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London Personal Trainer Reveals The Great Calorie Con

January 26th, 2012

London Personal Trainer Reveals The Great Calorie Con

Look, it’s time to put the old calories in vs calories out ‘thing’ you’ve been living your life by to rest. It simply doesn’t work.

If it did then you, I and everyone else who cuts back on our calories by even a little bit would shift weight and keep it off. For example, a mere reduction of 20 calories a day would result in a 2.1lb loss over the course of a year.

This means that if you ate just 20cals a day less than you do now (A bite of an apple) and did that every day for 10 years you’d lose 21lbs or a stone an a half over that time.

Now, you, I and everyone know that doesn’t happen. The calorie theory is just that, a theory and one that’s far from proven, despite what all of the food producers and many dietitians tell us.

Doctors know this too as they regularly warn clients starting certain new medications that weight gain and fat retention is likely regardless of assessing their calorie intake.

We all know people who have ballooned in size and weight after their thyroid levels dropped, even though they were not eating any more than before, right?

And what’s with all the weight gain during the menstrual cycle? You’re going along fine one day at a steady weight and BAM! 5lbs added in a single week when you’re at ‘that time of the month’.

What’s happening here? Is this REALLY all about calories?

Of course not!

If it were true then we’d ALL respond to adding or cutting calories the same way. We’d gain weight or lose it at the same rate just by moving more and eating less.

But we don’t.

Because it’s not about calories at all.

It’s about hormones!

Simply put, your ability to lose fat or to put it on is driven by your output of and sensitivity to your hormones.

When your hormones work the way they’re supposed to, pretty much every element and indicator of your health and wellness are positive. Your weight is steady, your fat percentages are good, your energy, mood, libido and general connection to your body are all on the up.

Yet, flip the switch and make just one tiny adjustment to your hormones and all of this goes to pot. You gain weight, you get fat (and stay that way despite exercise and calorie restriction), your energy drops, you suffer mood swings and your libido is through the floor.

And it doesn’t take much to make this happen either!

your hormones will come as no surprise to you, I’m sure, as they’re things that are really just common sense.

Unfortunately, it’s more common to engage in these hormone disruptors than not.

Let’s take a look:

  1. Eat Poor Quality Food

Whilst quantity does play a part in getting fat and out of shape, the quality of what we put into our mouths is far more important.

Every food we eat interacts with our hormones to create first our internal environment (including metabolism) and then our external environment (physical appearance).

You are what you eat, right? You knew this already, didn’t you?

But what may not be clear is just how impactful food can be for your hormones. For instance, caffeine is a cortisol stimulant and raised cortisol leads to belly fat buildup.

Sugar is an insulin trigger and insulin-related fat likes to live around the love-handle area and upper back.

Enjoy soy? Well, it’s an estrogen trigger that loves to talk to the bodyfat around your hips and thighs as well as the triceps area giving that all too familiar ‘bingo wings’ or ‘dinner lady arms’ physique.

Processed food in general does this, as do foods stored in plastics.

What you eat is MUCH more important than how much.

That’s why you need to focus on ‘clean-eating’ at least 80% of the time if you want to maintain a great body and great health, and more if you’ve got some way to go before you get there.

If you eat clean, you get lean.

Download My FREE Elimination Diet at www.Daxmoy.com

  1. Getting To Bed Late

The body clock is a fairly consistent piece of equipment, creating and outputting hormones at certain times of the day in order to make you more effective and efficient.

For example, somewhere around 4-5am your body increases cortisol naturally as a trigger to wake you up and get you going in the morning.

A little past noon it begins to decline and come evening, should be taking a serious nosedive as your recovery hormones like testosterone and growth hormone kick in to repair you and to help remodel your body.

When you stay awake much beyond 10pm and you’re watching the TV or your computer screen which both emit light, your body is tricked into thinking it’s daylight and keeps your cortisol high. This means INCREASED belly fat and increased resistance to fat loss as well as difficulty in building lean, highly metabolic muscle tissue.

Short answer to this problem?

Get to bed by 10pm AT LEAST 5 nights a week. Do this and you’ll drop 3-5lbs in the first week alone merely as a result of your hormones helping you out.

Simple to do, but few do it!

  1. Not Drinking Enough Water

No ifs, no buts, people tend to spend a very large amount of their lives chronically dehydrated due to not drinking enough clean water.

This leads to sluggish digestive function, constipation and fat gain due to both the confusion of the thirst signal for hunger AND the cortisol raising effect of dehydration stress.

The body knows it’s not working right, senses stress and cortisol gets released and once again, your turn into a very efficient belly-fat making machine.

You can reduce the impact by, you guessed it, drinking more?

How much?

Well, we advise our clients to aim at something in the region of 1ltr of water for every 50lbs of bodyweight which is a good bit more than the recommended 8 glasses but which can and does dramatically impact on fat loss.

Try these 3 simple steps this week and see what happens.

Eat clean, sleep by 10pm and drink plenty of fresh clean water.

Don’t worry about weighing and measuring foods, counting calories or points or any of that other nonsense, just do these 3 things for a week and you’ll look, feel and perform better than you have in ages… guaranteed!

To your success!

Dax Moy

P.S – leave me a comment or ask a question! : )

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London Personal Trainer Reveals Why You SHOULD Share Your Goals If You’re Serious About Achieving Them

December 22nd, 2011

London Personal Trainer Reveals Why You SHOULD Share Your Goals

If You’re Serious About Achieving Them

If you’re serious about achieving amazing goals this year then spill the beans. London Personal Trainer Goals

Share them.

See, keeping them to yourself is, for most of us, a neat little safety valve that allows us to back out and do nothing with the glorious, amazing, powerful ideas that have crossed all of our minds at one time or another.

After all, if you haven’t shared your goals with anyone else then who’s to know that you failed to reach them or, worse still, never even attempted them in the first place?

Share them.

