Today I received this e-mail from somebody who has seen Vince Delmonte’s “No-
Nonsense Muscle Building System” but was skeptical to say the least.

“Marc,

Can you show me anything about it? Maybe what I would really get, send me the names of the chapters? Anything at all would help make my decision easier.”

What a timely question! Today I received a book on how to do video demonstrations using this software package I bought a year ago and haven’t figured out.

Excuse the quality of the video but I felt the question was so good, I would risk embarrassing myself to show you what Vince Delmonte’s system entails.

Visit Vince’s website to see everything described in more detail, but here’s what the system includes in a nutshell:

* 201 page system (literally EVERYTHING you need to know)
* 29 week Beginner-Intermediate Workout
* 29 week Advanced Workout
* Upside Down Training (specialized workouts)
* Five 84 Day Healthy Calorie Meal Plans
* Three 84 Day Veggie Mass Meal Plans
* Three 84 Day Cheap Mass Meal Plans
* A Virtual Trainer (exercise database)
* The Supplement Files
* 24-7 Email Coach
* MP3’s of entire course

Vince’s No Nonsense Muscle Building course is the best information that balances science and real world experience.

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How true it is and more true today with the Internet, mass e-mail, ClickBank books, and everybody jumping on the bandwagon of “I’ve got a solution for your weight loss problem.

The Founding Father of Fitness, Jack LaLanne Tells His Story

“Something else that worries me is the advertising on television today. It’s killing Americans, and we have to do something about it. Just watch TV for an hour and you’ll see people —especially athletes—selling their souls for
millions of dollars to endorse the very items making people fat and unhealthy—cakes, pies and soda pop.”

When Jack LaLanne opened the nation’s first health club in 1936, people thought he was nuts. When he went on the air 1951 with the nation’s first fitness television show, people thought it wouldn’t last. Today, at the ripe young age of 89, his TV show is still on the air, he is in better shape than most Americans and he is still going strong. In this exclusive WELCOA Interview, fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne talks with WELCOA President David Hunnicutt, PhD about LaLanne’s lifetime of fitness and what it’s going to take for Americans to get and stay healthy through their golden years.

For those of you with kids, pay special attention to Question 10. I think this sums it up.

First and foremost, parents should set a good and positive example for their children.

If you think they do, take a close look around you the next time you go out to eat. Trust me, if the adults were setting a good example, we’d not have such an epidemic in the United States.

For those of you NOT living in the, trust me, it’s going to be a world wide problem if you don’t already have some tips you tell us about or what you’ve seen in the world today.

For as cheap as free, you will download and read this Jack LaLanne interview and it will make an impression on you.

Since my mom sends jokes all the time, I’ve already sent her a copy of this as I feel my own parents need to be more active.

If they won’t listen to me, maybe they will listen to a 92 year old man, Jack LaLanne, who is still kicking butt!

Click Here to Download This Incredible Interview

P.S. - If you go to YouTube and just search for “Jack LaLanne” you find many snippets of his TV show.  Truly, a man ahead of his time.

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A little midday humor…

As I see it based on this study, the cure for obesity is quite simple.

We all need to go back 10 million years ago and start walking on all fours. Humans consume far less energy when walking upright.

Humans vs. chimps at the gym

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What if there was a safe and natural way to build more muscle in less time? Considering the spread of information today, most people including bodybuilders have turned off their radar to any more hype and become skeptical. The more advanced ones are already doing this and it’s not news to them or maybe they know about it but aren’t utilizing supersets to their full potential. But considering my e-mail inbox is full of questions about “my routine this and I have little time for working out,” it seems obvious that some of you.

Are quite possibly skipping out of the best opportunity to do more work in less time with supersets .

What is this method of building more muscle in less time? It’s called Supersetting and Craig Ballantyne of Turbulence Training does a cool job of explaining it even if he’s only using the 10 pound dumbbells.

Tom Venuto said, “There are three primary categories of supersets: 1) same muscle group, 2) agonist-antagonist, and 3) staggered sets.”

In Craig Ballantyne’s video above, he’s demonstrating a stagged superset. It’s not really the same muscle group or an opposing. He’s just doing one of three types. Supersets are a method I’ve used for several years for some significant muscle gains.

For those of you interested in the full superset article now that you get the concept, here’s a resource on supersets along with many examples.

How to Build More Muscle in Less Time with Supersets

Supersets are something I tell my clients to do all the time. They work, they build muscle and you chat less and work harder. If it’s muscle gains you are after, this is an incredible concept that will raise the intensity levels of your workouts but keep them shorter in time and ultimately more work is done.

Thanks Craig for putting together a quick video to explain the concepts of weightlifting supersets.

In case you didn’t know…

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training superset workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com

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It just chaps my small hide when I see book after book by a marketing guru make it to the mainstream, the latest being the Kevin Trudeau Weight Loss book. Maybe I’m jealous? Or maybe it’s because I simply can’t stand it when good information gets pushed to the bottom and somebody who’s promoting crazy diets and questionable supplements makes it to the top.

Infomercial star Trudeau charged with misrepresenting bestseller, violating order

Canadian Press Release Story

Here’s the part that caught my eye:

“After purchasing the book, however, the FTC alleged that consumers discover it “requires severe dieting,” daily injections of a prescription drug not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for weight loss and “lifelong dietary restrictions.”

The book ranks third on the Wall Street Journal’s bestseller list this week, and 19th on USA Today’s list.”

How come these books rank so high but ones I know about that aren’t so hyped up, that are written by responsible individuals don’t do as well?

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After skimming over my Bloglines today, I ran across this article with a shocking announcement that was part of a wish list proposed by the Australian General Practice Network.

A doctors group has proposed that overweight people be given a $170 subsidy to attend an accredited weight-loss program.

