7 Reasons Your Fat Loss Diet Isn’t Working

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As the summer approaches, the hottest topic on the lips of every physique-conscious individual is, without a doubt, fat loss.

Dieting down for the summer months is humdrum for those who wish to reveal their six-pack abs and look great in their bathing suit.  Just the other day as I was training, I overheard some chatter amongst a few of my peers about their fat loss efforts, their routines and how “slow” their fat loss attempts were going.  As a result of my nosy eavesdropping I inferred as to why they were failing miserably.

After their conversation was over, here are a few ideas I would have liked to run by them.

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The Law of Diminishing Returns

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The law of diminishing returns, put simply is an economic law that states if one aspect of production is kicked up a notch while everything else remains static or constant, the returns will eventually decrease after a certain point.  Thus, sometimes doing more work or giving more effort will yield a negative result as opposed to a positive one.

Since I’m not very well versed in economics, that’s about all you’ll be hearing from me on this topic, however if you’re interested in that type of thing, I’d recommend checking out MD’s blog, studenomics. [Read more...]

The Ultimate Holiday Fat Loss Exercises

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In the realm of health and fitness, I’m positively certain you’ve come across many resources suggesting you do a particular exercise to produce the fat loss results you’re so desperate for.  Now this is all fine and dandy, but the ideology behind these recommendations is mostly wrong.

The sheer truth is that a specific fat loss exercise is not the sole reason you experience fat loss.  Does it play a part?  Does exercise help create a bigger deficit?  Sure.  However, as you’ve read many times here, the caloric deficit is the sole cause of your weight loss, not the particular exercise selection.

In lieu of the Holiday’s, I thought I’d share some non-traditional exercises that will be of utmost value on your path to fat loss. [Read more...]

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