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  • “The Incredible Shrinking Fat Cell”… What Happens To Fat Cells When They’re Burned?

    “The Incredible Shrinking Fat Cell”… What Happens To Fat Cells When They’re Burned?

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Earlier this week someone in our discussion forum wrote, “I haven’t “LOST” any fat… I know EXACTLY where it went! I got a chuckle out of that because I “got” the joke, but truth is, most people really don’t know how fat cells work, how the fat burning process [...]

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  • Why Some People Can Drink Alcohol Without Getting Fat

    Why Some People Can Drink Alcohol Without Getting Fat

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Alcohol has been implicated as a factor that may hurt your efforts to lose body fat. Whether alcohol is “fattening” has been a very controversial subject because technically speaking, alcohol is NOT stored as fat; it is oxidized ahead of other fuels. Whether moderate drinking is healthy has also [...]

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  • THE GREAT ABS MISTAKE “He Was Doing One Thousand Crunches And Sit Ups A Day… But Still NO Abs!!!

    THE GREAT ABS MISTAKE “He Was Doing One Thousand Crunches And Sit Ups A Day… But Still NO Abs!!!

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com After 18 years in the fitness business, “How do I get great abs” is still BY FAR the most frequently asked question I receive out of the 30,000+ emails that come into my office every month. No doubt, it’s because abs are the one body part that most people [...]

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  • 3500 Calories To Lose A Pound – Is This Formula All Wrong?

    3500 Calories To Lose A Pound – Is This Formula All Wrong?

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Most fitness conscious people have heard that there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, so if you create a deficit of 3500 calories in a week, you lose a pound of weight. If you create a deficit of 7000 calories in a week, you lose two pounds, [...]

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  • How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat… Even Your Favorite Protein Drinks!

    How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat… Even Your Favorite Protein Drinks!

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com At least 7 scientific studies have provided strong evidence that energy containing beverages (i.e., “liquid calories”) do not properly activate the satiety mechanisms in the body and brain and do not satisfy the appetite as well as food in solid form. Epidemiological research also supports a positive association between [...]

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  • Steady State Cardio 5 X More Effective Than HIIT????

    Steady State Cardio 5 X More Effective Than HIIT????

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT for short, has been promoted as one of the most effective training methods ever to come down the pike, both for fat loss and for cardiovascular fitness. One of the most popular claims for HIIT is that it burns “9 times more fat” [...]

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  • 2 Cardio Mistakes You’re Still Making

    2 Cardio Mistakes You’re Still Making

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com The controversies over cardio for fat loss are endless: steady state versus intervals, fed versus fasted, long and easy versus short and intense, and so on. Obviously there is a lot of interest in cardio training and how to do it right. Sadly, most people are still doing 2 [...]

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  • How I Got “Ripped” Abs For The Very First Time

    How I Got “Ripped” Abs For The Very First Time

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com I’ll never forget the very first time I got ripped, how I did it and how it felt. I’ve never told this entire story before or widely published my early photos either. Winning first place and seeing my abs the first time was sweet redemption. But before that, it [...]

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  • What The New “Low-Carb” Study REALLY Says

    What The New “Low-Carb” Study REALLY Says

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com A news media feeding frenzy erupted recently when a new diet study broke in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Almost all the reporters got it wrong, wrong WRONG! So did most of the gloating low carb forumites and bloggers. Come to think of it, almost everyone interpreted [...]

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  • Listen To Maintainers, Not To Losers: 5 Secrets To Keeping The Weight Off For Good

    Listen To Maintainers, Not To Losers: 5 Secrets To Keeping The Weight Off For Good

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight. “Big losers” don’t impress me, for numerous reasons. For example, weight is not fat. “Weight” could be composed of mostly lean tissue, or it could be mostly water weight. In [...]

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