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		<title>The 10 Most Dangerous Mistakes Men Make When Trying To Get Six Pack Abs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Chang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[here are the 10 most dangerous mistakes men make when it comes to getting six pack abs. If you make these 10 mistakes it’ll be incredibly hard and frustrating to get abs, and you probably will never get them at all. If you do learn these mistakes getting abs will be much easier, and you’ll start seeing abdominal definition more quickly than you could imagine.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Six pack abs – they can make women instantly attracted to you, and guys envy you. Let’s face it, you would LOVE to have a six pack &#8212; but chances are that getting one has seemed hard and frustrating to you in the past.</p>
<p>But there’s good news – this is probably just because you’re making one of a few common mistakes guys make when trying to get ab definition. If you can just avoid these common errors, you’ll see much more success in your quest to get a six pack.</p>
<p>So, here are the 10 most dangerous mistakes men make when it comes to getting six pack abs. If you make these 10 mistakes it&#8217;ll be incredibly hard and frustrating to get abs, and you probably will never get them at all. If you do learn these mistakes getting abs will be much easier, and you&#8217;ll start seeing abdominal definition more quickly than you could imagine.</p>
<h3>Mistake #1 – Doing Sit Ups And Crunches To Get A Six-Pack</h3>
<p>The biggest mistake that I see in almost every gym I’ve been to is watching people do endless ab exercises one after another in hopes of getting a flatter stomach. Ab exercises only build the ab muscles but don’t get rid of fat that’s covering it. We all have abdominal muscles, if we didn’t our bodies would go limp without its support. In fact, doing too many ab exercises actually has a negative effect when it comes to slimming your waistline.</p>
<p>When you do a lot of resistance exercises for your arms they get bigger right? Well guess what, if you do that for your abs they will respond the same way. When you work on your abs too much, the muscle gets really big and bulgy and actually makes your waist bigger. Now you have a bigger waistline than when you first started because of the larger ab muscles, plus the fat is still there covering any visibility of a six-pack.</p>
<p>The only way to get rid of fat on our stomach is to allow our body to convert it into energy and use it. Doing crunches and sit ups is not intense enough for our bodies to have to break down fat because the abdominal muscle so small compared to using a larger muscle group like our legs. You need concentrate on burning the fat before you start building up abdominal muscle – otherwise you’re just bulking up your beer gut.</p>
<h3>Mistake# 2 &#8211; Doing Cardio</h3>
<p>Cardio only burns calories when you’re doing it, is doesn’t burn when your heart rate is not elevated. Think about the last time you did any type of cardio exercise. Your heart rate and body temperature was increase and when stopped they went back to normal.</p>
<p>Even if you did cardio 30 min a day 7 days a week, there’s 24 hours in a day so what are you burning the other 23.5 hours? Not much, because if it was a lot, you would be lean by now. Throughout the remainder of the day its then up to our natural metabolism to burn the rest of the calories. And doing cardio all day long doesn’t seem like a very reasonable solution either.</p>
<p>Can you think of the last time YOU did cardio? Did you get a six-pack? Did your stomach at least get a little flatter? Probably not. If it did, it’s not flat anymore isn’t it? The cold hard truth is that long cardio workouts are completely ineffective for burning fat, and for getting a six pack. If you’re spending long hours on the elliptical, treadmill or bike, you’re completely wasting your time if your goal is to get hard, defined abs.</p>
<h3>Mistake # 3 - Diets</h3>
<p>Think of all the people you know who got on a diet, how many of them actually stayed on it. Losing weight and having a lean healthy body is a lifestyle change and unfortunetly, when you ask someone to change their habits of eating that they been doing all their life, that’s almost like asking someone to change their personality permanently. Sure, you can pretend for a short period, but you will always go back to being you.</p>
<p>Most diets now are so low in carbohydrates; it’s likely the initial weight loss is primarily water weight, as carbohydrate encourages your body to hold water. As soon as you go back to a normal amount of carbs, the water weight comes back and the weight goes back to normal. No real fat was really loss.</p>
<p>There is no point in “going on a diet,” or temporarily changing your eating habits. Because as soon as you change them back, you’ll gain back all the fat you lost – and then some more on top of that.</p>
<h3>Mistake # 4 &#8211; Using Fat Burning Supplements, Diet Pills, And Other Drugs To Burn Off Fat</h3>
