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Slow Burn Fitness (Craze?)

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hh-100816-slow-burn-workout-ssThe secret exercise craze that is NOT sweeping the nation. The Slow Burn Fitness “Revolution”?

Let’s be honest ok? Most people start an exercise program and quit after about a week… Because…

  1. They don’t like to be sore
  2. They hurt themselves
  3. They didn’t get instant results
  4. They don’t like comparing themselves to all the buff dudes and dudettes at the dreaded “GYM”
  5. They just have other stuff they would rather be doing… like watching TV from the safety of their “Laz-ee Boy Recliner”.
  6. They think they don’t have time to a. spend an hour on a treadmill every day, or b. then get cleaned up from all the sweatyness that said treadmill activity generated.

And all of those reasons are EXACTLY why I got into this crazy “new” workout called “Slow Burn Fitness”.

Here’s a fresh, informative new video I made for you last night upon my arrival in Southern California.

Boom!

 

Here’s Your song for the day:

By the way, have you ever seend the physique of a rock climber? Pretty buff right? Well think about this do rock climbers climb fast or slow? Slow right? The fast ones usually die. So on a certain level we are evolutionarily designed to climb and it’s done slowly out of sheer necessity. And is it any wonder that our bodies respond super well to that as a fitness, muscle building, strength, endurance and health “trigger”?

Tah Dah Bing! I’m outa here.

– Mark

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Hypnosis For Weight Loss & Fitness

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Hey! Just For FUN,

Let’s Bust An Old

Weight Loss Hypnosis Myth Today!

[be sure to scroll down for the fabulous video I made for you as well as a very cool weight loss hypnosis SONG]

A lot of people seem to think that if they go to a hypnotist for weight loss (fat loss really), then they won’t have to exercise or change their eating habits… the pounds will somehow, suddenly, just magically melt off…

Somehow after spending an hour with “The Wizard of Oz” they will just magically start to crave only foods that are healthy and slimming and will somehow want to go to the gym every day.

And if that mythical experience doesn’t happen, then they feel justified in blaming the hypnotherapist for their failure to reach their goals.

The reality is that hypnosis is a good way to retrain yourself to stop eating crap, and to actually get yourself to get up off of the couch and move your body but first you have to stop hypnotizing yourself to be the way you’ve always been.

The bottom line is that YOU are the actual hypnotist. The professional trained in hypnosis who you pay money to is actually coaching (or “coaxing” ) you into changing your thoughts. Changing your thoughts changes your behaviors. Changing your behaviors is what actually gets you the results you desire.

Hypnosis is a tool to communicate with your unconscious mind so that your unconscious mind actually starts giving you more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. You are the one doing the actual communicating.

On this journey we encounter a few challenges that really boil down to rejecting the Mass Hypnosis of our dominant cultural patterns.

One challenge is that your unconscious mind is really the “soft animal of your body”. And all us animals are pre-programmed to save energy. Unfortunately resting whenever possible to save energy evolved as our “default” program. And in today’s world of “labor saving devices”, and constant sitting at work, in cars, on the couch etc, we all move our bodies a lot less than in a traditional hunter/gatherer society where we evolved.

Instead of walking 5 miles to get something to eat (or 10 if necessary), we walk 5 steps to the refrigerator or the kitchen cabinet.

Another challenge is that any TV you watch, even if it’s only in the waiting room of your car dealer’s service department, is filled with hypnotic food and beverage ads. And THAT hypnosis is constantly bombarding your little unconscious mind over and over with vibrant, riveting images and stories that promise PLEASURE from food… RELIEF from stress… HAPPINESS with each lip smacking mouthful…

One of the reasons I dislike going to the gym is that they have the televisions blaring all the time… banks and banks of hypnotic media preaching exactly the opposite of what I want to feed my mind while I’m working my body.

The most important message I can convey to you is that YOU are the world’s most powerful hypnotist. Your best approach to cancelling old eating and exercise habits is to learn how to take charge of your own mind.

