Instant Low Carb Ice Cream

Every two months we have this event called the For Clients Only Pot-Luck. Its just like a regular party – fun times, fun people, and great food, BUT you don’t have to worry about if what you will be eating is going to mess up your physique. Everything is both delicious and physique friendly. All of the fun, and none of the excess body-fat later on.

This month I went to Robert’s Oxygen and got 10 liters of liquid nitrogen to make instant low-carb ice cream. Normally ice cream will take 2-4hrs to make correctly: first a few minutes to make the soup, then 30-60 in the ice cream maker, then 1-3hrs in the freezer for it to cure.

Liquid nitrogen is -321 F, so it is very cold – cold enough to make ice cream in 10min. Everything is the same as on this Blog post (super low-carb ice cream), except you want everything in a steel bowl (others would crack).  No ice cream maker required.  Then you pour in the liquid nitrogen and stir with a wooden spoon (a metal spoon would freeze your hand – literally). Pour and stir, and repeat until you’ve got a bowl full of low-carb ice cream.

Oh, and NO, your ice cream will not have “nitrogen contamination.” The liquid nitrogen is so cold that it boils away and completely evaporates on contact with anything else – that’s what the smoke/steam is. After the liquid nitrogen boils away you are only left with cold ice cream.

Final note: xylitol makes better low-carb ice cream than erythritol.  Erythritol gives you this weird tickle in the back of your throat, and xylitol does not.

Then when you are done with making the low-carb ice cream, you can do stuff like freeze balloons, and whatever else you want to freeze.

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s top personal trainer for busy people. He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have. To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here. You can also pick up a copy of his brand new CD – “Why Eat Less and Exercise More is The Worst Advice Ever” here.

My New Favorite Meal – Five Guys Burgers, No Fries

I love Five Guys. But I also love having energy and fitting into my pants, so I thought that Five Guys was going to be a once in a blue moon treat. I’m embarrassed that it took me 3 years to think of this, but I can now eat Five Guys every single day with just one minor adjustment – take off the bun.

Step 1 – buy 2 (if you have my appetite) double burgers, hold the fries. I like mine with lettuce, tomato, hot sauce, grilled onions and mushrooms.

Step 2 – remove bun

Step 3 – devour

Its still really, really good without the bun. What makes it even better is that I can eat at Five Guys without having to take a 2 hour nap afterwards, and without the incredible mucous storm that happens after eating a bunch of wheat and potatoes. Oh, and if I eat Five Guys without the bun three or four times in a week I look better with my shirt off, not worse!

Writing this blog post made me hungry, but they don’t open for 20min:-(.

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s top personal trainer for busy people. He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have. To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here. You can also pick up a copy of his brand new CD – “Why Eat Less and Exercise More is The Worst Advice Ever” here.

Q & A: Better Results In 93% LESS Time

A friend of mine left me a voicemail message last night with this question about her workout, and since I hate giving free advice (people value it at $0 and do nothing with it) I decided to answer it on my Blog;-).

Q:  Last night I did a Tabata [explained in my reply] workout, do you think that 4min is enough for a workout?

A:  As always the answer depends.

BUT, before I get into that, let me make sure that everyone on the Blog know what a Tabata is.

Better Results In 93% LESS Time

In 1996 a Japanese researcher named Izumi Tabata discovered that you could do MORE to improve your fitness in 4min of very intense interval training than you could in an entire HOUR of regular old steady state aerobic training (such as jogging). (1)

The key word to take out of that previous paragraph is “FITNESS”, as in you will have better aerobic and anaerobic fitness with a Tabata vs. a one hour jog.  That is really cool IF your goal is to be better conditioned.

By the way, that is NO ONE’S goal.  Everybody comes in to me and gives me the politically correct answers up front, BUT what people really want is to look better naked.  And there is nothing wrong with that because you’ll do the health and fitness thing as a by-product of what it takes to look better naked.

The answer to my friend’s question is: “YES and NO.”  Yes, 2 to 3 Tabata’s will make a great fat-burning interval workout.  BUT, the hierarchy of fat-loss goes like this:

#1.  Eat better (did not say fewer calories)

#2.  Do metabolic resistance training (not bicep curls or leg extensions)

#3.  Do high intensity interval training (mush less important than #2)

I don’t think that most people will notice any difference from stuff like walking and jogging, so its pretty much just these 3.

So, if it was your interval day, then YES!  Good job.  If it was your lifting day, then NO.  A structured and long-term metabolic resistance training program will give you the biggest bang for your time invested.

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s #1 personal trainer for busy people.  He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have.  To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here.  You can also pick up a copy of his brand new CD – “Why Eat Less and Exercise More is The Worst Advice Ever” here.

REFERENCES

1.  Tabata, I. Effects of moderate-intensity endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and ?VO2max. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise: Volume 28(10)October 1996pp 1327-1330

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