To help metabolize fat from the body it is important to eat the right amount of essential fat. Here are some of the best fat burning foods.
* Eggs
* Olive Oil
* Flaxseed Oil
* Avocados
* Raw Milk / Cream
* Raw Cheese
* Fish
* Lean Meats
* Broccoli
* Green Leafy Vegetables
* Red / Green / Yellow Peppers
tags: fat metabolism, nutrition, daryl conant, vince gironda, ron kosloff, boston bruins, redsox
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
You Have To Love It
To be successful at staying committed to exercise, you have to love it. People who dabble with fitness programs and feel that exercising is more drudgery than fun often times never see results. It takes passion and discipline to succeed in fitness.
Exercise needs to be an extension to your existence. Meaning that it becomes as important to you as eating. If you are only exercising to resolve some emotional shift in consciousness, then you are destined to fail. Exercising for the sole purpose of trying to "lose weight" is the wrong approach. Exercising to improve the overall functioning of the internal organs should be the main factor. Improving the internal organs will ultimately influence the improvement of entire body. A residual effect of healthy organs is fat loss. People gain fat because there is an imbalance within their systems. Once the problem is addressed and remedied then the body can begin to function properly and return to its original set point. However, how close to the set point you get also depends on how much inflammatory damage you have done within the systems of the body. The greater the inflammatory damage present can reduce the functions of the systems. A reduction in the output of the systems will limit how much hormone is released, how much muscle can be activated, and how much fat can burn metabolized. That is why it is essential to stay on a regular exercise program. Sticking to a regular habit will promote greater cellular output while reducing inflammatory damage. Eating the right foods at the right time throughout the day is also necessary to keep the systems operating effectively. When you have established a good habit with exercise and you are eating healthy, then the benefits are bountiful. Once you start seeing and feeling the results of your hard earned discipline, you will be hooked-- and you will love it.
You must find the motivational spark that will ignite your enthusiasm.
tags: daryl conant, ron kosloff, vince gironda, tornados, red sox, bruins,
Exercise needs to be an extension to your existence. Meaning that it becomes as important to you as eating. If you are only exercising to resolve some emotional shift in consciousness, then you are destined to fail. Exercising for the sole purpose of trying to "lose weight" is the wrong approach. Exercising to improve the overall functioning of the internal organs should be the main factor. Improving the internal organs will ultimately influence the improvement of entire body. A residual effect of healthy organs is fat loss. People gain fat because there is an imbalance within their systems. Once the problem is addressed and remedied then the body can begin to function properly and return to its original set point. However, how close to the set point you get also depends on how much inflammatory damage you have done within the systems of the body. The greater the inflammatory damage present can reduce the functions of the systems. A reduction in the output of the systems will limit how much hormone is released, how much muscle can be activated, and how much fat can burn metabolized. That is why it is essential to stay on a regular exercise program. Sticking to a regular habit will promote greater cellular output while reducing inflammatory damage. Eating the right foods at the right time throughout the day is also necessary to keep the systems operating effectively. When you have established a good habit with exercise and you are eating healthy, then the benefits are bountiful. Once you start seeing and feeling the results of your hard earned discipline, you will be hooked-- and you will love it.
You must find the motivational spark that will ignite your enthusiasm.
tags: daryl conant, ron kosloff, vince gironda, tornados, red sox, bruins,
Monday, May 23, 2011
Best Not To Overtrain
Overtraining is very common when it comes to exercise. We are taught that more is better. This is not true. If you perform too many reps and sets of an exercise the muscle cell will turn off. You could be feeling good and working through the sets, then all of a sudden the muscle group that you are working gets cold and loses the "pumped" feeling. Once this feeling occurs it is time to stop the exercise. What is happening is the blood is being cleared out by stress chemicals, forcing the muscle cells to shutdown. This is a way to protect the tissue from further damage. The motor units are overstimulated-- overtonis.
There is a fine line between proper training and overtraining. One big mistake is when an over zealot lifter keeps adding exercises, reps and sets to their routine. They might be feeling super energized on monday and add a lot more intensity to the routine. They end up working out for 2-3 hours. They continue this pattern throughout the week. By the end of the week they are rundown, exhausted and have trouble maintaining a pump. This will eventually result in a chronic fatigued state. The muscles will appear stringy and flat. Appetite will lessen and dysentery may develop.
