Fat Camp at Home: Bring Weight Loss Camp to You!

Be the Biggest Loser in Your Neighborhood with Unique Fat Camp with Personal Trainer!

I am watching an ABC “Nightline” program that is focusing on a fat camp.  To be more specific, “Nightline” is focusing on a family weight loss camp.  I have no question this camp is doing good work and helping people.  However, in the few minutes of footage being shown, the biggest thing missing from the weight loss camp is this: real life application.

For people who want to truly succeed with a significant body change, here is what they need to consider.

Fat Camp at Home Consideration #1:  Weight Loss Camps Are….Camps

I don’t live at a weight loss camp.  You don’t live at a weight loss camp.  We live in our home, in a city or town.  We have jobs, we have responsibilities, we have lives.  The biggest problem I have with a fat camp is that, since we don’t live at camps, it is unrealistic to expect someone to take a camp lifestyle and integrate it into a daily routine.

For this reason, I created a program that brings me to you.  I come into your life and work with you daily to help change your life in your own habitat.  To be successful with weight loss in the long run, a weight loss camp needs to fit into your everyday life.  I bring my weight loss camp to you so you can succeed in everyday life, and not just at a camp.

Fat Camp at Home Consideration #2:  Weight Loss Camps Cook Your Food for You!

Do you have a chef on hand in your home?  I don’t.  My nutrition success or failure falls on me.  The foods I buy and the foods I cook are the foods I consume.  At a camp, most of the foods you consume are not made by you (or purchased by you at the store).  You are served, not taught.

When I travel to someone’s home to work with them, I teach them how to cook the best foods for them.  Each meal is a meal you cook, so that you know that you can do it on your own.  A fat camp doesn’t afford you that learning opportunity.

The success of your body change is mostly the result of what YOU do.  It’s what YOU cook, it’s how YOU exercise.  Being catered to at a camp is great customer service, but it is unfortunate disservice to those trying to learn how to incorporate proper foods into their life at home.

Fat Camp Consideration #3:  Weight Loss Camps Do Not Include Customized Exercise

What type of exercise does YOUR body need?  If you are in need of a boot camp experience, it is important to make sure that your exercises are built specifically for your body.

In the “Primetime” exercise footage, some of the exercises being performed at the fat camp were very poorly executed.  Again, it is important to note that I am on board with any person who is helping someone to lose weight, so I’m not bashing the efforts or intentions of the camp.  However, as a personal trainer and as a guy who studies how an overweight body should move, I am not pleased with the execution of the exercises displayed at this camp.

I work with people to make sure their exercises are the built to their needs.  Bad knees, bad backs, or bad feet….how your body moves needs to be build so you can stay healthy and not get hurt.  A fat camp exercise program for teens may be built differently than a fat camp exercise program for an adult.

As the “Primetime” episode closes down, I am really pleased at the results the people experienced.  However, I’ve helped more people lose more weight in less time (and do it more healthfully!) than what was displayed on the ABC “Primetime” episode.

If you are looking into exploring a fat camp or weight loss camp opportunity, I’d love to talk with you about bringing a camp experience to you so that your success can begin and be maintained in your own home.  If you are interested in exploring a home-based weight loss boot camp, visit rapidresultsfitnessmn.com or send email to adam@rapidresultsfitnessmn.com.

Adam Erwin is a nutrition and fitness coach.  Based in Minneapolis, he travels the United States to help people experience the best food and fitness month of their lives.  His cutting edge online program, Virtual Boot Camp, is helping people lose weight and change their body in record time!

Wellnes Tip of the Day: Slice Breads Out of Your Diet!

Losing Weight and That Doughy Figure Involves Re-Evaluating Bread Consumption

Most breads are NOT good for us.  Gluten, the protein type found in bread, is really hard for us to digest (kind of like lactose in dairy products).  Here are a few summary points from a very interesting article I found at this website (http://www.sleepwarrior.com/health-dangers-of-bread-pasta-and-rice).

• Grains put a huge sugar load on the body while providing little nutrients — something our genes weren’t designed to handle well. This is thought to be primarily responsible for the slew of modern diseases absent in pre-agriculture times. In other words, Grok the caveman never had diabetes.
• Grains contain crap our bodies don’t know how to handle. It’s no surprise that lectins, phytates, and gluten aren’t handled well by our bodies — for 99.5% of human history, those chemicals didn’t enter the gastrointestinal tract. By contrast, cows can metabolize phytates, but their cows have always fed on grains.

