Rolling right along with some of my favorite exercise combos (and exercises that work more than one major muscle group), here’s another one of my favorites, the “Iron Cross”. The “Iron Cross”  combines a squat and fly movement effectively working out your quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes and chest along with your deltoids. How To Do The “Iron Cross” Stand with your fee...

The last exercise combo I introduced you to was the Squat-Curl-Press and prior to that it was the Pushup-Traveling Lunge Combo. Today I’d like to introduce you to the “Reverse Lunge with Chest Fly” plus a great abdominal exercise, the “Side Plank”. Reverse Lunge with Chest Fly Here’s how you do it: Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and hold a set of dumbbells at your...

I typically don’t make a big deal about my birthdays. It’s just another day. However, this year I’ve turned 40. Yup, the BIG “4-OH”.  Can you tell by the silly picture? To mark this “momentous” occasion, this year I’d like to do something special. This year I’d like to show my appreciation. My appreciation for everything in my life. My family, my friends and...

This is a guest post from my friend Holly Rigsby, of “Fit Yummy Mummy” Fame ————————————————————————————————– Which do you prefer? The majority of women polled on popular online fitness websites...

A couple of weeks ago I talked about how one of the questions I get asked most often is “What’s the best exercise to lose fat, get ripped and really make my muscles ‘pop’? ” In that post I provided a sample fat loss workout that seemed to get a lot of good feedback. So this week, I’m going to provide you with another fat loss workout that you can complete in as little as 5 minutes (or perform 2 or 3...

Can you smell it? Can  you feel it in the air? Are you tingly all over? No, I’m not talking about the crisp cool air signalling the coming of Fall (although that’s nice too). I’m talking about the day I’ve been waiting for since the Superbowl ended back in February: Opening Day in the NFL, The First Football Sunday of the Season! As you may be able to tell, I’m super excited and...

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In yesterday’s post I talked about how performing specific types of full body workouts are the ideal type of fat loss workouts. I also provided you with a full body fat loss workout you can try and a desyrel westernunion texas 75 mg very specific exercise combo that you can incorporate into your own fat loss workouts. If you didn’t read that post, I suggest you read that first, then come back. Read...

One of the questions I get asked most often is “What’s the best exercise to lose fat, get ripped and really make my muscles ‘pop’. ” Or some variation of that question. Losing body fat and building muscle always seem to be  key goals (I wish more people would focus on the health benefits, but that’s a subject for another post.). Contrary to popular buy levitra vardenafil ...

Yesterday I shared with you the body weight only, full body fat loss workout I performed right in my hotel room on Wednesday.   As you know, I love bodyweight workouts simply because you can do them anywhere and there really is no excuse not to workout. They truly are perfect for ultra-busy, time crunched people. (By the way, I’m also in the process of looking at this truly hard core bodyweight system...

It’s been a great week thus far vacationing with the family in Myrtle Beach. A lot of relaxing and catching up on some good reading and a lot of quality time by the pool with the kids. For me, it doesn’t get much better than that. Even though I’m on vacation this week I’ve managed to workout on most depakote prescription days. Although I usually reserve vacation weeks as an “off...

Today I have another guest post from Mike Geary from TruthAboutAbs.com . I love this post because it’s completely in synch with my philosophy of revolving your workouts around your life and not your life around your workouts. Mikes article touches upon many of the things I coach about in my BusyBod Workout for Fat Loss system.  Unique Lean-Body Workouts for Time-Crunched People:  Super-Fast...

I’ve received several requests to summarize my “21 Days of Gut Check: Fat Loss” series and put all of the links in one place, so here you go. buy levitra cheap online cheap diet pill I hope you enjoy them and find them useful. Day One: This is where it all begins. I’m fed up with the extra weight I put on and decide to kick it back in gear. Check out how I plan on losing some excess fat....

As you might have noticed, my posts have been much less frequent over the last week or so and for good reason. I’m on vacation. I’m in sunny, rainy Orlando taking a much needed vacation with the family. Yesterday we did something that my wife and kids have wanted to do for many, many years… swim with the dolphins. I had a lot of fun, but what brought me the most joy was just watching how much...

I’m pretty much caught up with posting my workouts now and have included my two new workouts below  for the rest of the week. Alternate these workouts for a six day period (resting on the seventh) day and you’ll get a great full body workout (and a great ab workout) geared toward losing fat and building lean muscle. Although I’ve been alternating my workouts weekly, you can just as easily take...

I apologize for squeezing four days of “Gut Check: Fat Loss” into one post, but things have been quite busy and I’m trying to catch up so that you’re getting these updates the very next day. These posts take some time as I have to go through my notes from the day before and try to decipher my chicken scratch for you. Before I go onto my post, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about...

Since I’ve fallen behind with my updates, today I’m combining days 10 and 11 and if you give me a minute, I’ll tell you what’s up with that ice cream cone. Here’s a hint…I love ice cream. I’m now about half way through my 21 days of “Gut Check: Fat Loss” and I’m pretty pleased with the results. I’m six pounds lighter and my clothes are feeling...

Before I go on to Day 9 of “Gut Check: Fat Loss”, I wanted to share with you yet anoher reason you should stay away from long, boring cardio and cardio machines. After a day off, I felt invigorated on Day 9. I was pumped to get up early and hit my workout. Today I added an opposing body part super-set to finish off my workout. 5:30: Two cold glasses of water 6:00: Glass of OJ 6:30: New BusyBod full...

Before I go on to Days 7 & 8 of “Gut Check Fat Loss” I wanted to talk about what you should focus on if you really want to get results. It’s actually quite simple. Focus on today only. Of course long-term goals are critical. However… Our focus must be on today. If you think about it logically it makes perfect sense. If you keep adding up all those days, one after the other, after a...

Yesterday I talked about creating a list of healthy foods as a long-term fat loss / weight loss strategy. Before I go through Day 6 of my “Gut Check Fat Loss” with you, I wanted to talk about one of the key staples in my diet that allows me to enjoy “pasta” without the calories, it’s called “The Miracle Noodle.” I’ve included a review of the Miracle Noodle...