Diet Soda and Body Fat Loss

By Oluseyi Sogaolu

Soda also called "pop" in some areas is one of the most deadly chemicals you can take for the control of body fat. There is nothing healthy about drinking diet soda to get rid of that abdominal or body fat because the so called addicted and dedicated drinkers of it got "FATTER" than those who take it occasionally.

As a matter of fact, total soft drink use was associated with overweight and obesity and the obesity risk of the addicted drinkers of diet soft drinks is very high. This is because for every can or bottle of diet soft drink you take in a day, there is 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight.

However, why intake of soda makes you fatter rather than lose fat is associated with some reasons which are highlighted below:

The artificial sweeteners that are present in diet sodas create a negative hormonal response in the body which increases fat storing hormone production and cravings for more sweets and refined carbohydrates in a short while after taking the diet drink.

Another reason is that some people think and believe that because they take diet drink, they are at liberty to eat more of every other food not minding the combination and calories. This taught will not help you in any way but put you at the risk of developing abdominal and body fat.

To conclude, there is no problem without solution. The best alternatives to diet soda are good old water with lemon or unsweetened iced teas (green, white, black, red....). The only thing is that just be creative and careful in making your iced tea for maximum enjoyment and greater array of anti-aging antioxidants.

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Do I Work My Abs Everyday or Every Other Day? The Biggest Confusion

Do I Work My Abs Everyday or Every Other Day? The Biggest Confusion

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By Stan G

Recently I overheard two of my students arguing on this topic. One of them insisted in working out everyday. His argument was that the abdominal muscles are a lot different than the other muscle groups. He mentioned that your muscle actually brakes when you workout, and it gets repaired and becomes larger when you rest for the next day. But ab muscles are the only muscles you can workout for everyday. And in this way he said, you will be able to burn fat around your abs much faster.

The other student's argument was that the muscles are muscles. Even your abs need rest. She explained further that if you workout every other day, your ab muscles get all the rest they need. And hence when you workout on them again after a day's rest, you can push your ab workout further and train harder than the last workout.

I pounced into the conversation and said, I do not quite agree with both of your arguments.

Now it appears to me that it is a biggest confusion about abs workout amongst many people. So I decided to write this article to clear things out. In that conversation I corrected my male student that you don't burn fat around muscles while working out. It's commonly known as Spot Reduction. And there is no such thing as Spot Reduction in reality. You certainly burn calories while working out, but you can only lose fat by maintaining your diet. And it also depends on your genetics.

My female student is correct about her understandings, but kind of. What she thinks is right that when you workout with heavy weights, your muscles need rest in order to regain strength, this is also correct with ab muscles. But in my opinion, you do not really need to workout on your abs with heavy weights.

Lets understand muscles little better. There are two types of muscles. 1. Slow Twitch 2. Fast Twitch. Abs and even calves have slow twitch muscles, because these muscles are worked out anyway during the daily activities. And hence, more enhanced workout with more reps gives good results for these muscles.

So the question remains unanswered - Do I work my abs everyday or every other day?

The question is answered by questioning this - What is your Goal? Did you know that you can do ab workout only once a week, if your goal is such? There are people who need strong waistline for heavy weight lifting. These people use abdomen in order to lift heavy. They are only required to workout once a week or twice a week at the most.

If you need to have just a flat belly and shiny six pack abs, then you need to concentrate more on your diet. Slow twitch ab muscles can handle a daily abs workout. But I highly recommend you workout 3 to 4 times a week.

If you wish to know more about Exercises For Abs, I would suggest you watch this Free Presentation that explains why Best Workout For Abs is just not working out.

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Six Pack Exercises - Are Your Exercises to Get a Six Pack a Waste of Time?

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By John McMills

If I've seen it once, I've seen it a thousand times. Some guy is complaining about how his six pack exercises consist of hundreds of crunches on a regular basis and he's still not getting any results. If you're doing hundreds of crunches, that's why you're not getting any results.

When seeking a six pack, you're looking to build muscle, and high reps do not build muscle! High reps are considered endurance training, which does nothing but convert fast-twitch muscle fibers to slow-twitch. Your six pack exercises need to include low reps with high resistance as muscle is created by overload, and more muscle is created using progressive overload (a term you may be familiar with). Basically, when the body strains to move weight that is towards the upper limit of what it can handle, it decides that it must adapt to be able to move large amounts of weight, which is done by building more muscle (after the initial breakdown). The progressive overload just means that in order to build more muscle, each time you must do more than you had your previous workout.

Six pack exercises are made to work the rectus abdominis, which makes up the muscles of the six pack. If you read at all through the previous paragraphs, you should have a basicidea of the six pack exercises you should be doing by now, but I'll spell them out for you anyway. The simplest would be the weighted crunch. Place a weight on your chest and fold your arms over it (or grab it behind your head) and lift your upper torso up, not up and forwards. That is one of the most common mistakes that keeps you from isolating your abs. You can go as high as twenty reps, but I'd recommend no higher. Aim for at least three sets, and if you're doing very low reps, you'll need more than that.

You might ask, "Are those really all the six pack exercises I need?" Well, if you have a solid nutrition plan and a low body fat percentage (or a plan to get one soon), then yes, you can get a six pack with just this. You will have apparent muscular imbalances as your rectus abdominis will be trained and your obliques probably won't be, but the point I'm trying to make it that you needn't overcomplicate your six pack exercises. If you create a demand on your muscles and they have enough fuel and rest to grow, they will. I wish you the best of luck in your six pack quest.

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