How to Maximize Your Metabolism

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com

You cut calories and you exercise. You do exactly what the articles say - Your calories out are greater than your calories in. You should be losing fat. But if you aren’t, perhaps you’re still not paying attention to an often forgotten factor of fat loss - your metabolism.

Your metabolism is a measure of how many calories you are burning each day. But did you know that the food, exercise, and lifestyle choices you make every day have a significant impact on your metabolism? For example, if you starve yourself (instead of following a sensible fat-loss eating plan) your metabolism will slow down. If your metabolism slows down, it means your calories out will be less. And that means no more fat loss, and possibly even continued fat gain.

So for every day that you continue to slow your metabolism with unhealthy lifestyle choices, you get further and further away from fat loss. To help, I’ve put together a list of the top 10 ways to maximize your metabolism, so that you’ll burn as many calories as possible each day so that you can finally lose the fat. For the exact workouts and nutrition plan to help you lose the maximum amount of fat in as little time as possible, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com

1. Don’t starve yourself! Cutting calories too much is one of the worst things you can do to your body. Starving yourself actually causes you to lose much more water weight and muscle than fat. Use fitday.com to find out your daily calorie intake.

2. Eat 6-8 small meals per day with an emphasis on lean proteins, fruits, and vegetables. You have to have a nutrition plan, so spend a couple hours on a day off preparing as much food as you can for the upcoming week.

3. Eat breakfast. You have to make this meal part of your daily metabolism-boosting plan. At the very least, eat a lean protein, drink some Green Tea, and consume a fiber-rich fruit to get your fat loss day started right.

4. Eat healthy fats. Sources of healthy fats included nuts, fish, olive oil, and flax oil. I consume 10 grams of fish oil per day. Replace all processed carbohydrates in your diet with almonds. For example, if you currently eat a small bag of pretzels as a mid-afternoon snack, eat almonds instead (eating the same number of total calories).

5. Eat high quality foods that will help you control your blood sugar levels, insulin levels, and energy levels. Insulin management will help you lose fat and prevent you form gaining fat. Controlling your hormone levels is the #1 neglected factor in fat loss programs.

6. Eat 1.14g of protein per pound of lean body mass. If you don’t know your lean body mass, then simply eat 1g of protein per pound of body weight. But if possible, stick to the lean body mass recommendation, as that eliminates excess fat mass when calculating protein needs.

7. Don’t drink alcohol. Alcohol intake can quickly add hundreds of calories and alcohol prevents fat burning. Alcohol intake can also reduce testosterone levels, a big no-no for men looking to get lean.

8. Drink Green Tea and water. While I don’t believe that either of these will increase your metabolism, I do believe that they help prevent decreases in metabolism. Not too mention, these are your 2 healthiest beverage options.

9. Stick to a consistent sleep schedule. Don’t stay up all night, and if possible, avoid working afternoon and overnight shifts. If you must work shift work, stick to the rest of these principles as strongly as possible.

10. Use the strength training with moderately heavy weights (that allow you to complete 8 perfect reps per set) and interval training for the most efficient and effective metabolism boosting workout.

If your metabolism has slowed down due to improper dieting or lifestyle, then follow these tips to help you get back on track to lose fat and gain muscle. Once you correct your metabolism, you will be on the road to losing the fat for good. Just in time for summer.


About the Author

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines and all over the Internet, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com

Comrades Marathon Runners - We Salute You.

I love working out and living a healthy lifestyle, but I will be honest, running (especially marathons) is not one of my favorite activities.

We are fortunate though to live almost on the route of the Comrades Marathon. So we took some time out yesterday to go and cheer the athletes who took part.

Well done to all those who took part!

