Tell Everyone...

This is just a friendly reminder to check out the totally
no-cost gifts that hundreds of fitness professionals will be
giving away to YOU starting next Monday.

This is literally one of the only chances you will ever get
to take advantage of such a variety of knowledge. Of
course, if you don't want a certain gift you don't have to
get it. It's really your choice. But I guarantee you that
you will find plenty of gifts that will help you out.

If you want to be involved in the 12 days of fitness then
all you have to do is go to www.12daysoffitness.com.
It's that's easy.

I do want to ask you a favor, though. Please forward this
message to everyone you know. Just because they aren't
receiving emails from me, shouldn't prevent them from
taking part in this great event.

If they're interested in the 12 days of fitness, don't forget
to tell them about my 5-day fat loss e-course either at
www.bodytransformationcoach.com.


Have a great day,

Dan Grant
www.12daysoffitness.com

PS - Remember, if you know ANYBODY who would
be interested in FR-EE gifts from some of the best in the
business then please get them over to www.12daysoffitness.com.
You can use it as a Christmas present for them if you'd
like :).

12 Days of Fitness is BACK!

Do you remember last year, The 12 Days of Fitness?

It's the program where you went to sign up and for
12 straight days you got access to hundreds of
fr-ee gifts from fitness pros around the world.

Well, it's back and this year I'm giving away 2
gifts. I'm hearing that there are a lot of pretty
cool gifts this year.

Everything from diet to nutrition, fat loss to muscle
gain, back pain to mom's fitness, and pretty much
everything in between.

There's absolutely no cost to get involved and you
don't have to get all the gifts if you don't want to.
It's up to you. If you want to just go check it out to
see what's there everyday and pick and choose what you'd
like, then great. If you want everything being offered,
then that's great too.

There's no pressure involved in this so that's what's
even cooler in my opinion.

The only thing you actually have to do is go over
to http://www.12daysoffitness.com and sign up so you
get notified of when the gifts are available and voila,
you're ready to take advantage of some pretty cool stuff.

I will be emailing you tomorrow about something else and
I will probably email you one more time this week about
the 12 days of fitness. So again, don't get mad at me :).
(there's just a lot going on and I want you to benefit
from it).

Since you're already on my list you will get my gifts
no matter what you choose to do in a couple weeks, so
don't feel obligated to get my gift because you're
already with me.

Ok, be sure to head over to http://www.12daysoffitness.comto get on the giftathon train...I'm being corny again
aren't I?

Sorry.

Talk to you tomorrow

Dan Grant
http://www.12daysoffitness.com

PS - The giving starts Monday, December 10 so you don't
have a ton of time to get over there and sign up so make
sure you do it know before you forget. Get your gifts at
http://www.12daysoffitness.com.

Is The Biggest Loser Sending The Right Message For Fat Loss? Part 3

It looks like they do interval training with contestants, which is a good thing because interval training creates an after effect on your metabolism (intense resistance training does this too). What I mean is, you are able to burn a lot more calories for a lot longer after your workout is over if you perform an intense interval training session.

So here’s point 3: stay away from long, slow cardio sessions for fat loss. It’s not optimal and it slowly eats away your muscle tissue if you go for too long. That’s not good because the more lean muscle you have, the higher your metabolism will be. The after effect (called EPOC) on your metabolism only lasts for a few minutes after your workout too.

***EPOC – excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. This means your metabolism is higher than it was when you started the workout. You want your EPOC to last as long as possible because that means you will be burning a lot more calories then you were before you started. Doing long, slow cardio has an EPOC effect of only a few minutes. Interval training has an EPOC effect of 3-4 hours and when you combine a full body resistance session with interval training your EPOC can last up to two days. That’s pretty incredible***

So do interval training. If you would like to learn the proper way to perform interval training, I give an in-depth example in my 5-day E-course, which you can grab at http://www.bodytransformationcoach.com.

Saying all that, it is a great thing that people can make a true commitment to changing their lives. It’s not an easy thing to do and I have all the respect in the world for the contestants.