Careful! There ARE side effects! You might start seeing through all the dominant cultural baloney that “everybody just accepts”. :o)

I’d like to suggest if I may that it might be time for you to Stop allowing random Television strangers (ad agencies and food manufacturers) hypnotize you.

It just might be time for YOU to take charge of your change. I’m not suggesting you Master Your Mind For A Change right this instant. But you certainly might want to consider starting soon… Like today. or Tomorrow… or perhaps this coming Tuesday… You don’t have to change now unless you truly want to with all your heart!

Here’s a short video I made the other night after I worked out… for 5 minutes. Yep. You heard that right. My workouts are about 5 minutes long. The video is even shorter. You could even stretch while you watch it.
(below the video is a song that is actually a weight loss hypnosis session. Yeah really!)

I’m gearing up for my next 90 day challenge and one of the areas I’m personally working on with my body is to lower my body fat percentage. I would like to see my abs. However going form 18% body fat down to the 9% or so that would showcase my “washboard” is a bit of a leap, even for me. So the goal I’m going to set will probably be to move my body fat down to a significant 15%. That’s a bit of a stretch but it still seems “doable”.

So along with my other goals in other areas of my life, this is one I will start using self hypnosis to make into my new reality. What I’m looking for is long term, sustainable health, not some crash diet or crazy workout that might cause me to hurt myself.

If you’d like to go deeper with me in this area of your life, check out my course, “It’s Not Just About The Food!” my online fat loss course. and join us for the 90 day Transformation Tuesday Challenge

Transformation Tune: This is actually a “wide awake” hypnosis session. Play this song over and over and over… As you let it get stuck in your head remember that you are controlling your own unconscious thought patterns in a good way… enjoy.

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The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

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Best Exercise For Flat Abs

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29640402_mHey! Skip the damn gym with it’s banks of TV’s and weird smells.

Today I take you through one of the best exercises for your abs that you can possibly do right in the comfort of your own back yard.

Plus! You’ll get outside, get something accomplished, see your progress and have a beautifully High Intensity Interval training experience.

Here’s the video:

Here’s the theory behind HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)

Do an intense “push” for 30-45 seconds with a “rest” interval of 90 seconds or so. Maximum number of sets should be about 8 (or 20-30minutes 3 X a week).

You can do H.I.I.T. on an elliptical machine, on a bike, running sprints, walking or running up and down medium hills, jumping on a trampoline etc.

Forget long, boring cardio. This is by far one of the most effective exercise concepts (other than doing everything really, really S.L.O.W.L.Y.)

You get more results, faster, better, with a continued spike in metabolism increase that continues to burn fat long after the exercise is over…

But none of those GET SOMETHING USEFUL DONE quite like raking which just naturally creates the High Intensity Intervals for optimal training!  Plus the neighbors get to see you being all like “working in the yard” which they like.

Just saying’ :o)

Give it a thorough test today!

Cowabungah baby.

If you’d like to go deeper, receive more coaching support and discover radically sustainable weight loss and fitness ideas with a ton of powerful self hypnosis tools and techniques for weight loss and fitness, health and wellness, check out my course:

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Weight Loss Warrior

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woman-kicking-junk-foodWonder why I’ve been banging the drum all week
about the “peaceful, spiritual, warrior” archetype?

Not only is it a cool, helpful, romantic, nostalgic, archetype.

It freaking WORKS!

For EVERYTHING.

In today’s Mind Mastery Daily, I tie it all in to a MASSIVE project I’ve been working on for exactly a year this weekend:

It’s Not Just About The Food Online Weight Loss Revolution!

This fresh video I just made for you is full of actual, helpful, honest, CONTENT. It’s a little bit more of an investment than some of my videos. But if you open your mind to the “conversational hypnosis” that is going on throughout it, you might surprise yourself by what happens next in the adventure arena of your life…

Watch it!

Your assignment?

