Fat Loss Lies Ruin Your Success

Are fat loss lies ruining your chances of success?

I sincerely hope that your 2007 workout and nutrition plan isalready wildly successful and that you are well on your way toachieving your fat loss and fitness goals. But if you aren't, letme know why and what I can do to help.

Many people's programs suffer from misconceptions about fatloss - i.e. that cardio must be done everyday - and also falseperceptions about how well they are eating.

I've reviewed hundreds of client evaluations forms in my career,and just recently I reviewed 5 more for a transformation program weare working on over at Men's Health magazine.

And time and time again I see the same problem.

I have one question on my feedback form that asks the client:

"Do you eat lots of fruits and vegetables?"

Almost everytime the client's answer is "Yes".

On the next page, I have the client list their food intake.

And guess what rarely shows up?

If you guessed fruits and vegetables, you'd get a prize if I weregiving them away.

There are too many inconsistencies in our thoughts and actions whenit comes to weight loss.

And the misguided notions that well-meaning fitness articles heap onus simply adds to the ever-growing confusion.

Here I want to shed some light on some of the most commonmisconceptions about training and dieting for fat loss.

The more I discuss weight loss and read the research, the more Irealize fat loss results come from your nutrition, and thattraining is just a relatively small part of the equation.

But knowing this "truth" allows me to confidently design shorterfat loss workouts than most people traditionally use or expect arenecessary.

Listen, you can spend 60 minutes on a cardio machine if you want.Sure you will burn 500 calories during that session, but yourmetabolism won't be significantly elevated after exercise ANDyou'll still have to find some time to do the mandatory strengthtraining that a beautiful and healthy body requires.

Or you can do what I suggest...

Scrap the long, slow, excruciatingly boring cardio workouts andinstead stick to a much more manageable approach of...

A bodyweight movement warmup (5 minutes)
Turbulence Training Strength Training Supersets (20 minutes)
Turbulence Training Interval Training (20 minutes)

Done only 3 times per week, these 45 minute workouts still burnplenty of calories during training (300-400 calories), but theworkouts also boost your metabolism for hours and hours (someresearch suggests up to a day and a half!), therefore burning farmore NET calories AND fat than slow, mind-numbing cardio.

All you really need are some short intense training sessions toboost your metabolism and sculpt your body. And then you reallyjust have to trust your nutrition to strip the fat.

Look at it this way...imagine you are carving an ice sculpture outof a block of ice. Your nutrition would be responsible for loppingoff the big chunks to get down to only the amount of ice youneed...and the Turbulence Training workouts would be responsiblefor chiseling in the details of your final sculpture.

As no matter how much confusing information there is aboutexercise, the debate over the best way to eat for fat loss isalways much more ridiculous.

(That's why I went to a credible and sensible source - Dr. ChrisMohr, Ph.D. - for the TT Fat Loss Nutrition Guidelines.)

As far as dieting misconceptions go, I think too many nutritionistsare trading political correctness for results. In my opinion, PCdiets don't work.

Take a look at the American Diabetes Association...they still make room for sugar in a diabetic's diet - because they don't want todeprive anyone of sugar.

Well that's not going to work. You have to make sacrifices. Youhave to stick to at least a 90% nutrition compliance if you wantbig-time results.

You can't go with the political correct approach of "having alittle bit of your favorite foods everyday so that you don'tdeprive yourself".

Think about the person that has your dream body - whether it's acover model, your neighbor, a TV star, or the fittest person downat your gym. Do you think they haven't made sacrifices? Of coursethey have. They've done the work to get their reward.

Now its your turn!

You have to get strict and stick to whole, natural foods (fruits,vegetables, meat, fish, and nuts) if you want to succeed.

You need to accept that every action has consequences...

If you want to live a lifestyle where you don't deprive yourself ofdaily treats, that's fine. But realize the consequence of thisaction will be that you will always remain a few pounds of fat awayfrom your goal.

According to your actions, you value your treats higher than youvalue your fat loss success.

But if you place your desire for fat loss success above your desireto eat junk, than the consequences will be that you will reach yourbody composition goals. It's that simple. We all get what wedeserve and unless someone is holding a fork to your mouth, you areresponsible for your own success.

And my last "non-PC" tip on dieting...almost all the people thattell me they are eating very well are lying to themselves and tome - as I mentioned before based on my client feedback experiences.

So do what Dr. John Berardi calls a compliance grid. Take a piece ofpaper and make a 6x7 grid (6 meals over 7 days). Then check offeach time you eat according to plan and mark an "X" for each timeyou miss your goals.

Realize that you only have 4 mistake meals for an entire week ifyou want to stick to the 90% compliance.

Most of the time this is a bucket-of-cold-water-to-the-face wake upcall to people. They quickly realize their nutrition compliance ismuch closer to 75% than 90%...and that explains why they aren'tgetting anywhere.

So the bottom line for fat loss:

1) Nutrition is where the hard work really is for fat loss.

2) The workouts don't have to be super-long to get fat lossresults. You just need short, intense, and efficient. And that'swhat my workouts are all about. Nothing fancy, no rocket science,just FUN workouts that are over quickly...and who wouldn't wantthat considering today's busy lifestyles.

Get your very own copy of Turbulence Training & the Nutrition Guide here:
http://www.turbulencetraining.com/

Sincerely,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

PS - Here are just two of the TT Transformations...

"I am a 48 year old female, with four children, who has alwayswanted to have a well-sculpted body and have worked very hardtoward this goal especially the last year or so. While I was ableto get my body fat down to between 18 and 19%, I still could notget the definition I was looking for until two things happened:Turbulence Training and eating according to TT's suggestions. Ijust thought that since I was 48 years old there was no way I wasgoing to achieve a sculpted body without hiring a trainer andworking out like a bodybuilder. But I gave TT a try, and after onlyone month, the results have been so noticeable that my husband nowwants to get in on it! I plan on doing this for many years to come.Thanks so much."
Susan Siceloff

"Your workouts rock. I'm hooked and have been able to convert a lotof my friends also. I look a ton better than when I would just liftheavy every other day and jog on off days. At our health fair atwork they were testing body fat and I was under 10% for the firsttime since high school, even though I was on the crew team incollege, and I've run two marathons. TT training has given me abetter physique than the training for either."
Joe Dillon

Get your very own copy of Turbulence Training & the Nutrition Guide here: http://www.turbulencetraining.com/