<p>You can’t get in shape through supplements alone. All fat burning drugs do is first suppress your appetite so you don’t feel the need to eat as much. Now your body doesn’t have the nutrients to give you energy. But wait! The fat burners are also filled with other stimulants so your energy level doesn’t go down. So what that does is decrease your natural metabolism (which is what your body does to burn calories) and increase your fat storage because your body will now go into “survival mode”</p>
<p>• Your body will lower its calorie burning because it’s not getting enough of it.</p>
<p>• Your body will hold on to your fat and not use it as energy because fat is your most valuable energy source in your body and in survival mode; it will do the smartest thing to survive.</p>
<p>• Your body will also break down muscle tissue as fuel causing your metabolism to lower even more.</p>
<p>• Once you stop taking the supplement, your food intake goes back to normal causing you to gain all the weight you loss plus more. The reason why you gain more than you started is your metabolism is now lower than when you first started due to the loss of muscle.</p>
<p>This is why most guys who ACTUALLY have a six pack take very few supplements, or no supplements at all.</p>
<h3>Mistake # 5 - Getting Advice From People Who Never Had Flat Abs</h3>
<p>Think about the last time you at the gym or at some sort of gathering and you received advice on how to lose your gut. People tend to consider themselves experts at something after only doing it once or twice. When it comes to losing body fat and getting six-pack it get even worse. You will notice a lot of times the people giving advice on how to get lean or ripped are either genetically very lean their whole life and never had a problem with excess body fat or an overweight guy who use to weigh 300lbs and is now 200lbs and still has a gut but giving advice on how to <a title="3 Tips To Lose That Belly Fat!" href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/lose-that-belly-fat/">lose belly fat</a>.</p>
<p>First, the skinny lean guy: Naturally lean all his life, can eat whatever he wants and always seems to have a six pack no matter what. He is genetically build that way and really has no idea how it’s like to have a gut nevertheless teach someone how to lose it. It’s like asking a rich kid who never had to work a day in his life how to make money in the real world.</p>
<p>Second, the fat guy who loss some weight and is now an fat loss expert:</p>
<p>When your 40 – 100 lbs over weight, you can walk in a circle in place for an hour and lose weight. Cut out a couple sodas or snacks a day and their goes 10lbs. But if you ask him if he ever had six-pack, the answer is always no. The lower the body fat, the harder it is to get leaner. Someone who is 40 – 100lbs overweight can lose very easily, but someone who is 10 – 15lbs away from having a six-pack can spend 6 months and not see any changes.</p>
<h3>Mistake: # 6 - Being A Gym Rat</h3>
<p>People who goes to the gym 6-7 days a week, or spends 2 to 3 hours at the gym, or the twice a day members. More is not always better. You&#8217;ve heard the term before, “TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING IS BAD ALSO!” Working out that much causes overtraining and will break down your muscles rather than build. It doesn’t give the muscles enough rest to recuperate and rebuild. Imagine a football player having to play 10 straight football games back to back everyday. Every game he is a little more fatigue than the last and his performance gets worse and worse. Give him a week to recover between games and he will play at his best.</p>
<h3>Mistake#7 &#8211; Wasting money on AB Gimmicks</h3>
<p>These machines only work on your abs, and nothing more. You’re only burning a little bit of calories because the abs is such a small muscle group and doesn’t require much energy to contract.</p>
<p>It’s all marketing. Hire a fitness model to be your front cover and make a couple of DVDs on how to use the machine. Then pay some people to do your testimonials and you have a new AB product.</p>
<p>Just like a get rich quick scheme. But this is a get lean and rip quick scheme. Think of about it, everybody has tried some get rich scheme one time or another. Did it work? Was it as easy as step 1, 2, 3?</p>
<p>When it comes to abs machines nobody ever got in shape using just the machines. They fail to mention the part “ in addition to low calorie diet and exercise regimen”</p>
<h3>Mistake# 8 &#8211; Lack Of Sleep</h3>
<p>Sleeping affects us more than what you think. When we go to bed, our bodies replenish and rebuild physically and mentally from the wear and tear throughout the day. Today’s norm of staying up past our bed times due to computers, cell phones, 24 – hour cable has made our bodies fatigue, reduced health, and even weight increase.</p>
<p>Grehlin and Leptin are hormones in our body that control appetite and weight gain or loss. Leptin suppresses our appetite while grehlin increases it. When your body doesn’t get enough sleep, grehlin levels increase while leptin level decreases which means not getting enough sleep could be one of the reasons why many overeat and have weight issues. Ever experienced a sleepless night followed by a day when no matter what you ate you never felt full or satisfied? If so, then you have experienced the workings of leptin and grehlin.</p>
