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Yohimbine is an alpha-2-antagonist which simply means it exerts its fat loss magic by blocking the alpha-2 receptors. Blocking action of the alpha-2 receptors is critical for fat loss because it increases blood flow in adipose tissue and as a result ramps up internal fat metabolism causing previously stored body fat to be released into the blood stream and burned as energy. This process is known as Lipolysis. Yohimbine also works by increasing Norepinephrine (NE) - one of the body’s principal lipolytic (fat burning) hormones. The challenge is that when NE is released it stimulates both the alpha and beta receptors. While stimulating the beta receptors causes the de-sired effect of fat liberation, NE simultaneously also stimulates the alpha-2 receptors which can have the undesired effect of interfering with the process of body fat be-ing burned as energy. Yohimbine is a really cool substance because it exerts a kind of self-protective mechanism by blocking the alpha-2 receptors and guarding one of the body’s key fat burning hormones called Norepinephrine. Simply stated, it is almost like Yohimbine has a mind of its own that says I’m going to increase NE to destroy body fat and nothing is going to get in my way.

Because of the sheer fat burning potency of Yohimbine, we analyzed this chemi-cal very closely and now introduce two new forms (along with Yohimbine HCl) of Yohimbine in Meltdown. Consequently, Meltdown contains three specialized forms of the potent fat loss agent, Yohimbine. It’s no secret that when it comes to burning fat, milligram per milligram, Yohimbine is even more effective than ephedra. Along with pure Yohimbine HCl, Meltdown now contains 11-Hydroxy Yohimbine which has unusually long half-life and, therefore, exerts a prolonged research-proven fat burning effect for up to eight hours while increasing norepi-nephrine levels by up to 56%! This is important because Norepinephrine (NE) is one of the body’s principal lipolytic (fat burning) hormones. Further, Meltdown also contains the rare alpha-Yohimbine compound. The scientific marvel is that Yohimbine HCl, 11-Hydroxy Yohimbine and alpha-Yohimbine work synergisti-cally to increases lipolysis. These compounds work particularly well in the stub-born areas of the butt, thighs and abdomen because of the Yohimbine receptor cites concentrated in those areas.

Interestingly, most of these compound innovations contained in Meltdown didn’t even exist and had to be chemically engineered in the lab. For ex-ample, 20 milligrams Synephrine is supposed to be a fairly decent fat loss compound similar in action and chemical structure to ephedrine. So we set up a human subject study and tested all the parameters of fat loss using 1) 25 mgs of pure Synephrine then, 2) 50 mgs of pure Synephrine HCl (hydrochloride) and finally, 3) 200 mgs of pure Synephrine HCl. Even when these high amounts of pure Synephrine were stabilized with HCl and bound to a polymer-lipid based delivery system, thermogenesis was not induced. Furthermore, energy, heart rate and oxygen uptake did not in-crease nor were any other markers of fat loss apparent! We were about to give up on Synephrine until I came up with one last creative effort to get this compound to work. We turned to several molecular modifications of Synephrine to see if this scientific approach would make this compound an effective fat loss agent. I must admit that there was a great deal of ap-

prehension because generally speaking, if an ingredient doesn’t work to begin with, it normally doesn’t work no matter what you do to the chemical structure. The an-swer to the Synephrine challenge was to chemically engineer Methyl Synephrine. To our delight Methyl Synephrine didn’t make your heart race or give you anxiety like ephedrine but provided almost equal amounts of thermogenesis, energy and feel-ing of well being. After perfecting Methyl Synephrine, human subjects were excited about its effectiveness and our scientific team was even more excited knowing how well beta andrenergic agonists stack with alpha antagonists in regard to fat loss.

With Yohimbine HCl, 11-hydroxy Yohimbine, alpha-Yohimbine and Methyl Syn-ephrine VPX could have easily stopped here and delivered the best fat burner ever created. However, we had a great deal of other new compounds equally important in assembling the most profound scientific fat loss innovation of the decade. It is well documented in research that ephedrine and caffeine stacked together have a significant synergistic effect to cut fat and that ephedrine and caf-feine stacked with Yohimbine had an even greater capacity to destroy fat. There-fore, we theorized that combining caffeine with Methyl Synephrine (the chemical cousin of ephedrine) would exert a similar fat loss effect. More importantly, we theorized that we could even beat the old-school Ephedrine-Caffeine-Yohimbine combination with a more scientifically hip: Caffeine-Methyl Synephrine-Yohim-bine HCl, 11-hydroxy Yohimbine, alpha-Yohimbine stack. And, human subjects (including myself) confirmed that our theory was correct! All my staff and I can say is that this combination rocks, period!

Phenylethylamine (PEA) processes the unique capacity to increase metabolism by stimulating your thyroid gland and inducing thermogenesis to burn fat while eliciting the mild euphoria of eating a 1000 chocolate bars. So imagine if you could take PEA and make it 40 to 60 times more effective? Meltdown may give you the buzz of 40,000 fat and calorie free chocolate bars while melting fat off faster than a blow torch! Therefore, it was now time to add our new breakthrough fat loss compounds called, R-ß-M-PEA (R-ß-Methylphenylethylamine) and n-Methyl-ß-PEA (n-Methyl-ß-Phenylethylamine). We originally began working with ordinary ß-PEA and ß-PEA HCl but found these compounds to have far too many limitations. First, they were metabolized far too quickly and secondly, their ability to cross the blood brain barrier was weak and could, therefore, be astronomically improved up to 40 to 60 times by using the R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß-PEA ver-sions! This is mind boggling considering that most consumers and other supple-ment companies are already satisfied with ordinary PEA. But remember, I’m stak-ing my entire career and reputation on my guarantee that Meltdown® is the most profound scientific fat loss innovation of the decade!

It is commonly known to skilled biochemists that the kinetics of any version of PEA can be extended when combined with an MAO inhibitor. However, I was highly dis-appointed with lack of MAO inhibiting capacity of Hordenine and Hordenine HCL. We needed this compound to kick butt for two major reasons. To achieve the de-sired MAO inhibition effect, we again had to alter the basic chemical structure to create a super type of High Powered Hordenine. Unlike straight Horde-nine or Hordenine HCl, this special Hordenine had to be a potent MAO inhibitor to pre-

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vent PEA from being metabolized by the monoamine oxidase (MAO) enzyme. Blocking MAO would increase the duration of action of our brilliant R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß-PEA inventions and permit easy transport across the blood brain barrier. In medicine this is called increasing the pharmacokinetic value. This would allow R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß-PEA – two of the most potent legal designer fat loss compounds to become even more efficacious.

Of equal importance, adding the appropriate functional group to the chemical struc-ture would also ramp up Hordenine’s intrinsic andrenergic fat burning capacity. So, after attempting to stabilize Synephrine with HCl and failing at hydroxylation to make it more soluble as was accomplished with 11 Hydroxy Yohimbine, we finally arrived at adding a Methyl functional group to Hordenine thus giving birth to “Undisputed King of all MAO Inhibitors called, Methyl Hordenine AKA High Powered Hordenine! - not to mention that Methyl Hordenine and Methyl Synephrine are an outstanding beta adrenergic agonist fat loss stack that works synergistically with the triple Yohimbine alpha 1 and alpha 2 andrenergic antagonists. And, we are all well aware from old days of the Ephedrine (an andrenergic agonist), Caffeine and Yohimbine stack that Caffeine further enhances the effect of andrenergic agonists like Methyl Hordenine/Methyl Synephrine and Yohimbine. And, our Methyl Hordenine innovation produced effects beyond our wildest imagination with real human subjects when combined with R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß-PEA and the other above-mentioned compounds in Meltdown. This resulted in a super clean mild “X” buzz with unprecedented men-tal acuity that lasted for hours and extended thermogenesis, carb Craving Control® and other markers of fat loss.

Caution: Synephrine DOES NOT WORK! I hate to burst your bubble but Synephrine and Synephrine HCl are as useless as a screen door on a submarine. However, Methyl Synephrine is an off the chain version of Synephrine. This adrenergic amine robustly accelerates fat metabolism and thermogenesis to simultaneously speed up the fat burning process. Unlike its chemical cousin Ephedrine, Methyl Syneph-rine has mild stimulating properties on the central nervous system which is highly desirable because you get ultimate fat burning properties without the racing heart and anxiety that ephedrine caused. This is because Ephedrine works at the beta 2 receptor which acts on the CNS (central nervous system) and may have side effects in unhealthy individuals while, Methyl Synephrine is one of the adrenergic amines that stimulates the beta-3 receptors. This functions to increase the metabolic rate without affecting heart rate or blood pressure. Synephrine releases epinephrine and norepinephrine primarily in the beta-3 receptor sites in adipose (fat) tissue. Stimu-lation of the beta-3 receptor sites brings forth lipolysis meaning it stimulates fat metabolism. Another distinctive physiological property of Methyl Synephrine is its role as an Alpha-1 adrenergic agonist which plays a major part in the metabolization and destruction of body fat by freeing up stored body fat and allowing you to burn it for energy (lipolysis). Acting on both Alpha 1 and Beta 3 receptors to induce fat loss is why Methyl Synephrine will earn its reputation as a powerful lipolytic agent in scientific circles when it is released to the general public.

Further, adding a functional group to the chemical structure ramped up Synephrine’s Beta 3 intrinsic fat burning capacity so that it worked like its chemical cousin ephed-rine. So, after trying stabilization of Synephrine with HCl and failing at hydroxylation, we finally arrived at adding a Methyl functional group to Synephrine thus giving birth to Methyl Synephrine. This compound was so impressive that we trade marked it as Super Synephrine™! And, of course our Super Methyl Synephrine produced effects beyond our wildest imagination with real human subjects when combined with R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß PEA and the other above-mentioned compounds in Meltdown.

