Win a brand new Nintendo DSi and copy of The Biggest Loser USA videogame with Fat Free Fitness!
13/11/2009 at 08:10am by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Would you like to win yourself a brand new Nintendo DSi videogames console, worth £149.99, complete with a copy of the hotly anticipated Biggest Loser USA game, inspired by the hit weight loss TV show?
If you do, you’ll love this competition! To celebrate the release of The Biggest Loser USA videogame, out today at all good retailers online and on the high street, we’ve partnered with the developers to offer:
1 lucky winner the chance to win Nintendo’s fantastic new DSi console, complete with 2 built-in cameras, RRP £149.99 complete with The Biggest Loser videogame, RRP £19.99…
…and 4 runners up the chance to win a copy of The Biggest Loser game on Nintendo DS, which is being heralded by many as the best fitness game to be released for any games console so far.
All you have to do to answer the simple weight loss question by clicking the link below to be in with a shot of winning this fantastic prize, courtesy of NBC and videogame developers THQ, in partnership with Fat Free Fitness Weight loss agency, the UK’s only specialist weight loss personal training matchmaking service, based in Gloucester and Cheltenham.
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TERMS: COMPETITION END DATE SUNDAY 22ND NOVEMBER MIDNIGHT. WINNERS WILL BE CONTACTED BY CHOSEN METHOD AFTER THIS DATE AND ANNOUNCED ONLINE FRIDAY 27TH NOVEMBER. COMPETITION OPEN TO UK RESIDENTS ONLY.
More about the fantastic Nintendo DSi RRP £149.99:
• Features a 3.25-inch screen, two 0.3 megapixel cameras, enhanced sound quality, and an SD memory card slot
• Thinner than Nintendo DS Lite by 12 percent but with a bigger, brighter screen
• Experiment, record, create, and play with sound using the DSi Sound application
• Edit and save pictures in your own portable photo album or onto an SD card for sharing
• Download new games and applications from the DSi Shop via improved WiFi capability
More about The Biggest Loser USA videogame, available for the Nintendo Wii and DS games consoles:
The Biggest Loser USA is an exciting and active health and fitness game based on the hit NBC series. Now you can experience the gruelling workouts, competitive challenges and dramatic weigh-ins of the show as you slim down to become The Biggest Loser. Join host Allison Sweeney, and professional trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels as you receive instruction, motivation and health tips designed to inspire a healthy lifestyle and help you lose weight.
Features:
• Join The Biggest Loser Challenge! Work-out to a series of structured routines with weekly special challenges, weigh-ins and eliminations.
• Personalize your Program! Choose your challenge length and difficulty level, your personal goal, your trainer, customize routines and even pick your team colour!
• Health & Lifestyle Tips and Information! Includes 50 healthy recipes from The Biggest Loser Cookbook, a calorie counter and healthy tips and suggestions from the Trainers, Chefs and Contestants.
• Train with a Friend! Two players can train together and compete in weekly challenges to see who really is The Biggest Loser! (Wii only)
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Fat Free Fitness gets some really nice weight loss coverage online...
12/11/2009 at 09:51pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
I've given a few interviews recently, ranging from talking about youth obesity and Gok Wan's new 'body image' push to also about how; as important as educating teenagers about health and activity is, parents and older generations are often unknowingly evangelists for unhealthy fad dieting.
Here's a selection of some of the coverage!
Bounty magazine online - one stop shop for all things pregnancy related
Candis magazine - family orientated women's interest online and print magazine
Rowing machine manufacturers Concept 2 have featured us no less than three times in the last week and a bit following interviews...
Crash dieting - Weight loss myths - Fitting into your Christmas party dress!
Schooldays.ie - Irish teaching and parenting website
Yell.com - directory site in the health and fitness section
New mum Coleen Rooney will be using Vibration training - but is it just another fad?
10/11/2009 at 11:17pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Coleen Rooney, England footballer Wayne Rooney's wife, is apparently using the newest in fitness techniques in her bid to trim back down to a size 10 having just given birth to son Kai.
This product is the Flexi-bar, a flexible bar which vibrates whilst you exercise holding it.
In no less than 4 instances is the product named in an article on the Daily Mail website, and will no doubt feature in other media coverage too. The Flexi-bar is also personally endorsed by her trainer Eloise Lindsay, who says that she'll be using it in Coleen's exercise programme.
Now, I've been a long-term skeptic of products which claim to be the 'future of fitness', as I truly believe they prey on people who will do just about anything and pay just about any amount in order to lose weight. Vibration training, which many gyms make members pay extra for, is, in my opinion another in a long-line of 'innovations' which fits this bill. The fact that the first I've heard of the Flexi-bar as a trainer is in a story related to a celebrity's weight loss effort leads me to question the effectiveness of the product itself - it certainly wouldn't be the first time somebody in the public eye had endorsed a product as part of a marketing effort, and it won't be the last.
Vibration training claims to push and pull the muscles out of equilibrium, causing signals to be passed continuously from the muscles to the brain and back again, via the nervous system. These signals then tell the muscles they are being pushed away from their centre and that they must automatically contract to bring themselves back, a process known as a Tonic Reflex.
Even if the above is true, which I am not in a scientific position to judge (it does sound plausible), the claims that this type of training can demonstrably affect 'weight loss and muscular strength', as the Flexi-bar claims to do, are laughable, given that we'd be talking about small, barely noticeable muscular movements, the likes of which would require a notional amount of calories to complete.
Angelique Kronebusch, a personal trainer from British Columbia, Canada also believes the Flexi-bar is another in the long list of fitness fads:
"I think [vibration training and the Flexi-bar] is a fad for sure. I worked in a gym with vibration plates, which members paid $100/month to use."
