Well don’t know what to call this as we are so many seasons in but Biggest Loser 2011 seems good?

Anyway we are about three episodes in to the new season I guess and there has been lots of interesting drama and Biggest Loser 2011 has been fun to watch for the first time in a while for me, maybe just my motivation but I am liking it.

Trainers on Biggest Loser 2011

Biggest Loser 2011 Trainers

This season we have our old standby Bob Harper but also we have two new trainers; Dolvett Quince and Anna Kournikova. We knew what to expect from Bob Harper and he has been tough and successful but he seems to be letting the new trainers get lots of attention as well.

Dolvett Quince – Dolvett has been a great trainer and a great character. He seems to be a great trainer and super tough, pushing all of his team really hard in the gym and not giving them a chance to slack off but listening to what their bodies are saying and not their whining or mental weakness.

Out of the gym Dolvett Quince has been really great with his team. Teaching nutrition, being excited for the future, being a friend and confidante and making sure that the team members understand that he is there for them. Can you tell that I am a big fan of Dolvett Quince?

Anna Kournikova – I never understood why Anna Kournikova would be a coach on Biggest Loser 2011 but now we get to see after a few episodes how she thinks, coaches, and brings to the Biggest Loser as a trainer.

Poor Anna Kournikova got saddled with the older people which through testosterone dropping in peoples bodies as they grow older makes her job really really tough. Not fair Biggest Loser producers! Anyway to be honest I don’t tink that in the gym Anna shows a lot of emotion, she does not take crap but her team has to follow her direction and she got a couple of whiny people right out of the gate. So far Anna’s team has lost two people but really I think her emotional attachment is her greatest strength and over time (she is not an experienced trainer) will be her increasing knowledge of training others and her background of success that she can communicate.

My Favorite Biggest Loser 2011 contestants

I am enjoying watching all the people of nthe Biggest Loser thins season. I tend to find that early in the season it is hard to follow everyone so I just watch passively and start cheering later in the season. Here are the people that I have really noticed so far.

Antone – Antone is a whiny bitch when he is working out. I love watching him push and push and cry and then take it up a notch. This guy is great and does not give up. With all hiw weight I expect that Antone will od well this season and I look forward to watching more of his backstory as well being a former pro athlete

Jennifer – Jennifer is just plain fun and gets really excited about the weigh ins which is pretty important. Being in the background on TV I think that she tends to see things from the outside so she will be able to play the mental game well later on. Fun to watch and she keeps losing which is great to see.

Mike – Mike lost big this week, 17 pounds I think and being a teacher and football coach he knows what it takes and I always see him working hard and not complaining, just quiet in the background on Annas team.

Ramon – When I first saw that a tattoo artist would be on I cringed. I have no tattoos but my wife has plenty and we watch those tattoo shows and they are cocky bastards. Ramon is not. What a lovable guy, fun, outgoing, and a great friend to everyone when they let him.

The only problems that I find with Biggest Loser 2011 are the same complaints I have had for years. Recaps after commericals (chubby people don’t have memory NBC?), obvious product placements, and especially the scripted way that each episode is setup, same as every year since the show began.

How about you? What are your highlights so far? I am thinking that this season Biggest Loser 2011 will be a good one although they still need to change things up with the staleness of the shows setup.

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How can you be Fit over 40

Last week I turned 40 and as part of the process of reaching another one of those ages with a 0 on the end I decided to take a look at what I should do differently with my health and exercise.

Yes, I know, age is just a number and it is more important to treat your body well, but there are health and fitness issues that will make a difference in exercise, for example we produce less testosterone naturally as we get older so it is more difficult to gain muscle.

As I was looking for information I ran across an eBook called Fit over 40. Fit over 40 is a very interesting eBook written by Jon Benson and Tom Venuto. The reason that this book is interesting is that it is not just a do this, do that, eat this, don’t eat that, type of book. Instead this book is big on motivation and shows you a better way to reach your goals. The way the book uses is through example.

Here are the three sections of Fit over 40

Fit over 40 Part one

Jon Benson describes his struggles and successes and how he was able to transform his body and health. And further Jon lays outs some great principles

• BodyWorks: Strength Strategy
• Inner Fuel: The Taste of Health
• I Can See The Valley: New Hills, New Horizons
• Begin and Believe
• Post-40 Training Tips

Fit over 40 Part two

This is the exciting meat of this book. Now that we have a basis for looking at how it looks and feels to be fit Jon Benson takes us through biographies of 52 people over 40 that have a great health and how they got that way, some were very sick and some were healthy but the important thing is all of these people are people that we can really relate to in one way or another. This way we do not have to look at pro athletes as an unreachable standard of how to get in great shape.