Tetradecylthioacetic acid (TTA) is referred to in science as having pleiotropic proper-ties meaning that it produces many effects from a single compound. As you probably expected, these effects all relate to monster fat loss! In fact, the biological responses to TTA in regard to fat loss are so profound that it is hard to believe a fat burning agent of this diverse nature actually exists. Guess where fat is burned? It’s burned in the mitochondria of the muscle cell and TTA induces mitochondrial proliferation (increases the number of mitochondria in the cell). The more mitochondria contained within a muscle cell, the greater your capacity to burn fat. So it’s no wonder that another biological response to TTA is increased catabolism of fatty acids. You have probably heard the word catabolism before in reference to destroying muscle tissue which is not good; however, in the case of TTA we refer to catabolism in regard to destroying fat which is highly desired! Meltdown does NOT contain TTA. About 10 years ago I was tagged with the name “Supplement Guru” for a reason and that was because I am somewhat of a freak in the field of research and development sci-ence and also overly enthusiastic about bringing you new supplement innovations that have physique-altering properties. Therefore, although very powerful, I wasn’t

going to use just TTA. Instead, the goal was to turn the heat up a several hundred percent in Meltdown with M-TTA or Methyl TTA. M-TTA also promotes anti-adiposity meaning it prevents you from storing fat along with improving insulin sensitivity. If you read my Zero Impact Diet book or read the newest N.O. Shotgun article, you would know the importance of insulin sensitivity in building muscle and annihilating body fat. Other biological aspects of M-TTA are, reduced proliferation and apoptosis (death) to fat cells.

Meltdown is the world’s most scientifically sophisticated advanced fat burner. Melt-down is powered by a pharmaceutically inspired polymer based lipid delivery system called PolyLipid. This “steady state” technology delivers both rapid and sustained controlled-release of the powerful active Meltdown compounds. VPX is the father of liquid delivered fat burners in the nutritional industry and to date has engineered and sold more liquid delivered fat burning ingredients than all other companies com-bined! You won’t catch VPX doing any mindless “capsule within a capsule” hocus pocus nonsense. PolyLipid Delivery is advanced and authentic pharmaceutical sci-ence that dramatically improves the pharmacokinetics of fat burning compounds.

You will only find the pure R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß-PEA powerhouse versions of PEA in Meltdown. Well, guess what? There are many other really cool fat loss in-gredients in Meltdown like the bio-molecularly engineered, CCK-8, and pure cAMP. However, unfortunately, I’m out of time and this magazine was supposed to go to print today and here I’m spilling my heart and soul out to you about the greatest fat loss invention of the 21st Century.

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my two cents

NM readers often remark that my two cents columns are never about fitness. “Aren’t you supposed to write about what’s in the magazine each month?” Well, I know I’ve said this before, how-ever ...

I have more respect for the readers of Natural Muscle to, a) know they can just look through and see what’s inside..they don’t need me to tell them and, b) I know that just as I am a lot more than muscle, skin, and bones, so are the readers. Those muscles, skin and bones is what carries us through life, but that is merely our surface. We are not as shallow as people like to believe. I like to write about other stuff.

I often ask “fitness” companies why they don’t advertise their vitamins, miner-als, green foods and such. Their reply is “not our market”

Not their market?? It seems fitness people give off

the impression that we care less about what’s brew-ing inside than anyone else. I would like to hear from any-one reading this if you do not do not take vitamins. Are we really per-ceived as mere shells? I sure hope not. But, apparently, we are.

I consider myself a spiritual person. I feel very “connected”—but, I also look very fit! When I walk into any “spiritual” establishment, I am sometimes looked at as an imposter. How can this women, all tanned and buff possibly care about anything else? And I think, “how can these people not know that we stay in shape not only for ourselves—to be strong, but also to stay healthy for our loved ones.”

I love the fact that I can inline skate with my daughter and jump a fence if need be. I smile when people say..”ooh, I have to hit the beds, so I can look healthy”...

How about healthy diet, exercise, and be centered and glow from the inside?? That, I believe is the entire premise of fitness. To radiate the result of your lifestyle. Just as the beer guzzler has a big belly, people who ride their bikes have muscular legs.

I used to think the problem was in perception. I later realized that we have gotten so far away from what FITNESS really is. Even our competitions display this. We use diuretics, steroids, fake tans, and starve ourselves..all in the name of aprearing the most fit in a competition. No wonder people perceive fitness people as shallow. Do any of these fitness types that are using many these false means of look-ing the part take vitamins? It even makes me wonder. Maybe we aren’t their market after all. And if we are, the place to change a perception of anything is from within. Have a look at how you really take care of your insides. Not just your organs, but your spirit. Does what you show the world

reflect what you do and who you are?

This is not only evident in the fitness world—it seems to be universal. It used to be that if you lived in a big house and drove an expensive car, you had a lot of money. In 2008,

it is generally how much debt you owe. While people are trying to show the world how rich they are, they are “spazzing out” ...but everyone else thinks they are rich...that’s all that matters. People undergo plastic surgery for the same reason.

Maybe we should stop caring what others think and start thinking about how we can be the happiest, most fulfilled, and healthiest person we can be. That’s really when we look our best, without even trying.

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manufacturers, and industry professionals attended the country’s largest natural, or-ganic, and healthy products trade show, Natural Products Expo West/Supply Expo 2008 (www.expowest.com), an increase of 11 percent over last year’s attendance. In its 28th year, Natural Prod-ucts Expo West/Supply Expo, produced by New Hope Natural Media, a division of Penton Media, attracted a record �,��2 exhibits to the Anaheim Convention Cen-ter in Calif.

Keynote speaker, The New York Times best-sell-ing author, Michael Pollan told a capacity crowd to think about “not just what is in our food but how we enjoy our food,” and reminded the audience that shop-ping is part of the pleasure of food.

The $�� billion dollar natural and organic prod-ucts industry continues to enjoy brisk sales with strong growth in certified organic meat and seafood, beer and wine, pet products, herbs and botanicals, and personal care, according to The Natural Foods Merchandiser’s 200� Market Overview. Innovation continues in this marketplace with new biodegradable goods, from housewares and home cleaning products, to certified fair trade products and organic fiber fashions and bed-ding.

“Each year, Natural Products Expo West gives a sneak peek into what the public will find in Americaâ ™s stores tomorrow.” said Fred Linder, president of New Hope Natural Media. “This year, more buyers from the full retail spectrum” from supermarkets, phar-macies, club and convenience stores to independent co-ops and ethnic markets “saw more products than ever before.”

Based on new product trends discovered at Natu-ral Products Expo West/Supply Expo, shoppers will soon see thousands of new healthy products from the following categories in their neighborhood markets:

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Whole and Sprouted grains: pizza, kid snacks, nutrition bars, dinner rolls, desserts healthy omega-3 Fats: capsules and culinary oils to breakfast and dinner foods Reusable Shopping bags: certified organic, hemp, recycled materials and biodegradable pre- and pro-biotics: from vitamin supple-ment capsules to yogurt snacks, drinks and bars

Natural and organic personal Care: men’s and women’s skincare, shea butter products, mineral cos-metics Exotic ‘Superfruit™ Ingredients and Flavors: man-gosteen, goji berry, yum berry, acai, yerba mate™ Healthy Kid-sized Foods: drinks, snacks and every-thing in-between

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The Arnold Sports Festival is “A Weekend of Sports and A Lifetime of Fit-ness” hosting �� sporting events. More than 1�,000 athletes and 1�0,000 sports fans watch three days of athletic competition that tests human capabilities in the widest variety of sports in one place for so many athletes than any other event in the world.

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DIAGNOSIS 1 You need to address your bigger muscle fibers.

Muscles really do not know how much weight is on the bar, they just know how much tension they are experiencing. It is tension that recruits Type II b or fast twitch fibers and that is what we are re-ally after and it is really well

known in the field that the Type II b fibers are the ones that have, by far, have the greatest capacity to enlarge or to hyper-trophy. Successful training methods need to address Type II b fiber stimulation and consequently hypertrophy.

You can lift a heavy weight and cre-ate a lot of tension because there is a lot

of force but I think the most tension is developed when you use moderate weights and when you apply ac-

celeration to those weights. So what you need to do right now is train with slightly lower reps (�-8 reps) but lift the weight faster

than you have been doing.

DIAGNOSIS 2 Reassess your mind frame.

There are two kinds of mind sets that you can have. If you

look at people in the health club or in the gym-there are two mind sets. The first is like an exerciser mind set. As an exerciser, whether you want to lose fat or gain muscle you are very wrapped up in the whole world thermody-namics so if you are trying to gain muscle you are thinking

Ok I need to train hard and I need to really rest and I need

to take certain number of protein and I need to get a certain number

of calories so that I have caloric surplus.

And conversely if you are trying to drop body fat and you are saying to yourself well

alright I am eating 1�00 calories a day and I am �� minutes on the treadmill and you had a plateau and the question is: Where do you go from there? You now go to 1200 calories a day doing an hour on the treadmill. There is no, to me there is no happy end game in all of these. To me it just strikes me as a monotonous kind of not very aspirational kind of way of life.

The other way to think about it is-as an athlete and I have been an athlete all my life in different sports and not a good athlete by any stretch but an athlete nonetheless and I do not know when I go to the gym I am thinking about how I am going to improve myself that day. What I can do to improve my technique on the Olympic Lift. I am thinking about maybe I will get a personal record. When is my next competition going to be? That is a kind of aspirational mind set, I mean that is something I can wake up.

DIAGNOSIS 3 Vary Your Training Every Three To Four Weeks

I found that the lower body is a little dumber if you will, and takes a little longer to adapt and thus you can keep people on say squats and dead lifts and variations thereof a little bit longer than you would for upper body movements. So I found that you tend to vary upper body movements more than lower body. Now the problem too is that there is something called the variable recovery system.

We know for instance that arm, so take your biceps will recover much quicker than say your legs particularly the hamstrings. So the arms can be hit a

The 10lbs DiagnosisAre you doing the right things to prime your body

Before you read this, go look in the mirror. Close your eyes and visu-alize how much better your body would look with ten pounds of lean muscle on your frame. Visualize how well your favorite shirt would fit and how big your arms or shoulders would look. Now do this, go find your training log and look at your past three months of training. Have you made consistent progress and increased your sets or weights every workout?

Even if you have, if you have gotten stronger have you gotten big-ger? Are you doing the right things to prime your body for growth? There is a reason that the guy who always looks like he is growing is getting bigger. No, it has nothing to do with steroids either. If you follow the ten pound diagnosis, you will be following a step-by-step blueprint for transforming your physique from pebble to rock hard.

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little more often than legs and because of that you will have a greater frequency of arm movements and body split training is quite popular especially foe advanced athletes because of the fact that they are tapping into this variable recovery system. Not everything recovers to the same rate. Whole body systems can be quite demand-ing especially for advanced athletes since your constantly pounding the body with big movements like squats and dead lift stroke to weeks.

DIAGNOSIS 4 Properly Mix In Compound And Isolation Exercises

In general you want to emphasize the big multi joint compound movements how-ever training economy will dictate what you do in the particular program. I mean if someone is going to train once or thrice a week then make sure, you want to ensure that you are given the big movements. If you have someone that wants optimal gains I think you need to have a healthy mix of both compound and isolation type movements.

