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<title>No Cardio! Interval Training for Fat Burning</title>
<description>You don't necessarily have to perform any type of cardiovascular exercise to lose body fat, which maybe a surprise to some people.

I know natural body builders that have gone on stage and finished in the top three at contests that don't do regular card...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_588298_23.html</link>
<pubDate>24th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>5 Secrets to Burning Stubborn Female Body Fat</title>
<description>If you are sick of not losing stubborn female body fat but you are doing endless hours of cardio, "classes", and light weight exercises, then you must discover these 5 secrets to burn stubborn female belly fat.

Some of my favorite clients have been bur...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_573650_23.html</link>
<pubDate>10th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Warning: 10 Tips for Safe Workouts</title>
<description>When I was a kid, I used to weight train 6 days per week and play soccer 7 days per week...sometimes with two games in one night!

But that isn't a recommended schedule for anyone...not even for a 17-year old boy. If I only knew then what I know now.
...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_559307_23.html</link>
<pubDate>20th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Cardio Compared to Intervals for Fat Loss</title>
<description>The truth about cardio for fat loss is that it WILL work for some people.

However, most of those people are generally younger men, you know those guys who are in university or just out of and, therefore, also have lots of time to train, so that's what ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_555912_23.html</link>
<pubDate>13th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Secret Goal Setting Method for Fat Loss</title>
<description>Reverse Goal Setting for Fast Fat Loss

Any day is a great day for setting goals or making a healthy lifestyle change, but there is something special about New Year's Day that brings out the most sincere fast fat loss efforts in everyone.

So whether ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_553308_23.html</link>
<pubDate>09th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What Are Fat Burning Interval Training Workouts?</title>
<description>What the heck are fat burning interval training workouts? And why aren't more people doing them?

The other day I saw a pack of joggers shuffling along the streets of Toronto, and I wanted to go over there and yell at the top of my lungs, "If you want t...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_549797_23.html</link>
<pubDate>02nd June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Quick Nutrition Tip for You</title>
<description>Quick Fat Loss Nutrition Tip for You

Who else is busting their butt in the gym and not getting the fat loss results they deserve?

Almost everyone, I know, I know.

Listen, you have to fix your nutrition. No more foods from a bag or a box. Switch o...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_547372_23.html</link>
<pubDate>26th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5 Fat Burning Exercises</title>
<description>If you are going to the gym and spending too much time while not getting the results you deserve, then you probably aren't using the right exercises.

Over my 16 years of training and training men and women for fat loss, I've stumbled across the "Big 5"...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_544493_23.html</link>
<pubDate>21st May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Fat Loss Exercises for Obese Men and Women</title>
<description>Fat Loss Workouts for Obese Men &amp; Women do not have to be long slow cardio workouts.

Fat loss for obese people can follow the same strength training and interval training workout guidelines that fat loss for advanced people will follow, but we just nee...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_534481_23.html</link>
<pubDate>11th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Why You Need Politically Incorrect Workouts to Lose Weight</title>
<description>You know who is your worst enemy in the fight against fat?

Well-meaning, politically correct, fitness professionals that don't want to make you feel bad for being lazy and eating crap. That's who.

They write articles about how "diets are bad", how y...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_533572_23.html</link>
<pubDate>08th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How I Stumbled Across the Best Fat Burning Workout Ever</title>
<description>I've been meaning to write this email for a long time. Today I'm going to give you the story of how I solved the problem of getting an efficient and effective fat loss program finished in 45 minutes.

Essentially, how I stumbled across the best fat burn...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_531489_23.html</link>
<pubDate>08th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Fat Burning Bodyweight Workouts</title>
<description>The body weight challenge exercises are something I came up back in the late summer 2007.

It's similar to the 300 Workout which was featured in Men's Health magazine. Now I didn't invent the 300 Workout, all I did was film the video, but it was a lot o...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_530571_23.html</link>
<pubDate>07th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Truth About Fat Loss</title>
<description>I went to go meet Bill Phillips - the creator of the Body for Life Transformation Challenge...

And I came back with a set of 100 guidelines for my business and your fat loss program.

Here's the story...

Last November, I traveled to Mesa, Arizona,...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_529039_23.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>300 Workout Versus the Bodyweight 500 For Fat Loss</title>
<description>The 300 workout from Men's Health magazine was the most popular workout of 2007. It combined fat burning bodyweight exercises with muscle building weight training exercises to help men (and women) build Greek God (and Goddess) bodies.