Check out my “It’s Not Just About The Food” course and see if it might provide you with the inspiration, motivation and SUPPORT that might empower you to finally take charge of your change in the food, exercise and mind mastery departments…

It’s not for everybody. But TODAY is literally the 1 year anniversary of my own personal commitment to get fit and healthy SUSTAINABLY. No matter what. No excuses. Just consistent action towards the body you want to live in for the rest of your life… and in honor of that, we totally slashed the price!

However,

1. the price will go up

2. You are totally worth it and it comes with a totally solid money back guarantee so it’s totally safe to simply take a look.

“It’s Not Just About The Food” Online Weight Loss/Fitness Revolution Now!

Hypnosis For Weight Loss

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hh-09-29-15-carbs-calories-ss2cropStop Counting Calories!

One of the main areas of practice for MOST hypnotherapists is helping people to lose weight with hypnosis. My practice was no different in the beginning. Smokers showed up. People who wanted to lose weight showed up. And interestingly enough, both groups confessed to smoking or over eating as a result of feeling over powering ANXIETY.

So that got my attention and I began to work more and more with helping these folks to manage their anxiety. And as a result a number of them stopped smoking and lost weight.

But there was a piece of the puzzle missing.

One of the common traits that I noticed among weight loss clients was the notion that if hypnosis was legit, then they could keep on doing whatever it was they had been doing (or not doing), keep eating and drinking the same crap they’d been eating, and the pounds would somehow magically just fall away and they would be thin.

Then when they stayed the same size, they could BLAME the hypnosis or ME for their lack of progress. Convenient huh?

The fact remains that we need to obey the laws of reality that our bodies have evolved to deal with. While the prevailing weight loss Myth of “Eat less and Move more” permeates our culture, we need to wake up and challenge it. Because it has been PROVEN to be a failed and erroneous THEORY.

I want to keep this short so I will stop here and let you watch the brand new video I made for you, but the fact remains there IS a way to retrain your body to burn fat!

And while hypnosis plays a key and powerful role in changing ANYTHING, including eating and exercise habits, in this case hypnosis needs to be a part of an intelligent approach to eating and moving our bodies that mimics as much as possible the way our bodies evolved to eat and move.

What’s cool and groovy about this is that The solution is simple, practical and enjoyable.

Video:

What’s cool about my approach to fat reduction is that the foods that actually trigger fat burning and muscle building, taste great and are more filling than anything “Weight Watchers” can mix up in their laboratories…. and you don’t have to spend half your life in a smelly gym.

If you are interested in learning more about my approach to weight loss and physical fitness, you might want to check out my MASSIVE course, “It’s Not Just About The Food!” in it I typically over deliver value for you and give you at least 90 days of support and inspiration to get yourself lean and fit, SUSTAINABLY. In other words there is no “regain” plus 10 or 20 percent like the “counting calories” aka starvation diets that MOST people, even “experts” mistakenly BELIEVE to be the ONLY way to fat loss…

Wow! did I ever get up on my soap box for this post! HOLY GUACAMOLE!

You can learn more about the course and take it for a risk free test drive right here: “It’s Not Just About The Food!”

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Want To Lose Weight AND Avoid Alzheimer’s or Dementia?

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grain-brain-interviewThere is nothing more terrifying to most people than the prospect of losing our ability to function cognitively and to be able to know what’s going on around us and to recognize and remember our dearest loved ones.

Did you know that dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is on of the three top causes of death in the United States?

If that doesn’t freak you out enough to pay attention and do something different I don’t know what else will…

An estimated 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a severe form of dementia,1 and hundreds of thousands more may suffer from an often misdiagnosed subtype called “hippocampal sparing” Alzheimer’s, according to recent findings.2

The most recent data3,4 suggests that well over half a million Americans die from Alzheimer’s disease each year, making it the third leading cause of death in the US, right behind heart disease and cancer.  Read the Full Article by Dr. Mercola

Most main line medical practitioners are somewhat stuck in the place of not knowing what to do…

There doesn’t seem to be any cure.

