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10 Easy Tips for Guaranteed Fat Loss Success

As a personal fitness coach, I find that I spend a good portion of time talking with people and offering advice, suggestions, tips, etc… to them on how accomplish a myriad of goals. Usually pretty basic stuff, like what should I eat, how should I train, how do I reduce my body fat etc… and I find myself giving them all the answers that they need to solve this problem, but many times they still stand there with this look of “is that all” on their face. There are no bells and whistles, secrets potions, required to accomplish your fat loss goals. It’s really not as complex as many would make out to be; however it is some what hard because it requires some effort and change. So to make a little easier for all of those searching out solutions, I have come up with my top 10 checklist for: fat loss. The checklist are intended to be a guide line to see if what you have been performing the basic principles required to make positive progress toward your fat loss goals. Enjoy!

Fat Loss Checklist:

1. What, Why, and How: what do you really want, why do you really want it and how badly do you want it. 2. Change is Uncomfortable: this why so many people start and stop fat loss programs, because it is a little uncomfortable to them. By no means am I advocating some torturous and miserable life. However, changing your habits/routines is always a little comfortable, but the thing you have to remember is that it is a change for a better YOU, and that soon these will be your new habits/routines. 3. Drink Water: at least 1oz. /pound of body weight. 4. Ditch the Infomercials and Pills: they are playing on the “I want it now” emotions. Search out find quality information usually your best sources will NOT come from sources are not popularized by the mass media. 5. Leg Warmers and Leotards are Out: limiting your exercise program to strictly aerobic exercise, is not the way to go, if anything this is the fastest way to lose precious muscle, which may look good on a scale but it is a metabolic time bomb in the long run. 6. Consume Iron: I don’t mean orally, I mean use the free weights, dumbbells, and cables, etc…, and pretty pastel colored dumbbells don’t count. This is bar none the best way to help lose fat, gain strength, and improve the quality of YOUR LIFE. 7. Do Not Starve: If you want to feel miserable and starve, get lost in the desert for a few days. If you want drop some serious amounts of body fat and get in the best shape of your life, quality nutrients are the key, I am talking about. high quality protein like fish, lean beef, chicken etc… all of the vegetables that you can get your hands on and some high quality carbohydrates such as rice, whole wheat, etc.. 8. Count Your Sheep: sleep is one of the best ways not only to recover from your training and the stress of everyday life, but sleep also helps to keep your hormones in balance. If you are not getting enough quality sleep (8 hours per night). Then not only will you be ill prepared for you training, but the rest of your daily activities will suffer. 9. Crank up your Furnace: Adding in some anaerobic interval work is the right method to use, you should only need to add in a 2-3 brief session (20-30 minutes each) of anaerobic intervals working at 80-100% of your maximum effort and then recovering, and repeating the process again, until you have completed your training. 10. Do Not be a Sheep: just because your friend has tried something and it works for them i.e. Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, etc…. does not mean that it will work for you. When you implement the 9 principles from above, and make the need adjustments as you move along then you will be successful.

As you can see by now its not all that complex; but more a matter of applying good sound information to your fitness program. Simply implementing these 10 easy tips and you could very well be the one who lost 10,20, even 50lbs or more of unsightly fat. That would rate as an A+ fitness program in my book.

Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born out of his early school days when he played a simple game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a “duck” off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. This is the beginning of a brief history of basketball as we know it.

Naismith served as at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891, and this is where the sport of basketball was born. Naismith was faced with the challenge of finding a sport that was suitable for play inside during the winter for the students. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. The very first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals. The history of basketball started right here.

James Naismith devised a set rules for these early games as follows:

„« The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.

„« A player cannot run with the ball, but instead the player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it.

„« The ball must be held in or between the hands, not any other body parts.

„« No shouldering, holding, pushing, striking or tripping in any way of an opponent is permitted. The first infringement of this rule by any person shall count as a foul; the second shall disqualify him until the next goal is scored.

„« If either side make three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents (consecutive in these rules means without the opponents in the meantime making a foul of their own).

„« A goal is scored when the ball is thrown from the ground into the basket and stays there. If the ball rests on the edge of the basket and the opponents move the basket, it shall also count as a goal.

„« When the ball goes out of bounds, it shall be thrown into the field and played by the first person touching it.

„« The umpire shall be judge and have the power to disqualify or foul players as required.

„« The referee shall be the judge of the ball and decide when it is in play in bounds, to which side it belongs, and shall keep the time.

„« The time shall be two 15-minute halves with five minutes’ rest between.

„« The side scoring the most goals in that time shall be declared the winners.

Today basketball has grown to become one of the world’s most popular sports, all thanks to Dr Naismith.

Finding the best Koh Tao Hotel for your Thailand Holiday shouldn’t be left to chance. Many people don’t do enough research before booking a Thailand vacation, and they just pick a Thailand Hotel out of a brochure, and if they get it wrong, then they won’t have a great Thailand vacation, and they might also find that the beautiful Thailand beach they were promised in the brochure isn’t what it was cracked up to be.

It pays to do research, and it is worth discovering Koh Tao.

Koh Tao is a beautiful island off the coast of Thailand just north of Koh Samui. The best hotel on Koh Tao is the Charm Churee Villa which sits very close to Jansom Bay. This is one of Koh Tao’s most beautiful and private beaches in the south west corner of the island.

The best way to get to Koh Tao is to fly into Koh Samui and get the catamaran over. Do pay extra and get seats in the VIP lounge. To get to the Charm Churee you’ll be picked up by water taxi and taken to the small private beach.

You need to book a Sunset Villa at the Charm Churee. They are huge, even having a dressing room, and a very large bathroom. Two balconies look out at the sea, and very private too. The rooms don’t have all the bits like TV’s and DVD’s but honestly, do you come to a place like Koh Tao for that anyway. There are no telephones in the rooms, but if you want reception you can just use your mobile phone.

It is not only the accommodation that makes this the best hotel on Koh Tao, it is the beach, the ambience, and very much the food in the restaurant, and down at the beach bar. Meals in the restaurant do take quite a long time to arrive, and everything will arrive at once, but it is well worth the wait. The lunch at the beach bar has an extensive reasonably priced menu, with excellent seafood, but it is only a short walk of less than a quarter of an hour into town, where this a good selection of very reasonably priced restaurants.

The Spa in the Charm Churee is extremely good, better than you will find in any other Koh Tao hotel, in fact this may be the only spa on the island. It is built as little Thai Huts, and a couples massage can easily be arranged.

The Charm Churee Villa really only has one downside, and that is the number of steps, boulders and difficult paths. There can be over 50 steps to your villa, which doesn’t matter if you are young and fit, but has to be considered if there are elderly, disabled or very young children coming to this Koh Tao accommodation.

It is worth noting that the cheaper rooms are a lot further up the hill!

The beach is great, and there are masses of fish. The hotel has snorkelling gear but you would be advised to take your own. There are two bamboo rafts anchored offshore to relax on. The sea is just like swimming in an aquarium.

If you are in Koh Tao for the scuba diving, a very strong recommendation is Dive Point. Take the hotel longboat out to Koh Nang Yuang where there is another great beach and very good for snorkelling.

You will find the hotel staff at Charm Churee very friendly, a number of them are from Burma.

There is little doubt that if you are on a Thailand Holiday you need to visit Koh Tao, and the best Koh Tao Hotel is the Charm Churee Villa.

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