What makes a GOOD workout?

Hi there,



I have been answering a lot of questions on my "One Pound At A Time" Blog today..



and I will be answering questions on our Facebook page at 2pm here:

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But a lot of people are saying, they don't feel sore, or exhausted, or don;t see changes the day after...



So what makes a GOOD WORKOUT?



Well that depends...



If you went to the Gym and did a 10 minute warm up, 3-4 exercise for your lower body, 2-3 upper body exercises, 2 core exercise, kept your repetitions at 10-12 per exercise + 10-15 minutes of cardio to finish, some might say that's a good workout..



Well you are training for a marathon it's NOT..if you are training to get faster at Soccer it's NOT, if your goal is to get more lean muscle and get stronger it's NOT good for that either.



What is you went to the Gym for 2 hours..Did a Step class, a spin class, and did some weight training exercise..is that a good workout?

If you want to get better a Step and spinning ...YES...other than that it's NOT



You see a Good workout is a Workout that Supports your Fitness Goal in the most efficient way possible..



Just because you are not sore the next day, or don't feel like you are going to puke doesn;t mean you didn't get a good workout..



The next factor in a good workout is YOUR INDIVIDUAL EFFORT..PX90 is a good workout for Fat burning , but if you sit there watching the DVD and don;t do the exercises..is NOT a good workout ..is it?



If you go to the gym, and have a cool workout to follow, and you half ass it..that's not a good workout either.



So, with that being said...EATING has to support your workout program..and I won;t get into that now, but it is just as important.



Now..BOOTCAMP..a 45 minute time circuit class...Full Body workout done in a circuit using timed intervals...



Is that good for Fat Burning? Well..I love FACTS..and NUMBER Don't lie..so for all of you folks that enjoy that kind of thing



I have 3 More Studies below..on the effectiveness of a 45 minute workout and it's EPOC effects..

What is EPOC? something cool that you get by training this way..it's make your body burn more calories at rest after your workout.





Here are the studies:



Knab et al.

A 45-Minute Vigorous Exercise Bout Increases Metabolic Rate for 14 Hours.

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2011 Feb 8.



These researchers had subjects undergo a bout of cycling at approx 73% of VO2 max (approximately 84% of max heart rate) for 45 mins.

The subjects burned on average 520 calories in the 45 min training session. The following day their resting energy expenditure was increased an average of 190 cals compared to normal. Basically - the subjects burned an additional 37% MORE calories than the workout itself in the 14 hour post workout period -- meaning that a single high-intensity session, when including the post-workout metabolic boost could burn up to 710 cals in total.



A second study

Heden et al.

One-set resistance training elevates energy expenditure for 72 h similar to three sets.

European Journal of Applied Physiology. Volume 111, Number 3, 477-484, Mar 2011

The subjects were put on a very simple resistance training routine - full body training, either 1 or 3 sets per exercise of ten exercises.

The researchers then examined the subjects resting energy expenditure at 24, 48 and 72 hours post workout. Both groups showed an elevated metabolism (afterburn effect) of around 100 cals per day.

But there was no difference between groups. It seems that it's intensity that determines how many calories are burned post-workout, not volume (obviously a higher volume program would burn more calories during the session than a lower volume program.

A third study confirmed this:

Scott et al.

Energy expenditure characteristics of weight lifting: 2 sets to fatigue.

Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2011 Feb;36(1):115-20.

The researchers looked at the caloric expenditure of bench pressing using three different loads and concluded "As more work is completed (i.e., lower weight, more repetitions), aerobic and anaerobic exercise energy expenditures appear to increase accordingly, yet absolute EPOC remains essentially unchanged". In other words - the post workout caloric burn (in this case measured aerobically)



One more:

Astorino et al.

Effect of acute caffeine ingestion on EPOC after intense resistance training.

J Sports Med Phys Fitness. 2011 Mar;51(1):11-7.

This study showed a 15% increase in post-workout calories burned after the ingestion of caffeine as a pre-workout supplement. The total extra calories burned as a result of this only added up to around 27 cals in the hour after the workout. Not a lot but still something to consider. Plus I like iced coffee :)



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And you're trying to do it through your nutrition program...