Share them and see more and more and more of them come to life before your very eyes.

Why?

Well, partly for nothing more than the power of the very fear that would have you keep them quiet!

If you’re paranoid about failing and you share your goals, you’re far, far more likely to keep at them and not let them slip and so, you’re far, far more likely to have them come to reality too.

But there’smore to it than that and this is, kind of… out there.

Well, if not out there then definitely metaphysical.

It’s some of that ‘thoughts become things’ stuff that people spent the last few years raving about.

But not exactly.

See, thoughts CAN become things but it’s not guaranteed that they do or will.

Think of a brifcase with a million pounds in it. Go on. Think.

Think HARD!

Now BELIEVE in the case appearing. Believe with all your heart.

Look around. Is the case there in your room?

Of course it’s not!

That’s not how the law of attraction actually works. Thoughts don’t always become things.

In fact, they rarely do.

But they CAN.

Here’s how.

You think a thought and, if it’s a particularly good one that motivates you and inspires you, that thought creates a feeling about what it would be like to have the thought become real.

If you continue to think those thoughts and have those feelings then eventually you attach a series of emotions to that thought.

Emotions are far more powerful than feelings as they create… motion.

e -motion. Action.

Once the thought has been stimulated into action you’re actually on your path to making things change but hey, you STILL have to walk the path right?

Everyone loves to quote Lao Tsu’s ‘The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’ and they are right. It always BEGINS that way, but how do you COMPLETE it?

By CONTINUING to take the steps, right?

So, in order to get to where you want, you need to have a thought, have feelings about that thought, develop emotions around those feelings and take actions.

THAT’s the recipe for thoughts become things, right there!

So, think about this.

If you have a thought about something you want to be, do or have and your feelings tell you to hide it away and those feelings sponsor the emotion of fear of failure and fear of ridicule, how likely are you to take the first step? How likely are you to take the second? The third?

How likely are you to finish what you start and convert those thoughts into things?

Only you can answer that but I think you have a fair idea, right?

After all, how many of your secret’ goals have ever come to pass?

Share your goals.

Share them with those who love, care about and support you.

Share them with like-minded souls that you meet on your way through life.

Write them on paper and share them with yourself daily (share the feelings with yourself)

Speak them aloud daily and try to visualise them happening (build the emotions)

Talk to others about the goal and tell them about the step you’re about to take (demonstrate the actions)

Share.

And as you do so you motivate and inspire others to find their courage to do the same.

Share.

A make whatever is in your mind real.

A thought can’t be seen or heard by anyone else so it exists only on one level of reality.

A word said to another person gives physical form (sound) to your idea and moves it to another level.

A word acted upon creates movement, ripples in the pond, that affect change.

Thought.
Word.
Action.

Share them all and get what you want much, much faster and far, far easier than ever.

Share!

Truth, joy and love

Dax Moy
Author Of The Best-Selling MAGIC Hundred
Goal Achievement Program
http://www.themagichundred.com

P.S- You don’t need to share with those who want to tell you how idiotic your ideas are if you don’t want. But then again, hearing the dark and the light can be VERY powerful too… we’ll talk about that later : )

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London Personal Trainer Reveals Why We Need A 100,000ft View Of Nutrition

December 22nd, 2011

This weekend at my Elimination Diet Coach program I taught 100 personal trainers from all around the world a new paradigm100,000ft nutrition from London personal Trainer Dax Moy about nutrition that most trainers rarely seem to even consider yet one that, when considered regularly will change… well… EVERYTHING!

No, it wasn’t to do with that old calories in vs calories out nonsense that both the public and fitpros alike are still falling for. (We put that to bed once and for all by looking at all the factors that get in the way of ‘linear mathematics – like hormone regulation and digestive efficiency to name just 2 – and saw that for 99.9% of all people, measuring calories is a complete waste of time).

And it wasn’t to do with carb, protein and fat ratios either. Yes, you can get some fairly decent results from manipulating macronutrients but that’s hardly the most important part of nutrition.

No, THE most important part of the weekend was discussing 100,000ft nutrition perspectives that fitness professionals MUST (in my opinion) start including including in the nutritional practices both for themselves and their clients.

100,000ft nutrition is a VERY different way of looking at things, as you might imagine.

When you scope right out and move away from calories and macro-nutrition you start to see things a little differently.

Like how we can’t even begin to facilitate change in what goes on our clients plates without looking at the businesses that grow, breed, market and sell us the food we eat.

That we can’t look at that without looking at the chemicals, plastics and pesticides that go onto it.

That we can’t look at that without considering the paucity of minerals and nutrients in our topsoil.

That we can’t look at that without looking at the increase in salinisation and decrease in ‘plain’ water in the soil.

That we can’t look at that without considering the impact of deforestation and desertification on the land.

That we can’t look at that without looking at how humanity switched from harvesting recent sunlight in the form of plants and animals to harvesting ancient sunlight in the form of coal and oil.

That we can’t look at that without looking population growth and the change from migratory to static population.

That we can’t look at that without looking at paradigms that shifted to allow all this to happen.

That we can’t look at that without looking at societal values and beliefs.

That we can’t look at that without looking at individual values and beliefs.

In looking at nutrition from a 100,000ft birds-eye view we see that the biological terrain of human beings is directly and inexctricably linked to the biological terrain of the entire planet and that, ultimately, what we’re doing to the Earth, we’re doing to ourselves.

In short, I’m saying that if you truly believe that nutrition is an important part of health that paying attention to it only from the supermarket shelves to your clients’ plate no longer makes sense. In fact, it never did.

At 100,000ft the journey from supermarket to plate is a tiny and insignificant part of the nutritional story that is determining the health of human being as both individuals and as a species. In many respects, it’s the least important part. By the time it’s on the shelves, the story is almost played out and the damage is done. We’re ultimately trying to deal with things at the effect end of the journey rather than at the level of cause.

