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  • A "Mind Training" Technique That Makes You Stronger
    The word "visualization" sometimes conjures up images of new age gurus teaching esoteric techniques for personal enlightenment and "attracting" what you want into your life. This causes many evidence-based types to scoff. However, piles of research has shown that mental imagery (aka "visualization") can improve performance. The latest study suggests that a certain type of mental imagery can also increase your strength
    Published 26Aug2010, viewed 162 times
  • Heavy Metals Found In Protein Shakes: Should You Stop Drinking Them?
    A recent investigation on protein drinks has been causing waves of concern or even alarm to ripple through the fitness and bodybuilding world. Supplement companies are up in arms and people are wondering whether they should stop drinking protein shakes after the magazine said they tested 15 protein drinks for heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury) and 3 of them came up above the proposed safe limits...
    Published 04Aug2010, viewed 80 times
  • The Double-Edged Sword of "Healthy Fast Food"
    What's on the menu at the big fast food chains lately? Oddly enough, the answer is... "health food!" Even more incongruous, many are marketing their food for weight loss. Healthy weight loss food at Taco Bell and McDonalds? Is this a noble move to be applauded, is it a big corporate money grab, or is it a double edged sword?
    Published 23Apr2010, viewed 86 times
  • Calorie Counting vs Intuitive Eating: Are They Mutually Exclusive?
    Why is it that any time you hear the words "calorie counting" or "food journaling", people start running for the hills? If creating menus, counting calories and keeping a food journal are research-proven, effective tools for nutrition awareness, education, motivation and accountability (they are), then why is there so much resistance to it?
    Published 26Mar2010, viewed 97 times
  • 8 Overlooked Diet Mistakes That Put the Pounds Back On
    Clearly, we have an obesity problem in America and many other countries across our planet. Yet, I propose that we do not have a weight loss problem today. In case you're confused at this apparent contradiction, consider these statistics:
    Published 26Mar2010, viewed 147 times
  • Nutrition Label Lies & Loopholes: Serving Size Sleight of Hand
    For years, concerned consumers and watchdog organizations have been screaming that the U.S. labeling laws are full of loopholes and in need of serious revision. After years of talk, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says they're planning to so something about it. But will it be enough?
    Published 26Mar2010, viewed 159 times
  • Does Cold Weather Make You Store Body Fat?
    Is there any evidence that during cold winter weather it gets harder to lose body fat? Many people say that it seems easier to drop fat during the hot weather.
    Published 17Jan2010, viewed 237 times
  • Does hypnosis work for weight loss?
    Hypnosis is terribly misunderstood and the only exposure to hypnosis most people will ever have is a Las Vegas stage show. But stage hypnosis for entertainment and hypnotherapy for behavior change are completely different animals. Could "real" hypnotherapy help you get leaner?
    Published 12Feb2010, viewed 172 times
  • What is the Ideal Body Fat Percentage to See Your Abs?
    Measuring your body fat percentage is a valuable tool to chart your progress on your quest to get six pack abs. Hopefully most people realize by now that abdominal exercises don't burn fat off your stomach. Abs are made in the kitchen, not just in the gym. No matter how much you work out, if you don't eat right and achieve a calorie deficit, your abs will remain covered in a layer of adipose.
    Published 15Jan2010, viewed 1004 times
  • Is Bodybuilding a Real Sport?
    Is bodybuilding a sport? Every so often I see an argument on a forum where some critic claims that bodybuilding is not a real sport. Not only that, there is usually some derogatory comment along the lines of, "Oily men in Speedos a sport? Come on!" In a recent interview on the Fitcast show, I was asked this question and I gave a (mostly) serious answer.
    Published 31Jan2010, viewed 392 times
  • Goal Setting For a New Decade: Beyond the New Year's Resolution
    When you pause and reflect on the past decade as you look ahead to a new one, it makes you appreciate how short life is, how valuable time is and how quickly the time can pass you by - with nothing to show for it, if you don't plan otherwise. That's why the passing of another decade can feel like a wake up call as much as a fresh start.
    Published 03Jan2010, viewed 224 times
  • No Pain No Gain: Fitness Myth or Ultimate Fitness Truth?
    No Pain, No Gain. Is this aphorism just a fitness myth and downright bad advice? A lot of people seem to think so. As a bodybuilder with 25 years of training experience and more than two dozen trophies on my shelf, I have another perspective to offer you
    Published 30May2009, viewed 278 times
  • Fight Fitness Fraud With Fitness Skepticism
    The fitness industry is full of misconceptions and myths as well as blatant scams and lies. As Winston Churchill said, ?A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.? If Churchill could only see the Internet today!
