I am 16, am 6′2 in height and weight 163 lbs… I run twice a week and go to the gym-abs training and muscle training 3 times a week… I rest on Sunday. I have recently lost alot of weight-about a stone.
Why dont my abs show through considering i have awesome pecks and arms? HELP
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i believe its nutrition anyone got any advice on diet or diet plans?

A six pack showing through has a lot to do with your body fat percentage. Take protein after working out your core, not just your abs, and do a lot of cardio.

If you want to increase the profits in your MLM Business, a good starting place is to sell more product. There are hundreds of different “selling tactics” being taught, but I have always found this one specific approach to work like magic.

How in the world could ONE person sell a billion dollars worth of products? He knew his product…and he knew it well. The one thing that snagged my attention was how well he knew his product.

Which comes first? Knowledge of your product…or selling a billion dollars worth of it? Obviously knowledge of your product comes first.

This MLM training article is about the very important Communication Quality called, “Know what you’re talking about.”

The reason I mention this is because there is a group of characteristics an MLM business professional must possess in order to truly have success in speaking with customers and selling products.

I call these characteristics the 10 Communication Qualities. Once you’re fully knowledgeable about these qualities and have the proper and correct MLM training to learn them, you will be amazed at how many prospects and customers will be interested in your MLM business and/or products.

I was watching a TV infomercial not long ago of a guy who was selling cutting knives. I became greatly impressed with the knowledge of the sales person. By the way he presented his knives I could tell he really knew everything one could know about knives.

I’ll admit, in the beginning I was listening, trying to find a hole in what he was talking about.

The more I listened the more I could see and hear, “This man knows about knives!” There wasn’t one part of a knife he didn’t know about – and he demonstrated to me why he was right…and he discussed it so clearly that anyone could have understood it.

He did several demonstrations with his knives – everything from cutting a can in half to cutting other knives in half with his knife. He did everything without making me feel stupid for my lack of knowledge about knives. He did this without being too assertive (Communication Quality #4). In fact, the more I watched this man the more I realized he was using all 10 of the Communication Qualities.

Very rarely have I seen all the qualities in one person. Now, I didn’t personally talk to him to see if he was “truly interested in me.” But in the way he delivered his knowledge to me I could tell that he had researched everything about his knives. He explained what a good knife was, and then told where the largest cost is in a knife and why you (the listener) didn’t need to have that in your kitchen knives. He gave a “no questions asked, money back guarantee.” That certainly sounded like he was “interested” in me.

I bought the knives. The whole set.

Intrigued with his charisma, I started researching him. Ha! Guess what I found? He has sold over one billion dollars worth of goods! NOT through a downline of thousands of people…or a company with hundreds or thousands of stores…but he personally has sold a billion dollars worth of goods!

His name is Ron Popeil. His mother and father split up when he was three. Neither parent wanted him or his brother. So he grew up on the streets in the Bronx (a neighborhood in New York City). At 16, he visited his dad in Chicago and got a job working in a small kitchen appliance factory. One day walking home he walked past a place in Chicago called Maxwell Street. It was the equivalent of a dirty flea market today. Learning about the in’s and out’s of internet marketing can be difficult unless you have a great mentor and where can that mentorship be found? If you really want to succeed online you must get yourself a copy of Commission Blueprint 2.0 created by Steven Clayton and Tim Godfrey. The tools alone are worth the cost alone. Best wishes!

The main things sold on Maxwell Street were stolen goods – hub caps, steering wheels and car radios. As he watched the people selling their stolen goods and people buying them, he got an idea. The next day he bought some of the items from the appliance factory where he worked at wholesale (same price as a store would pay). He then went to Maxwell Street and sold them. As he describes it, “I had never been loved as a kid – I finally found love. It was with my customers. I made a connection with them.”

He then found out about state and county fairs…and mastered those. He then volunteered to do live demonstrations inside of stores that carried the manufacturer’s products. He mastered selling products live in stores. Then he went in front of cameras on television networks that sold products. You’ve probably heard his company name before; Ronco. He’s the man who came up with, “It slices and dices…, but wait, that’s not all…you’ll also get…,” and “If you order now you get absolutely FREE…”

To date, he has personally sold over one billion dollars worth of products.

You see, because he was the one working in the factory making those knives he KNEW HIS PRODUCT!

My whole interest in this was stimulated by his knowledge of knives. It was THIS quality of “know what you’re talking about” that jumped out and grabbed my attention. When you know what you’re talking about, prospects really admire it because your knowledge can help them get what they want.

Your downline will also greatly admire you if you know what you’re talking about…and they will follow you. If you invent answers to their questions (instead of knowing what you’re talking about) – they quickly learn you will say anything (truth or not) to get them to buy the product or sign up in your downline…and they won’t.

