The Mind Over Body Matter Letter

Here are Craig Ballantyne’s Big 5 Fat Burning Exercises:

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Turbulence Training

You can’t boost your metabolism with supplements. Or at least not enough to cause weight loss. This is hope in a bottle, but this hope doesn’t stand a chance. It doesn’t work.

One misconception is that caffeine boosts your metabolism, but I’ve also heard that fish oil, protein, CLA, and green tea will do it, too. As with the fat burning zone, this myth comes from a distortion of science.

Green tea, for example, was shown to increase the daily energy expenditure of young men by eighty calories per day. Now, that’s great news for the people who make supplements because they can put that claim on their label, but what that doesn’t take into account is that people’s bodies adapt to a stimulus.

If there is any benefit to taking a particular supplement, by the end of the week, your body has adjusted to the chemical and no longer reacts to it. And that’s why, as a recent study showed, that taking Green Tea supplements for 12 weeks did not cause any fat loss. Most supplements seem to be nothing more than glorified caffeine pills.

Let’s think of this another way. Say for example that green tea extract actually did help you burn an additional eighty calories per day. It is agreed upon by most trainers that one pound of fat is equal to 3,500 calories. Even if the supplement worked as intended, then it would take nearly a month and half to lose one pound!

Unfortunately, you’ll find big promises from supplements in every magazine, and it is very difficult to avoid the allure of the quick fixes that supplements present. Supplements make you think, “Why work out when you can take a pill?”

And as long as there are people who aren’t willing to work for their results, there will always be a product claiming to work miracles.

Unlike these “miracle” supplements, research repeatedly shows that both strength training and interval training can help boost your metabolism and burn fat.

In one study, women did a strength training session with eight repetitions per exercise and had a significant increase in their post-exercise metabolism. This is just another example of how short burst training will burn more calories and more fat. These are proven results that no diet pill can compete with.

Boost your metabolism with hard work, not the easy way out,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

About the Author

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. Click here for more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment.

Here’s an email that I got today about the new launch of Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training For Abs:

Hey Brad,

You’ll never have to do another useless crunch on a stinky, sweaty dirty gym mat or hotel room floor EVER again!

…because Men’s Health expert, Craig Ballantyne, has just released his new CRUNCH-FREE Home Abdominal Workout program.

But hurry, only the first 100 copies come with his extra special gift for you worth $59.85…

And you’ll get his new program that features 5 new TT for Abs workout programs including…

1) The 4-Week Beginner Introduction to CRUNCH-FREE Ab Workout

2) The 4-Week Intermediate Level ANTI-CRUNCH Ab Workout

3) And THREE Advanced 4-Week Home Abdominal Workouts

PLUS, you’ll get…

4) The “TT Abs 300″ Workout Challenges (including one for beginners, intermediate, and advanced fitness levels)

5) The Bodyweight Abs program that you can do anytime, anywhere, without a single piece of equipment. (This program comes with beginner and advanced versions too!)

All that, AND STILL MORE…

The TT for Abs Home Abdominal Workouts also comes with…

a) The Advanced Ab Nutrition Meal Plans for Men & Women

b) The 5 Motivational Secrets to STOP Cheating on Your Diet and Never Skip Another Workout Again

PLUS, the first 100 men and women to grab their copy gets a 3-month TT Basic Level Membership to the TT forums and workout of the month club.

AND FINALLY, he’s added THREE more 4-week programs to sweeten the deal and keep you burning fat for another 2-3 months. When you grab your copy before Wednesday, July 23rd at midnight, you’ll get:

1) The NEW “Hot Zone TT Fat Loss Workout”…

…showing you how 4 simple exercises hit all the fat burning hot zones of the body and help you boost metabolism and burn more
belly fat.

2) “Bikini Ready Abs”…

…from America’s #1 Fat Loss expert for Mom’s, Holly Rigsby, giving you another “IN-HOME” fat burning abdominal workout you can do with minimal equipment.

3) The Big 5 Fat Burning TT Circuit Workout…

…revealing one of the most popular and innovative fat burning workouts Craig has ever put together. If you love burning fat with
circuits, you’ll love this simple 5 exercise solution to getting rid of stubborn belly fat.