Build A Lean, Athletic Physique In Just 3 Short Workouts A Week

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com

I went to the gym for one of my 45-minute workouts and quickly found myself surrounded by a bunch of weight belt wearing, orange juice carrying bodybuilders.
Not that there’s anything wrong with them….
… In fact, I got along with these guys perfectly alright.  The point is that our workouts couldn’t have been much more different.
You see, while the bodybuilders typically spent most of their 90-minute workouts sitting around in between sets, or drinking their big ol’ jugs of OJ, or even just chatting with one another, I spent my much shorter workout getting to work right away, and then making sure I didn’t slow down until I’d finished.
And the reason for this was simple...
… I just didn’t have a lot of free time to workout.
But just because I didn’t have 90 minutes a day to workout, didn’t mean I simply accepted mediocre results.
That’s because in half the time those bodybuilders were working out, I turned up the intensity and followed one of my favorite workouts from the Turbulence Training for Fat Loss Manual, TT 2K4.
With this 3 day-a-week workout in my arsenal, I was able to spend just 45 minutes in the gym. But that’s not even the best part!
That’s because TT 2K4 is designed in such a way that it burns fat long after you’ve left the gym.  So all you need to do is workout hard for just 45 minutes and you’ll then reap the benefits for up to 48 hours later.
Ain’t that great?
I realize many of you are just as busy as me and so we can’t afford to workout 90 minutes a day, 6 days a week. That’s why I designed Turbulence Training and the 2K4 workout program.
With a series of challenging bodyweight and dumbbell supersets, not to mention one muscle-pumping superset that even bodybuilders would love, TT 2K4 is the perfect program to get you maximum results in minimum time.


About the Author

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com

Home Exercise Routine Or Health Club

Making the selection about where you should exercise is an important help achieving your goals for
fitness. A lot of aspects will go into all of this resolution, and the entirety should be examined before you start proper exercise. After you have made
a decision on the place where you will do your exercise routine, you could proceed to deciding how you're going to exercise.

While you most likely know, proper exercise at your home has many
merits. The financial section is definitely one of the best advantages. Together with the gas prices being what they are today, it is quite visible that you'll
reduce your fuel expenses as well as wear and tear on
your vehicle, when working out in the comforts of your own home.

Subscriptions to some fitness centers can often be rather high priced
and may even involve other things that you don't need
such as child attention and / or swimming pools.

Keep in mind that working out at home might also
call for bit of a financial pledge. Even
though you could very well intend to enjoy running, it is  crucial for you to have good quality running shoes. All of this
statement applies to various types of gear that in fact
you may purchase to make use of in your own home. If you venture out to buy inferior equipment, you'll likely finish up getting hurt or getting annoyed since you wont be generating any kind of progress.

Besides monetary features, a home exercise routine or office workout may also help those who don't like to work out in public. In case you are worried about the way you
look in a workout outfit, it is very comforting to be aware of the fact that the only person who has to be with you whenever you exercise in your own home seems to be you. Furthermore, while you exercise in the comforts of your home, you don't necessarily need to bother about time in any way.

If you get motivated when you are with friends and family or people you recognize or know during the workout away from home, a gym may be a more suitable choice than training at your home. You can also meet completely new people at gym, or just help other people along if you prefer.

If you need other services, rather than simply weights and equipment, a fitness center may have just what you need.

In case you plan to swim a triathlon, you'll find the swimming pool at the health club to be just what you need as it is important for you to get ready. Swimming can also be an excellent
exercise for your whole body and doing cardio, as it will work muscles in the body that you most likely didn't even know you have.

All in all, the decision of following a home exercise routine or working out at the fitness center is definitely a choice you should make based on your ultimate goal as well as personal choice. The most important choice you'll need to make is to determine which kind of surroundings you want to maintain and the way you would like to attain the health and fitness goals right now.

Once you have given it some thought and considered benefits and drawbacks, you'll have no hassle
making the choice. Always keep on your mind that whenever you have made your decision, you can always change if you aren't happy with the decisions you made.

