Pretty cool infos mate :)
Loved that Will Smith speech collage as well, it applies to everything.
NOTE: If you have not yet read yesterday’s article, The Limiting Factor You Don’t Even KNOW About, do that now by clicking HERE (page opens in a new window). You first need to fully understand the information in that article in order to fully grasp the “solutions” presented in today’s article.
Once finished, check out today’s dynamite content, starting with a 30-second introduction from Dr. K:
5 Solutions To TRIPLE Fat Loss Results
by Dr. Kareem F. Samhouri, CSCS, HFS
Metabolic Fat Loss & Fitness Expert
Yesterday we spoke about 5 nervous-system related issues preventing YOU from getting great fat loss results with your exercise program:
1. Muscle Imbalances
2. Incoordination
3. Sub-sensory pain signals in your joints
4. Inflammation & resultant decreased circulation
5. Improper use of rest periods in exercise program
Today, I’m giving you 5 solutions to counteract each of these 5 problems… the kinds of things you can start doing RIGHT NOW & watch your love handles melt away and your results take off. Here they are:
1. Multi-Planar Movement
2. Movement Complexes
3. Muscle Balancing
4. Mindset Shift
5. Motor Learning
Solution #1 – Multi-Planar Movements:
We live in a 3D world. We need to train in a 3D way.
By working on exercises that involve forward/backward motion, side/side motion, and rotational motion, you are training in a real-life way and challenging your muscles and nervous system in a real-life way. The end result is stronger signaling, a stronger connection with your nervous system, and exponentially greater and faster fat loss results.
Here is an example of the squat, performed in all 3 planes of movement:
As an added point, it is very difficult to create imbalances between muscles when you are recruiting their fibers from so many directions during an exercise program and in a way that is natural for the body to move. Without muscle imbalance (as you’ll see below), you build healthy joints & improve circulation, leading to improved strength & faster fat loss.
Solution #2 – Movement Complexes:
Movement complexes involve doing multiple exercises, often times using only 1 exercise modality, without rest before taking a prolonged rest break and repeating again. For example, in the Double Edged Fat Loss method for Neuro Fat Loss, I use the following arrangement of exercises, all without a rest break, and all with the same piece of equipment:
- Squat
- Push
- Lunge
- Pull
- Plank
For a better understanding of the Full Throttle Fat Loss method, how it can help you, and what movement complexes are, check out one of my visits to the NBC studios below:
By performing many exercises back to back in this format, you stimulate a greater metabolic demand across your entire body, improving circulation significantly. With increased total-body circulation, it is extremely difficult for swelling to become deposited in one particular area. Your muscle pump system will be working well for you, and you will be taking the demand off of your venous & lymphatic systems.
In the end, more of your energy will be able to be devoted to your exercise, rather than other processes. You will lose fat faster.
Solution #3 – Muscle Balancing:
Muscle = Your Metabolism.
Unless you effectively balance the muscles around a joint, your body will stop growth and progress dead in its tracks.
In the video below, I teach you exactly what muscle balancing is, why it’s important, and some really important take home points that you can use with your fat loss program right now:
Invest in your body by balancing muscles for a much better fat loss result.
Solution #4 – Mindset Shift:
Belief system is everything. You truly do create your own reality. Watch this clip from Will Smith that I think pretty much sums it up:
I believe in teaching mindset, so I’ve created an audio training system that does just that. It all starts with positive self-talk & multi-sensory imagination. Basically, in English, what this means is that you want to see, hear, feel, smell, & taste success. Doing one is just not enough if you really want to melt the rest of your body fat off and truly transform, once and for all.
The entire audio series is part of the Full Throttle Fat Loss System.
Solution #5 – Motor Learning:
Basically, it matters how much muscle you recruit in an exercise & how coordinated you move. As we discussed yesterday, if you are doing 10 sets of 10 repetitions, the weakness is compounded 100x by not properly recruiting your entire muscle. In order to properly recruit your muscle, your body must know where it is in space. This is called proprioception, or position sense.
Effective position-sense training will lead to faster nerve conduction, improved signaling, more muscle recruited, and greater strength with each exercise you perform. Your body will recruit everything it has for you, and you will get results (i.e. fat loss) exponentially faster!
Once you learn movements through the proper motor learning strategy, exercise will never be as hard again. With Double Edged Fat Loss, you will learn to do 3-5 exercises at once, and you will get 3-5x the fat loss result.
Check out this video to see a demonstration of why Motor Learning is so important if you never want to plateau again:
In the end, if you want to lose fat THREE times faster, you must—absolutely MUST—learn to optimally address your nervous system with your training. That’s what Full Throttle Fat Loss does.
I trust today’s article has challenged you — start applying the techniques to your training today, and in just a few days time I guarantee you’ll notice a substantial difference.
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I told you this guy was BRILLIANT. Kareem is truly living and practicing on the cutting edge of therapy and fitness, and the results his clients are achieving with his methods are, quite frankly, incredible.
If you have a question or comment for Dr. K based on the information he’s shared in the last two articles, post it below and Dr. K will be popping in to the blog to address each and every one of them again today.
Talk to you in the comments section!
-Joel
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very, very educational.
@Alex –
glad you liked it!
yeah, that will smith video pumps me up every time i watch it – glad it did the same for you!
This was one of my favorite reads recently. Thanks so much for taking the time to help us, Dr. K!
Hey, this is really interesting stuff. It seems that anyone would want to learn it even if they have no need to lose fat (which I don’t), but just want to get into shape or keep their body fit. Further, anyone who wants to know their body better would be interested in this. That is where I would be coming from. I have a background in eastern traditions (soft practices) but have a number of friends with weight problems. My kind of training is too far of a reach for them, but your kind seems quite accessible. I am excited about this.