It is important to know when to stop exercising when you achieve the pump. Do not continue lifting even if you feel like you could do a few more reps and sets. It is better to leave the gym pumped up and full of an endorphin rush.
tags: daryl conant, ron kosloff, vince gironda, overtraining, diet EARTH, InVINCEable, Buff DADDY
There is a fine line between proper training and overtraining. One big mistake is when an over zealot lifter keeps adding exercises, reps and sets to their routine. They might be feeling super energized on monday and add a lot more intensity to the routine. They end up working out for 2-3 hours. They continue this pattern throughout the week. By the end of the week they are rundown, exhausted and have trouble maintaining a pump. This will eventually result in a chronic fatigued state. The muscles will appear stringy and flat. Appetite will lessen and dysentery may develop.
It is important to know when to stop exercising when you achieve the pump. Do not continue lifting even if you feel like you could do a few more reps and sets. It is better to leave the gym pumped up and full of an endorphin rush.
tags: daryl conant, ron kosloff, vince gironda, overtraining, diet EARTH, InVINCEable, Buff DADDY
Thursday, May 19, 2011
ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE.
FOLKS ARE WE REALLY A FREE NATION???? I mean you have got to be kidding me. Here is the most absurd governmental bullshit I have ever read about natural food.
Rather than keeping the illegal aliens from crossing the borders, or stopping terrorists from blowing stuff up, or keeping the drunk drivers off the roads, or cutting down the drugs in this country, the feds are more concerned with stopping a hard working natural AMISH farm from delivering raw milk across the pennsylvania line. This is what America is turning into folks. It is an absolute shame. I predict that by the year 2020 our natural food sources will be gone forever and we will all be dependent on processed, mutated, preservative ridden, poisoned, chemically enhanced food. I am very upset about this.
The FDA allows poison factories (dunkin donuts, McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Arby's, Taco Bell, etc.) to sell their products to millions of Americans a year and this IS NOT A CRIME??? For the record more people (millions) have gotten sick, developed cancer, and have died from coronary heart disease from eating from fast food places. Only a hand full of people over the past 100 years have developed a bacterial related disease from drinking raw milk. Yet, the FDA approves the poisoning of food from food companies and fast food establishments, and that is o.k..
I wrote "diet EARTH" for this reason. The amount of poison that is in our food supply is amazing to me. I went to the grocery store the other day and I found only 30 foods that were consumable. Consumable meaning, without additives, preservatives, synthetic chemicals, bleach, enhanced color agents. I only came up with 30 foods. I imagine that these 30 foods will also be extinct in the near future as well.
Here is how it works folks.
The government controls food companies. The food companies have to put poisons in the food to make it last longer. The food needs to last longer because the government has to figure a way to feed the masses of an over populated country. An over populated country without enough food would be disastrous and would result in a third world situation. A third world condition would mean no money for the government. No money would mean America would be vulnerable to other countries.
To stop this from happening the government has to control the masses. Processed food is the best way to keep food lasting longer, regardless if it is valueless and makes people sick. But wait, the government is also in bed with the drug companies. Phew! I was worried that there wasn't anything that could be done with all the people getting sick and dying from the poisons that are in the food supply. Now the government can allow the administration of drugs to help save its people. That is just dandy! I feel better knowing that I can get sick from eating all the processed synthetic crap that the food companies are producing, and can take drugs to regulate my failing heart, lungs, brain, liver, kidneys, and digestive tract. That is awesome! I wish I could give the government a big hug and thank them for being so considerate for my health. I am so happy that we don't have to eat healthy, organic natural food ladened with active enzymes and useable nutrients anymore. I love eating fake, plastic food that has about as much nutrient value as the dog crap that is on the bottom of my shoe. Thank you Uncle Sam you rock!!!
