4 Common But Useless Fatburning Exercises

You may be wasting your time in the gym or at home if you are trying to shape your body or get rid of bodyfat. Most people are. That is when it comes to exercise for getting rid of bellyfat and getting into better shape. I was in the gym today (nothing new… ; ) and I saw all 4 of these exercises being performed by various gym members (again… nothing new.)

And they are useless for 99% of the people on the planet.

Here they are…

USELESS EXERCISE 1: Walking Dumbbell Lunges

Okay ladies, this one is for you… although I see guys do this exercise as well. This is where you take a pair of dumbbells and kneel with one leg, then the other, and so-on, walking around the gym as you go. The idea behind this exercise is to work the butt, and to some extent the thighs… but it’s a joke. It’s something invented by trainers who should know better. If you want to build and tone your butt, exercise one leg at a time. Lunges are a great exercise for this, but save your energy. Do them on a Smith Machine or with a barbell. Work one leg at a time, too. Do not alternate legs. This just wears you out aerobically before it has a chance to get to your glutes.

Here’s how I perform lunges:  On a Smith Machine, with pretty heavy weights… one leg at a time. I will do 2-3 sets, or do them in my 7 Minute Body-style workout fashion. I will finish one leg (and one butt cheek) before moving to the other leg. Why? Again, to focus on the muscle more intensely and to avoid turning a leg/butt workout into a cardio session.

Jon Benson covers exactly how to work the butt area for the best results in 7 Minute Body and 7 Minute Muscle.

USELESS EXERCISE 2:  The Sit-up

I’m shocked that people still think sit-ups done the old-fashioned way actually work the abs. Even worse, most people have been fooled into believing this actually helps get rid of bellyfat. Nonsense. Bellyfat is burned off when you have a good nutrition plan and through general exercise, not using exercises for the abs. Ab exercises are fine, but guess what? I never train my abs more than 3-5 minutes. Today my ab workout took 3 minutes and 12 seconds to complete. And my abs are sore! But without the nutrition plan, forget it… I’d never SEE my abs at all. I’d just have a nice wall of muscle with a bunch of flab covering it up.

The best nutrition plan for abs is The Every Other Day Dietplan

The best exercises to do for the actual ab muscles are hanging leg raises, done slowly, crunches (if you do them right)… and that’s really all you need.

USELESS EXERCISE 3:  The Bench Press

I’m going to get a lot of flack from the guys out there who love to bench, but I’m here to tell you that this exercise for bodyshaping is all but worthless. Why? Because most people are not built right body-wise to bench press on a flat bench with a barbell. I am not, that’s for sure. Bench presses work if you have short arms, a relatively short torso, and your shoulders are genetically strong.

Protect your shoulders and really work your chest by doing incline dumbbell presses with your palms facing OUT, not in toward your head. This protects the rotator cuff, a part of the shoulder that is often injured using barbell bench presses.

Combine this with a good cable fly or press movement and you’re set. Again, you only need about 7-14 minutes of chest work tops to get the job done.

USELESS EXERCISE 4:  Most Cardio Exercises

Yep… saved the best for last.

Here’s a fact:  Most cardio (bike, treadmill, glider, whatever) is a waste to time… UNLESS you do it at the right time with the right nutrition plan.

The calories you burn from cardio will be easily negated simply by eating a bagel! Hardly effective for getting rid of bodyfat. Weight training and/or resistance training at home or with your body weight, as covered in 7 Minute Muscle, is your best bet for exercise that burns-off mega-calories and keeps on burning long after the exercise session is over.

Here’s how to use traditional cardio wisely:

1. Do it first thing in the morning on an empty stomach;
2. Keep your heart rate down to 75% of your max (220 minus your age x .75 will give you this number, at least approximately);
3. “Burst” for 2-3 minutes in your session up to 85-90% of your max heart rate.
4. OR, do cardio right after weight or resistance training when your heart rate is already elevated and your blood sugar is lower. Your body burns blood sugar first during exercise.

Cardio for most people only needs to be performed 3-4 times a week for 20 minutes. The only time I break this rule is when I want to get my bodyfat below 10%. Then I will do more, but only using the rules above.

