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How to Get Rid of Man Boobs FOREVER…by Josh Schlottman

A big question I’ve been surprised to get lately is how to get rid of man boobs and today I want to shed some light on why guys get the dreaded man boobs and what they can do to get rid of them for good.  Man boobs are probably one of the most unattractive things that guys can have on their bodies and if they’re trying to get a date, it’s not going to make things any easier.

In some ways they’re doing things that only make their man boobs grow and doing workouts that aren’t going to do a damn thing to get rid of them.  If you’re having a hard time getting things going take a look at my Xtreme Fat Loss Diet Review but hopefully after reading this you guys will have a realistic battle plan to take down your man boobs.

Ok, so the obvious reason guys have man boobs is because they’re overweight and tend to hold a lot of fat into their breast area.  And that’s the simple answer but it goes a lot deeper than that.  Guys can have man boobs from having too much estrogen in their bodies (and girls who have too much also hold a lot of weight in their breasts, hips and thighs).

The HUGE problem is that most guys who have higher levels of estrogen don’t even know it.  Unless you prefer going to nail salon over watching the Super Bowl…

The biggest enemy you’re going to have to watch out for is soy.  Soy and all of it’s by-products are laced with phytoestrogens which will obviously want to dominate our man-boobs annihilator hormone, testosterone.  Some people will argue that guys have enough testosterone to safely combat the estrogens found in soy and other foods, but I totally disagree with this.  Because the last thing I’m going to do is drink soy milk when doctors recommend it for menopausal women to increase their estrogen levels.  Taking in soy is great for older females but not for guys who DON’T want man boobs. (more…)

Ripped 6 Pack Abs Workout in 4 Minutes…by Josh Schlottman

By popular demand I’m back with the 4 minute abs workout.  Doing this baby has helped me get my 6 pack abs and it’s a crazy intense workout.  Getting a great set of abs is something that everybody and their mothers want but they always come hard earned.

To be perfectly frank, to get 6 pack abs you’ll need to get a consistent workout program as well as an awesome diet.  And diet is going to make up 80% of your results, and you can never out-train a bad diet.

That stuff aside, this 4 minute abs workout will definitely get your abs ripped 100x faster than you would doing 1000 sit-ups.  But all things come with a price and this workout program is going to be pretty darn intense.  The big key with training your abs to get a ripped 6 pack is to not have any rest time between exercises.

When you do this the abs will obviously train a lot harder and therefore they’ll build up more lactic acid and really shred your abs.  If you’re looking for more fast ways to lose belly fat be sure to check out my last blog post with 50 of my favorite strategies.

I personally like to throw in this workout after an intense total body program and finish off with my abs blast.  This way my heart rate is already elevated and my body is rapidly burning the fat stores in my body for energy, and once I start targeting my ab muscles with this workout, it’s ON like Donkey Kong.

And the burning sensation you feel when your pumping your muscles is the lactic acid that’s building up in your body.  The longer you can tolerate the pain the better results you’re going to be able to get.  So if you can train your abs and take the burning sensation, then you’ll get far more results than those who give up once they feel some pain.

That’s when the “crazy” part of the workout comes in and if you can imagine all the pain you’ll have to go through to get ripped 6 pack abs, then you’ll know whether it’ll be worth it or not.  And to me that’s the great part of it. (more…)

50 Fast Ways to Lose Belly Fat…by Josh Schlottman

I remember taking my shirt off and looking down at my stomach and just praying to the heavens that I had a lean 6-pack of muscle.  But then reality thunked me on the head and I told me to wake up and smell the coffee.  I finally hit a point where I didn’t want to have a chubby gut anymore and I desperately wanted to find some fast ways to lose belly fat.  I sat my big butt down and decided to write out a plan to get rid of my belly fat.  I started working out and doing the Carb Cycling Diet for Fast Fat Loss.

There wasn’t any miracle cure and magic infomercial pill that would save the day and give me my lean body.  I had to work my butt off for 30 days and use all the will power I had.  But after that 30 days of discipline I found that I had built the good habits to keep me going with my fat loss journey.  And this was KEY for my success and getting ripped fast.

Here are 50 of the fast ways to lose belly fat that I used to get in the best shape of my life.

1.  Drink a full glass of cool water first thing in the morning.

2.  Always have a high protein breakfast and NEVER EVER skip breakfast.

3.  Get a full 8 hours of sleep every night.

4.  Dropped the long boring cardio and started doing metabolic resistance training.

5.  Stopped hanging out with my fat and lazy friends who would only eat fast food and drink booze all the time.  I’m over living the Jersey Shore life!

6.  Stopped eating so many carbs later in the day, especially in the last two meals of the day. (more…)

TRX Suspension Trainer Review…by Josh Schlottman

So I had been personal training for about a year now, I was still in college and wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with my life.  I was doing the “old school” style of training and by that I mean I was going through the Muscle and Fitness magazines and pulling out all the Arnold Schwarzenegger and bodybuilding workouts.  I only wish I knew then what I know now and had gotten a TRX Suspension Trainer when I first started training.

I only initially planned to do personal training on the side while I got my degree and literally had to be TALKED into going to this fitness convention called IDEA.  But after I plunked down the $300 or so bucks to go and traveled down to southern California, I had an awakening.  I saw this yellow and black thing that people where using to do all this crazy bodyweight suspension training stuff with.

At first I didn’t even know how to wrap my head around it, I was used to pounding out heavy weights with barbells and machines…this sounded like it was some new form of pilates or something.  Which was in NO WAY up my alley. (more…)

So let’s do a flash back to about 5 years ago.  I’m studying to take my personal training exam and I come across a section that completely dumbfounded me. It was the fat burning zone.

The book, which was written by prestigious doctors and that such, said that to optimally burn fat you want to train the in the “fat burning zone” which is about 60-65% your maximum heart rate.  And after I read this I was like “what the frick?”

And I even remember seeing the little signs on the cardio equipment at the gym that had the same thing on them — I was confused if this was real or a fat burning zone myth?

Because when I train at only 65% of my maximum heart rate, I’ll BARELY be sweating and then when they tell me that when I work my butt off (getting up to 90% my maximum heart rate) I’m not burning as much fat?  Hogwash!

So I wanted to dig a little deeper and find out what REALLY is going on with this fat burning heart rate zone.  It turns out that it’s completely true…with a HUGE BUT.  The “but” is that even though you are burning more calories from fat as a percentage at that heart rate zone you’re actually not burning nearly as many overall calories that you would be from doing higher intensity workouts, and therefore you’ll burn more calories from fat. (more…)