At 100,000ft we see that as true health professionals it behooves us to become involved in a bigger game, one that requires us to become far more aware of societal and global issues, especially those concerning our environment and the complex and symbiotic ecology that shares our biosphere.

Yes, we need to become ‘eco nuts’ : )

But, you know, just maybe those eco nuts we’ve heard about so often weren’t actually nuts at all.

Maybe they were and have been the sane ones all along due to their ability to see the world from 100,000ft.

Whatever your views on this, it’s time to stop playing the passive, reactive nutrition game where you simply sit at the end of the food chain accepting the effects of poor nutrition and start to gain some height on things to see what’s really happening along the pathway to your dinner plate.

Telling people ‘you are what you eat’ and then making recommendations about food based on nothing but calorie energy and macro-nutrient levels whilst ignoring all the ways that the food has been treated along the way simply doesn’t make sense anymore.

At 100,000ft this is obvious.

Even at 10ft the view is different : )

Time to get some altitude!

Truth, joy and love

Dax Moy

P.S – I’d love to know what you think about this?

What are YOUR thoughts on gaining altitude?

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London Personal Trainer | Horses To Water…

December 22nd, 2011

“You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”

You know that one, right?

You’ve probably heard it a thousand times.

But do you REALLY ‘get’ it?

Most of us don’t.

I certainly didn’t. Not for a long time.

I used to think it was my job to ram my message down the

throats of personal training client within hearing distance and drag them,

kicking and screaming if necessary, to the place that I thought

was best for them.

Now I realise the error of my way… (most of the time)

Now I realise that it’s far better to stay true to my own

message of what I believe and to keep calling it out but

to leave others with the choice of drinking or not.

If they’re not drinking then I’m aware that they have their

own good reasons for choosing not to.

Maybe they’re not thirsty.

Maybe they don’t believe the water will taste any better

than the water they already have.

Maybe they simply don’t believe in MY description of the

water.

Maybe they’re simply sitting back and watching others

drink the water first because they’re fearful, sceptical

or even cynical of if it’s any good.

And all of that is ok by me.

I’ll simply keep calling out about the water I’ve found.

I’ll keep telling everyone how fresh and sweet and clean

and clear it is and how much better it is than the water

I used to drink.

And every now and then a new ‘horse’ will come on over

and taste it for themselves and make their own decision

about whether my description was right or not.

And some of them will stay and stand beside me

gently calling out the message of how great the water is.

And others will feel that the water didn’t live up to either

my praise or their expectations and so they’ll continue the

search for the water that hope to find.

And in either event, the outcome will be perfect.

And a it’ll be a lot easier than dragging them down to

the water too.

Have you seen the size of a horse?

A person’s own beliefs and values are much bigger and

MUCH stronger.

Stop pulling on their bridle.

When they’re ready, they’ll come : )

Truth, joy and love

Dax Moy

http://www.londonpersonaltrainingstudio.com

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STILL Think You’re Too Old To Get Into Great Shape? Think Again!

December 22nd, 2011

You know, one of the most common complaints I get from clients (and especially from my female clients) is that they think they’ve simply left it too late to get into great shape.

That somehow, due to the fact that they’ve past 40, or 50 or some other arbitrary number that they always seem to pull out of thin air, that they’re ‘past their prime’ and should no longer expect great things in the fitness, strength and fat loss department.

It’s a shame so many people have come to believe this ridiculous myth as it holds people back from going after what they REALLY want in terms of their physical performance and instead settling for something far, far less than they could be… if they REALLY pulled out all the stops.

See, contrary to what most people have been led to believe, age doesn’t actually stop you from getting to where you want to go physically.

Sure, some goals may be made a little harder due to the fact that hormone balance is changing but other than that, the rules for looking, feeling and performing at your best don’t just suddenly change because you’ve gained an extra candle on your birthday cake.

It’s not like at 364 days into your 39th year everything’s ok then BAM! At the stroke of midnight on the 365th day everything goes nuts and your metabolism goes into decline, right?

I know, it sounds ridiculous when put that way, right? Yet it’s no more ridiculous than the belief that reaching ANY age should stop you from being, doing or having ANYTHING that you feel is important to your happiness and your health.

The human body works on pretty simple principles really.

Eat plenty of clean, wholesome food (but not too much of it), drink plenty of clean water (not too little of it), move a lot, sleep a lot and remain optimistic and you can pretty much achieve anything you want.

Yes! You CAN get super-strong no matter whether you’re in your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s or beyond.

Just look at 60 Year old grandmother Tatiana Valina who didn’t even START training til she was 48 and who now holds the title of the strongest 60 year old woman in the world.

Yes! You CAN Get super-fit. Just look at the amazing 72 Year old Wanja Sjodin to see what’s possible even in what most people would call ‘advanced old age’.

And YES! You CAN get into amazing physical condition just like 86 year old Marjorie who is the world oldest competing female bodybuilder who, get this, didn’t even START competing til she was 72!

More inspiration?

How about Ernestine Shepherd who didn’t even START exercising til she was 56 and who now at 76 runs 10 miles a day and can bench press 150lbs.

Ernestine says “Age is nothing but a number” and she’s right!

Look, it comes down to this; people have to stop playing small and making excuses for why they can’t have what they want.

They certainly can.

Now, that doesn’t mean it’s all easy and plain sailing. I’m not saying that at all.

These women are undoubtedly very committed to achieving their goals but, beyond that, what  odds do they have stacked in their favour that makes them the exception to the rule?

The answer is, they don’t have any. They simply wanted to achieve their goals of looking, feeling and performing at their best so much that they committed the time, energy and effort to making it happen.

Once again, your body doesn’t really know how old it is. It simply knows about the demand you place on it and the adaptations it needs to make in order to tolerate that demand.

In plain English, it works on ‘use it or lose it’. If you’ve lost it it’s because you failed to use it. Nothing more, nothing less.