This doesn’t mean you have to work at a manufacturer to know all about the products you sell in your MLM business. It also doesn’t mean you have to have a master’s degree in nutrition to sell a nutrition product. The thing that impressed me the most was that Ron Popeil talked in such simple language that everyone could understand it.

He never tried to impress his audience with big words. He would say things like, “The steel this knife is made out of is tough – look how tough it is”…and then he would demonstrate it. He didn’t try to explain the difference between anodizing (pronounced an’a-diz’) and case hardening (two processes used to make steel hard and durable).

He instead would demonstrate for you what he wanted to communicate. It’s the sign of a true communicator – to know everything about something, but to communicate it simply to make it very easy for the prospect to make a decision.

Be knowledgeable about your MLM business. Know everything there is to know about the products you sell. Then, when you find people who can benefit from your business and/or your products, you can confidently help them get what they want. It’s this kind of knowledge that really pays you in network marketing.

Tim Sales
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/mlm-training-how-one-person-sold-one-billion-dollars-worth-of-products-78639.html

I would like to make more of a career out of Nutrition and Fitness, but am unsure of a good path. I would like formal training/certification, but not necessarily a 4-year degree since I’m in my late 20s and work full time now.

If I become a nutritionist, I don’t focus as much on fitness. If I become a personal trainer/instructor, I don’t get the training in proper diet. Any suggestions on what career or certification would be a good mix of nutrition and fitness?Learning about the in’s and out’s of internet marketing can be difficult unless you have a great mentor and where can that mentorship be found? If you really want to succeed online you must get yourself a copy of Commission Blueprint 2.0 created by Steven Clayton and Tim Godfrey. The tools alone are worth the cost alone. Best wishes!

As far as I know, neither Nutritionist nor personal trainer are protected terms, so all you need to do is make up business cards and you are in business.

However to be at the top of the heap, becoming a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist should be your ultimate goal.

Mary Jarmolowich (or Mary J as she is known in the competition world) has competed in numerous marathons over the past few years, yet wanted more of a challenge, and so entered a fitness model competition, winning her first show and gaining a Pro Card.

Talking exclusively to LA Muscle.TV in one of the premiere nightclubs in Las Vegas – Prive, where she works, Mary tells all about how she learnt to take care of her body through proper nutrition and training that enabled her to step up on stage at the Mr. Olympia, and taking 3rd in the Flex Bikini Model Search.

Mary then takes us along for one of her 11-mile runs in the Nevada dessert, and shows us how she prepares for both marathon and the stage by performing interval sprints in the canyon.

We find out just how Mary manages to balance entertaining A-list celebrities in one of the
Premiere nightclubs in Las Vegas, including Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, alongside her strict training regime to maintain her winning physique.

Find out how Mary is able to eat out most nights, and drink with the guests she entertains at night, whilst still being able to run and work out during the day. It’s an inspirational and motivating message to know that if Mary can have the self-discipline to make it work within her environment, then you can do it to.

If you ever find yourself in Las Vegas, be sure to check out Prive nightclub, located within Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino, or if you cant wait until then, we’re sure you won’t have to wait long until you see Mary in up-and-coming fitness magazines.

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Qigong is a general name for the systems of hardening and improvement of body and mind, treatment and health enhancement created in China. They primarily based on the ability to control your own consciousness, mentality and through them all the physiological processes of the organism. Practicing Qigong you can achieve stunning results some of which even the powerful modern science cannot conceive and explain.

There are three main categories of Qigong: Health-improving, Fighting and Mystical.

1. It was Chinese physicians who developed and evolved the Health-improving Qigong during many centuries. They created special exercises aimed to preserve and promote health as well as to cure various diseases.

2. Fighting (or Hard) Qigong was developed by those practitioners of Qigong who at the same time were masters of martial arts. These exercises serve to enhance the energy concentration in muscles and other parts of the body allowing to hugely increase the bodily strength and its resistance against the attempts to cause it a physical injury.

3. Mystical Qigong is a child of Buddhist monks and Taosian anchorites. The goal of Mystical Qigong consists in achieving the so called Enlightenment – a special psychophysical state of the human being. Taosian anchorites also developed methods of anti-aging based on Mystical Qigong. Mystical Qigong is the most difficult to master.

Qigong is not only the art of Qi energy control; it trains the mind and helps to work out the ability to control your volitional impulse. Qigong techniques include a huge variety of exercises but they all consist of the three main parts: control of position, control of breath, and control of mind.

Controlling his position, a man can acquire some optimal posture of body which would allow Qi to flow in the organism without delays or blockages not causing any disturbing feelings and removing diseases. The exercises are mostly performed in common stands, for example, in the Rider’s stance.

You need to control your breath to let the external Qi (from the air) not only to pass mechanically into the internal state but to spread along energy channels, fully feeding all the organs.