<p>When lack of sleep becomes a chronic problem, levels of grehlin increases, causing greater appetite, and levels of leptin decrease. Regardless of diet and exercise, it&#8217;s possible that some obesity is caused, or made worse, by sleep deprivation.</p>
<p>In fact, have you ever experienced a sleepless night followed by a day when no matter what you ate you never felt full or satisfied? If so, then you have experienced the workings of leptin and grehlin.</p>
<h3>Mistake # 9: Doing Isolation Workouts To Rid Of Specific Fatty Areas</h3>
<p>Your body fat is spread out thru out your body. When you gain weight, you gain it everywhere, not just in one place. So why would you try to get rid of it just in one place? A lot of guys always tell me their ok with their legs, just need to get rid of some fat around the chest and stomach area.</p>
<p>Your fat doesn’t go, “ hey let&#8217;s all jump on your chest today and tomorrow, we’ll go fatten up the gut area!”</p>
<p>So when you’re attacking the fat, which is your goal and to get a six pack you must attack it from your whole body. Instead of doing exercises like bench presses or curls you need to do functional multi body group exercises to increase more cal burning in your body so your body will be forced to utilize fat as the energy source.</p>
<p>This doesn’t mean you do the same isolation workouts but just all in one day, because your still only using 1 to 3 muscle groups in every individual workout instead of using your entire body. Increase the calorie burning and your fat will melt away.</p>
<h3>Mistake# 10 – Not Getting The Right Help</h3>
<p>This is by far the biggest mistake of all that will keep most guys from ever getting the body they truly want. I know most guys don’t like to admit that they are tired and fed up with having a gut. They usually act like its not a big deal, play it off real cool by making jokes like “ I have a 1 pack instead of a six pack” but deep down inside all guys would like to have a lean, chiseled midsection if they knew how to get it.</p>
<p>Trust me, I been there myself. I know exactly how its like to be embarrassed to take off my shirt when there are girls around wondering if I had a nice body and my shirt was the only illusion I had.</p>
<p>About 6 years ago I decided I was going to get a six-pack no matter what it took. I was at a party one night and as everyone was drinking and having a good time, this girl went up to this guy, whispered something in his ear and lifted up his shirt and holy crap, this guy had some of the baddest looking abs I have ever seen in my life. I swore his midsection looked like one of the super heroes out of a comic book. Seconds later all her friends flocked over to him and begin to flirt while they groped over his stomach. Right then I knew what ever I had to do, I was going to get me a six pack because I wanted the attention, the girls, the confidence, just the whole looking and feeling physically strong and athletic.</p>
<p>The last 6 years, I tried everything from crazy diets I read about to working out twice a day for 3 months straight and after years and years of trial and error I finally figured out exactly what to do to get a six-pack and maintain it. Since then, I trained and helped hundreds of guys get the body they want by showing them how to train, how to eat and some of the best shortcuts and tips I learned. Now I enjoy my life more than ever because I feel so confident, my clothes fits good, I don’t have anything to hide. I now became That GUY the one girls would grope on and go OMG for and you know what, it feels great!</p>
<p>If you’re reading this right now, you’re probably thinking&#8230;is it worth it? Let me tell you it’s worth every second to have this great feeling. Since then I’ve helped others do the same. I send out weekly newsletters on tips and step-by-step articles on what it takes to get a six-pack, from what to do first to get started to what to expect along the way and special tricks to do and maintain your lean midsection while still having fun and doing normal things like eating out and drinking with your buddies. I show people how to cheat on their diets and still stay ripped. I would highly suggest you check out my website to get more tips and info so I could get you started in the right direction.</p>

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		<title>3 Tips To Lose That Belly Fat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Chang</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I want to give you my three best tips for <a title="Losing Weight vs. Losing Your Mind" href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/losing-weight-vs-losing-your-mind/">losing weight</a> around your midsection. By just doing these three things, you can easily lose weight and get closer to your goal of six pack abs.</p>
<h3>Tip #1: Control Your Liquid Calories</h3>
<p>When we think about cutting the fat on our bellies, the first thing that comes to our mind is cutting down on solid food. But one thing that most guys don&#8217;t take into account is the amount of LIQUID calories they consume. These liquid calories are typically totally empty of nutrition, and they can really add up fast. If you&#8217;ve been trying to lose weight but haven&#8217;t been successful, liquid calories could be the reason why.</p>