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Many people know that nutrition is the key to achieve the results they want. You need to consume balanced meals and spread them throughout the day. That's a no-brainer. But what many people don't know, or tend to forget, is that the absolute Most Important meal of the day is the recovery (or post- competition) meal.


Within the first 60 minutes of finishing your workout, you should consume a meal consisting of a precisely formulated mixture of fast-absorbing carbohydrates combined with high-concentration proteins. Get this wrong and ...


Suffer the Consequences

Deprive your body of the nutrients it needs immediately after your workout, and you may as well flush your training efforts down the toilet. Your performance will suffer the next time you train, you'll likely lose muscle along the way, plus you risk destroying your fat-burning metabolism, losing 20% of the gains you otherwise would have made. The simple fix is to consume a precisely calculated meal immediately after your workout to support your goals - whether it's burning fat, building muscle, or dramatically improving your athletic performance.


... and most people fail to consume the most important meal of the day because of one or more of the following reasons:

1. They don’t have time to prepare a workout recovery meal. Let’s face it: in today’s fast paced world, who does? It’s downright difficult to remember to pre-cook and pre-package a meal the day before, then remember to carry it with you to the gym every single day. Those that tried to “cook as you go,” found it extremely difficult to rush home to prepare food within the time frame needed to reap the rewards of a post-workout meal. So at best, their post workout meals were really late (providing no real benefit) or were skipped altogether.
2. They hate eating cold cooked meals. There’s nothing worse than finishing up your workout or training session then sitting down to a cold, nasty chicken breast. Frankly, it’s dry and disgusting - might as well be eating mud. And for those who “could” force down cold meals, they could only do it for a short amount of time. The unappetizing taste usually made them begin to dread even looking at the food anymore.
3. They can't stand the taste of 99% of all meal replacement shakes. Pick up 10 different meal replacement shakes off the shelves, and 9 out of 10 will be downright disgusting. Many taste like watered down chalk water disguised as a protein supplement - or worse. The very thought of drinking this stuff has most people cringing.


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Do these 10 fitness trends work?

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
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Check these out:

1.Biotape



Building on our last example of health fads gone wrong is Biotape, the pain-relieving tape disseminated by Smart Inventions Inc. Made of a space-age conductive Mylar that connects broken circuits that cause pain, Biotape and its makers fell flat when confronted by the Federal Trade Commission, having to settle for $2.5 million in consumer refunds. The product’s website is still functional, but can now only claim that the tape connects the broken chi in all of us. Who knew that our chi was broken?

2.Q-Ray Ionized Bracelet



You’ve probably seen the infomercials on the Q-Ray Ionized Bracelet, a breakthrough in science that was first marketed as a pain-relief product, but then went on to promise those who wear it enhanced performance, balance and vitality. How did it achieve its magical effects? Ionization, of course. Not surprisingly, when tested, the Q-Ray was not ionized at all and its makers were court-ordered to turn over $16 million in profits as refunds to consumers due to false advertising.

3.Cow Urine



For our next bizarre health fad, we turn our attention to a South Asian nation of one billion -- India. The cow is a sacred creature in India, to such an extent that India's biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), hopes to turn cow urine into the next soft-drink craze. The RSS has been steadily building hype for cow urine over the past few years, promoting the liquid as a cure for a range of ailments including liver disease and, of course, cancer. By the end of this year, RSS hopes to release its "cow cola" to the masses, assuring the public that it will taste great. The taste, however, may be of little concern, considering that imposters have already begun selling knock-off buffalo urine as the real thing.

4.Bee Venom



What better way to find out if you are fatally allergic to bee venom than by deliberately letting yourself get stung in the name of health? Welcome to the practice of bee venom therapy, whereby therapists apply bee venom to specific points on the surface of the body to cure or reduce symptoms of arthritis, bursitis, tendinitis, herpes, and even breast cancer. Although the practice is rare in the Western world, bee venom therapy is still abuzz in China, being offered as one of an exhaustive list of folk remedies at any of the 3,000 or so traditional folk medicine clinics across the country. While apitherapy (the medicinal use of bee products, such as honey) has some medicinal usefulness, the claims for bee venom therapy are just too far-fetched to believe

5. Hula-Hooping With Weights



This is one of the latest fitness fads and entails hula-hooping, a craze of the 1950s, with weighted hoops to trim the stomach muscles. While this fad may seem a bit crazy, popular singer Beyonce says that she does it to stay slim. Doctors have weighed in on this fad and say that it is an effective form of cardiovascular exercise and can help with weight loss, but that there is no need to use weighted hula hoops as they can cause back injuries. You can get the same results from a regular hula-hoop.

