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The Health and Fitness Channel NewsletterJune 2004"You don't have to get it right...You just have to get it MOVING!"- Gary Halbert |
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WRONG EQUALS
RIGHT I'm tired... Here I am sitting down to write you but not knowing exactly what I'm going to write about. Yesterday was one of the hardest and exhausting days I've had in a while. And today is no cakewalk either. Did a ball-busting ('scuse my French) workout put me in this state? Not exactly, although Wednesday's workout was extremely tough for me, mainly because I really didn't feel like working out. Actually, I'm sick. Nothing I won't get over, just a persistent cough and an incredible feely of exhaustion and lethargy that is usually foreign for me. I just don't seem to want to do anything. Much less write a newsletter (if I'm being truthful). But here I am, plugging away, hoping to conjure up a morselful of insight or wisdom. Let me tell you a quick story... Once upon a time, a young, energetic young man graduated from College with a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering. Hoping to find a fascinating job he tirelessly searched, but couldn't find anything. 3 months went by and still no job. So what did he do? He went surfing! For the next month, he and a fellow graduate, also without any job prospects (and also a surfer), lived it up in the quaint out-Island city of Hope Town, Elbow Cay, Abacos. Every day they surfed, dove (you should have seen the bucket loads of lobster they caught - so much so that they literally had to give it away to whoever wanted some), sailed, and wound down ("Island time" is a very real phenomenon they didn't notice until they got back to the states and everyone was wooshing by them). 30 days sailed by and it was time to get back to the "real" world. Both grew up in Miami, FL and that's where they landed. It was November, 1983. On the day of their arrival, the Aerospace Engineering grad noticed that his alma mater (Univ of FL) was hosting interviews by several Aerospace companies the following day. One of them caught his eye... National Aeronautics and Space Administration...NASA! He had dreamed of working for NASA for years. Only problem was, when he called his school to schedule an appointment to see the recruiter, the school told him, "sorry, but you needed to schedule an appointment several weeks ago...all the appointment slots were taken. Not taking no for an answer, this kid got up at 2 am, drove 6 hours to Gainesville, and was the first one at the recruting office. When the NASA recruiters showed up he gingerly approached them and said, "I know you're doing interviews today and everyone needs to have an appointment in order to see you." Then he explained how he had been out of the country the past month and wasn't able to sign up for the interviews. He asked if they could fit him in at the end of the day, even if only for 15 minutes, and that he would really appreciate it if they could. They said they would let him know at the end of the day. Nine long hours passed with the kid patiently waiting for an answer. At the end of the day the NASA recruiters poked their head out of the recruting office and said, "come on in...we'll see you now". Excited, flabbergasted, and in shock, the young kid walked in and sat down. They spoke for about 45 minutes. At the end, the NASA recruiters and the kid shook hands, the kid turned and left, and started driving back down to Miami. The kid honestly didn't know if it was worth coming up. He just couldn't get a read on what the NASA recruiters were thinking. The kid thought, "it was probably wrong coming up here without an appointment...I should have just stayed home..." It turned out that doing something the "wrong" way actually was incredibly right. A month later that "kid" got a job offer from NASA that he quickly accepted. 21 years flew by and for lots of reasons (maybe one day I'll tell you), the kid, now almost 45, retired from NASA. He returned back to his roots in Miami and concentrated full-time on helping people get in shape. I was the one that made that "wrong" decision over 21 years ago, but it was the most right thing I could ever have done. I guess the whole point of this story is no matter what others may tell you is the "wrong" thing for you to do, if you feel it's right, then go for it with all your might. History is filled with successful people that continued forward, despite everyone telling them how wrong they were, until what they knew was the "right" thing to do in their heart was done. And It was only after they achieved their successes that others saw the wisdom in their actions. Until next month...