<p>Think about it: a soda of the size typically served at restaurants has about 480 calories, all pure sugar.</p>
<p>And the average twelve ounce bottle of beer has about 160 calories. How easy is it to drink 5 or 6 beers without even thinking about it? That&#8217;s a huge amount of empty calories which go straight to your gut.</p>
<p>Before you even start worrying about changing what you&#8217;re eating, start paying attention to what you&#8217;re DRINKING. This means:</p>
<p>- Drinking tea, <a title="Juicing: The 1 Life Changing Thing You Can Start Doing Today (Video)" href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/juicing-the-1-life-changing-thing-you-can-start-doing-today-video/">juice</a>, water, or even diet soda in place of regular soda</p>
<p>- Replacing beer or sugary alcoholic drinks with healthier alternatives, such as a vodka tonic</p>
<p>- Avoiding excess consumption of sugary juices, even though they&#8217;re marketed as &#8220;healthy&#8221;</p>
<h3>Tip #2: Boost Your Metabolism BEFORE Trying To Lose Weight</h3>
<p>Another thing that will make weight loss MUCH easier for you is boosting your metabolism BEFORE you try and lose weight. If your metabolism is low, weight loss is going to be incredibly difficult. You&#8217;ll have to eat incredibly tiny portions of food every day, and even if you&#8217;re exercising all the time you will still have difficulty losing weight.</p>
<p>Your metabolism is the most important factor in your <a title="Rave Reviews of P90X and the Discipline to Win" href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/rave-reviews-of-p90x-and-the-discipline-to-win/">weight loss</a>, bar none. An extremely hard cardio workout might burn 300 calories at the most but your metabolism will burn between 1500-3000 calories, EVERY SINGLE DAY, WHETHER YOU WORK OUT ON THAT DAY OR NOT.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s BY FAR the most important factor &#8211; you will easily burn 20x more calories through your metabolism than through exercise directly.</p>
<p>So you&#8217;re probably wondering, HOW do I boost my metabolism?</p>
<p>The best way to boost your metabolism is to gain lean body mass (muscle). This muscle will require energy every day to maintain itself, whether you work out on that day or not. This is what will jack your metabolism up, and make fat loss possible.</p>
<p>Back when I used to weight about 160 flabby pounds, I would eat about 1500 calories a day. It sucked &#8211; I felt like I was always starving, and I STILL didn&#8217;t lose any fat.</p>
<p>Now that I weigh 205 lbs. and I have much more muscle mass, I purposely eat over 3000 calories per day, EVERY DAY. I never gain any weight, because of my increased metabolism.</p>
<p>So if you want to lose weight, first focus on increasing your metabolism through building muscle.</p>
<h3>Tip #3: Follow A Nutrition PLAN</h3>
<p>Another huge mistake a lot of guys make is that they have no unified plan for their eating. They just try and follow whatever random tips they read off the internet whenever they remember them, and just hope things work out. The reality is, things never work out when you do them this way. If you don&#8217;t have a plan, then you&#8217;ll end up eating the wrong foods and you will just gain more fat on your stomach.</p>
<p>Because if you don&#8217;t have a definite plan &#8212; if you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re doing to eat that day in ADVANCE of when you actually eat it &#8212; you&#8217;ll have to make all your eating choices in the moment. And the only thing to keep you away from unhealthy food choices is going to be sheer willpower.</p>
<p>And let&#8217;s face it: NOBODY has very much willpower, and diets that rely on willpower inevitably fail. This is why 95% of people who &#8220;go on a diet&#8221; lose no weight, and actually GAIN weight beyond what they weighed originally.</p>
<p>But this isn&#8217;t to say things are hopeless &#8212; there are people who DO have the abs which come from great nutrition. The secret is, these people don&#8217;t have any more <a title="6 Speedy Systems to Stop Self Improvement Stagnation" href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/6-speedy-systems-to-stop-self-improvement-stagnation/">willpower</a> than you. They just have a structured PLAN that determines what they eat, taking willpower out of the equation.</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the New Year and all of the resolutions and fresh starts that come with it, this blog post is the official announcement that Today is that Day will soon be under new management, and I will be moving back into the role that I used to help so many people in [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just in time for the New Year and all of the resolutions and fresh starts that come with it, this blog post is the official announcement that Today is that Day will soon be under new management, and I will be moving back into the role that I used to help so many people in the past, and that is as a Fitness Coach.</p>
