Why excess abdominal fat is more deadly than you think
By Mike Geary
http://truthaboutabs.atozfitness.com

Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat? The first thing that most people think of is that their extra abdominal fat is simply ugly, is covering up their abs from being visible, and makes them self conscious about showing off their body.

However, what most people don’t realize is that excess abdominal fat in particular, is not only ugly, but is also a dangerous risk factor to your health. Scientific research has clearly determined that although it is unhealthy in general to have excess body fat throughout your body, it is also particularly dangerous to have excess abdominal fat.

There are two types of fat that you have in your abdominal area. The first type that covers up your abs from being visible is called subcutaneous fat and lies directly beneath the skin and on top of the abdominal muscles.

The second type of fat that you have in your abdominal area is called visceral fat, and that lies deeper in the abdomen beneath your muscle and surrounding your organs. Visceral fat also plays a role in giving certain men that "beer belly" appearance where their abdomen protrudes excessively but at the same time, also feels sort of hard if you push on it.

Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat in the abdominal area are serious health risk factors, but science has shown that having excessive visceral fat is even more dangerous than subcutaneous fat. Both of them greatly increase your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.

Part of the reason visceral fat is particularly dangerous is that it apparently releases more inflammatory molecules into your body on a consistent basis.

If you care about the quality of your life and your loved ones, reducing your abdominal fat should be one of your TOP priorities! There’s just no way around it. Besides, a side effect of finally getting rid of all of that excessive ugly abdominal fat is that your stomach will flatten out, and if you lose enough stomach fat, you will be able to visibly see those sexy six pack abs that everyone wants.

So what gets rid of extra abdominal fat? The first thing you must understand is that there is absolutely NO quick fix solution. There are no pills or supplements of any sort that will help you lose your abdominal fat faster. Also, none of the gimmicky ab rockers, rollers, or ab belts will help get rid of abdominal fat either. You can’t spot reduce your stomach fat by using any of these worthless contraptions. It simply doesn’t work that way.

The only solution to consistently lose your abdominal fat and keep it off for good is to combine a sound strategic nutritious diet full of unprocessed natural foods with a properly designed exercise program that stimulates the necessary hormonal and metabolic response within your body. Both your food intake as well as your training program are important if you are to get this right.

I’ve actually even seen a particular study that divided thousands of participants into a diet-only group and an exercise/diet group. While both groups in this study made good progress, the diet-only group lost significantly LESS abdominal fat than the diet & exercise combined group.

Now the important thing to realize is that just any old exercise program will not necessarily do the trick. The majority of people that attempt getting into a good exercise routine are NOT working out effectively enough to really stimulate the loss of stubborn abdominal fat. I see this everyday at the gym.

Most people will do your typical boring cardio routines, throw in a little outdated body-part style weight training, and pump away with some crunches and side bends, and think that they are doing something useful for reducing their abdominal fat. Then they become frustrated after weeks or months of no results and wonder where they went wrong.

Well, the good news is that I’ve spent over a decade researching this topic, analyzing the science, and applying it "in the trenches" with myself as well as thousands of my clients from all over the world to see what works to really stimulate abdominal fat loss.

The entire solution… all of the nutritional strategies, as well and training sequences, exercise combinations, and more have all been compiled in my Truth About Six Pack Abs Program.

Keep in mind that the point of this whole program is NOT abdominal exercises (that is only a very small portion of it). The main point of this program is showing you the absolute most effective strategies for losing your stubborn abdominal fat, so you can get rid of that dangerous health risk, as well as get a flatter more defined midsection.

If you follow the guidelines, you WILL lose your belly fat that has been plaguing you for years. This is not guesswork… it is a proven system that works time and time again for all of my clients on every corner of the globe that actually apply the information I teach. If you apply it, the results will come. It’s really that simple.

The only reason most people fail in their fitness goals is that they have good intentions at first to adopt a new lifestyle, yet after a few weeks or months, they abandon their good intentions and slip right back into their old bad habits that gave them the excess body fat in the first place.

I want to help you succeed in finally getting rid of that extra abdominal fat that is not only UGLY, but also DANGEROUS.

Check out the results that some of Mike’s readers from over 150 countries are getting using the Truth about Six Pack Abs program (Click on the testimonials tab )

Truth about 6-Pack Abs home page

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Lady Doc Gets Death Threats for Revealing TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret to General PublicBy Dr.Suzanne
http://snipurl.com/topfatlosssecrets

A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life!

