Tools
- My Fitness Pal is the online calorie calculator I use; I logged everything I ate between January 1, 2013 and April 19, 2013; I also logged all my meals during our Ultimate Reset Experience between May 22, 2014 and June 13, 2014; see my public food diary here for ideas: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/JT1414
- I thought this Protein Calculator was pretty cool
Team Beachbody Newsletter Articles
- Why You Should Wear a Heart Rate Monitor
- 5 Reasons You Could Be Gaining Weight
- Will Drinking Alcohol Hurt My Results?
- 10 Reasons Why Women Need to Lift Weights
- Cardio vs Weights: Which is Better for Weight Loss?
- What’s the Best Time of Day to Exercise
- Can Stress Make You Fat? (cortisol article)
- Sugar Addiction Detox 101
- Confessions of a Junk Food Junkie: How to Kick the Habit
- How to Lose Those Last Few Pounds (10 tips, some of which you may not have thought of!)
- What Should I Eat Before My Workout?
- How Zig-Zag Dieting Can Help You Break Your Weight Loss Plateau
- 5 Tips To Avoid Muscle Soreness
- How to Fit It In: 5 Secrets To Scheduling Your Workout
- Should You Avoid Fruit Because of Its Sugar Content? (the short answer is NO, and here’s why)
- How Much Weight Should You Be Lifting? (compares the type of lifting you do in P90X3 vs T25 Gamma vs Body Beast)
- How Carbs Can Help You Get the Most out of Your Workout
- 10 Reasons to Date a Woman Who Works Out
- Do You Really Need a Recovery Week?
- Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?
- Women: Do you think lifting weights will make you “bulky”? Not these women! Meet the Women Who Body Beast
- 11 Basic Beginner Workout Tips to Help You Get Fit
- Can You Lose Weight Faster by Doing Double Workouts?
- Anaerobic vs. Aerobic Exercise: Which Burns Fat Faster?
- How to Get Results from Body Beast (NEW)
Other Web Articles
- Forget Cholesterol, Inflammation is the Real Enemy
- Here are 13 reasons whey protein powder could help you
- Funny Article Ranking the P90X Cast Members
- Tyler Robbins’ Video Reviews of all workouts in P90X, P90X2, Insanity, Asylum, 1 on 1, and Body Beast; if you want to preview the workouts before you buy, this is the place to stop first
- Great article in The Atlantic on the popularity of Insanity; my favorite line: “Finishing the program seems to inspire unique pride and satisfaction. You conquer Insanity. Can you ever really say that about StairMaster?”
- The hormone cortisol is definitely one of the least understood, but most crucial hormones to consider during a training program. Learn more in “Controlling Muscle Breakdown”
- VIDEO: Health, Fitness and Happiness & Rules to Give You All 3: Tony Horton. Short 10 minute video covering basic rules to live a long, healthy life
- Who knew Yoga could Fight Diabetes?
- A well-written research paper entitled The Futility of Aerobic Exercise for Weight Loss that concludes fitness programs such as the ones Beachbody offers trump classic aerobic exercise for fitness. “If you are serious about weight loss and health, you should seriously rethink your exercise program and replace an aerobic regime, which yields small benefits, to a resistance or interval workout.”
- Why you sometimes gain weight back quickly when you start a low-carb diet
- Did you know Tania from Insanity and T25 is Chief Operating Officer of Shaun T Fitness? Here’s what she thinks of Focus T25
- WOW! Our very first link back from another website! Top 10 Savory Seafood Salad Recipes
- Men’s Fitness magazine review of Focus T25
- The movie “Fed Up” opened in theaters 5/9/14 and sounds like it covers the same message from the book Salt Sugar Fat that I mention below. If you are just starting to learn how important nutrition is watch this movie. Key message: Not all calories are created equally. Good New York Times review.
- Nice shout out from my friend B. Dave Walters on his blog post “How to finally change your life” about the difference between “goals” and “New Year’s Resolutions”
- I found this new website www.sugarscience.org that is dedicated to educating people on how bad sugar is. I really enjoyed reading the article Too Much Can Make Us Sick that indicates sugar is a culprit in Metabolic Syndrome, Cancer, Alzheimer’s, and premature aging.
- The Mathematics of Weight Loss is a TED talk that answers the same question–when you lose weight, where does it go?
- The Best Damn Cardio Article–Period. This is probably one of the best articles I’ve come across that explains why resistance training is more useful for fat loss than low intensity cardio like running.