I know many people don't really care about their health or the natural food supply, but I have a tremendous passion for fighting for our rights as human beings to be able to eat organic, raw natural food the way God intended. It is an absolute shame that our freaking government is killing its own people. Obesity in this country is the worst it has ever been. The FDA is more concerned about arresting an Amish man for delivering milk than trying to arrest all the bastards that are pumping Americans up with drugs and poisons. THAT IS AWESOME!!! Way to go FDA-- I raise up my dunkin donut synthetic fat filled coolatta to ya'. Yeehaw you son of bitch.
I want to thank Brian McBride for telling me about this article. Here is the article.
FOLKS ARE WE REALLY A FREE NATION???? I mean you have got to be kidding me. Here is the most absurd governmental bullshit I have ever read about natural food.
Rather than keeping the illegal aliens from crossing the borders, or stopping terrorists from blowing stuff up, or keeping the drunk drivers off the roads, or cutting down the drugs in this country, the feds are more concerned with stopping a hard working natural AMISH farm from delivering raw milk across the pennsylvania line. This is what America is turning into folks. It is an absolute shame. I predict that by the year 2020 our natural food sources will be gone forever and we will all be dependent on processed, mutated, preservative ridden, poisoned, chemically enhanced food. I am very upset about this.
The FDA allows poison factories (dunkin donuts, McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Arby's, Taco Bell, etc.) to sell their products to millions of Americans a year and this IS NOT A CRIME??? For the record more people (millions) have gotten sick, developed cancer, and have died from coronary heart disease from eating from fast food places. Only a hand full of people over the past 100 years have developed a bacterial related disease from drinking raw milk. Yet, the FDA approves the poisoning of food from food companies and fast food establishments, and that is o.k..
I wrote "diet EARTH" for this reason. The amount of poison that is in our food supply is amazing to me. I went to the grocery store the other day and I found only 30 foods that were consumable. Consumable meaning, without additives, preservatives, synthetic chemicals, bleach, enhanced color agents. I only came up with 30 foods. I imagine that these 30 foods will also be extinct in the near future as well.
Here is how it works folks.
The government controls food companies. The food companies have to put poisons in the food to make it last longer. The food needs to last longer because the government has to figure a way to feed the masses of an over populated country. An over populated country without enough food would be disastrous and would result in a third world situation. A third world condition would mean no money for the government. No money would mean America would be vulnerable to other countries.
To stop this from happening the government has to control the masses. Processed food is the best way to keep food lasting longer, regardless if it is valueless and makes people sick. But wait, the government is also in bed with the drug companies. Phew! I was worried that there wasn't anything that could be done with all the people getting sick and dying from the poisons that are in the food supply. Now the government can allow the administration of drugs to help save its people. That is just dandy! I feel better knowing that I can get sick from eating all the processed synthetic crap that the food companies are producing, and can take drugs to regulate my failing heart, lungs, brain, liver, kidneys, and digestive tract. That is awesome! I wish I could give the government a big hug and thank them for being so considerate for my health. I am so happy that we don't have to eat healthy, organic natural food ladened with active enzymes and useable nutrients anymore. I love eating fake, plastic food that has about as much nutrient value as the dog crap that is on the bottom of my shoe. Thank you Uncle Sam you rock!!!
I know many people don't really care about their health or the natural food supply, but I have a tremendous passion for fighting for our rights as human beings to be able to eat organic, raw natural food the way God intended. It is an absolute shame that our freaking government is killing its own people. Obesity in this country is the worst it has ever been. The FDA is more concerned about arresting an Amish man for delivering milk than trying to arrest all the bastards that are pumping Americans up with drugs and poisons. THAT IS AWESOME!!! Way to go FDA-- I raise up my dunkin donut synthetic fat filled coolatta to ya'. Yeehaw you son of bitch.
I want to thank Brian McBride for telling me about this article. Here is the article.
Understanding Neuromuscular Efficiency
When we weight train we are influencing the efficiency of the neuromuscular junction. The brain and muscles coordinate the synaptic transmission increasing the strength of the muscle fibers. Exercise type and intensity will determine the improvement of the neuromuscular junction, this is known as Neuromuscular Efficiency.
Neuromuscular efficiency improves by two cellular factors; muscle fiber recruitment and rate coding.
During continuous tension on the muscle signals are being transmitted via the efferent and afferent nerves. When the intensity is greater than the threshold the nerves recruit more fibers to help with the stimulus. Greater strength is achieved when more fibers are recruited.