Many of my Virtual Boot Camp clients notice that we have a slice of bread here and there (granted they are the right kinds of breads in the right portions…VBC is 28 days of providing solutions to problems in the American lifestlye), and stick mainly to long-grain rice (which is safe!).  The best bread to buy is Ezekiel bread.  Other breads, particularly gluten-free breads or even totally fresh breads, are better than what we can buy at the store.  Store-bought bread is the worst!  Stay away!  Buy fresh from a bakery or buy Ezekial bread if you must have it.

Adam Erwin, personal trainer and owner of Rapid Results Fitness,  is not a gym rat with an inner-dictator chromosome like some trainers. He’s not an organic food junkie who asks my clients to drive all over the metro for a perfectly ripened pomegranate like some nutrition coaches.

He focuses his entire line of work on building food and fitness plans that effectively integrate into lifestyles of busy professionals. He’s a food and fitness coach with a fanatical obsession for functional solutions. Not quick fixes, but highly effective solutions that can be accomplished quickly.  His flagship program, Virtual Boot Camp, helps people have the best food and fitness month of their lives!

What Foods Make Us Fat?

Wellness Tip of the Day:  Worried About Putting on Fat? Choose Snickers over Watermelon!

Watermelon makes us fat.  True story.  The amount of natural sugars in watermelon overwhelm our body, creating an excess.  The body then stores the excess sugar as fat.  Snickers, in contrast, does not have the amount of sugars to overwhelm the body and is less likely to be stored as fat.  I hear you asking, “Why isn’t Snickers a part of the boot camp?”

When I work with clients on food choices, I pay a lot of attention to the glycemic index.  The glycemic index tells us how our body is likely to handle the sugars in a given food.  Watermelon is full of natural sugars.  Bagels are full of sugars.  Pretzels are full of sugars!

Grapefruit, grapes, and oranges are some of the best fruits for low sugar content (and therefore low fat storage capability).  Part of boot camp is learning how to feed your body the right way over the long haul.  If you would like me to email you a copy of my glycemic index list, send me an email saying such.  I’d be glad to help!

Adam Erwin is a nutrition-based personal trainer who helps overweight people build and execute the best food and fitness month of their life.  To learn more about Adam’s work, click here!

Decreasing Cholesterol, Triglyceride Levels, and Blood Pressure!

Wellness Tip of the Day: Attack Cholesterol and Triglyceride Levels More Naturally!

I can’t stand prescriptions that have major side-effects.  Can’t stand em!  I was THISCLOSE to working for pharmaceutical giant Lilly after college, but couldn’t stand the idea that I was tapping into a realm of science where side effects were a given…as if we should just accept the idea that making an improvement in one area in health was bound to cause a decrease in health in another area.  I found the idea unacceptable!

When I work with clients with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or high triglyceride levels, I’m glad I know about Melaleuca.  In addition to making the most outstanding vitamins I’ve ever seen, they also make supplements for heart/blood issues that are nothing short of amazing.  Meet Phytomega.  It is a proprietary blend of heart-healthy phytosterols and omega-3 fatty acids to help reduce cholesterol levels and maintain healthy triglyceride levels.  Meet Provex CV.  It is a patented blend of grape skin, grape seed, and other antioxidants to help prevent LDL oxidation and maintain healthy blood platelet activity.  These two supplements are in the Vitality 6 vitapack from Melaleuca.  When I have a client with high cholesterol or triglyceride levels who wants to avoid taking cholesterol medication, these are what I recommend.

Meet ProStolic. It is the first and only heart supplement to maintain healthy blood pressure using a proprietary blend of tripeptides, potassium, pomegranate, and passionflower to protect your heart—naturally.  When I have a client that wants to look at avoiding blood pressure medication or getting off their medication, this is what I recommend.

If you know a family member who is looking to attack their cholesterol, triglyceride levels, or blood pressure and is tired of the idea of taking a prescription for life to do it, I’d love to talk with them about the food, fitness, and supplements that could help improve their blood work!

Personal Trainer on Weight Loss: Got Pain?

What It Takes to See Fat Loss and Weight Loss Progress

Yesterday I got a call from a client that I hadn’t trained in awhile.  “I’m stuck!” she screamed.  We talked about her current food and fitness situation.  The biggest thing that was missing: pain.

