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The Fat Loss & Getting Shredded expert guide teaches you everything you need to know about losing body fat while maintaining muscle mass. Use this guide for your fat loss plan!
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Turn your body into a fat burning machine. This comprehensive guide to metabolic conditioning provides sample routines and rules to help you build your own workouts.
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Shredded! A Complete Guide To Getting to 10% Body Fat
Learn how having an effective diet, training, and recovery plan are key components to getting amazing body transformation results.
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In this article you'll learn what Zone 2 is, how it can help you, and how you can implement it into your personal plan to help you make the most out of your cardio sessions.
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Mini-cuts are a vital tool in your muscle-building toolbox. Learn why they are so effective in long-term muscle growth and how to use them to help reach your goals.
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Improve your metabolism, burn calories, and increase your heart rate with these workouts. Plus you'll be able to improve skills that will help you improve your overall athletic ability.
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When combined with proper diet and training, these key supplements can help you break that physique plateau or finally help you achieve your weight loss goals.
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How to Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle
The art of cutting, losing body fat without losing muscle mass. Learn how you should eat and train if you want to keep your lean muscle mass and lose that excess fat!
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Hardcore 40: Blast Fat and Get Shredded in 40 Days!
The Hardcore 40 combines a high-speed, fat burning workout system with HIIT cardio and a precision diet to melt away fat and leave behind muscle.
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Unsure if steady state or high intensity cardio is better for the fat loss process? Bodybuilder Cliff Wilson explains the science behind fat loss and helps you to get shredded.
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How To Burn Fat Like A Bodybuilder (Without Muscle Loss)
Achieving low body fat levels takes hard work and discipline, but having an understanding on how to manage carbohydrate intake helps facilitate the process.
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The Best Cardio for Fat Loss: A Science Based Approach
Cardio is necessary for fat loss, right? Let's see what scientific research suggests is the best type of cardio for burning fat while preserving muscle mass.
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6 Ab Workouts for a Visible & Brick Like 6-Pack
Looking to build your abs so you can reveal a brick-like 6-pack when you lift up your shirt? Try any of these 6 ab workouts to get closer to that goal!
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How to Combat Adaptive Thrermogenesis During Fat Loss
Adaptive thermogenesis is one of your body's natural reactions during fat loss phases. Learn a few techniques to counter it by reading the following article.
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Complete Keto Diet Guide
Takes an inside look at the low-carb ketogenic diet, and it's 3 variations: standard, cyclical and targeted keto dieting. Guide includes sample eating plans and recipes.
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5 Reasons You Can't See Your Abs (And How To Fix Them!)
Six-pack sabotage? You might not even know you're making these 5 results-stealing mistakes. Learn what you can do to reclaim your abs!
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Carb Cycling: Lose Fat And Build Muscle At The Same Time?
Everyone knows you can't build muscle and lose fat at the same time, right? Learn how to maximize carbohydrate intake so you have a chance at adding mass while leaning out.
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Building The Perfect Fat Burning Circuit
Brad Borland presents a 5 element template that enables you to build your own effective fat blasting circuit workout. Benefits and example circuit workouts included.
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Cardio and Fat Loss
Are you grinding out hours of cardio without seeing weight loss results? Tom Venuto presents the facts behind fat loss, cardio and calorie intake.
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Body recomposition is difficult, but not impossible. In this article you'll learn several tips to help you simultaneously and successfully build muscle and lose fat.
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The Truth About Eating At Night & Fat Loss
Fat loss expert Tom Venuto analyzes the impact of late night carb consumption, and discusses why the concept of energy balance over a 24 hour period might be flawed.
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Top 10 Fat Burning Foods
Tom Venuto presents you with 40 fat-fighting foods. These fruits, veggies, proteins and grains that will help you become, or remain leaner. Eat the foods to reach your goals!
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Density Training for Fat Loss
Stop sweating cardio and boost the intensity of your strength training instead. Get all the details on density training plus a fat burning workout!
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The Right Type Of Cardio For Pre And Post Workout
Should you perform cardio pre or post-workout? Which form is best for your goals? Learn how to combine cardio with lifting to maximize muscle and strength gains.
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Top 3 Conditioning Exercises to Get Shredded
Getting shredded for the new year? We spoke with strength and conditioning expert Eric Bach who offered 3 effective methods to shed some body fat.
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Is the Fat Burning Zone Real?
