Will you look better on your next birthday? Will you be leaner? Will you have more muscle? Will your physique be more symmetrical? Will you improve upon your weaker points? I’d love to hear your thoughts and how you see yourself improving between today and your next birthday.

The inspiration for this post came from one of my greatest role models, Tom Venuto, author of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle, The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program, and creator of the Burn The Fat Inner Circle. It was his birthday and Tom had posted a great message on the Burn The Fat Facebook Fan Page…

“What if you set a goal to hit a personal record (PR) on your birthday workout, for every b-day, for as long as you live?

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Things always seem to happen for a reason. In the previous post about releasing your last 10-20 pounds, I mentioned that it’s my mission to help you live to your fullest potential while sculpting the body that you deserve. I also mentioned that I love the way that I currently look and feel, yet I know I am capable of even better. I am far from achieving my limitless potential. I guess, in a way, I was writing that post for myself as it planted the seed for a serious dose of inspiration that has me stepping up my fat loss game.

The first dose of inspiration came when I received an email notification from Tom Venuto, announcing the first half winners of his Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle Summer Burn Transformation Contest. The male winner, Ian, blew my mind with what he was able to achieve in just 49 days, while following the Burn The Fat nutrition plan, in addition to his training. When I saw his abs, I knew right then and there, that I had to step up my game. Here’s Ian’s pics…

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is an outstanding form of exercise to improve your fitness level, conditioning, and burn the fat from your body. This isn’t breaking news for many of our valued readers and fans. But HIIT has been around for much longer than the recent craze that’s been buzzing around the fat loss air waves over the past few years. It’s actually been an effective method of training for decades. It’s been all the marketing hype that’s created the widespread movement… and the controversy to go along with it.

If you’re not totally familiar with my fitness background, I received my degree in Human Kinetics with Honors in Movement Science from the University of Windsor back in 1999. A good chunk of my focus was spent on Sport Psychology and mindset, but a huge chunk of it was spent on Biomechanics, Anatomy, and Sport Physiology.

For extra credit we had opportunities to participate (be a guinea pig), in scientific research and studies. One of those studies that took place within one of my Exercise Physiology classes was on the topic of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). The test was performed on a special stationary bike and we were instructed to go “All Out!” for the speed portion of the interval followed by slow pedaling for the rest interval. At the end of the test a blood sample was taken from us and our VO2 Max was measured as well.

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Lately Angie and I have been cooking many of the recipes that can be found in Tom Venuto’s Burn The Fat Inner Circle. Today I decided to try the Authentic Greek Salad With Chicken recipe. Angie and I love chicken salad’s and are always on the lookout for recipes to add variety and keep them exciting to eat. Here’s a video that I recorded, which shows how to prepare this totally delicious meal…

Keep an eye out for Noelle’s two thumbs up at the end of the video. She’s become a big fan of Tom’s recipes and she’s consuming much more vegetables as a result of these tasty meals.

Here are the ingredients and calorie content…

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My goal during the next 14 weeks is to release 4 pounds of fat from my body and gain 6 pounds of muscle. It’s not an easy task to burn fat and build muscle at the same time and it’s actually quite a controversial subject.

As controversial as it is, it’s a topic that comes up frequently as it is truly the most coveted body transformation goal and for good reason. The last thing that you want to do when burning fat is to lose precious muscle mass and when your goal is to build muscle you want to avoid gaining much fat at all.

My buddy and fat loss expert extraordinaire Tom Venuto has put a lot of the controversy to rest with his latest book The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program and he’s backed it up with loads of solid research and in the trenches experience.

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A few years ago a really nice woman brought her 18 year old daughter to my personal training studio to help her get ‘toned up’. I did the usual fitness assessments which included body fat measurements with professional grade calipers. Her body fat measured at 32%. Her mother’s mouth just about hit the floor. “There’s no way that her body fat is that high, look how skinny she is!” She asked me to do the measurement again. I agreed and and the results were exactly the same.

After performing a few strength tests and a variety of exercises to see where her current fitness level was at, it was quite clear that she was very weak and frail.

Upon her next visit the mother scolded me and told me that her friend who is ‘fit’ said there is no way that her daughter is 32% body fat. She’s skinny and she hardly eats.

