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July 16, 2010

How a Diet of Smaller Portions of Fresh Food Can Improve Your Overall Health

Filed under: Nutrition — nbarrett @ 5:22 pm

Hi dear friends!

Summer is well & truly here!

I don’t like to keep going on about food, but it is apart from Mind/Set , which my Ebook soon to be released covers, the single greatest shift we can ALL make to get into a better place about our bodies.

TO GET WHAT WE HAVE NEVER HAD, WE MUST FIRST BE READY TO DO WHAT WE NEVER HAVE DONE BEFORE.

Smaller Portions

What we have been taught for years is to have breakfast, lunch and dinner. What is  starting to become common knowledge is to have smaller portions more frequently during the day. By doing this, it helps to keep your blood sugar levels stable over the course of the day. By keeping your blood sugar levels stable throughout the day it helps to increase energy, and also aids in burning unnecessary fat. Even though you are having many small meals throughout the day, remember to keep them balanced with carbohydrates, proteins and essential fats.

It doesn’t take much to live a healthy lifestyle, just better choices on a daily basis. We all have people that care about us, take the time to show them that you care about yourself as well.

Fresh Is Best

Raw and fresh fruits and vegetables have live food enzymes. Enzymes are the life force of the food. They unlock nutrients and assist in the digestion and absorption of foods. The simplest way to understand this is to notice what happens to a piece of fruit as it ripens. Once it is overripe the food enzymes go to work to “break it down” as it decomposes. Foods with enzymes aid in their own digestion within the body, thereby improving absorption of nutrients and elimination. Simply put, this is less stress on your body as it has to produce less enzymes for the process of digestion and promotes intestinal health.

Preparation

Planning and preparation is a big key to building those healthy habits. Take a look at how you want your life to look in one week, one month and one year. Plan the actions which will get you to the goals that you have picked out for yourself. Planning for meals will ensure that you are putting the proper foods into your body. Plan time to go to the gym or even go for a walk. If you don’t set an exact time to work out it becomes very easy to put it off till later and even just not go at all. The old saying ‘Tomorrow never comes’

You can incorporate this preparation and planning into any aspect of your life. By doing this you will find that you have much more free time and less stress.

Remember to have what you have never had before, you must be prepared to do what you have never done before!!!

P.S. I will be sending a link soon that you can buy my Ebook – 17 years of learning – Mind/Set To Fitness @ $14.95.

March 15, 2010

Keeping the Spice in Your Personal Training Program

Filed under: Health and Fitness, Nutrition — Tags: , , — nbarrett @ 12:42 pm

Spring is coming! Take to the great outdoors and be re-motivated for your cardio!!!

We all at times feel like not exercising. Where do you find the motivation to exercise?

You are not alone when you ask yourself this question. The best way forward is to get out of our heads about exercise and just take action steps.

Some ways to motivate ourselves to exercise work better than others. Through my experience as a trainer working with many clients, I have put the following list together…

1. Make it enjoyable and fun to do

Find something that you enjoy doing. Sure, you may think that cardio machines in the gym are as boring as ‘egg whites’, but you can make them much more fun by listening to your choice music, or a great book on your I-Pod.

2. Visualization

Visualize how you will look getting that 20lbs off, or on how you’ll feel when you harden your mid-section. Picture  yourself doing cardio for 30 minutes and feeling fresh and wanting to do more!

If you can only do 10 push-ups and want to do 15, visualize yourself doing them by counting to 15 one at a time. Visualization is used by many top athletes to get them past performance plateaus.

3. Sign up for a fitness event.

A 5k race can be motivating, inspirational and fun, giving you a deadline to aim for. It will give your training more purpose.

4. Think about how you will feel if you don’t train

When you exercise you experience the release of endorphins in your body which give you a natural high. How do you want to feel today? Sluggish or energized? The amount of time as individuals that we spend thinking about exercise is great. Have you ever stopped and wondered how much? Nothing will change if we think, only if we take control and do it will we see change! Cause and effect at it’s best!

Lastly just enjoy and the future will come and will be as good as we make it!

Read more about my training philosophy here

September 30, 2009

Anti-Aging Supplements for Life Extension

Filed under: Health and Fitness, Los Angeles, Nutrition, weight loss — Tags: , , — nbarrett @ 2:50 pm

Life Extension And Staying Youthful

It would take me many pages to give you all there is about life extension, or delaying the onset of aging, and here I’m going to simplify it into a shorter form.

As we grow older, we suffer major declines in the hormones that we need to stay healthy. The main ones being testament , estrogen, progesterone ,melatonin and growth hormone.  This one growth hormone, is by far the most important.

It has been shown that while the aging pituitary gland adequately produces Growth Hormone, it’s secretion from the pituitary is down-regulated with age. 49 specific amino acids and vitamins have been shown to help maintain a healthy pituitary.

Natural growth hormone causes the body to:

  • Burn body fat
  • Increase muscle mass and skin thickness
  • Improve immune function
  • Improve well being
  • Improve sleep
  • Increase metabolism
  • Thicker hair
  • Feeling of well being
  • Energy
  • Increase bone density

And overall, you reduce the probability that you will spend the last years of your life in a nursing home.

