What is the secret to a long and healthy life?  It is in the food that we eat.  As you well know, all foods are not created equal.  Choosing and eating the right foods may help increase your life expectancy as well as the quality of your life.

Here are ten of the top power packed foods designed to give you energy, vitality and all around good health!

1. Beans – If they give you gas, take precautions before you eat them.  Soaking them first can help.  Beans of all kinds (kidney, navy, lentils, chickpeas, Northern) are high in protein.  This is plant protein so it contains very little fat, carbs and calories.  If fiber is a problem in your diet, eating a healthy portion of beans each day can keep your digestive system healthy.

2. Oatmeal – Oatmeal is coming into popularity as a food that lowers blood cholesterol.  You can make it yourself with rolled oats or eat the instant kind if you are in a hurry.  Oatmeal is a filling grain that also provides much needed fiber to keep hunger at bay and your blood sugar constant. (more…)

With alot of fat loss programs they are usually touted by individuals who sit behind desks and have never lifted a weight in their life and that really annoys me, having spent many years of blood sweat and tears in the gym.

Now I have long been a fan of  muscle building and fat shredding guru Jeff Anderson who created the Optimum Anabolics natural testosterone boosting workout program which I still use regularly to boost muscle gains.  Jeff spent many years in the US army as a fitness coach and body conditioning instructor and has applied this knowledge and also thorough scientific research to come up with a revolutionary fat burning program that is designed to banish ugly belly fat and get you in your best shape ever.

Now the program is called Combat the Fat and it uses the most powerful fat burning strategies to keep you lean healthy and strong.

Here is where it gets exciting I have decided to personally take on the 12 week Combat the Fat challenge and give this revolutionary fat burning program a go and I want you to join me guys and gals…….. starting on June 8th

Yes that’s right join me from day one all the way through the 12 weeks. I shall be creating a secure website just for our use. You will be able to send in your before pictures and progress pictures as well as sharing your daily workout experiences and feelings. I shall be available to offer advice throughout so let’s get down to it and burn off that belly fat, feed off each other and get shredded.

To join me on the secure server website simply join Combat the Fat here and then send me an email to dave@sixpackquest.com with just your name and title Combat the Fat and all the details will be supplied.

Lets get started and get yourself that healthy lean chiselled body!

Have you ever experienced muscle soreness from your last workout?  Having sore muscles is a good reason to skip a
workout, right?  Maybe, maybe not.

Sore muscles and weight lifting go together like celebrities and breakups, especially if you are a beginner or coming back to weight training.

If you’re the typical male, you’ve commonly forgotten to check your ego at the door and lift too much weight rather than building gradually into your workouts.

If you’re too busy to finish reading this, my best and simple advice is to lower the intensity and work through it if you
have sore muscles and scheduled for a workout. Sore muscles are weak and damaged and if you expose them to more high intensity, it can lead to further damage, delayed recovery and potentially injury.

Getting muscle soreness is very common and a trial-and-error experience because you’re not sure what you can handle and what you can not handle.

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It’s 2009. Your old excuses for not getting in shape won’t work. As Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) said, ZIP IT! I don’t want to hear them anymore! Read em’, then haul your excuseless butt to the gym!

1. I have no time.

According to a story in a recent issue of Men’s Health magazine, Barack Obama works out for 45 minutes a day, 6 days a week. Obama doesn’t just play basketball either. Our new president stays fit to lead with cardio and weight lifting. He also says he wishes he could train 90 minutes a day. Have you ever seen what the daily schedule of a U.S. president looks like? If the busiest man in the world can train every day for 45 minutes a day, then what’s your excuse? ZIP IT! You ain’t got one!

2. It’s too expensive.

Getting in shape certainly is expensive… if you keep wasting hundreds of dollars, month after month on worthless “miracle” weight loss pills, internal cleansing gimmicks and “magic” potions that all claim to make you slim. Deceptive advertising and slick marketing for bogus diet aids is more rampant than ever. 2008 was the year of thewu-long tea scam, the acai berry scam, and, of course, the ubiquitous “cleansing” and “detox” gimmicks . Unless you put on your critical thinking cap and learn to investigate before you invest, then you’ll get scammed by 2009’s flavor of the year as well. Your quest for those elusive “6-pack” abs will not only continue to be expensive, you’ll go broke. Walking, jogging, calisthenics and body weight exercises are FREE. If you want to know what’s really expensive, tally up the cost of legitimate expenses like natural food, gym memberships, fitness education, dumbbells and so on, and compare that to your doctor’s bill when you’re sick.

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Combine these 2 powerful exercises to see  your abs FAST!
Sure there’s a time for “micro-targeting” your abs to really dig in deep and shred some muscle fibers.

But you know that this is only HALF of the battle, right?

If you really want to see your 6-pack, you’re gonna have to shred some FAT as well and the exercise I’m going to show you will help you accomplish BOTH…

…at the same time!

You see, by working a “chain” of muscles together, you can not only target muscle fibers for growth, but you also recruit more TOTAL muscle fibers.

This helps by increasing overall calorie expenditure DURING your workout…

…and jacks up your metabolism even higher AFTER your workout!

Here’s a GREAT exercise that demonstrates this powerful principle:

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If you’re interested in discovering some areas where you may be going wrong in your abs training and your attempts at losing stomach fat, I have an interview for you below that you’ll want to read.

In it, Men’s Health Magazine writer Craig Ballantyne, grills Abs-Expert Mike Geary, author of the internationally popular book, The Truth about Six Pack Abs, on the topic of abs training and the biggest myths and mistakes he sees in this field.

Also, be sure to check out Mike’s site at: http://www.getasixpackfast.net

Here’s a copy of the first half of the interview below. In this part of the interview today, we’ll just deal with training aspects.

In a couple days, I’ll send out the rest of the interview, which Craig and Mike covered the nutrition aspects we need to consider to lose stomach fat and get those hidden abs to show. Enjoy!
CB: Okay Mike, so where does the average man or woman go wrong when it comes to training abs?

MG: Most people are probably going to be surprised with this answer. In their quest for ’six pack abs’, the biggest mistake I see people making is wasting WAY too much of their time training their abs directly… pumping away with all kinds of different abs-specific exercises.

I’m sure you know what I’m referring to. The person is trying so hard to get those abs to show, that they’re spending almost all of their time in the gym with hundreds of reps of various crunches, leg raises, twisting exercises, etc. Meanwhile, all of that wasted time directly training the abs could have been better spent on a properly designed full body workout program that would elicit a much better metabolic response and increase the fat-burning hormone levels in their body as well. (more…)