FAT BURNING BLOG

We put in a training session today down in the training dungeon and got some of it on film including this short clip about how to adorn your home gym with powerful motivators.  Check it out:

Home Gym Motivation Tips

To your success,

John Sifferman, NSCA-CPT

Kyle Battis, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

P.S. How do you get motivated for training in your home gym? Post your comments below.

Sometimes, we just need something simple and quick to train for our fat loss goals. This circuit is guaranteed to give you both strength and cardio benefits, while scorching your metabolism into fat burning mode. You’ll be huffing and puffing, but this one is over in just 15 minutes. Are any of you daring enough to try out this fat burning workout? Bare Essentials Fat Burning Circuit Repeat 3x, no rest between exercises, 1 minute rest at the end of each circuit:

• Bodyweight squats – 1 minute
• Pushup variation according to skill level – 30 seconds
• Front plank – 30 seconds
• Walking lunges w/ or w/o DB’s, KB’s or sandbags, (etc.) – 30 sec./leg
• Mixed grip pullups (either vertical or horizontal) – 30 seconds on the bar, no letting go
• Choice of Mountain Climbers or Bear Walk 30 seconds
• Rest 1 minute

Notes: For the

This past weekend, my wife and I, and a couple of my younger brothers went hiking in the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire. The summer months are always filled with plenty of physical activity, and we love making an effort to enjoy the outdoors as often as we can. This past weekend, we hiked up Mount Pierce and Mount Eisenhower just for fun.

It was cool and humid, and best of all, there were no black flies or mosquitoes in sight. The way our trail was setup required us to hike the most difficult portion first, the initial hike up Mount Pierce. The trail got gradually steeper and steeper, offering no rest for the weary. The setting was absolutely fantastic, and the birds were chirping all morning. We happened to snap a few short clips with our video camera to show you:

Hiking Mount Pierce

A news media feeding frenzy erupted recently when a new diet study broke in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Almost all the reporters got it wrong, wrong WRONG! So did most of the gloating low carb forumites and bloggers. Come to think of it, almost everyone interpreted this study wrong. Some valuable insights came out of this study, but almost everyone missed them because they were too busy believing what the news said or defending their own cherished belief systems …

Hey there,

I did a ‘mental weight-lifting’ exercise yesterday that was meant to improve my mental outlook on training, and I would like to share it with you. The mind is arguably the most important resource we have for overcoming physical challenges and achieving goals like fat loss.

What we do not consider possible, in our head, will never be possible for our body. Our physical fitness and natural grace and poise is only limited by those negative boundaries we place on ourselves daily.

While we have been on the subject of organic foods and buying from local farmers, I thought it might be fun to film a short clip showing you our home garden. This is the first season that my wife and I have tried to grow any food ourselves. We still buy from farmers markets, but it’s been fun growing some of our own fruits and vegetables. The veggies get bigger every day!

Some of the plants were grown right from seeds, and others were bought having already been started. Here’s the process we followed to prepare:

1) We pulled out all of the plants from the previous garden.
2) Tilled the ground
3) Mixed in some manure that we got from the gardening center at our local hardware store
4) Gave the vegetable bed a good edge, and put up a short wire fence to keep the neighbors

I was just doing some Youtube surfing, and I stumbled on this video by one of the Burn the Fat: Inner Circle members. “KaliLilla” uploaded an awesome video demonstration of how to cook one of Tom Venuto’s famous fat loss friendly recipes – the apple cinnamon oatmeal pancakes. She did such a great job, I just HAD to share it with you!

Kyle and I both believe very strongly in Tom’s Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle system – and I’m very happy that people like KaliLilla are spreading the good word about this awesome program.

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To your health and success,

John Sifferman, NSCA-CPT

P.S. To join the fat loss support community where Tom Venuto is constantly adding new recipes and members like KaliLilla share their experience with exercise, nutrition, and fat

Maybe you’ve noticed a couple of recent changes on the blog, including a new product reviews section tab at the top of our header. Kyle and I are hoping to continue to find and review programs that can help you with your fat loss goals – and probably some that can’t help you too. We are always trying out new programs to see what is available, and we would like to help you cut through marketing hype and find the programs that really do work for fat loss.

Not too long ago, I posted a series of articles and training video’s about joint mobility training and how it enhances a fat burning program. In case you missed them, you can find the links to the series below this post. (*You’ll have to click on the post title to get to the dedicated page for this blog post

Having worked in health clubs as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor, and having spent the last 10 years in various gyms, clubs, fitness centers, (etc.) I’ve seen almost every method of madness possible in these equipment-packed facilities. From guys trying to do near-max lifts on the adductor machine, to women jogging on a treadmill for 2 hours. While I am very happy that so many people utilize their local health club to burn fat and improve their health, it is a little disconcerting seeing some things so frequently misused in the health club.

Of course, you can’t just walk up to someone, introduce yourself as a fitness professional, and show them a more appropriate way to exercise. There are plenty of guru’s at most health clubs that are more than happy to share their “expertise” anyway. I’m sure

When it comes to buying food, most of us think we have it figured out. After all, we’ve always had plenty of food available to eat. In fact, each of us has been eating food for our entire lives – we must have this down by now… wrong!

You see, people act out of habit, and many of us have bad habits that could be improved or replaced by new, good habits. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t floss my teeth twice a day. I could have all the floss in the world in my medicine cabinet, and that wouldn’t change a thing. In the end, it’s not a matter of supply and demand – it’s a matter of personal choice and my decision to live a better, healthier life.

It’s the same with our nutritional habits, having better quality foods available to