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Ed Scow is a nationally certified personal trainer, nutrition expert and massage therapist who specializes in designing fat loss workouts for busy moms and dads, more specifically 10 minute workouts. Being a dad himself, Ed knows how tough it is to fit in a quality fat loss workout when you've got more important things to do, which is why he designs 10 minute workouts...who doesn't have 10 minutes? He is also the author of ... [More]

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  • Have You Ever Wondered How Much Weight You're "Lifting" While Doing Push-Ups?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Have you ever wondered how much weight you're "lifting" while doing push-ups? The truth is it varies, but read on to learn some new unique push-up variations and just how much of your body weight you're "lifting" while doing push-ups.


  • Cardio For Weight Loss is Overrated
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] Every day on my way to my training studio, I drive by a couple commercial gyms. They're pretty typical of most gyms in that they've got all the cardio machines lining their front windows. There are countless rows of treadmills, elliptical machines, stationary bikes, etc. and most of them have little flat screen television attached to them so the people can do cardio for hours and not miss any of their favorite shows.


  • Real Women Do Push-ups
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Real women do push-ups. That's right, I said it and I mean it. Women have to do push-ups if they want to get fit and strong, not to mention lose unwanted fat. It doesn't matter if the weight you want to lose is on your thighs, you have to do push-ups. It doesn't matter if you're at a comfortable weight - you have to do push-ups.


  • 3 Quick Tips to Make Lower Body Exercises More Effective For Moms Only
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] What mom doesn't want a stronger, more toned and sexier set of legs and butt? I don't think I've ever met one, and to be totally honest I'm all for ladies getting nicer legs and a round butt! There are a few things you should know though if you want to make your legs and butt workouts more effective to get the strong and toned legs and butt.


  • Top 5 Reasons to Do Home Workouts Instead of Joining a Gym
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Joining health clubs and gyms is largely a waste of your time and money. You can get just as good, if not better, results by doing home workouts that take up much less time and don't require a huge investment.


  • Can You Lose Weight While Cheating on Your Diet?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Cheating while on a weight loss diet is a big topic of conversation between me and my clients. They want to know if they can do it and still succeed, and how much they can do it. Here's my standard response to these types of diet questions.


  • How to Lose Fat If You're Too Busy to Workout
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In today's world, it's often tough for parents to fit everything in. There are just so many things running through your head that it's tough to get to it all, and one of the first things to fall is the fat loss workout. So how do busy moms and dads lose fat when they're too buy to workout?


  • 10 Minute Workout Secrets
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Designing 10 minute workouts for busy moms and dads is a real passion of mine, but there are a lot of parents who don't think it's possible to lose fat in only 10 minutes a day. In this article, I go over some of the secrets to my 10 minute workouts and why they're so effective.


  • 3 Weight Loss Diet Mistakes Part 1
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] In addition to being a fitness trainer and fat loss expert to busy moms and dads, I'm also a massage therapist and have been for over 10 years. I primarily deal with people who have issues. No fluffy spa massages, primarily deep tissue, sports, etc.


  • 5 Bodyweight Fat Burning Exercises That You Can Do From Home in Your Underwear
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Who says you need to head to a gym to get a great fat burning workout? I say you can get an awesome fat burning workout in from the comfort of your own home, using only your own bodyweight, and exercising in only your underwear!


  • 3 Weight Loss Diet Mistakes, Part 3
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In this final article of my ongoing weight loss diet mistakes series, we're going to go over a weight loss diet mistake that I see time and time again and I want to lay this puppy to rest for good. It's a big weight loss diet mistake that even some of my doctor clients have made in the past, so if you make it don't feel bad. Today's 3rd and final easy to follow weight loss diet mistake is the idea of 'saving calories'.


  • 3 Weight Loss Diet Mistakes, Part 2
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to losing weight through the proper diet, many people go about things the wrong way and make the same mistakes over and over again. In this 3 part series, you'll discover the 3 most common weight loss diet mistakes and how to avoid them.