The other factor improving neuromuscular efficiency is rate coding. Rate coding is the synchronization impulse speed from the brain to the muscle fibers. The faster the impulse the faster the muscle fibers can be activated or recruited to help with the stimulus. The more efficient that rate coding becomes the greater the muscle contraction.
Overall, the greater the neuromuscular efficiency the greater the strength. Whenever you start a new exercise program, neuromuscular efficiency is the first aspect that is developed and is responsible for the initial increase in strength.
Regular training will influence greater neuromuscular efficiency.
tags: neuromuscular efficiency, strength, daryl conant, ron kosloff, vince gironda, boston bruins, tampa bay lightening, arnold schwarzenegger,
by: Daryl Conant, M.Ed CSCS
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Milk
Milk is a great source of protein, as long as it is organic, or even better raw. Raw milk is not pasteurized or homogenized. Raw milk contains all the essential amino acids that are necessary for proper cellular growth. The problem with raw milk is that it doesn't keep long, it spoils within a few days. This was the problem years ago. The population of America was growing vastly and the demand of milk was high. There wasn't enough milk being produced naturally to supply the people. Pasteurization and homogenization helped solve the spoiling issue of milk. A gallon of pasteurized / homogenized milk can last 4 to 6 weeks, almost three weeks longer than raw milk. Unfortunately, pasterurization and homogenization destroys the amino acid structure and can also alter the cholesterol structure. This is due to the heating process that kills all the bacteria through the pasteurization process. What is left is a substance that can be hard to digest. This is why some people have allergies to milk. They do not have the enzymes to break down the pasteurized milk. I used to have milk allergies. Once I changed over to raw milk my allergies went away.
The Milk Myth
Milk should not be consumed by humans after the age of 3, because milk is for baby cows. GIVE ME A BREAK FOLKS!!! This idea drives me nuts. This is some silly idea that a vegetarian group promoted years ago. Commercial milking of cows is not the most humane process, in fact it is down right upsetting. To protest against the cruelty of animals (cows) some groups came out and stated that we don't need to drink milk, and that it is only for baby cows. Though this concept is nice in the fact that it increases the awareness of how milk factories operate and are sometimes operating inhumanly, to say that milk is not a viable food for human consumption is FLAT OUT INCORRECT.
I am all about the humane practices and healthy organic way of living. I could tell you stories about the food industry that would make you never eat certain foods ever again. I will save that for another day. I want to discuss with you how the body works and why milk is healthy to consume.
The body is designed to breakdown fat, protein, carbohydrates (macro nutrients). These macro nutrients are then broken down into micro nutrients. During the process of eating, enzymes are activated in the saliva and begin to mix with the food. The food travels down the esophagus and blends with the body's enzymes to continue the breakdown of food. The stomach is designed to breakdown food into smaller units to be delivered to the intestines. The intestines breakdown the food further and the nutrients are filtered through the liver and enters the blood.
When you eat a particular food, as long at it is healthy and organic, the body will digest it with no problems. The body doesn't know where the food came from whether it came from a cow, a goat, a human, the ground, the sky. It makes no judgement of where the food came from. It only sees the molecular configuration of amino acids, fatty acids, cholesterol, carbohydrates and breaks them down accordingly. Protein is protein, fat is fat, sugar is sugar, the body is designed to break them compounds down. Baby cows don't need to consume milk after a certain age because they are herbivores, not carnivores. They eat grass and grains. Herbivores have a different digestive enzyme system than carnivores. Their digestive systems are designed to assimilate alkaline foods into proteins to build and repair cells. Carnivores digestive system works by balancing acidic and alkaline foods. Meat, dairy, fish, poultry, eggs, are acidic foods that are digested with the help of acidic enzymes. As long as we have this system within our make up we will be able to eat animal products with no problem. The human body is designed to eat animals. As crazy at it seems, the human digestive system is designed to consume an entire animal, except for the fur, bone, cartilage etc. But we have enough digestive enzymes to help digest just about any animal product.
