Get Ripped: Top 5 Benefits of the Squat!

The Squat is a powerful tool to achieve the Physique of your Dreams

Of all exercises known to man, the Barbell Squat is royalty in the kingdom of lean physiques.

Utilizing the Squat in your exercise routine will help you develop pure fitness.

Top 5 Benefits of Squatting

1. The Squat will obliterate Fat from your body.

This exercise uses most of the muscles on your body in a full body movement. In order for your body to recover from a squatting routine, nutrients will be spent nurturing the muscle tissue while stripping body fat.

Physique by: Squats

2. Hormone boosts following the Squat

People who squat can enjoy the benefits of a surge of testosterone following a squat session. When it comes to burning fat, testosterone is your friend.

Boosted testosterone levels (even temporary) increases fat metabolism and protein synthesis simultaneously. This is the ultimate combination for becoming LEAN.

3. Core strength and six-pack abs development

In order to support the weight of the bar on your shoulders, all of the core muscles are taxed. You are likely to gain both strength and size from your six-pack abs muscles — this helps protect your back and makes a more visible six-pack abs look.

She Squats for no one but herself!!

4. Proper Quadricep, Glute, and Hamstring development.

The musculature of your legs become more defined and fill in. The curves and lines start to become all in the right places. You get a nice ass. You can pick up heavy stuff. Your lower back doesn’t ache. Everyone is jealous of your physically appealing legs.

5. Improved stability around the joints of the lower body

Believe it or not, squatting can actually improve the health of your knee and hip joints. While squatting may be contraindicated for certain populations, the benefits are vast for healthy people.

With proper form, the muscles surrounding the knee joint will strengthen and protect.

Cues for Squat Form:

  • Before descending, take in a deep breathe and maintain a TIGHT core.
  • Keep arch or straight lower back at all times.
  • Knees “track” in the direction of your feet. Do NOT bow knees inward (if this happens, lower the weight)
  • When descending, “break” from both the knees and hips simultaneously
  • Go as deep as you can while maintaining good form. Deeper squat = greater benefit.
  • Push through the heels when coming up.
  • Glutes should be the main muscle used — quads are secondary.

Go forth and SQUAT.

Squats help you gain muscle in all the right places.

For men and for women. A finely tuned squat is a sight to see — we must constantly achieve proper form.

The best squatters have some of the best physiques!

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For Fat-Loss Results, Focus 90% of effort on Nutrition

Physical fitness requires you to move.

You can work out, play sports, or any form of gyrating.

And doing it with friends is a great fitness activity for social bonding too.

My co-worker with a history in personal training asked me how often I go to the gym. The reality is that I’m only at the gym twice a week and that the majority of my fitness results come from eating well.

Focus 90% of your efforts on Nutrition for real Weight Loss

Cutting calories isn’t really the only answer.

Actually, caloric needs are different for everyone at any given moment. For example, after an intense workout, you may actually need 1,000 calories of pure nutrition. But before bed, you might only need 200 calories from lean proteins and greens.

The secret to eating healthy is to learn more about your food

Most people have no idea what their food is actually doing for them.

They don’t know the macro-nutrient ratios, vitamin, mineral, phytonutrient, or other micronutrient content in their foods.

It takes effort to learn this information, but it is freely available online and in other resources.

However, once you have a grasp on the truth behind your food, then eating healthy becomes easier.

You can mix and match superfoods to produce the ultimate in health, while still tasting delicious.

For example, my guacamole is an absolute powerhouse of nutrition

  • Avocado (healthy unsaturated fat, fiber, protein, fat-soluble vitamins, phytonutrients, and one of the body’s most preferred antioxidant called glutathione.)
  • Lemons (vitamin c, trace minerals, potassium, and pH balancing)
  • Onions (minerals, fiber, and the potent cancer-fighting bioflavanoid, quercetin)
  • Garlic (a pungent and delicious way to boost immunity)
  • Miso paste (live Probiotics to restore and maintain intestinal balance, healing properties)
  • Pico de Gallo (tomatoes containing the powerful phytonutrient called lycopene)
  • Sea salt (minerals)
  • Cayenne powder (phytonutrients and metabolism stimulator)
  • Olive oil (monounsaturated fat, and loaded with antioxidants)

In addition to those health properties, the guac is almost entirely made of Raw Foods. This is important because it preserves the enzymes and improves digestibility.

You can’t eat healthy if you don’t know what healthy is

If an obese person says, “I eat healthy” but they aren’t getting results, then they aren’t eating healthy.

Eating healthy means something different for everybody. Most people have underlying nutritional deficiencies that they are not even aware of.

