Get the Most Success with Fat Loss by Using a Calorie Budget; Uncensored Podcast
April 16, 2014 by
In today’s uncensored podcast John and Brad will speak to us about how managing calories are like managing a calorie budget:
How are calories like managing a budget?
How can you be more aware of calories?
How do you get the mindset to be aware?
What can you do?
What must you stop doing?
What is the fundamental assumption you can make?
What can you do if you are the type of person who tends to gain weight?
What are the similarities between a calorie budget and a financial budget?
What is realistic?
What can you do with your schedule?
What about long term and short term?
What is worth the cost to you?
How is food like credit cards?
How can you keep a balance sheet?
How can you be aware of the minutia?
How can you be aware of a pay day?
How to you count leaks?
Is hope a strategy?
How do you become responsible?
How do you stay out of debt?
What about short term and long term strategies?
What about building habits?
How are calories like managing a budget?
What about keeping a budget when in maintenance?
Listen to what John and Brad have to say about managing calorie budgets here:
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How to Successfully Maintain your New Shape; Uncensored Podcast
April 2, 2014 by
In today’s uncensored podcast John and Brad will speak to us about the tried and true strategies used by successful Venus and Adonis members:
What are the tools, tips and tricks of the trade, and stategies used by successful Adonis and Venus members?
What are the tips and tricks used that actually work?
What is the mental mindset?
What about workouts and exercise?
What is most important regarding awareness about eating?
What do you have to admit to yourself?
What makes the lifestyle sustainable?
What foods are most important to focus on?
What about food intake is considered a win?
Will you ever go back?
What about fluctuating weight?
Listen to what John and Brad have to say about successful maintenance strategies here:
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The Dark Side of Workouts; Uncensored Podcast
March 19, 2014 by
In today’s uncensored podcast John and Brad will speak to us about Exercise-Induced Rhabdomyolysis.
John and Brad speak to us about Exercise-Induced Rhabdomyolysis
General adaptation response is a normal part of working out, but if exercise is taken to the extreme you can go into Rhabdomyolysis. Normal exercise is just enough to have general adaptation response. It’s important to realize that muscle building and fat loss happens in short consistency over time. It can’t be done too fast.
There is some glorification regarding extreme exercise exertion and exhaustion and even Rhabdomyolysis, but this is a serious condition that can be fatal.
Rhabdomyolysis, with aliases such as “Rhabdo” & “Uncle Rhabdo” is a rampant problem, at least in the CrossFit community.
CrossFitters, largely unaware of the rhabdo risk, will continue to charge ahead, pressured and happily coerced into exercising to depletion and exhaustion.
“Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown
of muscle fibers resulting in the release of
muscle fiber contents (myoglobin)
into the bloodstream.”
Since I’ve been a part of the AGR community and lived the Adonis lifestyle for the past four years, I realize you don’t have to exercise to an extreme to lose fat and attain “Golden Measurements.” With much less effort, you can transform from “Average Joe to Cover Model Pro.” Our former Adonis Transformation Contest winners have proven that time and time again.
While the allure of extreme workouts done together in a team environment may seem appealing, do no allow your goals to become hi-jacked!
The AGR philosophy is “Targeted Muscle Building and Fat Burning for the Perfect Physique.” There is no need get extreme.
In fact too much strenuous exercise can decrease your leptin levels, hindering your ability to lose fat, increase your hunger, and make you feel fatigued and lethargic.
Our workout and nutrition programs are designed to provide a sustainable active lifestyle that can be followed for the long term. Of course you will have days you don’t feel like working out, we all have those days, but remember our goal is to STIMULATE not ANNIHLATE you with exercise.
your brother in Iron,
Allen Elliott | Adonis Golden Ratio Ambassador
Listen to what John and Brad have to say about Exercise-Induced Rhabdomyolysis here:
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AT13: 30 Days and a Wake Up!
March 14, 2014 by
The title of today’s post, comes from a “phrase” inspired by my military background. Often time tasks were given to us and they had a deadline in which they were to be accomplished.
To help instill not only a sense of urgency, but teamwork and accountability we’d often remind one another how many days we had left to accomplish the mission.
In the last remaining weeks of AT13 it’s imperative that you maintain your pursuit towards that “Golden” transformation. I’ve often heard the transformation contest described as a “Marathon” with a series of sprints. Today’s post will strive to ensure that you are keeping pace and that you’ll have enough “fuel in the tank” to sprint to the end in order to present your best physique.
The Clock is Ticking! The Final Countdown of AT13 Has Begun!