In addition Growth Hormone stimulates the growth of organs that shrink with age, i.e. the heart, liver, kidneys, and thyroid.

Growth hormone can also stimulate production of insulin-like growth factor (IGF), which helps to optimise communication between the immune, nervous, and hormonal systems.

The principle behind the use of multiple growth hormone releasing compounds at the same time is called ’stacking’. The theory behind this principle is that since many of these compounds operate to stimulate GH release by different mechanisms, taking them together will cause a larger release effect.

(I will cover GH more in depth if you request it)! Reply to this email and let me know if you would want a separate newsletter with more info?

3 Supplements To Raise Your Growth Hormone (GH) Levels

L’Arginine & L’Ornithine

L’ Arginine is an essential amino acid. L’Ornithine can also be used together since it metabolizes to L’Arginine in the body. L’Arginine is required for the body to synthesise nitric oxide, which enables the arterial system to retain its youthful elasticity. Nitric oxide also helps to produce endothelial relaxation factor, which is needed by the arterial system to expand and contract with each heartbeat.

L’Arginine/ L’Ornithine /L’ Glutamine have been shown to promote natural growth hormone (GH) release from the pituitary gland. GH promotes healthy anabolic metabolism throughout the body, helping maintain protein synthesis within cells.

GH release is greater when releasers are taken on an empty stomach before exercise, awaking or at bedtime.

GH release may be improved if you take 1/2 to 1 gram of Pantothenic acid at the same time.

Supplement 1 & 2: L’Arginine & L’Ornithine 2000MG

Women

  • 2 capsules upon awaking
  • 2 capsules @ bedtime

Men

  • 3 capsules upon awaking
  • 3 capsules @ bedtime

Supplement 3: L’Glutamine. 1000MG

Women

Non- training days.

  • 3000MG @ bedtime

Training days:

  • 3000MG before training
  • 3000MG @ bedtime

Men

Non- training days:

  • 5000MG @ bedtime


Training days:

  • 5000MG before training
  • 5000MG @ bedtime

I am constantly striving to learn more and become better, to give you a better service. I thank you all, and remain blessed to have you in my life.

Learn More About Supplements for Training and Nutrition Here

Diets Don’t Work, Habits Do

Filed under: Health and Fitness, Nutrition, Personal Trainer — Tags: , — nbarrett @ 2:46 pm

Hi all! How are you?

It is now Fall and once again the holidays are approaching. It is a time to establish good habits, as for some people the holidays start on Halloween, and run through the 1st of the Year!!

Diets don’t work!

As you may know the things we are doing today are a learned behavior .  All the things we do today, good, or not so good, are part of a habit/pattern, that started out one day at a time, until they became part of us.

Diets are a cop-out. Diets are a way to trick ourselves into thinking we are doing something good and healthy for our bodies, while promising ourselves that we can still eat too much of everything we once we’re done being healthy.

You can’t be “done” being healthy any more than you can be “done” weeding a garden. Your body needs regular tending.

Learn How to Speed up Your Metabolism and Burn More Body Fat

Client Case Study

One of my clients, I’ll call her “Client ‘A,’” started out believing in diets. Client ‘A’ was about 45 years old, and weighed about 50 lbs more than she wanted to. She was marketing in the film industry, and very self- conscious. She had tried a trendy low-carb  diet , she had tried a protein – only diet, and had even tried the infamous ” nutritional cookie” diet, but nothing she had tried gave her lasting results, let alone the 50lbs loss she wanted.

“Whatever I do, I don’t seem to lose weight. I think I’m born to be fat,” she told me glumly at our first session. She couldn’t see it for herself, but just by continuing to try to get healthy, she was heading in the right direction.

But one of the problems client ‘A’ had before ,was that she never made permanent changes in her habits. Like many of my of my potential clients, ‘A’ wanted a short-term solution , a quick fix, that would allow her to go back to eating whatever she wanted eventually. Believe me, if there were any such solution, everyone would be lean already.

The secret to weight loss isn’t even a secret. You already know it. The ’secret’ is just that you have to learn to make healthy choices, and do it often enough, so that they replace existing not so good choices. It may sound hard to learn to make healthy choices most of the time, but your brain provides you with a handy coping mechanism; the easiest way to do something most of the time is to make it a habit!

Read and Watch More Client Testimonials Here

May 21, 2009

Weight Loss Is Easy With Regular Meals

Filed under: Nutrition, weight loss — Tags: , , — nbarrett @ 12:02 pm

With Summer fast approaching we all want to lose an extra few pounds… WE CAN!

Replace your morning oatmeal with an apple.  That will help use your stored fat for energy. Also make sure to get your protein at breakfast and throughout the day as this will speed up your metabolism and say goodbye to those extra pounds.

Keep away from the high-glycemic carbs like cereals- white rice, breads and potatoes as much as possible. These foods will increase your Cortisol levels and lower your Serotonin causing you to want to eat more of them.

Instead for lunch eat brown rice or increase your salads/ vegetables. Drink at least 100 oz. of spring water per day as this metabolizes fat and keeps hunger in check.

A great low glycemic/sodium snack is the Greens+ high protein bar, giving you energy and stabilizing hunger. They are available for the best price I could find at the netrition website.

I want to thank you all for being awesome and know that you will have the leanest/fitest Summer yet!

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