A woman’s workout should consist of leg raises, biceps curls with soup cans, and triceps kickbacks with water bottles. Can you believe that silliness? Neither can I, but that is what passes for “professional fitness advice for women” these days. I could see this info being accepted in the 1930′s (maybe?), but in the year [...]

I can’t even begin to tell you how many conversations I’ve had with new clients who say to me, “Why can’t someone just design an interesting program that actually works?” Now, the reasons for this are far beyond the scope of this page, but I can tell you that this program is like no other, [...]

Every December, while most folks are eating, drinking, and being merry, I hunker down inside the deep, dark, depths of the Turbulence Training lab where I review the latest and greatest versions of my fat loss experiments. After reviewing the last 12 months of fat burning research, workouts, and the new exercises that have crossed [...]

There are so many fat loss myths out there in “exercise-land” that I was hired by Men’s Fitness magazine to write about one myth each month. After all, by now you’ve probably heard that if you don’t do 60-minutes of cardio in your fat burning zone on an empty stomach while Venus is in line [...]

Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work so perfectly well for all men and women, but as anyone who has tried it knows, the practicality of it just doesn’t add up. After all, some men and women do cardio 6 hours, 9 hours, or more per week, and still have [...]

You cut calories and you exercise. You do exactly what the articles say – Your calories out are greater than your calories in. You should be losing fat. But if you aren’t, perhaps you’re still not paying attention to an often forgotten factor of fat loss – your metabolism. Your metabolism is a measure of [...]

Men’s Fitness magazine recently asked me for 3 of my best fat loss secrets. Since most times the magazines just don’t have enough space to run my full tips, I thought I’d give you a more detailed explanation of my secrets here (plus a few extra bonus tips that I didn’t send to the magazine). [...]

I often get asked, “What’s the best way to burn fat and lose my belly?” People want to know if aerobics is better than strength training, or if traditional cardio exercise is better than intervals. Well, to say I’ve done them all would be an understatement. With over 15 years experience helping others, training myself, [...]