Any good personal trainer will tell you that pain is necessary for any type of improvement.  When we create a budget and decide NOT to indulge our itch to acquire, we feel pain.  When we turn away from a tasty piece of cake or our favorite beverage, our body feels a little bit of pain.  It hurts to say “no” to desire. Not only do we register pain when we decide not to indulge in the wrong thing, we can also feel pain when we decide to indulge the right thing.

Pushing the body during a workout can be painful.  If we do cardio intervals our lungs may burn or our legs may feel like jello…both scenarios can be uncomfortable.  If we do super sets of bicep curls our arms may become toast.  And they may be sore for several days afterward.  Doing the right thing can cause pain.

I’m doing a lot of training with kettlebells right now, introducing them to many of my clients.  Kettlebells will make you feel  pain of a whole different sort!

Is there ever growth without pain?  I don’t think so.  I believe the pain we feel from saying no to the wrong things is just as important as the pain we feel from saying yes to the right things.  The next time you feel the pain of saying no to a cheeseburger or feel the pain from doing a challenging set of lunges, take heart.  Pain is necessary for your body’s improvement (injury, however, is not necessary….it’s important to make that distinction).

Adam Erwin, a Minneapolis-based personal trainer,  travels the United States to work with people who want to make rapid and lasting body change.  His personalied boot camp have helped people lose 30+ pounds in 28 days, reduce cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and decrease joint discomfort.   To learm more about how to bring Adam to your city (Dallas, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis, and Miami are his favorites), please visit www.keepyourbetterhalf.com.

27 Factors Affecting Fat Loss

Fat-based Weight Loss Comes Down to How You Manage These 27 Factors

Fat-loss is not a one-trick pony.  There is not just one thing to do to burn fat.  Sometimes fat seems to just fall off.  Other times it sticks stubbornly to your mid-section.  If you are stuck with those tough-to-lose fat lbs., take inventory of how you are managing these fat-loss factors.

Factor Affecting Fat Loss #27:  Your Caloric Intake Times

Many people in America backload their calories.  They eat the most amount of food when their body can handle it least effectively.  We need to front-load our calories instead of back-loading them.  Our digestive enzyems and metabolism digest food and use it as fuel more effectively in the morning.  Put most of your calories in the first half of your day and go easy on the last half.

Factor Affecting Fat Loss #12:  Sleep

When we sleep long enough (8 hours isn’t the magic number for everyone), our hormones are more in tune, our digestive abilities are improved, and our appetite is more likely to be under control (our bodies translate lack of sleep/repair as a call for more nutrients…which means more food!).  When we catch up on our sleep, we can burn fuel more effectively, keep our belly-fat-producing hormones at bay (cortisol), and eat less.

Factor Affecting Fat Loss #3: A Cleanse

When was the last time you did a cleanse?  Not just colon or liver or blood, any cleanse at all.  We have so much garbage trapped and stored away in our body…it’s not even funny.  In my online boot camp program, we do a cleanse during week one.  The feedback I receive is amazing.  I can’t believe how flat my stomach is now.”  “I have so much more energy!”  “My aches and pains have disappeared!”

It is amazing what a good cleanse will do for you!

If you want to know more about the 27 factors affecting fat loss, please visit www.keepyourbetterhalf.com and send an email to me, personal trainer Adam Erwin.  I’d love to equip you with some tools to help you lose fat!

Adam Erwin is a personal trainer based in Minneapolis, MN.  He travels to cities like St. Louis, San Diego, Miami, and Sydney, Australia to help people get in the best shape of their life.  To learn more about Adam’s work, click to www.keepyourbetterhalf.com.

Compounding Fat Loss, Weight Loss, and Body Change

Minneapolis Personal Trainer on How to Make Each Day Count

I have been running an online boot camp for the past 10 days, and the results are incredible!   The reason the results are incredible is because the people doing the boot camp are following the grocery list and menu I have given them for each week, plus are hitting their marks with exercise and other things.  Due to the consistency of hitting the mark, we had people lose 8, 9, 10, 13, and even 15 lbs in the first week!  Those are not average results….but they should be! (Go to www.rapidresultsfitnessmn.com/virtualbootcamp.html)

Here is where the average person on the average program falls short….