Now to truly isolate is difficult par-ticularly at high intensity. So if you take a movement such as triceps press down for instance, research shows that at high in-tensities there is greater EMG or electrical activity in the abdominals than there are in the triceps themselves when you are doing that movement. So as the intensities surge increase it is actually quite difficult to truly isolate a muscle but with that said I think it is important that you incorporate some isolation movements.

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affecting americans,” says paul Williams, whose study was pub-

lished in the journal Medicine & Science in sports and Exercise.

Williams’ study suggests that people are getting fat because they

don’t exercise sufficiently and consistently. the solution is not just

to start exercising, but to stick with it.

Don’t just do something. Do something you enjoy. Two of my clients made great breakthroughs this way. Getting either of them to “do cardio” was almost impossible. They were masters at finding “I can’t” reasons to avoid the track or the treadmill. So, we found activities each enjoyed – for the woman, mall shopping; for the gentleman the camaraderie of bicyclists his age. Easy solutions – walk the mall or join you buddies four or five times a week. Both quickly began losing weight, increasing cardiovascular health, and feeling happier and more pleased with themselves. Another client is an avid reader and after surgery on his foot, running or even treadmill running, was out of the question. But, walking on the treadmill or riding a stationary bike was never a problem – as long as he had a bookstand.

Find what works for you – exercise, diet or diet and exercise. When Thomas Edison was asked how many times he failed in his efforts to develop the first electric light, he responded, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” So find what works for you!

Take care of today and the future will take care of itself. How you treat your body today…good or bad…will be reflected in the years to come!

Change your thinking and the messages you give yourself. You don’t have to diet or have to do cardio. You’re choosing to eat more healthfully. You’ve decided to do something healthy for yourself and those you love. “I just have to do my cardio/weights today. I’ll decide tomorrow for tomorrow.” “I’m going to do cardio be-cause I know that I’ll feel better when I’ve finished it and if I don’t I will feel guilty and more like giving up. And I hate to quit.” “If I stick to my eating plan today, I’ll lose weight and I’ll be proud of myself; if I give in and stuff myself, I’ll feel discouraged and shamed.” “No one can take better care of my body than I can; and I’m determined to do it.”

Think of fitness/wellness as financial, as well as physical and emotional. If I’ve invested in running shoes, I’ll walk or run; if I’ve invested in gym mem-bership or personal training, I’ll use it; if I’ve bought into a diet program, I’m going to follow it. ‘Cause I’ve decided to stop throwing money away. In fact, I’m going to start saving – on all those high calorie drinks and foods that I keep telling myself I need, even though I know I don’t. I’m going to put that money into a special vacation, reward, fun time jar and day to day watch my money grow as my waist shrinks.

View fitness as a financial plan. You’re investing in a longer, happier, and more enjoyable life. Rather than allowing yourself to slip into the consequences of be-ing out of shape – overweight, short of breath, risking or suffering diabetes, and experiencing the crippling financial consequences of prolonged ill health.

While all vitamins are im-portant to your overall health, there are some which are espe-cially useful for protecting against the effects of aging.

Vitamin A This is important for stimulating bone growth and also for strengthening the gums, teeth, fingernails, toenails, and hair follicles. It also keeps skin healthy by preventing acne, blemishes and boils, and also promotes good eyesight. Vitamin A also helps to fortify the protective linings of vital organs such as the intestines, lungs, and bladder. Deficiency of Vitamin A can cause eye and skin problems, fatigue. The recommend-ed daily dosage of Vitamin A for adults is �,000 IU. Vitamin A only needs to be taken four days a week.Vitamin A can be found in the following foods:CarrotsYellow and green vegetablesMilk and other dairy productsYellow fruitsLiverEggs

Vitamin B� This helps the body to consume fats and proteins. It is crucial to the functioning of the nervous and circulatory systems, and is known to prevent skin and nerve disor-ders. Signs of B� deficiency can include muscle cramps, nervousness and oral sores. Vitamin B� should be taken in small doses - Most multi-vitamins include a solid B-complex. Vitamin B� can also be found in these foods:CheeseEggs MilkCabbageCantaloupeKidney meatBeef Wheat germBran

Vitamin B12This is essential for the body as it enables to use lipids, proteins and carbohydrates, and is important for the pro-duction and regeneration of red blood cells. It can also increase energy and improve short-term memory, concen-tration, and physical balance. Indicators of a deficiency in Vitamin B12 include body odor, heart palpitations, and menstrual problems. A lack of Vitamin B12 can lead to serious problems, including brain damage and anemia. A daily dose of 2.� mcg is sufficient for most adults. If Vitamin B12 is to be absorbed it should be accompanied by calcium. Vitamin B12 is found in Cheese, milk and

other dairy products like Eggs and Meat .

Vitamin C This has a wide array of benefits. It

is perhaps best known for its usefulness in fighting against common cold, though it can also lower cholesterol, decrease blood clots,

help prevent infections, help wounds to heal and speed recovery after surgery. A lack of Vitamin C can lead to loss of ap-petite, fatigue, chronic nosebleeds, and gastrointestinal problems. The average

daily intake of Vitamin C for adults ranges from �00 mg to 2 g.

Humans are one of the few animals who do not naturally produce Vita-

min C, and so it must be obtained from other sources. Fortunately, it is found in

many types of food like the following:All citrus fruitsBerriesPotatoesTomatoesCauliflowerLeafy vegetables

Vitamin DThis allows the body to utilize phosphorous and calcium. Several serious problems like tooth decay, senile osteopo-rosis, ostemalacia, and rickets can be due to deficiency of Vitamin D. The average recommended dosage for adults is �00 - 1,000 IU a day. Foods containing Vitamin D includeAll dairy products (especially milk)Many fish foods, including sardines, tuna, and salmon

Vitamin E This is one of the best vitamins for energy and anti aging product, because it helps oxygen to reach all the cells of your body more easily. It also helps to prevent blood clots and can help to treat burns. The indicators of Vitamin E deficiency include red blood cell destruction, muscle degeneration and atrophy. The average daily dose for adults is 200 - 1,200 IU.

Some good natural sources of Vitamin E are:Whole grains and wheat germSoybeansEggsWhole grain cerealsBroccoliBrussel sproutsSpinachSome anti aging vitamins, such as Vitamin E, are nontoxic and safe. Other vitamins, such as Vitamins A and D, can have harmful effects on the body when taken in large amounts for an extended period of time.

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After giving birth to � children, 2 by c-section, my crazed fascina-tion for a tight tone midsection arrived.

Through trial, error and some sweat, not only did I sculpt, but built abs I never thought possible.

Stop spending money on every new gadget and pill that promises you what you are searching for. Great abs don’t come in a bottle or from exercising on a lounge chair. They come from hard work, dedication and consistency.

I train my abs like any other body part. The biggest mistake I see people making in their abdominal training is that it gets thrown in, here and there. Instead incorporate a workout that is dedicated to abs at least once a week.

My favorite ab exercise of all time is hanging knee raises. I con-tract my abdominals throughout the movement and pull my knees in high to incorporate lower as well as upper abs. My routine consist of � different exercises which hit upper and lower abdominals in a variety of ways.

My diet is clean 80% of the time. The hard truth is that you can train abs till the cows come home, but if you do not incorporate clean eating, you will never get to see them. I eliminate all white flour and stick to whole grains, use Splenda instead of refined sugar,

Limit foods higher in fat, such as nuts, peanut butter and beef and try to drink a gallon of water a day.

My ab routine sets reps 1. Crunches on floor/mat with hands behind head 3 20 2. Decline bench crunches with hands across chest 3 20 3. Flutter kicks on floor/mat 3 1 min 4. Hanging knee raises 3 25 Take a 10-15 second rest between sets. Always focus on your “ABS” doing the work.Keep breathing, never hold your breath.

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Most of the cholesterol in the body is synthesized by the body and it is more abundant in tissues which either synthesize more or have more abundant densely-packed membranes, for example, the brain, liver, and spinal cord.

Cholesterol is insoluble in blood but is transported in the circulatory system bound to one of the varieties of lipoprotein. The main types of lipoprotein are: low-density (LDL) and high-density (HDL). HDL(“Good Cholesterol”) & LDL(“Bad Cholesterol”) carry cholesterol from and to the liver, respectively. Abnormally high cholesterol levels and abnormal propor-tions of LDL and HDL are associated with cardiovascular disease by promoting ath-

eroma development in the arteries called atherosclerosis. This disease process leads to heart attacks, stroke, and peripheral vas-cular disease. This is why exercise and a healthy diet is so important and some time medication is necessary.

High Cholesterol affects over �2 million Americans and more than �0 million Americans have borderline High Cholesterol.

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Directions-Prepare a hot fire in a charcoal grill or heat a gas grill or broiler. Away from the heat source, lightly coat the grill rack or broiler pan with cooking spray. Position the cooking rack � to � inches from the heat source.-In a small bowl, combine the minced garlic, basil, parsley and lemon juice.-Place aluminum foil on a baking sheet or a grill-pan designed for grilling seafood. Spray with cooking spray. Place fish on aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray. Top each fillet with equal amounts of the garlic mixture. Sprinkle with black pepper.-Grill over medium heat, turning once, until the fish is opaque throughout when tested with the tip of a knife, about 10 minutes.-Garnish with green olives and lemon slices. Serve on warmed plates.

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High levels of triglycerides in the bloodstream have been linked to athero-sclerosis and heart disease and stroke. The negative impact of raised levels of triglycerides is lower thean that of LDL and HDL ratios. Pancreatitis is another disease caused by high triglycerides.

Consuming less fats, carbohydrates and alcohol and participating in aerobic exercise is essential to reducing triglycer-ide levels. Omega-� fatty acids, omega-� fatty acids, niacin, and some statins will also reduce triglyceride levels. You can get omega-� fatty acids from fish, flax seed oil or other sources, and you can take up to �g per day and you can take one or more grams of niacin per day.

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In 1��� Dr. Ancel Keys, after completing the “Seven Countries Study” divulged the fact that in Crete, where �0% people food in-take was olive oil, the heart diseases were

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Other important sources of calories in Crete came from bread, olives, vegeta-bles, cheese, fish and wine.

