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The exercise ball is an excellent tool to strengthen the abs and comes out number three for working the rectus abdominis. To do it right:

1. Lie face-up with the ball resting under your mid/lower back.
2. Cross your arms over the chest or place them behind your head.
3. Contract your abs to lift your torso off the ball, pulling the bottom of your ribcage down toward your hips.
4. As you curl up, keep the ball stable (i.e., you shouldn’t roll).
5. Lower back down, getting a stretch in the abs, and repeat for 12-16 reps.

Thanks to Paige Waehner and exercise.about.com

If you are one of the many people on the planet who would want to lose weight and keep your body free from fat, then you may well give up on ways to manage your possible choices to get you on the track to great weight loss. Thanks to technology and scientific discovery, you have many different choices to pick from when you start thinking weight loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Fitness madman Jon Benson is at it again… this time telling us you can get “skinnny eating fast-food…” And he intends to prove it. Naturally you have to modify the way you eat fast-food (duh!) but his tips are really clever. Here’s 3 for you today…

Jon’s 3 fast-food fat loss-tips…

Believe it or not you can get lean by eating fast food. Read the rest of this entry »

The body core consists of the bones of the spine and pelvis and all of the many connected muscles whose job it is to stabilize that core structure. Core strength training involves exercises that are designed to increase the strength and flexibility of the muscles, tendons, and bones from the shoulders to the hips. Read the rest of this entry »

The emotional and mental strain of dieting has been felt by most people at some point in their lives. With many, those extra few pounds accumulate to a point where they get fed up and launch themselves into a dreaded DIET.

Many have asked what the toughest aspect of dieting is. There are far too many emotional and physical challenges to list in one article. However, here are a few, the last of these being what many consider to be the biggest challenge with respect to losing weight. Here are some of the most common hurdles: Read the rest of this entry »

Note:  My friend and fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you.

If you ever needed another good reason to exercise, I’ve got one for you:

Exercise makes your brain bigger.

Actually this isn’t entirely accurate. To be more specific, exercise was found to increase brain size slightly, but far more important to increase “spatial reasoning.”

This is the ability to recognize patterns, remember phrases, numbers, and so-on. This was discovered by researchers at the Universities of Chicago and Pittsburgh.

It is also one of the most important factors to the prevention of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

My mom suffered with dementia the last ten years of her life. But unlike most dementia patients she was fully functional thanks to exercise. She drove and had a mind that was unbelievably sharp right up until an accident injured her beyond the ability to exercise.

After that, she mentally went downhill rapidly. Thankfully, she passed in peace… and she had ten wonderfully active years thanks to her willingness to take up weight training at the age of 71.

She eventually walked up to 3 miles per day and trained in the gym 3 days per week.

That kept her mind sharp, along with fish oil and N-Acetyl L-Carnitine, a wonderful brain nutrient.

Once again, we see the power of exercise. It increases the QUALITY of your life.

Quantity is no where near as important to me as quality.

One of the best ways to start exercising when you are over 40 is by using the routines covered in “Fit Over 40″.

This book profiles 53 different men and women, age 40 to 80, all sharing their workouts, nutrition plans, and mental empowerment techniques.

It is a MUST-HAVE for anyone wanting to begin exercising or improve their level of fitness after the age of 40.

For a free fat-burning course from Fit Over 40, go here –

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[ Note: This article was written by a good friend of mine - fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I thought I'd share it with you. ]

Got a minute?

That’s all I need to share my first of many video-based 1-minute fatloss tips.

Go here for the first of many….

click—–>  How To Eat Your Favorite Foods And Drop Bodyfat

My new design is something to see too.

I have my weekly live 1-minute video, tons of new features… even a “diet quiz” if you care to test your fatloss knowledge.

Plus my main presentation: “1 Tip To A Flat Belly!”

Just don’t laugh at my ballcap/unshaven look in the video… I wanted this to be super-casual, but I may have taken it a bit too far… ; )

Oh… speaking of a flat belly… I’d like to give you yet another reason to eat and workout the way I suggest in “Every Other Day Diet” and “7 Minute Body”…

I had to go to the hospital last week. No worries… I’m fine… just a bit of a scare. Definitely enough to wake you up from walking through life like it will never end! But fortunately for me, only a scare.

Anyway, the doctors in the hospital were amazed when they looked at my heart and lungs (they had to make sure I did not have any infection… and I didn’t.)

“Most 46-year-olds do not have these around their heart,” the doctor said as he showed me the pictures they took. You could see all these vessels around the heart and branching off the main arteries.

“Peripheral vessels… they were formed by your exercise program. Well-done! These help keep your heart strong and healthy.”

Every doc that listened to my heart said, “Wow… strong heart!”

Indeed… resistance training makes it so.

Before I left, after the scare went away, I asked the doctor his opinion on my dietary plan. “Well, obviously you are very lean and in fantastic shape for a man of any age.”

Thanks doc, but I wasn’t fishing for a compliment!  Since this was a heart doctor I was curious as to his thoughts.

“If you had heart disease, or if you want to prevent it, this is the exact dietary plan I would recommend.”

While I expected to hear this, it was still music to my ears.

So, my higher-than-normal dietary fat and protein, lower-carb, and relatively frequent “fun food” dietplan is “ideal” to combat heart disease according to the good doc. And according to my family doctor.

Nice to know.

Read more about my plan here…

click—–>  How To Eat Your Favorite Foods And Drop Bodyfat

Remember:  A good dietplan and exercise is not always sufficient to keep you disease-freee… but I love what the doctor told me.  “People who exercise and eat like you LIVE through it and recover much faster.”

Fortunately I didn’t have a nasty virus to recover from… but if I did, I know my condition would have helped me do just that.

[ Note:  My friend and Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. Enjoy!]

Want to be leaner?

Good deal… here’s 5 tips that will help you along…
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The obliques crunch is a great ab exercise that targets the rectus abdominis, the external obliques and internal obliques.

How to do it:

* Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
* Slowly drop your legs to the left and let your knees rest near the floor.
* Place your fingertips to the side of your head just behind your ears.
* Push your lower back into the floor flattening the arch and hold.
* Curl up slowly so both your shoulders lift off the floor a few inches.
* Hold for a count of 2 and return to the start position.
* Repeat for the desired number of reps and switch to the other side.

Thanks to Elizabeth Quinn, About.com Guide and sportsmedicine.about.com

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Wow.  This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Fitness pro Jon Benson released a bombshell last week on the fat-burning world.

He is giving away a book’s worth of material in his free 7-Day Personal Fat Loss Certification Course.

Free… and get this:  Anyone who completes the course gets his book “The Radical Fatloss Blueprint” free as well.
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