Hope this saves you a ton of time with your workouts.

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How To Get Skinny Abs – How To Loose Weight Fast By Exercising – Weight Loss Fast

How To Get Skinny Abs

There is a sea of information on how to lose weight on the internet and inaccurate information are abound which can mislead you and throw you off the right track for your weight loss plan. Increase your awareness and find out the various myths about weight loss here.

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Weight loss like anything else in life worth achieving is often difficult and loaded with hurdles. And just like anything worth achieving when you finally reach your weight loss goals the feeling of health and satisfaction is second to none. There is a belief that losing weight rapidly is neither safe nor effective for long-term weight loss.

A lot of your weight is just plain crap intestinal gunk. The average person contains over ten pounds of this funky crap glued to their intestines and unless you remove it then it will stay there forever and build up faster and faster. This funky crap can cause you to gain more and more weight as time passes because it makes your body metabolize slower and slower.

America’s obesity rate is increasing in this era of fast food. Around 35% of Americans are overweight or obese.

You may have seen numerous stories about how some individuals managed to lose weight with the help of a ‘magical’ diet plan or exercise equipment. However when it comes to real life it really is quite difficult to achieve such success in losing weight. This holds true whether you’re following a diet plan undergoing a rigorous exercise plan or if you are using a combination of both.

A lot of your weight is just plain crap intestinal gunk. The average person contains over ten pounds of this funky crap glued to their intestines and unless you remove it then it will stay there forever and build up faster and faster. This funky crap can cause you to gain more and more weight as time passes because it makes your body metabolize slower and slower.

Dieting Can be a real pain. Just the thought of being on a regimen that requires you to remember so many things and to stop doing even more can be a daunting prospect. My ten point guide give you a new approach. If You use it right you can revolutionize the way you live.

Exercise Weight Loss and Diet Pills

Home exercise weight loss oriented programs are a cheap alternative for hiring a personal trainer to lose weight. However, this is not necessarily the best approach towards exercise to shred extra pounds. In fact, who said that exercise is the best method for losing weight to begin with?

You might think that the last sentence was somewhat controversial. In order to clarify any misunderstanding let’s discover the root of unhealthy weight gain: poor metabolism. Note: some of you may have a condition (such as hypothyroidism) that may require more than the methods I will list here, but for the most part, poor metabolism for the rest of us is caused by two factors poor activity and poor eating habits.

To correct this type of weight gain you can either embark on a home exercise weight loss program, or change your diet, or both. Now I know this may seem like I am contradicting myself from what I said earlier regarding the exercise component. Of course I never said that exercise is ineffective. I implied that exercise is not the BEST method to lose weight.

The reason is simple, and is based on the amount of calories required for you to lose weight. The exercise that you would have to do in order to accomplish this is VERY intense. Not all folks can handle this. Basically you would have to be in shape in order to be in shape in order to exercises that will in turn help you do some more brutally intense exercises to help you lose weight.

Do some TV shows where overweight people exercise to death freak you out? It should. Why? Because they’re too hard, that’s why! You would need the help of fitness trainer for that. This is not why you visited this page, unless you wanted to hire a fitness to train in your own home, which I doubt is why you come here also.

Now how about changing your eating habits? Well anyone can do that effectively and cheaply. You just have to be informed of the right way to do it and, most importantly, ACT on it.

If you are unsure of the best way to go about this, you can gain access to information on how without a home exercise weight loss program here. You will discover that, thankfully, no fads, no hocus pocus, no unsafe or unhealthy forms of weight loss are needed. Also, no “special” recipes or shakes are needed to lose weight. So what is?

In a nutshell, to effectively lose weight you would have to eliminate the bad foods from your diet and start eating good foods. I know this sounds cliché-ic but it is true. You don’t have to eliminate carbs or fats or proteins from your diet, or resort to certain cleanses to accomplish this. You just have to learn to select, make and eat the right types of foods that are body-friendly.

With that being said, the rest of us have lost weight or can lose weight using this method.

