FAT BURNING BLOG

I made a fun strength training video that demonstrates many different types of exercises.  I’m sure you’ll get a lot of new training ideas from this:

Strength Training and Weight Training Exercises for Fitness

To your health and success,

John Sifferman, NSCA-CPT

P.S. This was created for my new website http://www.johnsifferman.com

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

Today’s post is about something many of us encounter: failure in a fat loss program, or any program for that matter. Let’s face it, fat burning is hard work. Sure, the process looks easy on paper, but during the days and weeks of actually practicing a healthier lifestyle, it can become quite a struggle to lose fat. Fat loss often requires the changing of many lifelong habits – certainly not an easy undertaking.

We like to convince ourselves that starting to exercise will solve our problem, or that taking a special supplement will help us reach our goals, or skipping the potato chips, or the McDonald’s parfait, the list goes on. When it comes to fat loss, many people are guilty of setting up unrealistic expectations – and I can’t blame them. We are bombarded with the message that fat loss is easy by

It’s been a couple days since my day-long quest of achieving all my daily goals, which you can read about here. I want to share with you what I learned so that you too can achieve your fat burning goals one day at a time.

To begin, I have tried many, many times before to make drastic changes in my daily habits – things like reading more, spending more time with family, and playing less video games (if it’s not TV, it’s something else!). It has always been within me to commit to bettering myself – it’s inborn. I can’t tell you how many times I have actively tried to make changes and failed drastically. Over and over again I toiled to try and do something right, yet I was met with resistance and almost always folded under pressure – seldom achieving my goals.

There is a

Did you know that YOU can enhance your metabolism so that your body becomes a fat burning machine, day and night?

Let’s face it, we can only burn so many calories during the time spent training at the gym. In a fat burning program, it is very important to pay attention to the time that you spend away from the gym; the other 23 hours during the day. Is your body using that time to burn calories or store calories?

Here are some ways to increase your metabolism so that your body burns calories all day and night long…

Question:

Hi Kyle

just a quick question for you. I have a client who has never worked out, since he joined me he has recently lost about 12 lbs. He has been

with me for about 14 weeks and he is on the second program I designed for him. Since he is just getting weight loss now, he has already

lost quite a few inches, his body fat %’age has went down and I have explained to him the transistion period of adding muscle so weight

loss off the start would be slow (in my opinion), should I change his program again as most people suggest or should I run it longer until

he plateaus? If you could give me your professional opinion I would greatly appreciate it. I know this may seem like fatloss101 but I am

curious as to your opinion. Thanks for your time.
Don

If you do nothing else but take the advice offered in this post, you will be well on your way to a leaner, healthier body. These short words are the foundation of all that concerns fat burning. All other endeavors are just icing on the cake – the last 10% of the equation. If you’re wondering how to burn fat as fast as possible, while ensuring your continued health, pay very close attention to the following words.

Fat loss is very hard for most, in the beginning. It often requires the changing of an entire lifestyle for perfection. But what is often forgotten about burning fat is that it is simple and even predictable in practice. If you consistently strive to do just four things, you will succeed with practice. This formula works every time.

Here are the four cornerstones of a fat burning program: