Push Yourself Results and Eat Fat to Lose Fat

We just wrapped up another EXL Fitness Boot Camp phase called “Push Yourself”.  The contest this phase was a push-up contest.  We maxed out on pushups at the beginning of the phase and then retest after a 1 week break 6 weeks later.  Campers were given a home program to supplement the pushup work already included in boot camp.  The results were amazing!  Every camper improved, including campers that did not do the home program.  Prizes were awarded for the most overall pushups and the most improved.  The biggest difference, however, was in technique.  The pushups at the beginning of the phase were as akward as breakfast at Tiger Wood’s house the day after his car crash.  By the end of the phase the pushups were as beautiful as snow on Christmas. BTW, pushups were performed on the toes with no rest.  The campers were required to go down and touch their chest to a tennis ball and then push up till their elbows locked.  They had 1 minute to do as many as they could, then rested 1 minute then tested again.  The final number was the average of the 2 tests.  Ask any of the campers, the first test wasn’t so bad it was the second that gotcha…can you say rubber arms?

Most Pushups

Men’s:  Shawn Webb  50

Women’s:  Nancy Carter 36

Most Improved

Men’s:  Jay Sherman 8

Women’s:  Chelsey Hood  13

Honorable Mention went to:   Sarah Stewart and Diana Andersen who both went from 1 ugly (don’t-know-if-you-can-call-it-a-pushup) to 4 strong pushups thats a 400% improvement!!  And Kurt Brown who couldn’t do 1 pushup from his knees at the beginning of the phase banged out over 12…WOW!!

Congratulations, they each win a white EXL Fitness Performance T-shirt and a Prograde Supplement of their choice.

If you are interested in taking your pushup max through the roof and you didn’t participate in boot camp check out this blog post for the “at home” pushup program and watch your pushups sky rocket.

This phase the contest is on compliance.  Points are awarded for exercising and eating vegetables at every meal, eating the right amount of protein and carbs, as well as taking the prescribed supplements.  One of the supplements that studies have found to improve fat loss is…fat.  More specifically EPA and DHA which are found in fish oil.

Tip #7
Eat Fat, Lose Fat
by Dr. John Berardi

To lose fat, sometimes you have to eat fat. Monounsaturated fats and certain polyunsaturates actually speed up the metabolic rate. Lipid researchers believe that the best of the fat burning bunch are the highly unsaturated omega 3s called EPA and DHA. A diet supplemented with omega 3-rich fish oil promotes losses of body fat with simultaneous gains in lean mass.

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This flies in the face of the diet fads of the 1980′s where ‘low-fat’ and ‘fat-free’ were popular.  In fact, we are still conditioned to think that these claims are synonymous with “healthy”.  I remember growing up in the ’80′s and my mom counting her fat grams.  I remember specifically being told not eat too many olives because they were high in fat.  Wow, who would of thought back then that the exact opposite were true, eating a diet full of dietary fat is actually healthier and leads to a much leaner body.  Who would have thought that the fat-phobic ’80′s would lead to the diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity problems of this century.

As you know I am a proud Prograde Nutrition partner and my fish oil of choice is Prograde EFA Icon, which is made of a more bioavailable oil from Neptune krill.  Because of its better absorption you only need to take 2 small EFA Icon capsules compared of taking 6-10 capsules of fish oil to get 6,000-10,000 mg of EPA/DHA.

Coincedentally, Prograde is having a heck of a Holiday Blow Out. It’s pretty obvious they don’t want you “shutting it down” the last couple weeks of December.

Believe it or not they are putting all of their awesome products including EFA Icon on sale this week for 15% off! I don’t think they’ve ever done this before, and they probably won’t do it ever again. Their products are so good and the company is growing so fast they just don’t have to.

So my recommendation to you is to get on over to http://exlfitness.getprograde.com/specials.html right NOW and stock up.

This deal expires this Friday, December 11th at 11:59pm EST. But don’t wait until later to order. You might get busy, you might forget…and trust me you WILL regret missing out on this if you do.

For all my campers, buckle down these last few weeks before Christmas.  Track your points and instead of finding excuses for not eating your protein or veggies or doing your cardio buckle down and find ways to get it in.