The good news is that even once you lose it, you can get it back. Just apply a little effort, do the things that create health, fitness and physique and yes, you too, will get to where you want to go.

It’s as simple and as complex as that.

One thing’s for sure though. Fighting your corner for all the reasons why you WON’T ever get the body of your dreams won’t get you there.

You can either have your excuses or you can have your results… you can’t have both.

Choose!

Dax Moy

http://www.londonpersonaltrainingstudio.com

P.S – Don’t forget to comment!

I love hearing what you have to say : )

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Your 15 Minute Beach Body Plan

June 15th, 2011

Can you believe it? Junelondon personal trainer beach body plan is here already!

If you’re like most people you’re probably already picking out your holiday clothes and thinking ahead to when you can finally hit the beach, soak up some sun and get some well earned R and R.

But then it hits you. Sun, sea and sand all equal skimpy clothes and to make the most of those you’ve gotta have a body to go with them!

PANIC!!

Baring our all on holiday is often a terrifying prospect for many of us. Honestly! If you feel self-conscious about your hip, thighs, stomach or indeed anywhere then it’s likely that your holiday will be spent in a mild (sometimes not-so-mild) state of paranoia that can actually detract from your enjoyment of your time away from work. Instead of relaxing and enjoying your freedom you’re doing the ‘does my bum look big in this?’ bit.

Does this sound familiar to you? If it does, you’re not alone. But what can you do about it?

Well, there are plenty of things that you can do if you’re willing to put forth a little effort over the coming weeks. No, strike that. You’ll have to put forward A LOT of effort if you’re going to pull this off in time.

[Hey, don't blame me! It's not my fault that you've overeaten and sat on your bum all winter!]

First of all, I want you to take out your diary. Starting TODAY I want you to find at least 15 minutes EACH DAY where you’ll be able to carry out your conditioning program. Actually make the effort to put this time into the diary just like you would for any other appointment. In fact, this is more important than any other appointment because it’s with yourself.

If you have a mobile phone with a reminder on it then programme your appointment there too. In fact, write this appointment down in as many places as you can so that you can’t accidentally-on-purpose forget to exercise.

I think you get the idea by now. We’re placing MASSIVE priority and importance upon these appointments. If we don’t, they simply won’t happen!

I can hear some of you saying ‘but I really don’t have the time to do this everyday!’ To that I say ‘Rubbish’. If you can’t even find 15 minutes then you’re simply not trying! 15 minutes is the MINIMUM amount that you’ll need. Ideally it’ll be twice this amount.

Next, go to your food cupboard and get rid of all of the processed food that you’ve been storing up. If it’s got an ‘E’ or a number in the ingredients list it’s outta there. From now until your hols you’ll be consuming only ‘real’ food. Any meat, any veg or any fruits as long as they aren’t preserved in any way.

Why? The preserving processes that are used on foods make them ‘anti-nutrients’ with many of them having similar properties to modern plastics. These foods wreak havoc on the digestive and immune systems and can lead to overeating and increased fat storage.

Cleaning up your diet, even without restricting your calorie intake is a fantastic way to change your appearance. After all, we’ve all heard the old adage ‘you are what you eat’ haven’t we?

And now for the actual workout.

I know what you’re thinking. ‘How can I possibly make a difference in just 15 minutes a day?’. Sounds a bit like one of those dodgy infomercial promises doesn’t it? Well sure, if I were promising results without effort but that’s not the case here. In fact, you’re going to have to put forward LOTS of effort to make this work. We’re talking consistency AND intensity here, which is normally what’s missing in most people’s programs.

[Note: I'm assuming that there are no orthopedic or medical problems present. If there are then you should consult your primary health care provider or a certified personal trainer before commencing the program] Day One Warm up with some brisk walking, stair climbing or skipping for about 3 min. Perform the following circuit for 30 seconds of each exercise with 30 seconds rest:

1. Squats 2. Shoulder Presses 3. Abdominal Curls 4. Lunges 5. Pushups (or kneeling variation) 6. Dumbell Rows

Repeat the circuit twice.

Now, be sure to build up to this, so don’t go all out for the first couple of workouts. However, intensity is important so as soon as you feel able you should really start putting forward as much effort as you can into each 30 seconds.

At the end of the circuits, stretch out each muscle for about 30 seconds.

Day two

This is your CV day. Choose any two or three activities from the list below and perform 3 minute ‘bursts’ of high effort. Rest for a minute or two in between and then move onto the next activity.

Power Walking Running Sprints Stair Climbing Cycling Skipping Martial arts punch and kick combination s Rowing

Or any other CV activity that you may enjoy.

Simply alternate these two days between now and your holiday. If you feel that you may be over training or not recovering then add a third day where you simply stretch out your tight or sore muscles to aid their recovery.

You may be thinking that this approach sounds too simple to yield any significant results but you’d be wrong. In fact, simplicity is the main reason that this approach works. And it really does work!

Give the program a fair try and dedicate 15 minutes a day to these exercises and I guarantee you’ll be in far better shape for your holiday than you are right now. The alternative of course, is to do nothing, hope for the best and spend your holiday worried about your wobbly bits.

The choice is yours and only you can make a difference so start now. Today!

See you on the beach!

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Defeating The UN

December 14th, 2010

The UN is out there.

It’s watching you.

It’s ready to pounce on you as soon as you make the slightest sign that you’re ready to move from where you are now toward where you really and truly want to be.

If you’ve ever started a diet and quit, the UN had a hand in it for sure.

If you ever skipped a workout in order to do nothing more important than watch TV or surf the net, the UN was there too.

If you’ve ever had a dream or a vision about the kind of person you might become, the things you could do or the many wonderful things you could have, yet done little or nothing about it, then face it, the UN got you.

In fact, the UN has been responsible for keeping your appearance, your health, your fitness, your finances, your career and, indeed, your very life, exactly as it is now and for preventing you from being, doing and having the things you really want in life.

