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I admit, I never was an Einstein when it came to Math. The only time I enjoy counting numbers is in the gym or at the bank.
So when it comes to keeping my bodyfat around 10% year round I am not a guy to count calories or have a cardio crush on the treadmill display (which studies show are inaccurate anyway).
Despite what you may have heard in the gym, muscle does not WEIGH more than fat. A pound is a pound despite what’s being weighed. But muscle is more DENSE, meaning 5lbs of muscle takes up less space than 5lbs of fat (and makes you look a hell of a lot better!) Plus muscle is metabolically active unlike fat which just hangs around for the ride and makes chinups that much harder.
But on page 46 in the September issue of Men’s Health, I noticed a chart showing the estimated calories burned not by hitting the gym but by doing “manly” around the house activities. Remember, muscles are made for movements not mirrors.
Average number of calories an 180lb man burns in an hour of…
(I currently weigh 175lbs, close enough)
Chopping and splitting wood, 491
Cleaning gutters, 409
Mowing grass (pushing by hand), 491
Painting outside, 409
Planting trees, 368
Raking, 352
Trimming trees, 286
Carpentry, 245
Papering or Plastering, 245
Sanding, 368
Wiring and Plumbing, 245
General cleaning, 245
So after a busy and productive morning off yesterday where I “prepared” dinner before breakfast (by throwing a roast in the crockpot), headed to the gym for a quick Dad Fitness workout, mowed and raked the front and back lawn,then cleaned up around the house all before lunch, it made me break out the calculator.
Calorie Countdown Calculator
Dad Fitness Workout (45 mins)- 362 calories
Mowing Grass (30 mins) – 245 calories
Raking Grass (30 mins) – 176 calories
House Cleanup (30 mins) – 122 calories
The total caloric burn from just these 4 activities alone comes to 905 calories!
Provided you eat REAL food that was made by Mother Nature and not Man, like is found in the Dad Fitness Meal Plans, you can eat great tasting food and not have to worry about dieting and counting calories.
So the next time your wife gives you the dreaded “to-do” list think about all the extra calories you are going to burn by mowing the lawn or painting the deck.
Thankfully, from now on, counting calories will be one chore that you won’t have to think about…
I CRINGE every time I see some clown stroll into the gym cold off the street and start loading up the bar without completing a proper warmup.
Coincidentally it seems the same people who neglect this important part of their workout are the same people complaining about shoulder pain or back pain and wrap themselves up like a mummy before their workout with wrist wraps, elbow wraps, knee wraps and the infamous weight lifting belt for EVERY exercise so they can manage to get through their workout.
Even though I don’t recommend the “old school” warmups of walking on a treadmill for 5 minutes and then static stretching before your workout, (which I will explain in a future post) it is still a lot better than doing nothing at all!
What I do recommend is a Dynamic Warm-Up before you workout, so here is my current warmup I do before EVERY Dad Fitness workout to enhance muscular activation and increase joint mobility.
Give this one a try or let me know what you do for your workout warmup by leaving a comment below…
I hope you and your family are staying well during this swine flu craziness.
We have been having some late nights with our little daughter Matea as she has come down with a runny nose and a tough cough which is keeping her up at night.
There is nothing worse than seeing your child sick and there is not much you can do but keep them comfortable…
If you are getting too comfortable with your workout routine, remember that there are ONLY 8 weeks left in this year!
With the Dad Fitness System, 8 weeks is plenty of time to get in shape for the holidays.
The key is to try to get better EVERY day with your workouts and your healthy eating.
Here are 5 Tips For Faster Fat Loss.
1. Break Records
Push for progress and not perfection and challenge yourself by pushing for one extra rep or a couple more pounds every week in your workouts. Use the smallest plates you have available, (usually 2.5lbs) to keep stimulating fat burning muscle.
2. Fun Food
Experiment with a different fruit or vegetable each week by eating the colors of the rainbow. Get your family together and try different recipes, some you will love, and maybe some you won’t. Keep food fun by trying new recipes with foods you haven’t tried before because no one gets fat by eating more fruit and veggies.
3. Faster Not Further
Increase the INTENSITY in your fat burning cardio intervals… not the duration. Don’t just record you weight workouts. Record your cardio intensity and try to beat it each week. If you sprinted at level 7 this week shoot for 7.1 next week.