  • The Amazing Cardio Myth - Why Cardio is Quite Possibly the Most Overrated Way to Lose Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] Let's face it, when it comes to losing fat, cardio is overrated. Very overrated in fact. There are far better ways to lose fat, and when it comes down to it, there are a lot of lies and myths out there revolving cardio and its effectiveness in weight loss.


  • 3 Best Six Pack Abs Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] One thing that really upsets me is so called "fat loss experts" telling you that in order to lose stomach fat or get six pack abs, you have to use some cheap piece of plastic being sold by a wannabe actor or fitness model (who doesn't use that cheap piece of plastic) and only then will you get six pack abs...in only 3 minutes a day! It's absurd. But luckily there are some great six pack abs exercises that don't take a lot of equipment and can be done from virtually anywhere.


  • 3 Best Love Handles Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] I don't know who came up with the term "love handles", but I think they should be severely beaten. What is there to love about flabby goo sitting on the side of your stomach? It jiggles, it sticks out underneath shirts and for the ladies it creates the always wonderful muffin top. But luckily there are some great love handles exercises...that don't include crunches...that will burn that fat off very quickly.


  • Fast Workouts to Help You Lose Fat Faster Than You Thought Possible
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] How do you fit in an effective fat loss workout when you've got a million different things pulling you in a million different directions? Can you fit in a fast workout if you're a busy mom or dad? Yes you can and it doesn't take as much time as you think. Read on to find out how you can lose fat in only 4 minutes a day.


  • Arms Workout For Strong, Toned and Lean Arms
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Arms. Everybody wants a nice pair. Guys want big, strong and toned arms. Ladies want lean, sexy, toned and strong arms. Two separate goals, but are the workouts different? Should an arms workout differ for guys and gals? What does a great arms workout look like? Read on to find out.


  • Can You Lose Weight With a Wii Fit Or Nintendo Wii?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Nintendo Wii's and Wii Fit are all the rage right now a lot of well-intentioned people are thinking that this video game is the answer to their fat loss prayers. But is it? Can you really lose fat with a Nintendo Wii or Wii Fit? And if you can is it even a good idea?


  • 3 Top Arms Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Everybody wants a nice set of arms, whether it's guys wanting a big, strong pair or ladies looking for toned, sexy arms. But how do you get them? Do you need to spend hours each week doing exercises devoted just to the arms or are there a few exercises that are better than the rest?


  • 5 Fat Loss Nutrition Tips
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Whenever people tell me they want to lose weight, they tell me about all the things they're going to change RIGHT NOW, but I think that's the wrong approach. That's actually a good way to set yourself up for failure. Instead, what I try to do is get them to focus on a few things right now and build on those new habits.


  • Do You Really Need to Do Cardio to Lose Fat?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You've been told time and time again that in order to lose fat you have to do lots of cardio. Some "experts" even tell you that you need to do cardio for 60 minutes every stinking day! But is that true? Do you have to do cardio every day in your magical "fat burning zone" to lose fat? What if you hate cardio, can you still lose fat?


  • 3 Ways Fat Loss For Moms is Different Than Fat Loss For Men
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Is fat loss for moms different than fat loss for men? Do moms need to go about things differently to lose fat? Do moms need to do special workouts that are different than the fellas? The answer may surprise you.


  • The Best Belly Fat Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Belly fat. Don't you just love to hate it? Belly fat just sits there mocking you. It makes you buy bigger pants and bigger shirts. Belly fat makes you feel self-conscious when at the swimming pool or beach. Belly fat jiggles when you walk, run, laugh, or move too quickly. Belly fat is horrible!


  • The Best Love Handles Exercise
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] What is the best love handles exercise? That was a question a client recently asked. His heart was in the right place. He wants to get rid of his gut and love handles, and wanted to know the best love handles exercise. I don't know if he liked my answer at first, but once I explained it, he got the point and was pretty satisfied, at least I think he was.