Weight Loss Exercise

A lot of us live our lives like penned animals. Built to move, too often we put ourselves in a cage, there is no time for weight loss exercise. We have bodies designed for racing across the savannas, but we live a lifestyle designed for migrating from the bed to the breakfast table; to the car seat; to the office chair; to the restaurant booth; to the living room couch and back to the bed.

It was not always this way. Not long ago in the United States, a man who worked on a farm did the equivalent of 15 miles of jogging every day; and his wife did the equivalent of 7 miles of jogging.

Today, our daily obligations of work and home keep us tied to our chairs, and if we want exercise, we have to seek it out.

In fact, health experts insist that obesity problem is probably caused at least as much by lack of physical activity as by eating too much. Hence, it is important that people need to move around. Read more

An Exercise Weight Loss Plan For The Busy Bee

Do you need an exercise weight loss plan that just gets you really pumped up and gets your body raging with fire in no time so that you can enjoy the effectiveness and benefits of exercising without getting in the way of your busy schedule?

If the answer is yes, then this mini guide is for you. This weight loss plans for the busy bee can help busy people like yourself stay fit. This weight loss exercise plan can be divided into 2 plans. Plan one is the weekend warrior plan, which is you are only required to exercise on the weekends and the other plan is to workout twice anytime during the weekdays but only for 45 mins. Read more

The Benefits That Come From Exercise Weight Loss Programs

There are many different benefits that you can get from participating in these weight loss programs, and if you understand about all of these different benefits before you even start, then you are going to want to push even harder because you will be able to see just how great exercise weight loss programs really are.

More About It

If you are wondering about these weight loss programs, then one of the first things that you are going to want to know that you are going to have to do is create a program for you that is personalized to your specific needs, and you can do this by using the basic exercise weight loss programs as examples.

If you do not even know where to begin, then you can hire a personal trainer, who will be able to work with you, figure out the key areas that you want to work on, and then they will be able to design a program that will work perfectly for you and your particular situation. Read more

You Need to Quit your Home Exercise Weight Loss Program

Home exercise weight loss oriented programs are a cheap alternative for hiring a personal trainer to lose weight. However, this is not necessarily the best approach towards exercise to shred extra pounds. In fact, who said that exercise is the best method for losing weight to begin with?

You might think that the last sentence was somewhat controversial. In order to clarify any misunderstanding let’s discover the root of unhealthy weight gain: poor metabolism. NOTE: some of you may have a condition (such as hypothyroidism) that may require more than the methods I will list here, but for the most part, poor metabolism for the rest of us is caused by two factors (no, one of them is NOT genetics): poor activity and poor eating habits. Read more

The Best 5 Crunch-less Abs Exercises for a Flatter Stomach in Less Time

Here are the top 5 exercise replacements for ineffective aerobics-era crunches…

1. Replace Crunches with Stability Ball Rollouts. You’ll get a more powerful stretch in the Rollout exercise, and a more powerful contraction, all without doing excessive and dangerous spinal flexion.

2. Replace Crunches on the Ball with a Plank with Arms on the Ball. According to the Men’s Health magazine, research shows that a Plank with Arms on the Ball is 30% more effective in working your abs.

3. Replace Bicycle Crunches with X-Body Mountain Climbers. This unique total-body ab exercise still works your obliques, but without repetitive crunching. Plus, it helps build invaluable abdominal endurance and stability to keep your low back healthy.

4. Replace Reverse Crunches with Stability ball Jackknives. You will still be able to work the lower area of your abdominal muscles, as well as your obliques with this Stability Ball exercise, but you also get the benefit of building back-protecting abdominal endurance.

5. Replace Sit-ups with Hanging Knee-ups or the advanced Pull-up Plus Knee-ups. Your abs will have never experienced anything like this exercise! You can also do a Chin-up Plus Knee-up for the same effect on your abs, and Chin-ups are a little easier. This is one of my current favorite exercises.

By getting rid of crunches you’ll lose nothing, while gaining time to work on better exercises to build your six pack abs and flat stomach, plus you’ll avoid exercises that are hard on your back.

Combine these total-body ab exercises (that burn more calories than crunches anyways) with superset resistance training and belly-fat burning interval training and you’ll get more ab results in less workout time!