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Daily vitamin supplements are necessary for optimum nutrition. Some people say, “You can get all of your nutritional requirements from your food”. That is not true. The American diet provides plenty of macronutrients, but lacks proper micronutrients:

Macronutrients are fat, protein, and carbohydrates. (calories) Micro-nutrients are vitamins, and minerals. (necessary for cellular health) The abundance of macro-nutrients contributes to obesity in America and the lack of micro-nutrients contributes to chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. We are over-fed and undernourished as a country.

Changing your eating habits to include whole foods and less processed food is a good start, but to ensure optimal cellular health, a daily vitamin supplement is necessary. Don’t be fooled by RDA (recommended daily allowance) of vitamins. These standards are outdated. They are a bare minimum allowance of nutrients to prevent irrelevant medical conditions like scurvy and rickets. In order to ensure “optimal” micronutrient health you should find a reputable vitamin company that supplies pharmaceutical grade vitamins that comply with the strictest quality standard. Unfortunately, vitamins are not regulated properly and many fail to even absorb in the body. Don’t be led astray by low quality vitamins.

Nutrisearch is an unbiased company whose sole purpose is rating nutritional supplements for completeness and quality. They use a panel of doctors who perform tests using 18 different criteria to rate each supplement from 1-5 stars. The testing includes checking the bioavailability of each product to see if the body is able to absorb the nutrient. You would be sadly surprised to see that the majority of vitamins do not pass even the most basic of tests that guarantee you are getting what you pay for. Daily vitamin supplements with a 5 star rating are rare. They are the best of the best and you can be sure that your body is getting optimum nutrition when you take them.

Douglas Laboratories has been an industry leader in nutritional supplements for over 50 years. All of their products are pharmaceutical grade and they have several multi-vitamins that are rated 5 stars by Nutrisearch. This means that they voluntarily comply to the same guidelines of pharmaceutical medicines and their quality is surpassed by no one.

Douglas Labs sells exclusively to health care providers. The general public cannot buy directly from them. As a health care provider and personal trainer I have access to these superior nutritional supplements. You can visit my website and log into Douglas Labs website using my fulfillment number on my daily vitamin supplement page.

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GNC has become a popular manufacturer of herbal and weight loss supplements. Recently, GNC has released a new line of weight loss product called the GNC Release weight loss program. The GNC Release weight loss program is the newest addition to almost hundreds of weight loss products made by GNC. What does this product do?

Suppress your hunger

Contrary to its name, the GNC Release weight loss program serves to suppress and inhibit your appetite. The main ingredient found in the GNC Release weight loss program is the Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA). CLA is a chemical that helps burn down fat and suppress sugar cravings. Apart from that, CLA also claims to be responsible for building leaner and toned muscles.

Different formulations

The GNC Release weight loss program comes in different formulations for different times of the day. The three kinds of GNC Release are Release Morning, Release Afternoon, and Release Evening.

Release Morning aims to eliminate stubborn fat from your stomach, hips, thighs, back, and arms. With more powerful formula, GNC Release Morning burns fat at an accelerated rate. Active ingredients of Release Morning include:

Caffeine

Magnesium Salicylate – supposedly to make you “feel better”

Theobromine

Guarana

Synephrine

Guggelsterones

Yohimbine

Hypercium

B12

Meanwhile, Release Afternoon helps increase brown fat metabolism. With its thermogenesis agents, Release Afternoon helps get rid of stubborn and unwanted fat. Ingredients of Release Afternoon are similar to Release Morning with the addition of L-Tyrosine.
Finally, Release Evening helps eliminate fat even while you sleep. Ingredients are:

Turkey Rhubard

Cascara Sagrada

Citrin K

Valerian Root

Senna Extract

Ho Shou Wu

Piper Nigrum

Psyllium Husk

Side effects

The GNC website states this precaution when taking GNC Release Evening:

“This product contains cascara sagrada, turkey rhubard and senna. Read and follow directions carefully. Do not use if you have developed diarrhea, loose stools or abdominal pain, because cascara sagrada, turkey rhubarb and senna can worsen conditions and be harmful to your health. Consult a physician if you have frequent diarrhea or if pregnant, nursing, taking any medications or have a medical condition.”

Hence, you must always consult your doctor before even trying this product. What’s more, Release Morning and Afternoon contain almost the same ingredients, so you might think twice before buying both.

