It was the weirdest thing ...

I mean, I've been around you know? I've
had just about every body and fatloss experience you can think of... the good,
the bad, the ugly...

... and now the really bizarre.

Here's the
story:

I took off on an 8-day cruise to the Caribbean. This was a
"business" cruise (yeah, right)... and I knew there was no way to eat the way I
prefer to eat. At least not ideally. After that I had to speak in Tampa Florida
at a fitness summit, then off to Las Vegas for yet another summit
meeting.

All-in-all I was gone for almost three weeks.

First
thing that I knew had to go was my "ideal" dietplan.

That's my "Extreme"
Plan on the Every Other Day Dietplan...

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There are three
plans in EODD:  The Primer Plan, which is literally "every other day". You get
to eat your favorite foods within reason every other day or so on this Plan.
It's perfect for folks who 'hate' dieting because, let's face it, anyone can
diet-for a day, right? Right.

Then there's the Lifestyle Plans. These are
two days of "burn eating" followed by a day of eating favorite foods. Most
people use this because it too is so simple to use.

Then for we athletes
and fitness pros there's the Extreme Plan. This is for ultimate bodyfat loss and
muscle-shaping. I love this plan.

But hey... it's a vacation. And so I
decided to eat on the Primer Plan... remember, that's every other day. So every
other day on the cruise I had a small dessert (sometimes two), pizza, or
pasta... whatever I wanted within reason. The days before I did perfectly,
substituting my morning shake for egg white omelets with a bit of cheese and a
lot of veggies. Yum!  

Within three days I had LOST more than 4 lbs... or
about 2 kg. Pure fat... well, a bit of water I suppose, but mostly that stubborn
bodyfat around my middle that's the last to go.

What the heck was going
on?

Wait... the story gets better...

I move on to Tampa, and then
Vegas, and now I'm 11 lbs (about 5 kg) down. My jeans ALL require a belt, only
this time it's not a fashion statement.

Frankly, I'm as surprised as you
may be.

But I figured out why this happened. And I want to share it with
you so you can use EODD (or another plan if you want... but mine is the best...
: ) when you go on vacation or take a break.

Here's why I dropped the
last bit of my bodyfat:

First, I was on a VERY large cruise ship. I knew
my weight training would not be as intense (the weights were not that heavy) but
I also knew I could just make it work... train a bit more and go for the
"pump"... just a good, quick workout. I ended up training 5 days on the cruise
without a problem (and only ONE day of cardio for 20 minutes... you see, you do
NOT need cardio to dump bodyfat!)

But the difference was in the WALKING.
The ship was the largest ever built... the size of 2.5 football fields. And I
walked everywhere... on the islands, on the boat, even to every meal. Just
walking burned off FAR more calories than my normal lifestyle, which like most
of you has a lot of sitting down to it. ; )

Walking... my favorite
"Cardio" to this very
day.

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Second,
I took extra potassium, along with all of my Radical Fatloss Blueprint
Supplements. I carried them all on board.

The two that really did the trick
for me was the Aqualize (also known as Acquacil), only 1-2 a day, along with the
amino acids.

Finally, I realized that I need MORE food than I'm eating
now in order to increase my metabolic rate. Just a bit... about 400 calories a
day more than I have been eating. Doing just that rebooted my metabolic rate and
presto... 11 lbs of bodyfat and useless water is history. My abs have never
looked better.

I hope this gives you some encouragement when it comes to
being on the road or on vacation. With the right plan (like EODD and Radical
Fatloss) you can actually improve your body...

... and best of all, I
enjoyed every minute of my vacation!  

Yours In Fitness,

J O N   B
E N S O N

P.S.  An important note was that I made a decision not to drink
on the cruise or elsewhere. I had one small glass of wine last night to
celebrate with my largest affiliate and business comrade. He flew in from Israel
just for this meeting, and it was the least i could do. Roei and I had a blast
all day.