Is there an optimal training zone you should aim for in order to burn more fat? Learn everything you need to know about optimizing fat loss in your training!
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Metabolic training allows for maximum output in a short amount of time. These 3 circuit workouts will challenge you beyond just fat loss and into a healthier state.
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Peripheral Heart Action Training For Fat Loss
Peripheral Heart Action training helps to turn your fat burning circuits into "super circuits" by reducing lactic acid build up and improving performance.
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"What's the Best Way to Preserve Muscle Mass When Dieting?"
People often think you can have muscle or you can have fat loss, but you can't have both. Read this article to learn how to maintain both while dieting!
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How low do you have to take your body fat levels to see visible abs? Tom Venuto tells you what constitutes lean, very lean and ripped.
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5 Summer Shred Workouts in Less than 30 minutes
Want a quick workout that is intense enough to help you achieve your fat loss goals? Give one of these five 30 minute fat shredding workouts a try!
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8 Fat Melting Plyometric Exercises You Should Try
Ditch the treadmill and burn more fat with plyometric exercises! Check out these 8 fun plyo variations & learn how to incorporate them into your own workout!
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3 Reasons Why You Should Sprint Your Way to Fat Loss
Too many people adopt hours of steady-state cardio when going through a fat loss phase. Be different and use sprinting as a more efficient fat loss cardio!
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How Rapid Fat Loss Impacts Muscle Retention
For years the bodybuilding community has backed the notion that losing more than 1.5 to 2 pounds of fat per week will result in muscle loss. Find out if this is true.
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7 Awesome Tips For Burning The Fat!
So you've been muscle building, eating big and making gains. Great. Now it's time to get ripped and strip off those extra fat layers you've inherited!
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8 Exercises That Will Help You Get Ripped
So, you want to get ripped! You have a nutrition plan for fat loss; and your supplement regimen all set. But how do you train for fat loss? Find out...
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Running
Find out the five reason why high intensity cardio sessions are far superior and more effective for fat loss than low intensity cardio.
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Losing weight doesn't have to be a mystery. The following fat loss tips provide practical, real world advice that will help you get on track today.
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4 Sacrifices You Have to Make to get Ripped
So you want to get ripped? You better be prepared to make these 4 sacrifices. Learn what they are & prepare yourself for the hardships of being shredded.
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Late Night Eating: Weight Gain Facts And Myths
Should you eat less at night to help control weight gain? Tom Venuto explains why there might be something to this common belief, and a reason to avoid night carbs.
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Diet or Exercise: Which is Most Important for Fat Loss?
If you had to choose one way to achieve fat loss would it be through your diet or through your exercise? Let's discuss which is more important.
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Every Lifter's Nightmare: How Do I Avoid Being Skinny Fat?
When you're cutting, you want to look lean and shredded. See if you're at risk for winding up "skinny fat" instead and learn what to do to prevent it.
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6 Pack Science: A Guide to Help You Get a 6 Pack
Building a 6 pack can be a confusing process & there is a lot of misguided information out there. Read this article to learn the science behind 6 pack abs.
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Losing Fat: What It Takes To Look Your Best
Lose fat, look great. Learn how to maximize calorie intake, high and low intensity cardio and training to shed fat, save time and get shredded.
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Does Using Exercise To Reduce Belly Fat Work?
Get rid of your stubborn belly fat once and for all by using the proper combination of diet, cardio and resistance training. A three step diet plan is included.
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Reduce Fat Gain Or Improve Fat Loss
It's time to simplify your diet. This article contains 3 tips that can help you reduce the amount of calories you are eating, and make it easier to maintain weight or lose fat.
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Intermittent Fasting: 3 Basic Mistakes Made By Beginners
Don't fear the catabolic state. Hunger is not the enemy. Fitness model Jeremy Scott provides you with three basic intermittent fasting mistakes often made by beginners.
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Fat Gain Nonsense: 8 Diet And Weight Loss Myths Debunked
Does eating at night make you fat? Do you need a cheat day? Is fruit bad? Do calories in fiber count? Find out the answers to 8 common diet and weight loss myths.
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How To Optimize Caffeine Intake & Timing For Fat Loss
Does caffeine really help your fat burning efforts, and if so, when and how much should be taken? Fine tune your caffeine intake and bolster your fat loss efforts.
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How To Build Your Own Fat Loss Supplement Stack
This article takes a look at the top fat loss supplement ingredients, and shows you how to build your own fat burning stack or choose the best product for your needs.
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