Thanks to one of the latest gadgets you’ve probably seen on TV, it’s now possible to burn away excess fat with a simple heated belly wrap. First, let’s look at why people might need to use this device…

The Problem

Maybe you need to lose twenty pounds to fit into your wedding dress, a wrestling competition weight category, or a tight t-shirt for a rock concert. Whatever the occasion, some fast weight loss is required, and you need to burn calories more quickly than you can with exercise.

Just plain exercise and adjusting your diet is probably not enough to lose weight quickly, as most people are limited to losing a couple of pounds a week unless they resort to dramatic, unhealthy measures. It’s hard to look healthy if you aren’t eating at all!

The Solution

If you need to lose weight fast, a company has come out with a new and exciting product that can help. It can’t hurt to try out the “Belly Burner” (the creative name for this device), and preliminary results seem to be positive. This belt is worn around the waist while exercising.

Benefits

The ease and speed with which you can lose weight using the belt are its main advantages. It has been proven to work and will enhance your weight loss from exercise so you can slim down faster.
It’s convenient, well-designed and comfortable, so you aren’t running on the treadmill with a ten-pound weight around your belly. Designed by a celebrity trainer, the belt has the advantage of having been tested extensively and proven to work, as even celebrities need to lose weight quickly, sometimes for movie roles or photo shoots, and other times for holiday occasions like everyone else.

Disadvantages

The main disadvantage of this method is exactly how it helps you lose weight: it will only help you lose water weight, or the weight that fluids add to the total on the scale. It won’t actually burn calories any faster. This may not make a difference if you only want to lose weight for a special event, in which case you can certainly go ahead and use this nifty invention, but don’t expect the radical results to last for the long term.

If you want to discover how you can lose weight and then prevent it from coming back why not take a look at  The Truth About Abs. This popular program will enable you to ignite your fat burning and weight loss goal safely and effectively. Costing less that $40 it’s well worth a look.

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Belly Burner Reviews – Get Rid Of Belly Fat?

I could write a book about this one! But to cut a long story short, if your body thinks it’s being starved it will hang on to as much fat as possible. In fact it will actually start to burn muscle for fuel in preference to fat. And seeing that muscle is your body’s fat-burning furnace, the less muscle you have, the fewer calories you will burn!

You are killing the very thing that will help you lose fat.

Some diets claim that this won’t happen. You have to make sure that you eat enough so that it doesn’t. Everyone is different; you have to tailor your eating and exercise to suit YOU.

Tricky one, this! Most overweight people would say they are motivated to lose weight because they want to improve their health, feel better and be able to fit into their clothes.

The problem is, every time you fail to reach your target weight, or worse – reach target and then pile the weight back on – you are reinforcing in your mind that it’s just not possible. The next time you TRY to lose weight, you are defeated before you even start. After all, your brain now knows with some certainty (because you’ve trained it to expect failure), that putting in the effort required just isn’t worth it. It convinces you that failure is inevitable.

Sticking to a strict diet is hard, makes you miserable and as bad-tempered as a weasel, and is 90% likely to fail! You starve your body which tries to hang on to every ounce of fat it can. You deprive yourself of all the things that make life enjoyable,and you feel like there’s nothing to look forward to. It is hard – for you and everyone around you. Crash dieting has even been cited as reason for a divorce!
(I’d be a bit suspicious of that last..)

If you want to learn more about how permanent fat loss is possible take a look at some of these fantastic pieces of at home exercise equipment like Ultraflex Fitness and Kettleworx.

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How Not To Lose Weight – Dieting The Ugly Truth

Being a Personal Trainer can be a lot of fun when it comes to reviewing exercise equipment and DVDs. It’s like a disease at the moment the amount of new “stuff” coming onto the market is staggering. So what’s a person to do? How do you pick am exercise program that works?

Take Core Rhythms for example. How do you know it’s any good? Will you be able to use it to get fat loss results? If you spend your life searching for that perfect product trust me you’ll look forever and be no wiser.

Core Rhythms looks like a decent product (Disclaimer I don’t have it) it will get you moving and if followed regularly will help you lose weight. The issue is do you like it? Does it light your fire? Will it motivate you to workout?

For me it wouldn’t I don’t like to dance (call me strange if you like) so this type of workout just wouldn’t motivate me to get off my butt! But maybe it would for you, maybe you like to dance and maybe you like this type of music if so then this workout would be perfect for you.

I’ll say it again it doesn’t matter what exercise you do just do something if you find you’re getting bored have a go at something else mix it up a bit as I’ve said there’s no shortage of material.

I like to do aerobics, strength training and stretching and I get bored easily which is why I use equipment like The Firm Wave to help me get variety in my workout.

Take look at this video and see if this workout would motivate you if it does you know what to do

All the best,

Carol J Bartram
(Personal Trainer & Pilates Instructor)

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The Core Rythms Review

The response to my review of the Malibu Pilates Chair has been fantastic. It’s the most popular page on my Blog! Because I’m getting so many questions about Malibu Pilates which include:

• Does Malibu Pilates work
• Will it help me lose weight
• Can my husband use it
• How many calories will I burn in one hour
• Will it tighten my sagging butt
• How many times a week should I use it

You get the idea. So to help answer these and many other questions I’m going to start a new category on this Blog called “Malibu Pilates”

So if you want the skinny on Malibu Pilates bookmark this page or subscribe to my News Feed today!

All the best,

Carol

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My Malibu Pilates Reviews Page Update

I think the T-Bow Exercise System is the single best piece of home exercise equipment I’ve ever bought. I’m a Personal Trainer and believe me I’ve tried dozens of pieces of equipment, some cheap and some expensive. Almost all of them lie stacked up in a corner of my spare bedroom – now discarded as either totally useless or so complicated to use that it’s not worth the hassle setting them up.

The TBow on the other hand can be ready for use in seconds. Just slip it out from under the bed, turn it over and your ready to rock!

It can be used to give you a truly great cardio fat blasting workout, use it with the bands for strength training, use it for stretching and if you do Pilates use it to make your workout more challenging.

This versatile piece of kit really does it all and it’s great fun to boot. If I had to pick only one piece of exercise equipment to keep it would be this one it really is that good.

It pre-dates The Firm Wave by a number of years and is the original design. I also like The Firm Wave as it comes in at under $100 and will do the same job. I have 18 T-Bows which I use to teach classes and the ability to able to stack them is important (The Wave won’t stack).

Whether its The TBow or The Firm Wave don’t hesitate just get one, use it regularly, have fun and lose weight at the same time.

All the best,

Carol J Bartram
(Personal Trainer & Pilates Instructor)

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The T-Bow Exercise – Does It Rock?