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Pro boxing is a demanding sport where training mistakes are exposed in the most humiliating and dangerous way imaginable. Consequently, boxers quickly discard ineffective workout routines and concentrate only on what works. They don’t have time for fashionable fitness fads; if it doesn’t deliver results, it’s history.

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have a wise, old boxing trainer to guide us through our personal fitness routines. We jump from one over-hyped trend to another, always searching for some magic ritual that we hope will make us feel younger, stronger, and more full of energy than ever before.

This is a huge mistake. When we allow ourselves to become seduced by marketing hype and celebrity-endorsed sillyness, we lose sight of our objectives: to be fit, capable, and prepared for whatever life throws our way.

Focus on functional fitness

Boxers need to prepare for 12 grueling rounds against an opponent who isn’t just fighting for pride, but for potentially millions of dollars. But just because you’re not at that level doesn’t mean you don’t have personal fitness objectives that aren’t just as important to you as a boxer’s needs are to him.

Boxers spend most of their time working on skills. That is, they practice punching in combination, sparring with various opponents, and perfecting the various moves which separate the pros from the casual enthusiasts.

As boxers have learned, the best way to get in shape for an activity is to perform that activity. But sometimes, our goals are so demanding in and of themselves that we need to train for them before we can begin to participate in them. Imagine if you tried rock-climbing (for instance) without being able to do a pull-up; you’d probably be in for a dangerous surprise.

Figure out what your needs are:
Maybe you play sports. Your training routine should support the fitness requirements of your sport. It’s no good doing power-lifting if you are training for a marathon. Physically-demanding jobs often require you to keep in shape so you can measure up to what’s expected of you. Swimming won’t help you if you are on your feet at work all day long. Everyone needs skills like balance, hand-eye coordination, and agility. If you have problems in these areas, your fitness routine should work on these components of physical fitness rather than other skills (like advanced weight-lifting moves, for example) which require a lot of training to perfect.
Pick the functional fitness routine that best suits your goals
Cardio Muscular endurance Strength Power Sports-specific training You should have a clear idea about what you hope to accomplish. Tailor your routine so it helps you improve. Focus on one thing at a time. Obviously, you don’t want to completely disregard the other components of fitness, but never try to work on too many things at once.

If a boxer wants to add muscle mass and move up in weight, he is going to have to cut back on his roadwork and cardio training. He doesn’t want to cut back, but he needs to in order to succeed.

You are the same: if you want to get better at one thing, you’ll have to temporarily de-emphasize the others.

You know, I can’t even come close to counting how many times I have been asked that question in one form or another over the years.

And, it hasn’t been just about weight loss products, diet pills, or exercise routines, either.

In fact, it’s a little symptomatic of a prominent point of view in our society.

Everything is supposed to “work”, i.e. do the work for us.

But, it’s not just about laziness or even our sometimes “get something for nothing” mentality. And it’s nothing to point a finger at today’s world about either.

I remember over 40 years ago when I told my father, a hard-working man who insisted on quality, that I wanted to buy a piece of exercise equipment. His reply was something to the effect that I didn’t really want that because I would have to “work yourself to death” to get any value out of it.

Well, since those days of my youth and ignorance, I have become a little bit of an “expert” on exercise and fitness. I can now testify that indeed, you have to work very hard with that type of fitness product. However, the same is true of any other fitness product as well. In the world of exercise, and the health and fitness benefits derived from exercise, you basically get back a reward based pretty much on what you put into the project.

so, what does all this have to do with whether or not a certain weight loss product “works”?

Well, leaving aside those things which are just plain useless, all that almost any weight loss or diet product can do is enhance what is already being done. Like exercise, you get back weight loss for the effort you expend in actually attempting to lose weight. Products such as “Alli”, for example, do “work”, despite my resistance to them. They can help people lose weight. However, even the most effective weight loss products, diet pills, and other substitutes for plain old exercise and proper nutrition are, for most people, very limited in their effects.

It is not surprising that even a weight loss product which I personally consider to be one of the most effective on the market, and one of the healthiest, put a statement on almost every claim and/or testimonial, that “results are not typical”. That’s not to say that only a few people actually lost any real weight with the product. In fact, I knew a great many people who were quite successful with it.

On the other hand, for every success story, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of others who tried the product and were dissatisfied with the results. Many felt they had been ripped off by the company’s claims, which were quite reasonable and down-to-earth, because when they used the product, they either did not lose weight or did not lose it fast enough or did not lose enough.

