The Vacation Diet: How To Maintain Your Weight While Traveling

Regardless of your goals, maintaining a steady diet is fairly easy when you’re in the comfort of your own home and regular routine.  However, when the summer rolls around or the boss sends you out for work, traveling can pose a major issue for any fitness enthusiasts diet.

When I mention diet in this sense, it does not imply a fat-loss diet.  I’m merely referring to our everyday choices regarding the cooked animal, fresh produce, and often processed goods we routinely consume.

While traveling in the past, my diet usually went from fairly decent to absolutely horrible in a matter of days.  This is what I’d call my “vacation diet.”  To completely lose ALL control was fairly common as my rigid guidelines and ideas regarding meal frequency and varying degrees of clean and unclean food were completely irrational and unsustainable.  However, I’ve since grown out of such a mindset.  Read my e-book to find out how I finally discovered the big picture and how I now push minutiae to the wayside. [Read more...]

How NOT To Get Six Pack Abs

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With all the articles on the internet and in magazines about how to get six pack abs, you surely know all the secrets by now.  I will spare you from reading another overdone, unedited and plagiarized article that you’ve likely come across.

As I see it, it’s my duty as a fitness author to contribute at least one remarkable pile of text to the world regarding my thoughts on the overly-searched string of keywords known as six pack abs.  So sit back, relax, and enjoy learning exactly how NOT to get six pack abs. [Read more...]

6 Meals A Day: Stoke The Metabolic Fire

If your goals are to be healthy, lose weight, or to build muscle, consuming 6 meals per day is the most optimal dietary approach.  Period.

Many fitness gurus, fitness experts, registered dietitians and even some medical doctors suggest the 6-meal-per-day diet.  If all these folks recommend such an approach, it must be the best and only way, right?  Many claim this boosts one’s metabolism and increases the burning of body fat.

In the fitness world, it’s fairly common for people to hold onto a belief or dogma without much thought as to why.  These beliefs are often slightly incorrect or just plain false.

Today I’d like to present you with some information, encourage you to look at it for yourself and then make your own decisions.  Make your own choices after you’ve looked at some research.

All this takes is the willingness to open your mind, think freely and consider other ideas and possibilities.  This is what I did over 2 years ago as I discuss in my article about meal frequency. [Read more...]

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