Don’t believe the calorie expenditure estimates on cardio machines. Generally they only give you a rough guide and nothing more.

Don’t believe the “fat free” label on your food means that it is a good fat loss food. It could be full of simple sugars that are going to add heaps of calories to you daily total.

Don’t believe that “calorie free” is necessarily calorie free. This is dependent on where you live, in some countries very low calarie items are able to be labeled calorie free. Even though these products are very low in calories, eating enough of them wlll impact on your total daily calorie intake.

Tip #10
ZMA for Deep Sleep
by Dr. John Berardi

ZMA is useful for improving the quality of your sleep. For me, ZMA tends not to induce sleep as much as deepen it. Expect your dreams to be extremely vivid! My athletes, when traveling, or when under heavy training loads, usually included 2-3 ZMA capsules before bed.

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One approach to long term fat loss and improved body composition is alternate periods of fat loss eating and training with periods of maintainance (or muscle gain) eating and training. One of the benefits of this approach is that your body doesn’t get used to the eating and training routines in either period and responds accordingly.