Acai Berry actually causes weight gain!
New studies have shown that people introducing acai berries into their diet are in fact putting on more weight than without the miracle fruit.
This scientific study is testing over 2 000 000 people on their experiences with acai products, including raw berries, powdered drinks, jam and juice. The results were astonishing. Out of 2 million participants, none of them claimed any weight loss results. Nor did they experience increased energy levels, improved sexual performance, improved digestion, detoxification, increase fiber benefits, antioxidant benefits, improved skin, improved heart health, improved sleep, reduction of cholesterol levels, reversal of diabetes and chronic illness, and no male participants claimed that there were any increases in the size of their penis or their sexual attractiveness to women.
To participate in the study, all you have to do is purchase an acai berry product, try it out for the period of time recommended, then publicly state if it works by using a blog or news website that is not affiliated with selling acai berry in any way at all. In your statement you must claim the effects that acai berry had on your body.
To this date, a quick search on google reveals that no one has achieved anything from taking acai berry other than the disappointment of waking up 2 weeks later with an extra pound of fat, realising that a tiny berry cannot substitute for exercise and calorie moderation.
Quoted from Wikipedia:
“As of March 2009, there are no controlled studies backing up any of these claims. According to ABC News correspondent Susan Donaldson, these products have not been evaluated (in the United States) by the FDA, and their efficacy is questionable.[3] In late 2008, lawyers for The Oprah Winfrey Show began investigating alleged statements from supplement manufacturers who suggested that frequent Oprah guest Dr. Mehmet Oz had recommended their product or açai in general for weight loss.[4]“
Top 10 Largest Fitness Forums
Forums are a very good sources of information when it comes to fitness. They give you the opportunity to ask any question you’d like and have hundreds of people provide answers and feedback. More often than not if you send your favourite website author a message you wont even get a reply! But on a forum, you’ll almost always get more replies than you need!
So today we’ve taken a look at the biggest fitness forums on the internet. They are ranked by the number of total posts made on the forum. This will generally indicate which are the most active.
If you know of a large forum that deserves to be in this top 10 list, please leave a comment below with the link.
| Bodybuilding.com Forum | Posts: 40,619,221 | Threads: 2,372,684 | Members: 1,625,199 |
| Elite Fitness Forum | Posts: 8,107,352 | Threads: 598,872 | Members: 196,384 |
| Muscletalk.co.uk | Posts: 3,209,370 | Threads: 239,836 | Members: 37,783 |
| Wanna Be Big Forums | Posts: 2,113,646 | Threads: 121,524 | Members: 65,213 |
| Anabolic Minds | Posts: 1,868,625 | Threads: 112,977 | Members: 78,167 |
| Iron Magazine Forums | Posts: 1,781,904 | Threads: 88,473 | Members: 45,572 |
| Muscular Development Forums | Posts: 1,370,901 | Threads: 52,696 | Members: 63,706 |
| John Stone Fitness Forums | Posts: 717,926 | Threads: 44,549 | Members: 24,104 |
| JP Fitness | Posts: 691,022 | Threads: 35,342 | Members: 17,066 |
| Bodybuilding Dungeon | Posts: 562,495 | Threads: 33,980 | Members: 42,055 |
New Website – DailyBurn.com
If you could imagine the ultimate fitness progress diary with every feature you could ask for, this is it.
DailyBurn is the new face of Gyminee, a progress diary website aimed at helping people achieve their weight loss or weight gain goals by providing them with a full progress tracking system and learning resource. DailyBurn membership includes a nutrition database, recipe database, exercise database, workout database, challenge database, a giant library of fitness related videos, and the list keeps going!!!!
But what’s most important about DailyBurn, and what I believe will separate this service from the others, is the accountability feature, which I do believe I thought of first!!
The accountability feature is a way of connecting with people who are also trying to achieve the same fitness goal. You can watch their progress and compliment them, or tell them to get their ass into gear and start exercising!
