Thursday, 26 March 2009

Truth About Fat Burners!

Fat Burners, do they work and will they work for you?

With so many fat-burning products on the market and all offering the fastest results possible yet always seem to fail you, which do you choose from? Which are safe to use? Which are hype and which really work?

Many people will spend their hard earned cash on expensive fat burning products that are going to fall short of what they promise. Most fat burners or thermo system, metabolic booster are total crap and the ones that do work contain drugs such as ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin.

Which are all very powerful stimulants and YES they are drugs. These can be found in most if not all fat burning supplements on the market. So right about know you might be thinking yeah but not in the herbal form supplements. Yes in the herbal forms too.

What many supplement companies do is take the herbal forms of these stimulants and put then into the fat burner market their product as herbal but they are just as bad as the rest. Caffeine comes from a plant call guarana; ephedrine comes from a plant called ma huang and aspirin from white willow bark. Fat burners have a diuretic affect, which leads to loss of water, which can lead to dehydration, they also play on and raise your heart rate that’s why when taking then you will start to sweating sooner into your workouts.

Fat burners also suppress you apatite by interrupting the neuron transmitters in your brain, leaving you feeling less hungry which has a negative effect on you nutritional intake by missing meals and leading to the body storing fat.

Some fat burners do work BUT only in the short term NOT the long term that is why people who take them see some short-term results but then don’t see the long-term results, which they want, this is because fat burners are designed to raise your metabolism by 10% per day which is great if you are a fitness competitor or bodybuilder on a very low caloric diet getting ready for a show and need to shift those last few pounds of body fat.

However they are not necessary or going to work for the average person looking to drop 10, 20 or even 30 pound of body fat. The best way to lose that weight is through correct diet and exercise. Take your hard earned cash and invest in working with a personal trainer to raise you metabolism safely with no drugs or side effects that are going to be harmful to your heart, blood pressure, brain function etc.

Fat burners are here and they are here to stay so it is important that if you are going to use them you first know what you are taking and second how they will affect you. Please be aware of the fat burning supplements you are putting into your body and how it can affect you and realize they only have short term effects so don’t fall into the marketing trap.

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Today's Fat Loss Workout!

Today's killer workout:

16 T Push-ups
45 seconds Plank
45 seconds Mountain Climber

15 Single Leg Step-ups (each leg) onto a 24 inch box
12 Renegade Rows
18 DB Squats

45 seconds Easy Running
45 seconds Plank on ball
16 DB Curl and Press

18 DB Dead-lifts
18 Walking Lunges
45 Seconds Side Bridge with arm extended

Try it now!

Monday, 16 March 2009

OMG I'm totally crazy.

Well that's what I'm told

On Friday I put up some posters in the gym advertising my new promotion much to the dismay of my business manager, might I add.
She was very against it and told me doing such things was business suicide, I on the other hand thought it was a magic idea to get
gym members rocking a great work out at the end of the week to get them jacked up on energy for the weekend ahead.

I was hit with your crazy!

I quickly came back with so who doesn’t know that already laughed and exit right lol.

So into the gym I went armed with blutack and up they went and I have had a lot of interest in the promotion already!
If you haven’t seen them already check them out ASAP to make sure you get a place the booking form is on reception
and spaces are filling up fast.

GET READY FOR FRIDAY MADNESS!!!!

What is Friday Madness??

Friday Madness is a whole day of…..

FREE PERSONAL TRAINING by myself at Fitness First Crewe.

As of next Friday the 20th of March I will be doing Friday madness every month till the end of the year!

Check out the posters know at Fitness First Crewe, and put your name down for the best workout you will
do in march 2009!

mail me: ian@icfitness.net for more info

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Leg Destroying Heart Pounding Workout

Warm up: 5-7 mins on bike followed by dynamic leg stretching

• 25 Front Squats
• 45 Seconds Easy Running
• 25 Leg Extensions (on machine)
• 45 Seconds Quick Stepping (on a low box)
• 20 Lateral Lunges
• 45 Seconds Easy Running
• 25 Straight Legged Deadlifts

This circuit 5x then

5 mins hill sprints @ 20second intervals on treadmill