Your (Fitness) Dreams

This is a great guest article written by Martin Bolduc, the author of The Ultimate Guide To Express Fatloss.

"Today I want to talk about something little bit different than nutrition, fitness or workouts, although it can apply juts as well to those areas.

I want to talk about your DREAMS. The dreams you have for fitness, in your personal life, or for your career. Never let anyone destroy your dreams. Your dreams are your ultimate goals. You have to do everything you can to achieve them. On your road to achieving your dreams, you will always meet some nasty people who try to discourage you. Those people are real losers.

You don’t need those people around you, and if you feel those people bring you further instead of closer of your dreams, let them go.

Every time you come closer to your dreams, some people will try everything they can to stop you. Why they do this? Like I said, they are losers. They don’t have the motivation to work for their own dreams, so they cannot achieve what they dream of in their life and they get jealous. Especially when you start to get some great results, you have to be very solid to maintain the right focus to reach it. That can make some people very jealous.

Have you ever seen a bucket full of crabs? They pinch and pull as they struggle to climb over one another to reach the top of the bucket – to freedom.

Ask any fisherman and they’ll tell you that a bucket full of crabs doesn’t need a lid – they simply won’t escape.

Why? Well, it’s not impossible for a crab to climb to the top, and really if they worked together it would be quite easy. But crabs don’t work together…

Instinctively crabs pull each other down-literally.

When one crab breaks away from the pack, reaching its pinchers toward the top of the bucket, the others promptly grab onto the escapee’s leg, pulling him back down. That crab is then pushed to the bottom of the pile and his dream of freedom is crushed.

People have a way of acting just like a bucket of crabs. Have you ever decided on a personal goal only to have someone in your life talk you out of it?

Do you have crabs in your life? A crab is…

* The person who discourages you from going to the gym
* The person who scoffs when you mention your weight loss goals
* The person who snickers when you choose salad over pizza

The crab mentality says “If I can’t have it, then neither can you.” When you decide to do something different, to reach for a goal and to improve yourself, the crabs in your life will do their best to hold you back.

Keep Crabs at Bay: When crabs come snapping, remember the following:

1. Ignore them: When someone in your life begins to pull you down with discouraging words, remember that you don’t have to listen. Don’t let them get into your head. Mentally tune them out or politely remove yourself from the situation. Who are they to tell you what you can or can’t achieve?
2. Understand them: Ouch! Insults and put-downs hurt, especially when they come from people that we care about. So what is the deal? Why do your friends, co-workers and even your spouse turn into crabs when you decide to improve your life? Do they really hope that you don’t succeed? The truth is that crabs are thinking about themselves-not about you. They see you attempting to better yourself and to change your life. Whether they realize it or not, this scares them. If you better yourself will you still like them? Or will you leave them behind?
3. You hold the power: Even the most persuasive crab doesn’t hold a candle to your iron will. When you are ready to change, and you’ve made up your mind without an inkling of doubt, then 90% of the work is done. Your mind is the most powerful tool at your disposal-don’t let a wimpy crab rob it from you.

Are you ready to make a positive change in your life? Don’t wait any longer. The Ultimate Guide to Express Fat Loss will give you the tools you need.

And don’t let a single crab talk you out of it!"

More tips on motivation

Many times my clients are a little scared by the pain they experience during the workouts. I'm talking about the burning sensation that you feel in your muscles during the exercise. It is actually a very normal and beneficial thing. It's just lactic acid building up, but if you feel a sharp pain in the joints stop right away.
If all you feel is just the burn in the muscle that means you're working hard, you're spending calories and you are toning your body. Let's be realistic, we have to be out of our comfort zone when we work out in order to see results. Just don't be discouraged. Remember, the "burn" in your muscles last only few minutes a week, but the benefits are for way longer . See this like is a good investment. There are 168 hours in a week, so focus on 167 hours of benefits "at the price" of 1 hour or even less of pain. It is a good deal.
Another encouraging aspect is that the more you workout the more your body will tolerate that burning sensation, because the body adapts and will increase its pain tolerance. So with time it gets easier.
And last but not the least focus on the process not only on the results. Try to think how good you feel after each of your workout and reward yourself after each week that you did good by doing something calorie free like watching a comedy . It will make you feel happy and there's no guilt attached to it. You will feel, happier, stronger and more positive.

4 Easy Ways to Bust Boredom and Stay Motivated

By this point, we all know how exercising is great for our health and well-being, and we also know that we need to exercise at least 3 times a week. But if you're like me and so many others, staying focused and motivated on your workout week after week can be challenging. Then again, we see those people at the gym who seem to always be motivated and focused on their workout and get great results. How do they do it? Here are some great tips to keep yourself engaged in your exercises:

1. Change your routine every 4-5 weeks. By doing this, you'll not only overcome monotony in your exercises, but it'll also help create "muscle confusion," avoid plateau, and stimulate your body to respond to the new exercises and get you results faster. Need new exercise ideas? Find them here.

2. Create an uptempo playlist for your workouts. Researchers have found that listening to energetic, upbeat music helps propel people to workout more vigorously. As with your workout routines, you'll want to refresh your workout playlist every 4-5 weeks to avoid falling into the "auto-pilot" trap.

3. Get a good workout partner. Having a workout partner will help you commit to your workout schedule and stay motivated...but only if you pick the right person. You'll want a workout partner who's self-motivated and is physically fit as this will help motivate you to be more disciplined.

4. Join an exercise class. Exercise classes allows you to be more social and get great energy from the group. I recommend boot camp and personal training groups because contain a good mix of cardio and resistance exercises.

Boosting Your Metabolism

In a previous article I told you why it's important to eat breakfast. This video gives us excellent tips on how to boost our metabolism, along with an easy-to-understand explanation of the science behind it all.

In addition to your eating habits, exercising also plays an important role in increasing and maintaining your metabolism. Here is a great exercise program for weight loss that I recommend. I've seen first hand how it's helped many of the people that I know to lose fat. Remember the higher the metabolism rate, the more calories we are burning.

How to save time when you workout

With our busy lives, going to the gym often takes a back seat to other priorities. Nobody has hours to spend at the gym. But I strongly believe that our health must be a priority for everyone. We just cannot afford to be unhealthy, because is painful and expensive. So, here are some tips to help you make the most of your precious time when you're working out:

1. After warm-up, start lifting weights. Choose exercises for big muscles, because the bigger the muscle, the more calories will burn. The important thing is to do exercices back to back, with minimal or no rest in between sets. This will increase the heart rate, and you'll tone your muscles and burn calories in the same time saving a lot of time.

2. Do your cardio (treadmill, bike) at the end of your workout, when your body has depleted its glycogen deposit and will switch to fatburning mode.

3. Don't do slow boring cardio. Instead, choose high intesity interval training.
With these tips, you'll be able to save yourself sometime while maximizing results
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