  • Fat Loss For Busy Dads
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I get a lot of questions about how men and women are different when it comes to losing fat and quite honestly there are very few differences. The fundamentals are the same, however there are a few minor differences between the mommies and daddies.


  • Fat Loss Workout For Beginners
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Are you looking for a workout for beginners? Have you never done a fat loss workout and just need to get something started, that won't have you unable to get out of bed the next morning because you're so sore? Or maybe you've done fat loss workouts in the past, but you've taken a couple years, or decades, off and want to get started again and are looking for a new workout for beginners.


  • 4 Minute Six Pack Abs Workout For Firm Abs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Abs, abs, abs. Everybody wants them, but nobody really knows how to get firm abs, let alone six pack abs. How are you supposed to lose stomach fat and get firm abs Is it possible to get firm abs without doing crunches? Is it possible to do a full abs workout in only 4 minutes? Read on and find out.


  • 3 Abs Workout Mistakes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] How do you lose stomach fat and get firm abs or six pack abs? How do you get a midsection that looks good in the clothes you own and even better naked? If that's your goal, then make sure you're not making any of these abs workout mistakes.


  • 3 Fat Loss Diet Mistakes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] "How do you eat if you want to lose fat?" "What's a good fat loss diet?" Those are a couple questions I get quite often when people find out I'm a fat loss and fitness expert. After I speak with the person a little more, I discover that most are making the same 3 fat loss diet mistakes. Are you?


  • Lose Your Gut With This Quick Six Pack Abs Workout
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You want some abs, right? You want that firm, flat stomach and maybe even a six-pack. But how do you get it? How do you lose stomach fat and get the six pack abs? Do you need to do thousands of crunches everyday? Do you need to hit the treadmill for hours every week? In short, no. Read on and you'll find out the type of workout you need to lose stomach fat and get a firm, flat stomach.


  • 3 Secrets to Flat, Firm Abs - For Ladies Only
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] What lady doesn't want flat, firm abs and a sexy stomach? What busy woman and mom doesn't want to lose stomach fat and finally feel good wearing her swimsuit or tight tank top and skinny jeans? But how are you supposed to do it? Do you follow that crazy diet and do thousands of crunches everyday?


  • Stubborn Fat Loss Tips For Busy Women
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] How is a woman, who wants to lose stubborn fat, supposed to fit in healthy eating and a quality workout when she is so busy she can't think straight? How are you honestly supposed to go to the gym and workout for an hour on the treadmill when you barely have enough time to get ready in the morning and have activities planned all evening?


  • 4 Tips to Lose Weight Fast
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Everybody wants to lose weight, and they want it done yesterday. The sad thing is there is no shortage of people out there willing to lie to you while taking your hard earned money and tell you they've discovered the quick and easy way. But is there really a quick and easy way?


  • Fast Fat Loss Tips For Busy Dads
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You're a busy dad. You work your tail off. You go to all the kids practices and extracurricular activities and you even help a little with the housework. How are you supposed lose fat when you don't have time to workout?


  • Top 5 Exercises For a Firm, Toned Butt
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Every lady that I have ever trained, consulted with or even spoken with has told me they want a better butt. They want to know how they can get their butt firmer and get rid of the cellulite and jiggle. Well, here's my answer to all better butt seekers.


  • Quick Ab Workout to Help You Lose Stomach Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Do you want to lose stomach fat? Of course you do. Here's a quick ab workout to help you lose stomach fat.


  • Attention Ladies - How to Lose 2 to 3 Inches From Your Butt
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I once had a client tell me she wanted a "butt that would stop traffic." I laughed, but she was dead serious. I wanted to help her, so here's what I told her.


  • Fat Loss Tips For Busy Moms
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I get the opportunity to train lots of moms and every one of them is busy. They have very little free time to devote to anything other than work and/or family, let alone exercise. So what're you supposed to do when you have a busy mom lifestyle and no time to workout?


  • Fat Loss Tips For Busy Women Wanting to Get a Sexy Butt
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What woman doesn't want a sexier butt? But given that many women have little time to devote to exercise, what're you supposed to do? Here are a few tips to follow when sculpting a firm, sexy butt.