Weight Loss and the Power of Compounding

The power of compounding is the most important law in the universe.  The idea is that decisions can stack up on each other in an extreme way for the positive or the negative, depending on the quality of the decisions.  Consider a credit card.  When we charge a lot on a card and then make the minimum payment month after month (several bad decisions!), the balance grows of out control.  Credit card bills can compound against us very quickly.  When we eat the right food at the right time, do the right exercise at the right time, and continue to hit exercise and nutrition marks for 7 days in a row, our body can lose 8, 10, 13 lbs! 

Most people fall short in the exercise and nutrition because they do not fully realize the power of compounding!  Do the right things, hit the mark consistently, and the body will respond in a major way!  Don’t cheat on foods, just stack great decisions on top of one another!  Make each day count by making more right decisions than the day before!

Know-How!

I am blown away at how many fat “weight loss gurus” hang around the gym.  If you know so much, why do you look so bad?  A big part of it is that people who think they know it all really don’t know very much.  

It seems as though some folks have such an ego that they choose to close themselves off to new ideas or discount a new way of doing an old exercise because they didn’t think of the idea.  How silly.  I pick up new ideas and tips all the time!  Part of know-how is to know how to receive new information or how to be reminded of old information that hasn’t been applied for awhile.  Developing know-how is a constant process.  If we aren’t picking up new ideas at the gym, it is quite possible we are turning a blind eye to the know-how around us!

Make your day count and improve your body by being developing your know-how.

Willingness to Try Something New

One of the biggest challenges I have with people is that they have their “routine” that works.  Unless someone has a big event coming up that they are training for, there is no harm in trying something new.  The first installment of my online boot camp is four weeks long.  Four weeks is 8% of the calendar year.  I find myself saying to people, “Look, I’m asking you to try something a little different for 8% of your year.  For the other 92%, do whatever you like.  But for this 8%, open up to the possibility that there may be some value here!”  It is amazing how set in ours ways we can become!

Try something new today and see how your body responds! 

Adam Erwin is a Minneapolis-based personal trainer who is helping people lose weight, burn fat, gain muscle, and experience the best exercise and nutrition month of their life with his “Virtual Boot Camp!”  When not leading people through his online boot camp, Adam travels around to Eden Praire, Minnetonka, Edina, Medina, Wayzata, and Chanhassen to work one-on-one as the in-home personal trainer.  To learn more about what Adam does and how he can help you, visit www.rapidresultsfitnessmn.com today!

Weight Loss Boot Camp Success Stories

Minneapolis-Based Personal Trainer Burning the Fat With Successful Boot Camp

I couldn’t believe it when the results were tallied last night.  After just one week of boot camp, men were posting weight loss totals of 9 lbs, 15 lbs, 7 lbs, 6 lbs.  Women were posting totals of 7 lbs, 6 lbs, 13 lbs, 4lbs.  Of the twenty-plus participants in first week of the first ever run of the Virtual Boot Camp, the majority of participants were down 5 lbs or more!  The 15 lbs loss blew me away!

I don’t have much time to expound on the details of the boot camp because I am working hard on all the materials for weeks 2, 3, and 4.  Please visit www.rapidresultsfitnessmn.com/virtualbootcamp.html to get all the details!

We have a few spots open for our next launch, set to start on January 29th!  Sign up online today!

Boot Camp: Best Thing I’ve Ever Done!

Minneapolis Personal Trainer Gives Back More Than He Ever Has Before!

It has been a few days since my last blog.  However, on the upside, I have been hard at work with a new project and new blog.  I am leading a group of participants through the best thing I have ever done: the Virtual Boot Camp!

Virtual Boot Camp Launched!

At the end of 2008, I sat down to reflect on my personal training business.  I wrote down some questions, and one jumped off the page.  I asked myself, “what is the biggest problem in your business and how can you fix it?”  Answer: I want everyone to get the best of my services and only a select few can afford them.  I need to be able to offer more to everyone across the financial spectrum.

After much creative thought, I came up with the Virtual Boot Camp!  It is the same program I offer my premium clients, without my physical presence!

Want to Experience Weight Loss, Muscle Gain, and a Killer Boot Camp?

There are two places you must visit to learn about the Virtual Boot Camp.  You must go to www. rapidresultsfitnessmn.com/virtualbootcamp.html to see what is cooking there.  Also, you must visit virtualbootcamp.wordpress.com to get a sneak peak inside the program.  I will be making the Word Press Virtual Boot Camp blog private in a few days…so access it while you can!

That’s all for now….I have a lot of emails to answer!