It’s almost guaranteed that you have some sort of nutrient that is not at optimal levels. (could it be Selenium? Eat one brazil nut everyday)

You NEED to equip yourself with this information, otherwise you risk the standard American diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

Food companies are trying to make a huge profit by processing foods and making it easier to consume. The danger becomes real every time a food leeches more from our vitality than it provides.

Focus on nutrients for Real Results

I challenge you to learn about nutrients and consider which foods you are not eating enough of.

Focus on eating whole foods that contain these nutrients. Do it for a month.

Then see how much better you feel, and how much leaner you are.

It’s all about the nutrition.

Nutrition, Immunity, and Digestion

Resilient Plants for a Healthy Society

The healthiest foods are the hardiest foods.

Think back to your days in P.E. class. There was a team game, and each captain was picking teams.

Who got picked first?

It was usually the strongest, fastest, most agile, and most socially popular student.

He is resilient, he is an asset, and his power contributes to your wellbeing.

Partnerships with resilient forms of life makes you stronger as a person.

Every day, we have the choice of what things we want on our team. In fact, our team is responsible for our entire livelihood.

Food is probably the second most important aspect of our humanity — the first is our genetics. Our genes encode the information that controls how our bodies respond to the stressors of life.

Wild Cabbage

Resilient plants, like Cabbage and Kale, have the ability to protect our DNA from damage.

Cabbage can handle all sorts of weather

Of course, the resiliency of cabbage in the real world seems to be directly related to how resilient cabbage makes us.

Is it any wonder that cabbage is one of the most widely consumed vegetables on the entire planet? Humans have cultivated cabbage before history — Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and everyone else who values a healthy colon!

Lets pause and compare cabbage to a less resilient food.

While cabbage has a plethora of healing properties, other foods like fast-food hamburgers do more damage than good.

Cabbage

  • Contains significant vitamins
  • Contains significant minerals
  • Live enzymes when raw
  • High in antioxidants that protect cells from free radicals and oxidation
  • Phytonutrients such as indoles that have proven cancer-protection
  • High fiber for colon health

Fast Food Hamburger

If they don't eat grass, they need chemicals in their grains to grow big.

  • Insignificant vitamins
  • Some minerals, such as iron
  • High in saturated fat, very low in the good polyunsaturated fats
  • Cooked in oxidized oils, therefore produces free radicals that may cause DNA damage (unless you ate a big serving of cabbage!)
  • Low fiber
  • The bun is full of carbohydrates, which cause an insulin spike
  • Starchy carbs + unhealthy fat will produce an even greater insulin spike, blood sugar at dangerous levels.
  • Uses body’s limited storage of enzymes for digestion

Fast Food Hamburgers are WEAK!

The cows are loaded with drugs like antibiotics, otherwise they probably wouldn’t even survive.

I don’t want to eat a weak food. Resilience is key.

Cabbage is the cure.

….And so are broccoli and oranges, kale and tomatoes, beans and brown rice, avocado and spices, herbs and lovin‘.

Partner up with the good, the strong, and the healing.

It will make you feel good, strong, and healthy.

Nutrition, Immunity, and Digestion

Success is Two Steps Forward, One step Back

How failure can equal your success.

A favorite presupposition of mine helps me cope with life and thrive in all respects.

It assumes that, “There is no failure, only feedback.”

Whether this is a true statement or not doesn’t really matter. The important aspect is that you gain valuable insight from every situation, even if it doesn’t seem to go in your favor.

In other words, you grow stronger at every corner because your thoughts become your best ally instead of your worst enemy.

Taking two steps forward and one step back is a means of sustainable progress.

Sustainable progress.

You continually move forward. You recognize that there will be drawbacks, and there will be barriers.

Taking one step back allows to you recognize that which you might not have seen before.

My favorite exercise could seriously injure me.

I want strength, I crave it.

My name translates to “man, warrior, strong.” Is this my destiny?

Okay, I’ll stop BS’ing. But the reality is that my passion is of movement. Being able to physically exert a force beyond what I previously thought possible.

I can’t always save face, I can’t always succeed in the ways I want.

But I know that each step back is an experience that can take me forward.

Forward…to a reality of everlasting growth and success.

At least, that is the goal.

And this is the progress.

Don’t beat yourself up when you eat too much junk. Understand the take home message, listen to your body, and move forward.

Power of the Mind

How do Digestive Enzymes promote Health and Fitness?

Enzymes equal life.

These are the workers of the living world. They make movement, growth, thought, emotion, healing, disease, virus, life, sex, and everything else possible.

Lock and key theory of enzymes. Each enzyme can do this at a spectacular rate. For some, millions of times per hour!

Enzymes are workers, acting constantly as catalysts throughout the entire body. Enzymes cause important events to happen — each individual enzyme induces thousands of reactions per hour.

