Summer is in full swing and what better time to get a flatter stomach and stronger abdominals. We’ve got a sizzling flex belt discount offer for you this month that will save you over $35 bucks on a Flex Belt system and priority shipping. All you need to do is follow the steps below.

Save $35.95 on The Flex Belt

Save $20 off a Flex Belt and get Free Priority Shipping a $15.95 Value.

Getting Your Flex Belt Discount

#1 Click the link in the discount box above that says “Click here to Activate Coupon. This is going to open a new window with the official Flex Belt website in it. The promo code you need to get your discount will automatically be applied when you click that link, no need to copy and paste anything.

#2 Click the ORDER NOW link on the Flex Belt official website in the top navigation bar at the right. There’s an image below pointing to exactly where we mean.

Order Image

#3 After you click the ORDER NOW button you’ll be taken to the order page. You will see some blue text stating PROMO CODE ACCEPTED. See the screen shot below for exactly how it should look for you.

See that promo code is active

#4 Select what you want to order. This coupon code actually provides you with 10% off your total purchase. So if you order more then one flex belt system or you choose to add some extra gel pads to your order you’ll also get 10% off those and the free shipping.

total of order and free shipping

Once you’ve decided and selected what you want to order make sure you have priority shipping selected (it’s default) in the bottom right hand corner and also you can opt to either pay for the package insurance or not. See the screen shot below.

That’s it! You’ll notice that ti says $15.95 for priority shipping, but the shipping link in your cart is actually $0.00. If you buy just one Belt then your total should look just like the image above for $179.99.

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Preventing Obesity with Scheduled High Fat Diets

by bsingh on September 14, 2012

Research conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that carefully scheduled high fat diets could cause a unique metabolic change where the body would not store the fat but instead use it for energy when no food is being eaten. Professor Oren Froy  conducted the study with Dr. Hadas Sherman a research fellow and Yoni Genzer a research student. The results can be found in the FASEB Journal.

There is previous research that has shown that a disruption in the daily rhythms of mammals can disrupt their metabolism and cause obesity. This is what tweaked the interest of the researchers to see if they could reverse this to prevent or treat obesity. As such they hypothesized that they could regulat the biological clock by scheduling meals so as to reduce the effects of a high fat diet under normal circumstances.

The study was done on mice who were fed for 18 weeks with a high fat diet. They were fed at the same time and for the same length each day and were compared to three different control groups. One of the control groups consumed a low fat diet and had a fixed schedule while one group had a low fat diet but ate at unscheduled times and with different frequencies and the third group consumed a high fat diet that was unscheduled.

Mice in all groups gained weight during the experiment but the group that was on the high fat unscheduled diet gained the most weight while those on the schedule high fat diet had the lowest total weight at the end of the study. This group and the unscheduled low fat group had the same total amount of calories but those on the schedule high fat diet gained less weight. The mice on the scheduled high fat diet also did not store the ingested fats but instead used them between meals for energy.

We look forward to further studies in this area to see if this would work in the same way with humans.

 

 

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Get Six Pack Abs in a Month

by bsingh on September 12, 2012

You can get six pack abs in a month depending on the current state of your mid section. If you have a lot of fat around your waistline a month may not be a realistic target for you. If you have little to no fat and just need to mostly develop the ab muscles so they can show through then you can have it all done within a month. It goes without saying that this will be one tough month with exercising everyday and intense exercising at that. You will also have to make significant changes to your diet and will have to use some fitness aids such as an ab belt.

The first thing you want to do is to remove all processed, refined, foods high in saturated fats and deep fried foods from your diet. Choose lean meats, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and low fat dairy which are more nutrient dense as well as low in fat and high in fiber. Another necessary diet change is getting rid of drinks, sodas and sweetened teas – basically beverages that provide you with calories, instead drink water. Recommendations from the mayo clinic are 3L per day for men and 2L per day for women.

Diet is just one part and of course the other part is exercise. A month is not a lot of time so you want to choose exercises that work your entire core all at once. Do Jackknives, leg raises, side bends, Swiss ball crunches & side crunches, hanging leg raises.

Do 15 reps of the exercise you choose then rest for a minute and start again doing a total of 4 to six sets. Ab exercises are not the only exercises you need to be doing though; cardiovascular training is of equal importance.

Cardiovascular training is what will help you to effectively burn the fat around your waistline. These include stair stepping, biking, swimming, rowing and running. You want to do 45 minutes to an hour of these exercises with intervals of warm up, cool down and rest periods.

You should do these exercises on different days, so you can do your cardiovasucalr exercises on Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Fridays then do your ab exercises on Tuesday’s, Thursdays and Saturdays, then for a complete week of exercise you can go for a bike ride or do a light jog on Sundays for at least half an hour.

On top of it all you have to ensure you get the right amount of sleep. With such an intense workout program you need to get adequate amounts of sleep so your body can recover effectively to avoid injury. What amount of sleep is adequate? – seven to nine hours in a 24 hour period.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Corelation Between Weight Gain and Blood Pressure Levels

September 10, 2012

Have you ever heard of the “Freshman 15″? It refers the majority of college students that gain weight during their freshman year, on average 15 lbs for the year. But if you didn’t gain the Freshman 15 you may  not be out of the woods as a study done by the University of Illinois shoes [...]

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IBW – Ideal Body Weight, How Much Should you Weigh?

September 7, 2012

Among dieters and fitness enthusiasts, the question of how much one should weigh is very common. For the most accurate estimate of what you should weigh a number of things have to be taken into consideration, these include your age, height, gender, bone density and muscle fat ratio. There are a number of methods that can be [...]

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Lighting and Music in Restaurants, How it Affects Your Caloric Intake

September 5, 2012

Gauging your caloric intake could be as easy as simply choosing restaurants with a certain type of music or lighting. Research shows that  our mood when eating has a lot to do with the amount of calories that we consume. Not only that but it can alter your feeling of fullness and your satisfaction. One [...]

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How Nutrients Provide Energy For Our Bodies

September 3, 2012

The most important thing about any diet is that it should provide the body with the necessary nutrients as well as with the energy it needs to perform our regular daily activities. The body uses calories from the nutrients in food to fuel itself just as how a  car uses gasoline for fuel. Some foods provide the [...]

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Sleep Better for Better Overall Health

September 1, 2012

Better sleep patterns will mean better results, now that we know that – how can we make the change to a better night’s rest. Here are  couple tips to help you to sleep better. Up to two hours prior to going to bed do not use fluorescent lights as these bright lights will cause the [...]

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Dietary Strategies for Weight Loss

August 30, 2012

Weight loss by definiton is a total reduction in one’s body mass by means of fluid loss, lean mass loss (tendon, muscle, other connective tissue or mineral deposits of bone) and adipose tissue (body fat). It can occur both consciously as well as unintentionally due to serious illness or lack of proper nutrition or due [...]

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History of EMS Technologies

August 28, 2012

EMS as you may already know is the technology which is used in ab belts like the Flex Belt and the Slendertone ab belt. This technology was not created for the ab belt but has been around for quite some time before the ab belt came along. The technology has been used in the field [...]

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