Saturday, July 28, 2012

Why excess abdominal fat is more DEADLY than you think

Hey Everyone 
 
Rafael here and
I have an AWESOME guest post for you from Mike Geary..

The difference between subcutaneous fat and the more deadly "visceral fat"
by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer
author of best-selling program:  
The Truth about Six-Pack Abs

big stomach, visceral fatAlthough this picture depicts an extremely overweight man, this article applies to dangerous types of fat inside the bodies of both men and women... and this discussion also applies even if you only have a slight amount of excess stomach fat.
Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat?  It's true -- as much as 70% of the population in some "westernized" countries such as the US and Australia are now considered either overweight or obese.  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 determined 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.
There are two types of fat that you have in your abdominal area. The first type that covers up your abs from being visible is called subcutaneous fat and lies directly beneath the skin and on top of the abdominal muscles.
The second type of fat that you have in your abdominal area is called visceral fat, and that lies deeper in the abdomen beneath your muscle and surrounding your organs. Visceral fat also plays a role in giving certain men that "beer belly" appearance where their abdomen protrudes excessively but at the same time, also feels sort of hard if you push on it.
Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat in the abdominal area are serious health risk factors, but science has shown thathaving excessive visceral fat is even more dangerous than subcutaneous fat.  Both types of fat greatly increase your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases. 

Excess stomach fat has also been associated in studies with higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an indicator of inflammation within the body that can lead to heart disease and other health issues.

Part of the reason visceral fat is particularly dangerous is that studies show that it releases more inflammatory molecules into your system on a consistent basis.
One of the major reasons that some people accumulate more visceral fat than others can be from a high carbohydrate diet that leads to insulin resistance over time (years of bombarding your system with too much sugars and starches for your body to properly handle the constant excess blood sugar) ... and studies show that high fructose intake particularly from high-fructose corn syrup can be a major contributor to excess visceral fat.
If you care about the quality of your life and your loved ones, reducing your abdominal fat (including reducing visceral fat) should be one of your TOP priorities! There's just no way around it. Besides, a side effect of finally getting rid of all of that excessive abdominal fat is that your stomach will flatten out, and if you lose enough stomach fat, you will be able to visibly see those attractive six pack abs that everyone wants.
So what gets rid of extra abdominal fat, including visceral 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?
The first thing you must understand is that there is absolutely NO quick fix solution. There are no pills or supplements of any sort that will help you lose your abdominal fat faster. Also, none of the gimmicky ab rockers, rollers, or ab belts will help get rid of abdominal fat either. You can't spot reduce your stomach fat by using any of these worthless contraptions. It simply doesn't work that way.

The only solution to consistently lose your abdominal fat and keep it off for good is to combine a sound nutritious diet full of unprocessed natural foods with a properly designed strategic exercise program that stimulates the necessary hormonal and metabolic response within your body. Both your food intake as well as your training program are important if you are to get this right.

I've actually even seen a particular study that divided thousands of participants into a diet-only group and an exercise & diet combined group. While both groups in this study made good progress, the diet-only group lost significantly LESS abdominal fat than the diet & exercise combined group.

Now the important thing to realize is that just any old exercise program will not necessarily do the trick. The majority of people that attempt getting into a good exercise routine are NOT working out effectively enough to really stimulate the loss of stubborn abdominal fat. I see this every day at the gym.
Most people will do your typical boring ineffective cardio routines, throw in a little outdated body-part style weight training, and pump away with some crunches and side bends, and think that they are doing something useful for reducing their abdominal fat. Then they become frustrated after weeks or months of no results and wonder where they went wrong.
Well, the good news is that I've spent over a decade researching this topic, analyzing the science, and applying it "in the trenches" with myself as well as thousands of my clients from all over the world to see what works to really stimulate abdominal fat loss.
From my research, two of the most important aspects to getting rid of visceral fat are:
1. The use of high intensity forms of exercise and full-body resistance training.  Low intensity cardio exercise simply isn't as effective for removing visceral fat in particular.  High intensity exercise such as interval training or full-body weight training are very effective at helping to improve your body's ability to manage glucose and increases insulin sensitivity, a crucial step in removing visceral fat.  These types of high intensity exercise routines are also very effective at increasing your fat-burning hormones and creating a hormonal environment conducive to burning off abdominal fat, including visceral fat.

2.  In addition, it's vitally important to get blood sugar under control to help restore insulin sensitivity through the right nutrition.  This means greatly reducing sugars and refined starches in your diet (including fully eliminating any use of harmful high fructose corn syrup!), and focusing more of your diet on healthy fats (such as avocados, nuts, seeds, coconut fat, olive oil, free-range eggs, fatty fish and fish oils, etc), as well as increasing protein and fiber intake.  The standard diet recommended by the government, which contains an unnaturally high grain intake is NOT conducive to controlling blood sugar and reducing visceral fat! 