A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss ever discovered — and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.

Her name is Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, and she’s marching to the beat of a different drum.

And no, nothing about her "secret" is difficult — nor does it require that you do something completely out of the ordinary or anything unnatural.

Instead, the Arizonian boasts proudly "…this is something that I caught onto just before 2002 when there was so much research and exploration going around concerning the human colon and digestive system working in harmony with nutritional absorption, and I started doing independent studies just to test things at first … but which I later expanded on after seeing some fantastic results."

This same woman medical practitioner went on to accurately determine a definitive correlation between harmful plague and parasitic infestations of the human bowel tract, and people suffering chronic obesity — and who despite intense diet and exercise appeared to be unable to lose any weight whatsoever.

Over the course of six years the Arizona doctor developed a number of natural treatments for the removal of these same harmful, even life-threatening plaques and rapidly reproducing digestive parasites — and when applied to even worse-case patients suffering extreme obesity (98% of which were in immediate danger of dying) she saw a 100% effectiveness and success rate.

She then borrowed from her research on the severely obese, and applied the same strategies on milder cases of overweight persons — only to find the same effectiveness and quality results as described above (although the individual weight loss per subject wasn’t nearly as much as those obese patients 100 lbs to 200 lbs or more overweight).

So powerful is her secret that she’s able to reverse diabetes, rid illness altogether in people suffering from cancer (linked directly to poor diet and overweight factors), as well as an elimination of an entire spectrum of serious and otherwise life-threatening diseases.

Nearly 100% of all her case subjects were told in the alternative by "conventional doctors" that they either had just months or years to live, or they would never live a life anything resembling remotely a "normal" existence — yet after applying Dr Suzanne’s treatments saw a complete contradiction to others doctors’ prognoses.

Again, nothing about her secret is unnatural or requires someone to do any major action or modification in their lives.

In fact, her entire treatment is based completely on built-into-nature ‘protection agents’ scattered throughout the world in the form of select herbs, extracts, and organic constituents, and which can be found in a variety of plants — but when combined in specific combinations and carefully chosen amounts make for a solution to what is perhaps the world’s worst ever plague: OBESITY (and the illnesses and diseases resulting from it — or at least severely aggravated or exacerbated by it).

Now to everyone else’s great gain, whether suffering from just a few extra pounds and inches, to those extremely fat and overweight, this brave, bold lady doctor is releasing to the general public her secret for forever destroying the tight unrelenting closed-fist of obesity’s stronghold over the now more than 40% of Americans labeled obese, and others worldwide.

But she’s not promising any of us for how long.

Some experts and sociologists suggest that in the bigger scheme of things, the world will never tolerate a discovery of such magnitude, any more than it would be realistic to expect a car that runs on water (even if very real) to ever become commercially available to the general public for day-to-day use.

One well-respected and famous diet & wellness author wrote years ago that if anyone ever "truly unlocked the keys to permanent fat loss, they may actually suffer the same fate as JFK."

It is currently available at:

   =>   http://snipurl.com/topfatlosssecrets

…so you may want to head on over there now and get it and before someone or "something" gets it forever yanked out of ever getting in YOUR hand at least.

It’s in a very easily readable format and is quickly and readily understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.

While you’re there, why not scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in rapid, massive weight loss and extremely improved and enhanced health, now made freely available to the rest of us?

I just got my hands on a review copy of Dr.Suzanne Gudakunst’s Top Secret Fat Loss Secrets.

If you want to check out her website and skip reading all the following go here

>> http://snipurl.com/topfatlossatoz <<

Now if you decide to read the rest of my review let me ask you something ?

Have any of you see an ad these last few days about a lady doctor that all other doctors would like to shut up for good?

Yes, as in kill, lol, but hopefully not literally!

The reason is that she wants to tell everyone why they have such a hard time losing weight.

Why that lower pooch never seems to want to go away.

Why even with low bodyfat, some still feel and look bloated.

Of course, diet doctors and those selling expensive pills and supplements don’t want the general public to know how to fix that problem themselves, because …

What would they get their income from then!?

Bankruptcy lurks!

Well, probably not. There are still a lot of people who prefer trying that "quick fix" remedy or running to a doctor because it makes it look like they are really making an effort with this overweight issue they have; when they’re really not doing anything at all.

So these people, supplement sellers and doctors, don’t really have anything to fear in my humble opinion.

Also, what this lady doctor is saying … would you believe I heard - or read - the same things in 1987?