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Lesson 16 - Reward YourselfIce cream, chocolate cake, pizza, beer, soda, cookies donuts bread, butter…Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could build a buff body and eat these great foods too? It doesn’t seem fair, does it. As humans we're simply too smart for our own good sometimes...and sometimes not smart enough. On the one hand we're smart enough to invent all of these super tasty foods. On the other hand we're not yet smart enough to figure out how to eat them and not get fat and diseased too. For the moment there's no way we can eat junk food and still get a killer body...or is there... Let me throw a scenario at you... Let's say you were dieting, how long could you last not eating all those great tasting foods that put a kabosh on your diet? Forever? 6 months? 3 months? 1 week? What if I said there was a way you could... Eat Bread, Pizza, Cookies And Still Get Into Great Shape? I take no credit for coming up with this excellent way of hurdling, what I feel are, the two biggest roadblocks in almost everyone’s goal of getting a great body. A good friend of mine, Gary Halbert, wrote a fitness book way back in the late 80's. He came up with the idea of allowing one day a week to “let your guard down” and eating whatever you wanted. Bill Phillips, author of Body For Life™, popularized this concept in his book and millions of people lost weight. Most people when first told of this way of eating think this can't possibly work. If you do you would be making a big mistake. There are several important reasons why you want to indulge every once in a while. The first reason is physiological.
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As I mentioned in a previous Blueprint, our metabolic systems are the result of millions of years of evolution. Because our evolutionary history was filled with periods of famine, our bodies have developed several and powerful survival mechanisms in order to get through them. Remember, your body's highest objective is survival; anything else is secondary. In order to survive when food was scarce, one of the systems your body developed was the ability to regulate its metabolism, or the ability to increase or decrease the rate at which calories are burned on a daily basis. When food supplies were limited for long periods of time, humans developed the ability to slow their metabolic rate down. You can probably imagine how much this increased the odds of surviving when there was little food around. This was a very important and crucial function in order to survive. The way it worked was your body detected there was a low intake of calories, and adjusted downward the rate at which it burned them. While this is great and works well in times of famine, it works against us whenever we go on a diet. Since most diets call for a reduction of calories, over a period of time our metabolic rate slows down. This makes it harder for us to lose fat. This means if we continue to diet we have to continually lower our calories the longer we diet. And of course our body compensates for this by using another powerful signal that we've talked about already…hunger. What this usually leads to is the busting of our diet because we “just can’t take it any more.” The all-powerful urge to eat is too strong for us to resist and we give in, usually in a big way. Eat More...Burn More... Now, by eating more calories than you need on a regular basis, in essence telling the body that there is plenty of food around, you are much less likely to have your metabolic rate reduced. And your chances of continued fat burning are increased indefinitely. But if you eat more calories than you need all the time then you won’t burn any fat and instead will store it. And this is not what we want, of course. In your max fat loss diet I have you eating more calories twice per week. This will keep your metabolism at a peak level and prevent it from slowing down. It is more effective than the reward day concept and should be used for maximum results. However, for maintenance purposes the reward day concept is better for longevity of your program.
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Benefit #2 Of Rewarding Yourself The second benefit of rewarding yourself regularly is on a psychological level. Let me explain. I want you to imagine these two scenarios. First, I tell you that I’m going to put you on a diet program that is strict, and that you can only eat from certain approved foods. You will follow this program for life and never be allowed to eat any of your favorite foods ever again. In the second scenario I tell you that I’m going to put you on a diet program that is strict, and that you can only eat from certain approved foods. You will follow this program for life but once a week or so, you will be allowed to eat whatever it is you desire. Can you feel the difference when thinking of the difference between the two? In one you will never (and that’s a long time) be allowed to eat your favorite foods again. And in the second all you have to do is be strict for one week and then you can eat your favorite foods. Which one do you think will be easier to follow mentally? Of course the answer is the second one because most everyone can be strict for one week at a time. And that’s what it’s about, taking it one step at a time, one week at a time, and before you know it you will have achieved a great body. And by using the Reward
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