The weight loss industry spends millions and millions of dollars advertising products that don’t work. Because they sell so many gimmicks, it’s easy to find at least a few people that their product worked for to get some testimonials. Then it appears that everyone can use this system or gimmick to get results. And you’re sold!

Most weight loss products don’t work, plain and simple. It is amazing to us to see commercials for products like the Red Exerciser (in its heyday it was heavily promoted), which is essentially a bar stool that promises you an amazing body. Trying to comprehend how one specific exercise machine will give you such great results throughout your entire body gives us a headache, but somehow they sold a lot.

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Let’s be brutally honest. If you are looking for something that will give you a great six-pack working out just 20 minutes a day 3 times a week, you have come to the wrong place.

This guide is for those people that are sick and tired of not having the body they want, and are willing to work for it. This guide is for the people that are done being lied to whenever they buy an ab workout gimmick seen on TV, and want to know the real truth behind getting sexy abs. This guide is for the people that want unstoppable confidence.

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Introduction

Abs. Everyone has them, but not everyone’s abdominals are popping out and impressing the ladies (or the guys!) The good news is that everyone can get visible abdominals, men and women alike. The abs are not a magical muscle that show up only in certain people with great genetics. The infamous six-pack is attainable by anyone!

Our ab exercise program (which will be released over the next few days) is not some easy gimmick that guarantees results without effort, or some sales pitch that promises to get you a six-pack while you sit on your bum eating fast food. It is simply going to outline the cold, hard facts of getting visible abs, along with some common sense.

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Resistance bands aren’t just for losing weight with exercise at the gym. Even though they are becoming more and more popular for losing weight, resistance bands were pioneered in the field of sports medicine and injury recovery. Resistance bands provide some great benefits that cannot be reproduced with weightlifting or cardiovascular exercise. Let’s look at the reasons why they are so popular in these fields.

Before reading, know that you must always consult with your sports physician, coach, doctor, or physical therapist for a resistance band training program that is right for you. Every athlete and injury is different, and any exercise program should not be considered without first consulting a professional.

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This article will look at the similarities and differences between free weights and resistance bands, and the advantages of each.

It is a common misconception that resistance bands cannot build muscle or tone the body. This is purely false, as studies have shown that the amount of force provided to stimulate the muscle fibers for growth (also known as peak load), is the same with resistance bands and free weights.

Before we continue, it should be made clear that free weights do not mean machines. Free weights are dumbbells and barbells. Machines like the Smith Machine or bicep curl machine do not provide nearly the benefits of free weights. Machines restrict motion to a very narrow range-of-motion, and do not provide nearly the amount of resistance one part of the movement. For example, when lifting the weight on a hamstring curl machine, it is difficult. But on the way down it is nearly effortless. By not providing resistance on the return motion, no additional force is applied to the muscles.

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Introduction to Resistance Bands

For most people, exercise means lifting weights or doing some type of cardiovascular activity, such as running. But there are a lot of less-than-well-known techniques for exercising, and one of those is using resistance bands.

Using your body’s own resistance for exercise is one of the premiere ways to tone and shape your body. The risk of injury is incredibly low and it provides a fantastic range-of-motion. These exercises include push-ups, pull-ups, body squats, jumping jacks, and many more. You don’t need resistance bands for those particular exercises, but when you add bands to your workout you expand the amount of muscles you can workout, and the types of exercises you can do.

Using resistance bands for exercise takes this theory of using body weight further to provide some great workouts. Exercises like the bicep curl and the overhead press don’t do a lot of good without a weight. But when you use resistance bands, you are providing your muscles the resistance they need to tone up and grow.

Why Aren’t Resistance Bands More Popular?

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Do you weight yourself every morning? How about a couple of times per day? Does it drive your absolutely insane?

Then why do you do it? I won’t lie, I used to think that weighing yourself everyday makes sense, especially if you are on a diet and exercise program. But sometimes our bodies don’t make a lot of sense. We can work our butts off in the gym and eat right all day long, and still gain weight the next morning. We can eat a ton of food, wake up, and actually lose weight.

It would happen to me all of the time, and it’d set the precedent for the rest of my day. If i didn’t lose weight after a great day of exercise and diet, I’d get depressed for the rest of the day. If I did lose weight, then I’d end up doing what I was going to do anyway.

