Posts by Craig Ballantyne
12 Ways To Improve Your Diet And Lose Weight
Less glamorous than its strength-training counterpart, yet significantly MORE IMPORTANT to fat loss is nutrition. You can be a die hard gym-fanatic, but if your diet is full of processed foods, bad fats, or just too many calories, then no amount of gym time will be enough to transform your body. So, for those of…
Read More7 Reasons Cardio is Lame
T’is the season for folks to be hitting the cardio confessionals with the mistaken belief that 30 minutes on the elliptical machine will somehow magically erase 40 days of being on the See-Food diet… Today while I did my Turbulence Training style workout, I watched all those poor folks on the cardio machines (you know,…
Read MoreQuickstart Nutrition Guide To Fat Loss
As I’ve said many times, nutrition is more important than exercise. No matter how hard or how often you work out, you simply cannot OUT-TRAIN a bad diet. This leads to one very simple fat loss formula; calories in must be LESS than calories out. With that being said, below you’ll find a simple set…
Read MoreCalorie Burning Workouts
The 6th TT contest winners are now up on TransformationContest.com. And I want to say I’m very proud of everyone! I love it when people transform and get active again and boost their energy and confidence. And get ready to fire it up with your favorite calorie burning workouts in the 7th TT contest starting…
Read MoreMore Fat Loss Trends
In a recent post, I covered 3 top fitness predictions, but now I want to complete my top 10 list by covering ab exercises, the best equipment piece of 2K10, and more. So here are the remainder of my fearless predictions… 7. Metabolic Resistance Training will be the training buzzword of the year Weight training…
Read MoreNew Abdominal Exercises
I’ve been filming a lot of workouts and abdominal exercises recently, and have modified a few classic movements. As a result, I have a few *new* ab exercise photos and descriptions to share with you today for your ab workouts. 1) Kneeling Ball Plank The regular Stability Ball Plank (aka “Plank on Stability Ball”) is…
Read MoreFuture of Interval Training
I started doing interval training back in 1995. It was pretty crazy back then… people would see me work hard, then stop, then work again. All those folks on the cardio machines were more confused than ever! Today most folks have heard about it… especially the 5 million people that have watched my YouTube videos.…
Read MoreMore Fitness Predictions
Last week I posted 3 more fitness predictions, but those aren’t the only trends I see going big-time in 2010… More fitness predictions: 4. Kettlebell-friendly gyms will become more popular Without a doubt, kettlebells continue to get more popular every year, since they were first introduced. But the first decade of Kettlebell popularity was spent…
Read MoreFat Burning Fusion Workout
Who will be the next winner of the Turbulence Training Transformation Contest and what fat burning workouts will they have used? We’ll find that out later this week… If you want to win the 7th TT contest, I have good news for you…it starts… Sunday, Dec 27th So get ready to fire it up. And…
Read More2 Things You Need To Lose Weight
The marathon interview of celebrity trainer and p90x creator, Tony Horton, is coming to a close, but if you missed any of part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and finally 8, then I highly recommend going back and reading it through. In just a short amount of time, Tony offered up a number…
Read More2010 Fitness Predictions
2009 was an amazing year in the fitness industry as millions of men and women finally lost body fat thanks to powerful programs like Turbulence Training, P90X, and Kettlebell Workouts. In fact, I’d say that “Short, burst workouts” were the *program of the year*. The year also made history because of the popularity of “contrarian”…
Read MoreGoodbye Sugar Cravings!
Last week on the TT Facebook page a friend cried out for help to overcome her sugar binges…so I came up with 5 tips, but more importantly, we had over 33 amazing TT readers give their secrets on saying “Goodbye to Sugar Cravings”. I know that you’ll get a lot of fat burning ideas from…
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