Fit over 40 Part three

This is where Tom Venuto of burn the fat feed the muscle fame kicks in. Tom Goes through the five pillars of Anti Aging:

• Pillar 1: Weight Strength Training
• Pillar 2: Aerobic Training
• Pillar 3: Learning To Be Flexible
• Pillar 4: Lifelong Nutrition
• Pillar 5: Recovery and Renewal

After going through this and helping us realize what a big part the mental game is in getting fit we now have a well rounded process for getting, keeping, and improving lifelong health.

Conclusion of Fit over 40 Review

Fit over 40, I believe is a great read and reference book for almost anyone over 40 years old. In comparing Fit over 40 to burn the fat feed the muscle, I find that this book is less in the actual workout regimen but is much better in role models. It is always easy in popular culture to find the freaks, the people over 90 that do triathlons, or the young kid that swims the English Channel. But what about the rest of us? How about the people to old to be pro athletes (although the book has a couple) but still young enough to be incredibly fit and healthy?

Any day that you are having motivation problems you can come back to this book on your computer and read about someone that is just like you and has overcome what you are struggling with.

I really recommend Fit over 40 to keep your motivation and for $39.00 it is a great value.

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Anybody that is trying to gain muscle needs to know how to increase testosterone. Testosterone is a hormone produced by the testes that helps you improve strength and muscle mass quickly as well as making you more aggressive and able to tackle tough situations and workouts. These factors are not always good but any weightlifter is looking forwrd to knowing how to increase testosterone.

How to Increase Testosterone

How to Increase Testosterone

ZMA Supplementation – ZMA is a great supplement you should use if you want to know how to increase testosterone, just don’t ask wikipedia about it (they don’t like ZMA) ZMA is actually short for Zinc monomethionine aspartate and Magnesium Aspartate, you can see why the term ZMA took off instead. Anyway there are two parts of this supplement Zinc and Magnesium are helpful for the muscle mass as well as helping oxygenationm of muscle tissue.

Lots of Sleep – Sleep is always critical for getting in good workouts and recoving from past workouts but the fact is that is you do not sleep enough then your testosterone level will drop over time so it is important to keep up your sleep habits

Sex – Well sex seems to be a great motivator for getting that muscle in the first place but since the testes are so critical to creating testosteron then it only stands to reason that sex (hopefully with a partner) will increase your bodies need for testosterone and it will start creating more of it.

NO Alcohol – Drinking is bad, we all may like to do it occasionally but one of the side effects of drinking is that alcohol will inhibit the bodies creation of testosterone (Micky Roarke character in Barfly should have looked for a different fuel) so try to reduce alcohol comnsumption as much as possible.

Be a Meat Eater – It is not the testosterone and other crap that is pumped into the cows that increases our testosterone but instead the meat itself. Some people including Tim Ferris of the 4 hour body swear by huge days of 24 ounces of steak but remember that for protein your body can only assimilate about 3 or 4 onces of protein per meal.

Heavy weights for low reps – In the gym you can do your part to increase your testosterone level by doing heavy weight for low reps so three sets of 5 high weight sets  instead of 2 sets of 25 of low weight sets. I like to mix it up but those low weight sets are not how to increase testosterone.

Big Exercises only – When you are in the gym it is best not to worry about cardio and isolated exercises instead do anything with a huge weight. Squats, Bench press, Deadlifts, and other multijoint exercises. This way you can be in and out of the gym in a short amount of time as well.

There are a few things that you can see from this list. I your are really looking at how to increase testosterone then it really has to come down to stressing your body beyond anything at all normal, and then allowing your body to rest and recuperate. The onld fight or flight mechanism with rest for your recovery pumps up that caveman feel for your body to get stronger and bigger.

There are many reasons and ways of how to increase testosterone any missing ones are up to you to add below.

I was reading Tom Venuto’s “Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle”. its a highly respected book among all bodybuilders and nutritionists. but here is what it says about fat and health matters that alcohol makes worse.
1. Alcohol has the second highest calorie density of all food types
2. Alcohol suppresses the body’s ability to burn body fat
3. Alcohol provides little or no nutritional value
4. Alcohol interferes with the absorption of nutrients
5. Alcohol is a poison
6. Alcohol dehydrates you
7. Alcohol has been associated with the development of numerous health problems,
and degenerative diseases including heart disease
8. Alcohol decreases natural testosterone production
i mean if these are the reasons why Islam has forbidden them to drink then God’s really smart.

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