So what is going ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_527328_23.html</link>
<pubDate>01st May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Best Ab Exercises for Building 6-Pack Abs</title>
<description>Men's Health expert fitness trainer Craig Ballantyne believes that men and women can lose their belly fat and get flat lower abs with fast fat loss workouts.

He even believes you can "spot reduce" and lose your tummy fat with a specific type of exercis...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_525515_23.html</link>
<pubDate>29th April 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Male Vs Female Fat Loss - Who Has It Easier?</title>
<description>Men Vs. Women - The Top 5 Reasons Why It's Hard for Women &amp; Men to Burn Body Fat

Men and women both have a hard time losing body fat, but for different reasons.

Men's Health expert Craig Ballantyne identifies the top 5 reasons why it's hard for men ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_524618_23.html</link>
<pubDate>28th April 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What If You Gained 10 Pounds This Weekend?</title>
<description>I always marvel at the reports I get from men and women who claim to have gained 10 pounds over a weekend. In truth, this is next to impossible.

It doesn't matter how much you try to pig out, you just couldn't gain 10 pounds of fat in a weekend. Not ev...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_500438_23.html</link>
<pubDate>28th March 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Cardio Increases Appetite</title>
<description>Does aerobic training burn fat? It should, but why are so many people still overweight, no matter how much long slow exercise they do?

Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work so perfectly well for all men and women, but as an...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_497318_23.html</link>
<pubDate>27th March 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Fat Burning Zone And Spot Reduction Exercises</title>
<description>Stop! Get off the elliptical machine. Learn about a better way to burn fat.

There is nothing magical about the so-called "fat burning zone".

By definition, the fat burning zone is the exercise intensity where your body burns the highest proportion o...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_490518_23.html</link>
<pubDate>14th March 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Bodyweight 500 Fat Burning Exercises</title>
<description>If you want to do the Men's health belly off program, here is the ultimate challenge from the 8 week program.

For example, when it calls for 50 pushups, you could do 25 pushups, rest, then another 15 pushups, rest, and then finish with 10 more pushups....</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_477425_23.html</link>
<pubDate>20th February 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Bodysculpting Workouts for Getting Ripped</title>
<description>Bodybuilders use high repetitition sets to get ripped, but could get more results in less time by doing less work.

High repetition sets do not get you cut.

This is a myth, and there's a much better way to sculpt your body, get ripped, and finally ac...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_470564_23.html</link>
<pubDate>07th February 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Fat Burning Golf Workouts</title>
<description>Fat, weak, and stiff is no way to play golf. You need to burn fat, get strong, and improve your mobility with bodyweight exercises to lower your score.

Not only does Tiger look like he gained even more muscle in the off-season, it looks like he has Mar...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_467936_23.html</link>
<pubDate>04th February 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Airplane &amp; Hotel Fat Loss</title>
<description>If you travel a lot, you risk getting fat.

In addition, I also learned - the hard way - about how difficult it is to eat on the road, and when stuck in airports for hours and hours at a time (as I was in Washington one night for 7 extra hours).

The ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_466442_23.html</link>
<pubDate>02nd February 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Best Fat Loss Diet</title>
<description>Its so easy to screw up your weight loss plan with a bad diet.

I know, there are too many diets, but I believe some of them work. Why can't the experts agree on just one nutrition program?"

Well, first, let me say that I believe diets DO work, and t...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_464101_23.html</link>
<pubDate>30th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Jedi Weight Loss Tips</title>
<description>If you are struggling with weight loss, then use these motivational secrets form fitness expert Dax Moy to help you stick to your goals and change your body permanently. You'll lose all the weight you've ever wanted and have the body of your dreams if you...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_463082_23.html</link>
<pubDate>28th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>7 Ways to Get Motivated For Your Workout</title>
<description>There will be days (everyday?) when you don't feel like doing your workout.

Sometimes you don't want to get out of bed.  Sometimes you don't want to leave your office because you feel like there are too many deadlines (but this is when you need a worko...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_461248_23.html</link>
<pubDate>24th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Best Cardio Machines for Interval Training</title>
<description>If you haven't heard of interval training, then you are about to learn of the best way to burn body fat fast. Interval training is better than cardio (research-proven!) for fat loss. It does the job faster, and the workouts are shorter.

