How to prevent catching the flu?

The flu is an airborne disease. But this does not mean that viruses are floating around in the air and there is nothing you can do to stop them. In fact, the influenza virus is very fragile and does not survive in the air for long  it needs to land quickly or it will die.

This presents a valuable opportunity to prevent the disease. Why worry about drugs and symptoms if you can avoid the illness completely?

* Avoid touching things that many people touch, such as doors, buses and subways, or the virus will jump to your hands. Most people who have the flu have virus infested hands and anywhere they touch will be contaminated.

* Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth, or the virus in your hands will infect you jumping right inside your body.

* Wash your hands frequently. This will not kill the virus; however it will wash it away and leave your hands virus-free. Use simple soap and water (remember that the goal is not to kill the virus) and only use alcohol based scrubs when soap is not available. I hope you are starting to grasp the importance of your hands by now.

* When you cough, cover your mouth with your arm instead of your hand to avoid contemning yourself with your own viruses. If the virus stays in your arm it will not contaminate surfaces, nor will you re-infect yourself. How many times do you touch with your arm in anything as compared to your hands?

* Avoid handshakes and kisses. Kisses are like a rapid way for virus transmission. And handshakes just skip the need for a contaminated surface.

* If you have symptoms, stay at home. This may not help you, but it will help others.

* Use paper tissues and throw them away as soon as you use them. You don’t want virus growing there that will pass to your hands and re-infect you later when you finally decide to throw the tissue away.

* Avoid public spaces, especially crowded spaces where the virus can use the air to jump from person to person before dying.

The most important thing to keep in mind is your hands. Watch them and they will watch for your health.

Fat Loss 4 Idiots - Complete Review

Fat Loss 4 Idiots – Will It Help You lose weight?

 

Fat Loss for Idiots is a site and diet that my wife had learned about from her stepmom. Initially I looked at the Fat Loss For Idiots website and saw that after clicking though a bunch of pages of information I found that the program was only $39.

As a fitness and health enthusiast I know that there are no easy ways out of losing weight so when I first saw all of the hype around fat loss for idiots I was of course initially skeptical.

I have scoured the internet looking for more information on the Fat Loss For Idiots program and would like to present this to you here so that you can make an informed decision when you visit the Fat Loss For Idiots site.

Lose weight Fast with Fat Loss 4 Idiots?

 

Fat Loss for Idiots claims you can lose 9 pounds lost in 11 days. Wow, is this possible? You probably have your doubts but I know because I have seen it happen, with the right diet and exercise program you can lose weight and lose it quickly.

Over the last year or so I have received over 200 success stories from people just like you. You can see them below.

After that quick weight loss it is important that you continue eating according to the plan and get some exercise of any kind and you will continue losing weight. The way the diet cycles means that you should lose weight every week with no bad weeks at all.

What do I not like about Fat Loss for Idiots?

 

Fat Loss for Idiots may be getting a lot of support by a lot of people but it is not all perfect. In watching how people use the diet I have found that some people have real problems with fat Loss for Idiots. First of all there is the dreaded “fruit day” one day of the cycle you eat nothing but fruit. Many people do not like this even though we all know how good fruit is for us.

One other problem with Fat loss for idiots is that you are supposed to eat until satisfied. Don’t stop when you are hungry and do not overeat but just until satisfied. But how much is satisfied? I am not sure what to say about this. People like to have a measured amount of food and doing it yourself is a little stressful.

Fat Loss for Idiots Meal Plan

 

This is a great part of the fat loss for idiots program

Fat Loss for Idiots food is made up of lean proteins, fruit and vegetables, and the sources of fat come from whole foods (such as cottage cheese or eggs). There are some starchy carbohydrates (such as oats and pasta). The day is divided into 4 meals that should be eaten at a maximum of 2 1/2 hours apart. There is no calorie or carb counting, no limit on portion size – Fat Loss 4 Idiots says you “just eat short of being full”.

After the 11 day meal plan there is a 3 day “cheat” – where you get to eat whatever you want. Then you are back into the 11 day plan again.