About eighteen coun-tries border the Mediter-

ranean Sea. Countries with very different cultures, religions, ethnic background, economy and agricul-

tural production. It’s difficult to say that there is only one Mediterranean Diet. Anyway, the common Medi-terranean dietary pattern has these characteristics:• high intake of vegetables, fruits, bread, pasta and other cereals, pota-toes, beans, nuts and seeds• olive oil is the most important fat source and almost the unique vegetal oil used.• The proportion of dairy products, fish and poultry is low to moderate. Not much red meat is eaten• eggs are consumed from one to four times a week • wine is consumed regularly and is a habit in the meals, but in low to moderate amounts

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Cholesterol Facts: 3 Cholesterol is a naturally occurring substance in the body.3 Most all of the cholesterol that is needed by the human body is manufactured by the liver.3 Cholesterol is a waxy like substance that is found in our blood stream and is essen-tial for our body in various functions like building cell membrane, making Vitamin D and hormones.3 Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL) is the bad cholesterol.3 High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) is the good cholesterol can be found in a variety of foods such as fruits and vegetables as well as cereals.3 The role cholesterol plays in diseases is not as obvious as it may first appear.3 High levels of some cholesterols can contribute to heart disease and circula-tory problems such as hypertension and strokes.3 In some countries that have typically high fat diets, for example France, and report high levels of cholesterol in the population, yet have low rates for heart disease.3 A family history of high cholesterol increases your risk for having high cho-lesterol, even if you exercise and eat healthy.3 High soluble fiber foods help reduce the bad cholesterol levels.3 A diet rich in omega � fatty acids can help to lower triglycerides as well as in-crease HDL cholesterol.3 Garlic is one of several herbs that lower cholesterol naturally.3 Olive and walnut oils help in naturally lowering cholesterol.3 Refined, bleached flour products in-creases cholesterol.3 High cholesterol is a silent, painless, symptom less disease and left untreated it can be come life threatening. www.cholesterolfactsonline.com/

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Method of preparation 1. Preheat oven to �2�°F. Combine fresh Garlic, onion powder, lemon and orange juice, olive oil, salt and pepper in a bowl and whisk together. Add chicken breast and marinate for at least one hour. Once marinated, grill or sauté the chicken in a lightly greased skillet or grill until browned. Do not cook all the way. Remove from heat and reserve.

2. To make brown rice, melt butter in a medium sized sauce pan, add onions and sauté until translucent. Add rice and sauté until grains are evenly coated with the butter. Do not brown. Once coated, add hot chicken stock, reduce to a low heat and cook until all liquid is absorbed.

�. In a bowl, mix together, BBQ sauce, ketchup, honey, garlic and onion powder. Dip each piece of chicken in the sauce and coat evenly. Place chicken on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake for 10 minutes or until temperature of the chicken reaches 1��° F.

�. To make mixed vegetables, in a heated sauté pan, add oil and sauté garlic until light brown. Add onion and sauté until translucent. Add Mixed Vegetables and sauté for two minutes over high heat. Add chicken broth and sauté for another minute. Remove and serve immediately.

BBQ Chicken with Brown rice and mixed vegetablesServes �

Ingredients

� ea Boneless, skinless Chicken breast

Salt & pepper to taste

1 tsp Garlic (fresh, chopped)

1 tsp Onion Powder

� oz Orange Juice

2 oz Lemon Juice

� oz Olive oil

Sauce

8 oz Kraft BBQ Sauce

� oz Ketchup

2 oz Honey

1 tsp Garlic Powder

1 tsp Onion Powder

Mixed Vegetables

1 oz Olive Oil

1� oz Frozen Mix Vegetables (thawed)

2 oz Chicken Broth (hot)

Onion, medium dice

1 tsp Garlic (fresh, chopped)

Salt & Pepper to taste

brown Rice

2 cups Par Boiled Brown Rice

� cups Chicken Broth (hot)

� oz Onion, diced

2 oz Butter

with brown rice

& mixed vegetables

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Brenda Kelly

BASIC TABLE MANNERS:We have a grab and go food society eating everywhere

from standing up over the refrigerator to navigating a sandwich to your mouth while driving along the �0� in rush hour.

While at a restaurant, it can be a huge turn off watch-ing someone holding utensils like primitive weapons, jabbing, stabbing and stuffing food down while friends are ducking from flying food out of your mouth. No, this is certainly NOT attractive. Luckily for all of us, with a little attention this is an easy fix.

UTINSILS:To the left of your plate are up to � forks. The smaller

fork farthest away is your salad or appetizer fork. The biggest one in the middle is for the main course and the smaller one closest to the plate is your desert fork.

To the far right of your plate is your soupspoon, in the middle is your teaspoon and your knife is closest to your plate.

EATING:Pierce your food with your fork and bring the food

TO your mouth, fork top facing up. Your mouth does NOT go to the food. Got it?

Do not blow on your food. If it is too hot, wait a bit. Just don’t do the open mouth pant with the fork still in your mouth holding the hot food thing.

Close your lips around the fork with all of the food in your mouth and extract the fork without scraping your teeth. Doesn’t fit? IT”S TOO BIG of a bite then now, isn’t it?

Putting the fork down and napkin dabbing after every bite is overkill unless the Queen is present. Just put the fork down sometimes and wipe milk mustaches and food falling off your face every so often.

Do not talk with food in your mouth. Finish swal-lowing and THEN talk. This way no one has to see your disgusting chewed up food, or even worse, you spray your disgusting chewed up food everywhere because you are talking with your mouth full. Bluck!

Do not drink with your mouth full of food. Chew more thoroughly

EATING OUTSWANKY:

When making a reservation, it is proper for it to go

Modern,propermannershaveatimeandplace.Learnwhereandhowyoucanusethemwhenitcountstoimpress.

under the Gentleman’s last name. After the Gentleman checks in for the reservation it

is the “Ladies First” rule. It is proper to let the lady walk in front, behind the

hostess to the table. Ladies are handed the menus first. Ladies order first.

After the food shows up, it is proper to wait until everyone at the table is served until just digging in. If the rest of the table tells you to go ahead, it is at your hunger level discretion to wait or not at that point.

When community dishes arrive like appetizers or Chinese food, do not eat directly from the serving dish. Never put your personal eating utensils into the com-munity dish. Use a serving spoon.

It is fine to use your bread plate for more than bread.

If you have to leave the table for any reason, excuse yourself.

If it is an intimate dinner, set your cell phone for message pick up. It is considered rude to talk on your cell phone while out on a one on one date and sometimes it is not appropriate in an important group meeting either.

Ask if other people are finished with their food and drink before standing up to leave or asking for the check.

A gentleman helps his date out of her chair, with her coat and walks out with the lady in the lead.

*I sometimes find it preferable to walk behind my date in crowded situations because he clears a better way through and is taller than me.

SLUMMIN’:There is always time for balance of both the prissy

and the practical world. In a fun, informal social situation, it may be more

like… hey, whoever gets to the seat with the best view of the action first wins. If you need help with your friggin coat just say so, but I think we both can handle ourselves and eating using your fingers without proper utensils is perfectly fine.

There are times you just want to get some grub down without the manner patrol getting on your back and it’s fine, really. Just as long as your manners make an appearance when it counts.

You never know when someone may just motivate you to want to pull out all of the stops and impress with manners.

By: Brenda Kelly

DEFINITION OF MANNERS:Something you would do if you were alone and

not just if someone else who’s opinion you cared about were watching…as in using a tissue instead of your finger or washing your hands after you have used the restroom.

Remember, manners range differently from cul-ture to culture. Slurping your soup from a soup bowl is VERY OK in Japan while it is considered rude here in the USA. Use your best judgment consider-ing your surroundings or if you are really stumped at how to properly eat, use the advice…when in Rome…do as the Romans do. Observe and copy.

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Even though there is so much information available about weight loss, the same diet mistakes are being made over and over ev-ery day. We are not talking here about little slipups where you ate a slice of pie that was not on the plan, but big mistakes that lead to failure to lose the weight that you want to lose. Understanding these errors can help you develop the attitude that will lead to permanent weight loss for you.

1.TheAllOrNothingAttitudeAll or nothing dieters will often

pick out a complicated diet that is almost impossible for them to maintain. Before beginning, they will search the kitchen for anything that does not fit the plan and throw it in the garbage. They are planning to be the perfect dieter, and so they will be, for one day, three days, seven days or even a couple of weeks.

Then, inevitably, something happens that means they cannot keep to the diet one time. Immediately the whole thing is ruined in their eyes and the diet is over. They go to the store and buy all the things that went into the garbage last week and proceed to gain back all the weight that they lost, as fast as possible.

If you are this kind of dieter you need to ask yourself some tough ques-tions. Do you really want to lose weight permanently, or just lose a few pounds so that you can enjoy putting them back on again? The way forward is to make small changes to what you eat so that you have a slow but steady weight loss.

2.TheAttitudeofSacrificeAnother common mistake is to view

your diet as a period of sacrifice. You do not allow yourself the foods that you enjoy most while you are on your way to

your target weight. You may have a great diet plan and be very successful in losing weight, but what happens when you reach your goal?

You have not learnt to eat ‘bad foods’ in moderation so as soon as you start, you are likely to go out of control. It is better to include a little of everything in your diet and learn to enjoy it in small quantities. Yes, even chocolate!

3.GoalFailureSetting achievable goals is vital in any

weight loss plan. Goals should be clear, realistic and set out in writing. While you probably do have an ideal weight in your mind, unless you are only very slightly overweight it is probably too distant to be useful. A more useful goal would be to lose two pounds per week for the first five weeks and then one pound per week after that.

Some weeks you will lose more and some less, some weeks you may even gain, but if you track your progress on a graph you will see that ups and downs are natural and do not stop you progressing steadily toward your major goal.

If you have been making these mis-takes, do not worry. The most important point in dieting as in so many other things is to move on. Learn from your failures as well as your success and do not use a mistake as an excuse for giving up. The only way to achieve your goal permanently is to make a commitment to become a healthier person.

Remember that eating normally includes eating more some days and less others. Learn to enjoy food in moderation and you have every chance of avoiding these bad diet mistakes.By: Mark Kimathi

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Although most people logically ac-knowledge that chemicals in food are

bad for them they do not really understand the full implications especially its direct connections to the metabolism and storage of excess body fat.

Firstly, the more chemicals that a per-son consumes from their food, the harder the liver must work to metabolize and flush out all of the toxins from the body. What does this have to do with fat loss? The liver is the body’s number one fat burning organ and its health and function is closely related to how lean your physique will be. The more time it spends processing chemi-cals (including alcohol), the less it has to properly regulate your metabolism, burn fat and keep you looking lean and toned.

