Saturday, November 27, 2010
Are you going to win my stuff this month?
How have your workouts been going this month? Are you logging them into the WOWY Super-gym? If you have more Blue lines on your calendar for the month of November, you win a free One-on-One with Tony Horton DVD! (Must have me as your Beachbody coach to qualify or be a coach with me as your sponsor).
I've been doing P90X this month. Below is my workout calendar so far:
As you can see, I have done 17 SuperGym workouts so far - with 3 days left in the month. If you have more than me by the end of the month, send me your screenshot to prove it, and win!
If I beat you this month, don't worry, there will also be chances to win in December and January, so keep pushing play!
~Kevin
TheFitDoc
Team Beachbody Star-diamond coach
I've been doing P90X this month. Below is my workout calendar so far:
As you can see, I have done 17 SuperGym workouts so far - with 3 days left in the month. If you have more than me by the end of the month, send me your screenshot to prove it, and win!
If I beat you this month, don't worry, there will also be chances to win in December and January, so keep pushing play!
~Kevin
TheFitDoc
Team Beachbody Star-diamond coach
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Win Doc's Stuff
Most excellent reader- I'm asking for your help with something. I tend to fall off the wagon sometimes. (Yes, even coaches do!)
So I decided to start a fun game to keep me in line- and you are going to love it.
Starting in November, log all your workouts into WOWY. At the end of the month, if you have more daily workouts logged in (blue lines on your WOWY calendar, then you win. Prizes for November winners will be a free One-on-One with Tony Horton DVD.
I'll continue the contest on December and January with all new prizes.
So make sure to log all your workouts Into the WOWY Online Super-Gym at TeamBeachbody.com. If you send me a screenshot showing more workout in November than I have, you win!
You must have me as your personal Team Beachbody coach to qualify (Click here to sign up for FREE), or be a Team Beachbody coach yourself with me as your sponsoring coach (also free to signup until Jan 1st, 2011 and you get a 25% discount on Beachobdy Products!).
Email me if you have any questions.
~ Kevin
Kevin Kane, MD
Beachbody Start-diamond Coach
So I decided to start a fun game to keep me in line- and you are going to love it.
Starting in November, log all your workouts into WOWY. At the end of the month, if you have more daily workouts logged in (blue lines on your WOWY calendar, then you win. Prizes for November winners will be a free One-on-One with Tony Horton DVD.
I'll continue the contest on December and January with all new prizes.
So make sure to log all your workouts Into the WOWY Online Super-Gym at TeamBeachbody.com. If you send me a screenshot showing more workout in November than I have, you win!
You must have me as your personal Team Beachbody coach to qualify (Click here to sign up for FREE), or be a Team Beachbody coach yourself with me as your sponsoring coach (also free to signup until Jan 1st, 2011 and you get a 25% discount on Beachobdy Products!).
Email me if you have any questions.
~ Kevin
Kevin Kane, MD
Beachbody Start-diamond Coach
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Good news for your sugar: Shakeology
Just yesterday a guy I met at the airport asked me about Shakeology in people with diabetes. I often get asked about Shakeology and blood sugar- both in people with diabetes and others who are just looking to stabilize their blood sugar and prevent big swings.
Shakeology scored 24 on the glycemic index scale. That put it midway between broccoli and apples, only about 1/4th the blood sugar response of a baked potato, and earned Shakeology Low-Glycemic food certification. it is why Shakeology makes you feel satisfied without that awful, energy sucking, blah feeling you get with a sugar rush.
Of course, if you have diabetes, especially type one, you know that you should check with your doctor about Shakeology. If any of my readers with diabetes have a Shakeology story to share, I'd love to hear it and share it on the blog. Email me at Kevin@TheFitDoc.com
For more about why eating low glycemic index foods like Shakeology is critical for your health, click the video below.
Shakeology scored 24 on the glycemic index scale. That put it midway between broccoli and apples, only about 1/4th the blood sugar response of a baked potato, and earned Shakeology Low-Glycemic food certification. it is why Shakeology makes you feel satisfied without that awful, energy sucking, blah feeling you get with a sugar rush.
Of course, if you have diabetes, especially type one, you know that you should check with your doctor about Shakeology. If any of my readers with diabetes have a Shakeology story to share, I'd love to hear it and share it on the blog. Email me at Kevin@TheFitDoc.com
For more about why eating low glycemic index foods like Shakeology is critical for your health, click the video below.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Lack of Sleep: A Dieter's Worst Nightmare
Is sleep-loss sabotaging your weight-loss?
Lack of sleep appears to sabotage the effectiveness of dieting, according to new research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The hormonal changes that happen with lack of sleep mess with your diet in a ways that are far worse than you think.
It is not so much you lose less weight when you diet sleep deprived, it appears you lose the wrong kind of weight. Insomnia can lead to losing 4 times more muscle than fat! And muscle is one of the main drivers of your metabolism! So less sleep means less fat loss and slowing metabolism.
Plus, the hormone changes that occur make you more hungry if you lose sleep.