Even that company included the message in its advertising that their product should be used “with” a regular program of exercise and eating habits which encouraged health, fitness, and weight loss. Actually, many diet pills and other weight loss products include the same caveat.

The fact is that the only weight loss product that works, consistently and in a healthy manner is a combination of regular exercise and proper nutrition. Additionally, this “product” produces healthy changes in the body and the mind which can have extremely positive and lifelong effects on the individual in addition to simple weight loss. Most other diets, diet pills, water pills, weight loss products can simply enhance the effects of such a lifestyle or provide a small measure of the permanent success enjoyed by those who choose to “work themselves to death”, or to life, through a sensible change of lifestyle to one which includes the two known ingredients of the best weight loss program around…a life of activity and rational eating habits.

In part one of this series I discussed some tips to keep your strength and muscle, or even gain some during the wrestling season. In part two of this series I will give you ten sure-fire tips for improving your “wrestling strength” and therefore your wrestling performances. These tips apply to both in-season and off-season training.

1. Train the “Posterior Chain”

The posterior chain muscles are comprised of the glutes, hamstrings, and lower back. This extremely powerful area of the body is a key section to overall wrestling performances. By improving strength in this area you will notice a marked improvement in speed and power in the neutral and bottom positions. Some exercises that you might want to consider in order to work the posterior chain are good-mornings, stiff-leg deadlifts, deadlifts, barbell squats (bar low on shoulders). My two favorites are the reverse hyperextension and the Russian glute-ham-gastroc machine. They are the ultimate in working the posterior chain muscles.

2. Strength Train SLOW, Wrestle FAST

You want to be fast and strong on the wrestling mat. Don’t think that you should throw weights around when you strength train though. When wrestlers try to move a barbell quickly in their workouts, they are using momentum to help move the weight. You should minimize momentum, and maximize the amount of muscle that gets worked by slowing down. How fast (or slow) should you move a weight when strength training? When you are raising a weight (or contracting the muscle) try to do it in 2 seconds. When you lower the weight, do it twice as slowly. You should take about 4 seconds to lower a weight.

3. Brief Workouts

Your workouts should never exceed 35 minutes in duration. If they do, YOU”RE NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH! By completing your workout in no more than 35 minutes or so, your body’s hormone levels are optimal. Your ability to recuperate from the workouts, and therefore develop more strength, is increased. Avoid long, drawn-out strength training workouts. They will eventually cut into your body’s ability to recuperate, and lead to over-training.

4. 12 Exercises Or Less

When I develop sport-specific strength training routines for my athletes, I always adhere to this. This number of exercises will allow you to hit the “wrestling muscles” with just enough, but not too much. Any more will almost guarantee that you will send your body into an overtraining syndrome.

5. 2 Sets Or Less

Read this one carefully, and try to really absorb the content. You should do no more than two work sets (the sets that count. These don’t include a warm-up set) for any given exercise. If you are working hard enough, this is plenty. You do a warm-up set for an exercise, then move to your top weight. After you complete that top weight, reduce the total weight on the bar or machine by 20% and repeat. If you are really training intensely, you can do just one work set per exercise. This is the ideal. If you can hammer a muscle with one perfect set of an exercise, there will be no need for another set. I advocate a second set with a 20% weight reduction because many people don’t quite hammer that muscle with one set.

6. Fail In The Gym To Dominate On The Mat

Other than your warm-up set for each strength training exercise, you should train your sets to “momentary muscular failure.” This is the point where you can no longer complete another repetition with perfect form. By training to momentary muscular failure, you are forcing the muscles to adapt, and therefore get stronger. Let me clarify training to “failure.” Training to failure is not “almost taxing the muscle.” It is the point where you cannot push or pull another repetition no matter what. Is it safe to train this way? Absolutely! The first few repetitions of a set are actually more dangerous. When an athlete is not using good form, and slower speed, it is usually during these first few repetitions that an athlete gets hurt.

7. Use Machines And Free Weights

There is a common misconception amongst athletes and coaches that you must use free weights when strength training. Free weights are great! So are machines! Your muscles don’t know the difference. The intensity is the most important thing when trying to improve your strength for wrestling. The tool that you use to get there is not. I like certain exercises for certain muscles. It also depends on injuries that a wrestler might already have. You can work “around” and injury and still give the body a thorough strength workout. If you have access to Hammer Strength machines, I highly recommend that you include them in your wrestling strength workout.