If that doesn’t get you motivated, nothing will!
Currently DailyBurn has over 125,000 members and they all seem to be satisfied with the service. Investors also seem to be satisfied with the business model, as they’ve funded the website with $525 000. That money has probably been half spent on the extensive database design and office purchasing, with the remainder most likely going towards TV advertising in the near future.
Upon first impression, the website is very, very nice to look at. Everything is professionally illustrated and it definitely feels like it’s backed by $525 000 worth of funding.
Signing up is a breeze and may be setting new standards for any kind of membership site, whereby as soon as you enter your details you’re logged straight in and ready to go. There is no “confirming your email address” or clicking to activate. Those annoying things are gone with DailyBurn, which is just another unique feature that’s going to bring this company to the top.
After the 20 second signup page they get straight down to business, starting with the ultimate question: How much do you weigh right now, and how much do you WANT to weigh?
Having chosen to reach 115kg, the next screen told me the exact amount of calories I must consume each day, the recommended amount of protein, carbs and fat, and the time span in which they recommend I accomplish this goal. So far so good!
Next stop, to find a workout.
Along the top is a number of tab links titled, “Locker Room”, “Workouts”, “Nutrition”, “Challenges”, “Motivation” and “Forums”.
By dropping down the “Workouts” tab, I had the following options:
I chose Find Workouts and was given a list of different types of workouts, ranging from beginner workouts, advanced, running, abdominal, fat loss, strength gain.. It’s all there!!!
The workouts have a description of each exercise with pictures and video thoroughly explaining how to do it! This site seriously has everything! You can find meal plans, new recipes, find the nutrients IN your recipes, or even CREATE YOUR OWN RECIPES! The extent to which DailyBurn has gone to cover every single aspect of fitness diary keeping is incredible.
So in conclusion, I must say that this is the best fitness diary site I’ve seen so far, and I’m positive that it will soon reach 1 million users when the word spreads about how good it is. Though having said that, I’m not going to be one of those people, and chances are, you wont be either.
Keeping a diary is a great way to maintain your motivation and track progress, but we can do this on a notepad in about 20 seconds. Logging onto a website and going through the process of entering your reps, sets, weight, exercises, feelings, emotions, experiences, food intake, calorie intake, etc, and having to wait for the website to load each time you do it, is just not worth it.
Sure, you may get a motivation boost by having it all shown in fancy graphs and have people you don’t know yelling at you to keep it up, but I think the biggest problem with people staying fit these days is the fact that they don’t have time to. Spending 20 minutes on a website every day is wasting 20 minutes worth of exercise!
New Fitness Supplement – Urine
Did I just say, “URINE”?
Yes, I did. And believe it or not, rumour has it that drinking your OWN URINE can improve your fighting ability by up to 10000%.
I may have exaggerated on some of the details in that last sentence, but what’s true is that the new UFC light heavyweight champion fighter has a secret supplement, and that is his own urine.
As disgusting as it sounds, apparently it is a common practice in his family, and he claims that it significantly boosts your immune system.
In other news, Muscletech and Optimum Nutrition have just announced their new pure form urine products.
New Book “Never Let Go” by Dan John
Lyle McDonald from Body Recomposition has just written up a preview for the new book, titled “Never Let Go”, and it sounds like he’s highly recommending it for anyone interested in the old school strength training methods. In otherwords, the methods that 100% WORK. None of the new-age rubbish that people are getting sucked into these days. No tricks and secrets, just real advice that works. Perhaps it’ll be one to be proud of having on the book shelf. Lyle thinks so. Here’s a few lines from Lyle’s preview:
“You see, Dan John has been in the lifting weights since about the history of recorded time. He’s seen it all, done it all, and tried it all. His knowledge and experience is encyclopedic; coupled with his willingness to share that information with anybody who cares to show interest….well that’s a good combination.”
