Month: April 2016

I have been using my Fitbit for almost a year now and it has been a fantastic experience. Not only am I able to track my steps and my sleeping habits but also great things like pulse rate, resting pulse, and a slew of other recent features.

Today I just wanted to point out a few new features that seem to have been pushed out for my Fitbit Charge HR with my Samsung S5 Android phone recently, but since I don’t have an iPhone I am not sure if these are there as well. Let me know if you are an iPhone Fitbit user and if these line up with yours.

New Features for the FitBit Charge HR

New Home Screen Layout

There is a new layout to the homescreen of the app. One of the things to remember is that the Fitbit software is customizable so you can decide what your daily success priority is, steps, miles, floors, or other.

As well as these basics, there are others that I do not use like a food tracker (Syncs really well with MyFitnessPal) and even tracking water intake.

Now though as you can see they have added a number of hours with 250 or more steps.

The idea behind this is that many of us will go for a long walk and otherwise be mostly sedentary.

 

 

 

 

 

Hourly Activity Page

Pretty dots, but what does it all mean? The hourly activity will identify which hours of the day that you do 250 or more steps.

The way that we can use this in its best way is to identify which hours of the day we get very few steps in and then look at our schedule to see how we can do better.

This page I believe defaults with 8 hours or something, I cranked it up to tracking 14 hours a day so that I can track more of my hours.

I guess I should probably really add my first couple hours of the day as well.

 

 

 

 

2nd Hourly Activity Page

This is another view of the hourly activity that really just breaks down the day.

This day can of course be today or yesterday, or some Tuesday last month.

The top half really just gives those same dots from morning until night but the bottom half is interesting.

According to recent studies, the longer you are stationary the harder it is on your body. This will tell you your longest period of inactivity and the longest period on average over the last month.

Now we can try and make sure we are taking the opportunity every hour or even more often to be at least a bit active.

The cool thing with this is that since Fitbit keeps all this data on their servers anyway I have been able to go back in time and see what my trend has been every day over the last year.

 

 

Daily Active Minutes

This feature is just tracking active minutes. This would be the opposite of the sleep tracking. What our Fitbit is doing here is just tracking when we are doing something more than just walking.

This could be anything from a brisk walk to a run to cardio of other types.

You can set a goal for this and track how well you are doing over time. There is another view that lets you compare days, weeks, or even months to see when you have been most active.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercise and Exercise Goals

The Fitbit has had this for a little while but it is always being enhanced it seems. Since this little wristband has an accelerometer inside it, it can kind of figure out what you are doing.

It can tell if you are riding a bike, running, even using an elliptical machine. Sometimes poor little Fitbit gets confused, like when I am playing street hockey and just calls it “Sport”.

This gives us a bit of a better way to track our exercise times. As you can see here it will track minutes, average heart rate, and estimated calories burned.

This is great info to track and to again see if we are getting more and better exercise in or not over time.

 

 

 

 

Sleep Quality Tracking

This is not really new but I just wanted to add this sleep tracking in as it has really made a big difference in my life.

At times I sleep well and sometimes I do not. I know that most of the time we track out hours of sleep and with the Fitbit we can get a really good track of this with weekly averages over time to see if we are running ourselves down.

The great thing with the sleep quality though is to see how often we are not sleeping deep.

If we are restless quite a few times at night it could be a sign of stress in our lives, too much alcohol consumption, eating too late, or even a sign that we are suffering from sleep apnea.

This could be a real lifesaver.

Getting back to quality vs hours though, I have found that even if I get 8 hours of sleep that if I am restless a lot at night that I am still going to be tired, maybe not today but in a couple days.

So this can be a great bit of journalling to see how our lifestyle is affecting our sleep.

These are the features that I have found new over the last couple of months on my Fitbit. Have you seen any others that you are taking advantage of?

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Tom Venuto is the creator of Holy Grail Body Transformation Program.  A few years ago Tom created a workout/ diet program called Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle. That program was very successful and was just an ebook.

What is an Ebook you might ask? Well in this case you buy Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle and you get a PDF book that you can print up on a printer at home (or at work) or read on the computer.

Well now Tom has moved into this new decade by leveraging some of the new technology that everyone has at their computer. Sure everyone has Adobe Acrobat but now people have ipods and other ways to take in some of the great fitness and diet info that is out there so Tom has come up with a new system called The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program

What is the Holy Grail Body Transformation Program?

Holy Grail Body Transformation Program

Well over the last several years more and more people have come to recognise that Tom was correct when he said that it takes a great diet, Great workouts, and a great plan to lose weight, and also that gaining muscle is not a bad thing.