The real difference between the fat loss for idiots plan and other plans is that the diet is purposely confusing your body so it never thinks it is starving. This is not a new meal program in that regard. Body for Life and other programs have long advocated confusing your body by having a day or more off of the diet so that you are in more control of how you eat. Fat Loss for Idiots does a good balance of this.

The meal plan is created by selecting from a list of preferred foods. These are then used to generate your meal plan.

Fat Loss for Idiots also includes a very extensive handbook that teaches you how to to eat, how not to eat and what is important in your goal of losing weight.

Exercise on Fat Loss 4 Idiots

 

Fat loss for idiots is a diet program. One thing and one thing only. The people that come up with the meal plans look at you as a user of the service as a person that is mainly sedentary.

Fat Loss for idiots recommends that you do get some exercise for additional weight loss. They encourage walking and other low intensity exercise of 30 minutes a day.

Fat Loss for Idiots – Is a Cheap Diet Program

 

Fat Loss For Idiots is a cheap diet. When you buy the diet is gives you access to an online diet generator as well as a diet workbook. Nutritionally it is a reduced carb diet that cycles macro-nutrient ratios (to try and trick your metabolism). It recommends common-sense weight loss principles (brisk walking, plenty of water, etc), and contains only whole foods (no processed foods, high-sugar foods, or supplements).

Here are some good reviews for the fat loss for idiots program:

“I started this diet 3 days ago, and have lost 2 and a half pounds so far.”
“I have now been on this diet for 11 days and have lost 6 and a half pounds. I am very happy with that, especially since I have not exercised or done the recommended walking.”
“On Fat loss for idiots I lost 7 pounds the first 11 days! I’m happy with that considering (like I mentioned) I had not done the suggested walking.”

The really nice thing about the fat loss for idiots diet is that it is cheap, and you buy your own food. No need to buy prepackaged food and expensive supplements which is the downfall that I always find with the more famous diets.

Fat Loss 4 Idiots – Will Work For Most People

 

There are a few things that seem to be really good in the fat loss for idiots diet and plan. Firstly the cheap nature means that you do not have to buy and create a complex meal plan. Secondly there is a cycling of your diet so that you keep your metabolism from working against you. And thirdly the diet is incredibly popular on the internet and the reason for that is that it seems to work for just about anyone.

Lastly there is a guarantee that this will work or you get your money back. I do not see any way that anyone can lose by at least trying Fat Loss 4 Idiots.

Who shouldn’t do Fat Loss for Idiots?

 

I have not been critical at all about Fat Loss for Idiots but I have to admit that there are some drawbacks to the diet.

If you exercise a lot Fat Loss for Idiots may not be for you. The diet itself is a diet designed to help you lose weight but people that get a lot of exercise, and hour or more a day, may find that the diet does not offer enough calories.

The diet itself can get a bit boring. There is a lot of repetition in the menu plan but most people seem to be OK with this as this is supposed to be a diet that helps you lose the weight that you want and then you ease off to a diet that you can live with for life.

I Really Recommend Fat Loss for Idiots

 

There is no magic behind Fat Loss for Idiots but really what it is a good focused meal plan and sensible exercise for beginners. Although this may not seem like much it is very important in my mind to be doing something that will give you the satisfaction that you are making the changes in YOUR life that will help you lose weight. This diet will work for you.

I am a big fan of Fat loss for idiots for no other reason than it is nice and simple, and it really does work, if you follow a diet that changes what you eat and moves you in a better direction nutritionally than what you are now.

And the simple fact is that at $39 fat loss 4 idiots is much cheaper than even a couple of weeks of Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers.

If anyone is interested in taking advantage of the special ebook Beyond Calories as well then do this.  Just click the link below and then scroll to the bottom of the page, go to the next page and about half way down you will see a 50% discount link, click the link and you will see that you can get Beyond Calories for an additional $16.95. The total package comes to $55.95

I believe that for the low cost I have to recommend the fat loss for idiots system and hope that it works great for you. If you go ahead and buy it please come back and post a comment of what you thing of the diet…

One last thing – If you are looking to lose weight then you need to act now. I am not sure how many pages of diet info that you have looked at but the trouble with the internet is that there is more information then you can possibly read and the problem is that there is no real plan to follow. Buy the Fat Loss for Idiots program today and see where you are in a month.