<p>My time here at Today is that Day has been nothing less than wonderful, and I am very glad that the blog posts and other content from the site will most likely still remain available even after the new owners get done moving things around. The community that has been built around this site is the most empowering and uplifting group of people that I have ever been exposed to, and I am grateful that via the power of the Internet, I will still be able to interact with many of you.</p>
<p>My own life has changed drastically over the last year, and all of the changes have been for the best! I got married to my wonderful new wife, Shanna, and we live on the east coast of Florida which is a dream come true for both of us. I have rejoined the U.S. Military as an Air National Guard soldier, and I will spend 6 months at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi during 2009 learning all sorts of cool, high-tech stuff. My military affiliation will be financing a full-time college education that will also be in the high-tech arena. In addition, I have finally launched the incredible health &amp; fitness website: <a href="http://www.surfsidefitness.com">Surfside Fitness</a>, which is a project that I have been working on for more than 6 months. The result of that work is a beautiful new site that will be an awesome resource for a great many people.</p>
<p>Surfside Fitness is where I will be spending most of my online time, and with major props once again being given to my incredible designer, <a href="http://www.jasonlarosedesign.com/">Jason Larose</a>, I am looking forward to helping thousands of people to attain high levels of health and fitness via that site. I got it completed just in time for the fresh start that 2009 will bring for all of us!</p>
<p><strong>Surfside Fitness is more than just a website and blog, however. The site comes complete with:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A full suite of <a href="http://www.surfsidefitness.com/services.html">services</a> including Fitness Consulting, Online Fitness Training, Program Evaluation, and lots more</li>
<li>A <a href="http://www.surfsidefitness.com/blog/">fitness blog</a> that will be updated several times each week, and a plan is already in place to ensure not only frequent updates, but very high quality health and fitness content as well</li>
<li>A free <a href="http://surfsidefitness.ning.com/">health and fitness community </a>that is simple to use, yet packed with tons of features like personal blogs, video uploads, picture uploads, groups, forums, and more</li>
<li>Frequently updated videos and featured products that will be more than just a stale rotation of old content. The video and product updates will be coming straight from the cutting edge of the health and fitness arena</li>
</ul>
<p>Since my primary goal with Today is that Day has always been to empower people to believe that they can take control over their lives and build those lives to be <strong>wonderful</strong>, I want to leave with a parting message:</p>
<p align="center"><span style="color: #ff0000"><em><strong>Never, ever, EVER GIVE UP!</strong></em></span></p>
<p>For my wife and I, 2008 has been one of the hardest years of our lives. We have had every imaginable difficulty, and some difficulties that you probably CAN&#8217;T imagine. To say that we had to struggle this year in order to get to where we are now would be a radical understatement.</p>
<p><strong>We made it through the fire by sticking to our guns and staying focused on our goals!</strong></p>
<p>There were no hand outs, no easy streets, no miracle cures, and no safety nets. We have had to fight, kick, scratch, and bite for every ounce of success that we have had, and if we had given up, then none of these wonderful things would have happened in our lives.</p>
<p>We sit poised on the brink of a new year that &#8211; although there will still be challenges &#8211; we are better armed from every conceivable level to achieve success than we have ever been in the past.</p>
<p>We got to this point by believing in ourselves, believing in each other, and keeping our eyes on the prize.</p>
<p>Stay focused on what you want, never give up reaching for it, and your success is guaranteed.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll look forward to seeing you all out there wherever our paths cross again, and in the meantime, remember to always <strong>enjoy your life</strong>. If you&#8217;re not having fun, what&#8217;s the point??</p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that scene in Disney&#8217;s &#8216;Aladdin&#8217; when the genie says &#8220;PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER&#8230;in an itty bitty living space&#8230;&#8220;? Yeah, that&#8217;s about where I am right now. Today is Day 1 of the P90X® Extreme Home Fitness Program, and although at face value that would seem to just be about my own health and fitness, [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know that scene in Disney&#8217;s &#8216;Aladdin&#8217; when the genie says &#8220;<em>PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER&#8230;in an itty bitty living space&#8230;</em>&#8220;? Yeah, that&#8217;s about where I am right now.</p>