After discovering that the only credentials this person had was reading fitness magazines I explained the science behind the body fat measurements, I did a 7 site measurement instead of 5 and produced the same result of 32% body fat. “I’m a trained professional and I know what I’m doing”, I said. Then I showed her why her body fat was so high…

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The greatest shortcut to fat loss success is to learn from people who have already achieved their fat loss goals. Simply model their example by applying their successful strategies and avoiding the mistakes that they may have made along the way. Following this strategy will enable you to achieve your fat loss results faster because you’ll be armed with the information to avoid the mistakes made and overcome obstacles and challenges much quicker.

There is no greater place to find amazing success stories than Tom Venuto’s Burn The Fat Inner Circle. My mp3 player is loaded with dozens of these inspiring success stories from his Inner Circle.

I’ve always been amazed with the 50 pound, 60 pound, 70 pound, and 80 pound fat loss success stories that Tom’s Burn The Fat program has produced during the past 8 years, but what has really opened my mind to what’s possible are the dozens of 100 plus pound fat loss success stories that the Burn The Fat program has produced.

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I’m super excited to share this incredible interview with you today about how a busy mom of three young kids was able to transform her body in just 7 short weeks and get her pre-baby body back.

This is one of my favorite interviews from Tom Venuto’s Burn The Fat Inner Circle. Hannah’s insights into her body transformation are absolutely awesome and I’m sure will provide you with great inspiration and priceless motivational strategies.

Enjoy the interview and realize that if she can achieve great success, so can you!

Winning Body Transformation Secrets

One of the best ways to succeed is to model successful people. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, you copy a winning formula that already exists. This can short-cut your trial and error learning curve by months or even years. The problem is, where do you find a role model? Who do you trust? Whose advice do you listen to? If the success you want is a better body, then who better than a body transformation contest winner? (like the amazing champion you’re about to meet…)

On May 24th, we are opening registration for our Burn The Fat 2010 Summer Body transformation challenge. “Contest central” will be located at the Burn The Fat Inner Circle.

With this new challenge coming up, I figured it would be a perfect time to call upon our last year’s champions to pick their brains and find out how they achieved body transformations so amazing that it won them the title of Overall Burn The Fat Champion.

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There is no short supply of transformation contests on the Internet today and there’s some very amazing prizes attached to these contests. This can make for great incentive to finally make a lifestyle change and release your unwanted belly fat.

But not all transformation contests are the same. If the focus is solely on weight loss and you go to extreme measures that end up costing you precious muscle mass along with water weight… you’ll end up as a “Skinny Fat Person“. Meaning, that your body fat percentage will still be high, but you will be ‘thinner’ because you lost weight.

If you truly want to transform your body, then do just that! Sculpt it! Burn the fat! Add a bit of sexy body shaping muscle!

…don’t just become a smaller version of your current overweight self.

Here’s a great guest post by fat loss expert Tom Venuto that really illustrates the point…

Body Recomposition: Transforming From Fat To Muscle

By Tom Venuto author of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle
Creator of the Burn The Fat Inner Circle

Weight loss contests, especially the Biggest Loser, where obese people drop insane amounts of body weight – like 10, 15 or even 20 lbs in a week – have become extremely popular. Many people say they get incredibly inspired and motivated watching these huge weight losses take place right before their eyes. I agree that fitness contests are a powerful motivational catalyst. But I also believe that there are some fatal flaws in contests that encourage rapid “weight loss.” That’s why I finally decided to host my own body transformation contest – the “Burn The Fat Challenge”…

But Our Contest Was NOTHING Like The Biggest Loser…

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When you read about a fat loss success story in a magazine or on a blog does it provide you with a boost of motivation to take inspired action toward achieving your own personal fat loss goals?

When you see a fat loss success story on a television talk show or reality tv show and you hear all the emotion and feelings of what it’s been like to finally achieve the body that they deserve, does it cause you to leap out of your chair and get yourself one step closer to experiencing your own personal body transformation?

Success stories can have a very positive impact on our personal motivation on many different levels. In many cases it’s the thought that, “If they can do it why can’t I?” That’s one of the most important questions that you should ask yourself when you hear a success story.

What’s special about the person who achieved such great fat loss success? I’ll tell you one thing… it usually doesn’t have anything to do with luck or great genetics.

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