The stomach houses hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is so acidic that can can eat away tissue. People who are stressed out all the time can develop acid reflux. Acid reflux is the leaking of the hydrochloric acid from the stomach and gets into the esophagus and begins to deteriorate the lining. Also, HCL is so powerful that if you were to put your hand down your throat and into your stomach the acid would begin to digest your own hand tissue. This is why we can eat animal meat. Animal meat consists of muscle and some times skin and cartilage (eating chicken off the bone). The stomach is able to breakdown muscle, skin and cartilage from animals with no problem. So if you were to stick your hand in your stomach, the body wouldn't know that it was your own hand, it would just break it down.
This is much like milk. The body doesn't care where the food came from, or whether it had eyes and was a living breathing animal, it just digests it and uses the nutrients from it to feed the body.
Eating healthy organic raw foods is the best for the body. Eating processed and mutated foods is what causes problems with health. Milk is not bad for you unless you consume pasteurized and homogenized milk. Then you take the chance of developing an allergy or disease. Many anti-milk drinkers protest that you will develop cancer from drinking milk. I can agree with this. It isn't the milk that causes the cancer it is the chemicals, preservatives and additives that does. So when someone who drinks milk develops prostate cancer, the anti-milk group goes up in arms stating that the milk caused the cancer and that it proves that humans shouldn't consume milk. But they are misinformed and need to know that it isn't the milk it is the processing of the milk that is the problem.
Skim Milk is better for you.
This is also a myth. Skim milk is the watery substance that is separated from milk. When milk is pumped out of the cow and settles in the bucket. The milk separates into different layers. Fat weighs less molecularly than sugar therefore it raises to the top. Whole milk contains more proteins, lactose (sugar) than cream and is heavier so it sits under cream. The less the protein and fat the more watery and heavier the molecular weight becomes. Skim milk is primarily made up of lactose. Lactose is the sugar in milk. Sugar molecules weigh more than fat and therefore sink to the bottom. So in essence skim milk is sugar water. There is not much protein and fat in skim milk. Fat must be present to stabilize protein. Take away fat and protein and you are left with skim milk. So in order to sell skim milk to the public, the milk companies add in protein and some additives to increase the protein content. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that the protein is a viable protein. Because protein and fat must co-exist in order to stabilize protein. Protein and sugars don't mix well. Also, milk companies will add in powdered milk products to make the skim milk look white. People won't drink a clear milk product, it has to be white to satisfy the visual perception. So additives are added to give color and to thicken up the skim milk to make it more sellable. Unfortunately, the additives and agents used are carcinogens and mutagenic. Which can result in ill effects such as; allergies, digestive disorders, cancers, coronary artery disease, if consumed in large amounts over time.
Like I always say, as long as man manipulates and breaks down the natural configurations of organic natural food, the human being will be subjected to illness and disease.
Milk is a great source of protein. Try to drink organic if you can. Better yet, drink raw if you can.
tags: milk, skim milk, daryl conant, ron kosloff, vince gironda, boston bruins, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the maid, red sox, strength, muscle, bodybuilding,
The Milk Myth
Milk should not be consumed by humans after the age of 3, because milk is for baby cows. GIVE ME A BREAK FOLKS!!! This idea drives me nuts. This is some silly idea that a vegetarian group promoted years ago. Commercial milking of cows is not the most humane process, in fact it is down right upsetting. To protest against the cruelty of animals (cows) some groups came out and stated that we don't need to drink milk, and that it is only for baby cows. Though this concept is nice in the fact that it increases the awareness of how milk factories operate and are sometimes operating inhumanly, to say that milk is not a viable food for human consumption is FLAT OUT INCORRECT.
I am all about the humane practices and healthy organic way of living. I could tell you stories about the food industry that would make you never eat certain foods ever again. I will save that for another day. I want to discuss with you how the body works and why milk is healthy to consume.
The body is designed to breakdown fat, protein, carbohydrates (macro nutrients). These macro nutrients are then broken down into micro nutrients. During the process of eating, enzymes are activated in the saliva and begin to mix with the food. The food travels down the esophagus and blends with the body's enzymes to continue the breakdown of food. The stomach is designed to breakdown food into smaller units to be delivered to the intestines. The intestines breakdown the food further and the nutrients are filtered through the liver and enters the blood.
