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John Barban - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
John Barban is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, a varsity strength and conditioning coach as well as a successful entrepreneur. John has trained with world class level powerlifting teams and athletes at the professional level.
John has his masters in nutritional science and human physiology from the University of Guelph, and further graduate work at the University of Florida where he taught principles of strength training and conditioning in the department of health ... [More]
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- How to Find Your Metabolic Rate
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Weight loss requires a calorie deficit, but how do you know where to start? The first step is finding out how many calories you need to eat in a day. Once you know this number you simply need to eat less than it to lose weight. Find out how to find your real metabolic rate.
- How Much Do You Have to Weigh to See Your 6-Pack?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you've never seen your abs and want to, you already know you need to lose some weight, but how much weight? Most guys overestimate how much they will weigh when they can finally see their abs. There is no real way of guessing at your visible 6-pack abs weight. The only way to really know is to diet down until you can see them.
- How Many Calories Per Week?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Counting your weekly calories is a much simpler way to track weight loss and success. Find out a simple way to determine how many calories per week you should eat to lose weight.
- How to Make Your Body the Most Attractive to Women
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] You can try to make yourself more attractive with clothes, and hair styles and accessories but when the clothes come off there is nothing to hide behind. Being in 'shape' is the real way to improve your attractiveness. In fact physical attraction research shows there is a specific shape and size that women find most attractive in men. Learn what it is and how to get it.
- How to Calculate Your Ideal Shoulder Size - It All Starts With Your Height
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] If you were to picture your idea body proportions and shape you've probably got an image of wide shoulders and a narrow waist (or at least you SHOULD have this image in your head). But what you might not be focusing in on is the exact size of your shoulder compared to your waist.
- How Many Calories Should I Eat Per Week to Lose Weight?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to losing weight it's a well accepted fact that you must eat less total calories than you burn off. But is it necessary to do this every day? The amount of activity you do on a day to day basis will change and therefore the amount of calories you can eat will also change. It is more practical to look at the amount of calories you are eating on a weekly basis instead of a daily basis. This allows you to have a few days that are higher and a few days that are lower. The bottom line is consistency over time, instead of strict daily limits. Find out how many calories you need per week to lose weight.
- Water Weight - How to Lose 5-10 Pounds Fast
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to weight loss there is two place you can lose it from, fat mass and water. Having a fat loss goal seems pretty obvious, but setting some sort of water loss goal isn't so obvious. So how do you go about losing water weight anyway? Learn how to lose up to 5-10 pounds of water weight with your diet.
- How Much Protein is in an Egg?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Eggs are an excellent source of protein, however most people aren't really sure how much protein is even in an egg. And what about separating the white from the yolk? Does that change the amount of protein in an egg? This is a quick and dirty lesson on how much protein is in an egg.
- How Much Protein Per Day? - The #1 Nutrition Question For Muscle Building
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Working out is the first part of building muscle, but nutrition and specifically how protein per day to build muscle is up for debate. Popular fitness magazines will recommend anywhere from 1-3 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight? But using your bodyweight as a guide to measure protein intake has it problems and may steer you in the wrong direction. You may be surprised to find out you need less protein than you've been led to believe.
- How to Boost Growth Hormone For Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] By now most people understand that high insulin levels from high carbohydrate diets stall weight loss and fat burning. But what you might not know is that growth hormone is the most important fat loss hormone. In order to have effective fat burning you not only need low insulin level, you also need high growth hormone levels. Luckily there is a way to do this naturally without expensive or dangerous drugs. Find out how right here.
- One Trick to Improve the Effectiveness of Any Weight Loss Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] All diets work if you can stick to them. Low carb, low fat, high protein, zone, and everything in between. The real trick with dieting is consistency. All of these diets have been shown to be difficult to stick with over the long term. When compared head to head, short term fasting is the easiest weight loss strategy for long term results. Adding a short term fast to your weekly routine can go a long way to lasting weight loss success.
- The Real Reason We All Workout and How to Maximize the Effect
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Building muscle is merely a means to an end, it is not and end in and of itself. But most men aren't sure exactly how much muscle to build or what the true goal of a workout should be. The reality is that men workout to improve three main areas of life, relationships, social status, and career. A properly designed workout can help achieve all three at once, but a poorly chosen workout may not help at all. Learn what goes into choosing the right workout program for the intended results.