If you SAY you want something bad, REALLY bad, to happen in your life yet you simply can’t ever seem to find the time or make the effort to get started on making it happen then yes, you my friend, have been outwitted, outsmarted and outfoxed by the UN.

But don’t feel bad.

You’re not alone.

The UN has, at one time or another, kicked the butts of every single person on the planet just as it’s kicking yours right now.

Let’s face it… the UN is a bully!

It enjoys pushing you around and keeping you from going where you want really to go or doing what you really want to do, but instead of violence it uses something far, far more powerful against you.

It uses rationalisation.

It uses justification.

It uses distraction.

The UN is most powerful when it uses the rationalisation and justification on you to keep things just as they are now.

Telling you that “now isn’t the right time” or that “just one won’t make a difference” or that “I’ll start monday” is a sure sign that the UN is kicking your butt this very minute.

Allowing yourself to be distracted by things you don’t really want, enjoy or that simply don’t matter is another.

Like I said, the UN is a bully.

But just like any bully, the UN hates being confronted. Confront the UN and, like all bullies the world over, it backs down, runs away and loses its hold over those it once controlled so completely.

Steal away the 3 main weapons of the UN and YOU win!

When you cease rationalising why you’re sabotaging your results and settling for less, when you cease justifying why you’re not taking action on what you say you want and when you quit being distracted by what others ar doing and focus more on what YOU are doing instead, you turn the tables on the UN and send it running and screaming for its mum.

You have the power to beat the UN.

Use it.

Use it NOW!

Don’t let the UN get in the way of what you most want from life or you’ll end up UNfit, UNhealthy, UNwell, UNwise, UNloved, UNwealthy, UNhappy and living a life that feels Unfair and UNlived.

Defeat the UN.

Do it now.

To your success!

Dax Moy

www.themagichundred.com

P.S – The only UN you should consider letting hang around with you is UNstoppable ; )

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London Personal Trainer Reveals Why ‘Nutty Professor’s’ Twinkie Diet ‘Experiment Is A HUGE Red Herring

November 15th, 2010

If you’ve been following the news at all recently you’ve no doubt come across the features reporting the ‘experiment’ conducted by nutrition professor Mark Haub from Kansas state university who lost over 27lbs in just 10 weeks by following a diet of Twinkies, Doritos, Oreo’s and high-sugar cereals.

Haub designed the experiment to show that weight loss is nothing more complicated than that simple old calories-in vs calories-out mathematical equation that nutritionists, dieticians and most personal trainers have been preaching about for years and, well, to most of the public and an alarming number of fitness professionals around the world he seems to have proven his case.

“After all” they say, “here’s proof. He ate a diet full of all the foods we’re told are bad for us and yet he still lost 27lbs. What more evidence do you need?”

Well, a lot more actually.

From a personal perspective I find it shocking that that so many people are willing to use a single, isolated event (albeit a very public one) as ‘evidence’ of anything, let alone something as complicated as human metabolism. From a professional perpective, I’m horrified that many of those who charge the public rather large sums of money for their knowledge and expertise are willing to discard all that they know about human physiology and metabolism and are happy to accept a piece of isolated trivia as scientific facat and outright proof that the human body operates on a simple ‘miles per gallon’ equation just like your car.

Now, I’ll have to hold my hands up here and freely admit that I have a bias in operation regarding my own nutritional philosophy. I believe that the mechanistic calories-in, calories out model is a bad one, one that leads to skewed, dysfunctional emotions and behaviours around food and one that is far from proven as many ‘experts’ like to assert.

But that bias hasn’t just come about randomly, I’ve worked for nearly 13 years with people who didn’t fit the neat little boxes that fitness and medicine felt they should. These are people who were ‘doing all the right things’ in terms of adding up the numbers, counting up the points, weighing and measuring every gram of food that they consumed yet still failed to lose weigh/fat as a result.

Now, most fitness professionals, nutritionists and ‘fat doctors’ like to point fingers when this happens. They accuse the clients and patients of everything from under-reporting to unconscious eating to outright lying because ‘you can’t argue with the numbers’, yet what if you can? What if you can not only argue with the numbers but you can prove that the numbers are pretty much meaningless to all but a very small minority of the population who have all their health and fitness ‘ducks in a row’ so to speak?

Well, let’s see if we can do that here, shall we? : )

The current model of calories in/out is based upon the laws of thermodynamics, the first being most important to arguments surrounding calorie equations. This first law states that energy is neither created nor lost, it merely changes form and that much of that change can be measured in the form of heat.

For this reason, the calorie composition of foods is worked out by burning them in a calorimeter (a heat measurer) and determining how much of a temperature rise ensues. Broccoli, beef, carrots and yes, twinkies, all have their own ‘heat signature’ that we award points to in terms of calories.

The more calories it has per unit of measure, the more heat it can generate.

The ‘calorie’ that we speak of in relation to food is actually a kilocalorie (1000cal) and represents the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1kg of water by 1degree celsius. You following this so far?

Even if you are, there’s still a danger that you may not have spotted what is, perhaps, the most critical piece of information with regards nutrition that even the most learned of fitness professionals and nutritionists most often fail to see.

That the human body, YOU, is not even present in determining the true energy value of food!

We’ve got food being burned off to ascertain its value in raising the temperature of water… but what has any of this got to do with us as human beings? Sure, we have water within us but we’re not water only are we?

We’re more complex than that.

Yet the calories in/out argument ignores that complexity.

Weird when you think about it because we don’t sell fuel at gas stations based on a promise that ‘1 gallon will take you 126 miles’ do we? Sure, some adds may say 126mpg but they always add ‘UP TO’ as well as one of those little asterisks that usually say something about the make, model and efficiency of the vehicle, a kind of ‘results may vary’ statement or sorts.

