Quick Healthy Meals

 Here are some great healthy meals that you can make in just a few minutes. I am a horrible cook and I don't have time to shop, if I can do it you can too! If you are trying to gain muscle while losing fat then you need to be very strict with your nutrition and these meals fit the bill! These meals are truly easy, here are my standards:

• no more than two ingredients
• no chopping
• dirties no more than one dish
• takes no more than 5 minutes of my time

My standards for "healthy" is equally as tough to meet:

• high in protein, at least 20g protein in a 300 cal serving
• low in fat, no more than 5g fat in a 300cal serving
• high in fiber, at least 7g fiber in a 300 cal serving
• no simple carbohydrates
• minimal processing

Don't even have time for those quick recipes? Here are some that only require no cooking at all, just heating up! Each of these meals only requires:

• can opener
• microwave
• blender

Some Suggested Easy Meals:

Efficient Running Technique

For Heavy and Light Runners

This is an exciting running technique which can help you run faster if you are already a good runner and it can help you run without injury if you are "running-challenged" like I am. Why should you take my advice on running? I can only run 7 minute miles, and I'm even slower when I do the 10K portion of a triathlon so I'm certainly not the fastest runner. Why listen to a very large, slow, 50 year old runner with chronic tendonitis and a bi-partate patella? Because to run at all I needed to find the most efficient, lowest impact running technique possible! 140 pound teens don't need technique, they can just spin their legs quickly to run fast.
There are two advantages to my technique

1. It is more efficient, allowing you to run faster and have better endurance
2. It reduces joint stresses to a bare minimum reducing the chance of injury
   
   

Cardiovascular Exercise

Cardiovascular exercise ("Cardio" for short) is more important for your general health than weightlifting. More important than that to most people is that cardiovascular exercise helps you lose fat and look better! The quickest way to look like you have packed on 10lbs muscle is to lose 10lbs of fat, its a really cool bodybuilding illusion. It can take a years to add muscle but in a month you can look more muscular just by losing weight, it's because bodyfat makes the body round and shapeless which hides the muscles. Just check my video comments over the last 6 weeks, I dropped 7lbs of bodyfat with carb cycling and everyone keeps commenting how much more massive I look even though I haven't gained an ounce of muscle. So if you don't do cardio for your health, do it for your appearance!

The Truth About Abs

I'm going to dispel six common myths that are exploited to sell an un-suspecting public expensive gadgets that they do not need.

Myth 1 - you get abs by doing ab exercises
This is the worst myth. For 95% of you, doing crunches, situps, or ab machines will NOT get you abs. You already HAVE abs, if you didn't your torso would be as limp as cooked spaghetti. The real problem is that your abs are hidden. To see a visible 6-pack you have to remove the fat that is covering your abs. Doing ab exercises will NOT remove this fat, only eating less and doing more cardio gets rid of the fat. Let me say that again, to get 6-pack abs you need to eat less and do more cardio! Grab the roll of skin/fat at your waist and pinch, how thick is it? If its more than 1/2", that fat is the reason you don't have a visible 6-pack!

How To Get 6 Pack Abs

Losing Weight and Building 6-Pack Abs  

Losing weight is a billion dollar industry in America, there are thousands of devices and programs you can buy that promise to get you "6-pack abs fast" but they don't work!  If it were as easy as buying a pill, shake, or ab machine then the shopping malls across America would be filled with men who have rippling washboard abs-of-death but what do we see instead?  Obesity everywhere!