Fat-Burning Tips for the New Year

Some nice suggestions on how to burn the fat from Competitor.com:

Get a step counter and shoot for 10,000 steps a day — regardless of how much you’re running. Insert your walking during the “lulls of your life,” such as when you’re waiting for a meeting to start, while watching the kids, during a television commercial, etc. Runners have told me that they have burned up to 20 pounds in a year by averaging more than 10,000 walking steps a day.

Keep a small notebook (your food journal) with you and record everything you eat. This will allow you to learn portion control. Because the journal makes you aware of what you’re eating, most people cut back on the “bad” foods when journaling.

Fitness Guru: What Fitness Routine Is Right for You?

Those who want to lose weight and burn fat face a big question: which workout is the best at burning fat? Here's one answer from The Kitsap Sun:

Deciding to exercise is one thing; knowing what type of exercise to do is another. Should you walk, run, do weights, take a yoga class?

With the holidays behind and a New Year ahead, this is the time of year that many exercisers are working out to lose weight. And the best workout toward that end can be summed up in two words: fat burning!

Stretching and strength work should be done as well, but the bulk of your workout week should be spent on cardiovascular activities. Here are three different workouts that fall into the "I want to lose weight and tone up" category.

One: Walking Briskly

Walking is an excellent form of aerobic activity. It's also ideal for beginning exercisers because it's something everyone can already do.

Five to six days each week warm-up, stretch and walk briskly for 30 minutes. If 30 minutes seem too difficult, walk for shorter durations and increase your workout time as your level of fitness progresses.

From Tom Venuto's Blog: Liposuction: Risks, Safety and Natural Alternatives

Thinking that liposuction will be easier than learning to Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle? This report from Tom Venuto might change your mind:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says, “Most patients are pleased with the outcome of their liposuction surgery.” However, it IS true that liposuction is the most dangerous type of cosmetic surgery and that more people die from liposuction than any other type of cosmetic surgery. The most common cause of death is blood clots.

A report by Dr. Frederick Grazer of Penn State and Dr. Rudolph de Jong of Thomas Jefferson Medical college says that to date, 917 plastic surgeons reported 95 deaths in over 496,000 liposuction surgeries. If you do the math, that comes out to 19 deaths per 100,000 or 1 death in 5,224.

The so called “acceptable” death rates for elective (non life-threatening) surgeries are 1 per 100,000. To give you a comparison, these statistics show that more people are killed during liposuction procedures than in automobile accidents (16.1 deaths per 100,000).

How to Lose A Lot of Weight Fast without Using Drugs in 6 Steps

These great tips come from the American Chronicle.

By Naweko San-Joyz
January 16, 2008
Ever wonder how fitness models look so great in magazines? Well it is not all smoke, mirrors and Adobe Photoshop editing.

Believe it or not, some photographers will flat out turn a fitness model away if she shows up to a photo shoot out of shape. It´s just too hard to sell images of flabby fitness models.

So how do models firm up before a shoot? There´s tons of ways to do this but the easiest way is to give yourself two weeks to shed five pounds.

That may not seem like a lot of weight to lose, but looking good is not so much about weight loss as it is about weight re-distribution.

In reality, shedding five pounds of flab could mean the difference between a 32-inch waist and a 28-inch waist. Using these five steps, you´ll drop that body jiggle in no time.

Step 1: Double up on your aerobics

Instead of exercising for 30 minutes on the treadmill, step it up to 60 minutes. You don´t need to walk, step or jog faster, only longer.

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Testosterone, Muscle Mass, & Belly Fat

Guys: want to know the truth about how your beer gut is ruining your love life? Find out what this expert at Men's Health had to say:

Testosterone isn't just for young men.
As we age, it helps us maintain valuable muscle mass and burn belly fat. Plus, it contributes to overall well-being and a positive attitude.
But there is bad news about the typical American male's testosterone levels.
Testosterone in a group of men studied by New England researchers was decreasing with age at a faster rate than expected. What's worse, the scientists could not explain why.
Here are four natural ways to make sure your testosterone levels stay as high as possible.

1. Lose Excess Body Fat. Weight gain is associated with a loss of testosterone. Use interval training and resistance training--coupled with a diet of whole, natural foods--to maximize your manhood.

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Lose Dangerous Belly Fat! - Wake Forest University Research

Still not convinced you need to burn your fat? Here's more scientific evidence that your "little paunch" is causing you to age faster and, possibly, die sooner. Here's more from News Max:

While the term “middle age spread” may sound innocent, the reality of the fat that can collect around our mid-sections is actually quite dangerous.
Stomach, or visceral, fat plays a key role in a variety of health problems. Much more so than subcutaneous fat, which is the kind that tends to deposit itself on hips, thighs and buttocks.
“The really worrisome fat is found in the abdomen and surrounding vital organs,” said Dr. Kerry Stewart, professor of clinical exercise physiology at John Hopkins School of Medicine.
That is because the belly bulge is deeper than meets the eye. It also clings to our internal system and has been linked to numerous conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and breast and colon cancers.
According to Dr. Stewart, even a person considered to be slender with just a mere ‘spare tire’, may carry a greater health risk than someone who is obese.
In fact, long running research conducted by the Wake Forest University in North Carolina found that even among normal-weight people, those with higher waist-to-hip ratios had just as much difficulty completing household chores as their overweight counterparts.

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Burn More Fat - Secrets of Exercise Physiology

This great article comes from About.com's Weight Training section:

The Truth About Fat Burning
We all want to burn more fat for weight loss, body shaping, health and wellbeing or for sporting purposes. Trim that butt, waste that cellulite, smooth those love handles, bust that belly; it’s all part of the trim and slim exercise and diet activity many of us indulge in.
In this article you will see exactly how fat burning works and how to get the best out of your exercise program. Also, I'll outline a new weights circuit program I am developing to take advantage of new research on weight loss and exercise from Australian researchers at the University of New South Wales, which suggests interval training, alternating sprints and rest, is a breakthrough method of burning fat and slimming down.

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The Fastest Way to Burn Body Fat - ABC News

What's the The Fastest Way to Burn Body Fat? ABC News looks into that and comes up with some surprising information:

Thank goodness the holidays are over, and the new year is here.
But are you finding that holiday celebrations have resulted in a new "you" as well?
As a personal trainer, I hear the same thing every year after the holidays: "Stefan, I gained fat over here," and "Stefan, I gained fat over there."
Be honest. Are you really surprised by the change in your body composition due to your calorie intake over the last few months?
You shouldn't be.
First, understand that your body's metabolism slows down 2 percent for each decade of your life after age 20. This means that your body burns calories more slowly with each passing year.

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Burn The Fat Blog: Sleep Deprivation and Fat Gain

This from Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat blog:

You’ve probably seen the magazine articles or news blurbs that say, “lack of sleep can make you fat!” There is a lot of confusion however, about the mechanism. It’s not uncommon for people to believe there is a cause and effect relationship between sleeping less and gaining weight. However, if sleep deprivation did “cause” fat gain, then you would always gain weight if you slept less, even if your food intake stayed the same. To the contrary, if you sleep less AND eat less, rest assured you will lose weight. If you are awake more hours and you are more active during those increased waking hours, again, rest assured you will lose weight. So how does it really work? Why do you tend to gain body fat when you are sleep deprived?…