One month from today, if you commit now, you can be 10-20 pounds lighter. Otherwise, in a month, if you do nothing you will be the same weight or even slightly more than you are today. The choice is yours.

 

Increasing Muscle Gains

If you are trying to gain muscle there are a few things that people do to sabotage themselves. I have done a few of these things in the past and just wanted to drop these here to let you know as I have nowhere else to put it.

 

Don’t drink booze. Alcohol is very bad for your metabolism and it will stop you from making any gains at all in the gym as well as punishing your body with dehydration, one thing you really do not need.

Although I did once write a bit on how great beer was for you, this is one of the worst things for your muscles as that old dehydration and lack of metabolism will really sap your gains.

Don’t smoke. I know this seems to make sense but if you do smoke give your head a shake. I smoked and worked out heavy for years and whined all the time that I was not making good gains. Well I wonder how my body was supposed to take in more oxygen?

If you do work out and you smoke you likely are feeling guilty for it. Instead of hanging onto that guilt it is much better to kick the habit instead. I know that in the 10+ years that I have now been a non smoker I have felt better always and my workouts are much better as well. Quit Today!

Don’t do cardio. If you want to gain muscle you need to stop doing cardio as it will raise your metabolism and force you to take in a lot more calories to keep your mass. The real problem is that when you are losing weight you WILL lose some of your hard earned muscle  no way around it and you need to maximize your muscle increases to be able to still diet down for summer.

This is of course pretty tough to do. The ultimate beach body is lean and muscular so this may not be the best time to lay off the cardio. You need to eat big and train big to get bigger muscles but remember that it takes about 12 weeks to diet down for a bodybuilder and you may have to sacrifice some of those gains as well to lose the fat and enhance your muscularity.

Know that you will gain some fat. We all hope that our bodies are really good at taking in calories and turning them into muscle. In reality though your body will take in a lot of calories and turn them into fat. You are forced a little to take in more calories than you need to gain the muscle that you want.

The calories are really key to getting the most our of your body. If your are short any nutrients then just like a dieter you are going to find that your gains are not very good becasue your body will be working against you.

Coffee is a yes and no answer. Coffee is another diuretic and will force you to lose water. Our muscles are mainly made out of water; do you think this is a good idea? Staying away from the coffee is a good idea. Sometimes people will take in coffee right before a workout to help with energy for that workout. I m not sure about this strategy but when you are trying to diet down your extra fat this may be a better time to use this strategy.

Sleep your way to better muscle gains. One of the problems that people working out run into is that they have far too long a workout and they do it late at night. This exercise schedule can really mess with your sleep and sleep is a critical component to recover from your hard workouts. Top bodybuilders get lots of sleep at night and even have a nap in the afternoon.

I know that oyu are probably saying “I can’t nap” well, if you are working out hard enough you may need to nap but if not then at least get taht great sleep every night instead of trying to burn the candle from both ends.

Have a plan before you enter the gym. To many times people will decide what they are going to do at the gym as they are walking be a machine. You need to have a plan for your sets, reps and exercises and obviously what muscle groups that you are going to be working in that workout. Every time not just most of the time.

Take these ideas to heart and promote your body to making beter gains in and out of the gym.

Effective Steps to Building Muscle

 I found this article at Virtual trainer.com. There is a link at the bottom of the page for the site but I thought I would let you know about it here. These are sometimes obvious but great tips for building muscle.

When you think of building muscle you tend to think of huge freaky physiques that you see in the some of the muscle mags. The years and hours of hard work these men and women have put into training their bodies to achieve these types of results is inspirational. Maybe YOU also want build massive muscles, or maybe you want to increase muscle but without getting as muscular as that. You can! There are different stages of building muscle which is what I am going to talk about today.

Building Muscle for Toning 

You can build muscle for muscle tone. Using lighter weights and more repetitions you can achieve a toned appearance without bulking up. If building Muscle for Body Shaping and Sculpting your weights will need to be slightly heavier for some body parts yet lighter for others. Being able to transform your current body type by using resistance or weight training is exciting and possible.

