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by: Zinn Jeremiah

Carrying excess body weight presents any number of risks to one's health. Though it's a debatable point, the greatest risk from being overweight may be the increased likelihood of developing high blood pressure. High blood pressure has earned the nickname “the silent killer” because though it's often asymptomatic, its effects can have a devastating impact on the body.

A number of medical studies have established a correlation between people who are overweight and elevated blood pressure levels. As with anything else, there is variety in terms of how the effects are presented: specifically, the more overweight a person is, the more likely they are to have elevated blood pressure. In addition, an overweight person or a person who's obese has a higher tendency for elevated blood pressure than people who have a normal body weight. Whether a variation or not, the study outcomes provide mostly conclusive evidence that overweight and high blood pressure are linked.

Breaking it down into actual percentages, men who are obese have high blood pressure roughly forty-two percent of the time. Women who are obese have high blood pressure roughly forty percent on the time. While on their face these percentages may not seem outrageous, consider that men and women who aren't obese have high blood pressure only fifteen percent of the time roughly. Carrying too much body weight can then potentially triple the risk of high blood pressure.

The most relevant point is that being overweight is associated with elevated blood pressure, but just how this occurs is worthwhile information. Essentially what happens is people who are overweight tend to have higher blood sugar levels than normal, and their pancreas function produces extra insulin to cope with breaking down sugar in their bloodstream. The increased insulin production adversely affects several bodily functions: increased insulin can lead to blood vessels become thickened and rigid; excess levels of insulin can produce surges of adrenaline, which increases the physical functioning of the heart; and higher insulin levels can trigger the kidneys absorbing excess levels of water and salt.

The typical response to overweight is that it's a problem of appearance: dropping excess weight typically means an increased sense of body satisfaction. While body appearance can be meaningful to people, the risk of overweight is far more than just an issue of how one's reflection appears in a mirror. Overweight and obesity are legitimate threats to an individual's health and life, both from the risk of increased blood pressure as well as from other medical conditions.

by: Ben Kong

This is essentially why the average person is missing out on half their potential gains by only performing their exercises in one way.

In short, the science of muscle growth and the current practice of world class trainers indicates that the FASTEST way to humanly pack on as much lean muscle as possible requires your resistance training program to blend both heavy strength based movements with looser form that still overloads the target muscles correctly together with lighter movements that create maximise the 'pump' or what is known as 'occlusion' of blood flow.

Why?

For many years science has known that overloading muscles with progressively heavier weights leads to lean muscle growth. However, many people including elite bodybuilders adamantly trained for the pump and yet still grew and often phenomenally at that. It is only recently that science has been able to discover why training for the pump or occlusion creates muscle growth.

The most CRITICAL point is this though: Whilst the two styles of training stimulate muscle growth, they do so through DIFFERENT pathways meaning that if you only train in one style, you are missing out on the muscle stimulating benefits of the other.

So essentially the secret for maximum muscle growth is out: learn how to create YOUR perfect blend of heavy power training that still hits its target muscles dead on and tight controlled movements to maximize occlusion.

Using this ground-breaking science, the Ultimate Body Success Program will once and for all help you to create a weight training program that isn't some confused collection of hype fuelled madness that had no basis in reality and the actual physiological science of muscle growth. Using the concepts of Specific Targeted Overload (STO) and Maximum Occlusion (MO) you will be able to know EXACTLY what you are trying to achieve with each and every rep of each and every set. Body part by body part you will be able to maximize the potential of each and every exercise to precisely stimulate one of the two scientifically proven mechanisms for muscle growth instead of just doing a set and having absolutely no idea if it helped stimulate new growth.

No matter how often you are able to train you will be able to design training programs for yourself like an expert because you will have a crystal clear idea of what each and every exercise, set and rep is designed to do. You will finally be able to train with an unprecedented degree of certainty and precision that will ignite new growth like never before training totally in synch with how your body builds lean muscle mass.

by: Ben Kong

The dirty little secret of the processed food companies that they hope we never find out is that: THE CHEMICALS FROM THEIR FOOD ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING EXCESS BODY FAT.

But if it's low calorie or low fat how can this be?

This is how it happens.