For just about anybody involved in the field, I really can’t recommend this book too highly. For those who are old and jaded like me, Dan may give you an insight into some decidedly old school approaches to training that flat out work.
And for those newbies who are killing themselves with the most complicated cutting edge computer generated training programs, learning about some very simple but effective ways of training may be just what you need.
I’d note that not every article is about training, some are just about Dan’s experience, some of it is pure motivation, some of it is about how to think and learn about training and eating.
Head over to Body Recomposition to read more.
A new approach for steroids
We’ve all heard about the bodybuilders fleeing from Belgian drug testers by now. See this article if you haven’t.
So is this going to become frequent? Are drug testers going to randomly show up at bodybuilding events to fine and prosecute our favourite athletes? Sounds like the Belgian government is just playing bully. It’s like setting up a speed camera on a race track and charging the drivers with speeding!
Perhaps it’s time to seriously re-evaluate the rules on steroids. I for one, would like to see sporting events stated as steroid or non-steroid events. Steroid users should not be fined, but simply not permitted to compete in drug free events. Doesn’t that make logical sense?
I can see one decent theory the government has for the reason to illegalize steroids. If sporting events were required to do the testing themselves, chances are they wouldn’t bother. The government is the only one that really would be willing to do the testing, and to afford to employ drug testers they need to be making some money from it. That’s why using steroids imposes fines.
So taking that into consideration, if we are to convince the governments of the world to legalize steroids, we need to convince them that employing drug testers is an expense they need to justify some how other than by collecting fines.
Supplement Crack Down
Fitness supplements are starting to get a bad rep from the media after Hydroxycut was taken from the shelves a short while ago. But is this going to have any effect on the public perception of taking supplements? This excerpt is from the LA Times in an article titled, “Here’s what’s in those weight-loss supplements“…
“The labels rarely clarify the contents. Where details and dosages are provided at all, they are frequently presented as a bewildering mix of Latin plant names, trademarked monikers for a company’s own mix of ingredients and, often, invented words that sound scientific but mean nothing to chemists or pharmacologists. Hydroxycut’s “Hardcore,” for instance, touts its “norepidrol intensity focus blend” as an aid to focus and attention. Another supplement, TheraStress, declares that its active compound of “adaptogens” helps fight weight gain brought on by stress.
For consumers seeking full disclosure, these labels may as well declare the product is made of genuine atoms.”
Yes, it’s those good old fancy names we all love to see on those supplement bottles. But to be honest, they ARE a major concern to myself and a lot of people who like to know what they’re putting in their body. The same goes with other foods that don’t accurately describe what’s in the product. But as usual, as long as supplement manufacturers keep making up these silly names and hiding the real ingredients, they will continue to take the bad rap for it.
If worse comes to worst, fitness supplements will join steroids and marijuana on the second tier drug chart. Afterall, if steroids were banned for being considered cheating, what makes supplements not cheating as well? Is cheating on a small level permitted?
Dubai to host an IFBB 2010 Olympia Qualifier
“An IFBB PRO sanctioned competition that will open the doors for potential bodybuilders from the Middle East. It’s an experience, which step towards competing for Mr. Olympia competitions. The competition will be open to all IFBB PRO athletes interested in competing and finally be rewarded. As a competitor, expect an exciting and competitive event that may give you once in a life time experience.
This will be the IFBB qualifying event that will secure the Top three (3) finalists to secure a spot to compete for the upcoming 2010 Mr. Olympia in Las Vegas, Nevada USA. This particular event will also be graced by well known Olympians such as Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler, Dexter Jackson, Victor Martinez and Phil Heath.”
The event is a week after the 2009 Olympia and may be a pretty smart move toward spreading the sport of bodybuilding to the middle east. Though there is one concern. Will there be a female contest? Seems like the female bodybuilders are getting a bit angry about the lack of attention to their sport lately and this is just another case where they wont be welcome.
Check out http://www.physiqueweekend.com for more details.