2010 have you started?

Have you started your training and nutrition plan. Don't wait till next year, and believe me, next year comes fast. The sooner you start the better you feel. Feel free to ask me anything that has to do with positive thinking and living. Train your body, mind and soul daily. There's no short cuts and it's the only thing you're really in control of. Today is your day to make a change for the better.

METABOLISM

YOUR METABOLISM 101

The Hormone You Always Want More Of
Growth hormone (sometimes referred to as HGH, for "human growth hormone") is something we all want more of. It builds muscle, burns fat, helps you resist heart disease, and protects your bones — among many other health benefits. By increasing your muscle mass, growth hormone raises your resting metabolic rate and gives you more power for your workouts. It also helps you tap into your fat stores for fuel and discourages your fat cells from absorbing or holding on to any fat floating around in your bloodstream.

In addition to these amazing feats, growth hormone helps your liver synthesize glucose, and it promotes gluconeogenesis, a really cool process that allows your body to create carbs out of protein. This helps you lose fat faster while providing your brain and other tissues with the energy they need.

As with so many other beneficial hormones, production of growth hormone declines with age, and many things we do speed the decline:

1. We deprive ourselves of good-quality sleep. Growth hormone is released in adults in an average of five pulses throughout the day, the largest of which happens during deep sleep. Shortchange yourself on sleep and you'll shortchange yourself on growth hormone.

2. We eat too many low-quality carbs. Refined carbs, such as those in white bread and white rice, keep our blood sugar and insulin levels high, which suppresses the release of growth hormone. Protein, on the other hand, can facilitate the release of higher levels of growth hormone.

3. We don't exercise enough. When you don't exercise and your muscles become insulin-resistant, you increase your level of circulating insulin, which further suppresses growth hormone. We need to get off our butts and capitalize on this incredibly healthy hormone! One surefire way we can turn our bodies into growth hormone factories is with intense exercise. During intense exercise, and especially during interval training, growth hormone encourages the body to use fat as its fuel instead of glucose. Not only does this help you burn fat while you exercise, but it stabilizes your blood glucose level so that you have the energy to keep exercising.

Thanx

Edi,

I'm not really sending this message because I have a question
for you,
rather a
situation.  I am 6'1", 27 years old, and weight about 235 lbs.
Pretty much your
"average joe", I work 40 hrs a week sitting at a desk.
I do love my job, but it has
definitely taken its toll on my physique, along with my
self-esteem.
I don't think
I have taken my shirt off in public in about 10 years.
I have a pretty awful set of
family traits including diabetes, cholesterol,
and heart failure on both sides of my
family.  Needless to say, at this point, things are looking
pretty bleak for me
haha.

Anyway, my budget definitely does not have room
for a gym membership, or purchasing
any of the necessities to have one at home.  Your website
(which I found via a
YouTube video) shows a little promise however, and has
actually provided me with the
motivation to get this "ball rollin".  I just wanted to
say that I am now committed
to your work out plan, and this is a first for me.
I am bound and determined to
break the family gene's that seem to be creeping up on me,
and feel better about
myself.

Hopefully the next time I send a message I will be in
better shape, and have a
better attitude!

Here's to health. . .

T.J.

John Clarke

Edi Thank you for making this internet site it is
totally awesome. I feel so great
that I am Ispired to do more exercising. I don't
have any questions but I just want
to say thank you for helping me become stronger
and more confident. I have started
using the meal plans and I am also exercising at
my local gym now too in adition to
your exercise. I knwo that the econmy is tough
right now or atleast where I live and
I'm sure that most of your other clients appreciate
it too. Thank You Very Much!!!!!
John Clarke of Plano Texas

30bw - 47color

one can keep ones shape as time goes by--just take a little effort

47

This is your 47 year old trainer--get on it!-All of you can feel and look this strong

At - Home Body - Fat Test

Hi members--I have a little Test here for all of you--it works really well. So get on it and see where you stand.

Males: Step1. Taking Measurements
1.Height in inches_____
2.Hips in inches_______
3.Waist in inches______
4.Weight in pounds_____

Step 2. Determining Your % of Body fat
1.Multiply hips(inches)_____x1.4=_____minus 2 =_______(A)
2.Multiply waist(inches)____x0.72=_____minus 4 =______(B)
3.Add A plus B =________(C)
4.Multiply height(inches)______x0.61 = _______(D)
5.Subtract D from C,then subtract 10 more: C-D-10 =_______%

Your answer is your approximate body fat %, if you are a male.

Female. Step 1: Taking Measurements
1.Height in inches_____
2.Hips in inches_______
3.Waist in inches______
4.Weight in pounds_____

Step 2: Determining your % of Body fat

1.Multiply hips(inches)_____x1.4 =______minus 1 =______(A)
2.Multiply waist(inches)______x0.72 =________minus 2 =_______(B)
3.Add A plus B=_______(C)
4.Multiply height(inches)_______x0.61 =_______(D)
5.Subtract D from C, then subtract 10 more: C-D-10=_________%

Your answer is your approximate body fat %, if you are a female