Consciousness is crucial in breath control; it distributes Qi along the body. At the highest stage, the breath is controlled at the level of subconsciousness and do not require too much of your attention.

Step by step learning to control his energy resources, a practitioner will pass from using the physical strength (Li) to the internal burst of effort (Tsin). This internal effort, as Chinese masters believe, is produced not by muscles but in tendons and marrow.

This is the reason why the most of Kung Fu exercises aimed not to increase the mass of muscles but to strengthen tendons and bones. While muscles tend to loose their strength (Li) as the man grows older, masters preserve their internal effort (Tsin) until great age. That’s why Chinese masters of Kung Fu say: “If you do not practice Fighting Qigong but train only your physical strength you’ll be left with nothing when you grow old enough.”

Qigong exercises advance “internal Qi” our organism contains. “Internal Qi” is also called “true Qi”. The state of “true Qi” depends on many factors: regular Fighting Qigong exercises, nutrition, mental state, environment, etc. Every human being has internal Qi but only few can use it properly, develop it. The Qi of the vast majority of people is destabilized. The goal of Fighting Qigong is to fill the organism with “true Qi”, calm it, make Qi flow along channels freely without obstructions.

So what is Qi after all? According to Chinese notions, it is an energetic substance which represents the foundation of all, i. e. the energetic foundation of the Universe. Our body can be compared to an electric appliance: if it is supplied with electric power it works but if the power supply is cut down the device operation stops. Likewise with the man: if Qi supply of his body is insufficient or it gets stagnant in it, the man gets sick or even dies.

To have a healthy robust body, one needs to learn how to keep the Qi circulation smooth and to be able to accumulate sufficient amount of Qi. To do so, it is necessary to understand the system of circulation and storage of Qi in your organism.

The human body has twelve so called primary channels (meridians) along which Qi is spread across the entire organism. There also exist eight “miraculous” vessels serving as a kind of reservoirs storing and regulating Qi. One end of each channel is attached to one of twelve internal organs while the other end is connected to one of fingers or toes.

These twelve channels supply with Qi energy twelve internal organs. Besides, these channels also take the excessive energy away from internal organs allowing us to through it out of the body. When due to blockage or disease the circulation of Qi along the channels is interrupted, one or several organs cannot get enough Qi which leads to their functional disturbance.

To be healthy, you need to learn how to keep the circulation of Qi in the twelve channels smooth and constantly replenish the “miraculous vessels” with energy.

If you understand the theory of Qi circulation in the human body you will be able to understand how Qi relates to martial arts as well. Remember, your body is not simply a machine it is an organism able to improve itself. The stronger Qi is, the stronger the human body gets.

Fighting Qigong practice sessions serve to enhance the capabilities of your body. We know that using our mind we can control various parts of our own body. The process of control is simple. Our mind generates a thought, and the thought leads Qi to the corresponding parts of the body which perform the requested action. The key thing about Fighting Qigong is in learning to lead your Qi as efficient as it can be. In this case you can increase you strength very much.

Chinese martial arts masters learn to focus their minds through meditation or other kinds of training practice to make Qi obey them easily. This can substantially enhance the strength of a fighter and increase the efficiency of his technique.

Alexander Popov
http://www.articlesbase.com/sports-and-fitness-articles/methods-of-qigong-in-kung-fu-training-14391.html

If you are interested in helping others to live rewarding and healthier lifestyles, you can join a fitness training school. Once you have completed the course, you can work towards improving the appearance and health of your clients. This could be achieved by helping them to adhere to strict diet and exercise routines and fitness programs.

Functions Of A Fitness Training School

There are several fitness training schools that provide students with the basic knowledge of physiology, anatomy, nutrition, homeostasis and metabolism. They also teach them how to design, manage and implement various fitness plans, conduct physical assessments and train their clients for health safety. You can develop the practical skills in the classroom, along with an externship program for professional training.

These schools prepare students to work with people belonging to different fitness levels and help them attain various goals. This could involve designing weight loss programs for middle aged overweight men and women, leading calisthenics workouts in nursing homes or gymnasiums, guiding world class athletes or preparing exercise routines for children who have special health issues. Students also learn to design anaerobic and aerobic exercises.

Requirements:

A fitness trainer needs to have an Associate of Science degree in sports, medicine, physiology, physical education, exercise science or any health care related field. Most positions require a Master of Science or Bachelor of Science degree.

Career Opportunities After Fitness Training School

1.Health Club Or Gym Instructor: Your salary will depend on the reputation of the gym or health club.
2.Freelance Fitness Trainer: Your clients will pay you directly. Fitness trainer salaries vary a lot. At the initial stages, you could expect around 16,000 dollars, annually. It all depends on the region, experience and education level.
3.Personal Trainer: If you become a personal trainer to movie stars and athletes, you can earn a six-figure salary.
4.Trainer At Private Spas, Cruises, Resorts Or Online: Your services could be employed by a particular chain or by visitors to a particular fitness website.
5.Fitness Writing, Consulting And Athletic Coaching: You could open your own gym or start group fitness instructions at any convenient venue.

