Serious Strength & The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution — Some Exercise and Diet Ideas to Better Your Life

You’re God

November 5, 2011

You’re god in your universe.
You caused it.
You, at times, pretend not to have caused it so that you can play in it.
But you can remember you caused it anytime you want to.
Your life is your own. Make it what you want.

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Interviews

October 27, 2011

One of our finest former instructors, Sean Preuss, emailed me and asked me this question:
Hey Fred –
I’m doing my first radio interview in a week. You’re a veteran of these…do you have any advice for me?
I do.
Be honest. Keep your answers short. Make the points you want to make regardless [...]

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How Not to Lose Fat – Starvation

October 27, 2011

A recent New York Times article discussed the issue of weight loss and people’s inability to keep the weight they do lose, off.
They found that the hormones that regulate fat gain and fat loss did not revert back to normal after the study ended and thus, they got fat once again.
But in [...]

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Ketosis vs. Ketoacidosis

October 25, 2011

It’s a sad fact that some experts who certainly should know better confuse ketosis with ketoacidosis, misleading people into thinking that they are one and the same. Worse, they suggest that a low carb diet can cause the bad one – which is ketoacidosis.
Dr. Oz is one such expert.
The good Dr. Oz wrote [...]

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How, Not How Much

October 23, 2011

When it comes to exercise, how you do it matters more than how much you do. In fact, if exercise is performed at a very low level of intensity, you’re not going to get much benefit out of it no matter how much of it you do do. Walking is a good example of [...]

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Physical Strength Helps Financial Strength

October 15, 2011

Being strong physically helps you to be strong financially.
There’s a confidence that comes with the territory of improving your physical strength. You feel younger. You walk taller. You move more easily and with more grace. It puts a glint in your eye.
And people notice.
And all it takes is just 15 – [...]

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Harvard’s Food Plate Q&A

October 3, 2011

Harvard school for public health is holding an open Q&A tomorrow at 2:30 PM to discuss your thoughts and ideas on their food plate.
Dr. Feinman, President of the Nutrition and Metabolism Society has written a blog on this that you should all read. After reading the good doctor’s blog, go to the Harvard site, [...]

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Low Carb means High Fat, not High Protein

October 1, 2011

Why so many nutritionists and registered dietitians don’t know this is a mystery. And the removal of most carbohydrates from our diets would come as close to a cure for virtually all symptoms of what’s called the metabolic syndrome as you can get.
There is an idea floating around that a low carb diet [...]

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Accentuate the Positive as well as The Negative

September 29, 2011

When you lift weights, there are two things you have to do:
1. Lift the weights up (a.k.a the positive)
2. Lower the weights back down (a.k.a the negative)
The chart above is what we use at Serious Strength to give clients a basic idea of how to perform a repetition when exercising. The repetition is the nucleus, [...]

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Wheat Belly

September 26, 2011

Wheat Belly is a new book by William Davis, M.D., a brilliant cardiologist who will tell you to your face that saturated fat and cholesterol are good for you and that a low carbohydrate, real food diet is the go-to approach for human health.
He is a breath of fresh air.
His book describes in [...]

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