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The 3 Keys of Exercise and How to Lose 200 Pounds

January 7, 2008 By Brad Pilon

Once a year, NCAA football comes to Canada, and this year, I was there.

 

My wife and I met some friends in Toronto Ontario to watch Rutgers take on Ball State in the International Bowl. We had a great time watching Ray Rice run for 280 yards and 4 touchdowns.

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While not everyone thinks attending a football game is an amazing event, I think everyone will agree that losing 200pounds with Eat Stop Eat definitely classifies as amazing.

 

3 of the people we were sitting with had been following EatStop Eat since the summer, and these three guys had combined for over 200 pounds worth of weight loss. I barely recognized two of them the change was so dramatic!

 

When it comes to diets I think that Eat Stop Eat could very well be the easiest path to weight loss. Not the only path, but the easiest and the most flexible.

 

You can think of diets the same as we do exercise; to make it work you have to adapt it so that it fits into your life. If youdon’t then you are setting yourself up for failure.

 

With exercise there are three ‘master components’ to your workouts and the adaptations they cause your body to undergo.

 

These components are – Frequency, Volume, and Stress
You need to hit a minimum amount of all three to get an effect, and this minimum continually increases as your bodyadapts to the workouts. In other words, the bigger and stronger your muscles get, the harder and harder you have towork to make them continue to get stronger.
Thus, the absolute best scenario would be for all three components to be at their maximum. Maximum stress,maximum volume and maximum frequency (and maximum recovery in between workouts).

 

Multiple training sessions per day (frequency) at a maximalweight (stress), with as much sets and reps as possible while maintaining above the minimum stress level (volume).

 

You have real responsibilities in life, so this just isn’t possible. So you do that best you can with these 3 factors ina method that fits your lifestyle. Whether it’s 3 times perweek, 4 times per week, 2 times per day twice a week, you should do what fits into your life style.

 

The same principle applies to your diet. Ideally you would control every single days worth of nutrition. In fact, ideally you would control every single hour. You would measure exactly how much food you take in (volume) how often youeat (frequency) and what you are eating (stress). But again,this just isn’t possible for 99.9% of the population. (elite athletes are an exception)

 

This is why Eat Stop Eat works so well for weight loss. It is aflexible adaptation to the rules of dieting that actually worksin real life scenarios.

 

Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to find a wayto fit exercise and nutrition into your lifestyle.

 

BP

 

 

PS- For a really good critique of Eat Stop Eat you can readRichard Nikoley’s review by going HERE.

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