Weighted bench dips demonstration

Video: This exercise is going to help build up the strength in your triceps along with working many other body parts as well.

Demonstration of an advanced hamstring curl.

Video: A trainer shows how to do an advanced hamstring curl with a stability ball. The hamstring curl is a great exercise for the hamstrings, calves and glutes.

Hip Bridges

Video: A trainer shows how to do hip bridges with a stability ball.

Fat Burning Soup Diet 7 Days Of Soup And You’ll Lose Weight

Are you looking for the Fat Burning Soup Diet? Well, look no farther, because I explain the program here. The plan includes seven days of eating soup and other prescribed foods. Because the fat burning soup diet is very low in calories, you will be able to lose up to 10 pounds in just 7 days.

First of all, you need to make a very large pot of the soup. This recipe makes about 12 servings. You will probably make 2 to 3 pots during the seven days of the diet:

- 6 large green onions

- 2 green peppers

- 1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)

- 3 Carrots

- 1 Container (10 oz. or so) Mushrooms

- 1 bunch of celery

- half a head of cabbage

- 1 package Lipton soup mix

- 1 or 2 cubes of bouillon (optional)

- 1 48oz can V8 juice (optional)

- If V8 juice is not used, put in 12 cups of water

Saute the onions and take the seeds out of the green peppers. Then boil the whole thing for 2 hours. Refrigerate the soup and then reheat on the stove or in the microwave every time you get hungry. This recipe is at the heart of the fat burning soup diet.

But you will get to eat other foods on the fat burning soup diet. But, each day brings about its own rules. Here’s the plan:

Day 1: All the fruit you want except bananas.

Day 2: All the vegetables you want plus one big baked potato with butter.

Day 3: All the fruit and vegetables you want except bananas and potatoes.

Day 4: Bananas and skim milk plus the soup only.

Day 5: 16 oz. of beef and up to 6 tomatoes.

Day 6: 2 to 3 steaks and all the vegetables you want. No baked potato though.

Day 7: Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables

Eat the foods on the diet until you are full, even stuffed. The diet is bland, but you shouldn’t be hungry on it.

The fat burning soup diet works because even if you eat your fill, you still will only intake about 1000 calories a day. So the plan is essentially a modified fast.

Because the plan is only 7 days long, that doesn’t give your body’s metabolism enough time to slow down. So, in order to make up for the reduced calories, your body will start burning the fat thus the name.

You shouldn’t stay on the fat burning soup diet for more than 7 days at a time though. That would actually defeat the purpose. After your initial week is up, go back to a regular meal plan that includes at least 1500 calories. Then, after a week or so, you can go back on the soup diet if you need to lose more weight. At no time should you go more than 7 days on the program without 7 days off.

And that’s the fat burning soup diet made simple.

1 Leg Skating

Video: In this video a fitness trainer demonstrates how to do a 1 leg skating isometric hold.

Tropical Smoothie

Ingredients

1 ripe medium banana, sliced

1/3 cup frozen orange juice concentrate

1 – 8 ounce can crushed pineapple in juice, chilled

1 1/2 cups vanilla low fat frozen yogurt

1 cup milk (skim,fat free or 1

Directions

In a blender, combine banana, undrained pineapple and orange juice concentrate. Cover and blend until almost smooth. Add low fat frozen yogurt and milk. Cover and blend until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses. Garnish with a sprinkle of toasted coconut if desired.

Exercise your abs with a crunch

Video: A trainer shows how to do a crunch with your legs raised off the floor to make it a little more advanced.

Six Diet Tips for Great Abs

Do you want to know the principles of a diet for abs? Are you looking to develop a six pack? Did you know that changing your eating habits is as important as exercise? This article will look at six ways you can diet for abs.

Any diet for abs will begin with eating more fiber. You need to eat at least 25 grams of fiber a day to ditch the belly fat. Some researchers have even said that 35 grams is optimal. Fiber is the indigestible parts of fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

The bulk factor of fiber is like a sponge when it combines with the water in your digestive track, it soaks up everything. High fiber foods also fill you up, so you are unlikely to overeat. Finally, there is the “chew” factor. High fiber foods just take longer to eat. This allows your stomach to signal your brain that you are full before you stuff yourself.

The next strategy is to choose a sensible amount of quality carbs. The best diet for abs will have 45 to 65 percent of the calories from carbs. But this does not mean a lot of Twinkies. Fruits and vegetables have carbs in them, but they are the high quality ones.

Carbohydrates break down into glucose. This is stored as glycogen in the muscles and liver. When glycogen is stored, it carries with it three times its own weight as water. Fat and protein carry no weight. This is why people who go on no carb diets like Adkins can initially lose weight so quickly. They are really just losing water. That is why you don’t want to go above 65carbs in your diet.

Still, you want to have at least 45 percent carbs on your diet for abs. You should focus on balanced eating. For best results, eat at least three to five servings of veggies (15-25 grams of carbs); two to four servings of fruit (30-60 grams of carbs) and about 1 cup (8 ounces cooked or 2 ounces dry, or 2 slices of bread) of whole grains per day.

Next, you should drink your water. Many people mistakenly believe that drinking a lot of water will cause them to bloat. In fact, the opposite is true. Drinking water will flush your body of sodium. The water will be eliminated naturally. But when it takes the salt in your system with it, it will actually reduce bloating.

But, don’t drink fizzy drinks such as soda. That’s because pop and spritzers increase bloating. The carbon dioxide trapped in the bubbles creates gas, which slows down stomach emptying. Also, limit your consumption of alcohol and caffeine. Both are natural diuretics, which increase fluid loss and don’t replace your body fluids as effectively as water or juice.

The next tip on our diet for abs is to watch the sodium. You only need about 500 grams of sodium a day, but most people get between 3000 and 6000 grams in the modern diet. This is just too much. Processed food and restaurant meals are the main culprits. Try to eat at home by preparing your own foods more.

Try to eat light at night. Your biggest meal should be breakfast. A moderate lunch should follow at noon. Your evening meal should be the smallest of the day. And, after dinner, close the kitchen.

Finally, try to reduce your stress if you are on a diet for abs. Stress triggers cortisol which is a hormone that causes you to deposit fat around the organs in your abdomen. Exercising and deep breathing relaxation techniques can help you to chill out.

If you are trying to loose the tummy, try this diet for abs.

Workout for your shoulders

Video: A fitness professional goes through 3 exercises that target your shoulder muscles.

How to do a hamstring curl on a stability ball

Video: The hamstring curl targets your hamstrings, glutes and calves. A great lower body exercise