Points To Remember

1.For a career in fitness training you need to be persistent, patient, motivating and organized. You should love working and interacting with all kinds of people.
2.You do not need to look like a bodybuilder to become a fitness trainer. However, you should make sure that you lead a healthy lifestyle and become a role model for your clients.
3.Get certified in specialty. It is not required, but it indicates an advanced level of understanding and in turn, enables you to quote higher rates for your services.
4.If you are not sure where you want to work, take some time to conduct research online.
5.If you want to join a club, call the local clubs and ask about their requirement for personal trainers.
6.Market yourself and improve your skills. You should attempt to take special fitness courses, to add quality to your resume. You should also attempt to make the most of available opportunities to acquire hands-on experience.

Tony Jacowski
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/careers-after-fitness-training-schools-113041.html

Many women nowadays are into resistance training. Many get into resistance training programs engaging into sports. Resistance training is important for women. It allows you to be active and have a healthy body. You may also gain the needed strength and physically built muscles.

Before you start lifting weights, you should know the proper ways on how to execute the exercise. Many women seriously encounter injuries when they incorrectly lift weights. It is important that you get rid first of the excess weight that you have by walking or jogging. You may also purchase weight loss equipment such as treadmills, cross bar platinum, and nutrition boo guides for a better health.

Women usually do not have the natural muscle structure that most men have. They may not also have the same strength to carry heavy loads or the same resistance that men have. What more if you get older? Your body may no longer have the same strength when you were still young. This happens because of the lifestyle you have or just because of aging process. Your resistance may have just decreased and your body tends to weaken.

You can benefit many things when you get into resistance training. Even if you are not an athlete or a body-building enthusiasts, you can get into resistance training programs. Having an active body and well-toned muscles can provide you the more strength and good resistance. You can do some workout outdoors like walking or jogging to get a better blood circulation. 

You may also do some stretching and warm up exercises to allow the blood nutrients go to the muscles and joints of your body. Muscle stretching also helps in lessening the risks of injuries and muscle pains after the work out. Muscles tend to sore and get strained if you are not well warmed-up and do the proper stretching techniques before the work out.

In addition, muscle stretching also gives you more flexibility. You will be able to execute exercises comfortably and effectively. It is advisable that you do repetitive stretching and warm ups. Repetition of exercises makes your muscles and joints more enhanced and more adapted to the motion you are executing.

When you are ready to lift weights, you should first work on your larger muscles then the smaller ones. You may then finally go to the muscles that are isolated. You may execute push-ups that can enhance the upper muscles of the body. Before doing triceps extension exercises, you should first focus on the larger muscle groups such as the muscle found in your butt. You may execute exercises like repetitive squatting, box step-ups, and lunges.

You may also work on your quads which is the muscle found on the front thigh. You may perform repetitive squatting and lunges as well. You may also use the leg extension machine and the leg press machine for a well-executed exercise.

You should always remember that you work on the opposite muscles. Muscles tend to get imbalanced especially if the amounts of exercises you do are not equally distributed. When performing triceps extension, it is advised that you also do bicep exercises. If you work out on the chest and the stomach area like crunches, it is important that you do back extension exercises to get a balanced upper muscle toning.

Always take a rest after your resistance training work out. Allow your muscles to cool gradually so that you will not feel any sore or strained muscles. After the resistance training, you will see that you are more ready and physically fit for many kinds of sports.

Nicholas Tan
http://www.articlesbase.com/wellness-articles/body-health-importance-of-resistance-training-for-women-692944.html

like which university?
and does anyone know of a course where i can study fitness AND nutrition together as one course? coz i can only find nutrition
and what isthe salary , starting and throught the career and what jobs can u get?
thanks

Have you checked into UVic? They are an excellent University with great programs that are in sports & fitness.

I am starting up a subscription based online personal training business. I want to offer my members valuable resources, such as current articles and information about health, nutrition, and fitness. I need help finding resources to write these articles. Also, I would like to know how to find freelance writers that would like to contribute to this sort of thing to get their name out there.

I freelance for PreventDisease.com http://www.preventdisease.com/

I’m always willing to contribute to any source promoting fitness. Let me know when you’re up and running.

Hippocrates: Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food. Do you think that all our Medical Doctors are true to this oath today?

Md’s have very little or no studies in nutrition. You might call it a very real ‘conspiracy theory’ and in some ways we’re still in the dark ages!

Think of the thousands of billions of dollars the ‘health industry’ makes now, and how much they’d loose if people didn’t get sick! I know this may sound strange: breakfast cereal is NOT good for people, especially kids. Why don’t doctors tell us that?