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While the main portion of my business deals with fat loss, I've also got a huge passion for helping combat athletes (i.e. Judo, Boxing, Russian Sambo, Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu). Baton Rouge has some amazing coaches like Doug Fournet (5x National Russian Sambo champion) and UFC veterans; Tim Credeur, Rich Clementi, and Kyle Bradley.

Introduction:

Changing a few simple habits (imparted to me from my grandmother) made a huge impact on my bodyfat levels and didn't require any dieting. To get the full introduction to this series click here.

Here's The Second Thing That I Did:

I started chewing my food! Sounds really boring doesn't it? Well... it is! Not everything you'll do to lose fat is exciting. You can convince yourself that this doesn't make a huge difference in your quest to burn fat but it does.

Introduction:

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.

So 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. So 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.