  • How to Lose 1-2 Inches of Thigh Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Thigh and hip fat for ladies is like stomach fat for guys. Lots of ladies have it, and every lady hates it. You want it gone. You want to cut it off, burn it and hope it never comes back. There are ways to get rid of it, and here are a few.


  • Easy Fat Loss Nutrition Tip
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] You want to lose fat right? Well here's one easy to follow nutrition tip that will have you shedding pounds in no time.


  • 5 Easy Fat Loss Tips For Busy Men and Women
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Want to know how you can start losing fat right this very instant? Here are 5 easy fat loss tips that anyone can stick to.


  • 5 Fast Fat Loss Tips For Women Only
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I train and design fat loss programs for a lot of women. The main concepts of every single one of my fat loss programs are always the same.


  • Tiger Woods Workout Program
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Is Tiger Woods on steroids? What's his workout program look like? Does he do some super secret workout program that nobody else knows about?


  • Fast Fat Loss Expert Reveals 3 Secrets To Losing Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you like spending time at the gym? Do you like the idea that in order to lose fat you have to slave away for hours, praying and hoping that it'll finally work to help you get rid of fat?


  • Stop Doing Crunches If You Want To Lose Stomach Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you really want to lose fat off your stomach then you must stop doing crunches. They will not help you and will actually hinder your results because they waste so much time.


  • 10 Minute Workout To Lose Stomach Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] If I told you that you could lose fat by doing 10 minute workouts would you believe me or think I'm a nut? Or worse a liar? Read on and I'll prove to you that I'm neither.


  • The Top 5 Exercises For Six Pack Abs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Everybody wants to have a better looking stomach. Guys want the six-pack, ladies want the flat, toned stomach. But what are the best exercises? Is it more crunches? Absolutely not!


  • How Can A Baby Learning To Walk Help You Lose Fat?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Babies don't just hop up from a crawl and take off running like a gazelle dot they? Don't they have to go through many trials and errors not to mention wobble around quite a bit before they get the hang of walking, let alone running? How is this similar to your fat loss goals?


  • How To Instantly Lose 1-2 Inches Off Your Waist Line
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] This one tip is true magic. Do it and you will lose a couple inches off your waist line. Practice it and you'll feel better. Make it a habit and you might even grow a couple inches.


  • How To Eat Your Favorite Foods And Still Lose Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever gone on a diet, only to fail, or just get upset that the diet told you not to eat your favorite foods? That is a sure way to fail on any diet. To tell you that you can't eat your favorite foods is just stupid in my book, but there is a smart way to do it and still lose fat.


  • What Do Singing Karaoke and Fat Loss Have In Common
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What does my hating singing, and hating karaoke even more have to do with losing fat? A lot, actually.


  • Hotel Room Fat Loss Workout
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Have you ever wondered how to get in effective, fat burning workouts while traveling? I have been traveling quite a bit lately and here's just one example of a hotel room fat loss workout.


  • How To Dine Out and Still Lose Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I often have bewildered clients sitting in front of me wondering how they can be failing in their fat loss, when they do all the right things. I ask them if they like to eat out and they always tell me they do.


  • Eat Your Cake and Lose Fat Too!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Why can a group of elite fitness professionals sit in a room together and eat chocolate cake and not worry about the repercussions? I'll give you a hint. It has nothing to do with genetics, and the cake is not some "healthy" recipe either.


  • Are You Sabotaging Your Fat Loss Goals?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you tried and failed to lose fat? You might be making this critical mistake.


  • Why Diets Make You Fat, Not Help You Lose Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever wondered why our bookstores are full of diet books that sell millions of copies, yet our society is fat and getting fatter by the day? It's because those diet books that are supposed to be making us lose fat, are actually making us fatter.


  • Is Fat Loss Really Easy?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you know the difference between simple and easy? How about the difference between the two as it relates to fat loss?