- Good Foods Vs Bad Foods - How to Tell the Difference
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Many people believe there are good and bad foods. In an effort to eat healthy and lose weight people will try to eliminate the bad foods and only eat what they have heard are 'good' foods. This way of thinking can easily lead to a bland tasteless unenjoyable diet and a never ending list of 'bad' foods. The truth is there are no such thing as good or bad foods, there is simply the foods your body handles well, and a few that it doesn't. Eat the ones you like and forget about the rest. Stressing over food is a far worse situation than eating something that someone somewhere might categorize as a 'bad' food.
- How Do You Lose Weight - Occams Razor Provides the Path to the Answer
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Diets fail because they are too complicated and become difficult to stick to long term. The simpler the solution the more realistic it is that people can follow it. The principle of occams razor gives you a guide to the real reason diets fail, as well as the path to the only diets that can possibly work.
- 10 Signs That Your Diet is Doomed and How to Fix It
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Most popular diets will work in theory, but in practice most people simply can't follow them for one reason or another. Discover the top 10 reasons most popular diets fail and how to avoid them for lasting weight loss success.
- How Many Calories Should You Eat to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] How many calories should you eat to lose weight? This is one of the most common questions I hear and one of the most difficult to answer. First you need to know how many calories you are currently eating before you can decide how much less you need to lose weight. This can become confusing and discouraging taking all the fun out of eating. I suggest a much simpler approach that takes all of the confusion out eating, and allows you to eat all the foods you like guilt free and still lose weight.
- How Big Can You Get?
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Most guys that workout are constantly trying to get bigger, but how big can you really get, and why are you trying to get big. The truth is that the need to be bigger is an instinct to be the alpha male, but the instinct may not work so well in the modern world. There is now a scientific and mathematical way to measure the exact size you should be to look your best.
- Never Hit A Plateau Again - 3 Phases Every Workout Must Have
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Most beginners get great gains when the start weight lifting, but then the plateau's set in and its becomes trickier to keep gaining. It is easy to get discouraged if you don't take the right approach to training. Learn the 3 key phases to keep your gains coming and never plateau again.
- How To Build A Body Women Can't Resist
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There is a specific body shape and size women will be attracted to. Knowing your ideal shape and size is essential to building your prefect body. Achieving this will bring you attention from women and envy from men.
- 3 Measurements You Must Know to Build a Perfect Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There is a specific set of measurements that determine your ideal body size. Without knowing these measurements you could be wasting your time in the gym. Once you know what your ideal measurements are, you can build your body into its ideal shape.
- The #1 Biggest Mistake That 99% of Guys at the Gym Make and How to Fix It
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Working out will obviously improve the look of anyones body. But do you really know how to get to your ideal body shape and size. Most workouts are lacking a specific measurable goal. Having a measureable goal can get you to your ideal body shape and size faster than just guessing and doing what everyone else is doing.
- How to Make Your Workouts Specific To Your Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] We all workout to look better, but most of us don't really know what the exact look is that we are after. Just going through the motions at the gym may never get you the results you want. Starting with a specific measurable goal will get you the results you want faster and will make each workout more rewarding.
- 9 Exercises That Boost Your Metabolism You Can Do at Home
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] An effective weight loss program requires a good nutrition plan as well as the right workout. Although any exercise is good for you, some exercises are better than others and give you more bang for your buck. Learn 9 exercises you can do in the comfort of your own home that will boost your metabolism and keep your fat burning furnace going 24 hours a day.
- How to Lose Weight Eating Ice Cream, Cookies and Chocolate Every Day
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Confusion over food and what to eat to lose weight is at an all time high. We just don't know what we're supposed to be eating anymore, and we end up feeling guilty for just about every thing we put in our mouths. This article explains the simple reality of weight loss and how you can achieve it without feeling guilty about eating the foods you like.
- 3 Ways to Increase Growth Hormone
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Growth hormone is becoming a popular drug in Hollywood and with athletes because of its ability to increase muscle mass and decrease fat mass. Find out why growth hormone seems to be the new fountain of youth and how you can increase your levels naturally without a prescription or a doctor.
- How to Boost Your Metabolism on a Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Eating less calories than you burn off is an effective weight loss strategy however many people are scared of going into something called 'starvation mode' by eating too few calories. The truth is that there is no such thing as 'starvation mode' and many people are missing out on an effective way to lose weight namely short term fasting. Understanding that there is no 'starvation mode' to be scared of, you can adopt short term fasting as an effective weight loss tool that allows you to eat the foods you like and feel good about it too.