Reducing grain-based foods in your diet and getting more of your carbs from veggies and high fiber fruits such as berries can go a long way to helping to solve this problem.
Learn the Truth about Losing Your Stomach Fat Permanently
program for losing abdominal fatYou may not realize this, but the entire basis of my Truth about Six Pack Abs program is NOT about abs exercises... instead, it's actually about detailed strategies for both nutrition and exercise that maximize your ability to lose abdominal fat.  The entire solution... all of the nutritional strategies, as well as training sequences, exercise combinations, and more have all been compiled in my Truth About Six Pack Abs Program in order to help you to burn stomach fat faster.
Keep in mind that the whole point of this program is NOT abdominal exercises (that is only a very small portion of it). The main point of this program is showing you the absolute most effective nutritional strategies for losing your stubborn abdominal fat, and maximizing a fat-burning hormonal environment in your body so you can get rid of that dangerous health risk, as well as get a flatter more defined midsection.

If you follow the guidelines, you WILL lose your belly fat that has been plaguing you for years. This is not guesswork... it is a proven system that works time and time again for all of my clients on every corner of the globe that actually apply these strategies. If you apply it, the results will come. It's really that simple.

One of the main reasons that most people fail in their fitness goals is that they have good intentions at first to adopt a new lifestyle, yet after a few weeks or months, they abandon their good intentions and slip right back into their old bad habits that gave them the excess body fat in the first place.

I want to help you succeed in finally getting rid of that extra abdominal fat that is not only UGLY, but also DANGEROUS. A lot of people have emailed my support team with questions about whether they need any special equipment for these workouts, if they're too old or too young for this program, if the diet tips will apply to them, etc.  I've made a page that should answer all of your questions...


Also, I completely understand that you're skeptical if this will actually work for you... so I think you'll want to see some of the reader reviews from people just like you that are using the system and getting killer results...
Don't waste another day allowing that nasty abdominal fat to kill your confidence as well as contribute to your risk for MAJOR diseases.
Get the solution to rid yourself for life of this problem by reading more details about this unique workout and diet program at the home page -- Losing Dangerous Abdominal Fat
Train hard, eat right, and enjoy life!

Rafael Moret
The Boot Camp Rebel



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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Is this 1 food TOXIC to your body? (you eat this every day)

Is Sugar Toxic to Your Body? 

Video shows how sugar not only causes heart disease and diabetes, but also feeds tumors and is as addictive as Cocaine to your brain

I think everybody needs to watch this video from a recent 60 Minutes episode to see just how harmful to your health sugar really is.  I don't think most people understand the seriousness of this. 

WATCH IT HERE<<<<



Rafael Moret, CSCS

The Boot Camp Rebel

Friday, July 13, 2012

Burn 16.2 calories per minute with bodyweight exercises

Hey Everyone

I have a cool post from my friend Craig today

 By Craig Ballantyne, CTT
Certified Turbulence Trainer


In a recent study funded by the American Council of Exercise,
researchers found bodyweight training can burn up to 16.2
calories per minute in men and 13 calories/minute in women.
(That's equivalent to running faster than 7 miles per hour.)

And now, almost everywhere in the world, is the best time of
year for backyard bodyweight training. Why just last Monday
morning I was doing push-ups and practicing my "Monkey Bar-ing"
for the June 9th Tough Mudder race that I've entered.

Of course, bodyweight training is also perfect for those times
when you are stuck indoors, as I was in a New Jersey hotel
earlier this month.

The hotel gym was easily in the 5 worst I've ever visited,
and so I slipped into an instant classic bodyweight workout
in my hotel room.

That's where I created one of the two new "5 rounds of 5"
bodyweight cardio circuits from the NEW TT Bodyweight Cardio 5
program that is now available for all TT Members. (Just log-in
and visit the download area to grab your copy.)

The 5 rounds of 5 left me dripping with sweat despite the
air conditioning being cranked in the hotel room.

It's liberating to be able to ditch the equipment and use
unique exercises for maximum fat loss and conditioning. That's
why the bodyweight cardio program series remains so popular
year after year.

Smart folks, like you, have had enough of the slow cardio
propaganda. You know there is a better way, you know there are
better workouts. You love the past bodyweight cardio programs
and you're ready for a new challenge.

The 2nd 5 rounds of 5 challenge uses my patented "Gauntlet"
exercise system and is also guaranteed to burn a lot of
calories in a short time - so that you get lean and ripped.

And finally, there's even a new "Bodyweight Cardio 500"
challenge workout featuring a 500-rep test of your fitness.

Enjoy the new program.

Here is what you need to do NEXT

Just go to this page and you'll get my best bodyweight deal
ever on the 101 Bodyweight Exercises System PLUS you'll get
30-days free access to the member's area where you can download
Bodyweight Cardio 5 and ask me your training and nutrition
questions on the forum. Get it here:

=>CLICK HERE
Bring on the bodyweight conditioning


Rafael
The Boot Camp Rebel

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Fitness Boot Camp Super Saturday

For Immediate Release


It’s Super Saturday for Fitness Aficionados in South Florida

(July 4, 2012) Rated R Fitness Boot Camp announces Super Saturday- A free fitness boot camp for all on the first Saturday of the month.


