Archive for ◊ January, 2009 ◊
Rapid and permanent fat loss is almost entirely dependent on your metabolic rate. Your metabolic rate is what determines how many calories you burn in a given day. The biggest factor that influences your metabolism is the amount of lean muscle you have on your body.
Based on this fact, it is imperative to build, or at the very least maintain, your lean muscle during a fat loss phase. Every pound of muscle you build requires between 35 to 50 calories per day to maintain itself. These additional calories are burned over the course of the entire day, even when you are at complete rest.
So just by building one pound of lean muscle, you will burn an additional 12,775 to 18,250 calories per year, while at rest! So if you can add 4 pounds of lean muscle, it will encourage your body to burn an additional 51,100 to 73,000 calories per year, which equates to a loss of 15-21 pounds of body fat. Once you factor in the additional calories being burned during your training sessions, you can see that your fat loss results can be quite dramatic.
So it is clear that we should perform activities that encourage muscle building/maintenance while we avoid doing anything that leads to muscle loss.
The best way to build and maintain muscle is to perform resistance training. With a well designed resistance training program, you can burn calories during your workout; but even more importantly, you will ignite your metabolism to burn calories 24 hours per day, even during sleep!
Here is how to perform your resistance training to cause a positive metabolic effect:
You will be performing 3 full body workouts per week. These workouts should be performed on non consecutive days, such as Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Alternately, you could opt for a Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday schedule. Spacing the workouts out in this manner allow for optimal recovery between training sessions.
In addition to that, spacing out your workouts every 48 hours ensures that your metabolism will stay elevated all of the time. I have witnessed this for years and finally, scientific studies are actually confirming my findings.
Recent research has shown that after performing a properly designed full body workout, people’s metabolism stays elevated for approximately 40 hours. So just when your metabolism starts to come back down to normal, you are ready to rev it up again with another training session.
In my experience, full body training in a multiple station design is the best way to “put a match to” your metabolic rate.
I have many ways of designing full body workouts. Let me show you one that is very simple and particularly effective. Pick 2 exercises for the upper body, 2 exercises for the lower body and 2 direct abdominal exercises.
Without resting in between sets, perform a circuit of all 6 exercises in this order: Upper, lower, ab, upper, lower, ab. At this point take a 90 second rest and repeat this entire sequence twice more.
Here is an example circuit:
1a) Inverted Rows x 1<max reps
1b) Step Ups x 20 reps each leg
1c) Reverse Crunch On Decline x 12-15 reps
1d) Incline Push Ups x 1<max reps
1e) Split Squats x 12-15 reps each leg
1f) Modified V-Sit Up x 12-15 reps
Train hard and watch that fat melt right off your body.
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Feng Shui, the Chinese belief system for human improvement, has a lot to say about improving love and relationships. Right from finding the right kind of partner to enter your life to having wonderful children with them, Feng Shui has tips galore. Here we will concentrate on sexual Feng Shui which can be used to considerably enhance your relationships in life.
First of all, we need to understand that a relationship is sexually enhanced only when there is a considerable amount of love and passion there. Most of the tips of bringing about sexual Feng Shui harmony in your life that are mentioned below actually speak about how you can bring love in your life.
1. Prepare Your Room.
It is absolutely important that you disseminate the right signs if you want your current love life to last forever. For one, Feng Shui speaks about using the right kinds of colors in the room. Red is a very auspicious color; it is also the color of passion. But do not make the room too red; use red only for effect or it might indicate anger instead of love.
Also, pls. remember that Feng Shui can be a very personal practice. For instance, red may well be the general color for love but it may actually clash with your ‘stars’. Often your and your partner’s birth dates need to be considered so do read up on this first before you start changing in your room to red.
2. Organizing the Bed.
The bed is the place where most of the action takes place, right? Feng Shui dictates that you need to place the bed as far from the door as possible because that means stability. Place the bed near the window, but never directly below it. Having a strong head post for the bed indicates a stable relationship. Do not keep mirrors facing the bed because that indicates a third eye in your marriage, which means there’s a possibility that one of you may become unfaithful. You can also invest in sensual bedding materials.
