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Posted by Joel Marion on November 3, 2009
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Just getting back into Tampa after spending an awesome weekend back “home” in Philly watching the Eagles crush the Giants 40-17.
Oh how sweet it was to watch that masacre up close and personal, just 7 rows from the field :-)
Now if only the Phillies can get their their act together for the final two games of the World Series…
We’ll see.
Regardless, after a weekend away I was ready to get back in the gym today, and after completing a pretty crazy session just moments ago, wanted to share it with you.
It all started with a 5 minute warm-up on the mill o’ tread, followed by some brief stretching, and then into the below beast of a circuit:
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Posted by Joel Marion on October 29, 2009
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This week I’ve had the pleasure of entertaining some of my closest fitness buddies for a few days here in Tampa, and upon awakening, several of us found ourselves facing the all too common dilemma deciding what to eat for breakfast.
Vinny (Del Monte) chose to go with some left-over lobster and steak from our evening at Shula’s the night before (where, by the way, John Romaniello joined me in being inducted in Shula’s 48 oz. Club, by ordering—and finishing—their signature 48 oz. Porterhouse. Nice work, John), while I decided to go with the more conventional egg.
You see, truth is, I like eggs and tend to eat a lot of them.
Now, I’m sure you’ve heard a time or two before that you should be mindful of consuming too many unhatched chickens as their cholesterol content is rather high.
I’ve even heard the recommendation that eggs should only be eaten once per week to avoid cholesterol issues. If that’s the case, I’m probably due to die rather soon.
Fortunately, it’s not.
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Posted by Joel Marion on October 26, 2009
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This past weekend I was hanging out with Transformation Domination LIVE speakers Craig Ballantyne and Vince DelMonte, both of whom are collectively almost as cool as me.
No really, we measured it.
Anyway, after some informal “meetings” and such, we decided to head out to dinner at a Hibachi restaurant called Benihana, home of the official worst desert ever—the pineapple boat.
I assumed from the name that it would come with at least 3 “passenger” scoops of ice cream, some whipped cream, and a cherry, but no, the pineapple boat is simply a shallow 1/8th cut of pineapple, mostly rind, for $6.
Terrible.
Fortunately, their Japanese cuisine was much better than the dessert, which leads me to this suggestion: Order the Hibachi Chicken and Steak, not the Pineapple Boat.
Just a heads up.
Nevertheless, as a diet author it’s not too often that I go out to eat without coming home with a least some ideas for blog content. This experience was no different.
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Posted by Joel Marion on October 5, 2009
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Posted by Joel Marion on October 1, 2009
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I contacted my friend and Mom fitness expert Holly Rigsby of Fit Yummy Mummy last night to see if she would create a brand new exclusive bonus workout just for the ladies – and being as awesome as she is, she said “no problem!” and delivered for you bigtime!
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Posted by Joel Marion on September 11, 2009
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Okay, I’ll admit it. I suck as a morning person.
In fact, I’ll go as far to say that I just may be legally “broken” until about noon every day.
Now, I don’t generally go to bed until about 2 a.m., so perhaps that is part of the problem. For example, it’s currently 1:13 a.m., and I’m just sitting down to write this blog post.
Pretty standard behavior.
Regardless, whenever I wake up (generally around 10 or so), I suck at being productive. I’m pretty good at eating, but productivity, that comes somewhere around 3 p.m.
The point, you ask?
Well, it should be pretty obvious by now that I’m about to share with you the definitive best time of day to conduct your workouts.
Okay, maybe that wasn’t so obvious.
BUT, here it goes.
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Posted by Joel Marion on September 9, 2009
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Last week on our Easy Veggie Meal Plans bonus coaching call, Craig Ballantyne and I tackled a slew of listener and reader questions—truly one of the absolute best coaching sessions I’ve had the pleasure of being a part of, and some absolutely killer questions came in on all kinds of topics (even meat, believe it or not).
One question in particular caught my attention and because I believe so many people deal with this kind of thing on a regular basis, I decided to blog about the topic today.
Enter “emotional eating”.
Simply put, emotional eating can be absolutely catastrophic to any diet plan.
“And things were going SO well….”
Yes, I know the feeling.
Time to put an end to that nonsense once and for all.
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Posted by Joel Marion on September 7, 2009
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To my loyal friends: I believe in total transparency, and unlike some others, as my trusting subscriber and/or customer I’ll always be up front with you about my business.
Within the Body Transformation Insider newsletter and blog, I sometimes recommend products, and with those recommendations I sometimes also make a comission on referred sales. This comission helps to pay for things like site expenses and newsletter delivery, so I can continue to offer things like my free blog, newsletter, and regular insider tips to you at no cost.
Fact is, I get asked to promote something literally every day (for a comission), and the only products I will ever recommend are products that I 100% believe in and use myself. If I haven’t used it first hand, found it to be of exceptional quality, and believe it will undoubtedly help you achieve your goals faster, I don’t and won’t recommend it. Period.
Thanks so much for being my subscriber–having more than 100,000 people to share my passion with daily is the only reason why I’m able to wake up and do what I love each day.
You ROCK!
Posted by Joel Marion on August 24, 2009
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They say that there’s no such thing as something for nothing.
You know what I say to that?
“They” must not be on my newsletter list, because I’m always giving away free stuff, and today is no exception.
In fact, today I’d like to do something a little extra special. I just finished writing a new “mini” eBook entitled 7 Advanced Strategies for Packing on Serious Muscle, and I want to give it to you for free.
There is no “process” to go through to receive it, no forms to fill out, just my way of saying thanks (again) for being my subscriber. In fact, if you can right click your mouse, then you’ll be downloading this thing in about 30 seconds from now.
To give you a little information on what’s in store:
7 Advanced Strategies for Packing on Serious Muscle is a little over 15 pages of exceptional, unconventional, and sometimes downright unorthodox and counterintuitive muscle building advice from yours truly.
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Posted by Joel Marion on August 18, 2009
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A little while back I sent you an email with the subject “1+1=3?”, informing you of the unstoppable synergy that occurs when you combine a killer metabolic resistance training program like Turbulence Training along with my Cheat Your Way Thin diet system.
And today, I’m back with another stellar math lesson to wow your friends with: 0 does NOT equal 0.
Sounds like some ass-backwards calculus nonsense, I know, but it’s actually a very practical equation. Or should I say “non-quation” (Yes, I know they’re called inequalities, but non-quation sounds WAY cooler to me, and it’s my blog).
Let me explain.
This morning, I sat down to a bowl of Bran Flakes. It was a rather large bowl, because hey, not only do I preach big breakfasts, I eat them, too.
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Hey, it’s Joel! So you want to know a little more about me, huh? Well, I’d be happy to oblige :-)
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...