The reason drinking is a problem is that alcohol shuts down
fat-burning for several hours... sometimes longer. But a glass of wine or two a
week is not going to hurt you. I just made that one small "sacrifice" so I could
enjoy ice cream, pizza (I ate four slices one night at 3:00am and woke up
leaner!) and all the yummy food the boat had to offer.

So, my final tip: 
Make a decision to cut out just ONE thing when you're on the road. Alcohol was
easy for me as I do not drink that much as it is.

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http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com

 

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 Bodybuilding Articles

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that
every huckster out there is selling the magic potion to help
folks lose the
blubber.

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good to
be true...after all, none of that stuff has worked in the past,
why
would it start working now?

It's easy to get caught up in the
latest "weight loss craze", but
it is essential for you to never stray too
far from the basics.

The basics are what work time and time again.
That's how the TT
Transformation Contest winners get such great
results.

The 5 simple steps to success are:

1) Review your food
journal.

Research shows that if you use a food journal, you should lose
up to
3.5 pounds more than if you didn't. Pretty simple, huh?

2) Use
Fitday.com to see if your calories have crept up.

When people ask me how
many calories they should be eating, I simply
tell them to do three
things.

- Go to Fitday.com and find out how many calories they are eating
now.
- Cut that number by 20% if they are not losing weight.
- Improve the
quality of their diet by eating at least 5 servings of
fruit and 5 servings
of vegetables each day (in addition to your
other healthy foods).

The
fat will fall off with this simple guideline.

3) Stop doing long, slow,
boring cardio and switch to interval
training.

Unless you are
training for a marathon, a 10-K, or if you just love
cardio more than life
itself, there's really no reason to do long,
slow boring
cardio.

Switch to shorter interval training sessions and you'll get more

results, have more fun, and do it all in less than half the time.

4)
Review your workouts for best results.

In addition to your food journal,
you should keep a workout journal.
This will allow you to go back through
your past workouts to find
out which ones worked best for you and which ones
you enjoyed. If
you're struggling now, I suggest returning to the program
that gave
you the best results in the past.

5) Include resistance
training in your workouts to help you sculpt
your body.

Look at your
body as a sculpture...sure you might have a little
extra plaster on it, but
you'll get that off fastest with nutrition,
not long cardio.

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By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Turbulence Training

If you are
looking to cut down on the amount of time you spend in
the gym without
jeopardizing your fat loss goals, then including
interval training alongside
your strength training program is the
only way to go.

Just imagine
spending half the time in the gym - if not more - and
getting way better
results.  Isn't that what you deserve?

I thought so.

And to make
the notion of ditching long, slow, boring cardio even
more convincing is the
fact that you will be far less susceptible
to sustaining an overuse injury
with interval training. 

For some of you, however, the thought of giving
up your daily
cardio machine routine is too much to bear.  But not to
worry
because you can still use your favorite machine, but we'll
just
tweak things a bit so that you get more out of your workout in
half
the time.

1) Interval Training Option #1 - Classic
Intervals

For example, try incorporating intervals on the treadmill
by
running hard for 30 seconds, at an 8 out of 10 intensity
level,
followed by 60 seconds of light recovery at a 3 out of 10
intensity
level. 

That is one interval, and so you will repeat this
process up to 6
times, while using a five minute warm-up and a 5 minute cool
down.

Each week try to do more squats in the same amount of time. 
This
may sound easy, but trust me; it can be as difficult as you make
it!

2) Interval Option #2 - Short Burst Squats

I personally
recommend a Gymboss timer for this type of training,
but it isn't essential. 

So, for the bodyweight interval training you will do as
many
bodyweight squats as you can for 20 seconds and then hold the
bottom
position for 10 seconds, then repeat your squats for 20
seconds, and then
hold at the bottom for 10 etc. Repeat these
intervals for 8 rounds.

3) Interval Option # - Kettlebell Swings

If you have a
kettlebell, you can do swings or kettlebell squats for
30 seconds and then
walk for 30 seconds and alternate for 6-10
rounds. That's a great way to
finish a fat burning workout.