Back then, it was wrapped in a hard-copy book and it was what you got for the price.

Period.

However, it did help me get the excess weight off, and in fact … 8 pounds more than I had bargained for!

This time, the book is an e-book.

And yes, by a different person.

The message is pretty much still the same, but there are some scary revelations and some pretty neat links to video clips and pictures really dotting the i’s of what she’s telling us.

Also a few links to a few self-tests that are not only fast and simple to do, but pretty darned accurate too!

>> http://snipurl.com/topfatlossatoz <<

I’ve been eating clean and exercising for years now, I’m pretty much in tune with what my body tells me, so when I took these tests, I could see that they were accurate as per what my body was already telling me.

This is why I can tell you that these tests are good enough for you to act upon once you’ve taken them, ok? No "hype" here, just some fun little tests that actually open your eyes.

Warning:  some of the pictures and videos are really graphic and pretty gross; however, it sometimes takes a real shock to make us react and actually act upon good information.

I know. We’ve been giving you a lot of new things lately. Jeff Anderson’s Combat the Fat, TheMuscleHead’s complete program  among others, and now this.

I honestly don’t want you to feel overwhelmed or confused, or thinking "what the h.. should I get out of all these?" because they are such totally different programs and systems … yet I know you are getting confused, overwhelmed, a little fed up even maybe?

I hope not, because all we really want to do is help YOU find the way out of the overweight, over fat rut and back to a healthy, lean body that nature intended you to have!

This is pretty hefty stuff.

I mean … pictures of people picking their poop out of the toilet to show how efficient this system is in ridding them of the excesses that are blocking their insides.

Videos of parasitic organisms living inside a human body … not what you want to see when you’re wolfing down a sandwich over your computer!

But hey, it wakes you up, makes you pay attention, take action.

You clean up your nutrition and get your back side off the couch, and start taking responsibility for your own life, your own body!

Honestly?

No one has ever put this information out in this manner (as far as I know) and in a language accessible to people like you and me.

Maybe this is the kick in the butt that you need?

I know it surprised me!, and I’ve already read something very similar (but less graphic).

At least, check out her information page here –> http://snipurl.com/topfatlossatoz

If that doesn’t peak your curiosity and interest, I’d be surprised.

I know one thing: this has made me determined to be even healthier and cleaner than before, because frankly … yuck!

And … it’s perfectly compatible with the Every Other Day Diet  that I am not abandoning, and the weight training program of my choice.

It’s really a terrific addition to the extensive knowledge we gain on the human body by reading the books from these natural bodybuilders who do us all the great service of sharing in what they know works for those who need and want to burn excess bodyfat and build lean muscles!

So don’t delay and check out Dr. Suzanne’s website and get your body cleaned out this weekend.

Sarah, CPT,

www.trainwithsarah.com
www.atozfitness.com
www.healthylivesforyou.com

Lewis
www.atozfitness.com
www.atoztoptrainers.com

"Enough Already!"
Stop Coming Up With ‘New’ Weight Loss Programs…

How an abundance of ‘great weight loss ideas’ almost ruined my life and how to stop Information Overload from ruining yours!

Great weight loss techniques are completely worthless.

That’s a true statement 99.7% of the time.

Great weight loss techniques are a scam on oneself.

That’s also a true statement 99.7% of the time.

Great weight loss techniques NEVER make you thin, lean, healthy, or sexy!

Also a true statement 99.7% of the time.

Great weight loss techniques waste your time, and get you really frustrated..

Again, a true statement 99.7% of the time.

Great weight loss techniques almost ruined my life and my business.

I stopped it - As soon as I saw this horrifying trend in the industry years ago, I stopped testing our new technique after new technique on my clients.

You might think that makes me sound like a quitter - but let me explain how this simple ’step back’ allowed my clients to all take 10 steps forward towards their goals.

I define Information Overload as: A condition whereby weight loss techniques come to you in such abundance that you have trouble keeping up with all of them. 

When you turn on the television you see them, when you listen to the radio you hear about them, when you enter a store you see signs for them, and they’re all "new", and they all proclaim to have finally found a revolutionary combination of exercises, or diets, or nutrients, or some other new gadget that promises you the body of a model or of a bodybuilder if you just buy one bottle of pills or one new system, etc, etc, etc…

For 15 years, my staff and I tested all the new products we came across, trying to determine what worked and what didn’t.

When we found a technique that worked, we tested it and tested it and tested it again to make sure that it worked every time it was used by someone.

