To Burn More Fat Fast, You'll Need a Simple Change in Mindset

Editor's note: To help kick off 2010, we'd like to help you rid that unwanted body fat -- you know, what you've been carrying around even before snarfing down all those holiday cookies, libations, candy, etc.

The good news? You can burn off that fat fast -- and set the stage for a lifetime of good health. How? By simply changing your mindset. Following, guest contributor Rob Poulos tells you how.

By Rob Poulos
Fat Loss & Fitness Expert
Creator, "Fat Burning Furnace"

Most people that I talk to about health and fitness, talk about "getting in shape." But I don't think they realize that their words are actually counterproductive to their aspirations of burning fat.

You hear a lot of people lamenting about being out of shape and saying, "I need to get in shape and burn fat. Or, "I want to get in shape and burn fat." What you don't hear them saying is, "I want to get in shape, burn fat, and stay in shape." These folks may want to stay in shape, but their mindset is focused on getting in shape.

This makes you more susceptible to the fad diets and latest exercise gimmicks on the market. You're so focused on getting in shape that you'll try almost anything -- regardless of how silly or difficult-to-follow it might seem -- because you're entirely focused on the short-term goal.

A simple change in the "quick fix" mindset to one of long-term success, will steer you down the correct path. You'll be less enticed by the late-night TV hype, and be more focused on doing the right things most of the time.

Wouldn't you agree that lifelong health and fitness is what's most important?

Of course, creating an environment in your body that allows you to burn fat fast is essential to this goal. A person who is in shape in their 50's and 60's is a lot more impressive to me than someone who is lean and fit in their 20's and 30's. That's because the dedication to maintaining the proper exercise plan and a sensible nutrition strategy for the rest of your life is rare to find. It's a rare mindset.

If you really want to transform your physique and your health for good, you must make it a lifestyle -- a habit. And that starts in your mind; that's what people who are lean for life do. In fact, if I think about all of the people I personally know -- who are in great shape, and have been for a while -- I start to understand that they have their minds on staying in shape.

These forward-thinking, health-conscious people think about it day and night -- not obsessively, but with each thing they do. They subconsciously think, "Is this going to positively or negatively impact my llong-term health and fitness?" "Am I doing everything I reasonably can to burn fat and live a healthy lifestyle?"

The good news is that research shows you can develop simple habits, like those involved in eating and exercising properly, in less than one month -- sometimes, even sooner. And with the type of exercise and diet tips I recommend to my "Fat Burning Furnace" students, you don't need to give up your life's pursuits, so that you are working out every day. Nor do you need to follow a wacky diet that you can't reasonably make a lifestyle out of.

After a few months of practicing these methods, students' bodies start telling them that they actually want to keep exercising and eating right -- that they just won't feel right without doing so. Why? Because our bodies naturally want to be healthy and lean.

So, I urge you to forgo the "get in shape" mindset. Instead, embrace the idea of staying in shape and creating that fat-burning furnace that is so essential to lifelong health and fitness.

Imagine yourself in the body of your dreams -- today, tomorrow, and five, 10, 20 or more years from now. What will you be doing then, in your lean, strong and healthy body? Chances are, you won't be trying to "get in shape." Instead, you'll be burning fat 24/7, and enjoying life as you should -- full of vitality and passion.

Rob Poulos is a celebrated fitness author, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to Hero Fitness LLC. Rob created the world's most efficient method for fast and permanent fat loss with his "Fat Burning Furnace" system, to help those looking to put an end to restritctive fad diets, long and boring cardio workouts, and the need for super-human willpower, for good.

SOURCES: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity [image], Zero to Hero Fitness LLC
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Rest, Sleep, and Burn More Fat Fast

Editor's note: Periodically, ProsperNOW opens the editorial floor to folks who bring a unique, and proven, perspective to creating lasting prosperity in all its myriad forms.

Today, we're featuring Rob Poulos [pictured], a celebrated fitness author, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to Hero Fitness, LLC. Rob created the world's most efficient method for fast and permanent fat loss with his best-selling "Fat Burning Furnace" system, designed to help those men and women looking to put an end to restrictive fad diets, long and boring cardio workouts, and the need for super-human willpower, for good.

By Rob Poulos
Fat Loss & Fitness Expert
Creator of "Fat Burning Furnace"

In order to reap the benefits from the intense exercise I recommend to my Fat Burning Furnace students, you must get adequate rest. I can’t stress this fact enough. In fact, rest is just as important -- if not more important -- than the actual exercise itself.

During the high-intensity resistance exercise that my students perform, the muscles experience tiny injuries or tears. The body’s response is to adapt and repair, gaining stronger and larger muscles -- which, of course, leads to burning more fat and gaining a leaner body.

But this growth-and-repair process won’t take place if the body is not allowed the time to do its job. Too often, people rush back into the gym, as many have been inundated with the "more is better" axiom when it comes to exercise. But, if we don’t get out of the body’s way and let it do its magic, we will experience poor results. We won't burn fat like we want to, and we will just end up demotivated or, possibly, give up our efforts altogether.