- The Female Guide to Getting Lean is a great article that also reinforces that resistance training and proper nutrition are the path to getting lean, not steady state cardio.
- Changing Neural Pathways to Make a [Golf] Swing Change is a great write-up on why you can’t go to the driving range once a week and expect to ingrain swing changes. Think you will never forget how to ride a bike? Then the video clip on this page will blow your mind!
- Why Under-eating Won’t Help You Lose Weight
- 2 Big Reasons Why Cheat Meals Are Worse Than Darth Vader talks about the psychology of calling them “cheat” meals as opposed to “treat” meals
- 5 Ways to Burn More Calories During Your Strength Session
- 3 Ways Your Breakfast Is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss
- If You Want to Lose Weight, You Have to Start Eating–Another great article on why you need to eat more to lose more:
- 4 Reasons a Cardio Addiction Won’t Help You Lose Weight
- Why Undereating Won’t Actually Help You Lose Weight
- Does Sleep Deprivation Really Impact Weight Loss?
- The Workout You Need To Do if You’re Trying To Lose Weight is another well-written piece on why you need resistance training mixed with cardio for the most effective weight loss (like my Hybrid schedules!)
- The Sleep-Weight Connection provides technical rationale why people who don’t get enough sleep tend to gain weight
- High Reps or Low Reps For Fat Loss?
- Can Alcohol Affect Sports Performance and Fitness Levels? What do you think–here’s why.
- Does the Fat Burning Zone Really Burn Fat Faster? The so-called “fat-burning zone” is a myth, and here’s why
- What Happens in the First 10 Minutes of Exercise?
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Great article on “How Building Muscle Boosts Fat Loss”. It covers why you should always have a component of resistance training in progress. The “Escalating Density Training” technique they describe is what P90X3 The Challenge is all about, and the “Peripheral Heart Action” training is exactly what a workout like Total Body Hammer in Hammer & Chisel is all about.
- Golfer? Then you will enjoy How To Workout During Golf Season.
- As if we needed another reason to lift weights: Lift Weights to Save Your Sick Days
- Are You “Skinny Fat”? Believe it or not there is a technical name for this fitness condition.
- Protein Supplementation is a great primer on the different forms of protein, and why you should consider supplementing with protein powder. This article also does a great job of explaining why animal proteins are more efficient for us, and why vegans have to eat more calories to receive an equivalent amount of protein.
- This trainer article mentions how tight pecs, tight lats, and thoracic spine mobility may contribute to lower back pain, and what to do to address it: Optimizing Thoracic Spine Mobility
- Another great article on why you sometimes need to eat more food to lose more weight: Eat More to Lose Weight
- The holy grail is to gain muscle while not gaining fat. This article explains exactly How to gain Muscle Without Gaining Fat.
- A nice brief look at whether you should do cardio or resistance training first–it depends on your goals: Cardio or Weights First? How to Best Structure Your Workout Routine (NEW)
Coaching and Network Marketing
- The Brutal Truth About Those Pyramid Schemes is an excellent article on what we as Team Beachbody Coaches and small business owners are trying to do. My favorite line: “…when you’re buying from a chain store, you’re helping contribute to the retirement of the millionaire or billionaire CEO. When you’re buying from a small business owner, you’re helping pay for that family’s groceries, you’re paying toward the electric bill … and you’re likewise contributing to someone’s ability to have more time with their children, their significant other or parents who may have fallen ill.”
- Think you’re an introvert? Look around you, so is everyone else! This Strategy for Introverts video from Darren Hardy describes me perfectly and is something I try to do.
Books
- The Compound Effect is a great book about how small positive decisions you make early on result in huge positive impacts later
- Salt Sugar Fat (How the Food Giants Hooked Us) is all about how the processed food industry manipulates us into eating unhealthy foods–sounds like the tobacco industry?
- Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD implicates wheat (and all it’s processed forms) in everything from weight gain, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, skin conditions, inflammation, arthritis, and dementia.
- Grain Brain by Dr. William Perlmutter goes into deeper details on how your digestive system is linked to your brain, and how consuming carbs leads to all sorts of brain disorders (dementia, Alzheimer’s, and more).
- Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson covers not only how to get better sleep, but why your body needs an adequate amount of sleep for weight management, weight loss, and overall good health.
- Earthing by Clint Ober is a fascinating book that suggests more direct skin contact with the Earth will alleviate all sorts of health issues due to inflammation/oxidation.
