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Tom Venuto: Burn the Fat, Feed the MuscleDetailed info on healthy nutrition, goal-setting and motivation, the basics of weight-training, and cardio for fat loss. If you could have just one volume on getting lean, this is it.  Ian King, Lou Schuler: Men's Health The Book of Muscle Terrific guide to weight training for both sexes. High-quality photos, innovative exercises as well as standard fare, good background in laymen's language.  Lou Schuler: The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess Tells women what they need to know about lifting weights: their workouts should be heavy and intense, just like a guy’s.  Barbara J. Rolls: The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan : Feel Full on Fewer Calories The science of satiety. This book teaches real-world portion control and how to make healthful, filling choices.  |
People are so confused about how many calories to eat in a fat-loss program. I don't blame them. Ridiculously low intakes are promoted everywhere they look—magazines, the latest "diet" books, The Biggest Loser, you name it. I have an online friend who I just discovered has been consuming 800 to 900 calories a day for fat [...] I've begun a new nutrition protocol that I'm really excited about. As some of you know, I have gotten excellent results in the past with a zig-zag involving three days at a caloric deficit, followed by one day at maintenance level. The new protocol is a different kind of zig-zag, whose purpose is lean muscle gain [...] If you know me through this blog, on dailyburn.com, or in the flesh, you know I’m all about research. I can’t buy a new sunscreen without investigating whether its claims can be trusted (thanks, cosmeticscop.com!) or a washing machine without knowing what Consumer Reports says about its frequency-of-repair record. I take the same approach to nutrition, [...] Can't believe the 50-day holiday challenge is about over. I've had a great time. The bike accident, ankle re-injury, and subsequent time without biking, rowing, walking, or cardio machines slowed my fat loss a bit, but it had the positive effect of making me more gung-ho about my strength training. For a couple of weeks, [...] Statistics: my scale weight is down two pounds and my bodyfat percentage is down 1.5 points. Translation: I have burned 2.6 pounds of fat and gained 10 ounces of muscle since I began this 50-day holiday fitness challenge. Not bad, although I would like to have torched a little more fat. But the muscle is a [...] This is day 44 for me in Tom Venuto's 50-day holiday fitness challenge. I probably won't post every day, but I thought I'd write about some of my experiences along the way. Two months ago I was lamenting the fact that once again I had gotten out of shape and regained some of the weight that I [...] Back in the 1980s I competed in two local bodybuilding contests. I didn't win either one, but both were successes for me because I was able to make the commitment to compete and show up on stage in my very best shape. During my pre-competition fat-stripping phase (or "diet," though I don't like that word) it [...] You don’t want to hear the story of how insane life has been. Readers will know that my mom died in the summer of 2008, and just about all of 2009 has been one stressful challenge after another. But I can’t complain. I have a job, a great husband, good friends, and good health. The fitness [...] Do you find yourself saying or thinking, "I want to lose weight"? In fact, what you want to lose is fat. But how do you know whether what you’re losing is fat or muscle? When calorie restriction (especially extreme calorie restriction) is your only weight-loss strategy, a good percentage of what you lose may [...] The January 2008 issue of the research journal Obesity included a fascinating article that documented the activity patterns of obese and lean women. I won’t summarize all the details because you can read the entire article online. In short, obese women sat for two and half hours more than lean women and stood for two hours [...] |
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