Angelique continued,
"In all the time certain members used them, I never saw these people have any real results."
Ben Poss, also a personal trainer from Vancouver, Canada, was equally vocal,
"I personally think vibration training is a joke. I watched the flexi-bar commercial recently and thought it was hilarious. It blows me away that people still fall for these gimmicks!"
Good luck to Coleen Rooney with her weight loss, but maybe this is one bandwagon the public should allow to pass by.
Perfect Wedding features Fat Free Fitness and Rich Leigh's weight loss tips...
06/11/2009 at 11:11pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Perfect Wedding, one of the UK's leading bridal magazines has featured Fat Free Fitness online, showing you how to fit into your wedding dress, even if you've not got long to do it in!
Check it out below:
http://www.perfectweddingmag.com/article/how-fit-your-dress-%E2%80%93-without-all-lumps-and-bumps
The 10 Biggest Lies Blokes Believe About Weight Loss part two of two
02/11/2009 at 08:28pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Myth Six: Muscle turns to fat and vice versa
If there’s one thing that I’ve written about more than any other topic, it’s about people believing that muscle can turn to fat and vice versa.
The two tissues are scientifically distinct, and it’s 100% impossible for one to miraculously transform into the other. So no, Arnie didn’t get saggy because he stopped doing steroids and weight lifting and his muscle turned to fat. Arnie got saggy because his muscle atrophied (basically, wasted away due to disuse) and it was his eating habits that led to him having a beautiful set of man boobs.
This ties in nicely with Myth One: if you want to unveil a set of abs that could turn Rosie O’Donnell straight, getting rid of the body fat is the only way to do it.
Myth Seven: You don’t need to do cardio to lose weight
If thinking about a treadmill is enough to bring you out in a sweat, this next statement might leave you hospitalised. Warn somebody around you, and then continue.
If you’re looking to lose weight, tone up or trim down in a timeframe, you’ll need to do some cardiovascular (CV – anything aerobic, such as jogging) exercise.
I’ve lost count of the number of men I and my trainers have trained who thought that solely weight training would trim them up quickly (back to myth one). Whilst resistance training is hugely beneficial, as the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you burn (even at rest), CV is essential to trim those unwanted inches.
If you’ve stepped foot in a gym, you’ve probably seen that overweight guy who seemingly never moves away from the bench press. If you go to a gym but haven’t seen this guy, chances are, he’s you.
There’s bound to be some CV you’ll enjoy. Skipping, running, boxing, cycling, rowing, cross-training, playing sport and swimming are some examples of exercise which can help you shed fat fast. If you don’t fancy going it alone, there are literally dozens of classes available at your local gym or leisure centre. It’s no longer in some way ‘unmanly’ to go to classes. In fact, most of my classes were filled with men looking to trim down, especially the circuits and spinning sessions.
Myth Eight: Steroids and/or fat loss tablets are the answer
Although the wedding may be fast approaching, don’t be tempted to give in to steroids and fat loss tablets. This may get preachy, but bear with me.
You see, both have a list of potential side effects longer than Simon Cowell’s tailor’s tape measure, but even more than that, they’re not really the quick fixes they’re made out to be.
People don’t really talk openly about them, but let’s take steroids for instance. There isn’t a professional bodybuilder who doesn’t or hasn’t regularly taken testosterone in the form of steroids. But let’s be honest, these guys are athletes. They don’t just whack it in, go to bed and wake up as monsters. They dedicate their lives to the art, both in and outside of the gym. They respect the side effects and take the expensive yet informed choice to not only take steroids, but also take courses of hormones in between ‘cycles’ to ensure against the side effects that result from not having as much testosterone coursing through their veins. Most recreational users though, the Joe Public amongst us, wouldn’t know to do this, and really just shouldn’t dabble.
Many exercisers I know have decided to take steroids; which is of course, their choice entirely, but some didn’t bank on the fact that as in myth six, muscle that isn’t needed by the body wastes. So, they finish their cycle, from which they’ve packed on some muscle, and then lose a large amount of it in a short space of time, making it obvious they took steroids to everybody around them. So what do they do? They take another course. And so, the reliance begins.
But let’s be honest, all you want to do is lose some weight for the wedding, or maybe just not look like your evenings are spent dining out with Johnny Vegas, right?
Fat loss tablets may seem like a good idea then. Until you learn that they’re only ever a short term answer, and don’t address the psychological aspect of weight loss and any issues you may have with food. As soon as you stop taking them (many of which don’t work entirely) you’ll pile the pounds back on, and have had incontinence that the Victorians would have thought excessive.
Myth Nine: Low fat or fat free means no calories
Low fat or no fat foods aren’t necessarily the diet saviours they’re marketed to be. Fat is the most caloric (high in calories) nutrient there is. In every single gram of fat, there are 7 calories, whereas in every gram of protein or carbohydrates, there are 4 calories.
So, if something is low fat, it could still have a huge amount of carbohydrates, the body’s primary source of fuel. If these calories aren’t used, they will be stored by your body for later, and it won’t be as Gladiator-like muscle. Nope, it’ll settle itself nicely around your gut, in probability.
Myth Ten: Skipping meals is a good way to lose weight
When you skip a meal, your body starts to wonder why it's not getting any food and it will resort to how it’d deal with being starved: by slowing down your metabolism.
A slower metabolism means you’ll burn fewer calories throughout the day, and you’ll also feel a lot hungrier quicker, thus more likely to snack. Let’s be honest, you’re not likely to pick a banana, or a handful of nuts to snack on are you? Chances are, you’ll head straight for the food which’ll sate your appetite quickest, no doubt the stodgiest, most carb loaded thing you can find.
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