Body Building / BIG Muscle Mass

 

To create large amounts of muscle growth you need to damage the muscle to a certain extreme for your muscles to respond, repair and grow into strong, healthy muscles. Using heavy weights damages the muscle sufficiently to create this type of muscle damage.

Training to build muscle

 

This varies on your goals of what you want your body to look like. Using a program that is suited to your body type and goals is very important when trying to build muscle of any kind. Don’t expect to reach your goals by just turning up at a gym and messing around with a few weights and hoping for the best. If you want maximum results from your training program then you should get yourself a training program that will get you long-term effective results.

Eating to Build Muscle 

This depends on what your goals are. If you are wanting to build huge muscles you will need to consume more calories. You will need a healthy eating program which includes all of the food groups. You will also need to make sure you have sufficient protein and carbohydrates to help you get through your training and for healthy repair of your muscles. If you were still wanting to build lean muscle and aren’t too keen on too much muscle size then you may want to reduce your calories and fat and arrange your diet to fit in with your fat burning training goals. If light toning and fat loss is what you are after then you will once again also need to carefully watch your calorie and fat intake, while still ensuring that your body gets sufficient nutrition. No matter what your training goals are never starve yourself. Regular meals through out the day are very important.

Starting Your Muscle Building Program 

1. You don’t need a lot of equipment, even dumbbells on their own are great to start with.

2. Make sure you have a program to follow that suits your needs and gives you sufficient instructions on how to perform your exercises.

3. When performing your exercises keep your knees slightly bent, your back straight and your tummy firm, even when you are performing seated exercises you need to make sure you have good posture.

4. Don’t swing your weights about. If you are finding that you are swinging your body around to lift your weights then you should lower the weights until you are ready to advance.

5. Perform your exercises correctly. If, as I mentioned above, that you have to swing your body or your weights around then you are probably more likely to be giving your lower back a crappy workout rather than the body part you thought you were training. Don’t waste precious training time by not using good form while training.

6. Always keep a water bottle near by so have easy access to fluids while training. This will keep you from dehydrating.

7. Make sure you perform a warm up before training and cool down after wards. While your muscles are still warm, after your cool down, you may like to perform your stretches.

8. Sleep! You need to have sufficient sleep to ensure your body has time to repair itself and recover from your days training and general activities.

9. Organise your eating plan ahead of time so that you can have your meals on hand. This will help prevent you from consuming junk as well as keeping up with regular meal times.

10. Protein. You will need sufficient protein intake in your diet to help supplement your muscle development. Protein shakes are fantastic for this. For more info on this read my “article” on protein.

A few words before I go……

I hope this article has given you a better idea of what is involved in Building Muscle. You need to choose what you really want to gain from your training programs and then seek out a program that suits those goals. If you’re keen to get started on a training program that is suited to your body type and goals then feel free to visit my site: http://www.virtualfitnesstrainer.com

Happy Training!

Yours in fun, health and fitness

Mandy Gibbons

http://www.virtualfitnesstrainer.com

 

Persons who are of good health, suspect of their health or are aware of any conditions, physical deficiencies or diseases should always consult a physician before undertaking any eating or exercise program. Mandy Gibbons,Virtual Fitness Trainer, www.virtualfitnesstrainer.com.au and www.virtualfitnesstrainer.com disclaims any liability or loss in connection with the above program or advice given in this article

Muscle Building with Vince DelMonte

As everyone that follows this blog sees in the reviews and articles, I tend to promote and review a few products and today I thought I would dig into one of the really big one and that is the Vince DelMonte No Nonsense Muscle Building Program. Often what we see and do is covered in a book or two but Vince has a lot to offer and I will try to cover everything in this review.

What is Vince DelMonte No Nonsense Muscle Building Program?

 

The No-Nonsense Muscle Building program was written especially for those who have trouble gaining muscle mass, those who are skinny, and people who are tired of trying a hundred different things with no results. The No-Nonsense Muscle Building ebook’s 52 week system is guaranteed to work, or you get your money back.

