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Speed of eating ‘key to obesity’

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This is the headline in the following article from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7681458.stm

It gets said that it takes around 20 minutes for the brain to realise that the stomach is full. So if you wolf down your grub, your brain doesn’t tell you to stop until around 20 minutes after you’ve reached your max.
Eventually you’ll associate that volume of food as normal because the body is amazing at adapting. Your muscles grow if subjected to progressively heavier weights, your heart and lungs become more efficient if you increase you’re cardio duration and speed.
And your gut expands to accommodate progressively larger amounts of food.

We are a wonderful piece of engineering. However we have limits.

As stated in the article, chewing everything 20 times before swallowing could help. What it doesn’t say is that chewing is the first stage in digestion. Cutting and crushing the food as well as absorbing several key nutrients there and then. A properly chewed morsel of food is then more easily and more completely digested by the gut. Good news for your health.

Another thing is something I borrowed from the Okinawan Diet. The Okinawans reputedly have one of the longest lifespans of any populace, often reaching 100 years. Apart from what they eat, it’s how they eat it that matters.
They recommend only eating until you feel around 80% full.
This one simple tactic could make a huge difference to your waistline and over all health.
If it takes 20 mins for the brain to realise that your full, then you probably are already there when it only thinks your 80% full.

Simplicity itself.

Eat more slowly
Chew longer
Stop sooner

Plus:
Cut out sugar
Reduce carb intake
Eat more protein
Eat more, lots more veg
Cut out processed food and anything that has unpronounceable ingredients

Eating and avoiding the obesity trap isn’t really difficult. Just engage in some common sense.

Oh, and exercise. Intelligently.

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Wild Geese @ The Martial Arts Academy

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Wild Geese Martial Arts and our newer Personal Training and fitness wing will now be operating full time out of Dublin’s Martial Arts Academy.

At the academy we run regular Filipino Martial Arts, Anti Stab knife defence and Control & Restraint classes and courses.

We also have a selection of basic strength equipment, Barbells, plate loaded dumbells, a selection of kettlebells as well as some of the best conditioning tools ever invented, skipping ropes and punchbags.

So if you fancy training in a non conventional gym under the watchful eye of a qualified and experienced trainer using the types of methods used by fighters and old time strong men to forge physiques like stone and near legendary conditioning levels.

We offer Personal Training, Semi Private training and Supervised training.
Personal Training – You, Me and your personalised program, be it Martial Arts, Self defence, strength, weight loss and fitness. This runs at €50/hr
Semi Private – Bring a friend, up to a maximum of 6. You will then help and hinder each other to accelerate the results in the field you choose, strength, fitness or fighting. We charge €70/hr for the first 2 people with an extra €10 per person up to a max of 6.
Supervised Training – Come in and do your own training under our watchful eye for a nominal fee. Simply €10/hr or €50 per month.

You may combine packages to suit, and if you block pay for classes you can use them as you wish.
For example pay €100 and get 1 hr personal training and 1 month supervised training
or
Pay €100 and get 1 month supervised training and jump into 5 scheduled Wild Geese Martial Arts classes

For a map to our location click here:

http://maps.dublinbynumbers.com/visiting-dublin-map-gyms.html#

We are number 19. Alternatively visit our websites listed below.

Regards

Dave
Wild Geese
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The Road to No Where

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Weight Loss, fat burning and better body composition – Wild Geese Style!

Talking heads said it best when they sang “I’m on the road to nowhere”, endless miles pounded out on the treadmill/bike/crosstrainer/[insert machine of choice here], and the results………

Now be honest……

Yeah, I guessed it, pretty minimal. I’m a personal trainer in a city centre gym and I see the same faces coming in and doing the same thing day in day out, how do they look? same as they did last week and the week before that!

Don’t believe the hype:
· Fat burning zone – Really? So why have you still got that spare tyre?
· Weights make you big/bulky/slow – Go home and watch some sport on TV, every professional athlete will have trained with some form of resistance training, are they big/bulky/slow?

Have you ever heard of EPOC? Probably not, I hadn’t untill a few years ago.