Here’s some statistics to clearly put you in the picture:

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently lists about 2800 international food additives and about �000 chemicals added deliberately to the food supply. Including chemicals used in food production from ground to stomach, the number rises to be-tween 10,000 and 1�,000. William Kellas and Andrea Dworkin -Surviving in a toxic world There are currently over 100,000 chemicals approved for use in Europe alone with over 8000 more added each year. The Danish Environmental Authority entered all that was known about �0,000 chemicals into a database and concluded: “ 20,�2� to be dangerous, of this number �,��8 acutely dangerous when consumed. “ A further �,��8 incur allergic reactions. “ 1��8 are mutagenic. “ ��2 incur cancer.

Another massive problem with pro-cessed foods is that almost all of them contain refined white sugar. This can be in several forms such as sugar, sucrose, corn syrup etc but the bottom line is that all are highly detrimental to your health and achieving the body you deserve. This section is quite detailed but it’s important that you know the TRUTH about how white sugar just totally destroys your ability to

get lean and muscular and with this knowl-edge ‘eating clean’ becomes a powerfully sane choice. The following information comes from ‘Sugar Blues’ by William Duffy. Why is sugar toxic to the body? In 1��� Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food a food and when is it a poison? His working defi-nition of “poison” was: “Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease. Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a POISON because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals.

This is why the KEY principle above all else in your eating plan will be to eat

only natural, unprocessed (and organic whenever possible) foods. Reducing the chemical build-up and intake will get your liver burning fat and speed up your metabolism so you are a better fat burning machine 2�/�.

Obviously with the amounts of chem-icals most people typically consume from the foods they generally eat, the liver can-not process them all so they become stored in the body until they can be processed. If the chemical barrage would stop these ‘chemical stockpiles’ would get around to being processed but unfortunately since there are more chemicals taken in every day, the stockpiles get larger and larger. Also many of these chemicals cause an acidity in the body that needs to be neu-tralized lest it literally burn and damage cells and tissue including your hard earned muscle that you spend hours in the gym developing.

About The Author Ben Kong is the author and co-cre-

ator of www.ultimatebodysuccess.com

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Your Number 1 Weight Loss Enemy

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In today’s busy world many people don’t find enough time to go to a gym and workout

but a simple pushup can do it all! They are one of the excellent ways of exercising and

can be done anywhere as they are budget friendly too.

Pushups strengthen your triceps, pectorals, shoulders and almost the whole of your upper

body. Performing pushups will not only help you to pump up blood to muscles.

A warm-up is essential before doing any kind of workout. It will be more effective, if

you warm-up well before starting your pushups.

As push-ups are a high-rep exercise, they help to increase your blood flow within the

muscles and arms. If you use these exercises properly, you will definitely gain strength

and condition your muscles. Start with the basic push-up and work up to � sets of 8 reps,

then challenge yourself more.

TRY THESE!REGULAR PUSHUPS- Regular push-ups are the usual push-ups that everybody does.

WIDE PUSHUPS- keep your hands just a bit wider than shoulder width, in order to gain maximum effect.

MEDICINE BALL PUSHUPS- This is performed just like a normal pushup, but the only difference is to use medicine ball. This move requires lot of core strength. Medicine ball pushup is a bit advanced one, as it sta-bilizes the muscles of your upper body and gives you great strength.

CHAIR PUSHUPS- Performing chair pushups are very useful for lower chest, shoulder and triceps. Let me tell you how to do this. Have two chairs of equal height of your shoulder far away from one another. Place one hand flat on each seat and extend legs behind. Press yourself back up and repeat as many times as possible. (Some fitness gurus recommend that it is better to use stairs than chair as they increase resistance and stamina.)

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11-hyrdoxy Yohimbine is the active metabolite of Yohimbine. Research indicates that 11-hydroxy Yohimbine has a potent alpha-2 adrenergic recep-tor affinity that significantly increases lipid me-tabolism. 11-Hydroxy Yohimbine exhibits a 10 fold increase in the binding ability to alpha-2 adrener-gic receptors. The half-life of 11-hydroxy Yohim-bine is approximately 8 to 11 hours compared to Yohimbine’s two hour half-life. 11-Hydroxy Yohim-bine offers definite advantage over Yohimbine in alpha-2 adrenergic receptors binding affinity and the longer half life in blood. The body converts Yohimbine to 11-hydroxy metabolite in the liver. Consequently, it is Meltdown’s unique Yohimbine Tri-Matrix that works synergistically to increase unmatched norepinephrine-induced fat burning in both potency and duration of action.

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Meltdown Science: Combines the synergistic fat burning power of beta andrenergic agonists (Metyl-Synephrine) and alpha andrenergic antagonists (Yohimbine HCl, alpha-Yohimbine and 11-Hydroxy Yohimbine). In simpler terms it activates fat burn-ing mechanisms in your body while simultaneously blocking the internal biochemistry that prevents you from burning fat by guarding one of the body’s key fat burning hormones called Norepinephrine (NE). When fat burning is both promoted and protected at the same time we call this effect “synergistic”. So, instead of 9 (activation factor) + 8 (protection factor) equaling 17 on the fat burning scale, this synergistic combination has a geometric effect of 72!

nist lies in it’s ability to burn fat without causing anxiety like its chemical cousin, ephedrine which a beta-2 Andrenergic Agonist. The active Methyl PEA isomer, R-beta Methylphe-nylehtylamine – found botanically in nature and found also in chocolate is a simpler form called PEA has been called the love compound. Think of Meltdown’s R-beta Methylphenylehtylamine as the love compound in over-drive dramatically enhancing the sexual experience and many other aspects of fat loss and is trademarked by VPX as Craving Control® and Mind Control Matrix™ for its potent ability to shut down appetite and eliminate carbohydrate cravings.

MTTA is another really impressive research proven compound that causes apoptosis or systematic death to fat cells.

Meltdown is also designed to increase mental clarity and mood with minimal jitteriness while burning fat at an unprecedented rate.

The powerful fat loss agent, 11-Hydroxy Yohim-bine is of great interest here because regular Yohimbine yields a roughly 32% increase in the fat burning hormone, NE. Compare this to 11-Hy-droxy Yohimbine that yields an even more impres-sive research proven 56% increase in the potent fat burning hormone, NE. We are only now just studying how the combination of the other Yo-himbine compounds in Meltdown work in concert to increase NE even further. With the combined effect of alpha-Yohimbine and 11-hydroxy Yohim-bine contained in Meltdown blocking both alpha-1 and alpha-2 receptors, my hypothesis is that we are looking at a 81%+ increase in NE!

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Meltdown® by VPX is the most profound scientific fat loss in-novation of the decade. Meltdown has a star studded ingredient profile of newly invented exclusive fat loss compounds designed to burn fat faster and longer by kicking up a thermogenic storm! And that’s just the tip of a very large iceberg of fat burning sci-ence. Meltdown will radically increase energy levels, take men-tal acuity and alertness into the stratosphere and induce an in-tense mood-altering euphoric effect that is going to re-write fat loss biochemistry. Meltdown is also highly pro-sexual. In fact I’ll guarantee that you have the best sex you ever experienced shortly after taking Meltdown! However, we are only here today to talk about fat loss.

The Yohimbine Synergistic Fat Loss TrifectaYohimbine is an alpha-2-antagonist which simply means it exerts its fat loss magic by blocking the alpha-2 receptors. Blocking action of the al-pha-2 receptors is critical for fat loss because it increases blood flow in adipose tissue and as a result ramps up internal fat metabolism caus-ing previously stored body fat to be released into the blood stream and burned as energy. This process is known as Lipolysis. Yohimbine also works by increasing Norepinephrine (NE) - one of the body’s principal li-polytic (fat burning) hormones. The challenge is that when NE is released it stimulates both the alpha and beta receptors. While stimulating the beta receptors causes the desired effect of fat liberation, NE simultaneously also stimulates the alpha-2 receptors which can have the undesired effect of interfering with the process of body fat being burned as energy. Yohim-bine is a really cool substance because it exerts a kind of self-protective mechanism by blocking the alpha-2 receptors and guarding one of the body’s key fat burning hormones called Norepinephrine. Simply stated, it is almost like Yohimbine has a mind of its own that says, “I’m going to increase NE to destroy body fat and nothing is going to get in my way.”

Because of the sheer fat burning potency of Yohimbine, we analyzed this chemical very closely and now introduce two new forms (along with Yohimbine HCl) of Yohimbine in Meltdown. Consequently, Meltdown contains three specialized forms of the potent fat loss agent, Yohim-bine. It’s no secret that when it comes to burning fat, milligram per mil-ligram, Yohimbine is even more effective than ephedra. Along with pure Yohimbine HCl, Meltdown now contains 11-Hydroxy Yohimbine which has an unusually long half-life and, therefore, exerts a prolonged research-proven fat burning effect for up to eight hours while increasing norepinephrine levels by up to 56%! This is important because Norepinephrine (NE) is one of the body’s principal li-polytic (fat burning) hormones.

Further, Meltdown also contains the rare alpha-Yohim-bine compound. The scientific marvel is that Yo-himbine HCl, 11-Hydroxy Yohimbine and alpha-Yohimbine work synergistically to increase lipolysis. These compounds work particularly well in the stubborn areas of the butt, thighs and abdomen because of the Yohimbine re-ceptor cites concentrated in those areas.

Meltdown® Research & Develop-ment ProjectInterestingly, most of these compound in-novations contained in Meltdown didn’t even exist and had to be chemically engineered in the lab. For example, 20 milligrams Synephrine is supposed to be a fairly decent fat loss compound similar in action and chemical struc-ture to ephedrine. So we set up a hu-man subject study and tested all the parameters of fat loss using 1) 25 mgs of pure Synephrine then, 2) 50 mgs of pure Synephrine HCl (hydrochloride)

and finally, 3) 200 mgs of pure Synephrine HCl. Even when these high amounts of pure Synephrine were stabilized with HCl and bound to a polymer-lipid based delivery system, thermogenesis was not induced. Furthermore, energy, heart rate and oxygen uptake did not increase nor were any other markers of fat loss apparent! We were about to give up on Synephrine until I came up with one last creative effort to get this compound to work. We turned to several molecular modifications of Synephrine to see if this scientific approach would make this compound an effective fat loss agent. I must admit that there was a great deal of apprehension because generally speaking, if an ingredient doesn’t work to begin with, it normally doesn’t work no matter what you do to the chemical structure. The answer to the Synephrine challenge was to chemically engineer Methyl Synephrine. To our delight Methyl Syneph-rine didn’t make your heart race or give you anxiety like ephedrine but provided almost equal amounts of thermogenesis, energy and feeling of well being. After perfecting Methyl Synephrine, human subjects were excited about its effectiveness and our scientific team was even more excited knowing how well beta andrenergic agonists stack with alpha antagonists in regard to fat loss.