6. Strippercize

This form of exercise is touted by movie star Kate Hudson, who states that not only is it useful in the bedroom but it can help women stay thin. Doctors disagree and suggest that anything that involves wearing 7-inch spike heels is not good for any woman, especially when exercising. They add that doing so can actually cause harm to your ankles and feet. However, if you wear proper attire this type of exercise can strengthen your core and provide cardiovascular benefits. Just make sure you go for sneakers instead of stilettos!

7. Bodyblade

The Bodyblade approach involves lifting a bar over your head and shaking to exercise your trunk muscles. Doctors say that this exercise can be helpful for physical therapy, but it appears to be another fad that does not have clear fitness benefits. However, they also say that there is no harm in performing this exercise.

8. Bikram yoga

Please note that this does not refer to yoga in general - but specifically Bikram yoga. I think yoga in general has many benefits when used in the right way and in the right context.

Bikram yoga was 'invented' by a guy in the 1970's, he had the bright idea of performing yoga in a room that is heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. It doesn't bother me that the founder of it lives in Beverly Hills and has 40 Rolls Royces (according to this article in The Times). And even the spurious health and fitness claims don't bother me that much (several Bikram yoga websites claim that it makes your body burn fat more effectively and redistributes fat in the muscle structure - hmm, so if I sit in a sauna I'll burn more fat). What mainly bothers me is a bunch of guys wearing Speedo's. Sorry, but I don't want some dude in a pair of swimming trunks doing a down dog in my face and spraying sweat all over me!

The only time you should be wearing speedo's is if you are in a swimming pool in an actual swimming competition

Okay, I lied the spurious health claims do bother me. As does standing on someones back while they are in full spinal flexion, McGill is somewhere in Canada, probably in his spinal lab shedding a tear. Bottom line, I don't think overstretching ligaments and tendons in a hot environment is a good idea.

9.Functional training that is not functional

Somewhere along the line functional training jumped the shark. It metamorphosed into people standing on various objects filled with air while doing a rotational lunge matrix. I was hoping this stuff was dead, but only a couple of weeks ago I saw a guy trying to stand on a swiss ball

Functional Clown Training

If something is functional, what is it functional for. Unless you spend your life standing on bags filled with air then there is very little functional carry over.

Functional should relate to the task at hand. For example, with some elderly GP referral clients, things like squats from a bench (getting out of a chair), step ups (for walking up stairs) and suitcase deadlifts (for picking up shopping) are all functional to their needs.

Funtional Training is Not Doing Circus evercise with no real world Purpose.

10. The Power Plate

According to the Power Plate website, this piece of equipment is backed by 40 years of research that shows “vibration training enables users to achieve a higher level of fitness.” We’re also told, “Far better results are achieved than with conventional training methods in just 10 minutes, 3 times a week.”

Plain and simple, don’t buy the hype. Don’t buy the celebrity endorsements or the testimonials that come from the people who stood on this vibrating platform once for ten minutes and said they felt sore or felt better.

Have you ever felt sore after sleeping on an uncomfortable bed? Well, this kind of soreness isn’t indicative of any muscle building properties offered by uncomfortable cots, and is the same kind of soreness you’d feel after standing on a vibrating platform for ten or fifteen minutes.

If standing on a vibrating platform offered real health benefits, subway riders would be the healthiest lot on the planet. If vibrations were the key to being fit, you’d never see a fat jackhammer operator.

I could waste hours discussing this fallacious nonsense. But I’ll keep it as short as possible.

As Madonna performs in London, the word is the aging pop star has kept her fabulous figure fabulous by using a faddish gadget known as the Power Plate. The Power Plate is a vibrating platform you stand on while assuming various positions, which – according to testimonials and marketing materials – can strengthen and tone and all that good stuff in just ten minutes a day, three days per week.

