Featured

Are Diet Sodas Making You Gain Weight?

This is based on this week’s video about a study about diet sodas and weight loss. (if you can not see the video here, you can go to the main page and see it there as well) Many may say that weight gain is caused because of increased cravings and the sugar response of the brain from the artificial sweeteners (which may or may not be true). But if you start to see that weight gain around the face and center of the body (stomach especially) then there is another issue at heart. In fact if you are showing any signs of fatigue, headaches, muscle/join pain, loss of motivation….then you could be suffering from adrenal fatigue. The adrenals are an important hormone most noted with it’s involvement with the “fight or flight”... [Read the full article]

October 6, 2008 | 5 Comments

Fat Loss/Muscle

Is Your Exercise Keeping You Fat?

One of the things I covered in my biggest workout mistakes post is the fact that many people work out way too much. What I mean by this is when you do activities for the sake of a goal (say losing fat), and you think more is better…..well you can actually be doing more harm than good. I have consulted with so many people who are not getting results just based on their level of exercise activity is too much for them. Once they finally get that under control then they start seeing results again. Remember it’s all about quality of what you do, not quantity. Let’s look at the real problems and solutions for people of all goals. Excess aerobic activity will make you store more fat WIth excess aerobic activity comes the increase... [Read the full article]

October 2, 2008 | 10 Comments

Health

Jack LaLanne Speaks…We Should Listen

I think most of us have heard of Jack LaLanee before, he is amazing. As he turns the ripe young age of 94 tomorrow,  he is still active, working out, swimming and mentally sharp as a tack (which is rare nowadays with the aging population). It’s amazing to see someone not only that old, although he may not like being called old so I’ll say “aged” instead, but more importantly functional, strong and smart as ever. Jack has been around a long time preaching the benefits of exercise and proper nutrition and a true motivator at heart. He’s a walking lesson for everything he preaches, so let’s see some more from him below. These are all his words: Everything you do in life, I don’t care, good or bad–don’t... [Read the full article]

September 24, 2008 | 12 Comments

Simple Life

Important Lessons for Living Simple, Achieving Daily Happiness and Making as Much Money as You Want to in the Process.

Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose…..I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand… We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.- Henry David Thoreau I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley Going along with my “looking back” from the Trainer tells all posts part I and part II, I’m also going to go with another important aspect of my life that has brought me much happiness, choosing a path of living simple. Now does that mean I live in a straw hut and forage for nuts and berries all day? Ummmm…..No.... [Read the full article]

June 5, 2008 | 20 Comments

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent Fasting Roundtable: The Experts Talk about IF for Fat Loss, Muscle and Health.

When I personally stumbled across the research and lifestyle of Intermittent Fasting (IF for short) many years ago, it just all made sense to me. In my past years I had been sold on needing protein every 3 hours or you would waste away. I was told everywhere that the only way to lose fat was to eat 6x a day (sure it can work, but only because of insulin control and lowered calories….but was it really sustainable for a lifetime?). But then I started looking around in the mainstream, none of that was working….none of that was really getting people results! I also just started to think about how the body was meant to function, and it didn’t make sense that people would need a constant intake of food all day long. That’s... [Read the full article]

August 29, 2008 | 17 Comments

News

New Video Posted on Site Every Week

New Video Posted on Site Every Week

Just a reminder that the main site will have a new video on it every week (posted sometime Monday). So be sure to check out this weeks new video “Exposing... (read more)

Whole New Look and Site is coming.

Whole New Look and Site is coming.

Hey everyone. Just a quick note that I am planning a big big upgrade of the site (believe me…it’s big and taking me alot of programming to... (read more)

Fitness Spotlight - The Best of the Web for Health and Fitness: Re-Launched

Fitness Spotlight - The Best of the Web for Health and Fitness: Re-Launched

This is a quick update to let you know that Fitness Spotlight has been remodeled and relaunched (for those that followed it in the past). I highly recommend... (read more)

Good Link Reads

Good Link Reads

Here’s just a quick post to go over some good reads (and links to them, in blue) I have stumbled across lately. Scott over at Modern Forager did... (read more)

My List of Some Suggested Online Reading/Reference

My List of Some Suggested Online Reading/Reference

photo by margolove Today I wanted to share some of the great reads that I have come across lately. There are many great bloggers and sources for info... (read more)

Guides

The New IF Life Site Layout - How to Use it

The New IF Life Site Layout - How to Use it

OK well it’s official, the new design and layout is now up (and let me tell you, there were plenty of bugs and still much to do). But at least you can now navigate, search, and review all the posts by catagory with much ease. Also there is added... (read more)

Building Muscle 101: Master the Basics

Building Muscle 101: Master the Basics

Building bigger muscles is at heart a hormonal event. Hormones such as insulin, growth hormone, testosterone and cortisol are giving the body signals on whether to build muscle, or break it down. While exercise is necessary to create a stimulus for certain... (read more)

Intermittent Fasting 101 - How to start

Intermittent Fasting 101 - How to start

The biggest question people have is how to effectively use IF (intermittent fasting) to achieve their goals and maximum results. These results and goals can vary by each person with fat loss, muscle gain, better health, improved performance in your sport... (read more)

Fat Loss 101 - Master the Basics

Fat Loss 101 - Master the Basics

It seems everyone wants (or needs) to lose weight, but with all the information out there it just gets more and more confusing for the average person to know what to do? Let’s back it up a little and start from the basic understand of how fat loss... (read more)