Adam Erwin is a Minneapolis-based personal trainer who is helping people lose weight, burn fat, gain muscle, and experience the best exercise and nutrition month of their life with his “Virtual Boot Camp!”  When not leading people through his online boot camp, Adam travels around to Eden Praire, Minnetonka, Edina, Medina, Wayzata, and Chanhassen to work one-on-one as the in-home personal trainer.  To learn more about what Adam does and how he can help you, visit www.rapidresultsfitnessmn.com today!

Weight Loss Virtual Boot Camp: Diet and Exercise Plan to Lose Weight!

Minneapolis Personal Trainer Launches His Successful Boot Camp in Cost-Effective Online Format

“I worked with a personal trainer three days a week for eight consecutive months and only lost three lbs. After parting ways with my trainer’s ineffective program, I signed up for Adam’s boot camp and lost 13 lbs. in the first 14 days! My wife couldn’t believe the change!

Anyone serious about turning around their body quickly needs to try Adam’s Total Body Makeover Virtual Boot Camp!  Your body will thank you!”

-Steve Giles, St. Paul, MN

 

Personal trainers and boot camps across the nation are about to disappoint!  Challenging exercise is great, but for most people exercise is less than 5% of the day.  What about the other 95% of your day that most tainers and boot camps don’t address?  What do I eat for breakfast?  What should my snacks look like?  What supplements should I take, if any?  The Virtual Boot Camp helps you tackle every element of your day! 

Virtual Boot Camp: The Perfect Month!

The Virtual Boot Camp walks each participant through 28 days of every single calorie they will consume, 28 days of workouts, and it even guides you through a gentle cleanse!  Imagine giving your body 28 consecutive days of perfect nutrition and exercise!  Are you ready to lose those 15 lbs. you haven’t been able to shake?  Or maybe even lose 20-25 lbs, if you ace the program!

Read enough?  Go to www.rapidresultsfitnessmn.com/virtualbootcamp.html to sign up today!

Virtual Boot Camp: Stunning Weight Loss and Body Composition Progress!

Imagine fitting into those jeans that you have kept only because they remind you of a skinnier time!  With the Virtual Boot Camp, you address those pesky mid-section pounds, the sagging arms, and overgrown backside.  When your body gets what it needs when it needs it, amazing results follow!  My clients have lost pant sizes, entire belts, and made tighter fitting clothes look good after participating in the boot camp!

Read enough? Go to www.rapidresultsfitnessmn.com/virtualbootcamp.html to sign up now!

Virtual Boot Camp: Carefully Chosen Foods and Supplements!

Most people understand how important it is to consume protein after a workout.  Few people understand how ineffective eating protein can be (chicken, turkey, steak) versus drinking a protein shake.  Fewer still know that whey protein is the way to go, and that goat whey is more absorbable than anything else on the planet (plus it’s cost-effective!). 

When it is meal time, should there be lots of carbs, lots of protein, and how many calories?  I have prepared everything for you.  All you need to do is follow the plan!  Each meal and snack is carefully thought out.  You simply buy the cookbook (I didn’t write it, I don’t make any money when someone buys it….I just like it!) and execute the meal plan as I’ve drawn it up!

Also, doctors acknowledge that everyone should take a mutlivitamin.  Most doctors think all multivitamins are the same.  This couldn’t be further from the truth!  Finding a multi that is cost-effective and effective in your body is not an easy task!  I have searched high and low for the best buy for my clients and found one for $19.99 that is clinically proven to absorb better than anything else on the market! 

Ready to sign up?  Go to www.rapidresultsfitnessmn.com/virtualbootcamp.html now!

Virtual Boot Camp: Your Success Story Awaits!

 The Virtual Boot Camp has the following start dates: January 15th, February 12th, March 12th, and April 9th.  You are a few clicks away from beginning the best month of your exercise and nutritional life!  What will you look like after your 28 days of perfection?

Adam Erwin is a personal trainer and the founder of Rapid Results Fitness.  He creates body changing and life-changing boot camp experiences for his clients that address weight loss and major health issues (high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc.).  Adam resides in Minneapolis, spending much of his personal training time in Eden Prairie, Edina, Wayzata, Minnetonka, Excelsior, Chanhassen, and Medina.  He also enjoys bringing his boot camp experience cities such as San Diego, Miami, Phoenix, and Sydney, Australia!  To learn more about how to bring body change to your life, visit www.keepyourbetterhalf.com!