But there was one common denominator - everything that worked, everything that was actually getting people great results, was already known to man.

Not many of the "new" techniques were actually working.

Every few days. Another technique came across my desk that was supposed to make people thin and healthy. It was amazing.

People trying to lose weight were caught up on Information Overload. They were literally paralyzed because they had too much information. they literally had no idea how or where to get started, and when they did start, they changed direction every time they came across another ‘miracle weight loss technique’.

It’s a vicious cycle that continues today.

Does any of this sound familiar?

To many, you know this scenario all to well. All to well.

Having loads of information, at first, is thought to be a good thing by most. Years later, when you’ve done nothing you realize this fact…

Information Overload is an enemy. One that if not controlled will hold hostage your goals and dreams.

There’s only one way out.

Decide on 1 tried and true weight loss program that ‘does it’ for you.

And open fire on the enemy with your only weapon.

Take Action.

Massive action.

It’s the step that changed my life and the lives of my clients around the world.

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Some of you are asking, "Where did Charles find the information to help him finally take control this life-destroying monster and reach his goals".

Scroll down. It’s in the PS of this email.

Your Friend!
Christopher Guerriero

P.S. Charles put all other program aside, he stopped listening to everyone in the gym who willingly wanted to share their ’secrets’ with him, and he quickly changed the channels on the radio and television every time another unsubstantiated weight loss program was being advertised that would just add to his Information Overload. Then he picked up a copy of the Living Health Weight Loss Audio and listened over and over again to 3 deceptively simple techniques that helped him clear his mind of all the garbage, and start getting real, healthy, fast results.

It’s the ONLY program like it on the market. Fact. Learn More Now

Secret Ab Exercises you Would Never Have Guessed
By Mike Geary

Instead of the normal abdominal training routines that we see so often using situps, leg lifts, crunches, etc… I try to give my readers better options for fat-blasting high intensity workouts that train their entire body while also training their abdominals hard. This serves up better results as you stimulate your metabolism to a much higher degree than just using typical ab exercises.

Grab a free fat loss special report at Fat Loss Workouts that Burn Belly Fat Fast

For more info about losing stomach fat, see why you’ve struggled at How to Get Rid of Your Stomach Fat Fast

Learn why it takes more than ab exercises to get 6 pack abs at Burn Stomach Fat without Abdominal Exercises

Just got this in from Craig Ballantyne and it is great for anyone starting to get discouraged over lack of results three weeks in to the new year. Don;t forget I republish with permission only the best of the web.

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Hi Lewis,

Here we are, 3 weeks into January, and there are lots of men and women thinking about quitting their fat loss programs. In fact, some of them may have abandoned them already…often only days before the results were about to appear in the mirror and on the scale.

I realize we are long past the first week of the year when everyone is "gung-ho" about diet and exercise, and I’m very worried some of you might be back to your old bad habits or are frustrated and ready to pack it in.

Why?

Because maybe you just haven’t had the results you expected, right?

You’ve strayed from the diet plan a little more often than you should have, you missed a couple of workouts because you got sick, or the kids were sick. Or you worked late. Or it was too cold to go to the gym. Or maybe it is closed today for the Martin Luther King holiday. Yes, those are all excuses we make from time to time.

But don’t give up. Don’t quit!

And there’s no better day to pass along that message than today, as many states in the USA are honoring Martin Luther King. There was a man who did not quit.

So I hope he can serve as an inspiration to you not only in how to treat others, but also how to persevere in hard times in order to reach all of your goals, including your burning desire to lose fat and finally change your body.

Don’t let this be like other years, where your good intentions were gone before you had a chance to reap the benefits of eating right and doing the short TT workouts.

Don’t give in because you lost 3 pounds in week 1 and nothing since.

Don’t quit just because everyone else in the gym is dropping out. 

Don’t stop even if you ate too much last week, because you can still get back on track today!

Whatever you do, don’t quit! 

You owe it to yourself, your spouse, your kids, your co-workers, and everyone else who is depending on you to be the healthy role model in their lives.

And if you still need to get started, use the Turbulence Training for Fat Loss program:

==> http://www.turbulencetraining.com

You can still enter the TT Transformation Contest if you get your photos up in the member’s area today.

Forget about quitting and focus on re-starting. You have the rest of your life to be lean and fit, don’t give up now.

