Suggestions to Change Up Your Fitness Routine

Doing lower ab workouts and why this may actually be setting you up for failure is a question you may be wondering about. Most people focus on lower ab workouts when they want to get ripped abs thinking it's logical - there's a flabby problem area so let's work in that area to fix it. But your body doesn't operate that way. Flab means there's fat so you need to lose the fat first and no amount of isolation exercises can burn that fat away.

Ill preface this article by saying that it will help if you have an open mind and accept that some of these facts are a slap in the face to politically correct nutrition in this day and age where fats are admonished by many doctors, health "experts", and the mass media. To start, eating an adequate supply of healthy dietary fats is vitally important to your overall health.

This may seem like a strange question at first. How could weight lifting possibly have any connection to height gain? But once considered from all angles, is not so strange a question after all.

We all know by now that soda (aka "pop" in some areas) is one of the most evil things you can put in your body... the nasty chemicals, the gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup, and a myriad of health problems caused by this carbonated cocktail worshipped by those that don't care about their health or body. Surprisingly, many people falsely believe that "diet" soda is in some way a good thing for losing body fat. In fact, I hear people all the time proudly state that they eat so healthy and only drink diet soda. So let's set the record straight...

The news is true - exercise does help you lose all those baby fats. But the news doesn't stop there. With determination and commitment to exercise regularly, you should be able to lose all those baby fats. It's not as if you immediately lose it after lifting a couple of pounds in just a week - it's a lifelong commitment that benefits you in the long run.

Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat? The first thing that most people think of is that their extra abdominal fat is simply ugly, is covering up their abs from being visible, and makes them self conscious about showing off their body. However, what most people don't realize is that excess abdominal fat in particular, is not only ugly, but is also a dangerous risk factor to your health. Scientific research has clearly demonstrated that although it is unhealthy in general to have excess body fat throughout your body, it is also particularly dangerous to have excess abdominal fat. So what gets rid of extra abdominal fat? Is there actually a REAL solution beyond all of the gimmicks and hype that you see in ads and on commercials for "miracle" fat loss products?

Keeping in top shape has always been an important goal for individuals, whether it is for managing stress, keeping old age at bay or simply as a means of looking and feeling good. This year proves no different and while there are new programs to look forward to, there is also a seemingly deeper emphasis on the good old back-to-basics, sweat-it-out programs. Gone are the days when people switched to the pill for a quick fix to their fitness problems. So what does the new year bring to the fitness lifestyle?

Below is an interview that I did with world-famous trainer and Men's Health Magazine Training Advisor, Craig Ballantyne as he grilled me on the top secrets for fat loss and six pack abs. Check it out...

For some reason, most trainees ignore 50% of their body. They do lots of pushups and pullups, but ignore their legs. I'm not sure why this is the case, but I'm hoping you're not one of them. Your legs are the biggest body part in your body, so in order release a lot of human growth hormone, you better be working your legs.

FOOD is more powerful than any prescription weight loss pills, because the FOOD that you eat can either make you THIN or FAT. You don't get fat because of a lack of exercising, that's a myth. You get fat because you don't eat the right foods at the right intervals each day. The pattern that you choose to eat your meals each day is more powerful than any prescription weight loss pills. This is true because your body is like an "engine" and it only needs certain foods at certain intervals each day, and if you don't eat the right foods at the right times then it won't burn those calories -- and you'll wind up storing those calories as fat tissue. You have become overweight by eating the wrong foods, that much is a fact. And guess what? You can get SLIM by eating the RIGHT FOODS at the RIGHT INTERVALS each day. It's not really any more complicated than that, and the way to start losing weight has nothing to do with starving yourself or jogging.