Just got this a couple days ago, and love it. Did a full body workout. Training plyos, strength, strength endurance and conditioning. Been hearing a lot about it, all the hype is true. Can’t wait to introduce this to my bootcamps.

Simplify your exercise routine, and conquer your fitness goals with the LEBERT EQUALIZER Total Body Strengthener™.  It was designed to do traditional strength training exercises for group aerobic classes and is portable for personal training sessions at the club or in-home. The Equalizer targets muscles we love to hate. It works the triceps, lower abs and back muscles like no other. Participants use their own body weight as resistance and decide what level is right for them (resistance is variable as the legs can be used to assist the exercise). The Equalizer is safe and most importantly will add an new exciting dimension to your workouts!

Another found those commercials just flat out wrong. Posted on Jayson Hunter’s Blog creator of the Carb-Rotation Diet, Dress Size Reduction Diet and the Get Rid of My Gut Diet

September 17, 2008 by admin

There is a big fuss right now over the 2 commercials the corn refiners association has released regarding high fructose corn syrup.
To summarize the commercials say that it is okay to consume high fructose corn syrup in moderation.
Well, what is moderation when high fructose corn syrup is in almost every food Americans eat today.

Obviously their intent is to get people to eat more foods that contain high fructose corn syrup so that the corn refiners make more money.
It was interesting that they showed fruit juice and a popsicle in the two commercials with one of the commercials was based on giving kids fruit juice.
Need I say that most fruit juices on the shelves today contain less than 10% of real fruit juice.
So is it ok to keep feeding ourselves and our kids foods that contain high fructose corn syrup?
Is it harmful to our bodies?
Here are some facts you should know.
When high fructose corn syrup was introduced as a society we started veering away from whole and natural foods such as fruits and vegetables and starting eating more processed foods as well as more soft drinks.
If you substituted the high fructose corn syrup for sucrose in the same foods you would most likely end up with the same result.
Many people overweight.
You see they both contain the same amount of calories. Calories that we don’t need.
If we just avoided these processed foods and soft drinks we would lose weight fast.
If you drank a soft drink with high fructose corn syrup and a soft drink with sucrose you would end up with the same result. A high calorie soft drink that our bodies do not need.
The bottom line is this. The definition of moderation to most health professionals is that something can be eaten every once in a while such as 1-3 times a week. Moderation does not mean 5 times a day, which is what we tend to consume in high fructose corn syrup every day.
Go back to eating more whole foods such as fruits, vegetables, and natural grains along with lean meats and you will see that you lose weight fast and will keep it off forever.
Yours in health

Jayson Hunter
Dress Size Reduction Diet

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First, what High Fructose Corn Syrup is is a syrupy liquid created by processing corn starch with different kinds of enzymes to make glucose, and then later add fructose. You can see the total process here. Chemically it is a lot like sugar. That is why you get people trying to hype it up as such. However, HFCS has a lot more very harmful effects on the body than normal sugar does.

Facts regarding High fructose corn syrup:

* 20% cheaper than sugar. Big time companies want as much profits as they can make.
* Increases shelf life of a product. Again, more profits.
* Sweeter than sugar. More addicting to consumers.
* Scientific Studies showing that it causes tissue damage due to the fact it contains “unbound” fructose and glucose molecules. This is the biggest problem for your body, and is what causes the majority of problems.
* Highly contributes to the development of diabetes, especially in children.
* Does not trigger an insulin response. Insulin is supposed to be released in your body to raise your blood sugar levels to give you energy and make you feel full. HFCS does not do this. That’s why you can eat or drink a whole bunch of it and not feel full. Hence you drink or eat more and gain more weight.
* Fructose is converted to fat more readily than any other type of sugar.
* Increases LDL (low-density lipoprotein) or the bad cholesterol.

A quick tip: fructose is found in all types of fruit. But it occurs naturally. And fruit contains fiber, vitamins, and minerals which decreases the effects of pure fructose in your body.

So as you can see HFCS is very bad. Advertising like this is irresponisble. America already has an obesity epidemic happening right now, and it is getting worse by the minute. What’s worse is this commerical was geared towards children. Schools across the nation are cutting physical education programs left and right.

HFCS is bad for you no matter what the ‘proponets’ say about it. In my opinion it’s a drug and is no different than tobacco. It’s killing people slowly overtime, and obviously the makers and food companies are not going to do anything to stop it, because they are making billions. $4.5 billion to be more exact.

Weight Loss versus Fat Loss: Unlocking the Body of Your Dreams- Part II

By: Jason Yun

In part I, I talked about the main differences on weather you are going to go for weight or fat loss. Today, I’m going to talk about certain aspects of nutrition related to each. For those of you that don’t know, nutrition is even more important for fat loss than actual exercise. But don’t get me wrong they are both very important. And when you combine both in the right combinations and add rest/recovery into the mix you can turn your body into a fat burning furnace 24/7.

But first we’ll talk about some of the reasons why people fail on a weight loss diet. First off the calories are way too low. People think that in order to lose weight all they have to do is cut the calories. You think to yourself ‘If eating too much made me put on this weight, then to lose it, I just need to reduce what I’m eating.’ WRONG! This will put you into starvation mode, even if you aren’t hungary, your body is starving. You are more prone to add whatever you eat as fat, and you are losing muscle, and your metabolism is slowing down.
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Found this article as I was cleaning up my office. Very interesting stuff. Not only good for athletes but good for general fitness people as well. Partial squats wreck havoc on the knees. Sorry but I just scanned it, just click it and you can read it a little better

Here’s an interesting post I found on Alwyn Cosgrove’s blog. If you don’t know what EPOC is, it stands for Excess Post-Exercise Consumption, it’s really the amount of extra oxygen we consume after exercise to get back to a normal homeostasis in the body, all that extra oxygen helps the body work harder and burn more fat. EPOC is elevated when you train at high intensity with things like weight training, or intervals, or high intensity circuits. I talk about EPOC in my newsletters quite frequently. It’s one of the most important factors for fat loss. Here’s Alwyn’ s post:
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