With Yohimbine HCl, 11-hydroxy Yohimbine, alpha-Yohimbine and Meth-yl Synephrine VPX could have easily stopped here and delivered the best fat burner ever created. However, we had a great deal of other new compounds equally important in assembling the most profound scientific fat loss innovation of the decade. It is well documented in research that ephedrine and caffeine stacked together have a significant synergistic ef-fect to cut fat and that ephedrine and caffeine stacked with Yohimbine had an even greater capacity to destroy fat. Therefore, we theorized that com-bining caffeine with Methyl Synephrine (the chemical cousin of ephed-rine) would exert a similar fat loss effect. More importantly, we theorized that we could even beat the old-school Ephedrine-Caffeine-Yohimbine combination with a more scientifically hip: Caffeine-Methyl Synephrine-Yohimbine HCl, 11-hydroxy Yohimbine, alpha-Yohimbine stack. And, hu-man subjects (including myself) confirmed that our theory was correct! All my staff and I can say is that this combination rocks, period!

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Naturally Occurring “Designer” Fat Loss CompoundsPhenylethylamine (PEA) processes the unique capacity to increase me-tabolism by stimulating your thyroid gland and inducing thermogenesis to burn fat while eliciting the mild euphoria of eating a 1000 chocolate bars. So imagine if you could take PEA and make it 40 to 60 times more effective? Meltdown may give you the buzz of 40,000 fat and calorie free chocolate bars while melting fat off faster than a blow torch! There-fore, it was now time to add our new breakthrough fat loss compounds called, R-ß-M-PEA (R-ß-Methylphenylethylamine) and n-Methyl-ß-PEA (n-Methyl-ß-Phenylethylamine). We originally began working with ordi-nary ß-PEA and ß-PEA HCl but found these compounds to have far too many limitations. First, they were metabolized far too quickly and sec-ondly, their ability to cross the blood brain barrier was weak and could, therefore, be astronomically improved up to 40 to 60 times by using the R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß-PEA versions! This is mind boggling considering that most consumers and other supplement companies are already satisfied with ordinary PEA. But remember, I’m staking my en-tire career and reputation on my guarantee that Meltdown® is the most profound scientific fat loss innovation of the decade!

High Powered Hordenine™

It is commonly known to skilled biochemists that the kinetics of any version of PEA can be extended when combined with an MAO in-hibitor. However, I was highly disappointed with lack of MAO inhibit-ing capacity of Hordenine and Hordenine HCL. We needed this compound to kick butt for two major reasons. To achieve the de-sired MAO inhibition effect, we again had to alter the basic chemical structure to create a super type of High Powered Hordenine. Unlike straight Hordenine or Hordenine HCl, this special Hordenine had to be a potent MAO inhibitor to prevent PEA from being metabolized by the monoamine oxidase (MAO) enzyme. Blocking MAO would increase the duration of action of our brilliant R-ß-M-PEA and n-Meth-yl-ß-PEA inventions and permit easy transport across the blood brain barrier. In medicine this is called in-creasing the pharmacokinetic value. This would allow R-ß-M-PEA and n-Methyl-ß-PEA – two of the most po-tent legal designer fat loss compounds to become even more efficacious.

Of equal importance, adding the appropriate function-al group to the chemical structure would also ramp up Hordenine’s intrinsic andrenergic fat burning capacity. So, after attempting to stabilize Synephrine with HCl and failing at hydroxylation to make it more soluble as was accomplished with 11 Hydroxy Yohimbine, we finally arrived at adding a Methyl functional group to Horde-nine thus giving birth to “Undisputed King of all MAO Inhibitors called, Methyl Hordenine AKA High Powered Hordenine! - not to mention that Methyl Hordenine and Methyl Synephrine are an outstanding beta adrener-gic agonist fat loss stack that works synergistically with the triple Yohimbine alpha 1 and alpha 2 andrenergic an-tagonists. And, we are all well aware from old days of the Ephedrine (an andrenergic agonist), Caffeine and Yohimbine stack that Caffeine further enhances the effect of andrenergic agonists like Methyl Hordenine/Methyl Synephrine and Yohimbine. And, our Methyl Hordenine innovation produced effects beyond our wildest imagina-tion with real human subjects when combined with R-ß-M-PEA and

n-Methyl-ß-PEA and the other above-mentioned compounds in Melt-down. This resulted in a super clean mild “X” buzz with unprecedented mental acuity that lasted for hours and extended thermogenesis, carb Craving Control® and other markers of fat loss.

Methyl Synephrine AKA Super Synephrine™

Caution: Synephrine DOES NOT WORK! I hate to burst your bubble but Synephrine and Synephrine HCl are as useless as a screen door on a submarine. However, Methyl Synephrine is an off the chain version of Sy-nephrine. This adrenergic amine robustly accelerates fat metabolism and thermogenesis to simultaneously speed up the fat burning process. Un-like its chemical cousin Ephedrine, Methyl Synephrine has mild stimulating properties on the central nervous system which is highly desirable because you get ultimate fat burning properties without the racing heart and anxiety that ephedrine caused. This is because Ephedrine works at the beta 2 receptor which acts on the CNS (central nervous system) and may have side effects in unhealthy individuals while, Methyl Synephrine is one of the adrenergic amines that stimulates the beta-3 receptors.

Phenylethylamine (PEA) processes the unique capacity to increase metabolism by stimulating your thyroid gland and inducing thermogenisis to burn fat while eliciting the euphoria of eating a 1000 chocolate bars. So imagine if you could take PEA and make it 40 to 60 times more effective. Meltdown may give you the buzz of

40,000 fat and calorie free chocolate bars while melting fat off faster than a blow torch!

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Q: What exercise would yourecommend as the best for putting serious size on my legs?

Your legs are your foundations and hard heavy leg training will trans-form your physique making it more

powerful and stronger than you ever imag-ined. However, hard heavy leg training is brutal and that’s why the majority of the masses run for the hills and don’t achieve Ultimate Body Success. Leg training is simple in many ways but at the same time has many subtle technical and psychologi-cal nuances that make it very challenging and often very frustrating when people get stuck but can’t quite figure out why or how to get past their plateau.

The Squat is the king of all exercises and failing to pay close attention to the technical aspects of this core exercise will mean that you will crash and burn with what I call the 80-�0kg squat phenomenon.

Very few guys squat, but still fewer squat well. If you don’t perfect your technique, eventually around the 80-�0lg mark, your progress will come to a grinding halt. You won’t be able to get proper depth, the movement will feel awkward and at worst you may even injure yourself. I have seen it countless times,guys that weigh 80-�0kg or more getting stuck at around the 80-�0kg mark who end up �/� squatting that weight for years on end. Don’t let this happen to you - technique is everything, otherwise you’re just wasting your time

and energy needlessly. It is absolutely im-perative to practice until the bar sits well, you feel your groove and you can hit your depth consistently, staying tight and strong throughout the whole movement.

Like the deadlift, the squat is a hard and heavy simple movement yet has many subtle nuances that you will discover as you progress in your training journey.

As with any progressive overload, over time you will come up against stick-ing points or even from the start you may find that you may not be able to hit proper depth with any appreciable amount of weight. The most common technique flaw is not going to at least parallel. Even if you are never going to enter a powerlifting competition, going to parallel is so crucial for long term squatting power, effective

leg training and balanced devel-opment of the quads, glutes and hamstrings that you always have to be fastidious about your depth.

Whenever you increase the weights, make sure that you still keep your depth. If you lose some depth, get it back before you increase the weight again. Simple. On the subject of proper squat depth as well, once you get beyond the basics, it should be a never ending constant refinement to improve your feel or aware-ness of where your proper depth is so you can work on hitting it

precisely EVERY time and not spend any more time ‘in the hole’ than necessary before powering the weight back up. There is a saying that I think relates beautifully to the squat: “amateurs practice until they get it right, professionals practice until they never get it wrong.”

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Life is the coexistence of opposites. One contrasts the other and togeth-er they give each other meaning. Pleasure and pain, hot and cold, light and dark, joy and sorrow,

birth and death are all members of the fam-ily of opposites. There are many pairs of opposites we use to describe people—rich or poor, strong or weak, happy or sad. When you hear someone referred to as being rich it usually means that they have a lot of money. If they are called weak then you can probably conclude they couldn’t make a living as a competitive bodybuilder. A sad description brings to mind someone who is unhappy or depressed or hurting in some way. I’d like to add one more pair to the list--conscious and unconscious. If I were to ask are you a conscious person what would you say? How would you answer?

Day in and day out people come and go in our lives. Some we meet only in pass-ing or from a far. Some stay longer than others. Some we interact with more regu-larly like on the job or at the gym. Some we are related to or have as friends. Some we actually live with and even marry. Some are conscious some are not. What is the difference and how would we know how to distinguish one from the other?

I have been an observer of human

behavior my entire life. Early on, I instinc-tively knew everyone was not plugged into the world the same way. I couldn’t quite explain it, but I could make the distinc-tion. For some it seemed like a firm, solid connection-- a high voltage free flowing energy. Others seemed not to be plugged in at all and reminded me of a three-pronged plug trying to fit into a two-pronged out-let—impossible on its own to connect. It was as though these folks were literally asleep at the switch.

What I came to discover is we are, in essence, not divided by color or race or intellect or religion or social status or class, but by being either conscious or uncon-scious.

Some people are exactly conscious— ever evolving, ever growing, ever striv-ing. They are listen-ers, givers, movers, thinkers, and keepers of the flame of aware-ness, stewards of the Earth and of the gift of humanity. They are on a frequency tuned-in to themselves, to others, and to the good of the collective whole.

Then there are the unconscious, those who don’t have a clue about who they are or why they are here. They don’t care very much about you or your situation either. They go through the motions of life with their blinders and their myopic vision nev-er fully being engaged. They can appear as inflexible or one tracked, unyielding or entitled. These are the people who can be the most dangerous, cause the most disap-pointment, or create the most havoc. Since they are so little invested they have so little to lose. Unaware of their surroundings or uncaring of the consequences of their behavior they act without thinking or think without knowing. They are on a frequency

system much lower that creates a draining on those around them and on the quality of light that flows through us all.