    Published 24May2009, viewed 319 times
  • The poison in our food supply that most people are STILL eating every day
    Most people are literally eating poison every day without giving it a second thought. Eating even small amounts of this substance is consistently linked to coronary heart disease. The research also confirms that it will increase belly fat (visceral fat), contribute to insulin resistance, increase risk of type 2 diabetes, adversely affect cholesterol levels, trigger systemic inflammation, and adversely affect almost every cell in your body.
    Published 18May2009, viewed 372 times
  • Wu Long Tea And Green Tea For Weight Loss: Scam Warning
    The odds are good that if you're interested in improving your health and losing fat, you probably either drink tea, take a green tea supplement or you've at least thought about it. But what if I told you that most of the fat reducing claims for green tea were total BS, based on misinterpretation or deliberate misreporting of the research? Unfortunately, it's true. If you've purchased green tea for weight loss, you may have been scammed.
    Published 07May2009, viewed 234 times
  • Irvingia gabonensis: IN-credible weight loss from an African tree?
    Irvingia gabonensis is the newest supplement to hit the weight loss marketplace, saturate the internet with advertisements, ignite forum discussions and flood my email inbox with questions. In the weight loss marketplace, this may gain the dubious distinction of becoming the next hoodia or acai berry (scam), but I'll just present the facts, make my case and then let you decide for yourself.
    Published 25Apr2009, viewed 708 times
  • Scary Skinny Tabloid Tell-Alls
    I admit it. I bought the National Enquirer. I know, you should never admit you bought the Enquirer, but the headline GOT me! "Hollywood's Deadly Skin And Bones Diet: Stars Risking Their Lives To Be Thin."
    Published 25Apr2009, viewed 295 times
  • The 2 Pounds Per Week Rule - And How To Burn Fat Faster
    Why do you always hear that 2 pounds per week is the maximum amount of fat you should lose? If you train hard while watching calories shouldn't you be able to lose more fat without losing muscle or damaging your health? What if you want to lose fat faster? How do you explain the fast weight losses on The Biggest Loser? Want to know where that 2 pounds rule comes from and what it really takes to burn more than 2 pounds of fat per week?
    Published 20Apr2009, viewed 487 times
  • How liquid calories may be making you fat, even your favorite protein drinks
    So far, at least 7 scientific studies have provided strong evidence that energy containing beverages (i.e., "liquid calories") don't activate the satiety mechanisms in the brain and don't satisfy the appetite as well as food in solid form. Research also supports a positive association between calorie-containing beverage consumption and increased body weight. New research now suggests that soda may not be the only culprit
    Published 18Apr2009, viewed 662 times
  • Avoid This Killer Weight Re-Gain Mistake
    If you want to burn off fat and keep it off permanently, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one.
    Published 29Jan2009, viewed 458 times
  • Excuses For Not Getting In Shape That Won't Fly in 2009
    It's 2009. Your old excuses for not getting in shape won't work. As Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) said, ZIP IT! I don't want to hear them anymore! Read em', then haul your excuseless butt to the gym!
    Published 16Jan2009, viewed 317 times
  • Instead of New Years Resolutions, Set S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals
    Take a closer look at the meaning behind the word "Resolution". Being derived from the word "re-solve", it really means "to solve again." And isn't that exactly what happens? You solve the same problem again and again, year after year?
    Published 16Jan2009, viewed 328 times
  • Fat Burner Supplements: The Unadulterated Truth
    Fat burner supplements are advertised everywhere these days and the ads almost always feature a very lean fitness model or bodybuilder. Some of these ads suggest that the only way to get as lean as the "hot bodies" you see pictured is by taking their "miracle pills" and that proper nutrition and exercise alone is not enough. Find out the truth about fat burners and get 7 tips on choosing one before you spend a dime!
    Published 30May2008, viewed 553 times
  • 3500 Calories: A Pound of Fat or Six Pounds Of Muscle?
    Most fitness conscious people know that there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, so if you create a deficit of 3500 calories in a week, you lose a pound of weight. Right? Well, not so fast. Dr. Kevin Hall, an investigator at the National Institute of Health in recently published a new paper in the International Journal of Obesity that throws a wrench in works of the “3500 calories to lose a pound” idea.
