This eZine (No. 128)

Nutrition:	High Protein Vegetarian Lifestyle?
MindPower:	Anthony Robbins and His Personal Power Techniques
Fitness:	How To Build Muscle Fast With Isometrics and PIC.

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High Protein Vegetarian Lifestyle?

By: Ainsley Laing

Forty years ago, when I was a kid (and a vegetarian newbie), vegetarianism was not common. The statement “I am a vegetarian” was met with a simple “Oh”. Then came the 1980s when it became fashionable to be vegetarian for health reasons. With this fashion came confusion...

If you are a long term vegetarian like me, you will no doubt have been asked “do you eat chicken and fish?” Answer: polite yet emphatic “No, I am a vegetarian”. This question is usually followed by “how do you get enough protein?” Answer: polite yet emphatic “Easy!”

For those that are confused, here’s a brief description of the types of vegetarianism. Basically, there are those who either eat dairy (lacto vegetarian), eggs (ovo vegetarian) or both (ovo-lacto vegetarian). Vegans are vegetarians that consume no animal products at all. Among us vegetarians, if we say we are vegetarian it is taken to mean we eat dairy and or eggs. Vegans usually use the word vegan, which sounds to me like terminology invented by the producers of the original Star Trek episodes ?. A feeble attempt at humor, I know.

This article is about vegetarian and vegan eating, either as a lifestyle or the occasional meal. This article is about eating for muscle development. Is it possible to do both? Yes it is… with simple foods and a bit of knowledge about the composition of proteins.

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. To build or maintain muscle (and most other body functions), the human body requires some amino acids that it must take from food. These are called the Essential Amino Acids. There are other amino acids that the body manufactures on its own – called Non-essential Amino Acids. However, it requires the essential ones to manufacture the non-essential ones.

A protein is referred to as “complete” or “useable” when it contains all of the essential amino acids. Animal protein is complete. Vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts and seeds all contain protein, but they usually are not complete and therefore need to be “complemented” with foods that have the missing amino acids. The exception to this is soybeans. The protein in soybeans is complete and needs no complement.

In a nutshell: for vegetarians, getting enough protein is simple as eggs, dairy products and soybean products (except soy sauce) are good sources of high quality “useable” protein. For vegans, dried beans and soy are the main source of protein. Dried beans need to be complemented with nuts, grains, corn, eggs, dairy or soy (except eggs and dairy for vegans). For Non-vegetarians, a small amount of meat, fish or chicken in a meal will also complete the protein in beans or nuts for an extra protein punch that’s also packed with phytochemicals and anti-oxidants!

Live long and prosper.

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About the author:
Ainsley Laing, MSc. has 27 years experience in Group Exercise, Nutrition and Personal Training. She writes exclusively for Body for Mind - Wellness Lifestyle for Successful People.

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Anthony Robbins and His Personal Power Techniques

By: Kurt Schmitt..

Anthony Robbins is world famous for being a master motivator and a top performance coach. He has worked with individuals, professional athletes, and companies both large and small.

Tony has opened up and shared his own personal story of success with the world through his seminars, audio and video learning series and books. He is well known for producing results with quick turnarounds. Tony's ability to help people quickly turn around any area of their lives is legendary.

In the 2001 comedy movie, Shallow Hal, Tony plays himself, and pokes fun at his ability to change people's lives. He hypnotizes Jack Black's character into seeing the world in a different way.

What Robbins may be most famous for are his infomercials, offering his Personal Power home audio course. This course may best be described as a complete approach to personal change.

With Personal Power, Tony's program brings together a number of different systems and techniques that people can use to change anything they want about their lives. It is packaged up in an audio course, which he personally recorded. This definitely gives it a personal touch and a flavor all its own.

As you go through the course, you get to hear not only Tony's techniques, but also his personal story as told by him. I found this course to be extremely effective. He's sometimes funny, sometimes excited, sometimes self-deprecating, but always demanding. This makes for an entertaining but results oriented program.