Alright, so those are just three of the
countless ways in which you
can include interval training into your workouts
that will burn fat
faster and help you avoid spending more time than
necessary in the
gym.

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Saturday 28th of November 2009

Here's a fantastic gift for you!

Below you'll find an article by a friend of mine that really brought things into focus for me. I found it very intriguing, and thought you would enjoy reading it, too.

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Manifesting Life Within The Moments
by Jon Benson

Take a pen and a sheet of paper and just start doodling. Seriously.

Congratulations -- you've just created something from nothing...an image that never existed before nor will ever exist again, carved from the moments of your alloted time on this planet.

Hang with me -- this all deals with your level of fitness, the power of your mind, and the success you have in your life...

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Any child recognizes their power to create. Most even realize the power to mold their own destinies. Children know when they've done something "wrong", even when they're doing it in most cases. They also know the "destiny" that awaits them in the form of dad coming home from work!  Perhaps they do not know the particulars, but they get the basic idea.

Somewhere along the way, someone or something talked most of us out of the idea that we have anything to do with our destiny, let alone that we can manifest our moments, literally creating our destiny by existing fully within the moments we are given and making the most out of them.

To some, this sounds as if one is trying to "play God"...but this is not true. Instead, I believe that we are called by existence itself to manage our lives and our destiny through the application of powerful, truthful thinking that inspires consistent, Core-motivated action.

That was a long sentence, but an important one. Let's break it down.

M-Power is founded on the Principle of Core Ethics (tm). This applies to your body, mind, relationships...you name it.

Core Ethics is a combination of three crucial and universal truths:

1. Truth
2. Responsibility
3. Abundance

More specifically, truthful thinking, ruthless responsibility, and flowing abundance. These are the key distinctions within my key distinctions!

All three of these distinctions are covered heavily in M-Power, but for today I'd like to give you some broad-stroke truths to apply in the art of manifesting your moments.

First, by thinking truthfully (as opposed to "positively" or "irrationally"), one can see that words become our world. James Allen took a passage from the Bible to clarify this in his book, "As A Man Thinketh." What we think produces a conversation with our self -- the most important of all conversations, as it's by far the longest. This produces the words we say to ourselves and to others. These words are either based in truth or based in fiction.

Saying, "I'm going to die if I don't get some ice cream" is, of course, utter fiction. Yet most people use this type of language all the time. The opposite is the "positive thinking" camp -- the ones who look in the mirror and say, "I'm fit, and I'm beautiful!" when they're not...and they're not!

The alternative, and the way to begin manifesting your destiny in the moment, rather than in some far away, mystical "someday", is to say this:

"I am in the process of learning what I need to know in order to become more fit, healthy and attractive every day of my life."

This is not a false statement if you are so much as reading this article!

Remember this scientific fact:  any form of energy that is non-truth creates dissonance, and dissonance remodels cellular structure. That sounds kinda complex, but all I'm saying is this:

You lie, you die.

Really.

Photographs of water prove this point. Saying things that are not true to the speaker changes the structure of water molecules. Speaking words of hate do the same. You are programmed to live in harmony with yourself, and the language we use on a daily basis is often the opposite of harmony. It is the creation of dissonance. And we wonder why we have all this mental and physical disease in our world!

Your very cells scream out, "Take responsibility!" Speak in truth, both out loud and to yourself, and watch what happens.

This level of accountability to yourself will produce flowing abundance, or wealth in every area of your life that flows outward rather than remains bottled up inside of you. "Canning abundance" as I call it is a sure-fire way to total overwhelm in life. You must share it -- and by doing so, you reap more.

Become a manifestor of moments;  moments that add up to the time of your life.

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Make the moments, and make them count!

Jon Benson
Creator, The M-Power Inner Circle

Want to be leaner?

Good deal... here's 5 tips that will help you
along...

