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If you are a Baby Boomer you probably remember the good old days when you could pretty much eat what you wanted and stay reasonably lean and fit. What happened? Most likely aging and poor diet and exercise choices.

If you are a boomer you may remember the aerobic craze started by Dr. Kenneth Cooper. His popular book made running a fashionable exercise. The basic theory is one needs to get their breathing and pulse rate up for an extended period of time in a form of aerobic exercise. It is still very popular.

However as we age many of us find we cannot find the time to run or do other aerobic exercises that take up several hours a week. Also running is very hard on joints and some people have to give it up because of bad knees or bad hips.

What are the alternatives? Recent studies are showing that weight lifting may be one of the best exercises of all times. They are not talking about the kind of weight lifting where people bulk up with huge muscles and take all kinds of protein supplements or drink things with strange names such as muscle milk and CytoSport Complete whey protein. They are talking about weight lifting that helps one tone up all over and create a basic muscle tone that may have slipped over the years.

But, most of us struggle on our way to attaining this dream.

What we should keep in mind that a modern sedentary life style along with wrong diet patterns, filled with sugary fast food and oily fare, leads to extra accumulation of fat in our body. In order to build muscle and burn fat, we need a proper diet chart along with right kind of exercise.

Gobbling down big portions of burger and fries while sweating it out in a gymnasium would give no fruitful result. So, if you dream of getting six pack abs and losing that awful looking belly fat that mars your personality, then you have to be careful about what you put in your plate.

However, the quintessential point that you need to remember, is that crash dieting or drastically reducing your food intake doesn’t really help in this regard. Crash dieting only leads to bouts of binge eating. What you should aspire for, is to stick to a high protein and low carbohydrate diet which would help you in burning fat and building muscle.

The cardinal rule of an effective weight-loss diet is that you should refrain from consuming refined sugar and refined flour products like white bread, pastries etc. Instead, you should try to eat complex carbohydrate food like oats, brown rice, kidney beans etc.

It is best that you avoid junk food and deep friend food to lessen your calorie intake. However, healthy fats present in food products like almonds, flax seed, oily fish, peanut butter and avocado helps in accelerating your metabolic process and which in turn would help in fat burning.

If you want to build muscles and procure six pack abs in minimum time, then you should abstain from from eating larger portions during your three major meals of the day. Try to eat little portions of health food by taking six smaller meals during the day. Water aids in boosting up your metabolic rate and hence consuming six to eight glasses of water would definitely help you in burning fat.

By: Roberto Garabell

I have been studying nutrition information for years trying to find the best diet that burns fat, but it wasn’t until I stumbled across the results with personal experimentation in 2006 that I finally figured out the best way to burn fat with dietary changes.

In the past, I had tried high-carbohydrate diets (in the early 1990′s), high-protein diets (in the late 1990′s), and low-carbohydrate diets (in the early 2000′s). Each of them worked well for burning fat, but all had their drawbacks. The high-carbohydrate diet helped me lose body fat, but required a lot of exercise and also made me tired. The high-protein diet worked for fat loss, but required extra water intake. And the low-carbohydrate diet helped me burn belly fat, but I also had some tiredness on this program as well.

It wasn’t until I finally combined the best of all three diet plans into one that I experienced the best fat burning results, allowing me to go from my usual 10% body fat down to 8-9% body fat consistently. Plus, I was able to train at a very high-intensity, and was at my peak strength and fitness levels. In fact, some days I was able to train with clients as well, and do two workouts in one day because I had so much mental and physical energy.

By: David Done

Mike Geary’s ebook on abdominal exercises is called the truth about six pack abs. This ebook is very informative and contains more than hundred pages filled with simple narrations and excellent illustrations. The magic number that he advocates is ten percent. You should concentrate all your attention into bringing your body’s total fat content to just ten percent and then automatically the six pack abs make their appearance. Besides you should concentrate on having a very low fat diet when you are on this program.

Mike Geary is a perfectionist who would settle for nothing but the best. He wants every one who is on an ambitious program to have a six pack abs to have a scientific understanding about the diet they eat. He explains that low glycemic foods are the best foods for high energy levels, better stamina and for reducing fats. He goes on to explain that some carbohydrates instantly increase the blood sugar level and that you must avoid such foods.

Mike Geary further explains about the animal fats and the need to eat food in their natural form as far as possible. He has come out with a startling discovery that even those people who starve themselves do not achieve weight reduction simply because they tend to over eat every now and then. Trans fats that you find in fried chicken and finger chips are hated by him as they tend to store harmful fats. Another food he would like you to avoid is food that is rich in estrogen that will reduce the muscle mass building capacity of the body. Only a scientific approach towards diet and exercise can make you have six pack abs.