Eliminate Alcohol Consumption for Fat Loss!

Alcohol consumption is a major obstacle to fat loss. I don’t know how much diet and exercise effort goes to waste every weekend when you have that wine or beer. If you’re serious about your health and body composition goals, then you need to eliminate your drinking until you get to your goals. Once you’re there, you can afford to play around with how much you can have and monitor yourself so that you don’t end up gaining all your weight back. The biggest mistake that I see people make is allowing themselves to drink on the weekends. That's like a smoker who is trying to quit while allowing himself a night of smoking every week. That's not how you quit. It just doesn't work, and drinking every Saturday is not how you lose fat. I don’t mind if you have an alcoholic drink on special occasions, but I do mind it if it happens to be every weekend.

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Cell Phones Zap Your Brain!

Many people think that I’m behind the rest of the world when it comes to technology, all because I decide not to sign my life away to a cell phone or a blackberry. Reason being is that I really enjoy being in control of my life and not having my self available 24-7 for conversations that can wait. Here is another reason as to why I choose not to have a sell phone on me.





Now imagine your brain :)

TRAINING YOUR TRAPS!

Today, I was approached by a member wanting to know, ‘what is the best way to blast your traps?’ I knew before I answered him that he wouldn't be impressed with my response, but I went ahead and gave him my two cents.

My answer? HEAVY DEADLIFTS. As I suspected, the young man seemed to expect a different response. “Well…. what about shrugs?” he asked. I then asked him how long has he been doing shrugs for now and what type of gains has he made using such isolated trap raises. He didn’t have anything to say to that, thanked me, turned around and went on to load a BB in the squat rack for more shrugs.

Here's the point: think of guys like bodybuilding legend Ronnie Coleman, who had a very impressive set of traps, or Johnnie Jackson, who looks like he’s got something growing out of his neck. Both of these athletes have something in common. Can you guess what it is? Both Ronnie and Johnnie come from power lifting backgrounds. They have some pretty impressive numbers as far as poundage goes, and they deadlift. They deadlift heavy! So if two of the best bodybuilders in the world don’t shrug to get those traps, why not learn from the best?



Next time you want to ‘isolate’ a muscle and do countless numbers of sets/reps of trap raises via grip in front then back, switching back and forth between bb’s and db’s, don't bother unless you really enjoy wasting your time. Try some heavy deadlifts instead. Not only will you add some size to your traps, but you’ll also improve the rest of your physique.