So first, let m...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_459830_23.html</link>
<pubDate>24th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Interval training burns belly fat</title>
<description>Cardio is boring, takes too long, doesn't work very well, and can lead to overuse injuries (just ask all the overweight joggers at the doctor's office having their sore knees looked after).

Long, slow to moderate intensity cardio training, which is wha...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_459068_23.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Trainer Reveals Exercises that Don't Work</title>
<description>My parents have lived in the same house in the same small town for longer than I have been alive. And I leave the big city of Toronto to go visit them quite often, and as a result, I go to a small town YMCA to do my workouts when I'm there.

Some workou...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_458875_23.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How to Burn Fat with Diet &amp; Exercise</title>
<description>Forget everything you know about cardio and starving yourself thin. Here's the real deal on how to burn fat.

So here are three of the most important things you need to be doing to get your fat burning workout program started properly.

1) Use &lt;A href...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_457033_23.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Fat Burning Circuit Workout</title>
<description>The Bodyweight 100 challenge was featured in Men's Health magazine in January 2008. This workout is the initial stage in a much longer and more challenging program called the Bodyweight 500. But that's getting ahead of ourselves.

Now time to get starte...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_255274_23.html</link>
<pubDate>21st January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Lose Your Gut &amp; Get Ripped Abs</title>
<description>Crunches are a joke, a complete waste of time if you want abs.

Goodbye situps, hello intervals.

There's no such thing as spot reducing exercises, but according to Australian research, interval training can actually help spot reduce belly fat more th...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_253053_23.html</link>
<pubDate>19th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Burn those inches without cardio!</title>
<description>Men have everything, including the best fat loss workouts, right? Wrong.

And the answer will shock you.

I train a lot of men and women who do the same workouts - and here's the shocker: Most of the time, the women get the best results by using inter...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_251673_23.html</link>
<pubDate>18th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Why Weight Loss Programs Fail</title>
<description>Trying to lose weight all on your own will never work.

It's that simple.

So here's what "social support" means, and how to get it.

Without friends, its hard to do anything.  Not only fitness goals, but really any goals in life.  For example, to a...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_251236_23.html</link>
<pubDate>18th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Workout Exercises for Your Butt</title>
<description>Nice legs are important to both sexes.

My first reaction was, "Huh? Girls care about guy's butts? And here I've been wasting my time on my arms and pecs". So after getting over that shock, my next thought was, "Hmm, so what am I doing right? And how ca...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_249287_23.html</link>
<pubDate>14th January 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Take the Bodyweight 500 Challenge</title>
<description>The actors in the 300 movie looked like the Greek Warriors they were payed to portray, and they can thank a hard workout regimen for that.But for most people, this workout was difficult to do because it includes a lot of equipment typically no...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_246226_23.html</link>
<pubDate>14th November 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Fat Loss Lies</title>
<description>More cardio myths. Want to hear the latest? Researchers suggest taking a 5 minute break between 20-minute cardio workouts. What a waste of time!Find out why I don't think much of this study, or the conclusions drawn by the researchers. Needles...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_244402_23.html</link>
<pubDate>10th November 2007</pubDate>
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<title>The 29 Home-Exercises You Can Do To Lose Stomach Fat</title>
<description>You don't need fancy machines or expensive gym memberships to build the body of your dreams. In fact, you can burn belly fat and sculpt your muscles at home in your own home gym with dozens of bodyweight exercises.If you have dumbells, you can...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_239724_23.html</link>
<pubDate>06th November 2007</pubDate>
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<title>3 Ways to Lose Stomach Fat</title>
<description>The best way to burn belly fat is a shock to most men and women. Even most personal trainers usually guess, "Crunches", "Situps", or "aerobic cardio" as the best way to lose stomach fat. But none of those work best, or even work at all!In fact...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_238250_23.html</link>
<pubDate>06th November 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Secret Cardio Method Burns Belly Fat</title>
<description>Slow, boring aerobic cardio exercise has a dark side. Not only does it lead to overuse injuries, but it might even be ineffective. Research from Down Under shows a new, secret type of cardio works better.Both researchers and subjects were stun...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_236077_23.html</link>
<pubDate>05th November 2007</pubDate>
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