When it comes to our cars we accept that an older car (even of the same model and make) drinks gas differently to a newer one, and that deflated tyres, leaking radiator or not enough oil in the engine can dramatically change the energy efficiency of the vehicle, yet in the human body we tend to ignore all that and make the whole issue one of energy alone. Eat less, move more and lose weight. Apparently, it’s that simple, that straightforward. Foolproof.

Except it’s not.

The simple act of putting a hundred calories of something in your mouth doesn’t mean you’re getting a hundred calories of nutrients.

Don’t be confused, it’s pretty straightforward really.

It means that consumption doesn’t guarantee digestion or metabolism or simpler still, just because you eat it doesn’t mean it contributes to your overall energy. Gross example? If you’ve ever looked back into the toilet bowl and seen sweetcorn or nuts or seeds after emptying your bowels then you’ve seen food that was eaten and not digested.

If your liver is over-burdened and not producing enough bile or your stomach isn’t producing enough hydrocloric acid acid then the larger food particles don’t get broken down into smaller ones properly and can pass through the digestive tract without being digested.

If your thyroid gets suddenly dirupted by illness or disease then the amount of calories you could consume yesterday to maintain weight may today result in you gaining weight rapidly as a result, despite the fact that your BMI is the same and your BMR (on paper) hasn’t changed.

And what about changes to cortisol, estrogen, testosterone? Fluctuations here can and do affect the net value of the calories we consume with more individual ups and down occuring than we see on the stock exchange. Today 2000 kcal is enough to maintain your weight, tomorrow your thyroid is depressed and you gain weight on the same amount and the next day your adrenals skyrocket and you find that the needle on the scale starts to swing the other way despite the fact that the calories are ‘exactly right’ for this theoretical Basal Metabolic Rate equation that the calories in/out model relies upon so much.

Doctors know all this.

So do most trainers and nutritionists. But instead they fall for and perpetuate the calories in/out story and cling to it as gospel when it’s far from as clear-cut as they make it out to be.

Am I saying that calories don’t matter at all? No. There’s clearly a link but it’s well beyond my ability to figure it out directly as I don’t have the ability to monitor and track every fluctation in organ function, hormonal output, hormone sensitivity, nutrient extraction, digestion and excretion so knowing the numbers is a pretty meaningless exercise to me and those who I work with.

That Professor Haub lost all that weight whilst eating junk food based upon calories in/out is good for him (I guess) but in no way indicates that the approach will work for everyone else. In fact, I doubt it will. Even if the maths are correct and it really is just about making the numbers tally.

After all, calorie counting hasn’t done too well so far, has it?

It doesn’t exactly have a glowing track record.

Isn’t the whole calorie counting ‘thing’ a major part of the whole ‘yo-yo’ diet phenomena that so many people know all to well already?

I wouldn’t get too excited. I certainly wouldn’t rush out to stock up on all your favourite junk food either. The results gained by 1 man is not ‘proof’ of a scientific fact. That it worked for the learned professor is not indispute, it clearly did. Why it worked is another matter entirely with calorie contribution being only one of myriad possible causes.

Skip the Twinkies : )

Truth, joy and love

Dax Moy

The UK’s Leading Personal Trainer

http://www.daxmoypersonaltrainingstudios.com

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Have your say! : )

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London Personal Trainer Reveals How You Can FINALLY Kill Those Chocolate Cravings That Are Keeping You Fat

October 12th, 2010

One of the bigger problems that many of my online clients as well as those who visit myself and my team at my London Personal Training Studios tell me they struggle with  (especially when they’re following my Elimination Diet) is that they’re often ‘called to’ by random bars of chocolate in the stores that they visit in the course of their normal, every day lives.

Seriously!

My clients have told me that often they’re simply walking through a supermarket minding their own business when a bar of chocolate that they barely spotted from the corner of their eye will begin shouting, screaming even “EAT ME! EAT ME!” and continues to do so for the entire time they’re in the store… especially when they get near the checkout!

And if that weren’t bad enough, it’s not limited to the ONE bar of chocolate that’s calling to them, but the whole bloody lot!

To hear some people describe the very real and very intense cravings they get for chocolate, you could be forgiven for thinking chocolate has a life of it’s own and that it’s a far more powerful substance than a simple bit of food.

Ridiculous, I know, but chocolate seems to have THAT much hold over so many people that it must have some kind of magic voodoo working for it, right?

Well, not exactly.

Actually, not at all…

See, as weird as this may sound, chocolate cravings (and at a higher level addictions) aren’t really about the chocolate. Sure, it tastes pretty darned good to most of us but not so good that we’d voluntarily keep ourselves soft, fat and flabby for life, right?

And no, it’s not really psychological ‘thing’ either.

The plain fact of the matter is that those all-consuming chocolate cravings are actually a sign of…

…MALNUTRITION!

Sounds weird, right? Like it couldn’t possibly be true. After all, malnutrition is a thing that starving kids in India and Africa suffer from, not the rest of us living here in the modernised World, isn’t it?

Well, not so. Sure, malnutrition may well include those poor unfortunates who aren’t getting enough food to maintain their health but it also can (and does!) include those who’re lacking in the vitamins and minerals required to support the function of healthy cells.

Simply put, if you’re lacking in a mineral (even if you’ve just eaten dinner) then your body doesn’t have the raw materials to carry out efficient function and is, by definition, malnourished. If you’re malnourished your body is going to give you an ‘eat’ signal so that you go out and increase your chances of replenishing it before damage occurs.

Following this so far?

Pretty simple stuff, right?

Ok, but you’re wondering what this has to do with chocolate aren’t you?

Well, here’s the deal; when you’re craving chocolate what you’re really craving (most of the time) is the super-mineral MAGNESIUM.

Why magnesium?

