Posts Tagged ‘intensity’

How I Lost 15 Pounds Of Fat Without Sacrificing Any Muscle – Guest Post by Chad Howse

By Mike On March 7, 2010 4 Comments

Burning fat and losing weight is hard enough. But for most of us, losing those last 10 or 15 pounds – and keeping them off – seems nearly impossible. And let’s not forget that we want to keep the muscle we’ve built along the way, right?

OK, time to drop the word “nearly” and just call it impossible?

Weight Loss without Muscle Loss

Not so, says personal trainer and fitness blogger Chad Howse.

Chad has a great personal story of his own which includes boxing and putting functional muscle on his skinny frame, but today he stopped by to share 3 tips for burning fat and how he went from fighting at 165 lbs to 152 lbs without sacrificing any muscle.

Here are Chad’s tips for dropping those last pounds and

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Increase Training Intensity with PCD

By Mike On January 16, 2009 No Comments

As I was getting ready to head for the locker room at my local fitness club, I stopped and lookedIncrease Fat Loss with the Pussycat Dolls around to survey the situation if for no other reason but to find a familiar face or better yet, an unfamiliar face who I’d like to get to know…

Through this quick observation period, I noticed something immediately. It seemed like everyone was listening to a personal music device (ie. IPod, MP3 player). A slew of questions raced through my head: What are they listening to? Hip-Hop, Rock, Dance, or maybe Country? Would someone have Celine Dion on there playlist? Am I the only one that left his IPod at home today?

So, for the rest of the week, I decided that I would conduct an informal survey of what people

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