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The Best 16-Minute Workout EVER

August 16, 2010 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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When Jon wrote “7 Minute Mus­cle” and “7 Minute Body” (the in-home ver­sion; both books come in the same pack­age) I thought he was doing the muscle-mass crowd a huge favor.

I was right and I was wrong.

I was right because the 7MM-style train­ing has put seri­ous mus­cle shape, tone, and size on peo­ple from all ages.

I was WRONG because it did more than just add lean mus­cle, THIS makes peo­ple THINNER

Yep: the work­out Jon intended peo­ple to use for build­ing mus­cle turned into one of the fastest ways to melt body fat. [Read more…]

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How To Turn On The Fat-Burning Gene

August 10, 2010 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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You may have this gene. It may be turned “off” right now, in fact it prob­a­bly is. There’s a prob­lem with that — this gene helps you melt off bodyfat.

It would be pretty nice to turn that sucker on, right?

Here’s an arti­cle on,

1. What SIRT1 is;
2. How you can “turn it on“
3. How to keep it on

What Is SIRT1?

Sim­ply put, SIRT1 is a “res­cue gene”. This gene is acti­vated dur­ing times of fast­ing to, for a very SHORT period of time, access more stored bodyfat.

That’s a good thing, but the prob­lems are… [Read more…]

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What is Interval Training?

August 5, 2010 By Ann Liu 3 Comments
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Can it really melt your body­fat like a blow­torch as so many fit­ness pros claim? Yes, and no.

Back in the day we used to call inter­val train­ing “catch­ing your breath.” ;-)

But seri­ously, inter­val train­ing is good stuff, it just not as good as most fit­ness mags think it is.

So what is inter­val train­ing? Check Out This Page, it goes into far more detail.

In short, inter­val train­ing involves push­ing very hard (usu­ally dur­ing a cardio-style work­out) for a given amount of time. This is then fol­lowed by a lower inten­sity level for a given amount of time. Then you repeat the cycle. [Read more…]

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Science Behind Shorter Workouts

July 29, 2010 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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The work­out pro­to­col is based on the sci­ence of hyper­tro­phy as well as psy­chophys­i­ol­ogy, the study of the mind/body con­nec­tion, to achieve the result, every­one has a dif­fer­ent approach of doing it.

The 7 Minute Mus­cle (and 7 Minute Body) is pri­mar­ily a density-based train­ing sys­tem. It demands vary­ing rep ranges done within spe­cific time peri­ods. The pro­to­col fac­tors six of the pri­mary vari­ables of hyper­tro­phy, or mus­cle growth: Inten­sity, Load, Vol­ume, Den­sity, Time and Force (Time includes rest inter­vals as well as the time required to per­form a given task.)

A layman’s take on one of the basic laws of physics states that time and energy are inter­re­lated. Doing the same amount of work in less time demands more energy, which trans­lates into more power. While power is a fac­tor in train­ing, 7 minute mus­cle is focused on forc­ing mus­cle growth and adap­ta­tion. This is also an ele­ment of time and energy. More energy expended in less time = more power. [Read more…]

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Flatten Your Stomach while Driving

July 1, 2010 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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Below is an arti­cle con­tributed by Mike Geary, the founder of TruthAboutAbs. Mike is a Cer­ti­fied Nutri­tion Spe­cial­ist, Cer­ti­fied Per­sonal Trainer, and a rock-solid guy who prac­tices what he preaches. He’s got a strange lit­tle tip for ton­ing up the abs that I wanted to share with you today. [Read more…]

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