Here it is:
Exercise
Post
Oxygen
Consumption

It’s the amount of Oxygen your body uses AFTER your workout. Simply put, more is consumed because your body is burning more calories, more calories burned equals greater fat loss. World renowned fat loos expert and author Craig Ballantyne calls this “turbulence”, read about it on www.TurbulenceTraining.com

Aerobic training and the “fat loss zone” do burn fat, but do not induce the EPOC effect. Pretty much as soon as you’ve cooled down, your metabolism returns to normal and you are in a resting state. However, high intensity training, for shorter durations will induce EPOC, you cool down after an intense interval and your metabolism will remain jacked for up to 30 or 40 hours after. In other words, you’re still burning calories when your at home on the sofa watching Eastenders!
Proof? Well seeing is believing, get a picture of a sprinter and a picture of a marathon runner, I know who I’d rather look like.

If you want to boost your metabolism even further, lift weights, and I’m talking Bodyweight, Kettlebells, Bar or Dumbbells. Just, please, forget body part splits, get your whole body done and dusted in a single workout, 2-3 times a week. Resistance training will shape and tone the body, making more aesthetically pleasing, further boost the metabolism and burn calories, improve bone density and release mood enhancing endorphins (so does sex & chocolate, but that’s another story!)

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Why Cardio Doesn’t Work for Fat Loss

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Here’s an article I picked up from my favorite fat loss specialist. Craig Ballantyne uses what he call “Turbulence” ie the post exercise calorie burn to strip fat off his victims. This is done with the use of intense interval training as opposed to the regular long slow cardio sessions.
Wild Geese also use intense interval training, not for fat loss, but because it delivers the fastest results for increasing endurance and improving recovery time, essential for any martial artist or fighter.
Either way ou look at it, intervals work, the following article is an explanation of

Why Cardio Doesn’t Work For Fat Loss By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com

Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work
so perfectly well for all men and women, but as anyone who has
tried it knows, the practicality of it just doesn’t add up.

After all, some men and women do cardio 6 hours, 9 hours, or more per week, and still have belly fat to burn. On the other hand, it works just fine for others.

British researchers wanted to get more insight into this paradox, and studied 35 overweight men and women, who weren’t previously exercising.

(Reference: International Journal of Obesity 32: 177-184, 2008).

Subjects exercised 5 times per week for 12 weeks. That’s a lot of
exercise, but it helped the subjects lose an average of 8.2 pounds, which is great – I was positively surprised by the results.

So cardio will work for some people, however, in my experience, it works best in young men, who need the help the least!

Back to the study, the variance in fat loss between individuals was huge. Check this out…

The best subject lost a staggering 32.3 pounds in 12 weeks, while the worst subject actually GAINED 3.74 pounds.

The scientists think they know where things went sour. They
classified the subjects into 2 groups, called the “Compensators”
and the “Non-compensators”.

The Compensators were hungrier, and as a result consumed an extra 268 calories per day, all but wiping out their cardio efforts.

Therefore, the Compensators lost the least amount of weight, and scientists believe that was due to the huge “compensatory” increase in appetite experienced by this group.

Does your appetite increase when you do slow cardio? If it does,
research shows it will ruin your cardio efforts.

So if your cardio program is not working for you, check your
appetite and calorie intake to see if you are “compensating” for
your efforts. If you are, you might be better off using a program
of high-intensity resistance and interval training (i.e. Turbulence Training) for your weight loss efforts.

As Australian Professor Steve Boucher has shown in research,
interval training increases hormones called catecholamines. And
increased catecholamines can reduce appetite, among other fat-
burning benefits.

In the real world, few people lose 33 pounds after 12 weeks of
cardio. Heck, few even achieve an average weight loss of 8 pounds with aerobic exercise.

So again, check your appetite, and consider giving high-intensity
exercise a go for your next workout program.

Beat the curse of cardio with high-intensity Turbulence Training.

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

About the Author

Learn about the “Dark Side of Cardio” in the free report from Craig Ballantyne at www.TurbulenceTraining.com. Craig is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com

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