Just remember that your conditions are not even close to the same as theirs are. I saw a comeback show a few months ago with former contestants and I think all of them put weight back on, some up to 30-40 pounds. It’s not easy folks. It takes discipline and a willingness to work hard if you want the long lasting effects.

Your body will change the way you want it too when you’re completely ready and willing to make the commitment to change.

Just to rap up this longer than I intended to go rant, I’m not saying that The Biggest Loser sucks and you shouldn’t watch it. I’m just saying, don’t get frustrated by your results or give up because you didn’t lose 15 pounds your first week of training. That’s ridiculous.

Go out and work hard by doing the best you can. That means not doing things you know are wrong…like fast food, diet pop, etc. Just don’t do them.

You’ll get the body you desire if you absolutely want it bad enough. If you actually want it bad enough you’ll find the ways to make it happen.

Okay, I’ll finish with a ‘thought’ for you. I went to the Biggest Loser site and the member forum and I saw a post from somebody joking and asking, ‘is it wrong that I ate Oreos during the show?’. And my response and question to you is this…Is it EVER right to eat Oreos in the first place? You know the answer to that because you’re on your way to reaching your fat loss, right?

Dan Grant

PS - http://www.dangrantfitness.com/mp3offer.html is where you have to go if you want to take advantage of the Holiday offer which will be on until Friday. Check back here tomorrow...I got some more pretty cool news.

What's Leigh think of The Biggest Loser?

Last Thursday I promised you that I could save
you hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars
in the long run on fat loss information.

What I'm talking about is only going to be
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But, since you've been a loyal subscriber
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I want to offer it to you too.

It would seriously be wrong of me not to tell
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This month I interviewed Leigh Peele and we
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- We talked metabolic repair.

- We talked how people often mistake their serving
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- We talked protein tolerance (very interesting)

- We covered detox dieting and fasting

- What you can do so you won't have to eat all the
junk food at your holiday parties

- We talked about High High Intensity Interval
Training (yep, that was 2 high's...incredible
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- We even talked about Leigh's thoughts on the hit
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- That's not all we talked about either, the interview is
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What I'm going to do for the people who order in
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If you're interested and would like to take advantage
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Now I mentioned The Biggest Loser. I'm going to tell
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keep an eye out for that.

Until then make sure you go grab your spot in the
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Have a great week,

Dan Grant

PS - The regular price of the Degrees of Change
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Is The Biggest Loser Sending The Right Message For Fat Loss? Part 2

Here's part 2 of my little Biggest Loser rant (it's a little shorter, part 3 is longer):

Here’s my observation about the workouts. Boy, they sure look intense. Jillian seems to have her act together…I’d let her train me anyways. The other two, Bob and Kim seem to do a lot of isolation stuff like bicep curls and quad extensions which don’t really create an optimal muscle growing potential but that doesn’t really matter when you kick the living crap out of the person for an hour on the treadmill.

Now, people might look at all these exercises and say, “I can’t jump up and down on a bench 15 times,” and you shouldn’t if you can’t or will hurt yourself. You also shouldn’t do full sprints on a treadmill until you’re ready. So I think what many people do is say, “Well I can do those arm curls they’re doing, and all those machines they use.” And that’s what they do. They’ll go machine to machine for an hour and maybe venture into the free weight area do perform the amazing bicep curls.

So point 2: don’t perform isolation movements. Which means, for the most part, stay away from the machines. You can use them, just not so much. Full body movements are your key to fat loss, along with proper intensity.

So deadlifts, squats, pushups, pull-ups, lunges, step ups, dumbbell snatches, clean to press, standing dumbbell press, ‘real’ rows, etc.

Now, I understand that you probably won’t know all of those exercises but you can always contact me through my sites to ask about them and I’ll help you out with them all. That’s why it’s important to get some help from somebody who actually knows what they’re doing to teach you proper deadlifts and squat form. They are two critical exercises in my opinion for success.

