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Win fitness prizes in 7-Day Trivia Challenge

Cary Castagna - December 26th, 2012

Pop quiz, hotshot!

I’ve teamed up with Genuine Health and fitness expert Bruce Krahn for the first-ever Keeping Fit 7-Day Trivia Challenge! Bruce Krahn has supplied the questions. Genuine Health is supplying some great prizes — including a variety of fitness/weight loss supplements — to help make 2013 your fittest year yet.

And it starts today!

Here’s today’s question …

What fat turns belly fat cells off so you don’t store fat anymore?

Photographic hint:

Submit your answer to me before midnight tonight (MST) for a chance to win a prize from Genuine Health. (Email me at cary.castagna@sunmedia.ca or leave a comment below. Include your mailing address — all prizes will be mailed.)

Check back tomorrow for the answer and a new question from fitness expert Bruce Krahn.

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Canadian fitness guru presenting free public lecture

Cary Castagna - December 18th, 2012

Bruce Krahn, celebrity personal trainer and bestselling author of The Fat Fighter Diet, is coming to Alberta.

The Mississauga-based fitness guru is slated to present a free lecture next month in Calgary.

Yup, free.

Krahn really knows his stuff and he presents it in a way that’s easy for his audience to understand and apply.

If you’re looking to kickstart your fitness regimen in 2013 and you’re going to be in Cowtown on Jan. 17, then you won’t want to miss this event.

For more details, here’s the press release issued today:

Sifting Through the Oz-Approved Weight Loss Maze

Bruce Krahn offers simple tips to figure out what will work for you

free public lecture

Community Natural Foods downtown (1304 10 Ave. Southwest)

Jan 17 @ 7pm free

Type weight loss into doctoroz.com and over 4,500 articles on the subject are available for your perusal. Now that’s a workout for the brain! “And it explains why most people are as confused as ever about how to lose weight and get in shape,” says Bruce Krahn, celebrity fitness expert & author of The Fat Fighter Diet.

From hypnosis to the power of positive thinking; lazy day workouts to spot reducing exercise; fibre to the power of protein; from safflower oil to fish oil and coconut oil; green coffee bean extract to raspberry ketones; fertility weight loss to caveman weight loss; Qnexas to Qsymia; the list goes on and on.

Krahn simplifies fitness, nutrition and weight loss strategies by insisting on these 3 attributes:

· Human scientific studies on effectiveness

· Research proven dosage/time/intensity

· Proven safety

His motivation: “A lean, well nourished body is a healthy body and I can help you achieve it-naturally,” says Krahn. “With proper nourishment and regular activity, you will feel more energized, while reducing your risk for serious disease and illness – not to mention a slimmer waistline too.”

Exercise:

Don’t waste your time in the gym. Discover how and when to exercise to get the most bang in the shortest time.

1. Highest metabolic cost exercises

2. Crunchless abs

3. Timing of exercise depends on your fitness goals

4. How much cardio, stretching, resistance training

Nutrition:

“You can’t out-exercise a bad diet,” says Krahn. “How you eat will determine your bodyweight. How you exercise determines your body shape.”

1. Eat every 2-3 hours

2. Protein and fruits and vegetables at every meal and snack

3. Eliminate sugar

4. Drink 8-12 glasses of water a day

5. Add essential fatty acids

Weight loss ingredients:

While there are no “magic pill” solutions for easy weight loss, when combined with a healthy diet and exercise, they can help boost your results and achieve your goals.

1. Determine your major issue: cravings, slow metabolism, belly fat, feeling hungry all the time. Do you want to increase lean muscle or your energy levels?

2. Research proven ingredient?

3. Research proven dosage?

Doctor Oz has single-handedly taken ‘alternative’ medicine into the mainstream. Bruce will help viewers figure out what will work best for them.

Bruce has been impacting lives one body at a time since 1995. Widely regarded as one of Canada’s leading authorities on healthy fat loss, Bruce Krahn is a bestselling author, expert fitness trainer and nutrition guru. As a personal trainer, Bruce has logged more than 20,000 training hours helping hundreds of clients reach their health & fitness goals. His client list has included notable celebrities such as Nelly Furtado, Criss Angel, Tom Cochrane and Trish Stratus.

Drawing upon his extensive experience working with everyone from students to C.E.O’s, Bruce penned the bestselling book The Fat Fighter Diet. Published by world renowned publishing house John Wiley & Sons, The Fat Fighter Diet is unlike any “diet” book ever written. Instead it is a unique and comprehensive guide to attaining your health and fitness optimum.

Recognizing the need for a “one to many” fitness & nutrition resource, Bruce founded eBodi.com — an online “virtual” personal training and nutrition company providing personalized programs to thousands of people worldwide.

Through his book, websites, companies and presentations, Bruce has touched the lives of more than 500,000 people from all walks of life.