By the way, Madonna is in phenomenal shape because she's spent the past 20+ years working at it, not because she uses the Power Plate

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Research Shows You May NEVER Lose Weight?

Hi Everyone,

Are You Hardwired To Never Lose Weight?

There is some pretty solid research that shows some people may be hard wired to never lose weight or they lose it and gain it back.

Don't worry this isn't a permanent thing. You are not doomed if this is you.

David Kessler, M. D. and author of "The End of Overeating" and his researchers have looked into why some people weight cycle.

What they found was that we all have reward circuits in our brains and that some individuals are "conditioned hypereaters". Those that he calls "conditioned hypereaters" excessively activate these reward circuits just from smelling food.

Kessler estimates that half of obese people and around 30 percent of overweight individuals are conditioned hypereaters.

The research and evidence also shows that this action or hard wired mechanism is partially learned and can re-wired through conditioning much like how it occurred in the first place.

Since emotional triggers can play a important role in what we eat and don't eat we have to recognize this and focus on conditioning our emotions to have a more positive outcome.

This is part of what we call behavior modification or behavior change. It isn't always just about dieting or restricting calories and then all is well. Many times weight gain is emotionally driven so this means you have to manipulate those emotions to achieve the outcome you desire.

For example if you mess up and eat something you shouldn't have it isn't the end of the world and you haven't ruined your progress. Instead of getting frustrated just move on to the next stage of your day and focus on the positive. You will make a better decision at the next feeding opportunity.

The focus of behavior modification is controlling your emotions instead of them controlling you, which leads to negative thoughts and negative behaviors.

Here is a little exercise for you.

Write down how you feel when you are eating: are you happy, stressed, sad, etc.

Why are you eating?: Is it time to eat, did you skip a meal, etc.

Why did you choose the foods you are eating?

Keep track of this at every meal for 3-5 days and at the end of each day look at what you ate for the day, the quantities and then look at the emotions you wrote down next to that meal.

Is there a correlation? Did you choose unhealthy foods when you were stressed? Did you eat too many calories because you were frustrated about something?

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The Best Ways to Burn Belly Fat

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Turbulence Training for Fat Loss

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.

Well, to say I've done them all would be an understatement.

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 bodyweight 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 bodyweight 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!

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Isn't it funny how The Top Trainers ALL OVER THE WORLD all say the same thing..

Long Slow Cardio Isnt the best way to burn Fat

Interval Training IS THE BEST WAY

and you don;t need to do it for 2-3 hours..45 minutes does the trick

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1,000 Calorie Workouts Are Everywhere

Somethings work..and SOMEthings DON'T

But when someting REALLY works, everyone wants a piece..

So ALL week I have been talking about 1,000 Calorie Workouts at My BOOTCAMP


and I know who reads my stuff..I know some trainers are reading my stuff..I read a lot of other trainers stuff..that's how we get BETTER..I certainly did not INVENT Fitness and or Exercising.

But I don't want to lose track..Back to the 1,000 Calorie workout..

I have my own NEW product coming out this week..I have to say it's geared more toward getting inshape for the HOLIDAYS..but the idea of Burning 1,000 calories in 1 workout..WORKS..

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Discover How You Can Burn MORE Than
1,000 Calories EVERY Workout, Diet ONLY Three Days Each Week, And Consistently Melt Away Up to FIVE Pounds Of Pure Fat EVERY 7 Days...

This is a MATH equation. You currently burn X amount of calories. Add just three 1,000+ calorie workouts to your bottom line each week, and you’ll be burning at least TWICE that number.

Now add another 1,000 calorie AFTERBURN x 3 as you hang out at home as a result of those workouts.

Then add ANOTHER 1,000 – 2,000 calorie deficit x 3 from the strategic 1,000 calorie diet days.

Do the math:
1,000 x 3 thousand calorie workouts
1,000 x 3 for the afterburn
1,500 x 3 for the 1,000 calorie diet days
500 x 3 for the moderate diet days

What are we up to? About 12,000 calories or AT LEAST 4 pounds of pure fat every week? Yeah. You ALREADY GET IT.

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