If you don’t get enough rest or sleep, you’ll have a very difficult time building the fat-burning muscle that will transform your body. And you’ll also have a tough time burning fat off, too! That’s why we can’t work out too long, or too often, when using a sufficient intensity level.

When giving the body an intense stimulus, such as proper weight training, you can’t keep hammering it into the ground. If you did this, you’d quickly over-train your muscles and negate your body’s ability to recover from exercise.

[In fact, your immune system could become so worn down, that you might even get sick. This happened to me a few times in the past, when I wasn’t paying attention to getting adequate rest and sleep.]

And this repair-and-recover process doesn’t happen overnight; it usually takes two days or more. So, make sure to keep between one to three days of rest between your properly conducted resistance training workouts -- or you will be short-circuiting your chances of success to burn fat and build lean, strong, muscle.

Now that we know how important rest is to burning fat and building muscle, we also must understand the most important component of rest -- otherwise known as sleep.

Sleep is the ultimate recovery tool -- and not only for recovery from exercise. It’s a recovery tool from any stress you take in throughout the day.

Whether it’s from family pressures, work issues, finances, etc., increased stress can be dissolved by adequate sleep. And don’t think you can burn fat maximally when you’re over-stressed by other things in your life. A high stress level can shut down the effectiveness of your ability to burn fat, among other things.

So, make sure to get adequate sleep. What’s ideal? I would recommend no fewer than seven hours, nor more than nine hours. In fact, seven and-a-half hours per night might be the perfect amount!

Research has shown that we sleep in cycles of 90 minutes or so. It has been suggested that if we wake up too far before or after one of these 90-minute cycles, you will probably feel groggy for a good part of the day. So, try five 90-minute sleep cycles -- or seven and-a-half hours total. You’ll most likely wake up feeling well-rested and energized -- and your fat burning furnace will show its appreciation, allowing you to burn more fat faster.
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Best-Selling Expert: The Mass Confusion That Dominates in Fat Loss and Fitness Today

Editor's note: Periodically, ProsperNOW opens the editorial floor to folks who bring a unique perspective to creating lasting prosperity in all its myriad forms.

Today, we're featuring Rob Poulos [pictured], a celebrated fitness author, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to Hero Fitness. Rob created the world's most efficient method for fast and permanent fat loss with his best-selling "Fat Burning Furnace" system, designed to help those looking to put an end to restrictive fad diets, long and boring cardio workouts, and the need for super-human willpower, for good.

By Rob Poulos
Fat Loss & Fitness Expert
Creator of "Fat Burning Furnace"

People are confused more than ever about how to burn fat. They are confused about the best way to go about achieving the body they want. They are confused about what works and what doesn’t, and the reasons why.

There are countless individuals slaving away in gyms and fitness centers around the country right now. They are working tirelessly, almost every day, on the treadmill, stair-climber, elliptical, etc., to burn those calories and fat. They also might be lifting weights several times a week for hours at a time to build some strength and muscle. They might even join a few aerobics or spinning classes, too.

They are probably also trying one of the latest diet strategies that promises miracle fat burning and weight loss. They could also be spending a lot of money on the latest and greatest dietary supplements that could be that "miracle pill" that will aid in weight loss.

They are also carefully watching the scale as their main judge of fat loss progress. If it goes up a pound or two, they may behave rashly, and maybe even change up their entire workout or diet program!

And, of course, there are others are doing variations on that same theme. After all, this is the kind of stuff that many of the popular fitness and diet gurus typically recommend to burn fat.

But, with so many different strategies and plans being pushed as the be-all and end-all, what happens is we tend to go overboard. And when that happens, we lose sight of what really matters in achieving lifelong fat burning, fitness and health: The principles that many people don’t know about, most people have forgotten, and only a select few put to use to achieve lifelong health and fitness. These are the same principles I used to drop over 40 pounds of unwanted body fat, keep it off, and revitalize my life!

With any exercise or nutrition program, you’ll probably lose some fat initially. But, far too often, the progress doesn’t continue or doesn’t come as fast as the person would like because they're using a temporary mindset. They're only focused on the short term and one specific goal. So, they end up switching to something else, and the cycle continues until they’ve become consumed by this cycle of confusion.

I believe that this is one of the biggest -- if not the #1 reason -- for the lack of fat loss and fitness progress that is being experienced by the masses of exercisers and dieters in the world. They are jumping from one fad diet or exercise routine to another, while losing sight of what’s really important, and what really works. Simply put, they are exercising far too much, not nearly intensely enough, and trying to adhere to unrealistic diet recommendations.

If, instead, they focused on a long-term plan -- a lifestyle, as it’s often called -- and didn’t worry about "losing 10 pounds by summer," they would find it far easier to do the right things most of the time. And those right things include brief, progressive, and intense resistance training, eating a diet full of nutrient-rich foods, drinking tons of water, and getting plenty of quality sleep and rest.

The students of my Fat Burning Furnace method understand this and are reaping the lifelong health and fitness rewards because of it. Are you?
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