Countries can be unconscious, too. I believe the whole damn country, the United States of America, has been unconscious for some time. That is the only possible explanation I can come up with for the abysmal condition we find ourselves in. It didn’t happen overnight, but it happened. It’s here—real issues facing real people without any real solu-

tions. It’s not the fault of one guy at the top either.

America was an experiment of sorts—one that to this day is mostly misunderstood throughout the world and not altogether appreciated by us right here at home. It is a work in progress that seems, here of late, needs a little more progress and a lot more work. America is also an instru-ment of inspiration. We are so blessed to be living in this land of opportunity where the dream of anyone from any-where can still come true.

What happened to us? When did we get so arrogant? As Americans we are not alone. The rest of mankind is practicing similar selfish and destruc-tive policies. Why do we think we know better and we are conscious while the universe is not? Why do we think we’re not responsible—dur-ing or beyond this lifetime-- for our words and deeds to others and to the universe at large?

The good news is there is an awakening--a shift taking place. It is gathering momentum and picking up speed. There is fear among nations that can diminish if we want it to. There is healing among nations and harmony on the Earth that can be es-tablished if we want it to. We have the ability to make this happen. At stake

is the future of civilization as we know it. The whole of mankind hangs in the bal-ance. Let the unconscious keep their heads in the sand. That’s their choice for now. Let the conscious unite and put their heads and their hearts and their energies together. The planet can be the beneficiary of those efforts. We have the power. It is possible to bring this about—one conscious person at a time. Conscious or unconscious-- what about you?

Pz’s Pointers on being conscious:Being part of a bigger sys-tem-- As a member of the human race you are an individual born from parents into a family and a culture and a country and a continent and a planet and a galaxy and a life design that is inte-grally woven as one. In this vast context you can seem small and insignificant. You are not. What you do during your stay contributes on all of those levels. You are a being with a purpose and a mission. Your life is no accident. When we see ourselves in that reflection we have the potential to learn and grow consciously. When we contribute we leave a mark of the earth that is significant and ours alone.

Leaders reflect the col-lective whole—Those who are in positions of influence upon our planet are making choices that either advance humanity or not. In a world where the only power recognized is external a reverent politician may not appear qualified. When leaders lead with their soul and not with their ego the outcomes of their decisions will be quite different. They will bring about change that is based on compassion and caring, rather than brutality and de-struction. At last count the amount spent on the race for the White House was $��0m and counting. Imagine the good works that could be accomplished with those funds. How can a system that requires so much money for one to participate attract the most honorable to the process? So many great possibilities are left out. It’s like a stacked deck in Vegas where the house always holds the winning hand. The pro-tracted battle between Hillary and Barack has shown itself to be one of dueling egos. The alternatives aren’t uplifting either. Regardless of the outcome, we have to stay involved. We must remain on a posi-tive plane. What we can do as citizens is continue to be the best citizen possible. The positive energy and pure intentions of the collective whole can turn the tide of negativity and bring about an attitude of reverence for life both here and beyond.

Secrets and hypocrisy don’t lead to authentic empowerment—You have all heard about it by now. He has spent his ca-reer rooting out government corruption and led a crackdown on prostitution. Known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” and named by Time magazine as “Crusader of the Year,” Governor Eliot Spitzer is now out of a job. When his long-time involvement with the Emperors Club came to light, that once political hot-shot was through. More

than a private matter between consenting adults, the Governor is under investigation for how he used or misused his power as an elected official. While this fall from grace is perfect fodder for folks living in glass houses, the stones being thrown at Spitzer seem to be coming from multiple

unsympathetic corners. Because he was talking one talk and walking another his hypocrisy is what has most lips wagging. The engine of our evolution is choice. Choices we make affect more people than ourselves. Spitzer’s issues with power or lack of responsible choice didn’t allow him to take into account the consequences of his actions. His wife, Silda, and three daughters will decide for themselves how to move forward in the midst of their pain and the cost this has taken on their relation-ship. Spitzer will have the chance to work through his weaknesses and see if he can find a way out on the other side.

Thoughts, words, and ac-tions do count— In each moment always be conscious of who you are and of your intentions. What you say and do and act towards others will be said and done and acted exactly to you. That is the law of karma. It is a given. Ask yourself, “Would you rather be a taker or a giver? Would you rather live in judgment or ac-ceptance? Would you rather live in fear or love?” Trust that the universe will provide for you the needs of your soul and the assistance to get you to that perfect place of clarity.

Utilizing your gifts—Each soul comes to this Earth with their own set of gifts. Look within your own fam-ily—no two siblings are exactly alike when it comes to their innate strengths, yet they’re from the same mom and dad. Look around within your group of friends-- no two are quite the same even though they share common interests. Look around the gym—no two members are identical yet they train with similar goals. Look at soci-ety as a whole. Even within professions no two people perform their chosen vocation in the exact fashion. That’s because we ARE like snowflakes—beautifully formed and complexly crafted with a shape and structure that is uniquely us. Whatever has been bestowed upon you is a gift worth its weight in gold. It’s a gift worth pursuing and worth sharing. In some cases your gift can be obvious. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, formerly of Fleetwood Mac,

said recently he wished he’d learned to read music when he began playing. It might have been helpful throughout his career, but he is a stylist, and he is who he is. Lindsey is an example of someone who identified his talents and worked hard at cultivating them until he has now

become one of the all-time giants in his field. The gifts you are given may or may not be grandiose or obvious. They are, nonetheless, important—you are important. Whatever the case, use your gifts for the betterment of you and for the advancement of planet Earth.

Understanding tempta-tion---Knowledge is a wonderful but crazy discovery. The closer you look the more there is to learn. The more answers you find the more questions arise. The journey is taken step by step. That’s a good thing. You will be tempted and seduced time and again by external circumstances. If you make the conscious choice not to beat the temptation you will experience the cause and effect that decision brings. You will lose power. Temptation, however, provides an opportunity for the soul to learn without harming others and to be empowered. It’s like a dry-run at getting

it right. This is a process that doesn’t miraculously happen because you wish it so. Authentic power comes from making choice after choice after choice and is a process that must be earned.

Challenge and release your fears—When your emotions are based on fear and not love the behaviors that come after are negative and a product of that fear. You can express jealously or greed or anger in ways that keep you locked into a loss of authentic power. The human species is evolving, leaving the pursuit of external power behind to pursue, instead, genuine power. That is power based upon a world built with the energy of the soul. It’s a walk that requires looking at the universe and our place in it through different lenses. We’re all on this journey together. Travel outside of your fear and judgment; allow the power in you to shine bright, and, in doing so, help transform the world.

Pz is the author of Club Shattered. As a motivational writer and personal power coach, Pz specializes in the area of rela-tionships and the human condition. Contact Pz with ideas, questions, or feed-back: pzpower@aol.comVisit her website www.pzpower.com

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ameliapowers

What do you consider your greatest lesson learned? That being a mother isn’t as easy as I thought it would be, so I have learned not to assume things in life.

Is there anyone you would like to thank? God for giving me the joy, strength and health to live my dream

What do you consider your greatest triumph(s)?200� Miss Bikini America Overall title at age �� and be-ing a mother of one is to me my greatest triumph.

What do you do for a living? I own my own Gym where I train only women in Menands, NY

How/Why did you get involved in fitness? I first developed a passion for fitness at age 12 and entered my first competition at age 1�. My father was a national running champion and his influence helped me to get

involved in the sports and fitness industry.

Favorite Book: BibleMovie: Ghost Cheat Food: Vanilla wafers

Who influenced you the most athletically, Academi-cally? My father

Who do you admire the most?Male? My fatherFemale? My mother

What did you think about your first competition? It was truly a challenge because my mother never wanted me to compete. She was worried that I would look like a guy because she didn’t understand that I could compete and still look feminine. After seeing me on stage she started crying with happiness and has supported me

This past November in la, MY WoRld was introduced to amelia powers, 2007 overall bikini Cham-

pion. She is the first Classic division winner in the history of Fap to win the oVERall title (and it

was over Siena and Monica - you can easily run out of adjectives for these two!) after the competition,

I emailed amelia to ask her to grace MY WoRld. the more conversations I had with her, the more

I wanted to know about this peruvian beauty. her background intrigued me and her maturity of vision and

purpose challenged me. She and her husband and son drove down from New York for a shoot in my great

Falls studio.

this shoot was magical from beginning to end. despite 8 hours on the road, amelia’s strength, poise, charm,

and grace adorn the images. In all my years of shooting, I think amelia is at the very top, and considering I

have shot the best of the best, this compliment is not lightly given, but well deserved. Something exquisite and

enchanting stirred with each click of the camera. a mesmerizing latina mystique stirred and astounded the

camera frame by frame.

aMElIa poWERS IS SIMplY SUNNINg! her beauty goes is rooted in deep in her soul. It has been

lovingly nurtured by her parents and protected by her husband into something exquisite and enchanting. My

camera absolutely loves this champion! (Some company is going to snap her up as the REal dEal - a super

spokes model.) I took over 500 images (Can you believe I get to do this for a living?) and was hard pressed to

pick the best –See for yourselves, my friends, Welcome to MY WoRld…..

Lives: New YorkBorn: Lima, PeruMarital Status: Very happily married with son, BrandonEducation: BA Physical EducationAge: ��Height: �’�”Weight: 110 lbs

ever since.

Who do you want to emulate? I like who I am and have never dreamed of being someone else or being like someone else. I am how God made me and that is what I accept.

What traits do you value the most? Honesty, sincerity and respect.

What do you see that is good in Fitness today? Women are receiving more exposure and respect than they did years ago.

What needs to change in Fitness today, in your opin-ion? Although fitness is taught in schools, I don’t think it receives enough emphasis. Eating disorders are at a high with teens and I believe with proper education in fitness we could help to avoid bad habits and instill a healthy lifestyle.

What would you like to say to the reader of NMM? Normally, to reach goals is not something that happens overnight, but if you take one step at a time you will reach them eventually.

Coach A? I think he is truly a gentleman and his advice has been a blessing to me. I believe he talks from the heart and his words are sincere. There are no words to truly explain my appreciation to him.

Where do you go from here? My next goal is to the talent agents are helping me to become fitness model and spokes person. I am currently working on ways to give back.

How can our readers learn more about you? www.trainingbyamelia.com

What is your passion? What makes you tick? My passion has always been and will always be to com-pete and to help other women reach their fitness goals.