WHEW!

That’s an incredible offer, but its only here for 3 days…

…So That You Can Burn Belly Fat and Work Your Abs in the Comfort of Your Own Home…

As you can see by HIS PHOTO on his new site, he knows how to get abs without doing crunches or long, slow boring cardio. And he’ll show you all NEW workouts to help you do the same.

Check out Craig’s abs and get his new program HERE:

=> Turbulence Training For Abs

But remember…

1) Only the first 100 copies get the extra bonus worth $59.85

2) The “Biking Ready Abs”, “Hot Zone Fat Loss”, and “Big 5 Circuit Workout” are only available as FREE GIFTS for the next 3 days. They are gone after Wednesday, to be put back in Craig’s workout vault for Platinum TT members only.

WHY IS HE DOING THIS?

Because he knows you can’t wait any longer to get working on your abs…summer is here and passing us by - and so are your chances to impress everyone with a new body on the beach, at concerts, or in backyard BBQ’s.

Check out TT for Abs for all of the details on this Limited-Time Special Offer:

=> Turbulence Training For Abs

So save time and money by grabbing your copy today. But hurry, this Special Offer expires and VANISHES - Poof, just like your belly fat will - at midnight on July 23rd.

Get started with the all NEW Turbulence Training for Abs Home Abdominal Workouts here:

=> Turbulence Training For Abs

Helping you look great this summer,

Steve

P.S. The bonuses are gone after July 23rd. In fact, only the first 100 copies get the 3-Month TT Membership bonus. So don’t wait, those will be gone before noon on Monday!

Visit Craig’s site to see his abs & get this limited time offer:

=> Turbulence Training For Abs

Okay, so I got this email earlier today… and I’m sure you’re probably getting a few emails that are just like this in your inbox.

After all, it’s a product launch, and that’s kinda how it works.

But here’s the deal.

I made Craig give me a copy of this before I even mentioned this launch to you one way or another.

Now, don’t get me wrong… Craig’s a good friend… but as they say in old gangster movies…

Friends is friends and business is business (I think that’s from New Jack City… lol)

Anyway, so what’s the skinny?

Basically, Turbulence Training For Abs is an ab program (duh)… that focuses on abs WITHOUT DOING A SINGLE CRUNCH!

Now, obviously, I haven’t had time to go through 4 weeks of the program to tell you if it’s gonna work or not… but I AM familiar enough with the concepts to know when something is on the MONEY or not.

I think you should test this out.

Naturally, you’re free to do as you wish (lol)… but if you’re looking for a new program to try… why don’t you give this a whirl?

Turbulence Training For Abs

(Oh, by the way, go check out the site and check out Bally’s abs… pretty jakked I’d say… haha)

The Best Cardio Intervals for Fat Loss… by Craig Ballantyne

Is there really a best interval training system for fat loss?

Do intervals really work as well as regular cardio for fat loss?

I’m going to cover these, and many more questions in Part 1 of your lessons on interval training.

But this is not just interval training 101. Today, you’re going to leave this article with a graduate degree in interval training for fat loss.

I’ll answer both questions upfront before the lesson begins, and I’ll give more details on each as we go along:

1) Conservatively, intervals are at least as effective as regular aerobic training for fat loss. Personally, I believe intervals are
far superior. And there is no denying that intervals allow you to get your workouts done a lot faster than slow, boring cardio
workouts.

2) I have to admit, there is no best interval training program for fat loss. But that is a good thing, because there are so many ways that you can change your interval training to keep your fat loss results coming week in and week out.

By changing your training program every three to four weeks, you are using one of the key principles of Turbulence Training - variety. It is essential to change your workouts this frequently, otherwise you might suffer from a dreaded fat loss plateau.

And if that is the case for you now, I’ll show you dozens of alternative interval training workouts you can use to kick-start your metabolism and fat loss.

Now what many people don’t know, or perhaps just fail to recognize, is that interval training is not just for advanced fitness superstars. No way. In fact, intervals are an effective and perhaps even the most effective method for beginners to get fit and lose fat.

