Trainer Profile : Mike Geary







Mike Geary

Michael Geary is a nationally Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and author of the internationally-popular "The Truth about Six Pack Abs" ©2004-2009. In addition, Michael is the owner of 
TruthAboutAbs.com & BusyManFitness.com, and publishes a fitness newsletter, Lean-Body Fitness Secrets e-Zine, that is enjoyed by over 460,000 subscribers in over 160 countries around the world.

Mike Geary created the Truth About Abs ebook for after spending years as a certified personal trainer and nutrition specialist. He noticed that there was a great demand online for information regarding training and weight-loss, and he wrote his first product, “The Truth About Six Pack Abs”. The Truth About Abs ebook was basically a summation of the questions that he received as a trainer.

Now, Mike Geary’s Truth About Abs ebook is one of the largest selling fitness programs on the Internet, thanks to the thousands of people that have used the program successfully, and are more than happy to let other people know about it.

“As crazy as it sounds, “The Truth about Six Pack Abs” was my very first idea, and it’s been the product I’ve continued to focus on throughout the years. I haven’t strayed into other businesses or distracted myself from the product that I knew would be a best-seller. I wanted to keep my focus on one main product.”

Since 2005, Mike Geary has sold more than 500,000 of the Truth about abs ebook. He also publishes a fitness and health newsletter to over 600,000 subscribers and in almost every country around the world.

The impact that the Truth About Abs ebook has had on the way people lose weight has been phenomenal. With hundreds of positive reviews and testimonials, the Truth About Abs ebook has proven that its methods and information can help just about anyone get into the shape they desire. And with its satisfaction guarantee, more and more people are taking advantage by ordering the Truth About Abs ebook.
Mike Geary through his years as a respected trainer and nutritionist, and the compilation of the useful advice and instruction contained in the Truth About Abs ebook has established himself as one of the top fitness experts on the Internet. This program is highly respected and touted by the thousands of people that have taken advantage of it, use it, and done the result that they were looking for.

Body Part Isolation Training

According to scientific studies, the body does not work well when you try to do isolation exercises. It is better to perform kinetic exercises instead. This means when you are working out, you would use a large portion of your body to train the smaller portions.

If you attempt to do any kind of muscle isolation exercise, what you are really doing is performing single-joint exercises, and that will not work. The body will not function properly that way. In fact, by doing that type of exercise, you are really risking damage or injury to that body part.

In your body, everything is connected together. This means when you workout, every part of your body works out together. When you lift weights, you may do bicep exercises, thinking that will strength your biceps only. But it doesn’t. You are also exercising your triceps, shoulders, and wrists. Do you see what I mean? You are actually working out three areas or muscle groups at the same time.

Of course if you don’t care about what I say and want to end up with joint problems, tendonitis, excess body fat, and other kinds of injuries and illness, go right ahead. But if you are smart, you will understand what I am saying here and will do the right thing, and do the right type of exercise. The end result will be a lean, muscular, injury-free body that will perform at its best.

You will find when doing overall exertion-type exercise, or the type of movement that many trainers refer to as complex, you will not only lose body fat, you will also lose more calories than if you tried to do single-joint workouts. Plus, you also increase your metabolic rate, and stimulate production of more fat burning and muscle building hormones like growth hormone and testosterone.

Training Properly

The best way to train your body is by using stop-and-go movement type exercises. Something like wind sprints. If you live around hills, this is even better. Even get involved in some kind of sport. The best sports to perform are football, basketball, racquetball, tennis, and hockey, to name a few.

Do you know what another method of exertion training is? It is using weights. Weight training involves short bursts of energy or exertion followed by a recovery period.

If you have a treadmill, you can use this for exertion exercises as well. The next time you use a treadmill, try your workouts like this:

Warm-up for 5 minutes by doing a fast walk or light jog. Then run at about 8.0 miles per hour for one minute. Next, walk at 4.0 per hour for about 1.5 minutes. At this time run for about 10 miles per hour for one minute. Then end your workout session by walking at 4.0 miles per hour for 1.5 minutes.

When you do this routine, repeat it at least 4 times for about 20 minutes. You will find that in a few short weeks, your body will respond to it accordingly and your body will become healthier.

Couple your exercise with proper eating and you will benefit greatly. You will end up with a healthy lean body that will give you plenty of energy and longevity.

Powerful Antioxidants

Do you know foreign bodies attack your body every day? These foreign bodies or molecules are known as free radicals. They are known as free radicals because they have lost an electron and thus are roaming freely about with no attachment to an atom. However, the first atom they find they will become attached to it. Once they become attached to the atom, the cell destroys what is there, or replaces the cell. When this replacement has been completed, the once healthy cell now becomes a bad cell. Then the bad cell goes after another healthy cell and converts that cell into a bad cell. In time, these groups of cells become mutated and cancerous.

In order to reverse this process, you need to have an adequate supply of antioxidants such as fruits, vegetables, and other foods. The three most powerful antioxidants are beta-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E.

Beta-carotene is what gives many fruits their appearance. It also stimulates the release of natural killer cells, which hunt down and destroy cancer cells before they can do any damage. It only takes about 15 to 30 milligrams a day to stop these free radicals and destroy them. You can find beta-carotene in cantaloupes, sweet potatoes, spinach, and bok choy.

