Problems With Interval Training
Filed under: Boricua Fitness, Fat Loss Programs, Workouts
Thinking of doing interval training?
Read this before you try it…
1) Intervals can stop working if you do the same workout over & over
Yes, you MUST switch up your interval training every 4-6 weeks. If you continue to do the same interval workout, you’re results will slow down.
So if you’re doing intervals and you’re stuck at a fat loss plateau, then it is time for a new interval workout.
2) Intervals can be dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing
Jumping into an advanced interval program on the treadmill… Click Here to Read More
5 Tips to Avoid Any Plateaus and Metabolic Slowdown
Filed under: Fat Loss Programs, Muscle Building, Weight Loss Nutrition
By Tom Venuto
Burn More Fat
QUESTION: Tom, Is it possible to not lose body fat because you’re eating too little?
-Linda
ANSWER: Yes and no. This gets a little complicated so let me explain both sides. Click Here to Read More
Top 5 Fat Loss and Metabolism Boosting Tips
Filed under: Fat Loss Programs, Weight Loss Nutrition, Workouts
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TTFatLossWorkout.com
Men’s Fitness magazine recently asked me for 3 of my best fat loss secrets.
Since most times the magazines just don’t have enough space to run my full tips, I thought I’d give you a more detailed explanation of my secrets here (plus a few extra bonus tips that I didn’t send to the magazine).
Secret #1 – Focus on burning Click Here to Read More
Lose Fat Without Changing Your Diet, Today
Strategies on how to lose fat normally centers on specific dietary approaches. However, there are many factors aside from controlling how many grams of fat you consume each day that can help accelerate your fat loss. In this article we will look at two different nutrition research studies that reveal key strategies for effective and permanent weight loss. Weight Gaining Behavior – A 2004 study published by Dr. David Levitsky examined the eating behaviors of college freshman at Cornell University. He found that the students whom gained the most weight had 3 common characteristics Click Here to Read More
Bodyweight Circuit Beats Cardio All Day Every Day!
If you’ve been doing long, slow boring cardio but aren’t getting the results you want, or if you’ve found you just don’t have time for these long workouts, I have great news for you.
Men’s Health expert, Craig Ballantyne, just sent me this bodyweight workout to give to you (he also is giving you some free sample workout videos on his site here:
The Sample Bodyweight Workout Video
Filed under: Boricua Fitness, Fat Loss Programs, Workouts
Are you sick of how busy the gym is at this time of year?
Do you want to use bodyweight exercises to burn fat and workout in the comfort of your own home?
If so, then Craig Ballantyne, creator of the Turbulence Training Fat Loss System, has some powerful bodyweight secrets for you.
Craig even has some sample bodyweight workout videos up on his site:
Check it out, Click Here to see de Video
If so, then Craig Ballantyne, creator of the Turbulence Training Fat Loss System, has some powerful bodyweight secrets for you. Click Here to Read More
Effective Weight Loss Tips to Help You Succeed
Filed under: Fat Loss Programs, Muscle Building, Workouts
While some individuals are strictly interested in obtaining muscle for aesthetics, for most people, this isn’t an interest. Instead, you’re more interested in knowing what health benefits weight lifting will have for you…
Far too many people overlook the many health and fitness benefits that weight training has to offer, and because of this, experience problems down the road with their body such as decreased bone density, a slowed metabolic rate, increased stress levels and other negative consequences that are associated with constant stress. Click Here to Read More
Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises For You
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Turbulence Training for Fat Loss
When you travel, you worry about missing your workouts and eating poorly…So you must plan ahead for both (apples and almonds for planes, trains, & automobiles)…and bodyweight circuits for “no-equipment fat burning”.
And while I have bodyweight exercises that are just as hard as the bench press and barbell squat in one of my bodyweight workouts, today we’ll focus on replacing intervals with bodyweight circuits.
To do a bodyweight circuit… Click Here to Read More
Body Part Isolation vs. Complex Movements in Strength Training
Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer, Author of The Truth About Six Pack Abs. Explains why, when you attempt to ‘isolate’ muscles by performing single-joint exercises, you are actually creating a body that is non-functional and will be more prone to injury. Essentially, you are creating a body that is a compilation of body parts, instead of a powerful, functional unit that works together. Click Here to Read More
Trick Your Body Into Losing Weight Faster
Dieting can be slow and frustrating but what if you could trick your body into losing weight faster? Would you be interested? In this article I’ll lay out for you 3 simple ‘tricks’ that are safe, effective, and will help you lose fat faster. Click Here to Read More
The Program that Promises Maximum Fat Loss in Minimum Workout Time
Review of TurbulenceTraining
Turbulence Training promises fast fat loss results for men and women who don’t have a lot of time for exercise. This is a bold promise, and the workouts promise maximum results in only three workouts per week.
Let’s take a look at this claim, and see if it really measures up!
Before we get to the program, let’s take a look at the expert behind the workouts. I’ve come across Craig Ballantyne’s name many times in… Click Here to Read More
The 3 Best Abdominal Exercises that Are Not Traditional Ab Exercises
Instead of the typical ab routines that we see so often with crunches, situps, leg lifts, etc… I like to give my readers better options for metabolism-boosting high intensity workouts that work their entire body while also working their abs… thus building rock hard abs & core, but also creating a much better fat-burning workout than a typical ab workout.
I’m going to show you an example today of one of my favorite “ab workouts” that doesn’t include any direct “ab exercises” at all. It’s in a tri-set format (similar to a super-set but alternating between 3 exercises). Click Here to Read More
Why Cardio Doesn’t Work for Fat Loss
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TTFatLossWorkouts.com
Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work so perfectly well for all men and women, but as anyone who has tried it knows, the practicality of it just doesn’t add up.
After all, some men and women do cardio 6 hours, 9 hours, or more per week, and still have belly fat to burn. On the other hand, it works just fine for others.
British researchers wanted to get more insight into this paradox, and studied Click Here to Read More
Pre-Burn Your Halloween Calories with this Fat Burning Circuit
I just finished this workout and let me tell you; This is pretty intense! Is only 3 exercises but if you do them as a circuit is a “killer”.
The workout was created by Craig Ballantyne from TT Fat Loss Workouts
Watch this video to learn how to do it.
Perform the following circuit 4-6 times
- Dumbbell Swings 30 seconds
Rest 45 seconds
- Burpees 30 seconds
Rest 45 seconds
- Dumbbell Squat and Press 30 seconds
Rest 45 seconds
To get more fat loss workouts click here
Get the $4.95 trial version of Craig’s Turbulence Training here
This is a “Toning” Workout for Women but I like to Challenge Men to do it too
A lot of people ask me for workouts every day. Most women ask me about exercises to do so they can tone their muscles. Almost all the time I give them my lowerbody fat burning Lunge workout. Is very intense lower body workout that targets fat loss the most important areas for women who just want to tone their muscles. Feel free to post any comments on this workout.
Enjoy
- Treadmill or Outside- running for 4 min at 6.5mph to warm the legs up for intensive leg work or walk in a high level for 5min
- Bodyweight Squats - 15 to 25 reps
- Dumbbell Rows - No rest in between 8