Building muscle is important for men and even for women that are scared of getting Huge, ripped and looking like female bodybuilders. (it won’t do that)

So why has this new program been created?

There are 3 major reasons for the Holy Grail Body Transformation Program

1. To Lose fat without losing muscle
2. To Gain muscle without gaining fat
3. To Gain muscle and lose fat at the same time!

Many people are not seriously over, but they are seriously unhappy because their body is soft and flabby without tone and firmness. Fat loss with muscle gain is exactly what these people need.

The best part is, once you understand how to use these techniques for simultaneous fat loss and muscle gain, you can also use them if your goal is strictly fat loss. How? By using even one or two of these techniques, you’ll be able to hold onto every ounce of your precious muscle tissue when you’re dieting.

This is a new type of body transformation system that has just been published for the first time in digital format (e-book and MP3 audio), so you can download the program instantly, read or listen to it in an afternoon and get started the same day.

Tom Venuto – Creator of Holy Grail Body Transformation Program

But before you download the program or even read another word, I have to warn you. This not an easy goal to achieve and I have no miracles to offer you inside this new book. This is a serious and very strategic program for committed people who are analytical thinkers and hard workers.

Concurrent muscle gain and fat loss is the most difficult goal to achieve. That’s why people call it the “Holy Grail”; because it’s so elusive. But…

Although difficult it is scientifically possible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time

The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program is the first course of its kind that builds on the foundational fat-burning principles, adds muscle-building techniques and then puts it all together in a highly strategic system for gaining muscle and burning fat simultaneously, while explaining the process scientifically…

With that, let me give you a closer look at what you’ll learn inside the Holy Grail Body Transformation Program ebook…

The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program Highlights:

• The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program is delivered in an instantly-downloadable PDF e-book AND a downloadable MP3 audio edition.
• The CORE of this program is a nutrition plan like you’ve never seen before, based on cyclical dieting and nutrient timing.
• But the Holy Grail program doesn’t stop with nutrient timing advice you’ve heard before. This goes far beyond post workout nutrition, deep into the realm of nutritional periodization.
• New discoveries in the emerging sciences of within-day-energy balance, nutrient timing and natural hormonal manipulation have pointed the way to a proven method for achieving simultaneous muscle gain with fat loss…

And if your goal is muscle gain, but you want to avoid gaining “bulk” (adding fat with the muscle), this new approach works brilliantly for gaining pure solid lean muscle, without fat gain.

When Tom was asked about this almost dieting nirvana of fat loss while gaining muscle here is how it went:

Q: “Come on Tom,  I thought it was impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time? Don’t you need a calorie deficit to burn fat and a calorie surplus to build muscle?”

Tom: “Well, yes – calories do matter – but it’s much more complicated than just calories because of factors such as within-day energy balance, hormonal response and “energy partitioning.”

Tom went on to say the following:

I’ve been studying these complex interactions of nutrition and training with metabolism and hormones for almost 21 years, but I was just like you – I was equally skeptical that significant concurrent muscle gains and fat losses could be achieved by anyone other than genetic superiors or performance-enhancing drug users.

It was these extraordinary contest results achieved by ordinary people – naturally – that prompted me to search for the common denominators in body composition transformations. I also dug into the scientific literature to create a new program so that you could duplicate these results yourself. The program was named… Holy Grail Body Transformation Program

Mark my words, this is going to become the next big thing – a whole new science of nutrition to achieve a goal that countless experts and trainees had written off as impossible.

Here’s a Sample of This New Body Transformation Science That You’ll Discover Inside the Holy Grail Body Transformation System e-book:

