The U.S. Department of Agriculture has just added a free menu planning feature to its MyPyramid nutrition website.  After taking a close look at the new nutrition planning feature I was pleasantly surprised. Hats off to the Department of Agriculture for creating such a powerful free tool!

After entering in your personal data such as height, weight, and physical activity level, the software asks if you want to maintain your weight, or lose weight, that is if they consider you overweight. Once you select that option the program will calculate your fat loss daily calorie zone, as well as determine how much of each food group you should consume. Read More…

Advanced Mass Building, the hottest new bodybuilding workout routine to gain muscle mass quickly, has hit the bodybuilding world by storm. After hearing about all the hype I decided to dig into the program in detail and would like to offer my personal Advanced Mass Building review.

Is it for real? Does it really help you gain muscle mass fast? Is it all hype?

These are the three questions I kept in the back of my mind when using my professional education, and experience to write a review on the Advanced Mass Building Secrets book.

At first I did not expect much. I figured it would be just like the many other bodybuilding, add more muscle, ebooks. As I began studying the mass building tutorial I was quickly pulled in by the comparison of a military mission to building more muscle. The analogy made complete sense, and also made adsorbing the material much easier, and even entertaining.

The Author, Jeff Anderson – The Muscle Nerd, was the head fitness trainer for his army platoon years ago. He parallels important muscle building secrets with combat strategies he learned in the military. This made my Advanced Mass Building review much more enjoyable.

The bodybuilding program said building muscle mass is so easy when you first start weight training. However, after the first 6 months, the growth seems to slow down to a screeching halt.

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I was investing in some continuing education for myself, and came across a business consultant who taught me a really neat formula that made a world of sense to me. You can use this formula to shatter your fitness program goals.

This “secret formula” can not only be applied to fitness, and bodybuilding, but also to any major life goal.

What exactly is this incredible formula?

It is called the RAMM formula.

The R stands for knowing, and visualizing your end result.

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An effective fitness programs must place an emphasis on sound nutrition practices. Without good nutrition habits your fitness results will be definitely hindered. Just think of nutrition as a catalyst to ignite workout results.

Over the years I have seen too many individuals health and fitness goals not in alignment with their fitness program. If you are an individual who has the goal of losing fat, and you are not paying attention to what you are putting into your mouth, you are simply sabatoging your fitness results. Focusing on your exercise consistency is just not enough to reach your main goal of weight loss. Your fitness program is simply out of alignment with your goals.

There are many people who are exercise warriors, but when it comes to eating, they are wolves. They eat whatever they can find, and as much as they can take in. Then they wonder why they are not losing weight. Exercise must be backed by a decrease in caloric intake in order for a fat loss goal to be reached.

Let’s face it, how many hours a day can you, or do you want to exercise?

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