But there is something we can do for prevent this horrible fate.

If you are struggling with your weight and possibly addicted to carbs, and  would like to keep your marbles for your full lifespan AND lose weight, this interview is a MUST watch.

I’ve written elsewhere about the book “Grain Brain” by Dr. David Perlmutter. Here is a short quote that is relevant:

“[Alzheimer’s] is a preventable disease. It surprises me at my core that no one’s talking about the fact that so many of these devastating neurological problems are, in fact, modifiable based upon lifestyle choices… What we’ve crystallized it down to now, in essence, is that diets that are high in sugar and carbohydrates, and similarly diets that are low in fat, are devastating to the brain.When you have a diet that has carbohydrates in it, you are paving the way for Alzheimer’s disease. I want to be super clear about that. Dietary carbohydrates lead to Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a pretty profound statement, but it’s empowering nonetheless when we realize that we control our diet. We control our choices, whether to favor fat or carbohydrates.”

Read the Full Article by Dr. Mercola

What amazes me is how few of my clients are willing to actually take me up on my challenge to read “Grain Brain” and but it into practice. One of my clients did. And he lost 36 pounds in a very short time… Then he returned the book to the library and started sliding back to his old carb habits.

Take action immediately!!! watch the video, (you can also download the transcript for free) read the book and get started…

What do you have to lose? A lot.

Want to know what to eat? Turn the standard “Food Pyramid” upside down!

Here’s a summary run-down of diet-related strategies that will help optimize your brain function and prevent Alzheimer’s:

  • Avoid sugar and refined fructose.Ideally, you’ll want to keep your sugar levels to a minimum and your total fructose below 25 grams per day, or as low as 15 grams per day if you have insulin/leptin resistance or any related disorders.
  • Avoid gluten and casein (primarily wheat and pasteurized dairy, but not dairy fat, such as butter). Research shows that your blood-brain barrier is negatively affected by gluten. Gluten also makes your gut more permeable, which allows proteins to get into your bloodstream, where they don’t belong. That then sensitizes your immune system and promotes inflammation and autoimmunity, both of which play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s.
  • Optimize your gut flora by regularly eating fermented foods or taking a high-potency and high-quality probiotic supplement.
  • Increase consumption of all healthy fats, including animal-based omega-3. Health-promoting fats that your brain needs for optimal function are listed above. Also make sure you’re getting enough animal-based omega-3 fats, such as krill oil. (I recommend avoiding most fish because, although fish is naturally high in omega-3, most fish are now severely contaminated with mercury.) High intake of the omega-3 fats EPA and DHA help by preventing cell damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease, thereby slowing down its progression, and lowering your risk of developing the disorder.
  • Reduce your overall calorie consumption, and/or intermittently fast. Ketones are mobilized when you replace carbs with coconut oil and other sources of healthy fats. As mentioned above intermittent fasting is a powerful tool to jumpstart your body into remembering how to burn fat and repair the inulin/leptin resistance that is also a primary contributing factor for Alzheimer’s. To learn more, please see this previous article.
  • Improve your magnesium levels. There is some exciting preliminary research strongly suggesting a decrease in Alzheimer’s symptoms with increased levels of magnesium in the brain. Unfortunately, most magnesium supplements do not pass the blood brain levels, but a new one, magnesium threonate, appears to and holds some promise for the future for treating this condition and may be superior to other forms.
  • Eat a nutritious diet, rich in folate. Vegetables, without question, are your best form of folate, and we should all eat plenty of fresh raw veggies every day. Avoid supplements like folic acid, which is the inferior synthetic version of folate.
    Read the Full Article by Dr. Mercola

Ultimately Weight loss hypnosis is about making new habits and ways of eating easier to start and maintain. You can do all the hypnosis you want but if you don’t actually change your way of eating you will continue to get the same bio-chemical results in your body.

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