Less fat loss, slower metabolism, and more hunger. Lack of sleep is a dieter's worst nightmare.
Here are the specifics:
The study looked at sleep deprivation and whether it affected the amount and composition of weight lost when dieting, hunger levels, and levels of certain weight and metabolism related hormones.
Researchers randomized 10 overweight adults to 2 weeks of dieting with normal sleep (8.5 hours/night) or 2 weeks of dieting with 5.5 hours per night of sleep.
Reduced sleep decreased the proportion of weight lost as fat by 55%.
-Sleepers lost 1.4 kg of fat, insomniacs lost 0.6 kg of fat.
It also increased the amount of fat free tissue loss (muscle) by 60%!
-Sleepers lost 1.5 kg of muscle, and insomniacs lost 2.4 kg of muscle!
So in this study, dieters who were sleep deprived lost 400% more muscle than fat!
Less sleep led to higher ghrelin levels (the hunger hormone) and increased feelings of hunger.
"Among other hormonal effects, we found that sleep restriction caused an increase in ghrelin levels in the blood. Ghrelin is a hormone that has been shown to reduce energy expenditure, stimulate hunger and food intake, promote retention of fat, and increase glucose production in the body. This could explain why sleep-deprived participants also reported feeling hungrier during the study," senior study author Plamen Penev, MD, PhD, University of Chicago, said in a statement.
It also lowered resting metabolic rate and epinephrine concentration (a fat burning, metabolism revving hormone).
The main limits to the study were the very small sample size and short duration of the study.
"These results highlight the importance of adequate sleep for maintenance of fat-free body mass when dieting to lose weight," according to Dr. Penev.
In an accompanying editorial, Shahrad Taheri, MBBS, PhD, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, Stanford Sleep Medicine Center in California, agree that adequate sleep might be an important factor in successful weight loss and suggest sleep might be part of a lifestyle package that has traditionally focused on diet and exercise.
Dr. Taheri and Dr. Mignot conclude that replicating the findings from this study in clinical trials is "a critical next step in addressing important questions about sleep and body weight."
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Ann Intern Med. 2010;153:435-441, 475-476.
So get out there, push play, then go take a nap!
-
Lack of sleep appears to sabotage the effectiveness of dieting, according to new research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The hormonal changes that happen with lack of sleep mess with your diet in a ways that are far worse than you think.
It is not so much you lose less weight when you diet sleep deprived, it appears you lose the wrong kind of weight. Insomnia can lead to losing 4 times more muscle than fat! And muscle is one of the main drivers of your metabolism! So less sleep means less fat loss and slowing metabolism.
Plus, the hormone changes that occur make you more hungry if you lose sleep.
Less fat loss, slower metabolism, and more hunger. Lack of sleep is a dieter's worst nightmare.
Here are the specifics:
The study looked at sleep deprivation and whether it affected the amount and composition of weight lost when dieting, hunger levels, and levels of certain weight and metabolism related hormones.
Researchers randomized 10 overweight adults to 2 weeks of dieting with normal sleep (8.5 hours/night) or 2 weeks of dieting with 5.5 hours per night of sleep.
Reduced sleep decreased the proportion of weight lost as fat by 55%.
-Sleepers lost 1.4 kg of fat, insomniacs lost 0.6 kg of fat.
It also increased the amount of fat free tissue loss (muscle) by 60%!
-Sleepers lost 1.5 kg of muscle, and insomniacs lost 2.4 kg of muscle!
So in this study, dieters who were sleep deprived lost 400% more muscle than fat!
Less sleep led to higher ghrelin levels (the hunger hormone) and increased feelings of hunger.
"Among other hormonal effects, we found that sleep restriction caused an increase in ghrelin levels in the blood. Ghrelin is a hormone that has been shown to reduce energy expenditure, stimulate hunger and food intake, promote retention of fat, and increase glucose production in the body. This could explain why sleep-deprived participants also reported feeling hungrier during the study," senior study author Plamen Penev, MD, PhD, University of Chicago, said in a statement.
It also lowered resting metabolic rate and epinephrine concentration (a fat burning, metabolism revving hormone).
The main limits to the study were the very small sample size and short duration of the study.
"These results highlight the importance of adequate sleep for maintenance of fat-free body mass when dieting to lose weight," according to Dr. Penev.
In an accompanying editorial, Shahrad Taheri, MBBS, PhD, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, Stanford Sleep Medicine Center in California, agree that adequate sleep might be an important factor in successful weight loss and suggest sleep might be part of a lifestyle package that has traditionally focused on diet and exercise.
Dr. Taheri and Dr. Mignot conclude that replicating the findings from this study in clinical trials is "a critical next step in addressing important questions about sleep and body weight."
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Ann Intern Med. 2010;153:435-441, 475-476.
So get out there, push play, then go take a nap!
-
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Who's behind the P90X craze?
Several you you hard working, sweaty people have asked me about the company behind the fitness DVD's.
Here's the scoop!
Beachbody was founded in 1998 by Jon Congden and Carl Daikeler as a direct sales company making fitness infomercials. Their first product I believe was called Great Body Guaranteed. It was followed up with Slim in 6, and Power 90 - the precursor of P90X.