“We believe that this will go a long way to helping people get access to accredited weight loss programs where the people will be supported.” -Dr Tony Hobbs, Australian General Practice Network

This group believes it will go a long way to helping cure the obesity problem by getting overweight people the education they need to lead a healthy lifestyle. And at the end of the 12 weeks, they would be measured to ascertain their progress.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH HERE

Let’s assume you pay people to lose weight. They get to take some classes that are offered at a community center or health care facility. This isn’t free folks. Somebody is footing the $170 and the bills to pay the educators, open the center, provide the materials and educate the individuals.

We hardly do this for people who smoke, drink or have too many children they cannot take of and that costs billions a year in terms of related health care costs and social services.

After doing a survey of 10,000 people, Gymticket.com found the #1 reason people didn’t seek to improve their health or continue to workout was…

Lack of Motivation.

I hardly think $170 subsidized by a section of a private health care industry is significant motivation to cause a stampede of people to devote 12 weeks of their lives to curing their obesity. And what defines obesity that a person would quality for this?

If I use the BMI (body mass index) in the United States, I’m technically obese. I’d go for the money and be on a forced cutting diet to lean up. Is that fair even if I don’t need it?

As “Bruce” said in a comment from for the original article, “Perhaps just pay thin people not to get fat?”

Shouldn’t we reward people for being thinner? Not the other way around. How about a subsidized gym membership as an incentive to keep working out?

The solution is to find what motivates people on their individual basis.

Heck Richard Simmons really seemed to care about his clients. He was involved in their lives. He got to know them. He wanted to help them. He didn’t give up and it took longer than 12 weeks thru some government program. His motivation and the drive of his clients wasn’t based on some $170 as motivation.

I have no problems with more information being made to the public. I try my hardest to provide what I believe is good education to my readers, subscribers and customers in hopes they will make informed choices. I’d rather see the $170 spend on a per person basis for useful consumer health education and awareness campaigns vs. just paying somebody a little bit of money, sending them to some class for only 12 weeks and then most likely dropping the ball.

What do you think?

Should we pay people to lose weight? Is that the cure to the obesity epidemic?

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Being skinny myself for MANY years, I could feel the frustration, pain and ultimate satisfaction of this guy. What an amazing transformation. Going from what looks like a skinny hardgainer to a muscular, almost male model type. It’s a look at years of training and a nice compilation of photos of this guys weight gain.

Before I get all the hate mail, let me just say that it is just as frustrating for a hardgainer to put on the weight as it is for a person who’s overweight for several years. It’s painful, it’s embrassing and it takes an emotional. I’ve been told many times by people it’s not the same thing but that’s from people who were desperate to lose weight.

There are really people out there who are desperate to gain healthy weight.

Anyway, a bit long but a cool look at one of many weight gain stories. As a person who’s gained healthy weight myself, it was one of those few YouTube videos that I could relate to.

Another of of my friends, Vince Delmonte, is another one of those skinny hardgainer types. He’s got a neat weight gain story as well. And some weight gain tips for those in similar positions as this guy and myself years ago. His newsletter kicks butt too.

Read about Vince Delmonte’s Weight Gain Story

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What’s the #1 reason people can’t conjure the effort necessary to change their lives and become healtheir?

Lack of motivation!  They simply don’t have the necessary motivation to start exercising, join a gym and start working out.  Even worse?  If they do that initial workout, many quit because of the same reason.  They aren’t motivated.

Don’t take my word for it, Gymticket.com surveyed several thousand people in a recent poll and guess what they found?

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Ivan Nikolov is one Bulgarian bodybuilder who’s a glutton for punishment. In fact, this lower abdominal exercise really should just be labeled as a core exercise that will give you six pack abs within no time. While we all know, or should know that abs are about a low percentage of body fat and having that nutritional program in place, there’s still something to be said for doing specific exercises. The argument could be made (and I believe) that there’s no lower or upper abs, it’s all the core and every exercise works the whole muscle area.

Fine… but this one is still going to make it FEEL like it’s a lower abdominal exercise.

Ivan told me, “Today I asked my friend at the gym to film me doing my favorite abs exercise.”

You cannot have a weak core or abdominals if you are able to do this exercise.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t tried and I’m not sure I’d be able to do this without the weight!

Take a look, it’s cool to watch. I wonder if Ivan was sore the next day?

Just hit the Play button arrow and let it buffer for a second. It will play.

If you want to learn more about Ivan Nikolov or his Fitness Nutrition Advisor (FitNA) program, you can check out his site. He’s got a fantastic newsletter and a very good website just slammed full of informative fat loss, muscle building and other lower abdominal exercises you can learn about.

Check Out Ivan’s Fitness Nutrition Advisor

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Have you ever visited a message board or been told by a trainer the following?

* If you train a muscle group more than once a week, you are overtraining.

* If you train more than 5 days a week, you are overtraining.

* If you workout more than once a day, you are overtraining.

Folks, while overtraining is a real concept, it’s not as simple as slapping down some magic number. It does require that you evaluate each situation and the signs and symptoms below in order to effectively evaluate a potential overtraining situation.

The next time somebody tells you are overtraining without getting all the facts based on situation, blow them off.

Myth: Overtraining is defined is a set number of days a person workouts. Training 5 days in a row or more is too much and that is overtraining.

Fact: Overtraining is different for everybody based on several factors. It’s not as simple as “if you train 6 days a week, you are overtraining.” That is incorrect. A person can suffer from symptoms with fewer days and somebody else can suffer no symptoms and make fantastic gains with 7 days a week. It cannot be defined by slapping down a number for every single person in every single case.

Here’s some signs and symptoms to be aware of in regards to overtraining and overreaching. They are grouped into physical and psychological categories.

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