<p>Today is Day 1 of the <a href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/mdbstore.php"><em>P90X® Extreme Home Fitness Program</em></a>, and although at face value that would seem to just be about my own health and fitness, it actually goes much deeper than that, and there is a valuable personal growth lesson that can be learned from this story.</p>
<p>The P90X program is 12 DVD exercise videos that encompass what is arguably one of the most intense and effective exercise programs ever created. When looking at the promotional materials for P90X, and the before and after success stories, you can&#8217;t help but become excited about the possibilities, and to marvel at the sheer scale of success that you can attain as a result of going through the program. The weight loss, health, and fitness benefits are staggering in their implications, and the whole thing seems larger than life. Then, when UPS finally delivers your fast track to success, you tear open the box, and this is what you see:</p>
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.todayisthatday.com/p90xlittleblackbox.jpg" alt="P90X" border="0" /></div>
<p>Now, my own obvious lack of photographic skills notwithstanding, after the <strong>weeks</strong> of research that I did on P90X before I bought it, it was such a contrast to see all of the empowerment, strength, weight loss, and personal growth potential contained in such a little black box! Therein lies the personal growth lesson, however:</p>
<p><strong><em>It&#8217;s not the <span style="text-decoration: underline">size </span>of your solution that matters, but rather your <span style="text-decoration: underline">dedication</span> to doing what it takes that determines your success &#8211; or lack thereof.</em></strong></p>
<p>P90X is intense and extreme, and as I indicated, I did A LOT of research on it before I decided to buy it. There was one thing that came across <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>loud and clear</strong></span>, however, no matter how many blogs posts I read about it, no matter how many interviews I watched or listened to with people who have used it, and no matter how many before and after pictures that I looked at:</p>
<p><strong><em>You have to <span style="text-decoration: underline">DO</span> the work if you want the reward!</em></strong></p>
<p>No one who successfully got results using P90X did so by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Making a half-hearted effort</li>
<li>Only doing the parts of the program that they enjoyed</li>
<li>Working out only when they felt like it</li>
<li>Doing the exercises, but not sticking to the nutrition plan</li>
<li>Sticking to the nutrition plan, but not doing the exercises</li>
</ul>
<p>The people who got phenomenal results did so by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Having a goal and not losing sight of it</li>
<li>Doing everything that it took to attain their goal, even if they didn&#8217;t want to, no matter how hard it was, and no matter how tired they got</li>
<li>Sticking to the plan for 90 days straight, rather than jumping ship when they didn&#8217;t get a &#8220;quick fix&#8221;</li>
<li>Consistently doing the work, 6 or even 7 days each week</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you see a pattern here that has been discussed many times in the personal growth and development community?</p>
<p><strong>Having a Goal</strong></p>
<p><strong>Doing what it takes to Succeed</strong></p>
<p><strong>Perseverance, even in the face of Adversity</strong></p>
<p><strong>Consistently working at your Plan</strong></p>
<p>There is no quick fix for success, no magic pill, and no one who is going to come and save you. Whether your goal is weight loss, financial success, fulfilling relationships, or just to achieve inner peace, <span style="text-decoration: underline">YOU</span> are the only one who can do what it takes to make that happen.</p>
<p>There is no cavalry coming over the hill, no miracle money-making scheme that will solve all of your problems, and no Mr. or Mrs. Right who wants to be with you until you are worthy of being with.</p>
<p>People say that happiness is an inside job, and that is certainly true. However, SUCCESS is an inside job, too. With no knight in shining armor on his way to bail you out of being &#8220;stuck&#8221; in a life that you don&#8217;t want, there is only one person who can truly save the day for you, and that is <span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>you</strong></span>.</p>
<p>Please act accordingly.</p>
<p>As for me, I&#8217;ve got 90 DAYS OF PAIN in front of me. Is it because I LIKE pain? Hardly. It&#8217;s because I am a <a href="http://www.milliondollarbody.com/beachjunkie">health and fitness coach</a>, and even though leading by example isn&#8217;t always easy, it IS how you become successful, and it is also how you earn the opportunity to work with other people and to empower them to have the same success that you have had.</p>
<p>That sounds like a goal.<br />
That sounds like doing what it takes to succeed.<br />
That sounds like perseverance, even in the face of adversity.<br />
That sounds like consistently working a solid plan.</p>
<p>That sounds like the recipe for <strong>success</strong>. As I said, please act accordingly.</p>
