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How To Get Rid Of The Fat Layers

Attack, attack, and keep attacking is the most promising beginning to ridding your body of the ugly, unwanted, and horrible to look at globs of fat covering your muscle cells. This is just what I did, beginning at the young age of seventeen, and I have never looked back. It may be a never ending battle, but the fact I came out with both guns blaring is the best thing that ever happened to me in the world of weight control. My dad called me soft and said I had a phony build of a large chest, yet bulging midsection. He was, of course, right on; and his comments spurred me to become a fitness fanatic.

Because I started working out so intensely I was forced to begin a healthy and nutritious diet to repair my muscle cells screaming for nutrients. My workouts were so difficult, it was responsible to eat an occasional pizza to satisfy the necessity for carbohydrates. I tripled all core exercises and concentrated on the stomach like never before. I cut out bread, snacks, chocolate, and anything else I thought might weigh me down. You might say, “Well, what about the pizza coach?” but I realized tomato sauce, cheese, and whole wheat dough are all healthy when eaten in moderation. I was adding grilled chicken to my pizza back in the seventies. I refused to listen to the local pundits who began to comment that my midsection looked fantastic, and they wish they looked like me. This was where I got even more intense.

I decided to fight past the pain and make my exercise regimen more challenging. All exercises that contribute and force you to engage the abdominal area were included daily. Boxing routines, sit-ups, leg raises, sprints, basketball, cable exercises, crunches, wood chopping, jump-ups, squat thrusts, and hand ball were merely a fraction of what I considered the norm for a decent fat burning workout. I couldn’t do this forever, but I achieved a base and reached what I call my set-point for an optimal midsection.

My advice is to give it all you’ve got from the get-go, and demand a good-riddance from those despised layers of softness callously trapping that spanking new six pack you will unleash on the world. The longer you delay, the more difficult it will become; so send your comments to Coach Reilly if you want some help, and we’ll get rid of the fat together.

Greatest Exercise For Stress Relief

Without a doubt, the most fantastic fitness exercise is the boxing workout. It beats all the rest hands down because you actually get to unleash on an inanimate object or a live human being, if you so choose. If you decide on the latter format, make sure you have a trainer, partner or friend who is willing to work with you. No one wants to loose some teeth to go with their stress relief.

I dread this workout now that I’m nearly in my senior years, but the hormonal relief it provides makes it well worth the effort. At my age I move around the heavy bag for seven “three-minute rounds” while I pummel away my demons. Where the weight of the world was upon my shoulders, by the time I’m through round one I’m huffing and puffing and sucking for oxygen. I’m still stressed, but my adrenalin is pumping and washing away whatever has me wound up to unpretentious elevations. Each hook to the body and straight right to the face finds their marks and gives rise to newly attained levels of exaltation.

Just today, I punched out a score of lying politicians that I’m constantly being reminded of by an astronomical debt clock, continuous unabated scandals, finger-pointing fatties who never earned a thing in their lives and live off the sweat of the great American individual. Back room deals, luxurious vacations, lavish dinners, and a constant begging for campaign cash for their own selfish agenda, rather than giving it to the poor and needy, spurs my sore sweaty mitts to unleash one last furious assault on the 100-pound leather bag substituting for the bulbous politician.

Thanks to the boxing workout, I’ve yet to jump off a cliff, so I encourage everyone to try this workout when they are feeling down. Pick your poison and unleash on it. You’ll look fabulous and learn some self defense. I guarantee it!!!

“Coach Reilly”

Tara Marie’s Comeback

Tara Marie Segundo was never one to shy away from a challenge and is making a comeback in the fit shape arena. She did a fabulous job preparing herself for the competition, but did not place where she always expects to be … which is number one or nothing!

Rather than get discouraged, this human dynamo is moving her exercise regimen into full throttle for the next show. Absolute Intensity is betting on Tara coming in as the top fitness beauty.

This is a photo from her latest competition. Look at those abs!!!!

FFIT@home

I’m not one to recommend another individual’s fitness website since this is the business I am in, but I was forced to enthusiastically make an exception when I recently learned of FFIT@home, which is an online and in-house exercise and diet program of a former client by the name of Erika Lawrence. She came to my gym some 13 years ago, not because she needed fitness assistance, but because she wanted someone to push her to the limits.

Erika is blessed with tremendous work ethics, a superlative martial arts background, a super fun attitude, and a knack of being able to choose a tasty and exclusively healthy diet to compliment her clientele’s hunger pangs. I have to give her kudos for combining a great concept with fabulous instructors.

Be sure to visit Erika and Melissa at FFIT@home. Coach Reilly recommends it!!!

Jobs Heroes Zeroes and Thieves!

The above is the title of my recently published book which benefits the UFA Widows’ and Children’s Fund and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Neither Absolute Intensity or myself are making a dime off this project since all the profits will be dispersed to the charities.

The book is easy reading and better than the nonsense put out there by the talking heads who promote each other’s books on their radio and television programs.

You will learn how I worked 51 jobs in 59 years of existence and was disciplined enough to depend on myself, rather than go about seeking handouts as if I was entitled to the bounties of another individual’s blood and sweat. There are interesting stories to go with most of my employment and some of them will knock your socks off.

I worked for and found employment in two professional sports and worked 20 years in the New York City Fire Department as a firefighter. After retiring and moving to Florida I was robbed by a family of grifters of my life savings, and bullied by five officers in a small town police department who shielded the thieves and failed to provide me due process.

If you want a great read from a grumpy author for a fantastic cause, Jobs Heroes Zeroes and Thieves! is a must.

Yours in health,
The Fighting Fireman

The Real Deal Of Functional Training

I was rather amused as I listened to a spanking new trainer tell his slightly overweight female charger he would begin her gym experience with “functional training” exercises. The confident instructor was dressed sharply in his perfectly creased white on black outfit of docker type chinos and a smartly collared shirt sporting the gym logo. He pointed to a leg extension apparatus and told the pretty, relatively young lady, dressed in over-sized sweat pants and a under armor pullover that this particular exercise wasn’t functional. I begged to differ since, though an isolation exercise for the quadriceps, it functions to aid you in walking and squatting which are everyday motions and a necessity for daily life unless you are the total couch potato.

In my humble opinion functional training can entail just about anything since particular exercises will assist you in improving your quality of life, make you become a better athlete, perform well in daily life situations and remain lean and mean no matter your age. Hence, if you are strengthening your thigh muscles with the leg extension you might be performing any of the above. I’ve come to the conclusion that personal trainers enjoy using various lingo’s with new clientele to show off their knowledge of fitness, as if the subject ceased to exist until they were born.

The dynamic duo wandered off to another area so I was unable to catch further morsels on his version of functional exercise and living. The following movements are what I consider most relative to functional training and is what absolute intensity recommends. Push and press exercises such as military presses and push-ups, pull exercises may include bent over rows and chin-ups (my all-time favorite), and squatting exercises such as body weight squats,and cross-over lunges coupled with explosive hip movements like wind sprints. Think of a car coming at you at 60 mph and you must get out of the way, bending over to tie your shoes, moving furniture around, chasing your dog and carrying groceries.

The above are everyday activities and you can never be certain of what may come at you in life so be prepared and maintain your level of fitness the functional way with absolute intensity. by coach Reilly