Because the cocoa bean (the foundation of chocolate) is one of the highest sources of magnesium around, it’s only natural that your body produces cravings for chocolate when the supply of cellular magnesium falls below acceptable levels for function and repair. Your body simply recalls all of the food sources that are abundant in magnesium and says to itself “Aha, chocolate!” and an insatiable desire for chocolate is born.

It’s not the chocolate or the sugar itself (which, incidentally, further depletes magnesium) that you’re craving, it’s just a mineral!

“Ok, Then Why Do My Cravings Increase During My Periods Or When I’m Stressed Out?”

It’s true that many women get even greater cravings for chocolate in the run-up to and during their period and that many people (both men and women) have a tendency to reach for a chocolate bar when we’re stressed out, but once again, this is simple physiology at work and once again, it’s a signal to top up on your magnesium.

You see, magnesium is not only critical to reproductive health but a lack of it also shows itself in an increase in muscle cramps, an increase in anxiety, an increase in fatigue, an increase in headaches and a whole host of other ‘nasties’ often associated with ‘that time of the month’ or increased stress at work or home.

Now, it’d be great if when you’re magnesium deficient you simply got a craving for more of the healthy foods that contain the mineral like:

  • Almonds
  • Apricots
  • Avocado
  • Banana
  • Beet greens, raw
  • Black-eyed peas
  • Blackstrap molasses
  • Brazil nuts
  • Brown rice
  • Cashews
  • Coconut ‘meat’
  • Dark green vegetables
  • Dates
  • Dulse
  • Figs
  • Filberts
  • Fish
  • Grains
  • Kelp
  • Kidney beans
  • Lima beans
  • Meat
  • Millet
  • Oatmeal
  • Peanuts
  • Pecans
  • Potato
  • Rye
  • Tofu
  • Walnuts
  • Wheat germ

But that’s not what happens is it?

Instead, chocolate, one of the highest and most rapidly bioavailable sources of magnesium hollers… and we answer!

It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t loaded with sugar (adding to the magnesium depletion we’re trying to counter), or if it didn’t contain oxalic acid which impairs calcium absorption and creates an acidic internal environment which, once again, depletes magnesium.

See how this works?

The very thing you eat to cure the craving and replenish magnesium is the very thing that’ll end up making you magnesium depleted and crave chocolate all over again!

This has happened to you, right?

Sure it has!

“Ok, so what do I do about this?”

Well look, first off, let me be clear, I’m not one of those chocolate hating personal trainers that you hear about. I love the taste of chocolate from time to time just like I enjoy a good cup of coffee and a really high quality red wine, but I also know that these things aren’t particularly great for me and that I shouldn’t have them in my diet all the time too… just like you do.

So even though I’m going to give you the advice to ditch on the chocolate for a while, I’m not giving it because I’m a hater but rather, because you NEED to, for a while at least.

You could definitely start by eating more of the foods from the list above and, with time, such a diet would DEFINITELY help with the chocolate cravings but, the truth is, in all likelihood you won’t be able to ignore the call of chocolate for long enough to feel the benefit of all those wholesome foods. After all, it’s not worked for you up to now, has it? : )

So yes, consume as much of the good stuff above but if you’re REALLY serious about moving chocolate from being a NEED to a WANT (as in, you eat it only because you want to, not because you feel you have to) then it’s worth taking a magnesium supplement as extra ‘insurance’ against the all-powerful call of the chocolate bar.

But here’s the thing; most magnesium supplements are a waste of money.

They can’t be absorbed into the system very well and create nothing more than very expensive urine.

This is especially true of magnesium OXIDE which most supplements are made from, so avoid it at all costs and instead buy your magnesium supplements on the rule of ‘ATE’. In other words, as long as you’re taking magnesium with an ‘ate’ suffix you’ll be doing a lot to reestablish your bodily magnesium levels and kill off the cravings fr chocolate that are keeping you fatter than you want to be.

Among the best are:

  • Magnesium citrATE
  • Magnesium orotATE
  • Magnesium glyconATE

Take any of these or, better still, a mix of these magnesium types and you’ll soon notice the difference in how you look and how you feel (did I mention that magnesium also helps accelerate metabolism and build lean tissue too?).

But if, all I’ve said here, you can’t ignore chocolate’s siren-call then make sure you eat only the highest quality, dark and sugar free stuff. Yes, it’s a bit of an acquired taste after all the sugar-laden stuff but you’ll soon come to like it and it’ll do you a lot more good.

Go ahead and kill those chocolate cravings and get back to eating it when you want to, not because you need to.

It’ll change your life : )

To your success!

Dax Moy

The UK’s Leading Personal Trainer

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Are You Ready To Transform Yourself? New 6 Week Rapid Fat Loss Body Transformation Program From London’s Leading Personal Trainers

October 10th, 2010

Hey Guys

Julie, my weight management course co-ordinator, has just told me that she’s ready to start accepting ‘new recruits’ for our next 6 week fatloss and body transformation program starting October 25th

This all-new program is called ‘Transform‘ as that’s exactly what it does : )

If you commit to the program for the full 6 weeks and follow every single piece of advice that Julie will be sharing with you will quite literally be transformed, just like our previous participants have been.

Bonnie lost 30lbs in just six weeks applying the exact same secrets, strategies and skills to her motivation, exercise and nutrition that you’ll be taught during your time on this one-of-a-kind program.

Ammar did pretty great too, losing just short of 3 stones over the six weeks by following the complete step-by-step system that Julie will be sharing with the group of 20 very lucky participants she’ll start working with later this month.

Isobel did pretty great too, right? After all, 5 inches off of your waist in just 6 weeks is a pretty dramatic improvement, don’t you think?

And what about Abby? She achieved more in 6 weeks with Jules than she did in 40 weeks on her previous calorie controlled and semi-starvation program with another 5 inches lost from her waist!

And the great thing is, NONE of this program is based upon calorie restriction, point-counting, weighing and measuring foods or semi-starvation or restriction-based dieting.