<p>p.s. &#8211; If I&#8217;m not back in in 90 days, SEND HELP! <img src='http://www.todayisthatday.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-Cultural Contamination is a feature here at Today is that Day that shares content that I have written at other sites across the &#8216;net. Sometimes I write frequently elsewhere, and sometimes it is just occasionally, but in either case, it is content that I feel is worth sharing. Enjoy! Are you a Skinny Fat Person? [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cross-Cultural Contamination is a feature here at Today is that Day that shares content that I have written at other sites across the &#8216;net.</p>
<p>Sometimes I write frequently elsewhere, and sometimes it is just occasionally, but in either case, it is content that I feel is worth sharing. Enjoy!</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.craigharper.com.au/2008/04/book-review-18-and-guest-post-whos-your.html" target="_blank"><strong>Who&#8217;s Your Handler?</strong></a> &#8211; A rant (hey, I&#8217;m allowed!) about how people consciously and unconsciously let <strong>other</strong> people run their lives. That has to <span style="text-decoration: underline">stop</span>.</li>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Potts</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In all of my years as a personal trainer and a personal development writer, I have never been more convinced about a program&#8217;s ability to help people take control over their lives more than the <em><a href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/mdbstore.html">P90X Extreme Training System®</a></em>.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s surprising, however, is that even though <em>P90X</em> is one of the most effective weight loss and fitness programs out there, the health and weight loss benefits are only part of what people get from using <em>P90X</em>. In addition, they get something that is not as measurable as weight loss and increased health, but just as important &#8211; <em>they get empowerment</em>.</p>
<p>Ever since announcing the <a href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/milliondollarbodychallenge.html">Million Dollar Body Challenge</a>, and choosing <em>P90X </em>as one of the fitness programs the participants can use, I have been researching <em>P90X </em>extensively. The amount of data available about the program is nothing less than staggering, and here&#8217;s the best part:</p>
<p><em>It&#8217;s <span style="text-decoration: underline">all</span> good!</em></p>
<p>Normally, even a very popular book, video, program, etc., will have a fair amount of people who don&#8217;t think that much of it. With <em>P90X</em>, however, the only negative comment that I&#8217;ve heard is that it&#8217;s really hard! That is, of course, why it&#8217;s really effective.</p>
<p>I have read dozens of blog posts and articles, poured over the company literature, seen multiple videos about the product, and even talked to people in person, and <span style="text-decoration: underline">no</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline">one</span> has had anything bad to say about it.</p>
<p>So, that is all well and good, and if you haven&#8217;t already checked out <em>P90X</em>, I definitely recommend that you do. You can see 3 cool videos about it and get signed up for the Million Dollar Body challenge by <a href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/milliondollarbodychallenge.html">going right here</a>.</p>
<p>There is more than just health and fitness to be discussed, however &#8211; let&#8217;s talk about <strong>empowerment</strong>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>The Discipline to Win</strong></span></p>
<p>The people who successfully complete the 90-day <em>P90X</em> program do it by, quite frankly (and literally), working their butts off for 90 days straight. <em>P90X</em> is <span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>not</strong></span> easy, and like any good fitness program, it includes both a structured exercise program and a structured nutrition plan.</p>
<p>The <em>P90X</em> graduates are all people who took control of their lives for 90 days straight and said, <em>&#8220;I am going to do this. I will not back down, and I will not give up. I will stay focused on my goal of making it to day 90, and I will not allow myself to be distracted in any way from reaching my goal.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Hmmm&#8230;that sounds a bit like the recipe for success in <span style="text-decoration: underline">any</span> endeavor, doesn&#8217;t it? The <em>P90X</em> grads, however, have an edge that most people don&#8217;t: <strong>They know that the system works</strong>.</p>
<p>They know that by staying disciplined and on track, that the results will be there. It isn&#8217;t hearsay to them, it isn&#8217;t a rumor, it isn&#8217;t some vague bit of personal development advice &#8211; it is a <span style="text-decoration: underline">fact</span>.</p>