- How Many Calories Should you Eat per Day to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Eating less calories over time is the only way to lose weight effectively and sustainably. Most popular diets have a complex set of rules that need to be followed every day and every meal. The only thing that really produces weight loss is simply to eat less calories than you burn off. But is there a more flexible and sustainable way to do this? Discover how fasting is a new effective and flexible way to lose weight and still enjoy the foods you like to eat.
- 3 Foods That Will Boost Your Metabolism
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It is a commonly held belief that there are foods that can boost your metabolism better than others. Could the right mix of foods actually help you burn more calories? Find out the truth about calorie burning and if there really is any food that can help.
- 7 Foods You Can Eat to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The food industry is constantly developing new foods that are supposed to help you lose weight. However popular diets and common foods don't seem to help. Find out how weight loss really works and what you can eat to lose weight. The answer might be surprising.
- How Often Can You Do Cardio?
[Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] Cardio workouts can be any exercise that gets your heart rate up and keeps it up. Most people do 'cardio' to burn calories and lose weight, but traditional cardio workouts leave a lot to be desired. Discover a newer more effective ways to get a cardio workout done and burn lots of calories.
- 5 Ab Exercises You Can Do In Your Living Room
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Getting a great abs and core workout is much easier than you think, and no fancy equipment or gym membership is required. Learn how to do 5 great abs exercises right in the comfort of your own living room.
- Top 5 Weight loss Strategies
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Losing weight can be done effectively if you know where to start. This is a list of my top 5 weight loss strategies that have proven to help people lose weight and keep it off.
- Top 5 Weight Loss Mistakes
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many different factors contribute to weight loss success or failure. Find out the top 5 weight loss mistakes most people commonly make that sabotage their goals.
- How Often Can You Do Core Training Part-2
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] This is the second part of an article explain what the core muscles, are and how to train them. Learn why crunches are not the best exercise for core training and in fact put you at a greater risk of injury. Find out what the best way to train your core while minimizing your risk of injury.
- How Often Can You Do "Core Training" Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] This is part 1 of an article explaining what 'core' training is and more importantly what it isn't. Most trainers and athletes don't even know what the word "core" means. Scientists still don't know exactly how these muscles even work. The idea of training your core is a fad to promote fitness products. Learn what the core is, and how to actually train this area of your body.
- Scam - Yoga In A Hot Room - Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] We previous examined some of the false and misleading claims about exercising in hot rooms. Now we will discuss any scientific reason at all to workout in a hot environment. We will also look at some of the real benefits yoga can have and see that a hot room does not make these any better.
- Scam - Yoga In A Hot Room - Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] This is the first part of a 2 part series of articles explaining the marketing and science of working out in the heat. Doing 'hot' yoga and exercising in hot rooms is becoming a new fad. A quick search on the internet reveals many outlandish claims about the benefits of hot yoga, some of which are completely false. Find out what really happens to your body in these 'hot' workouts and then decide if you think they are still worth doing.
- 20 Conditioning Exercises You Can Do at Home
[Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] Getting a good whole body cardio and conditioning workout can be done entirely at home with almost no equipment at all. Just picking the right exercises and doing them effectively is all it takes. Here is a list of 20 exercises you can make into dozens of workouts right at home.
- How to Burn Fat in Your Living Room
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many people are intimidated by the idea of going to a gym but want to workout and lose weight. An effective fat loss conditioning program doesn't require a gym membership or any equipment. Find out how you can do an effective fat burning workout right in your own living room.
- Timing Your Cardio Workout For Maximum Fat Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There is a theory that suggests the timing of your cardio workouts can change the amount of fat you can burn. While this theory seems to make sense on the surface it doesn't hold up when you look at the bigger picture. Learn the truth about timing your cardio workouts and what you should be doing to have a lasting effective fat burning workout program.
- How to Lose One Pound of Fat in One Week
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Losing weight and fat seems pretty simple. Just eat a bit less and workout a bit more. This however is much harder than it seems when you break it down by the numbers and see what it really takes to lose weight. Find out exactly why rapid weight loss almost always fails in the long run and what a realistic weight loss goal should be.
- The Best Way To Stick To A Weight Loss Workout Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Effective lasting weight loss requires a sensible eating plan and a well thought out workout program. Diet alone or exercise alone will rarely do the trick. Sticking to a regular workout program is a difficult task for many people. Find out what the number one best tool is for staying on your weight loss workout program for long term success.
- How To Stay On Your Weight Loss Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Most weight loss diets work if anyone could actually stay on one for any real length of time. Find out what the real hidden ingredient is to staying on almost any weight loss diet.
