SORRY! I’ve been on the road for what seems to be forever so posts have been limited.

Here’s my soon to be released article at The Soko:

There’s a lot of people out there who have used the information and programs that I have made for them and used them to great success. Yet, there as some that have gotten the same information and programs designed specifically for them but didn’t ‘believe’ in the program and got nowhere with it.

Those people, for whatever reason, now don’t like my ‘stuff’.

Some Success…

And that’s fine. I had a client who overcame double knee replacement surgery to lose over 20 pounds of fat in 2 months with only 60 minutes TOTAL of exercise per week. I’ve also helped a lady going off to Police College who couldn’t do a regular pushup to do 25 perfect pushups in 10 days.

And A Little Bit Of Failure…

I had a lady who paid me quite a bit of money for me to analyze her current program and then have me create a newer revised program because she wasn’t getting any results with her current program. The problem was that she never followed my program the way I wrote it out for her.

Why? Because it was ‘different’ from what she was used too. No kidding…

Anyways, this isn’t really a popularity contest for me, I just try to solve people’s fitness problem. So in this column we’re going to discuss a little bit of that.

I Don’t Hate Jogging…I Just Don’t Recommend It…Actually, I Do Hate Jogging

People who read my articles or decide they want to actually listen to me ramble on with fat loss advice often wonder out load, “Why don’t you like jogging? I thought that was how you lose weight?”

Yep, you can lose weight jogging and you can also lose weight by not eating for a week. Does that mean not eating for week should be recommended as fat loss protocol?

I used to work at a chiropractors office doing rehab work with people. I lost count at how many people came in with really bad knee, ankle, and/or ITB injuries. I probably don’t have to ask you why they kept coming in with these injuries, but I will just for fun anyways.

Do you know what the number one factor was that caused all of these injuries? Yep, you got it…jogging.

Do you know how many people came in to get treated for injury because they did sprint intervals (which many of the clients there did after talking to me)? NONE, a big ole’ goose egg.

I can keep bringing up examples and can continue to keep ranting but it would end up getting out of hand and I would probably never be allowed to write on here again. Well, that might happen anyway if this article gets a lot of people angry, but I’m willing to take that risk for the good of successful fat loss training.

Now, before I get totally anti-cardio on you, I will tell you that I do advise certain clients to do long cardio. And yes, doing something it better than nothing.

Interval training is just better for fat loss. It’s been proven in both clinical and real world studies. Plain and simple, you just burn A LOT more fat doing intervals then you do jogging for hours on end.

For more information on interval training check out one of my earlier articles, ‘3 Steps To Losing Belly Fat’.

“Yep, We Aren’t Touching The BOSU Ball”

You know what my new clients are usually most surprised about when they start training with me. That I don’t recommend using the BOSU ball (the half stability ball).

Why is the BOSU ball so friggin’ popular?

I know most people’s answer would be because it helps you ‘work’ your core too, but that just seems to be non-sense in my eyes.

For one thing, I see a lot of people doing a lot of bicep and tricep exercises on them, which if you read my articles you now know that’s not going to help your fat loss very much.

Secondly, this whole ‘working’ your core thing has gotten a little out of control in my eyes. Yes, you should do some ab exercise but you don’t need to bring in a BOSU ball to do it.

Squats, deadlifts, lunges, pushups, planks, ab wheel rollouts, sprinting, skipping, ‘work’ your core…just to name a few off the top of my head.

And i realize if you do a squat on a BOSU ball it will challenge your balance and you’ll feel a good ‘burn’, but it’s not going to have an optimal effect on your fat loss. Why? Because you aren’t really building any lean muscle…you’re just maybe improving your balance a little bit.

Now, remember we’re not talking about balance or performance type training here. But if you want to improve those things then the BOSU ball may be a good option.

I’m just saying lift some weight and stop worrying about this whole ‘work’ the core thing that comes along with stability equipment.

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different can be a good thing

Being different and not following the pack is almost always a good thing. You can realize that just by walking into a commercial gym. Typically, you can tell the difference between a fit person’s workout and an out of shape person’s. Here’s a hint, a lot of the people who are really fit with good looking bodies are the ones doing full body lifts and aren’t reading a magazine while doing their cardio training.

I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts on this column post…and if you still like me or not.

Have a great one,

Dan Grant

It’s been a few weeks since you’ve heard from me consistantly for a couple
reasons. First my computer had a MAJOR meltdown and I lost quite
a bit of ’stuff’ so it’s been very time consuming getting everything
re-set up.

Another reason is that I’m currently in West Palm Beach, Fl on a
little mini vacation. It’s been a lot of fun so far and from a
combo of beach time and just walking around I’ve gotten a pretty
sweet sunglasses burn, if you know what I mean.

Anyways, sitting on the beach and looking at the ocean sure gave me
some good thinking time about a lot of things.

I LOVE to think…way too much according to some people, but
non the less I did some thinking.

One was about the fitness industry and how a lot of people are just
flat out tired of paying lots of money for fitness information.

A lot of my mentors tell me to raise my prices so I can make more
in less time…but I have a really hard time with that because that
would mean I would have less people to help.

So I’m actually LOWERING my prices. I’m not taking on new one on
one clients right now, but I do have time blocked off for phone
consults and program consults. If you’re interested at all in any
of them you can check those out here: http://tinyurl.com/2l5u8l

But let’s talk exercise now.

I’ve been getting great feedback on my previous emails about
critical thinking for fat loss so here’s another one.

The heavier weight you lift will give you a greater amount of lean
muscle gain, which will therefore boost up your metabolism.

So my question is this then.

Why is the BOSU ball (the half stability ball) so friggin’ popular?

I know most people’s answer would be because it helps you work your
core too, but that just seems to be non-sense in my eyes.

For one thing, I see a lot of people doing a lot of bicep and tricep
exercises on them, which if you read my last email you now know that
that’s not going to help your fat loss very much.

Secondly, this whole ‘working’ your core thing has gotten a little
out of control in my eyes. Yes, you should do some ab exercise but
you don’t need to bring in a BOSU ball to do it.

Squats, dealifts, lunges, pushups, sprinting, skipping, ‘work’ your
core…just to name a few off the top of my head.

And i realize if you do a squat on a BOSU ball it will challenge
your balance and you’ll feel a good ‘burn’, but it’s not going to
have an optimal effect on your fat loss.

Why? Because you aren’t really building any lean muscle…you’re
just maybe improving your balance a little bit.

Now, remember we’re not talking about balance or performance type
training here. But if you want to improve those things then the BOSU
ball may be a good option.

I’m just saying lift some weight and stop worrying about this whole
‘work’ the core thing that comes along with stability equipment.

I hope that made sense…

I’d love to know your thoughts on it. And if you’d like me to
expand my thoughts a bit just let me know.

I’m off to walk around the city a little bit and maybe try to work
on blending my permanent white skin sunglasses look to match the
rest of my burnt face :).

Have a great one,

Dan Grant

PS - If you do want to get a consult with me, you can sign up now,
and I will contact you by email or phone by this Friday or Saturday.
I’ll be giving a copy of my ebook True Weight Loss Revealed along
with some special audios as well to sign ups. http://tinyurl.com/2l5u8l

PPS - I’ve been getting a lot of questions about supplementation
lately. I’m assuming from all the commercials that I’m seeing on
TV. I will try and cover them next time and if you have any
specific questions about supplements and supplementation just
email me at admin (at) dangrantfitness.com.