<p>They know that by staying their course for 90 days, they can accomplish truly amazing things, remarkable things, measurable and noticeable things. They can accomplish things that not only make other people stand up and take notice, but more importantly, things that have empowered them to succeed in <strong>any</strong> endeavor in their lives.</p>
<p>Their success with <em>P90X</em>, although wonderful in its own right, is just a stepping stone to success in other areas because they now have confidence, and faith, and they understand the power of positive habits. By the sweat of their own brow, they have seen that they can accomplish something that was neither easy, nor short-lived.</p>
<p>They have learned perseverance and discipline; they know the taste of victory and they know it tastes so sweet because they <strong>earned</strong> it, they <strong>worked </strong>for it, and they <strong>deserve</strong> it.</p>
<p>Does all of this mean that you should run right out and buy <em>P90X</em> just so you can be like them? Unless you are in perfect physical condition already, sure that would be a great idea. However, even if you don&#8217;t, at least take the message of this blog post to heart:</p>
<p><em>Victory is sweet when you earn it, and you aren&#8217;t earning it if you are sitting well inside your comfort zone watching the world go by.</em></p>
<p><span style="float: right;padding-left: 5px;padding-top: 5px"><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/todayisthatday/5425298"><img src="http://www.todayisthatday.com/victoryissweet300.jpg" alt="Victory is sweet when you earn it, and you aren't earning it if you are sitting well inside your comfort zone watching the world go by." border="0" /></a></span>Is it all about the chiseled abs, the sculpted shoulders, or the beautiful legs? Nope! However, when you work hard enough to <em>have</em> chiseled abs, sculpted shoulders, or beautiful legs, you suddenly realize that there is <span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>nothing</strong></span> that you can&#8217;t do.</p>
<p>And that, friends and neighbors, is definitely something worth working for, wouldn&#8217;t you say?</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a ton of reasons (excuses) why people don&#8217;t get in shape, but they all eventually boil down to one core concept: <em>They are not motivated enough to do what it takes to attain the level of fitness that they desire.</em></p>
<p>There it is. That&#8217;s the solution to the big mystery. Sure, there are plenty of circumstances that get in the way of people getting into shape, but that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that there are no hurdles that can&#8217;t be leaped if the motivation level is high enough. Think of what happens when someone has a heart attack or a stroke, and you&#8217;ll see this concept in full effect. THEN they are suddenly <strong>very motivated</strong>.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t believe in waiting until I almost die to take action and start living a better life. However, that&#8217;s just me, and I realize that some other people need more motivation than that. That being said, I have gone back to my personal training roots and put together a program that uses two of the most powerful motivators ever &#8211; <strong>money</strong> and <strong>recognition</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/milliondollarbodychallenge.html"><strong><em>The Million Dollar Body Challenge</em></strong></a> is a 90-day group coaching initiative where you, dear reader, get to take part in a health coaching program that not only includes plenty of incredible information from a qualified teacher, but that also gives you the chance for as much <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>cash and recognition</strong></span> as you can handle!</p>
<p>There are a ton of great benefits to the program, which kicks off on May 1st, 2008, but here are some of the highlights:</p>
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<li>Cash and prizes worth up to $1,000 awarded every day just for working out</li>
<li>Up to $10,000 awarded once a month to people who make the most progress</li>
<li>A $250,000 cash prize given annually to a male and a female who truly excel</li>
<li>Countless online resources and almost limitless content from fitness trainers and experts</li>
<li>Free teleconferences every single week</li>
<li>Email access to me as your coach for the entire 90-day period</li>
<li>Free copies of Today is that Day fitness products</li>
<li>Free lifetime Premium memberships at <em>Personal Development Partners</em> where challengers will be able to discuss their progress</li>
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<p>And that&#8217;s just a quick overview. If you want the real scoop &#8211; and if you are truly ready to make some positive changes in your health &#8211; then click below to get started! This program will fill up quickly, and I will have to close it to new members at that point.</p>
<p>Sign up now to get access to all of the materials and the support that you need, and start getting yourself on track. Once May 1st hits, we are going to take off like a rocket, and <strong><em>you won&#8217;t believe the physical change</em></strong> that the group participants will undergo!</p>
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