Jon and Carl realized a few things that led them to expanding their business model.
1. The saw that selling videos is easy, but people push play and get results was tougher. Even the world's greatest video on the shelf collecting dust didn't work!
2. Their customers getting the best results were the ones actively engaged not only with the products, but also on the Team Beachbody message board community. This was around 2005/2006- pre-facebook ;-)
3. They themselves got the best fitness results when they were financially involved. When they started the company they had to get fit to show that the products worked.
So they decided to get people involved and give them a financial stake in the business by opening up a network marketing opportunity within Beachbody.
In 2007, Team Beachbody, the first MLM opportunity focused on holistic fitness and weight loss was born. "By putting the rewards for living a healthy lifestyle into the hands of the people who have the most to gain by getting healthy, Team Beachbody added the first scalable financial incentive to the obesity problem, which has reached epic proportions." (200 million Americans obese or overweight)
Now they are the best selling fitness program company in America. They have 260 employees, and 35,000 independent distributors called 'Coaches' throughout the US. Beachbody still continues it's own direct sales efforts with over $100 million spent annually on advertising and sales of $319 million in 2009.
Current best selling products include P90X, Shakeology (health shake), Insanity, Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire, Ten-Minute Trainer, and Hip-hop Abs.
Now towel off. If you have any other questions about the company, as always, I can be reached at kevin@thefitdoc.com
Keep Pushing Play,
Kevin
Here's the scoop!
Beachbody was founded in 1998 by Jon Congden and Carl Daikeler as a direct sales company making fitness infomercials. Their first product I believe was called Great Body Guaranteed. It was followed up with Slim in 6, and Power 90 - the precursor of P90X.
Jon and Carl realized a few things that led them to expanding their business model.
1. The saw that selling videos is easy, but people push play and get results was tougher. Even the world's greatest video on the shelf collecting dust didn't work!
2. Their customers getting the best results were the ones actively engaged not only with the products, but also on the Team Beachbody message board community. This was around 2005/2006- pre-facebook ;-)
3. They themselves got the best fitness results when they were financially involved. When they started the company they had to get fit to show that the products worked.
So they decided to get people involved and give them a financial stake in the business by opening up a network marketing opportunity within Beachbody.
In 2007, Team Beachbody, the first MLM opportunity focused on holistic fitness and weight loss was born. "By putting the rewards for living a healthy lifestyle into the hands of the people who have the most to gain by getting healthy, Team Beachbody added the first scalable financial incentive to the obesity problem, which has reached epic proportions." (200 million Americans obese or overweight)
Now they are the best selling fitness program company in America. They have 260 employees, and 35,000 independent distributors called 'Coaches' throughout the US. Beachbody still continues it's own direct sales efforts with over $100 million spent annually on advertising and sales of $319 million in 2009.
Current best selling products include P90X, Shakeology (health shake), Insanity, Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire, Ten-Minute Trainer, and Hip-hop Abs.
Now towel off. If you have any other questions about the company, as always, I can be reached at kevin@thefitdoc.com
Keep Pushing Play,
Kevin
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Eating Healthy for Life
Hi Doc,
I have a problem with getting started. My son and I both need to lose alot of weight over a 100 lbs each. But I don't like the recipes for those low carb or calorie diets some of that food we just can't eat. So I don't know what to change our life styles around and cook healthy to make a difference. The Shakeology mix you sent me was great but I can only use the mix as a meal replacement for one or two meals. I needs some help to learn how to cook healthy and be able to have food that we can eat. We don't like oatmeal or eggs for breakfast. We don't like turkey. Stuff like that. Doc can you help us?
B.
HI
Sure I can help. Together we'll figure this out for you two.
I'd like you to start out by recording our food intake for a day, then send it to me. It is a good way to start looking for changes.
I have a few questions and suggestions for you already, though:
Which workout program do you use? How many workouts per week have you been getting in?
Most of them have a recommended meal plan. Have you tried any of the recipes in it?
What do you normally have for breakfast? Do you like cereal? I suggest shredded wheat for breakfast (regular, not frosted) because it has no added sugar and is high in fiber. This means it will stick with you and it will not raise your blood sugar too much.
The problem with shredded wheat is that it tastes boring. To get around that, top it off with a scoop of chocolate or vanilla protein powder, and/or a banana or berries.
Keep drinking Shakeology as a lunch-time meal replacement.
Then we just have to come up with healthy snacks and healthy dinners that you guys can stomach.
You might want to check out is "Clean Eating" magazine. It is full of healthy choices, that are not too diety, but will still help you lose weight. The pictures in there look fantastic! It is super source of good ideas to help you learn to cook healthy.
And don't worry about taking it all off overnight. It took you a while to put the weight on, so it will probably take a while getting it off. What we really are looking for is lifestyle change- that you can adopt and live with long-term. That is the best way to keep the weight off.
To your success,
-Doc
Kevin J. Kane, MD
Independent Beachbody Star-Diamond Coach
www.TheFitDoc.com
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