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Bill Brown
Oct 28, 2013

The Fat Burning Zone

There is no fat-burning zone. What this refers to is heart rates (usually around 65% to 75% of your max) where fat is burned as the primary fuel source. In other words, aerobic training. It’s perfectly fine to train in this supposed “zone,” but it may not be enough to lose significant fat. Remember that,

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Bill Brown

Powerful Snack Combos That Blast Fat

Snacks get a bad rap. Eating between meals doesn’t have to ruin your diet—eating smaller portions, more often, is the secret to fending off cravings and extra pounds. Snacks can actually be a powerful tool to help you lose more weight than ever before. Don’t reach for the Doritos, though. Quality snacks use minimal calories

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How effective are boot camp style workouts?

How effective are Boot Camp style workouts – Exclusive ACE study investigates the fitness benefits of popular boot camp–style workouts Fitness fads come and go, but boot-camp workouts such as ADAC’s fitCAMP are still among the most popular. “There’s a certain element of getting back to the basics and a more functional-training approach,” says ACE’s

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Bill Brown

8 Reasons You Still Haven’t Lost Weight

1. You’re Starving:  Slashing too many calories, particularly protein calories, pushes the body to conserve calories rather than burn them. It also forces your body to break down muscle tissue to fuel its vital operations. But that muscle is the key to your metabolism, or the speed at which you burn calories. More muscle means

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Try My Workout of the Day

I did this workout on Tuesday, give it a try and let me know how you did. 25 – dips 50 – knees to elbow (hang from pull-up bar and curl your legs and hips up until your knees touch your elbows.  You can substitue by using the captains chair and performing knee raises) run

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Knee Pain

One of the most commonly training aliments members ask me about is knee pain.  This problem seems to effect just about everyone who is active at one point or another.  Knee pain can be caused by a variety of factors such as over use, week thigh muscles, improper running form or poor footware. Knee pain

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Songs the ADAC Staff Loves to Workout to! What are your must haves?

1.  Lightning Storm by Flogging Molly 2.  Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger 3.  Love Me Like You by The Magic Numbers 4.  Youth Without Youth by Metric 5.  Uprising by Muse 6.  Get Higher by Paper Tongues 7.  The Seed (2.0) by The Roots & Cody Chestnutt 8.  Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful by Seabird

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Remove these two food offenders

It is my hope that you are well-hydrated during your workouts during these hot days! If you find that you would like to learn more about how to create greater synergy between workouts and diet, I will help get you jump-started on the principles & healthy foods to include on the path to shaping up for now

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Bill Brown

11 Secrets of Successful Dieters

Perhaps the most practical way to learn what works in terms of weight loss options is to ask people who have overcome the odds and successfully lost—and more important, kept off—large amounts of weight. The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) (www.nwcr.ws) is a database that tracks more than 5,000 people who have lost at least

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Lose Your Fear of Lifting

Lose the Wimpy Weights If you want to slimdown and sculpt sexy muscles, then put away those five-pounders. A study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise showed that women who lifted a challenging weight for eight reps burned nearly twice as many calories as women who knocked out 15 reps with lighter dumbbells. Increasing your

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