4. Fail Proof Your Fridge
Make healthy eating “Fail Proof” by picking up only the groceries you need each week. If you have no junk in your house, chances are you won’t be eating junk. Then before you put your food away, chop up your veggies and place them into containers or ziplock bags to make meal preparation super quick and easy.
5. Step Away From the Scale
Don’t get obsessed with numbers by weighing or measuring yourself everyday. I recommend to step on the scale once a week first thing in the morning because it is normal for your bodyweight to fluctuate up to 5lbs during the day due to fluid and food intake.
These 5 tips might seem like little things, but they make a BIG difference!
Stay focused and cross off each day on your calendar and ask yourself before you go to bed each night.
“Did I do everything I needed to do today to get closer to my fitness goals?”
Let’s, hope you have a lot of yes’s!
Got any fat loss tips of your own? Feel free to post a comment below!
That’s why I am in the kitchen right now whipping up one of my famous Dad Fitness Pizzas for dinner this evening while my wife just took our baby daughter for a walk.
They wanted to put the famous saying: “You Can’t Out-Train A Bad Diet” to the ultimate test.
The video hammers home an invaluable nutrition lesson…
So one fitness expert jumps on the treadmill and cranks it up to the absolute maximum speed with a slight incline (without falling off) and starts sprinting.
While he’s busting his butt at 11.0 MPH, killing himself to lose fat, the other fitness expert is standing beside him consuming a box of pizza.
After about 3 minutes, the guy eating has consumed 800 calories (half a pizza) and the guy sprinting has burned 42 calories!
LOL!
Here is the video.
Moral of the story – you CAN NOT out train a bad diet.
Here’s What You Can Do….Stop following a diet period.
Try these cool new MEAL PLANS instead.
Compare any other diet book or diet method to simply following a designed-for-you meal plan that eliminates 100% of the guess work and you will come out on top 100% of the time – GUARANTEED.
How do I know this?
Because the best meal plan is based on BALANCE and VARIETY which is exactly catered to your physiological make up. You can’t get more personalized than that!
And the best part is, all you do is plug in a few basic measurements to determine which plan to follow and you begin your VERY NEXT MEAL today.
It’s critical that you put your meal plan into action TODAY – not tomorrow, not next week or next month.
I love these plans because they are SO EASY to implement your very next meal and continue until you have developed the habits necessary to see results so that you stay motivated and finally perfect your body and health.
There are no rules to follow, complex formulas, expensive supplements, ridiculous macronutrient ratios that you need to concern yourself with.
Everything is already DONE-FOR-YOU and designed-for-you.
Grab your PROVEN meal plans here:
I promise these will give you everything you need to eat right so you can implement them immediately.
with your family.
P.S. Eliminate all the nutrition nonsense and stop thinking you need a special diet which is a complete LIE, massive nutrition conspiracy and scam.
You need to start with a simple nutritional template that is CONSTANT and COMPLETE with the CORRECT foundational nutritional principles.
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Forrest Gump movies It seems almost on a daily basis I continue to hear from busy dads who are trying to slim down and get in shape but are only doing long boring cardio like walking on a treadmill or even knee numbing long distance running to burn fat.
Without getting to technical, EPOC represents the process your body goes through in which energy is used to recover from exercise.
When you finish exercising, it takes time and energy for your muscle cells to return to resting levels.
Energy is also needed to replenish depleted glucose, protein and fat stores, and to remove accumulated cell waste.
The more rebuilding that needs to be done, the greater the rate of EPOC, which in turn, means more calories from your body’s fat stores are being burned after your workout.
While the primary factor in determining EPOC is exercise intensity, there is also duration to consider — just not to the same extent.
Just visualize spinning one of those Tops you used to have as a kid, as your metabolism. You want to spin it really hard so it will continue to spin on its own when you let go of it.
Studies show your metabolism remains elevated to such a level up to 48 hours after high intensity exercise like weight training.
When intense weight training exercises using your entire body are combined with intervals in the same workout, like are found in the Dad Fitness Workouts, the positive effects it will have on reshaping your body is astonishing!
Still don’t believe me? Here are 18 more reasons to weight train…
18. Weight training elevates your mood.
…and if you want a quick and easy recipe for my Mmmmmm Meatloaf, watch my latest cooking video.
Sean Barker, CPT
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