A professional speaker and spokesperson for multi-national companies, Bruce has delivered his message to audiences from coast to coast including companies such as General Electric, TD Bank, Kraft and Amgen. Meeting planners rely on his consistent ability to garner positive feedback from clients such as “Bruce is the most entertaining and realistic speaker we have ever had the pleasure of hiring”.

Today Bruce divides his time between training clients, writing and speaking.

Tags: Bruce Krahn, Community Natural Foods downtown, Criss Angel, Doctor Oz, eBodi.com, Nelly Furtado, Tom Cochrane, Trish Stratus
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Tips to build muscle

Cary Castagna - July 31st, 2012

(Note: The following post is courtesy trainer Bruce Krahn of www.ebodi.com.)

Bruce Krahn

Hi, Bruce here from www.ebodi.com.

Training for muscle size differs from training for maximum fat loss.

Generally speaking, when you lift weights and do cardio you will see a reduction in body fat and a concurrent increase in muscle size and definition.

This is a good thing of course and is what most people want.

But what if you want to take your body to the next level and increase muscle size even further?

If this is what you want then you have to take a slightly different approach to your training and nutrition program.

So if your goal is bigger muscles, here are a couple tricks for you to try that can help speed up the process.

With respect to training the first thing to consider is T.U.T.

No, not as in “King Tut” — I am talking about something known as Time Under Tension.

This basically means the amount of time your muscles are under stress within a single repetition or set of repetitions.

For example, if you are trying to increase muscle size then the time under tension (TUT) for each set should generally be in the 30-70 second range. This will require that you slow each repetition down by focusing on a slow, controlled eccentric (lowering), pausing for a second in the contracted position and incorporating a controlled concentric (raising).

In this case a good tempo for each repetition would be 4/1/2. This translates as follows: 4 seconds to lower the weight, 1 second pause at the bottom position and 2 seconds to raise the weight. This serves to increase the time under tension (in this case 7 seconds per repetition) and will have a greater impact on muscular density and size than a faster, more ballistic approach of 1/0/1 for example.

Another trick to increase muscle size involves the timing and ingredients of your protein shake.

For maximum muscle gains I recommend that you begin drinking your post workout shake (containing a mixture of fast-digesting protein and carbohydrates) about halfway through your workout.

Doing this helps to reduce the increase in cortisol that occurs midway through an intensive weight training session and helps bring blood sugars back up for increased energy and strength.

I would not recommend this if your goal was fat loss, however.

If fat loss is your goal then it is better to wait until after your workout before having any post-workout nutrition.

Small “tweaks” that can make a difference but it all depends on the look you are trying to achieve.

For me I like to focus on muscle size and strength in the winter and then shift focus to fat loss for the summer months.

Give these tips a go and try my www.ebodi.com program.

Stay strong,

Bruce

Tags: Bruce Krahn, Keeping Fit, King Tut, muscle, www.ebodi.com
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Why Amish men don’t get fat

Cary Castagna - March 18th, 2012

(Note: The following post is courtesy Bruce Krahn of www.ebodi.com.)

A recent study reported that Amish men walked an average of 18,425 steps per day.

Hi, Bruce here from www.ebodi.com.

I am pretty excited as it is only the beginning of March and yet we have been enjoying double-digit warm temps lately — awesome!

This means that it will be a great time to head outside for some extra activity (like resuming my daily walk to my mailbox.)

The funny thing is that even though my daily walk isn’t very long (or vigorous) I always notice a reduction in body fat after just a week or so of resuming this daily activity.

This got me thinking about a study I recently read that said amongst the Amish people, the obesity rate is only 4%, compared to 30% in the United States overall.

As you know, the Amish culture is well known for not having adopted most of the modern technologies the rest of us use on a daily basis. This means that many of the tools we use to make our lives easier are simply not used in an Amish community. I guess you could say that the Amish prefer to do things “old school.”

One study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise reported that Amish men walked an average of 18,425 steps per day. That is a heck of a lot more than the average American who clocks in at about 5,000 steps a day and the No. 1 reason why the Amish are so trim.

They certainly aren’t in better shape because of their diet. In fact, their diet is actually quite high in both carbs and calories. Researchers discovered that Amish folks LOVE their cakes, pies, pastries, gravy, bread, eggs, meats and potatoes as much (if not more) than the rest of us!

However, their increased activity level accounts for about 450 more calories burned each day and that’s why they stay fit.

Yes, I know the hardcore exercisers are saying “but interval training is better” and this may be true but I also know that many people are bogged down by all the dogma that exists in the fitness world and this is preventing them from taking action.

This is why I recommend taking advantage of the opportunities for increased activity that exist all around you — even if they are not considered to be “exercise” by traditional standards.

I have spoken about NEAT before and it stands for Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. This may be the little extra activity your body needs to lose those stubborn pounds of fat that have made their way onto your waist and butt over this past winter!

My recommendation is to lift weights and fit in some NEAT activity whenever you can.

Nutrition also counts so watch the video at www.ebodi.com for some great tips on how to eat and exercise for the look you want.

Have a great week,

Bruce