  • Why Do So Many People Fail to Lose Fat?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I've heard it before. "I tried to lose weight, but the holiday came up and I just stopped trying", or "I was going along really well, losing a couple pounds per week, then I went on vacation and fell off the wagon and that was that." Does it need to be that way? Why is it that when something comes along and you stumble in your fat loss endeavor you just give up and decide it's too hard? It's not too hard, you just need to know how to get past those stumbling points.


  • Don't Let the Weekend Stop You From Losing Fat!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you want to lose fat and are struggling, the weekend may be the culprit. I see this over and over again in my personal training business. Clients sticking to an exercise and healthy eating plan all week only to blow it on the weekend and kill any progress they made during the week. Keep reading to figure out how to stop letting the weekends derail your fat loss goals.


  • 10 Minute Workouts For Fat Loss - Real Or A Bunch Of Hooey?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I'm often asked by clients if there are faster ways of getting effective fat loss workouts in if they don't have the time, or if they know they have a busy day ahead of them. My answer to that is a resounding "Yes"!


  • Fast Fat Loss Workout
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You ever have one of those days where you don't think you have time to workout? I have them all the time...and I'm a personal trainer! Here's what I do to combat those days.


  • The Key To The Show "The Biggest Loser"
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The television show "The Biggest Loser" is quite the hit here in the US. Groups of people putting themselves through workout hell in order to lose fat. It's pretty admirable. But there's one aspect of the show that I think many people miss. I think it's the secret ingredient in effective fat loss that lasts.


  • Eating At Night? Yes Or No?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] You've probably heard before that you shouldn't eat past 6pm, or 7pm, or 7:30, or whatever magical time. But is that true? Should you really stop eating after a certain time of day? Is there really some magical set time that if you eat anything after that time you gain fat?


  • Can You Eat Your Chia Pet?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Whenever I see an interesting news article regarding food and nutrition it perks my ears and the article I read last week about Chia seeds really piqued my interest. "Ch-Ch-Chia". Come on, you know the words to the song from those annoying Chia Pet commercials.


  • Don't Be a Workout Flip-Flopper
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Are you a flip-flopper? Not in the political sense, but in the workout sense. Do you hop from one workout to the next looking for the perfect workout?


  • Is It Possible To Lose Fat If You Don't Have Time To Workout?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you have limited time to devote to exercise? You're not alone. There are lots of people out there just like you. But don't despair, there is a way to fit in effective, fat fighting workouts if you are limited on time.


  • I Always Stick To My Eating Plan During The Week, But Then The Weekend Hits
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever stuck to your healthy eating plan all week long, been proud of the results you've been having and then the weekend hits and BAM! your eating plan goes out the window and you feel like you gained weight rather than lost? Well, you're not alone.


  • Can't Fit Fruits And Vegetables Into Your Daily Diet? That's A Bunch Of Bunk
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] I get a lot of questions from clients, friends, family and the general public regarding fat loss and overall fitness however one of the most common questions I get has to do with fitting in enough fruits and vegetables everyday. Read on to get my answer.


  • Stop Stressin'
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Do you know how stress affects your body? Do you have any way to beat the stressors that affect you? You should because it just might save your life.


  • Resolutions? We Don't Need No Stinking Resolutions!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The New Year has long since come and gone, and I'm willing to bet your weight loss resolutions have also long since come and gone. But you still have time to fulfill your weight loss goals, but you need to switch your thinking away from resolutions and more toward goal setting.


  • The Most Important Word in Your Fitness Vocabulary Is?
    [Health-and-Fitness] Many so-called experts tell you that in order to succeed in your fat loss endeavor you must listen to them because they are right and everyone else is wrong. Well, I'm here to tell you that if you don't do one little thing, it doesn't matter who you listen to because you'll fail.


  • The Absolute Worst Phrase In Your Fitness Vocabulary
    [Health-and-Fitness] Do you know what the worst phrase in your fitness vocabulary is? Many people use this phrase often, including me. It's a deadly phrase that could derail your fat loss goals.




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