    Published 04Oct2007, viewed 1463 times
  • The New Visualization Breakthrough: Mental Training Tactics For Health And Fitness Success
    Understanding of the mind's role in motivation and behavior is one of the most critical elements in physical fitness success. If you struggle with changing habits and behaviors or if you can’t get motivated, then even the best training and nutrition program is worthless. With new discoveries in the science of visualization, you can make amazing breakthroughs in your health and fitness achievements
    Published 03Oct2007, viewed 599 times
  • The Low Body Fat Secret Of Bodybuilders And Fitness Models
    The secret to getting super lean – I’m talking about being RIPPED, not just “average body fat” – is all about mastering the art of "peaking." Most people do not have a clue about what it takes to reach the type of low body fat levels that reveal to see ripped six-pack abs, muscle striations, vascularity and extreme muscular definition, so they go about it completely the wrong way.
    Published 09Apr2007, viewed 1315 times
  • Don't Catch These Two Diseases
    One of my favorite motivational speakers is Brian Tracy, who is one of the world’s top experts on success psychology and personal achievement. In case you haven’t heard of Brian, he is like a calmer, more “laid back” version of Tony Robbins. Not long ago, I had the chance to attend a seminar Brian held at the Jacob Javitz center in New York City. One part of his talk really grabbed my attention, and I’d like to share it with you...
    Published 06Apr2007, viewed 947 times
  • You Want A Great Body, But How Bad Do you Want It?
    A better body does not come in a pill or a bottle. Fat loss success does not even depend solely on the particular training program you are using. There are many different approaches to nutrition and exercise that can work, and different things work for different people. But the one thing that MUST always be there is a goal and the burning desire to achieve it.
    Published 05Apr2007, viewed 777 times
  • Body Wraps And Waist Wraps: The Difference Between Losing Fat And Losing Inches
    "Body wraps" and rubber waist belts have been around for ages in the fitness industry and claims include loss of inches as well as body fat. What few people realize is that “fat” loss and “inch” loss are not one in the same. If you don’t know how to tell the difference, you could be falling for one of the oldest, most notorious fitness and weight loss scams in the book.
    Published 29Mar2007, viewed 768 times
  • Why Some People Quit And Some People Never Give Up
    Some people just never give up. They have ferocious persistence and they never let go of their goals. These people are like the bulldog that refuses to release its teeth-hold on a bone. The harder you try to pull the bone out of his mouth, the harder the dog chomps down with a vice like grip. Other people abandon their biggest goals and dreams at the first obstacle they encounter. Did you ever wonder why that is?
    Published 16Jan2007, viewed 843 times
  • Count Down To Fitness Success And Keep Your Motivation Drive Alive
    There are many great ways to get focused and motivated to start a new diet or exercise program, but often the most difficult thing to do is keep that drive and ambition alive and see your goal through to completion. Setting goals in writing is an essential step to success, but how do you stay focused on them? One technique I have used ever since my very first bodybuilding competition 18 years ago, is...
    Published 15Jan2007, viewed 766 times
  • Brain Science And New Year's Resolutions
    Goal setting is also not a one time event, it's is an ongoing process of literally "re-wiring your brain" by using "scientific goal setting" methods. New findings in neuroscience have proven why new years resolutions almost always fail and what you should do instead, to produce permanent behavior changes and lasting results.
    Published 03Jan2007, viewed 710 times
  • Tom Venuto's Top 10 Travel Fitness Tips, Part 2
    just because you’re traveling doesn’t mean you can’t follow your regular exercise regimen. If you want to continue to improve your physique while on the road, you can! Here are 5 more ways that I did it on my last extended business trip that you may find helpful as well. It begins with a simple decision.
    Published 13Dec2006, viewed 896 times
  • Tom Venuto's Top 10 Travel Fitness Tips, Part 1
    just because you’re traveling doesn’t mean you can’t follow your regular exercise regimen. If you want to continue to improve your physique while on the road, you can! Here are 5 ways that I did it on my last extended business trip that you may find helpful as well. It begins with a simple decision.
