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Fat Loss Made Simple
by Dr. Kareem F. Samhouri, CSCS, HFS
Neuro Metabolic Fat Loss & Fitness Expert

Fat loss is not nearly as hard as people make it out to be.  Losing fat at the fastest speed possible comes down to 3 basic principles:

1. Intensity
2. Choosing the right exercises
3. Customization for best effect

Intensity:

This is the #1 mistake I see people make when working out.  People work out and socialize or distract themselves with another activity, such as reading or watching TV.  Exercise should be focused and should involve great intention.  The intention you have when approaching your exercise program will ultimately dictate your results.  Intending to be intense, drive yourself for a personal best with each workout, and learn about your body as you go through your program will lead to rapid success, time and time again.

You have to believe in yourself, and you have to take an interest in your own body.  I recommend that you ask yourself the following 3 questions before beginning any workout you do:

1. How far can I push myself?
2. Can I have a better understanding of my body by the end of this workout?
3. What one, specific thing, do I want to improve upon today and how will I get there?

Intensity is a great starting point.  By challenging yourself to overcome ‘intensity barriers’ and developing the proper rest periods in order to do so, you are overcoming one of the most difficult areas in fitness.  The human mind is so much more powerful than we give ourselves credit, and the ability to overcome any obstacle is much more in reach than we often realize.

Teach your body to obey your mind and you will win.

Choosing The Right Exercises:

This is the most difficult area for most people who are losing fat.  The easiest answer here is to find a trusted resource in fat loss and follow his/her (my) lead.  We are happy to help, but it’s best if you make it a point to educate yourself along the way.  It’s the only way to truly become independent with your exercise program.

Naturally, it helps to keep the Triple M Method for Rapid Fat Loss (TM) in mind when selecting your exercises.  As a review, this is:

1. Muscle Balancing
2. Movement Complexes
3. Multi-Planar Movement

As a quick summary, this combination of factors in an exercise program, when paired with exercises that prevent adaptation and provide work for all 3 energy systems, is a powerful approach to fat loss.  Learning how to choose exercises properly and stack them for the greatest effect is a lifelong pursuit.

My best recommendation for someone who is ready to lose fat rapidly and succeed with their goals is to start on the fat loss journey by modeling a successful approach while simultaneously empowering themselves with an education in their own bodies and program design.  This way, you’ll be able to enjoy cosmetic results, increased levels of energy, and the concept of fitness success.  There is no better motivator than results.

Customization For Best Fat Loss Effect:

This is neat, very neat.

While you learn about your body, you will naturally improve here.  However, finding an example of a single exercise program modified for multiple individuals and then analyzing which is most appropriate for you and your needs will cut away most of the learning curve.  It’s amazing how fast you’ll be able to customize your exercise program for you specific body-type, gender, age, and exercise skill level when you see the same program adapted to multiple people.

This is like a personal training internship with a physical therapist developing the program.  Over time, the intern turns into the program developer and the therapist sits back with a look of pride on her/his face as s/he watches in enjoyment.  It’s a proud feeling for both of us.

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Stay tuned for an amazingly exciting announcement in less than 12 hours from the time this article was published.  The Double Edged Fat Loss DVD’s are about to hit the market, and they will teach you how to implement all 3 of the most important areas of fat loss.  You will be able to workout with me, in your home, and see me train 2 people at a time, completely live.  If they have an injury, we’ll work around it.  If they need a level adjustment, we’ll do it on set.

This is the perfect next step for you.  These DVD’s will change your world.  They are intentionally the same workouts as the DEFL 2.0 site, but you’ll see what a difference it makes when you work out with me… changes the game.  It’s almost time…

have a great day,

Kareem

PS – If enough people comment below, the price goes down on the DVD’s.  Basically, show me you’re interested and I’ll hook you up.  Pretty simple, huh?

hey everybody,

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Basically, I’ll help you evaluate your personal “fat loss walls”, design a program centered on you, specifically, and personally help coach you to success.  This is a real-world value of over $2000/month.  I currently have a 6 month waiting list at my practice, and I’m only taking a limited number of personalized coaching clients online, in total.  Today, you can have your spot, absolutely FREE.

Here’s how you enter the contest:

Tell me your fat loss and fitness goals for the first 16 weeks of 2011 and what this truly means to you.  The #1 response wins.

It’s that simple.  Everyone has an equal chance to win.

I’m looking forward to coaching you.

Good luck!