I’ve learned to weigh myself just once a week. If your happiness level is tied directly to your weight, then you should do the same. Daily fluctuations in your weight are not worth thinking about. They will drive you nuts.

Set a goal for yourself – If you’re on a long-term weight loss program (30lbs in 2 months for example), set weekly goals. That’s about 4 lbs per week. If you are pushing yourself to eat properly and get a lot of exercise, then you will stick with it all week long until “weigh-in” day. If you’re weighing yourself every single day, then you are going to think way too much about what you are doing.

Focus on How You Feel – When you don’t focus on the number of pounds you weigh, have lost, or have gained, you think about other things. Ideally, you’re focusing on your goal. And if you’re doing everything right then you will be more concerned with how you actually feel (which should mean you feel good!). How you feel is far more important than your weight or body fat percentage.

If you’re a habitual weigher, try only weighing yourself once a week and see how it does. I think most people will benefit from this because you will be much more focused on what’s important.

For many people, losing weight is hard. It can be a challenge, due to a number of reasons. Some of us just love food, while others hate exercise. No matter what your excuse is, it is actually simple to lose weight to get the body you want. Now, rock-hard abs and a super-toned body are a different story, but that’s something we’ll leave for a future post. But getting into good shape is possible with some simple lifestyle changes to your diet, exercise, and your supplement intake.

A new blog by the name of DietSpy.com just recently launched, and they are giving away The Simple Weight Loss Guide, a short yet sweet e-book that can help the majority of people lose weight. It comes in at under 30 pages, which is a pretty quick read.

I’ve read the book and it is full of great, no-nonsense information. It includes some simple diet changes, like what you should eat and what you should not eat, what to do for exercise, and which supplements to take to accelerate your weight loss. Then it gives you 7 tips that you can implement into your life. My personal favorite is the Goal Setting tip, which is something that you can apply to other areas of your life, not just weight loss.

The best part is that it’s free. So download The Simple Weight Loss Guide to start changing your life today!

It’s often said that we fail at our goals because we don’t track what we do. If we don’t know where we are, how do we know where we’re going? If you want to lose weight, you have to keep a close eye on what you’re eating. If you “guess” that you’re eating 2,000 calories a day, or you only eat when you feel hungry, you could be over-eating or under-eating. If you keep your healthy calorie intake (healthy calories coming from lean meats, fruits, and vegetables) to a certain range, it starts to get really easy to lose weight.

70% of losing weight is about diet. Don’t think that you can spend 2 hours in the gym, working your ass off, and then rewarding yourself with two value meals from Burger King. You’ll never lose weight this way.

That said, you should definitely try out FitDay.com for tracking your progress. At the very least, use it as a tool to track the amount of calories you eat. That way, you can be completely honest with yourself. After a few days you’ll begin to see why what you’re eating is working, or not working.

Also, apologies for not updating this website too often. I am working on a book that I will give out for free to everyone who wants to lose weight. Basically it condenses down all the basics you need to know about losing weight into a handy, short book. Should be in the next week or so.

OK, maybe that headline is a little untrue. As far as I know, there is no TV on the planet that feeds you food while you watch.

But lets be honest. Americans watch more TV than any other country, and America is the most overweight country on the planet. The correlation is there. Take a look at this graph: correlating the amount of hours of TV watched vs obesity rate.

Can’t find the United States on that graph? Take a closer look at the lonely dot on the upper right hand corner.

Replace TV with something Productive

The data is there. Watching TV doesn’t add on calories to your tummy, but it does absolutely nothing to help you burn them. As you sit there, watching your favorite shows, you’re not doing anything for your body to burn those calories you ate today.

A simple remedy for this is to replace an hour or so of TV with something productive. Take a walk, hit the gym, whatever. Just get off your ass and MOVE! If you can’t stand missing your favorite shows, get yourself a Tivo. Reward yourself after a workout by watching your favorite shows without commercials.

As Americans, we’ve fallen into a trance with our TV’s. It’s so bad that the NFL started a program to encourage kids to go outside and exercise. We’re going in the wrong direction with our priorities in life, but heck, it’s been like this for ages.

Studies on happiness have shown that people are not happiest when they are watching TV. It would be safe to assume that we enjoy TV so much that it makes us happy, but that is not the case. There is no interaction with TV, there is no input from us.

Instead, we find ourselves happiest when we challenge ourselves, whether mentally or physically. Replace some TV with working out and exercise and you will reap the benefits.