Contest Photo Submissions for AT13 will be due no later than Monday April 14th at Midnight Eastern Standard Time. AT13 is trending to be our largest competition to date based on the number of contest entries.
For many contestants, this is the first workout program that you’ve followed consistently. Thank you for your commitment to the Adonis Golden Ratio Program and more importantly for your commitment to your own personal goals. Win or lose, remember that your transformation is a personal achievement and you should be very proud of your accomplishment.
In a previous post, I discussed the Four Key Ingredient necessary in order to become “Photo-Shoot Ready” on command. Those ingredients are:
1. Conditioning
2. Posing
3. Tanning
4. Photography/Lighting
Keeping these concepts in mind will help you capture some amazing images of your new & improved physique.
In conclusion, to all my brothers in Iron, I hope you’re enjoying the Adonis Lifestyle journey and to those contestants in AT13, come April 14th, I look forward to congratulating you on your transformation!
Stay Safe, Train Hard, and enjoy the weekend!
TGIF (The Goal Is Fitness)
your’s in fitness,
Allen Elliott | Adonis Golden Ratio Ambassador
Hard Gainer U-Turns Onto Golden Way Drive: Interview with AT12 Winner Chad Frakes
February 24, 2014 by
Here’s your new interview with one of the winners from the 12th Adonis Golden Ratio Transformation Contest.
Today John talks to Chad Frakes, who placed 1st in our last 12-Week Transformation contest.
Chad has been following the program since about April 2013. He competed in both contests AT11 & AT12. He’s a great example of someone who may need to complete two transformation contests in order to achieve their “Golden” measurements.
Chad shares with us his “Adonis Origins” images prior to the start of contest AT11. See below:
Adonis Origins: Chad Frakes Beginning of Contest AT11
Adonis Origins: Chad Frakes End of Contest AT11
“I have spent most of my life as a hard gainer, eating whatever I wanted. I was always motivated to train in order to put on size. But when it came to cutting the fat, I was clueless. I am truly blown away when I reflect back to the shape I was in prior to starting Adonis Golden Ratio Systems. “
– Chad Frakes, AT12 Contest Winner
Scroll down to read more of Chad’s transformation journey in his own words.
But first, check out Chad’s AT12 Pictures:
Chad Frakes – AT12 1st Place – Front Before/After Photos
Chad Frakes – AT 12 Transformation Image
Chad Frakes – AT 12 Transformation Image
Chad Frakes – AT12 1st Place – Side Before/After Photos
Chad’s Transformation Essay:
I joined Adonis Golden Ratio in April 2013, and quickly put the AGR workouts to the test. Right away I felt great with having a laid out plan to follow, I have been working out for about 14 years. Having a detailed exercise program to follow was something new to me, I have always just done what ever exercise or muscle group I felt like doing that day, with no real plan. For the most part, I would do chest/tris, back/bis, legs/shoulders. Doing this type of routine would give me results, but never gave me a total body plan that was goal objective.
When I first started the program, Dieting was something I did not understand; I have been a hard gainer for most of my life, I was use to eating whatever and however much I wanted. Since I have gotten older and life less active that has changed for me. Once I started to gain fat I really didn’t know how to get rid of it, I just kept doing what I have done for years.
The past 12 weeks have been a great experience. There were some difficult times along the way, it is my experience that when I started AGR and only eating 1000 calories, this was easier for me then when I got leaner and was eating 2000 calories, it seems the leaner I got the more hunger there was. I encountered some resistance from friends and even my own girlfriend as I was getting leaner, they kept telling me I was getting too skinny, but I ignored them and kept on the path to achieving the Golden ratio. I think most people are not use to seeing other people as lean as they should be really, but the stares I get in the gym told me I’m on track!
I kept things simple throughout my transformation, just followed RTD: Reverse Taper Diet, ate what I wanted within my calorie deficit, that’s it.
Thank you AGR systems, my new body has been achieved from the results of this program!
-Chad Frakes
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Chad,
Congratulations on making a successful transformation. You stayed the course through BOTH AT11 & AT12 never losing sight of your goal. I really enjoyed listening to your interview and the mindset you had to push pass barriers to get the results you were working for. Your hard work has paid off and we look forward to featuring you as a “cover model” on some our upcoming workout programs. Your “U-Turn” onto the Golden Way has been a tremendous success! Keep up the great work and we expect to see and hear more from you along your fitness journey.
your brother in Iron,
Allen Elliott | Adonis Golden Ratio Ambassador
Chad’s Transformation Interview:
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