- How to do "Cardio" Without Running
[Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] Most people know that cardio training is good for you health and will burn some calories. However high intensity interval training can achieve the same effects without having to run bike, or go to a gym. High intensity intervals can even burn more calories than traditional cardio. This articles shows you what a whole body high intensity interval workout looks like and how to do it.
- 5 Ab Exercises Better Than Crunches
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Crunches are an overrated exercises that do not properly work your core as a whole, and can put unwanted stress on your spine and lower back. I'll show you 5 exercises that work your abs and core better than crunches and are safer for your lower back.
- How To Get A 6-Pack Without Doing Crunches
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Crunches are a popular exercise for abs and the hope of developing a "6 pack" stomach. The reality is that crunches are a very misunderstood exercise and for most people simply not worth doing. Discover the real way your abs are meant to work and why crunches are not the answer for a six pack stomach.
- Does Counting Calories Help You Lose Weight?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Counting calories is a common tool people will eventually try in an effort to lose weight. In theory it might make sense, but in reality it is difficult if not impossible to effectively monitor your food intake at every meal. Discover why calorie counting fails as a weight loss strategy and a more practical approach you can use in its place.
- 4 Ways to Burn More Calories Without Spending Any more Time Working Out
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Time is something everyone could use more of. How do we burn more calories at each workout if we can't spend more time exercising? Find out 4 great techniques you can apply immediately to increase the amount of calories you burn at each workout.
- How to Burn More Calories Without Working Out Longer
[Health-and-Fitness] Time is a limiting factor for almost everbody that workouts out or would like to workout. If we can't workout for any longer how to we improve our fitness, conditioning and fat loss goals? Find out some clever techniques for increasing the amount of calories you burn in each workout without increasing the amount of time you spend exercising.
- Female Athletes and ACL Tears - Exercise Considerations
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Female athletes suffer ACL tears at a much higher rate than male athletes. This is due to multiple factors that can be successfully corrected with the proper exercise protocols and some smart scheduling of workouts.
- Women And Sports - Title IX To The Rescue!
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] The number of girls involved in sports has steadily increased since the title IX amendment in 1972. This is a precedent that has had a positive effect for women and exercise overall and will continue to improve. Now more than ever women are involved in every sport under the sun.
- Food Confusion - Why We Don't Know What to Eat
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Knowing what to eat for overall health seems like a simple concept. However in todays marketplace there are thousands of foods to choose from and knowing how to eat healthy becomes difficult if not impossible. Discover some of the major issues that shape the environment of food around you and why you are faced with such confusing choices.
- Exercise is the Magic Bullet for Your Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Most people know that exercising is good for them, but for some reason they cannot bring themselves to workout. With all of the mixed messages we get in our daily routine its easy to see how people get caught up and forget to workout. This however could be the worst mistake you can make when it comes to your personal health.
- The Weight Gain Paradox
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Obesity and overweight are on the rise even though our scientific understanding of diet and exercise have never been better. How can this be? The root of the problem is the fact that we are being sent a mixed message; science tells us to 'eat less' the food industry tells us to 'eat more'.
- Weight Loss: What's More Important Diet Or Exercise?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Diet and exercise are both essential in the battle of the bulge. The amount that each contributes to weight loss is dependant on the other.
- Weight Lifting Machines for Weight Loss?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] New fitness clubs are packed full of the latest state of the art fitness and weight training machines. But are all of these new devices necessary? And do any of them have any benefit for weight loss?
- How Do You Measure Fat Loss?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Everyone talks about losing weight or weight loss. But aren't we really just interested in losing fat? This article explains that fat loss is what we are really trying to lose and how we can measure it without scientific equipment.
- Killing Your Appetite Won't Stop You From Eating!
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There is a growing number of products and diets designed to reduce hunger cravings and appetite for weight loss. Although in theory this makes sense, recent research is showing that other social and psychological factors are the real culprits behind our need to eat.
- Is A 5 Minute Workout Worth Doing?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Find out if super short workouts are worth doing. New research is showing that we can get cardiovascular benefits from workouts as short as 5 or 10 minutes. This is good news for people who have a hard time getting to a gym or are just too busy for long workouts.
- How Often Can You Do HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
[Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] High Intensity Interval Training is becoming a popular alternative to long duration low intensity cardio workouts like walking, jogging, or elliptical trainer type work. This article explains the basic theory of HIIT and how often you can use it in your workouts for fat loss and fitness.
- Does Overtraining Exist?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many people find it surprising when I say I don't believe ovetraining exists. I categorize it as under conditioning. The idea of overtraining predominantly comes from people trying to do too much too fast. This article explains the phenomenon of underconditioning.
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