One important point – beds carry the energies of the persons that have slept in them. So, if someone with whom you have had a not-so happy relationship has slept in the bed, you need to replace it to give your current relationship a good head start.
Also remember to keep both sides of the bed equal. It is ideal to keep the bed in the middle of the room with the head side propped against a wall so that both partners have equal ease in entering and getting out of the bed. This makes for a harmonious relationship.
3. Set the Right Sensual Mood.
The sexual act can be greatly enhanced with the right kinds of colors, lights, sounds and smells. Feng Shui is definitely in accordance with this. Place scented candles in your room with mood lighting for a wild night of passionate sex. Floral scents are always considered to be great. For sounds, you can use soothing music. The kind of music that gently lulls you to sleep when alone is considered to be best musical accompaniment when making love, according to Feng Shui beliefs.
4. Keep Distractions Out of the Bedroom.
We usually clutter our rooms with a lot of distracting things, but that is a definite no-no in Feng Shui. The bedroom must be kept as clean as possible if the vibes of love are to course through it. Keep out the television and the computer, two of the most distracting electronic items in a bedroom. Even if you are not using these, they can suck up a lot of the positive energy from the room, making you feel quite drained.
Sexual Feng Shui is a completely different art, in which people endeavor to make their sexual lives more fruitful by making a few changes in the environment that they are used to. You an also follow these tips and then see how they ignite the much-needed passion in your relationships.
I’m talking about is how they complain about sex.That’s right…sex with you.They’ll talk to their girl friends about it, they’ll think to themselves about it, and she might even hint to you about something you’re doing (or not doing) while you’re both having sex. But chances are, she won’t tell you exactly what’s on her mind about you!
Here are some of the top complaints women make about men:
Complaint #1: “You never think about how I feel!”
Why is she thinking this?
Well, take a look from her perspective. She see’s you having a climax, and then, the sex session is over. How would you feel if she had an orgasm, and then suddenly lost interest in sex, and roll over and sleep?
You would probably feel the same way.What you need to do is to focus on her pleasure first. By doing this, she’ll change her thinking from “he’s selfish” to “he’s so generous!”
Over deliver in bed and place her pleasure about yours.
Complaint #2: “…It’s over already?”
She might be rolling her eyes in disappointment if you climax a few minutes (or seconds!) after penetration.You’ve made her hot and horny, and once the main course begins, it ends!
There are things you can do to last longer in bed. Some solutions include desensitizing sprays and creams. Personally, I found that if you give her an orgasm (or three!) before you start
having sex, she’ll still be happy even if you finish early. In her eyes, you’re the generous lover who put her pleasure FIRST, and finishing early isn’t a problem.
Complaint #3: When You Fall Asleep After Sex
After a man has an orgasm, they release a chemical called prolactin. And this chemical makes them sleepy!Yes, it is natural for a guy to sleep after they have sex, but you need to think about how she feels…
She wants to feel wanted and cared for. If you sleep right away, she’ll feel ignored.What can you do? Well, just a few minutes of post-sex “after play” can do wonders for your relationship. Take the time to cuddle, kiss and caress before sleep.
Complaint #4: You’re Rushing Into Sex
Often heard yet overlooked is the fact that women need foreplay. In fact, it makes sex more enjoyable for her, and she can have an orgasm quicker if you take the time during foreplay.
What’s work best for me is to focus on foreplay until she has a female orgasm. Believe me, she’ll love it.
Complaint #5: You Don’t Know What You’re Doing In Bed
If you don’t know what to do in bed, then this could lead to a lack of variety in the bedroom. What does this mean to you? She’ll be bored of sex.Once she’s bored of sex, she’ll be inclined to “get it over with” or…worst..skip it altogether.Don’t let this happen!
What you need to do is make a commitment to yourself to learn more sexual techniques to make her feel better, and ultimately, enhancing your sex life.Don’t Be Like Most Other Guys
It’s unfortunate that most guys will spend more time and money on their academic education than their sexual education. They will spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours taking courses they don’t want to learn. Yet won’t spend a dime on improving their sexual educational.Don’t let this be you!Invest in your sexual education, and give her the gift of being the best lover she ever had.