Stay strong,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training 

PS - The last day to enter the Transformation is today, Monday, January 21, 2008…

Simply get started with Turbulence Training, and start posting your photos and stats in the TT Transformation Forum. When you get TT, you’ll be given a link to a 3-month bonus TT membership, and you’ll find the Transformation Forum there. 

Click here to get started…

==> http://www.turbulencetraining.com

"I have been in love with Turbulence Training ever since I started.

I am 6′3", 28/M and my starting weight/body fat% was 208 pounds and 18.4% body fat. After 22 weeks of TT, I am now down to 190 lbs and 10.8% body fat."

Nick Walters, New York, NY
 

"I’ve done just about everything from Turbo Jam, P90X, to trying to piece together my own workout, but didn’t get the results I’ve seen with Turbulence Training."

Andrea Dunham 

"Been using TT 4 years, love the newsletters. I use the 2K3 all the time, started off with the original ages ago. I lost 35 pounds in around 2 years & i’m 38 years old!"

Michael Walker

Click here to get started…

==> http://www.turbulencetraining.com

The Musclehead
Reviewed by AtoZfitness PT Sarah Hougen

We were approached last week, by "The Musclehead", a fitness-guy who wants to be anonymous! Wow, now that’s a first. So far, everyone has had their name in bold letters, pictures, bios, but here is a man from Australia who wants to be able to go to the local shops and not be recognized. Fair enough, after all, it’s the program, the package deals, that everyone really wants, right?

I looked at what he had to offer, figuring it would be as usual, an e-book, maybe an audio track, a bonus or two … surprise! The Musclehead is offering his clients a vast array of products to help them on their journey to a lean and fit body. I started by browsing through the list of downloadable files and I was equally impressed with each one.

The day I did this, Friday in fact, I had quite a few things on my agenda, and was just going to have a quick look at the actual e-book. Quick look? I read the 121 pages in one sitting, I just couldn’t click away from it. Now this is not to say that there is anything revolutionarily new in this book, but the way it is written, the angles of attack to each subject, is really well done and very complete. You aren’t lost in a jungle of mumbo-jumbo taken from a university course (not that this isn’t understandable, but you need more time to digest that kind of language), it’s simple, straightforward, everyday language that you grasp from the word go.

Goal setting, nutrition, weight training, it’s all there. Cardio? It’s mentioned too, but not emphasized. Yayy !!

Well sure, if you are one of those who love doing cardio, no one will stop you; it’s just not the main part of this program.

So what do you get from The Musclehead? For $77.00  out, you will get in:

8 smaller e-books, on 6-pack abs, a check-list document, how to make it through college without adding fat, exercises, recipes, and even a report on steroids, a workout book, and a supplement black book.

1 main e-book on how to obtain a Godlike Body - and who doesn’t want to have that?

There is also an audio book (you can listen to it in the car or on your MP3 on your way to work or class) and a video series. To top it off, he includes a software program with nutrition, exercise, a place for before-during-after pics and a few other features (it still has a little crash-issue, but is in the process of getting fixed, and I can’t wait to see what else it can do!) as well as a separate program to specifically design your own, personal workout!   

Check it out >>> http://snipurl.com/muscleheadatoz

How many other programs have you come across that offers such a wide and complete variety of products, and actually gives you everything in one? No need to go looking for a nutrition tracker software by browsing the Net, nor searching high and wide for how to perform the exercises; there aren’t a lot of fancy moves, it’s back to basics with the exercises the "old timers" used and got success with! Everything can be done from a home-based gym (not talking fancy equipment all-in-one home-gyms here, but barbells and dumbbells and a bench) as well as from a commercial gym.

With the software, I was able to design my workout program easily (and everyone knows by now that I am not happy with computers, and even less with new programs I have to figure out before being able to use them), no learning curve on this one!

If you are a total beginner to the fitness scene, if you are an intermediate-level trainee, or even if you have trained and been serious about your nutrition for years, this package deal is great. You will learn - or get a refresher course - pretty much everything you need to know, somewhat past the basics, all in a simple and easy-to-understand program and package of documents, e-books, audio, video and software. There is no "upgrade" making it more expensive like you will find with certain other programs, this one is a clear and cut case of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) and pretty much also of KISS (keep it simple stupid).

Of course, some of the documents are just one page, others are much longer, but the full package gives you all the information you need to get started, progress, and remind yourself of the basics.

The AtoZ Fitness conclusion is that this is really a good deal. 

>> http://snipurl.com/muscleheadatoz

 You owe it to yourself to at least check it out!

Sarah, CPT
www.trainwithsarah.com