Motivational speakers and personal development gurus had been around for many years, but when Tony appeared on the scene, he took motivation to a more personal level. His system emphasized speed and results over the traditional, slower therapy methods. At the same time, he also brought his program to the masses.

What was at one time accessible only to high powered executives and corporations, Tony brought to you and me. By creating a system that could work for all, yet was individualized, he introduced us to the concept of a personal life coach, before we even knew what it was.

Before the Anthony Robbins home course, Personal Power, and its later version Personal Power 2, we read about Tony's techniques in his books. In Unlimited Power, for example, Tony describes neuro linguistic programming, or NLP, the system upon which many of his techniques are based.

NLP is used as a way of reprogramming your thinking in order create life change. It's focused on results and is a highly flexible, individual system for personal growth.

Tony describes how his NLP based techniques can empower us to take control of our lives and our futures. In fact, he tells you that if you master an understanding of how your brain works, you can become your own therapist and personal consultant. Tony says that you actually go beyond therapy, and are able to change any feeling or behavior for yourself in just moments.

I recommend you look into Tony's methods and see if they fit. I think you'll find, as I did, that the convenience of a home audio series is a valuable tool for both quick and lasting change.

Anthony Robbins has many loyal followers, as well as many detractors. His methods are powerful, to be sure, but in my opinion his most powerful methods work best if you're good at visualizing. If not, then you may have to work a bit harder in order to see progress. If you're ready for change, and willing to work for it, Anthony Robbins and his personal power techniques are for you.

Article Source: http://www.bodyformind.com/db

About the author:
Kurt Schmitt uses techniques for inspiration taught by Anthony Robbins and others to create lasting personal change. To keep up with what he's up to, subscribe to his online newsletter, Ideas into Action.

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How To Build Muscle Fast With Isometrics and PIC.

By: Frank Sherrill

To build muscle you must use the principle of progressive overload. Simply put you must continually increase the resistance you are using, if your muscles are to grow.

Whether you are using free weights, resistance bands or a Bullworker type exerciser like the Bully Xtreme, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that in each and every workout you attempt to use more and more resistance. That in a nut shell is how to build muscle.

There are 3 ways to increase the amount of resistance you place on a muscle:

1. Do more reps with the same amount of resistance each time.

2. Do the same number of reps but use more resistance

3. Use the same number of reps and same amount of resistance, but shorten the rest periods in between sets.

The most common ways to add more resistance, in order to build muscle, is with the first 2. Using more resistance and/or doing more reps.

Superman Muscles

One of the most effective techniques to increase muscle size and strength is to incorporate the use of Isometrics in your training program. But, these aren’t your typical type of isometrics. OH NO.

This is Isometrics with a twist. It’s called “Post Isometric Contraction.” (PIC)

What is it?

Well as opposed to regular Isometrics where you only do one repetition and hold it for 7 to 10 seconds. This method of training utilizes the best of all aspects of strength training.

In this training you would do your normal exercise for example. Let’s say your doing a dumbbell curl with resistance bands, a dumbbell or a Bully Xtreme.

You would do the normal curl lets say for 9 repetitions. Now here’s the twist on the last rep, number 10 you would hold the contraction to a count of 10 or 10 seconds.

Why do this?

Well since the bicep has been prefatigued due to the 9 repetitions you have done, in order for the muscle to hold the contraction in the 10 th rep it must recruit more muscle fibers in order to hold the contraction.

What does all of this mean??

Mind blowing results faster than you have previously thought possible.

Don’t believe me?

Try it out for yourself. You will not believe the results

Article Source: http://www.bodyformind.com/db

About the author:
Frank Sherrill, is a former U.S. Army Ranger and Martial Arts expert. After surviving a horrific weight training accident, he spent years researching and finally discovering an exercise program and home gym that was as effective as free weights but, without all the RISK. To learn more about the Bullworker go to Isometric Training and receive a free muscle building ebook.

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Wishing you health, happiness and prosperity,

Ainsley & Dave