Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (Lose Body Fat) - Product ReviewWritten by Mike Matthews
Product Review by Staff Member - Mike MatthewsAt first glance, this product manual's title (Burn Fat, Feed Muscle) was a bit distracting. While 300+ page manual does a good job of explaining how increased muscle strength helps lose body fat and why its more important to lose body fat versus lose weight; I wasn't sure about content of product manual until I read it in its entirety. The overall premise is to burn body fat with exercise and feed muscle with good nutrition plans. The author, Tom Venuto, is a body builder and that helps explain some of direction of manual. On plus side, Tom's instructional product manual has a tremendous amount of information including goal setting, discussions on meal frequency and exercise plans, just to name a few. On negative side (depending on your perspective), it contains a few references about basics of weight loss (or body fat loss) such as drinking plenty of water and burn more calories than you consume. Basics are covered in 2 of 17 chapters, so it didn't waste too much of reader's time. Overall, I would rate this instructional manual, (Burn Fat, Feed Muscle) an 8.5 out of 10. If you have ability to motivate yourself and take action by reading a manual, then price for this product of $39 is a great value. However, if reading an instructional manual isn't enough to motivate you to take action to lose body fat, then you may benefit from a more multimedia rich program such as Denise Austin's Fit Forever , Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo, or Winsor Pilates . These other programs include CDs, videos and/or charts. However, if you do consider these other programs, they may cost a bit more. What I liked 1. 1. Tom's full chapter on setting 'compelling' goals helps reader understand importance of defining a compelling reason for unstoppable motivation to succeed. In my opinion, a true compassionate reason is key to success in any area - without it, you're setting yourself up for mediocre results He uses excellent quotes from Denis Waitley & others to drive his point home. 2. His discussions on how to lose body fat versus losing weight is covered well in his product manual and he discusses various methods to test body fat including inexpensive use of calipers for skin fold testing. I personally use $20 Accu-measure calipers and they work very well. 3. He mentions that dieting isn't as important as good meal planning and increasing muscle strength to help lose body fat. The combination of these two strategies are key to your long-term success. For more details about Tom's manual, (Burn Fat, Feed Muscle), check out his site which as additional details, plus any special offers that might be available. 4. His discussion on 'adaption syndrome' is valuable and an important lesson in getting to next level of success in your goal to lose body fat. You can also adapt this lesson to help you succeed in many other areas of your life.
| | How to Benefit from The Mind-Body ConnectionWritten by David Snape
Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of "Love, Medicine and Miracles" was once a distraught surgeon who fretted over his inability to effectively serve his cancer patients. Dr. Siegel's recognition and growing understanding of mind-body connection eventually allowed him to serve his patients and himself in a greater capacity. Bernie writes in his book, "When a doctor reports amazing improvements in a patient's condition, he or she almost never mentions that person's beliefs and lifestyle, but when I inquire, I find patient always has made some drastic change toward a more loving and accepting outlook. The patient seldom tells an unreceptive doctor about this, however." When person's mind changed, state of their health changed. Hence, importance of mind- body connection. However, just covering up surface with positive thinking isn't necessarily going to help. It's like cleaning out a house. The dirt and filth has to be removed and stale air replaced with fresh air. There has to be a fundamental change for real healing to take place. Surface level, 'positive thinking' isn't going to effect this kind of change, just like lightly dusting our homes won't get real dirt out. So what are dirty and stale things in our minds? Well, they could be things like grudges, prejudices, anger, resentment and hate. One spiritual principle from religion talks about "loving your enemy". That can't be done without giving up hate. By giving up something bad, we can make room for something good to come in and may, as a result, see a corresponding change in our bodies. The problem here is that many of these bad things are buried and hidden and we won't necessarily see them or recognize them in ourselves. We can be certain that they are there though, it is a virtually inevitable consequence of living in a world that is so focused on selfishness and less concerned with "loving" others.
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