If you’re looking for easy advice on how to lose weight faster, well, look no further than this:

Weight Loss Article

Yours in health,

Brien Shamp

PS – You don’t have to lose weight faster, but when it’s this easy…

Weight Loss Article

Hello Everyone,

My partners over at Prograde just put an awesome new article up on their site.

It’s all about the correlation between sleep and quick weight loss.

I really think you’re going to love this one. It’s possible this may be a big problem for you or someone you know.

Sleep & Weight Loss Article

Yours in health,

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In Fitness & Health,

Brien Shamp BS CSCS CMT CHEK NLC II

Personal Trainer, Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach

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Daniel became the talk of Boston and around the country in one swing. I am very proud of him as he is such a great guy and of course a former College of San Mateo Bulldog.

Check out the video below of Daniel’s first Major League at bat:

Nava has overcome all odds to play at the major league level:

• He weighed 70 pounds as a high-school freshman.
• He was cut from the baseball team at Santa Clara and became the team manager washing uniforms
• He came to the College of San Mateo because his parents could not afford tuition at Santa Clara and he played for the Bulldogs for two years where I got the chance to work with him and observe his strong work ethic.
• He went  back to Santa Clara on scholarship for just one season and hit .395, but was bypassed in major league draft.
• He joined the independent Chico (Calif.) Outlaws of the independent Golden Baseball League and he was cut with no where to go.
• After taking a year off baseball, the Outlaws of Chick gave him another shot and he made the most of it.
• He was signed by the Red Sox to minor-league deal after hitting .372 for Chico for $1
• He will now make the major league minimum of  approximately $350k  and go down in the record books for being one of the two players in history to rip a grand slam on the first pitch of their careers. He also got a double in his first game.
• He then  got two more hits today and is batting .500 (4/8) with 5 RBI’s.

A day to remember, a player to watch. I think we will continue to see great things from Daniel.

If you can not see the video above  go to: Baseball BLOG

In Fitness and Health,

Brien Shamp

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The College of San Mateo Baseball Team has done it. They are on their way to the  Final Four in Fresno. They play their first game on Friday. We had our last workout of the year and it is posted below. The goal was to not be sore on Friday, but to work on mobility, speed, agility, power and circulation. Reps were low for this workout.

Final Four Workout

Circuit: Perform 2 Rounds for 1 minute each

1. Agility Ball (60s)
2. Burpees with In-Out Bonus (6)
3. Forward-Back Slalom with 5 Yard Sprint (4)
4. Medicine Ball Trunk Rotation Against Wall (6)
5. Side Squat Touch (6)
6. Modified Superman (60s)
7. Backwards Lunges with Medicine Ball Rotation (6)
8. Side Hops (4) to Sprint (4)

If you can not see the video below go to: Baseball BLOG

Please add your comments below on the workout.

In Fitness and Health,

Brien Shamp

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Have you made progress or did your motivation sizzle out?

Most people wait around for motivation to strike them like a lightning bolt. Well, I’ve got news: motivation isn’t something that happens to you – it’s something that you create for yourself.

If you don’t feel motivated to achieve your goals, it is likely due to mental roadblocks that hold you hostage. Read the following 21 Mindset Tips and prepare your mind for success.

1. Success comes first in the mind, so visualize yourself accomplishing your goals.
2. Remember, you are the only person who can hold you back.
3. Forgive yourself and love yourself despite past failures.
4. Decide what is important in your life, and focus on that.
5. Conquer each negative thought the moment it enters your mind, when it is weakest.
6. Give up the idea that things won’t go right unless you worry about them.
7. If you bring the body of your dreams to the point of resolve, then you’ll soon be living in it.
8. Look towards your future, if you believe the best is yet to come then it will be.
9. You become what you think about most.
10. The margin between success and failure is very small and easily bridged by determination.
11. Start your day by accomplishing your hardest task first.
12. Set small attainable goals, rather than one monumental goal.
13. Convince yourself that exercise is fun, and it will be.
14. Know your big reason why.
15. Create a motivating play list of songs to use as the sound track to your workout sessions.
16. Every decision you make leads you either closer toward achieving your goal, or farther from it.
17. If you think you’re a fat person, then you’ll stay fat. If you think you’re fit, then you soon will be.
18. Once you’ve set your goal, your attitude either pushes you toward accomplishment or failure.
19. If you don’t know exactly where you want to go, you will likely end up someplace else.
20. You can have the body of your dreams, but first you must give up the belief that you can’t.
21. You can only have two things in life: excuses or results.

If you’re sick and tired of making excuses, then contact me today to get started on a results-driven nutrition & lifestyle and fitness program.

New Baby Promotion: For the month of March, I would like to give all of you that are new to my services and those of you that I have not seen in 2010, 25% off  when paying for the month in advance. This includes Personal Training, Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching and Therapeutic Massage Services.  Try 2 – 30 minute personal training sessions per week for a month. We can accomplish a total body workout in only 30-minutes and you will love the results. How about the 21 Day  Weight Management & Purification Program (a.k.a. DETOX)?