Thanks for your generosity!
Hey Dr. K..Great info you’ve given there and I’m really curious and excited about this whole new way of looking at fitness..I feel that I do have muscular imbalances that are holding me back from achieving what I can..So I’m really excited about the whole system to correct that and incorporate that into a fat loss routine!..By the way how much does the whole Double Edged Fat Loss system cost?..
I am wondering if there i s a connection with brain gyms used to stimulate neuron production across both the right and left sides of the brain? Have you done any of these in conjunction with the program? See,to be a logical fit. AMazing work Dr. K.
Dr. K…
Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with a consistent and nagging IT Band issue??? Its like i have 2 big knots and it is starting to even effect my hip. It is preventing me from training the way I would like to.
I use the foam roller, get massages, stretch…i just cant get past it. It started after my knee surgery and has yet to get better. I am a Personal Trainer and Group Ex. Instructor. When I teach cycling, it seems to aggravate it more.
Any ideas or suggestions? Clearly something is unbalanced but I cannot figure it out.
Thanks a ton!
Kareem, Wow, So much information, so little time to study but I seem to
be drawn back to it because its so interesting. Thanks for sharing
your knowledge with us and thanks for your generosity; its cost us
nothing and seems to be so valuable. I think just with the info you
have provided so far i’m way ahead of the pack. Good luck with DEFL,
I know its going to be successful. Hope I can benefit from it but as
always, the bottom line will be the decider. Cheers James
That makes SO much sense – and I’m looking forward to finally using my textbooks again;) And Will Smith – that explains his amazing level of success and achievement.
Is the audio portion of the program available – where can I find it?
Solutions #2: movement complexes sounds almost exactly like what I have been trying with John Romaniello’s “bodycomp blitz” which has his “7 Deadly Workouts”, or Craig Ballantyne’s “turbulence training”. Both cases basically have me doing super sets, where I do multiple exercises back to back with the same equipment and no rest with in the set. If you take a look at those examples, how can I modify them to meet your other solutions? Btw, thanks Joel for sending me John’s, Craig’s and vince’s workouts last December! over 7 weeks I was able to lose fat while gaining muscle
That Will smith part was good, thanks Dr K, you should check out Bruce lee’s lines too in his documentary, it’s cool stuff for the mindset,
Hello Kareem. Thankyou for sharing your fantastic knowledge. I’m a mother (in my thirties) of six children, but I was once a physiotherapist (in another life!) and I’m fully appreciative of how you’ve applied your learning, along with your clinical experience, to offer such a comprehensive package. You’re also blessed to have tremendous presentation skills, charisma and the ability to ‘teach’ so well. Congratulations! Anyhow, I’m interested, Kareem, on how you incorporate stretching into your program to maximise tissue health. In your experience do you feel prescriptive stretching of muscles is the best adjunct to your program or do you think that regular participation in a discipline like yoga (which I’ve never done) would be more beneficial? Maybe both? Is stretching something you will present later? Thanks for your thoughts. Regards, Lucy
I am very interested in this program. as someone with a bad knee I really struggle with some workouts : there is a very fine line between pushing hard enough to acheive results and having pushed too hard so that now you have an injury and can’t work out.
Educational stuff, pretty good angle, and the enthusiasm is probably a result of self belief in his peers, mixed with personal experience. However, he is missing the point. Your nervous and lymphatic systems react to diet, more than exertion. Fat loss is f234ing easier than this. Efficient carnitine shutle/ glucose delivery is enhanced by increasing dimensional muscle stimulation, this is true. The blood sugar level is influenced and stored fat will be used for energy, however, your diet is essential for the nervous system. Young trainers with youthful energy flows, always seem to neglect real health in the presence of influential bias.
I have a regular routine that includes days-off in my weekly training. If I wanted to try the two programs you showed in the top two paragraphs, would i switch out my regular routine for a day to do them? or include them with my current work out?
Thanks for sharing!
Another great article!! Very educational and it totally makes sense to exercise to help your body move more effectively & efficiently while reducing injury! Can’t wait!!
Looks like you are on the right track with this approach to training, fitness, and fat loss. These are almost the exact principles that I use with all my athletes and clients. Without addressing these essential principles, your training results will probably not produce effective results.
@ion –
My pleasure, Ion.
Very happy to help :-)
…and, yes, you’re right – this applies to EVERYONE – seriously. (very astute of you)
@Paul –
Hey Paul,
Glad you’re so excited! (me too)
you’re definitely on the right path with your thinking, and i’m very excited to work with you – stay tuned, b/c i wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise :-)
Hey Mark,
Thanks for the kind words – I’m humbled….
Brain gyms? that’s a new one for me… where can I learn more?
have a great day and please stay in touch,
Kareem
@Steph –
Hey Steph,
got your email too :-)
my guess… and only a guess without seeing you, is that is starting at L5-S1 with some sort of nerve impingement going on there… i’d work on posterior pelvic tilts (in the exercise video database that comes with DEFL) – if it keeps getting tight and you’re sitting on that area during cycling, makes intuitive sense to me…
kill the oversignaling, kill the tightness… then work on restoration. make sense?
i look forward to working with you,
-k
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I guess it all started back in 2001 (my freshman year of college) when I was just a “skinny fat” 19-year old kid. At the time, I was spending close to 2 hours a day in the gym (now my workouts last about 30 minutes), and despite my efforts, you’d probably never guess I worked out a day in my life by looking at me...