8. Use A Thick Bar

If you don’t have access to a thick bar, get one. This is usually a hollow metal tube that you put free weights on the end of. A thick bar forces you to hold on tightly when performing exercises. It develops fantastic forearm and hand strength. It should be part of every serious strength training program for wrestlers. You can do curls, reverse curls, rows, and presses with it.

9. Keep Up The Protein

Whether you are trying to cut weight or go up a weight class, you need regular feedings of protein. Protein helps to repair and rebuild muscle tissue. It is vital to keep up protein feedings if you are trying to cut weight… unless of course you don’t mind losing muscle and getting weaker. Try to get at least 5 protein feedings per day. The difference lies in the carbohydrate intake. If you need to cut weight, you should begin slowly dropping carbs, but never completely. You can’t wrestle if you have no energy. Carbohydrates are you body’s preferred source of energy. Contact me at steve@sports-strength.com if you’re interested in a personalized meal plan for wrestling.

10. The Trap Bar

The trap bar is another incredible piece of equipment when trying to gain wrestling strength. The trap bar is a hexagonally shaped bar. It allows you to perform deadlifts with maximal stimulation of almost every muscle vital to improved wrestling performance. If you’ve never seen one, do a search on the web. This is an exercise that all of my wrestling clients use. It will make your entire body stronger. If I were limited to only one exercise in order to increase the strength in my wrestlers, this would be the exercise that I’d choose.

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The increasing number of prostate cancer has encouraged number of studies from different countries. Each country would like to figure out what is the root of this horrifying trend. Deficiency in a certain nutrient or excessive ingestion of a mineral has been found to affect prostate’s health. There is another issue that is not clear in public until now. This factor that the medical field would like to zoom into is the role of prostate milking in preventing the prostate cancer.

Certain problems in prostate can actually be signs of prostate cancer. An enlarged prostate is the usual symptom that tells if the gland is sick. One way to prevent the largeness is to do a prostate massage. This sensual yet gentle stimulation can lead to a pleasurable feeling that is better than the normal orgasm. I can attest to that. Moreover, the massage can free the prostate from developing a cancer in the future.

Let’s head straight to the “why?” or what made prostate milking a preventive practice that fights off the painful cancer? When you massage this part of your reproductive system, you also stimulate the blood low within its veins. As an effect, your prostate is oxygenized. Also, this is a great way to cleanse the insides of the gland, and push out the bacteria that are accumulated inside. These bacteria maybe the culprit could start the development of cancer within your prostate. Therefore, the best combination to keep a healthy prostate is with proper diet and lifestyle, hand-in-hand with regular prostate massage.

From the researches I have read, there are only two options available if we disregard prostate massage as a preventive measure or even a treatment for some prostate diseases. The first one is though drug intake and the last one is surgery. These two have side effects that would make life difficult for the patient. If we have it compared with the massage, the sensual touching of the prostate would definitely win, and as it only have positive effects. It is all good unless, you weren’t observing the proper way to massage the gland.

You have to learn and practice the massage by yourself or with a help of a toy. You may also do it with your lover. The toy that I am talking about is a prostate massager. This is a tool that is usually made of silicone. Yielded and engineered in a way that would please you and improve the health of your prostate. Again, proper preparation is needed. So, wash your whole body, trim your nails, use some lubricants, and be relaxed. These are some of the most important procedures you have to do, prior to this technique.

Also, during the course of the massage, you may feel like you are about to urinate. There is nothing to be afraid of as this is just normal. Allow yourself to enjoy the feeling, and let the sensations linger throughout your body. After a few moments, you will feel that you are about to orgasm. The experience is very much similar to your usual release but this one is way luxurious. In fact, some men claim that is our version of multiple orgasms.

It could get a little messy so you should prepare some paper towels. The fluid that you will release has a lighter consistency. These are the alkaline substances found inside of your prostate. It is the same component that goes along with your sperm cells. The role of this fluid is to counteract the naturally acidic vaginal walls. If these walls remain acidic, the sperm cells would die and fertilization cannot be successful.

In a normal ejaculation or orgasm, there are alkaline residues inside your prostate. Bacteria could build up which can lead to the dreadful cancer. This is what we are trying to avoid. Hence, men are suggested to do prostate milking to prevent prostate cancer.

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