Dan Grant

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Is The Biggest Loser Sending The Right Message For Fat Loss? Part 1

So here it goes…the article that could potentially fill my email with hate mail (my face just turned a little red just thinking about it). I watched an episode of The Biggest Loser tonight. For those of you who are not familiar with The Biggest Loser, it is a reality show that takes obese Americans and teaches them to live a healthy lifestyle by eating well and working out. Every week one individual is voted out as a result of their weight loss or lack there of. I don’t know what season it’s on but I will be focusing on the episode that aired November 27, 2007. There are 7 contestants left with a sixth about to be sent back into the unforgiving ‘real’ world.

I’m writing this article during the dreaded weigh in, where the contestants get weighed and the lowest two get sent below the also dreaded yellow line. They will then be put up for elimination.

I just saw a guy lose 4 pounds in one week and to my surprise he was not happy about it because that might send him below the yellow line. I don’t know how long the show has been going on for but he’s lost 80 pounds in, I’m assuming, 3 months. That’s close to 7 pounds a week lost.

Okay, so here’s my thing. I absolutely LOVE seeing these people make great changes in their lives and see how happy they start to become about their brand new body. The workouts are intense (I would say almost over doing it) and their nutrition from what I can tell is clean and low calorie (which might not be so good when they go back to normal living).

These people are making incredible changes, but I think this could be a reason why so many people who start on their own fat loss journey get so frustrated when they aren’t making the changes they thought they would initially.

People go on crash diets or some (as I’ve recently found out, especially young girls) actually fast and consume nothing but diet coke all day. Here’s the problem. You’re going to lose weight initially but you’re actually damaging your metabolic system and once you start actually eating again, which you will do because if you don’t you’ll die, the weight is going to come back with a vengeance.

(Random observation here, I think every time I see this show Kim the trainer is crying…is it just my luck or does this happen often?)

So point one, EAT if you want to lose weight. Eat smaller meals 5-6 times a day and focus on having protein (it has a greater thermic effect – meaning it burns more calories to digest it) and take away the processed carbs and as much sugar as possible.

All you should be drinking is water too. Sorry. You can have some green tea if you want too.

Dan Grant

PS - Part 2 will come Tomorrow or Monday. If you're looking for a simple and effective way to lose fat then go grab my 5-day 'Get On Track Fast' E-course right away at www.bodytransformationcoach.com to learn the methods I teach my clients for guaranteed success.

America might have a FAT President in 2008

I thought you might find this interesting.

My buddy Geo Derice told me about the following
newscast about how the Presidential Candidates
are all gaining weight.

The newswoman opened by saying that what the
Candidates eat on the campaign trail say a lot
about who they are. It then goes to Rudy Giuliani
eating some pizza and saying, "I'll make up for it
with a diet coke."

Mitt Romney, however, carries a gallon bag of his
wife's homemade granola on the road with him. Then
something interesting happened (I thought it was
anyways).

Romney is shown in a grocery store piling his cart
with Fruit Loops and I'm pretty sure like 6 other
boxes of sugary cereal. I don't know why, but whatever.

It then comes to my attention that for these Candidates
to be accepted by the people they have to eat garbage.
That's what the guy on the newscast said, anyways.

They try to eat healthy. I forget who but one Candidate
ordered a double cheeseburger...with a side salad.

Good effort.

Doesn't this kind of show what type of shape America
is in. These people have to 'act' like they love
junk food to be accepted or liked by the people they
hope would vote for them. I know some don't act like
they love junk food and they actually do, but there
are a couple who are pretty healthy.

Are we that unhealthy that we'd take it personally
if somebody didn't want to eat unhealthy food?

I'd like to hear any of your thoughts on this.

Am I looking to far into this being a fitness pro
or would you not vote for somebody or not like them
because they didn't eat the famous local treat, fried
chocolate bar on a stick.

let me know.

Have a great weekend,

Dan Grant
http://www.bodytransformationcoach.com

PS - I'm going to have a special offer for you on
Monday. Something you won't want to wait on. It will
save you literally hundreds and hundreds of dollars on
fat loss information. I'm serious...and it will only
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