-Kareem

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hey everybody,

Wow!  I absolutely love your feedback from the Fat Loss Dilemma Post – Why You’re Not Getting Results As Fast As You Should.

I’m back with another video above, and I’m going to teach you how to blow up your fat loss results and truly take charge, once and for all.  This material has never been taught online before, to the best of my knowledge, but it makes all the difference.

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When you finish clicking the ‘like’ button, be sure to leave a comment or question… if enough people do, I’ll be back tomorrow with an offer that will totally blow you away (hint:  FREE customization by yours truly, for just one lucky person…) – but only if enough people get involved.

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Leave your comments and questions below – we’ve  started a great conversation and it’s about to get even better.

have a great day,

Kareem

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hey everybody,

It’s time that we talk about the difference in programming between training like a pro and struggling for results for an unnecessary amount of time.  I used to be just like you, and I understand the difference between the fastest path to success and the beaten path that’s worked so poorly for so long.

Watch the video above and you’ll begin understanding exactly what I’m talking about.  When you’re done, be sure to leave your comments/questions below.  If enough people comment, I’ll be back tomorrow with the solution.

have a great day,

Kareem

PS – what else do you think might be stopping you from getting results as fast as you should?

Build Muscle & Improve Your Metabolism:
4 Awesome Techniques (Part 1)

by Dr. Kareem F. Samhouri, CSCS, HFS
Neuro Metabolic Fitness & Strength Expert

If you missed yesterday’s post on why your body is stopping you from building muscle and losing fat, you can see it by going right here.

Here are 4 awesome techniques that you can use, which we’ll continue to talk about over the next few days, in order to build muscle and increase your metabolism:

1. Partial range of motion training to work on strength of bones and connective tissue
2. High rep, moderate weight, explosive training for targeting the nervous system to increase efficiency and strength
3. Very high rep training to increase capillary density
4. Fascial stretching to expand the room the muscles have to grow

Partial ROM Training:

If you’ve been working out for awhile, you may have heard of this in sets like ‘Bicep 7’s’, amongst others, where you would do the first 1/3rd of a bicep curl 7 times, then the middle 1/3rd, then the top 1/3rd, finishing off with 7 full reps.

This is a killer way to stimulate more muscle growth in the biceps and build a stronger elbow joint, but why does it work and how can it be applied to other exercises?

Partial ROM Training promotes increase neurological input to the entirety of your muscle.  In other words, by spending time emphasizing each place in the range of motion, you are delivering a greater signal input to your each section of your muscle.  

However, that’s only the beginning of what this does.

By learning how to properly recruit your muscle in each angle and position of the exercise, you are actually ‘training your muscles’ to respond to real life environments where they are needed, such as catching a falling object and having the strength to hold on.  

You are teaching your body to build ligamentous strength with Wolf’s Law.

Basically, Wolf’s Law suggests that your body will respond to any stress or demand repeatedly placed upon it.  That’s why step aerobics works to build bone.  

Ligaments build strength by minor stretch being placed on them repeatedly.

Partial range of motion training tends to do this in specific ranges of motion for each related ligament.  Capsules respond the same way.  Your bones learn to accept stress or shock in various degrees over time and increase in density in the areas related to this exercise.  This helps reduce incidence of fracture and build a solid base for future growth.

Applying this to every muscle group is easy, but seems complicated at first.  Here’s one quick strategy you can do with any exercise you are currently performing to instantly start to reap this benefit:

1. Divide the exercise in 3 parts (beginning, middle, end)
2. Do 7 reps of the first 1/3rd, 7 reps of the middle 1/3rd, 7 reps of the last 1/3rd.
3. When you finish all 3 thirds, be sure to hit the full range of motion so that you get functional carryover to the exercise.  This is key.

For example, with a squat, here’s what you’d do:

1. Squat down 1/3rd of the way, stand back up using your glutes.  Repeat x 7 reps
2. Squat down from 1/3rd to 2/3rd in the squat, constantly keeping your quads, glutes, and hamstrings under tension while stabilizing through your cored.  Repeat x 7 reps
3. Squat down from 2/3rd depth to a full 90 degree squat, emphasizing greater glute recruitment as you go through this part of the range of motion.  Repeat x 7 reps
4. Perform 7 full squats, being sure to hit momentary muscular failure by the time you’re done.  You should choose your weight appropriately to fatigue out on this rep.

Awesome!

How’d it go?

What questions do you have for me?

Did you like this muscle growth strategy?

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