Good Workout Routines And Stress

Even though exercise may not be the most exciting
word in your vocabulary, it sure is a word with a
lot of benefits.  Participating in daily good workout routines
will not only make you healthier in general, but
it can also diminish the effects of stress on your
body as well.

How many times have you heard someone
say "the doctor says its stress related".  Often this is
 laughed off, concluding that doctors just
say that when they don't know the real answers or
diagnosis. The truth of the matter is that too
much stress will play a role in many diseases.

Following a good workout routine will help increase
 your immune system and decrease
your stress level as well. Movement
is the key word here.  Bending, stretching, reaching
and walking.  There's really no need to buy any
expensive equipment either, as you can implement
more movement into your daily routine and reap
the benefits.

If you like the idea of a home exercise routine, look at
Turbulence Training workouts. Click here to down load
your own free e-book with a sample Turbulence Training
fat burning workout.

As you go through your daily activities, make it
a point to walk a little farther, bend down and
pick something up without using a pick up stick
or moving the item towards you with your foot. 
While you are sitting, you should also do some
simple and quick stretches for your neck and
shoulders.


There are several different good workout routines that you
can do to help you eliminate the stress in
your life.  You can easily lose yourself and your troubles by
walking.  Even if it is just around the block,
walking can do wonders for your health as well
as stress.

If you have a lot of stress in your life, and you enjoy the company
 of people around you, you may want to consider a gym.  Working out
with a partner, then sitting in the sauna to relax is also a good way to
relieve tension.  If your gym has a pool, you
may find swimming to be very beneficial as well,
as it helps you to relax.

Do not tolerate stress in your life. The big question is
not whether you have stress in your life or not. We all have.
The question is what are you going to do about it and how are
you going to handle stress

I believe human beings were not created to be stressful, so we need to
get rid of it, and a good workout routine is an excellent and proven
way of doing just that






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You Would Like To Follow A Good Fat Loss Workout Routine, But You Also Have To Travel.

You are eager to start a good fat loss workout routine. The problem is you also have to travel.

So now you are worried that just as soon as you are nicely settled and start seeing results from a good workout routine, you have to leave.

This is exactly why you have never stuck to any good fat loss workout routine before. You can't do workouts while you travel.

This is where your Turbulence Training workouts come in. With Turbulence Training workouts you don't need any equipment. So if no gym facilities are available, you can still use body weight exercises.

Go here to download your free ebook - Top 10 Travel Secrets To Lose Fat - written by Craig Ballantyne.

Read in this book about planning, overcoming obstacles, eating habits, business dinner strategy, reward meals, hotel gym secrets, body weight cardio and much more. Follow Craig on some of his traveling trips, and see how you can maintain your fat loss workout routine even while traveling.

Below is an article also written by Craig showing some body weight exercises that you can do while traveling.

Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises

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...

a) Pick 3 lower body exercises

b) Pick 3 upper body exercises

c) Alternate between a lower and upper body exercise without rest, till you are done all 6 exercises

d) Rest a minute.

e) Repeat 2-3 more times until you are done 20 minutes

For example, this is a great circuit that doesn't need any equipment

1) Prisoner Squat (12 repetitions)
2) Elevated Pushups (8 reps per side)
3) Single-Leg Deadlift (10 reps per side)
4) Close-grip Pushups (As many reps as possible)
5) Jumping Jacks (30-60 reps)
6) Cross-Body Mountain Climber (12 reps per side)

Whew. That's pretty advanced...for a beginner, we'd slow it down like this and take some breaks between exercises...

1) Wall Squat (8 reps)
2) Kneeling Elevated Pushup (5 reps per side)
3) Lying 1-leg Hip Extension (8 reps per side)
4) Plank (30 second hold)
5) Jumping Jacks (5-10 reps)
6) Side Plank (15 second hold per side)

Safe travels, and of course, always check with your doctor before beginning a fat burning bodyweight circuit exercise program.

About the Author

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training for Fat Loss