra chocolate bars and chips that you didn’t hand out on Friday.

Get rid of the junk before you eat it. And don’t feel bad about throwing it in the garbage. It’s called “junk food” for a reason.

Now that’s a proven 7 day plan for fat loss.