First you have to understand that interval training is based on relative performance. While my intervals would be much too hard for a beginner, my intervals would be a joke for Lance Armstrong.

So even for those men and women that are just dipping their toe into the fitness waters for the first time in months, years, or dare I say, decades, they too can do interval training.

If you are a beginner and you can walk at 3.3mph for 20 minutes, then your intervals will start at a walk at 3.6mph for 30 seconds to a minute. That is interval training.

It doesn’t have to be high-intensity, sprint-to-the-death activity.

Instead, just increase the intensity slightly more than you can normally handle, and do so for a short time, and intersperse that
with periods of easier exercise for twice the duration.

So if you did 1 minute at 3.6mph, drop down to 3.0mph for 2 minutes. Do that up to 6 times, and you’ve had yourself an interval session.

Now for those of you that have been doing only slow, traditional cardio, switching over to interval training 2-3 times per week is
going to be the fat loss equivalent of throwing a lit, gasoline soaked rag on a pile of dry kindling.

Here’s why…research has given us a lot of evidence that intervals are superior to traditional cardio.

First, a study from Laval University in 1994 compared interval training to aerobic training - straight up - over a 12 week training period. Subjects that used interval training had better results.

They lost more fat. You can’t argue with that.

And second, interval training causes metabolic turbulence - also known as boost in your metabolism. Due to the high-intensity nature of intervals, there is more “turbulence” applied to the muscle. That means more muscle breakdown and more adaptations in the muscle.

Now I know that sounds very technical, but all you need to understand is that when all this extra activity goes on at the muscle level, it requires a lot more energy to return your muscle back to normal (i.e. to get out of turbulence and back to a normal resting state).

And when your body uses more energy, it means, in laymen’s terms, that you are burning more calories.

So it’s important for men and women not too get hung up on the calorie counters in the gym. First, because the calorie count of the workout is not the only factor in determining fat loss.

(intervals burn far more calories after the workout - more on that latter).

And second, a report on CBS showed that the calorie counters on some machines are often significantly inaccurate.

Doesn’t that boil your blood when you think back to all those times you did slow, boring cardio and patiently watched the calorie counter creep up to your goal of 250, 300, or even 400 calories?

And who knows if that was even accurate?

With intervals, you can forget about the calories on the machine.

Just work hard, do the intervals, then leave the gym and let your muscles continue burning calories on its own while it recovers from exercise.

OK, time is up, so I’m going to leave off here for Part 1. (more next Sunday… so come back for more

I apologize, you don’t have your Master’s of Science Degree in Interval Training yet, but you will after Part 2.

So your homework between now and next week’s class is to start incorporating interval training into your fat loss program. For beginners, see the outline above. Make sure to include a 5-minute specific warm-up and cool-down.

And if you truly did just peel yourself off the couch last week and you have not exercised in years, I insist that you see a doctor before you take up any exercise program. Believe me, you’ll thank yourself for it.

For more advanced fitness levels, let’s start with 60 second intervals.

Do a 5-minute specific warm-up, then exercise for 60 seconds at a slightly harder than normal cardio pace.

Follow that with 90 seconds of exercise at a very easy pace. (Don’t exercise too hard in the recovery period - that is one of the biggest mistakes people make with interval training!). Repeat this sequence for 3 more intervals (let’s just do 4 intervals for your first session).

Through trial and error, find an intensity that allows you to work to near fatigue - but not complete fatigue, there should still be some “gas” left in the tank - by the end of the 60 second interval.

In the next newsletter, I’ll discuss at least 6 different interval durations and when you should use them, as well as the best interval training methods - and don’t miss when I expose the most ineffective machine in the gym.

Hint - It is also the most common machine these days, yet I’ve yet to see a single person change their body by using this machine for their cardio and intervals.

(Don’t forget to check out my awesome Turbulence Training program… you can’t argue with the results…)

Here’s a video by Craig Ballantyne showing you his favorite 6 pack ab movements… then… check out the CRAZY abs this one cat has in the video below…

Sick…

… seriously.