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Lose Fat by Listening to Grandma? Part 1 Prune Juice Not Necessary

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Why I don't give out generic exercise advice

I used to give out a few "tidbits" of advice to non-clients... but not anymore. This is probably one thing that frustrates people in my gym more than anything else. They ask me some questions about training and I won't give them a direct answer - it's for their own good. I get questions all the time like:

"What exercise is best for burning fat."

or

"Which exercise is best if I want Hyuuuuge Guns?"

Then of course, there's my favorite question so far:

"I'm trying to loose weight; which product in the vending machine over there is going to help me burn fat."

That one almost made me cry.

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Stupid Exercise of the Week: The Leg Press

Sleg press machineo I know that in writing this, I'm going to get some flack from people who love to use the Leg Press Machine. I can already hear the complaints of people who think squatting is "dangerous," or the local gym-rat who thinks that it's making his legs "all swole." Sadly this exercise is one that you'll almost never see me using with my clients. Why? Well for one, with people sitting at a chair all day, or rounding over their upper backs (causing excess lumbar lordosis in order to compensate) people have allot of lumbar spine issues. rotated leg press imageSo lets look at a picture of the leg press and see if we can't use some basic reasoning, before going into specifics, about why this exercise is terrible.

Now if you're looking at the picture above and saying, "no big deal" lets rotate this picture and see what a real-world equivalent would look like.

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More Kale Lovin'

A bit more detail on why kale is so awesome from nutritionist Jonny Bowden: (Click Here)
Organic or Not?

I'm often asked if organic food is worth the extra money. My answer is usually an ambiguous "it depends." Variety should be the biggest factor. The greater variety of foods you can consume, the better you're health will be. Greater variety means that a larger spectrum of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients will end up in your body.

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