5 Celebrity Fitness Secrets For A Great Beach Body

Summer is officially here.  The clothes are coming off as we go to the beach or pool, and people want to look their best.  So we had award winning Washington, DC personal trainer Josef Brandenburg compile 5 secrets that celebrities use to create and keep amazing beach bodies:

#1.  Marissa Miller – Don’t drink your calories: Marissa told Cosmo “I hadn’t had soda in about five years, and I came home to find this thing in the fridge that rolls soda cans out like a dispenser.  I’m like, ‘What are you doing to me?’” referring to her husband’s new soda dispenser.

“There are almost no beverages with calories that aren’t just pure sugar – juice included.  Sugar spikes insulin and insulin makes you tired, fat and hungry,” says Brandenburg.

#2. Jason Statham… click here to read the rest of the 5 celebrity fitness tips (free as a press release).

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.

What Is Body Fat? Its NOT What You Think (nothing to do with calories)!

Ask anyone – lay or health professional, and they will say “3,500 extra calories on my ass [or stomach depending on the gender]!”

That’s not really true.

The Real Deal on Body Fat

Technically speaking body-fat is made of triglycerides.

There’s the backbone – a molecule of glycerol (red), and then there are the three fatty acids attached (hence the “tri”).

You’ve ALWAYS got free fatty acids in your blood stream, BUT you CAN’T turn then into body-fat without the glycerol*.  Otherwise you just have free fatty acids ready to be used as fuel.

The only place to get your body-fat backbone (glycerol) is from carbohydrates – fructose and glucose.  For each molecule you get 2 new backbones.  In other words, you CAN’T make body-fat with carbohydrates, no matter how much you eat. And you can also make body-fat while in a calorie deficit if you have enough insulin and glycerol floating around inside of you.

So, again, its what you eat, not how much you eat that matters.  If you make the right food choices, the quantity will take care of itself.

Oh, no I am not suggesting that fruit is evil because it contains fructose.  That’s actually a misnomer.  Its called fructose (“fruit sugar”) because we first found it in fruit, but fruit is NOT a very good source of fructose.  You need refined carbs like table sugar, juice, high fructose corn syrup, etc. to really load up on fructose.  The only fruits that are somewhat high are bananas and grapes.

*If you want to be more technical you need glycerol-3-phosphate, but that’s beyond the scope of the blog.

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s #1 fat-loss expert 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.