Your liver is basically your toxin filter but it is also the number one organ responsible for metabolism and fat burning. The thing is that it can't do both at once. Even the average person who eats what they consider to be 'pretty good' is often ingesting a lot of chemicals from their food (let alone from personal care products and their environment and that's another story that we also cover). Now, if your liver is constantly trying to detoxify your body, what is it NOT doing? Yep, that's right - it's NOT burning fat and regulating your metabolism.

Now the problem is that we have to eat every day and several times a day at that. If your food is not 'clean' then chances are you will be ingesting a cocktail of chemicals several times per day. Your liver can only do so much toxin filtering so what happens when it gets over run by so many nasty chemicals that it can't process them all? It has to store them somewhere. Where? Well, inside the body you have all these important vital organs that are critical to survival and maintaining life so let's not put the chemicals there. Instead, let's put them on the outside and since many of them are acidic and harmful, we're going to have to insulate them in something. Hmm, let's put a nice thick layer of fat around them and store the excess chemicals from processed food that way.

The chemicals from processed food will make you fat, period. Learning how to follow a simple plan to avoid them is critical to your success. Once you also discover for yourself the gory details of what toxins will do to your body and how they will cripple your best efforts in the gym, you will move to a whole new level of understanding. Having this in depth knowledge makes the day-to-day decisions that create a lean muscular body easier because you will know how much making the wrong choices will sabotage all you from getting the body you desire.

by: Ben Kong

The massive problem with processed foods is that almost all of them contain refined white sugar. This can be in several forms such as sugar, sucrose, corn syrup etc but the bottom line is that all are highly detrimental to your health and achieving the body you deserve. This section is quite detailed but it's important that you know the TRUTH about how white sugar just totally destroys your ability to get lean and muscular and with this knowledge 'eating clean' becomes a powerfully sane choice.

The following information comes from 'Sugar Blues' by William Duffy.

Why is sugar toxic to the body?

In 1957 Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of “poison” was: “Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease. Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a POISON because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals.

“Sugar consumption forms 'toxic metabolites' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the body and is the beginning of degenerative disease.”

Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as “empty” calories. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire system.

Sugar taken every day produces a continuously over acid condition, and more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening begin.

Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially, it is stored in the liver but the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts (man boobs anyone?) and thighs.

When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat. The whole body is affected and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervous system is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small brain, become inactive or paralyzed. The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and the creation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance and immunizing power becomes increasingly limited, so we cannot respond properly to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.

Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamic acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds, which produce a “proceed” or “control” response in the brain. B vitamins are also manufactured by symbiotic bacteria that live in our intestines. When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vitamins gets very low. Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost.

Thus it should be clear that in order to get your body as lean and muscular as possible, you have to stop kneecapping yourself and your progress every time you have something to eat.

by: Ben Kong

Another reason why you need to manage your calorie deficit carefully is the 'starvation response'. Losing a kilo of body fat per week for several weeks may be impossible even if you could sustain the lack of food and training with very little fuel. This is because when the body is pushed too hard with any diet, it will rebel and begin to hold on to every calorie it gets as a primitive survival response. It doesn't care about you getting a six pack, it just thinks that you are in the middle of the desert starving, so it tries to keep itself alive. The result is that fat burning is stopped in its tracks and your body cannibalizes its muscle tissue to feed itself until you decide to be more sensible with your food intake.

An incredible example of this is recounted by Clarence Bass, the legendary bodybuilder who has reduced his body fat to a staggering 2.4% on numerous occasions and has kept himself in the 4-6% range for about 30 years. On one occasion he had to lose a certain amount of fat, which he calculated to be a deficit of 750 calories per day for one week. He was at 3.1% but by the end of the week this highly trained and experienced bodybuilder ended up at 3.7% gaining a almost one pound of fat despite (just) a 750 calorie per day deficit.

This happened again two years later when he again started a week at 2.4% and dieted too hard and over the course of a week ended up losing 5.6 pounds in seven days but having his body fat go UP to 3.1%. This meant that Bass lost 6.12 pounds of muscle and gained 1.06 pounds of fat.

If Clarence Bass, who is one of the most experienced bodybuilders and consistently ripped men on earth can be overdoing it and provoking his starvation response on a 750 calorie per day deficit, then it pays for you to be careful.