Sum up your philosophy of fitness in one sentence?Fitness is not just for the body, but also for the mind and soul.

What else do you want the readers to know about you? I love to eat raw oysters (usually �0 or more) which is probably why the owners of the local all-you-can-eat-buffets cringe when they see me coming!

“I like who I am and have never dreamed of being someone else or being like someone else. I am how God made me and that is what I accept.”

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The amino acid L-arginine is considered the most potent Nutraceutical ever discovered, due to its powerful healing properties, and is referred to by scientists as the Miracle Molecule. The remarkable properties of L-arginine were validated by the 1��8 Nobel Prize in Medicine, and since then have created a frenzy of interest in the Pharmaceuti-cal and Nutraceutical fields.

Medical researchers have gathered enough clinical evidence to bring L-arginine to the forefront of modern medicine as an accepted treatment for a variety of human ailments. The L-arginine phenomen is changing stan-dard treatment methodologies in heart disease, immune function, adiposity-generated diseases, genetic growth deficiencies, high blood pressure, sexual disfunction, and human aging.

Columbia University refers to L-arginine as the “magic bullet” for the cardiovascular system. Over 10,000 L-arginine citations were complied by Columbia University researchers in their quest to document the clinical benefits of this simple amino acid. It is now taught to medical students at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The Nobel Prize landmark discovery of the func-tions of Nitric Oxide (NO) elucidated the fact that without NO, human life would be impossible. Even more revolu-tionary was the irrefutable evidence that L-arginine is the body’s chief source for creating Nitric Oxide.

L-ARGININETwenty years ago, the

idea that a simple and humble amino acid could change the face of medicine would have been dismissed. Now, physicians, researchers, and scientists are embracing the effectiveness of L-arginine and its use has become main-stream.

The efficacy of L-argi-nine as a therapeutic agent has been validated by thou-sands of clinical studies.

the benefits and functions attributed to oral ingestion of l-arginine include:• Precursor for the synthesis of Nitric Oxide (NO) • Stimulation of the release of the most important anti-aging hormone in the body, growth hormone. • Improves immune function • Reduces healing time of injuries (particularly bone) • Reduces risk of heart disease • Natural Alternative to Viagra

• Increases muscle mass • Reduces adipose tissue body fat • Helps improve insulin sensitivity • Helps decrease blood pressure • Alleviates male infertility, improving sperm production and motility

OBESITY, GH, & L-ARGININEObesity is characterized by in-

creased levels of insulin (high gly-cemic foods and drinks) and by subnormal growth hormone (GH) release. Insulin promotes fat and carbohydrate storage while GH stimulates lipolysis (fat-burning). The insulin/growth hormone ratio is significantly higher in obese humans than in lean humans. The combination of high insulin and low GH exacerbates the obese condition. L-arginine is the main oral agent responsible for

restoration of GH in humans, and administration of 8 to 12 grams of free form L-arginine taken at bedtime on an empty stomach �0 minutes prior to Delta sleep reinstates normal GH levels.

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Monday: LegsModified Superset: • Squats (Wide Stance) � x of 10, 8, �, � reps (120 sec. rest) • Lying Leg Curls (Toes In) � x of 10, 8, �, � reps (120 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • Barbell Lunges � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Single Leg Curls (Toes Out) � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • Leg Press (Close Stance) � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Stiff Legged Dead-lifts � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)

Tuesday: Chest, Back, and CalvesModified Superset: • Incline Barbell Bench Press � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Low Pulley Rows � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • Chest Dips � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Wide Grip Pull-ups to Front � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • Flat Dumbbell Bench Press � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Chins or P-downs � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Calf Press (Toes Straight) � x of 12, 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec rest)Cardio: �0 minutes at target heart rate

Wednesday: Shoulders and ArmsModified Tri-set: • Seated Military Press � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Upright Rows � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • R Delt Machine Lat Raises � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • E-Z Preacher Curls � x of 10, 8, �, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Triceps Pushdowns � x of 10, 8, �, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • Zottmann Curls � x of 10, 8, �, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Execution note: start with the dumbbells palms facing down as if you were going to do a reverse curl but start rotating the wrist as you lift the weights. The final position is the same one as that of a regular dumbbell curl. • Lying E-Z Triceps Exts � x of 10, 8, �, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Cardio: �0 minutes at target heart rate

Thursday: Abs and Cardiotri-Set: • V-Ups � x of 10-2� reps (no rest) • Bicycle Crunches � x of 10-2� reps (no rest) • Rope Crunches � x of 10-2� reps (1 minute rest)Cardio: �0 minutes at target heart rate

Friday: LegsModified Superset: • Squats (Wide Stance) � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Lying Leg Curls (Toes In) � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • Barbell Lunges � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Single Leg Curls (Toes Out) � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Modified Superset: • Leg Press (Close Stance) � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Stiff Legged Dead-lifts � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest) • Seated Calf Raises � x of 20, 1�, 10 reps (�� sec. rest)Cardio: �0 minutes at target heart rate

Saturday: Upper Body• Incline Bench Press � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)• Chin-ups with Reverse Grip � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)• Chest Dips � x of 8-12 reps � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)• One Arm Db Row or Pulley Rows � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)• Military Press � x of 10, 8, � reps (�� sec. rest)• Bent Over Lateral Raise � x of 10, 8, � reps (�� sec. rest)• Zottman Curls on Incline Bench � x of 10, 8, �, � reps (�0 sec. rest)• Triceps Pushdowns � x of 10, 8, � reps (�0 sec. rest)Cardio: �0 minutes at target heart rate

Sunday: Abs and CardioTri-Set: • Knee-Ins � x of 10-2� reps (no rest) • Bicycle Crunches � x of 10-2� reps (no rest) •Swiss Ball Crunches � x of 10-2� reps (1 minute rest)Cardio: �0 minutes at target heart rate

Weeks 6-8

New Year’s Resolution

Body Re-Engineering

Training and Diet

part 2

In my last article, I provided you with the first four weeks of an 8-week training plan that I designed to put you on the

fast track to bodybuilding results.Before we started the program however we embarked on a

one week “Active Recovery Phase” in which you only trained with weights twice a week on a full body routine in order to rejuvenate and prime the body for what is about to come. We then proceeded to the “Loading Phase”, which was four weeks in duration and consisted of a high volume routine with short rest between sets. Training volume gradually increased over the course of these weeks in order to stress the body almost to the point of overtraining.

We will now finalize this program with a heavier weight, lower volume and slower paced phase called the “Growth Phase”. By reducing the volume, this phase allows the body to catch up and use its extra adaptive energies (the ones built up during the weeks of the loading phase) to super compensate by growing extra muscle size and strength. In other words, we are using the body’s own defense mechanisms to help our bodybuilding cause.

TRAINING NOTES:• For these routines, we will be using modified super-sets. In a modified superset, you perform the first ex-ercise, rest the prescribed period, move to the second exercise, again rest for the pre-determined amount, and go back to the first one. You continue in this manner until all sets are done.

• If unable to perform in modified superset fashion due to working out at an extremely busy gym, then simply do straight sets resting for the prescribed amount of time.

• Because of the slower pace of these routines, they will take �0 minutes to complete.

WEEK TO WEEK DIET AND CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINING ADJUSTMENTS

Cardio If you are losing body fat at the rate of 1-2 lbs per week then keep cardiovascular activity at �0 minutes six times a week. Otherwise, you can increase it to �� minutes every day.Again, remember to work hard and try to bring your heart rate to 8�% of your maxi-mum.

Diet If you lost 1-2 lbs last week, then keep the diet the same for this week and do not change a thing. If you are not losing at least one pound bodyweight per week it’s time for another calorie adjustment in the neighborhood of a 100 - 200 reduction. These calories will come from the starchy carbohydrate department so we are looking to reduce between 2�-�0 grams of carbs per day taken out evenly from the � meals with carbohydrates. This reduction will happen even over your high calorie days.

WHAT TO DO AFTER WEEK 8?I would suggest that after week 8 you take some good “After” pictures so that you can visually assess your progress. Then decide if you’d like to keep losing fat or if you’d like to shift your focus solely on gaining muscle.

A) Further Fat Loss: If you decide to keep losing fat then increase your calories by adding 10 grams of carbohydrates to each meal. Then reduce cardiovascular activity to � sessions of �0 minutes. After the Active Recovery Week, increase cardio to �0 minutes every day for weeks 1-� and then increase to �� minutes for weeks �-8. As far as the diet, refer to the diet adjustments specified for the following weeks in Parts I and II of this article ad make the necessary adjustments after week 1. Note that the cardiovascular exercise this time around will be higher in quantity.

B) Exclusive Muscle Gain: If instead you decide to embark on a muscle gaining phase, then increase your calories by �00 in the form of carbohydrates evenly throughout the day and reduce cardiovascular activity to �0 minutes, � times a week. You will keep cardiovascular activity at this level. As the weeks go by, assess if you need to further go up in calories based on your progress. After the first two weeks, you should not be gaining more than ½ - 1 lb per week. Otherwise you risk gaining too much body fat. The optimal caloric intake will be the one that allows for an increase in body weight with minimum increases in the caliper readings. If body fat is increasing too much, then decrease calories by 100 in the form of carbs (so that means taking 2� grams of carbs off from the diet).

Should I Keep The Same Exercises For The Sec. Time Around?For maximum benefit, change a few exercises around and/or shift the order of the existing ones. Leave the rest of the workout parameters (such as sets, repetitions and rest in between sets) the same.

ConclusionI hope that you greatly benefited from this program. As you can see, it takes more than just a simple diet pill or supplement to make the bodybuilding gains that you are looking for. However, if you consistently apply the right program, the achieved results can be considered dramatic or almost “magical”.When you finish the program feel free to drop me a line at hugo@hugorivera.net to let me know how you liked it.

About The AuthorHugo Rivera is an ISSA Certified Fitness Trainer and best-selling fitness author of over 8 books on bodybuilding, weight loss and fitness, including “The Body Sculpting Bible for Men”, “The Body Sculpting Bible for Women”, “The Hardgainer’s Bodybuilding Handbook”, and his successful, self published e-book system, “Body Re-Engi-neering”. You can visit Hugo Rivera at www.bodybuilding.about.com, www.HRFit.net, and his new site www.losefatandgainmuscle.com.

Cardio Note: Try to bring your

heart rate from 75% to 85% of your maximum:

(220-age) x .85 = beats per minute at 85% of max. Try to get better at the activity and burn more calories every time you

do it.

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