Get Back Into Your Skinny Jeans

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat Understanding the mind’s role in motivation and behavior is one of the most critical elements in fitness success. If you struggle with changing habits and behaviors or if you can’t get motivated, then even the best training and nutrition program is Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Most fitness conscious people have heard that there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, so if you create a deficit of 3500 calories in a week, you lose a pound of weight. If you create a deficit of 7000 calories in a week, you lose two pounds, Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat After 18 years in the fitness business, “How do I get great abs” is still BY FAR the most frequently asked question I receive out of the 30,000+ emails that come into my office every month. No doubt, it’s because abs are the one body part that Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat     The controversies over cardio for fat loss are endless: steady state versus intervals, fed versus fasted, long and easy versus short and intense, and so on. Obviously there is a lot of interest in cardio training and how to do it right. Sadly, most Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com     You’ve probably seen the advertisements:  “Drink wu long tea and lose a jeans size every 7 days!”… “Burn 20 lbs of fat in 30 days with wu long tea!” … Maybe you even watched Oprah a few years ago when Dr. Perricone said that Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Fat burner supplements are advertised everywhere these days – on the internet, in magazines and even on TV. The ads almost always feature a very lean fitness model or bodybuilder and claim that these products, usually pills, were the secret Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat     I’ll never forget the very first time I got ripped, how I did it and how it felt. I’ve never told this entire story before or widely published my early photos either. Winning first place and seeing my abs the first time was sweet redemption. But Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight. “Big losers” don’t impress me, for numerous reasons. For example, weight is not fat. “Weight” could be composed of mostly lean tissue, Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat If you want to burn off fat and keep it off permanently, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one… Previous research has concluded without a shred of doubt that high levels Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat Faith based diets have been around for decades. But is overeating really a sin? Does God punish you for being fat? A recent column in an issue of USA Today answers, “weight loss is hard enough without feeling that the almighty is on your back, Read More...