Nor is it based upon trying to fit those deadly-boring marathon-length cardio sessions into your day into your day either.

Yet without ever going hungry (and I mean EVER) and without spending half your life exercising (in fact, you’ll be surprised by how short your exercise sessions are!) you’ll be GUARANTEED of dropping inches all over, melting fat faster than ever (even that horrible stubborn fat you may have been carrying for years) and gaining more lean, long and lovely muscles that will dramatically change your shape both in clothes and out of them.

Here’s how it works:

You’ll come to our Islington studio’s in Central London twice a week on Monday and Thursday evenings where you’ll spend an hour with Julie who’ll devote 30 minutes to educating you on an important aspect of body transformation such as nutrition, sleep, supplementation, hormone control, motivation, recovery or exercise and 30 minutes to taking you through a short yet VERY effective exercise routine that’ll shift fat and build lots of  highly metabolic lean tissue that’ll continue the fat burning long after your session is over.

It’s this combination of in-depth education (no, it’s not boring classroom stuff but things that you can put into practice as soon as you leave our studio to help get you RAPID results) and metabolism altering exercise that makes the Transform program so unique and effective.

We won’t simply be sitting around chatting like so many of those other weightless courses out there, neither will we be mindlessly ‘beasting’ you through spirit-smashing workouts either.

Your entire Transform experience will challenge you for sure, but in a good way and, by the time the 6 weeks are over, you’ll be absolutely amazed by the results you’ll have gained… and, of course, the fat you’ve lost!

But there’s the thing (well, 2 things actually)….

First, we’re adamant that we keep our Transform program a ‘by invitation only’ event.

Too many of the weight-manangement programs we’ve looked at are attended by people who aren’t 100% serious about getting results but who would rather attend a weekly whinge-session and make excuses about why they couldn’t or wouldn’t stick to the plans they’ve been given.

That’s not meant to sound harsh and uncaring but we just don’t think those kind of programs really help anyone, whingers and non-whingers alike and, to be frank, we’re simply not prepared to work with people who are set on failure before they even begin.

So…

If you’re 100% ready, willing and able to make the changes necessary to create your own unique transformation then go ahead and apply for a place but if you’re not then.. don’t! : )

Just to be clear, here’s what we mean by ready, willing and able…

Ready – You’ve got to be in a place where you’re pretty much sick of the reflection that stares back at you from the mirror every morning and where change is no longer a ’should’, rather it’s now in the category of ‘must’.

If you’re not at the level of ‘must’ then please don’t try to claim one of these places.

Willing – we’re going to do our utmost to motivate and inspire you to make the changes but you’ve got to be in a place where you’re willing to adopt the changes we’ll be advising you on. You’ll be asked to make some fairly dramatic (by your current standards) changes to your diet and lifestyle, required to exercise for 20-30 minutes a day every day and asked to put forth a 100% ‘can do’ attitude to the process.

If you know that you don’t want to (or won’t) make these changes then please don’t try to claim one of these places.

Able – We believe that absolutely everyone is able to follow the guidelines we’ll be teaching you but the most important thing is that YOU believe this too. If you say you’re unable to exercise daily because you won’t have the time, unable to change the diet because of what other members of your family might think or unable to give up certain foods because of… well… habit, then don’t try to claim one of these places.

We don’t mean to sound harsh but we genuinely want to give the valuable places on this program to people who will follow it and get amazing results rather than end up with a group of disillusioned, frustrated people who weren’t really ready to follow the advice they were given.

We think that’s fair and hope you do too.

Second, due to space constraints, we only have 20 places on the course starting 25th October. We fully expect those 20 places to go very, very quickly so if you’re serious about grabbing a place you’ll really need to get a wriggle on or you’ll be left out and will have to wait until the New Year when we’ll be running the next course.

Just think, even if you only got half the results of Ammar, Bonnie, Abby, Isobel and the many others who have been through the program to date then by the time your Christmas party comes around this year you’ll be in amazing shape. If you got the same or even MORE than that then you’d truly have transformed yourself and, instead of waiting to do the whole ‘new year, new you’ thing that most people end up doing, you’ll be going into the New Year already looking and feeling amazing.

So here’s the deal…

If you’re certain that the Transform Program is right up your street and that you’re ready, willing and able to commit to it and attend each of the twelve 1-hour sessions at 7pm on Monday and Thursday for 6 weeks and are prepared to follow the simple yet highly effective guidance that Julie will be sharing with you 100% then you need to call our Islington studio right now on 0207 354 3550 and ask for Jules who’ll arrange a telephone interview to assess your suitability for the program.

It’s that straightforward. That simple.

If accepted you’ll be asked to pay the very reasonable £197 fee for the program to secure your place and you’re in.

(Note: If you’re thinking that £197 sounds like a lot compared to your ‘£7 introductory month’ price of one of the more famous weight management courses, then you’re right. It is.

That said, that program won’t be sharing with you the very powerful material that we will be, nor will it get you the the kind of results that we’ll be helping you to get in the very rapid time-scale we’ll be helping you to get them.

Only you can decide if the price we’re asking is worth the kind of results that Ammar, Bonnie and the others have already gotten and that we know you’re going to get or if it sounds too steep. Either way though, that’s the price!) : )

So look, if the kind of results we’re talking about here are the kind of results you’re looking for and you’re 100% committed to doing the work to get them and get them BEFORE Christmas then all you have to do is pick up the phone, dial 0207 354 3550 and ask for Jules (If you get our answer machine DO leave a message and Jules will call you back as soon as she gets it).

Whatever you do though, don’t delay. Once the 20 places are gone, that’s it. The Transform program will close down until the New Year and you’ll have missed your chance to achieve your very own Transformation.

Still here??? : )

Dax

P.S – Don’t forget to tell any friends or family that are in need of their own Transformation about the program too… it’s always easier when you can share the experience with others and you normally get even better results!

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