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Free Workout Log Template You’ll Love!
Tracking your workouts with a workout log template is one of the most effective and simple ways to help ensure you maximize your results. If you are working out for fun, or to maintain your health and fitness, a workout log can be overkill. But if you want to change your body, whether it’s to improve strength, build muscle, lose fat, or increase performance, tracking every set of every exercise of every workout is the fastest way to help you get the best results.
Pre-Workout Meal: What To Eat Before A Workout?
I just finished up an expert Q&A for Men’s Fitness on the topic of pre and post-workout nutrition for optimal results. I spent several hours conducting in depth research to prepare for the Q&A, so I wanted to share with you what I learned about pre-workout meal nutrition. I plan on writing a follow up article on post-workout meal nutrition next week.
Pre-Workout Meal Benefits
A pre-workout meal is a whole foods meal that falls within 3 hours of your workout. When you eat the right foods in the right amounts as you will learn shortly, these nutrients can offer a number of benefits, including:
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Fish Oil Supplements 101: Fat Loss Benefits, Function, & Dosage
Out of the thousands of dietary supplements on the market, there are only a handful that deserve your consideration. Possibly the most well-researched, safe, and effective dietary supplement of all is fish oil.
So what is fish oil? Why is it important? How does it work? Should you bother taking it? I’m going to answer all these questions for you and more in this introductory article on fish oil supplements. I also included several links to research papers throughout the article for more in depth reading.
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Fruit Drink Facts Beverage Companies Don’t Want You To Know
While soda offers no nutritional value, you may be surprised to learn that most fruit drinks are as bad, or possibly worse for your health than drinking soda. In fact, some fruit drinks pack more sugar per serving that a can of coke that has roughly 10 teaspoons of sugar!
When I first realized drinking 12 ounces of orange juice (165 calories, no fiber, added sugar, little real fruit) every morning wasn’t exactly the healthiest breakfast choice, it was a tough pill to swallow. A whole orange on the other hand is only 60 calories with a lot of fiber to help fill you up. It took me months to switch to drinking water and eating whole fruits for breakfast, but I’m glad I did!
Below is an infographic from my friends at HealthScience.net that shares fruit drink facts beverage companies don’t want you to know:
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Want To Write For BuiltLean? Learn How…
Since the start of the New Year, I’ve been searching tirelessly for the top fitness and nutrition professionals to help contribute articles to BuiltLean.com.
If you believe you are a top fitness/nutrition pro and have excellent writing skills, I would love for you to seriously consider becoming a contributor to this website. If you are not a fitness pro but have any friends, or family who may be interested, then please shoot them this post!
For more information, I have below an advertisement I’ve posted on several websites:
Daniel’s Transformation: Flabby To Lean!
Below is a letter from Daniel O’Donnal. What’s so cool about Daniel’s story is that he used all the free info on BuiltLean.com and my weekly newsletters to make a massive change in his body and life. Let Daniel know what you think of his transformation!
Lose Weight Naturally in 2012 & Beyond
As the New Year unfolds, millions of people set goals to lose weight…but sadly few are successful. If you are one of the millions of people attempting to change your lifestyle, I’m confident that after you read this article and complete each step, you will be stacking the cards massively in your favor to become a success story in 2012.
You are about to learn a simple, but powerful framework to help you not only lose weight, but also keep it off for the rest of your life. It’s not smoke and mirrors, it’s not about promising you fast, easy results, and it’s not about crash dieting.
This article is a do-it-yourself guide to help you lose weight safely, naturally, and sustainably. It’s not easy, it’s not effortless, but it is a proven process that works very, very well.
Best of BuiltLean 2011
Looking back at 2011, it has been a very fun, exciting, and busy year for BuiltLean.com. From the start of the year, traffic to BuiltLean.com has grown 10x from 300-400 visitors/day to 3-4K visitors/day (See: BuiltLean.com Surpasses 100K Unique Visitors Per Month). Some more notable items: I did my first live TV appearance for the NBC Philadelphia 10! Show, the BuiltLean Program launched in March to rave reviews, 29 new videos were uploaded to the BuiltLean Youtube Channel, which now has over 150K views from around the world, and 3 amazing contributors came on board to write articles for BuiltLean.com (Christy, Max, and John).
HCG Diet is a SCAM? Fitness Around The Web Dec-2011
In December, I came across news items and articles ranging from the FDA warning companies to stop marketing HCG products to exercise labels showing promise as an effective deterrent of sugary drink consumption. For more, check out the articles below:
1) HCG Diet Products Illegal, FDA Warns Seven Companies
The HCG Diet, which requires eating only 500 calories per day and injections of HCG hormone to help speed up metabolism and improve hormonal balance has spread like wildfire in the last couple of years. The success of HCG may come to a screeching halt as the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to seven companies that market HCG, calling for these companies to stop selling and marketing these unapproved drugs. First, HCG is unapproved as a drug and second, only trace amounts are typically found in these products.
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How To Increase Squat Depth
While the squat is a functional movement that many consider the “King” of all exercises, it can be very difficult exercise to complete with proper form.
So why is proper squat form difficult for so many people?