Offer expires 3/31/2010.

I can only take a handful of new clients given my schedule is already fairly hectic, especially with a new baby, so contact me today for a FREE consultation.

Have a great rest of the week.  I hope to see you soon.

Brien

Personal Trainer, Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach

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Fish oil has  been scientifically proven to help individuals with many metabolic symptoms including raised fat levels in the heart and liver.   Researchers in Italy who were researching fish oil have now discovered another great source of Omega-3s that are actually more efficient than fish oil:  Krill Oil.

What is Krill?
Krill is a shrimp-like marine invertebrate animal. These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, manta rays, whale sharks, crabeater seals, other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them. Another name is euphausiids, after their taxonomic order Euphausiacea. The name krill comes from the Norwegian word krill meaning “young fry of fish,” which is also often attributed to other species of fish.

The study published in the Journal of Nutrition concludes that both conventional fish oil and krill oil are effective in reducing fat levels, but that krill oil is more effective. The mechanisms of why this was the case had not been made clear in the study, but suggested that long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids may reduce activity in the endocannabinoid system. The endocannabinoid system sounds complicated and hard to pronounce, but it consists of a group of neuromodulatory lipids and receptors that influence your appetite, pain sensation, mood and memory.

The researchers found that when parameters that were associated with obesity were considered the krill oil reduced rats heart fat levels by 42% compared to 2% for conventional fish oils. A 60% reduction in liver fat was also observed for krill oil supplementation compared to only 38% for fish oil supplementation.  Not only is the reduction significant it is just as important to note that fat build up in the liver can lead to insulin insensitivity and cause type-2 diabetes.

Researchers stated: “It is worth noting that in all tissues exhibiting changes in endocannabinoid concentrations, EPA and DHA concentrations in the PL (phospholipid) fraction were increased and the increase was greater in the Krill Oil compared with fish oil-supplemented rats.”

Now even though this study was done with rats the results are very significant and generally do carry over to human studies.   Since Krill Oil has been deemed through research safe and effective with increasing your EPA and DHA levels we would expect Krill Oil to also reduce the fat levels in your heart and liver of obese and overweight individuals.

Click the image  to order a bottle of EFA Icon today, which contains the industry leader in krill oil (NKO).

In Good Health,

Brien

Brien Shamp BS CSCS CMT CHEK NLC II
CEO Optimal Fitness Lifestyle Center
650-654-4604 (w)
650-654-4108 (f)

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Check out the radio interview I did on a popular radio show on the East Coast “7 Secrets for Permanent Weight Loss.”

I gave many of my top secrets for success for weight loss and many of these may be new to you, even if you are a current client.

In order to hear the FREE Radio Interview, enter your contact information below. I will also be contacting you to receive a FREE 30 Minute Consultation to discuss a game plan to help you lose the weight you desire. It is easy to lose weight and body fat when you have a plan.

In Health & Fitness,

Brien

Brien Shamp BS CSCS CMT CHEK NLC II
650-654-4604 (w)

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According to a recent study by researchers at the University College of London, a diet high in fatty and processed foods led to an increased risk of depression.

The participants were separated into two groups.  One group who ate a diet largely based on “whole” foods, and another group who mainly ate fried food, processed meat, high-fat dairy products and sweetened desserts.  The results showed that those who ate the whole foods had a 26 percent lower risk of depression than those who ate mainly processed foods.  More alarming though, was that the group with a processed food diet was 58 percent more likely to be or become depressed.

Why did these results occur?  Researchers put forth several hypotheses:

• Previous studies have shown a diet high in antioxidants can ward off depression.
• Eating lots of fish may protect against depression because it contains high levels of the sort of polyunsaturated fatty acids which stimulate brain activity.
• They also thought that a “whole food” diet protects against depression because of the combined effect of consuming nutrients from lots of different types of food, rather than the effect of one single nutrient.

The final conclusion of the research ”suggests that healthy eating policies will generate additional benefits to health and well-being, and that improving people’s diet should be considered as a potential target for preventing depressive disorders.”

Check out a video of Chris and I doing a Healthy Food, Healthy You: Food Clinic:

Also, check out the radio interview I did on a popular radio show on the East Coast “7 Secrets for Permanent Weight Loss.” These are the same principles that will help with depression because they are very much related.

I gave many of my top secrets for success and many of these may be new to you, even if you are a current client.

In order to hear the FREE Radio Interview, enter your contact information below. I will also be contacting you to receive a FREE 30 Minute Nutrition & Lifestyle Session to discuss a game plan to help you optimize your health.

In Health & Fitness,

Brien Shamp BS CSCS CMT CHEK NLC II
CEO Optimal Fitness Lifestyle Center
650-654-4604 (w)
650-654-4108 (f)

www.OptimalFitnessLifestyle.com

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