Vitamin C is the next powerful antioxidant. According to scientific studies at the University of California, those who took at least 66 milligrams of vitamin C every day, found their bodies to be free of any foreign antibodies.

The most versatile antioxidant is vitamin E. This vitamin not only blocks free radicals, it also stops cancer by stimulating the immune system. When the immune system is engaged, it goes about its job of destroying any bad cells in the body.

The best way to get vitamin E is by eating wheat germ. Other foods that contain vitamin E are whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post!

The Reason for Obesity

Let’s face it. Who wants to be fat, especially women. It is a known fact that obesity in this country has become an epidemic. Why? If you look at TV, you will notice the media is constantly bombarding us with ads about food.

Why are advertising agencies flooding us with so many TV commercials about food, especially about McDonald’s or Burger King? The simple fact is they want you to get fat so you will go out and spend more money on diet pills. This way you can get skinny and then start all over by going back to the fast food joints to get fat again. It is a catch-22 scenario. It is a vicious cycle.

Understand one fact. The heath condition of the majority of people in developed nations has deteriorated to such an extent that it has literally become a crisis. According to experts, about 70% of the adult population living in the U.S is overweight. This means if you are thin and healthy you make up the minority.

This is a sad fact and something that needs to change. To think that the normal way to live is to be out of shape, overweight, and have all kinds of diseases? It is insanity. To think that nine out of ten people are obese is a bad stat. And this is what this country is leading to.

Why is this country leaning toward getting fat? It is because most of us live sedentary lives. Kids are not spending their time running around and playing games outside. Instead, they jump on their video games or spend time surfing the Internet and chatting with friends or others.

Besides the above, people are getting fatter because of the way they eat. They try to grab something quick and end up eating something they should not. Everything that is bought from the store is processed. It is refined. Most foods are packed with chemicals to preserve them for shelf life. We live in a fast-paced world. For this reason people claim they don’t have time to cook or are too tired to. So they grab quick junk foods from corner stores, fast food joints, and restaurants.

The plain and simple fact is that people have become lazy. In order to get out of that, you need to push yourself to maintain your control. You have to ac t responsibly.

The solution to being overweight is simple. Make smarter food choices, prepare your own meals, and get out and exercise. If you do this, you won’t have to worry about being fat.

THIS may sound too simple, but doing it is tough. You have to counter your behaviour patterns. More on this later.....

Eating Well

If you want a healthy body, you need to do more than just exercise. You need to eat right. You have to eat an adequate diet that includes healthy dietary fats. Fats are necessary as they are part of the cell membranes that go throughout the body.

If you eat healthy foods, your cellular processes will work normally. But if you eat bad foods: those that are man-made processed, and chemically treated, you will find your cellular structure will break down from lack proper nutrition. Your cell structure will become impaired and your cells will have to work harder to compensate. When this happens, unfortunately, diseases do occur.

Healthy eating also helps keep the body balanced. Hormone production is normal. Muscle building occurs at a normal rate and fat burning occurs. The vitamins and minerals our body consumes are absorbed and used for enzyme regulation.

We don’t eat good foods for various reasons. The first reason is because eating right is hard to do. The store sells foods that are processed and full of junk. But they taste so good that we are tempted to buy them. The second reason is we were misled for many years to believe that good fats (those that are natural and unprocessed) have been removed from foods or were mixed in with bad foods.  And the third reason is because we are lazy so we eat out. The restaurants we go to do not use the proper oils to cook with. They always go for the cheapest stuff.

If you want to develop a healthy body, you must learn to eat the right foods. This includes knowing what oils to use in cooking.

Best Training Strategies

If you ever been to a doctor, the first thing they do is convince you to do low to moderate intensity aerobic training. This is also referred to as cardio. They suggest you do about 30-60 minutes of steady pace cardio for about 3-5 times in a week. They claim this helps maintain your heart rate at a moderate level.

Before you get involved in such a routine, consider some recent scientific research that gives concrete facts to prove such cardio workouts may not work that well after all.

Our bodies were designed to perform physical activity in bursts of exertion followed by recovery. According to the research study, physical variety is a key variable in your training. If you examine most sports, you will find that most of them go with this burst of exertion, or stop-and-go movement, as it is also called.

Another factor to keep in mind when it comes to varying your physical workouts is the effects to your body internally. Scientists have known for years that any excessive steady state endurance exercise that is anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour, only trains the heart rate at a specific level. You don’t get the heart fully involved.

This kind of workout causes muscle wasting, and can even create a condition in your body that can lead to chronic diseases. But if you do stop-and-go type movements, you will find that your body reacts to it in a better manner. Your body will be able to increase anti-oxidant production. Your body will also provide a more anti-inflammatory affect and your metabolic rate will increase. Also, stop-and-go training trains the heart to respond to and recover from a variety of demands and stress levels.

This is what you need. The kind of exercise that trains your heart to rapidly increase and rapidly decrease is the condition that will benefit you more fully. And it has another benefit. It is much more interesting to do and has a better success rate. This means those who used this method, did not drop out.