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The “Reality” of “The Biggest Loser”

In Nutrition & Weight Loss On April 22, 2010 6 Comments

Imagine losing 34 pounds in a week. Or dropping 100 pounds in just seven weeks.

Sound impossible? Believe it or not, these are actual results from NBC’s hit reality show, The Biggest Loser.

No wonder the nation is captivated!

But, as great as these results are… are they realistic? Do you think you could lose 34 pounds in just seven days? Probably not.

What You Need First After Exercising

In Nutrition & Weight Loss On March 9, 2010 6 Comments

Do you dread those everyday aches and pains so much that it keeps you from exercising in the first place?

You don’t have to let those aches and pains stop you anymore.

It’s possible to eliminate muscle aches and stiffness immediately after working out. And you can help rebuild your muscles at the same time…

Get Physical and Grow Younger

In Anti-Aging On January 28, 2010 5 Comments

In just minutes a day, you can program your genes to stay younger longer.

There’s new evidence that PACE-style movement slows down your aging clock, lengthening your life and making you more resistant to disease.

The professor that led the study said, “The act of exercising may actually protect the body against the aging process… and people may actually look and feel younger.”1

Research now shows that exercise has the power to turn back time. Exercise affects your telomeres, making them longer and stronger. The telomere is your biological clock. It determines how long you live. And how well you live…

PACE Fitness Program

In Exercise On December 22, 2009 Comments Off

You are in the middle of the biggest epidemic the world has ever known. Two out of three Americans are now overweight. Diabetes is 9 times more likely than it was just 30 years ago. Heart disease kills over 1,000,000 each year in the US alone and the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently announced that for the first time in history, these “chronic diseases” surpassed all other causes of death worldwide.

These new threats may attack with sudden deadly ferocity. Stroke victims rarely see it coming. Half of heart attacks deaths have the first symptom with the beginning of the attack that kills. Or, they may nip at your heels until their cumulative effect brings you down or you find yourself too fat, weak and tired to do anything about it. This slow degeneration has become the “status quo” of maturing in the modern world. We won the battle with the human predators of our past. Now we must face and overcome this new threat of chronic disease.

Beat Cancer with Exercise?

In Exercise On November 11, 2009 Comments Off

Here’s one for you: PACE may save you from cancer.

A new study shows that high intensity exercise cuts your risk of getting cancer in half.1

The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, followed Finnish men for 16 years. It tracked the type of activity the men did each week. And it found that the higher the intensity of the exercise, the lower the risk of getting cancer.

This study backs up the myriad benefits of high intensity exercise, but it’s the first study ever to look at the relationship between exercise intensity and cancer.

German Secret That Won Olympic Gold

In Exercise On November 2, 2009 Comments Off

Eighty years ago, two Germans figured out a brilliant way to burn fat fast.

Back in the 1930s, a German doctor and a track coach got together and invented this brilliant training technique.

The athletes sprinted 200 meters and rested for a short time. Sprinter

Then they did again. A 200-meter sprint followed by a short period of rest. And again.

It worked. Their students broke world record after world record. Roger Banister, the first man to run the mile in under 4 minutes, used this workout.

Marathon Kills 3 More in 16 Minutes…

In Heart Health On October 21, 2009 Comments Off

This weekend it happened again.

In 16 minutes 3 people lost their lives at the Detroit marathon.

Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Langdon collapsed at about 9:02 am on Sunday between the 11 and 12-mile markers and 65-year-old Rick Brown collapsed at 9:17 am, near where Langdon went down. One minute later, 26-year-old Jon Fenlon collapsed just after finishing the 13.1-mile half-marathon.1

When I was watching the news this morning I heard the announcer say sudden death “was rare” during marathon events. I suppose that depends on how you define “rare.”

Exercising But Not Losing Weight?

In Nutrition & Weight Loss On October 15, 2009 Comments Off

A cover story in TIME magazine tells you exercise won’t help you lose weight.

In the article, a professor from Louisiana State University says, “… for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless.”1

If you’re a regular reader you may already recognize the ignorance of this professor’s statement.

What is he missing?

Well, it depends on what type of exercise.

My rebuttal to this ignorance is going to take awhile, but bear with me, this is important.

‘My What’s Shrinking?!’

In Exercise On September 16, 2009 1 Comment

“Your lungs… I said your lungs are shrinking.” I’ve actually said this more than a couple of times to my patients. You see, I mean the size of my patients’ lungs. Why? Because they shrink with age. And that’s not good.

The new edition of my PACE book will be ready in the coming weeks.

It’s easier and more approachable and packed with new research – including new proof that your lung volume is your number one indicator of all-cause mortality.

That means the bigger your lungs, the longer you’ll live.

Part of what gives you the capacity to live robustly is getting enough oxygen. But your lungs are losing their capacity and vitality. In fact, they’re actually shrinking.

Resculpt Your Body By Walking for 45 Seconds

In Nutrition & Weight Loss On August 22, 2009 Comments Off

Soon you’ll have access to my new PACE program.

For two years I’ve been re-working PACE to make it simpler and easier to follow; especially if you feel out of shape or too busy to get started.

I first published PACE back in November of 2006. It’s the first complete program that protects your heart, pumps up your lung volume and burns fat in minutes a day.