It is celebration time for people in South Florida looking out to shed some extra pounds. Rated R Fitness has organized a free Fitness Boot camp at their Hialeah location.

According to the official spokesperson of Rated R Fitness,Rafael Moret, "We are a bunch of fitness freaks. We believe in spreading the message of good health. We sincerely believe that all around us should benefit through our fitness boot camp and enjoy a healthy, disease free life, look and feel beautiful. That’s why, we thought about organizing a Free boot camp for all on the first Saturday of every month."

"We received tremendous response for our first boot camp, and for this month’s free fitness boot camp on July 7th, we are expecting a larger turnout. Our visitors will get a chance to understand full exercise regimen to reinvent themselves. They will learn about Metabolic Resistance Training, 1,000 Calorie Challenge, Reverse Pyramid Hybrid and more. In addition, they will also get an opportunity to get samples of Pro grade Sport Drinks, free protein and sport bars. If you are lucky, you’ll also grab free T-shirts. All in all, this is going to be action packed 45 minute session, which could be life changing." He further added.

Rafael Moret has organized several boot camps in Pembroke Pines and Hialeah. The primary aim is to help people achieve rapid yet healthy fat loss. Keeping in view the growing obesity in the kids, they have also organized several camps for exclusively for kids. R Rated Fitness has a reputation of making workout fun and entertaining instead of a boring schedule. That’s the reason for their ever increasing popularity.

To know more about the Super Saturday, please visit

Contact:

Rafael Moret

Rated "R" Fitness

2400 W 80th St Unit #7

Hialeah fl 33016

Phone: 754-244-9102

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

CALORIES

 Hey people

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE YOU CONSUMING?

Some of you do not understand this

Some of you are afraid of this

Some of you do not know how many you should have

Here is a FREE tool you can use:

Check this out... the metabolism calculator my buddy Nate
developed at the link below will actually calculate your metabolism
for you, and if it's running "slow", it will tell you the EXACT steps
you should take to FIX it.


And it takes less than 30 seconds to fill out:

Is your meabolism SLOW or spot on? <------- find out here

And like I said, the best part is that if it is running slow, it will
tell you exactly how many calories you SHOULD be burning
each day along with the exact steps you should take to get
your individual metabolism up to speed.

==> How to FIX your metabolism if it's "broken"




MAKE SOME CHANGES:



Rafael


The Boot Camp Rebel















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Rafael Moret,CSCS, NASM-Cpt
http://www.i-bootcamp.com 
http://www.Results4Sure.com 

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Evil Gluten is hidden in ALL these foods..

There's this guy I know.

His name is DrPeter Osborne - he's also known as the
Gluten Warrior™.

Peter has forgotten more about gluten than most people
will ever learn about it.

He recently sent me this list of foods that are known to
have hidden gluten in them...
  • Bouillon cubes
  • Candy may be dusted with wheat flour
  • Canned soups
  • Cheese spreads & other processed cheese foods
  • Chocolate – Check if contains malt flavoring
  • Cold cuts, Wieners, Sausages – may have gluten due to cereal fillers
  • Dip mixes
  • Dry sauce mixes
  • Dry roasted nuts & honey roasted nuts
  • French fries or other fried foods in restaurants
  • Gravies – check out thickening agent and liquid base
  • Honey Baked Hams™ - based with wheat starch in coating
  • Some Ice Creams & Frozen Yogurts
  • Instant Teas & Coffees – cereal product may be included in formula
  • Lip Balms and lipsticks
  • Mayonnaise – check ingredients that are used as thickeners
  • Sour cream – May contain modified food starch
  • Some Toothpastes
  • Bouillon cubes
  • Candy may be dusted with wheat flour
  • Canned soups
Okay, so what's the big deal with gluten anyway?

Well, according to Peter, and new emerging science, gluten is
responsible for a LOT of the disorders that people are experiencing
today...

...such as bloating, poor immune systems, inability to lose the
last 5-15lbs, chronic fatigue, joint and muscle pain, and so on.

As it turns out the average diet today is like nine times higher in
gluten than it was just a decade or so ago.

In fact Peter went on to tell me that when he got his patients off of
gluten they reported...

- Better energy
- Enhanced weight loss
- Improved digestion
- No more chronic gas and bloating
- Reduced muscle and joint pain
- Hormone re-balancing

I figured you'd want to learn more about gluten and the damages it
can cause you from THE AUTHORITY on gluten himself.

Click Here To Check Out Peter's Program on Gluten Free Living

Plus, this might be something you'll want to turn your clients onto
if you think they can use it in their fat loss program.

Here's the direct link: http://GlutenFreeHealthSolution.com/

Hope you get a lot out of this awesome resource :-)

Committed to your success,

Rafael
The Boot Camp Rebel


BTW, go to this page and scroll down a bit and watch the video
of DrPeter Osborne being interviewed on TV. He shares some
pretty compelling facts about gluten in the interview.