Pause for a second and flex your forearm.

Enzymes made that possible.

How fast he strokes, his enzymes work even faster.

As you can imagine, the quantity and quality of enzymes in your body is directly related to your current state of health and vitality.

Zero enzymes = death.

Supplemental enzymes Save You Energy.

The digestive process uses LOTS of energy so that you can have that energy.

It’s like the Greenpeace canvassers who go door to door asking you for money. Most of the money they raise goes towards their paycheck. Same thing in the body — most of the energy from food goes towards powering the digestive system.

"Hi, will you donate money so I can keep asking people to donate money, a small portion helps whales."

When you use supplemental enzymes, it therefore saves your body a significant amount of energy so that your body can focus on promoting vitality instead of living in a weakened state.

Basically, supplemental enzymes are FREE workers.

Overly Cooked and Processed food creates Disease in America

Processed foods are dangerous.

Future of America: This is why Junk-Food companies invest millions $ into insurance and "health-care" companies.

For example, Soda is highly processed, full of high fructose corn syrup, and completely lacking in enzymes. You feel a burst of energy from the carbohydrates that that your body is able to extract from the Soda, until 20 minutes later you feel down again.

Why?

One reason is because after 20 minutes, the undigested soda has gone through the digestive system too fast and inefficiently to even be utilized.

Why does my stomach bulge after eating this?

Undigested food becomes toxic to the body in multiple ways ways.

  • First, it can feed the harmful bacteria and yeast in your intestines which can create dysbiosis in the gut (unbalanced microbial environment), which is a huge cause of disease and yeast infections.
  • Second, undigested food in the bloodstream induces an immune response by your body. This takes more energy and resources that are not being spent on giving you vitality.
  • Since the energy cannot be readily used by the body, it is converted into triglycerides that flow freely in the bloodstream.
  • Excess triglycerides (fats) will clog veins and arteries, causing circulatory issues and even worse: cardiovascular disease!

Moreover, since processed food contains no actual enzymes, it requires your body to produce significant enzymes from its limited enzyme capacity. The more enzymes you use now, the less you have later. The less enzymes you have later, the quicker you age, and the more susceptible to pain, disease, inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and so much more…

Eat only Raw Foods…in an ideal world.

Apples, oranges, broccoli, and all other fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, and plants contain active enzymes. These enzymes aid in assimilation of the nutrients available.

If you had the time, energy, and ability to prepare raw foods like this...I might just marry you.

But Heat KILLS enzymes. Cooking at or above just 118 degrees Fahrenheit will deactivate and destroy the enzymes. You therefore lose nutrients and enzyme potential.

Cooked food often sucks more life from you than it actually gives you.

Raw foods save your body energy and promote HEALTH by…

  1. Providing you with enzymes to absorb nutrients
  2. Allow you to fully digest the food so that your body does not have to mount an immune response
  3. Beneficial phytochemicals from raw foods promote hormone balance, anti-cancer properties, and cellular rejuvenation.

But…eating raw foods 100% of the time is not realistic for most of us.

Supplemental Digestive Enzymes should be used with meals.

In order to fully assimilate nutrients and to promote vitality, Digestive Enzymes are one of the best supplements to make part of a healthy lifestyle.

Hire more workers, pay them nothing, and they'll still be happy to do their job!

Benefits of Digestive Enzyme supplements include:

  • Fully assimilate nutrients (for example: taking digestive enzymes with protein is proven to provide the body with significantly more life-building amino acids)
  • Reduce/Elimate…gas, bloating, acid reflux.
  • Support immune system by fully digesting food and not allowing rotten foot particles into bloodstream.
  • Ease the load on your natural enzyme storage.
  • Weight Management
  • Feeling good after meals.

Simply put, using digestive enzymes has been shown to improve quality of life in many different ways.

If you want to lose weight now, but your digestive system is broken, then you need extra help. People who are bloated do not lose fat. In fact, people who are bloated just feel bad about everything. Thats because the most essential process in the body (digestion) is not functioning properly.

Proper digestion is important for you AND your friends.

Gas is bad, if you release stinky bombs, you need digestive enzymes with those meals. Stink bombs mean you literally have rotten, toxic food in your system and your body hates you for it. (Your friends hate you for the stink bombs too).

One capsule with meals is all it takes.

Choose a quality brand, and take the enzyme with meals.

You will feel the difference. You will know the difference. You will LOVE the difference.

The best (and most expensive) digestive enzyme. If you are relatively healthy, you might not need such a powerful product.

Digestive enzymes can help you gain lean muscle, boost the immune system, and most of all IMPROVE Quality of Life.

Thats what I’m talkin’ about, baby!

Eat well.

And…my friends,

Live well.

Nutrition, Immunity, and Digestion