It also comes with the full No-Nonsense Muscle Building package that contains guides, videos, and mp3 for iPod. These guides tell you how to eat and how to use anabolic workouts designed to make you gain ten pounds of muscle in two weeks.

No-Nonsense Muscle Building is an ebook that teaches readers how to cut through muscle building myths and how to get in the best shape of their lives. Here’s a No-Nonsense Muscle Building review so you can see if this is the ebook you’ve been looking for.

What does the The No-Nonsense Muscle Building program contain?

Well quite a lot actually, The No-Nonsense Muscle Building program includes:

- No Nonsense Muscle Building, the top-selling, 201 page manual
- The Beginner-Intermediate 29 Week Intensive Plan
- Advanced 29 Week MaxPower Plan
- The Upside Down Training ebook
- The Empowered Nutrition ebook with five 84 Day Healthy Mass Meal
- PlansThe Insane Exercise Demonstrator
- The Metabolic Growth ebookThe Supplement Watch Files: Vince’s
- Personally Reviewed Nutritionals Collection
- The Exclusive Unforgivable Bodybuilding Sins Audio Expose
- The Instant 24/7 Fitness Coach, which is a database of weightlifting and bodybuilding answers
- The Unlimited E-Book and Program Updates
- The No Nonsense Muscle Building DVD.

That is certainly a lot and Vince talks about all of it on the crazy long sales page for his product.

How much does the Vince DelMonte No Nonsense Muscle Building Program cost?

 

The core Vince DelMonte No Nonsense Muscle Building Program is $77. This seems to be quite a bit of money but depending how serious that you are about building muscle mass this will seem like a great deal or maybe too expensive, it all depends on what value you put on muscle building. There si also an upgraded program that includes much more and that program is $107

What do the Pros think of Vince DelMonte?

 

I have found a few reviews of the program. First from the owner of Iron Magazine had this to say:

"If you are interested in getting more muscular, there is a new muscle building product that you must check out, by Vince DelMonte that is taking the fitness industry by storm. It’s the same system Vince used to defeat the worst ’skinny genetics’ (Vince used to be a long distance runner) in the world and pack on a clean, 41-pound or rock-hard granite-like muscle in just under 24 weeks."

It the same system that earned him 1st place at the Canadian Fitness Model Championships in Windsor Ontario in November 2005. The same system that has been featured numerous times at Bodybuilding.com and in the international fitness magazine, Maximum Fitness.

Therefore, when Vince decides to reveal his muscle building secrets then you just have to take a look.

Vince’s program takes a unique approach to frequency and intensity which allows you gain lots of muscle mass very quickly and without getting a pot belly in the process. This program allows you to do it all without taking dangerous steroids that destroy your liver, taking expensive supplements that dry out your wallet and without sacrificing the life you want to live by only a few intense training hours per week.

Also Body Bulding Muscles in their review said:

"Vince Delmonte is a great fitness trainer and he knows exactly how to go about his job in training you to be the next fitness champion. He trains your body and also trains your mind in giving away the negative attitude and unhealthy habits for a better living. Also, this program has a lot of stuff on fitness along with muscle building and that will help you in long run. Vince is a perfectionist and has left nothing to assure your success and if you follow him then there is nothing that can stop you from walking the ramp with a dazzling body, so if you have committed to yourself then this is the best time to stop thinking and getting started."

Is the Vince DelMonte No Nonsense Muscle Building Program worth it?

I was looking for another product to review, something that is really a big bodybuilding program instead of all of the weight loss programs that I generally review and this program came out on top. I know that many readers here are more interested in fat loss than a lot of muscle gain and for those people this is not the book for them. Also if you are looking for a book or program that will just imporve your fitness level than this probably is not for you either as this is geared again just to building muscle and you will probably not follow through if this is not your motivation in the first place. Now if you are in fact looking for the giant beach body. If you have trouble gaining muscle or you feel like the next step in your fitness goals is to join a gym and get huge and do not want to waste your time overtaining or taking too many supplements then this is a great program for you.

So, There it is a huge program for building muscle, expecially for hardgainers and those trying to gain and failing to get the muscle mass. For a dieter though, not such a great program.