    Published 12Dec2006, viewed 966 times
  • How To Use Super-Sizing, Portion Distortion And Dietary Displacement To Your Advantage
    Ever since the independent film, Super Size Me was released, research on the relationship between increasing obesity and increasing portion sizes has skyrocketed and the results have been virtually unanimous. There have been numerous well-designed studies published just in the last several years which confirmed exactly what we suspected (and much of what Super-Size-Me suggested)
    Published 25Nov2006, viewed 901 times
  • How To Repair Metabolic Damage
    If you've caused metabolic damage as a result of following starvation diets or losing weight too rapidly in the past, it can be extremely difficult to achieve any further fat loss at all. The good news is, metabolic damage can be repaired. All it takes is the right combination of metabolism stimulating exercise and metabolism stimulating nutrition...
    Published 22Nov2006, viewed 1143 times
  • Induction Destruction: The Perils Of Diving Into Strict Diets Head First
    One thing that almost all mainstream popular diets have in common is an “induction phase." This is often done for the scientific-sounding reason of “making the metabolic switch” from “carb burner” to “fat burner.” However, "induction" is simply a politically correct way to say you have to crash diet and starve yourself in the beginning... which is a one way ticket to eventual weight regain and metabolic destruction!
    Published 14Aug2006, viewed 732 times
  • What a "Muscle-Head" Bodybuilder Says About Organic Food
    After researching organic foods extensively and doing some personal experiments with my own diet, let me offer you my take on it from a bodybuilder's viewpoint. This is a perspective on organics you may not have heard before...
    Published 07Aug2006, viewed 924 times
  • Nutrition Or Training - Which Is More Important
    Legendary bodybuilding trainer Vince, "The Iron Guru" Gironda was famous for saying, "Bodybuilding is 80% nutrition!" Is this really true or is this just another fitness and bodybuiding myth passed down like gospel without ever being questioned? This IS an interesting question and I believe there is a definite answer:
    Published 12Jul2006, viewed 1079 times
  • Why Are We So Fat? The Real Reason For The Obesity Epidemic
    Why Are We So Fat? That’s the question asked in the cover story of a recent issue of National Geographic magazine. “Americans enjoy one of the most luxurious lifestyles on Earth: Our food is plentiful. Our work is automated. Our leisure is effortless. And it’s killing us..."
    Published 10Jan2006, viewed 954 times
  • Everything You Need To Know About Loose Skin After Weight Loss
    If you're extremely overweight or if you've been extremely overweight in the past, then you know that getting rid of excess weight is only one of the challenges you face. Once the fat is gone, you are often confronted with an equally frustrating cosmetic problem; Loose skin.
    Published 11Dec2005, viewed 1513 times
  • How To Stay On Your Diet And Stay In Shape Over The Holidays
    Here are 10 easy ways that you can follow your diet and stay in great shape over the holidays without turning into a miserable Scrooge. If you follow this advice, then you'll be one of the proud few with a New Year's resolution to be the best you've ever been in the new year to come - instead of one of the guilt-ridden many who must resolve to reclaim what they lost over the year that's just passed them by.
    Published 02Dec2005, viewed 854 times
  • The Glycemic Index: Key To Weight Loss Or Just Another Diet Gimmick?
    Many of the most popular diet programs on the market today revolve around the concept of the Glycemix Index (GI). Some programs go as far as saying that the GI is the “key to fat loss.” While the GI is certainly one important aspect of fat burning and muscle building nutrition, using glycemic index as your only criteria for choosing the foods you eat may not be the all-encompassing diet panacea that some “gurus” want you to believe.
    Published 08Nov2005, viewed 1023 times
  • Building A Better Body, One Brick At A Time
    Losing weight and getting in shape doesn't happen overnight. Once you understand the truth about what it really takes to build a better body, you'll never fall prey to fads, gimmicks or scams ever again...
    Published 14Sep2005, viewed 1229 times
  • The Top 10 Bonehead Workout Mistakes To Avoid
    “Common workout mistakes” has always been a very popular topic in fitness publications. But no matter how many times this subject is re-hashed, you almost always hear about the same half a dozen or so mistakes, including poor form, overtraining, going too heavy, not stretching, not warming up, yadda, yadda yadda. Ironically, you seldom hear about the biggest mistakes of all. I call these humongous bloopers “bonehead mistakes”
    Published 25Aug2005, viewed 1254 times
  • Low Carb Intelligence vs. Low Carb Stupidity
    The low carb diet is not inherently stupid, but many low carbers are uninformed, misinformed, or lack the intuitive bodily wisdom to utilize the low carb approach intelligently. Learn how to increase your carb IQ and join the ranks of the fit and lean
    Published 07Jun2005, viewed 1065 times

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