When you eat a particular food, as long at it is healthy and organic, the body will digest it with no problems. The body doesn't know where the food came from whether it came from a cow, a goat, a human, the ground, the sky. It makes no judgement of where the food came from. It only sees the molecular configuration of amino acids, fatty acids, cholesterol, carbohydrates and breaks them down accordingly. Protein is protein, fat is fat, sugar is sugar, the body is designed to break them compounds down. Baby cows don't need to consume milk after a certain age because they are herbivores, not carnivores. They eat grass and grains. Herbivores have a different digestive enzyme system than carnivores. Their digestive systems are designed to assimilate alkaline foods into proteins to build and repair cells. Carnivores digestive system works by balancing acidic and alkaline foods. Meat, dairy, fish, poultry, eggs, are acidic foods that are digested with the help of acidic enzymes. As long as we have this system within our make up we will be able to eat animal products with no problem. The human body is designed to eat animals. As crazy at it seems, the human digestive system is designed to consume an entire animal, except for the fur, bone, cartilage etc. But we have enough digestive enzymes to help digest just about any animal product.
The stomach houses hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is so acidic that can can eat away tissue. People who are stressed out all the time can develop acid reflux. Acid reflux is the leaking of the hydrochloric acid from the stomach and gets into the esophagus and begins to deteriorate the lining. Also, HCL is so powerful that if you were to put your hand down your throat and into your stomach the acid would begin to digest your own hand tissue. This is why we can eat animal meat. Animal meat consists of muscle and some times skin and cartilage (eating chicken off the bone). The stomach is able to breakdown muscle, skin and cartilage from animals with no problem. So if you were to stick your hand in your stomach, the body wouldn't know that it was your own hand, it would just break it down.
This is much like milk. The body doesn't care where the food came from, or whether it had eyes and was a living breathing animal, it just digests it and uses the nutrients from it to feed the body.
Eating healthy organic raw foods is the best for the body. Eating processed and mutated foods is what causes problems with health. Milk is not bad for you unless you consume pasteurized and homogenized milk. Then you take the chance of developing an allergy or disease. Many anti-milk drinkers protest that you will develop cancer from drinking milk. I can agree with this. It isn't the milk that causes the cancer it is the chemicals, preservatives and additives that does. So when someone who drinks milk develops prostate cancer, the anti-milk group goes up in arms stating that the milk caused the cancer and that it proves that humans shouldn't consume milk. But they are misinformed and need to know that it isn't the milk it is the processing of the milk that is the problem.
Skim Milk is better for you.
This is also a myth. Skim milk is the watery substance that is separated from milk. When milk is pumped out of the cow and settles in the bucket. The milk separates into different layers. Fat weighs less molecularly than sugar therefore it raises to the top. Whole milk contains more proteins, lactose (sugar) than cream and is heavier so it sits under cream. The less the protein and fat the more watery and heavier the molecular weight becomes. Skim milk is primarily made up of lactose. Lactose is the sugar in milk. Sugar molecules weigh more than fat and therefore sink to the bottom. So in essence skim milk is sugar water. There is not much protein and fat in skim milk. Fat must be present to stabilize protein. Take away fat and protein and you are left with skim milk. So in order to sell skim milk to the public, the milk companies add in protein and some additives to increase the protein content. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that the protein is a viable protein. Because protein and fat must co-exist in order to stabilize protein. Protein and sugars don't mix well. Also, milk companies will add in powdered milk products to make the skim milk look white. People won't drink a clear milk product, it has to be white to satisfy the visual perception. So additives are added to give color and to thicken up the skim milk to make it more sellable. Unfortunately, the additives and agents used are carcinogens and mutagenic. Which can result in ill effects such as; allergies, digestive disorders, cancers, coronary artery disease, if consumed in large amounts over time.
Like I always say, as long as man manipulates and breaks down the natural configurations of organic natural food, the human being will be subjected to illness and disease.
Milk is a great source of protein. Try to drink organic if you can. Better yet, drink raw if you can.
tags: milk, skim milk, daryl conant, ron kosloff, vince gironda, boston bruins, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the maid, red sox, strength, muscle, bodybuilding,
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