TIP 1      
Ditch The Starch

Starches, such
as rice, potatoes, some veggies, oats, etc. are
often considered "health
foods."

While they can be healthy, they can also pack on stomach
bodyfat
like crazy if you overdo them.

As you may know, my "Every
Other Day Diet" System (EODD) actually
encourages you to eat starches and
even sweets several days a week
to get rid of excess
bodyweight:

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/musclegain  <--
go

Well... how does THAT work?

Simple:  Timing is
everything.

And it takes a "weekly" approach to foods rather than a
daily
approach. This keeps your metabolism guessing. If your body
cannot
figure out what you're up to, fatburning is that much
more
powerful. And you can get by with eating starches... at least
a
specific times on specific days.

But if you're not going to do EODD,
then you'll have to wing it.
And the best way to wing it is to simply cut
starches out entirely
for 4-8 weeks. Then slowly add them back a few days per
week.

This is no where near as effective (or as fun) as the EODD
method,
but it will get you pointed in the right direction.

TIP
2      
Can The Sodas

Why diet-sodas? A recent study revealed
that people who drank
diet-sodas actually increased bodyfat when compared to
those who
drank sugar-sodas.

What the... ??

Yep. Your body
cannot be fooled by aspartame and chemicals. Sorry,
but that's the
truth.

Here's a personal story:  When I cut out the diet-sodas my
bodyfat
drops like a rock in a pond of clear water.

And that's what
you need to be drinking:  A quart of pure water per
50 lbs of bodyweight a
day.

Try mixing water with lemon and a bit of Stevia (an
herbal
sweetener) and make lemonade. It's wonderful!

TIP 3    

Stay Hungry

It takes a special person to be hungry... and an
even greater one
to stay that way.

I want you to stay hungry in two
ways:  In how you workout and
literally... stay a bit hungry before you go to
bed. Not
"starving"... just a bit hungry.

For your workouts, I have a
great solution. If you pick up EODD
you'll get a limited shot at "7 Minute
Body"... Jon Benson's
combination of "7 Minute Muscle" and "The 7 Minute
In-Home Workout"
in one book... and for more than half off... but that's a
very
limited deal. Gotta have EODD... you'll need them
both...

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/musclegain  <--
go

You see, progression -- "forced" progression -- is the best way
to
stay hungry. 7 Minute Body forces you to progress without
thinking
about it. Progression is built into the System.

As far as
staying hungry at night? Check with your doctor and if
he/she okays it take
500mg of potassium and 1000mg of
magnesium/calcium a few hours prior to bed.
This helps with the
hunger pangs. Also, keep hard-boiled eggs in the fridge.
If you get
really hungry, eat one with half the yolk (toss the other half.)
It
keeps you full for an hour at least.

TIP 4      
Cardio Clarity

Hours and hours of cardio a day is not the answer.
However, you can
do "light" cardio (i.e. brisk walking, or riding the bike at
60% of
your max) just to burn off calories. That's okay... and
personally
I don't find it that boring if I'm watching a TV show. It does
not
interfere with my main fatloss exercise (weight training... YES!)
and
it burns off about 400 calories an hour.

What does work is early morning
fasting cardio... but you only need
9-15 minutes. Jon Benson explains GXP
(Modified) in the 7 Minute
Body book, available only if you pick up EODD, and
you can get it
at more than half
off:

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/musclegain  <--
go

TIP 5      
Get Raw At Night

Raw veggies with your
last meal and as a snack will really help
your fatburning along. Try starting
with red peppers because
they're sweet. You you'll eat virtually every veggie
raw at night
without thinking about it. Give this a shot. The fatloss is
well
worth it.

P.S.  Jon is still giving away "Radical Fatloss
Blueprint" along
with EODD for a few more days. And I'm giving a lucky few
the
chance to pick up the Supplement-Kit that comes with Radical
Fatloss
for almost 100 bucks off... the video and details are
here:

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/musclegain  <--
go

Sorry... EODD Readers Only.... so pick it up today.