• Why most people – even fitness pros and dieticians – are dead wrong about the biology behind losing fat and gaining muscle at the same time … and why you MUST understand the true “temporal mechanism” or you’ll never have a prayer at deliberately achieving this elusive goal
• Why you MUST understand “energy partitioning” – the fat-burning, muscle-building process BEYOND CALORIES-IN vs CALORIES OUT!… this is the key to forcing your body to drive energy and protein INTO MUSCLE CELLS and pull calories OUT OF FAT CELLS!
• The power of hormones to dramatically shift fat to muscle… discover what steps you must take to achieve hormonal control for maximum muscle growth and fat loss… this is MUST-HAVE information because if your hormones are out of whack, the game is over
• The 4 “X Factors” of concurrent muscle gain and fat loss – these are the special conditions that allow above average muscle gains while losing fat at the same time… and there’s good news and bad news about the X Factors that you need to know before you get started
• The 5 “X2 Factors” that influence your ability to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time… They all depend on your current body composition (lean or fat) and dieting status (dieted down or not dieted down)… Depending on which category you’re in, it can totally change your approach
• Why you almost never gain muscle in a continuous calorie deficit… and the one exception that allowed a group of over women to gain muscle and lose fat while eating 800 calories a day (I don’t recommend this, but the lessons from this case study are valuable)
• How to choose the right body transformation goal: should you focus on burning fat, gaining muscle or doing both at the same time? If you pursue the wrong goal, you’ll be wasting time and you might even get fatter
• How to steal the proven system of training periodization from world class athletes and apply it to your muscle-building and fat-burning goals… Plus, how nutritional periodization might be the single biggest breakthrough for building muscle and burning fat at the same time – This is a HUGE BREAKTHROUGH!
• 5 post-workout nutrition strategies to improve muscle growth and optimize recovery from your workouts… Forget fancy post workout nutrition calculations or expensive supplements – these tips are so easy to apply, you’ll kick yourself for ever thinking this was complicated
• Carb tapering and carb targeting strategies explained for 2010… These are the latest updates to the time-tested techniques used by some of the best bodybuilders, fitness models and figure competitors in the world
• Cycle dieting techniques under the microscope… find out which methods work and which ones will actually make you fatter
• The 5-point training optimization checklist: Compare your workout to these MUST-HAVE conditions for gaining muscle while stripping fat… see what’s missing, plug the holes, and watch your results explode!
• 4 reasons why cardio can help you gain more muscle, if you do it right… and why you will get weaker and smaller if you do it wrong
• The 8-point cardio power plan: follow these 8 guidelines and you can’t go wrong with your cardio program
• 8 carb-cycling menu plans … all DONE FOR YOU, laid out meal by meal, calculated for precision and results (appendix 1)
• 4 calorie calculators … use the instant quick method or crunch the numbers for greater precision – it’s your choice… all the formulas are provided for you (appendix 2)

So What Do I think? Is this the promised Holy Grail of Fat Loss?

I have to trust not only Tom but the thousands of successes that he has acheived as a trainer and motivator. This program is trustworthy for no other reason than Tom Venuto is a legend in the natural bodybuilding to Weight loss coach area. Not only all this but tom has only released two books before, he has put a lot into this program to make sure that everyone WILL succeed not just waste time on another “diet”

Your Quest For the Holy Grail Just Got Easier… The Straight and Fast Path Shortcut To a Leaner AND More Muscular Body Is Now Just a Click Away!

Losing fat is a frustrating challenge for millions of over people. Building muscle is downright HARD to do as well, and thousands of bodybuilders and athletes struggle for years to make gains. Doing BOTH at the same time is near impossible unless you know EXACTLY what you’re doing.

The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program is the type of strategic program that you NEVER discover casually on your own. It’s the result of meticulous scientific investigation combined with years of experimentation, testing and tweaking. If you get lucky and “accidentally” gain muscle while losing fat, you’ll have no clue how you did it, which means you won’t be able to do it again and you won’t be able to explain how you did it to others.

If you want the shortest, fastest, straightest path to muscle building and fat burning success, you need a guide…a plan, a roadmap… and the Holy Grail Body Transformation e-book is it.

If you’re serious about physique transformation, then grabbing a copy of The Holy Grail Body Transformation system is a no brainer decision. And to sweeten the deal, Tom even added more (he does this to keep the program lean and add valuable bonuses to you)  Tom has built a few fantastic bonuses right into the Holy Grail program.

So what all does Holy Grail Body Transformation Program Include?

• You get the complete Holy Grail body transformation system (v2.0):
• The 109-page HOLY GRAIL BODY TRANSFORMATION e-book
• The 8-part 3 1/2 hour Holy Grail audio edition (audiobook, read by the author)
• The T.N.B. Workout Program
• The Holy Grail Carb Cycling Meal Plans and
• The Burn the Fat 2.0 Food Data base.
• If you place your order before our launch promotion ends this Friday night, you’ll also get the four bonus reports:
• Extreme and controversial fat loss techniques
• The super lean seminar
• The Science of Goal Achievement
• How to Measure Your Body Fat In the Privacy of Your Own Home.

ALL of this is yours for just $49.97 (and we can’t guarantee how long the program will be available at this low price).

Once you place your order on our secure server, you will be instantly directed to the download page, where you can download your fat burning and muscle building manual and get started just minutes from now.

The e-book is in PDF format, which can be viewed on any computer (PC or MAC). You can read it right on your computer screen, or you can even print out your own hard-copy and put in a 3 ring binder, plus of course those MP3 files that you can listen to on your ipod or other MP3 player.

Check out the Holy Grail Body Transformation Program Right now, and let us all know what you thin in the comments below.

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