Get Back Into Your Skinny Jeans

By Tom Venuto BurntheFat.com Why do you always hear that 2 pounds per week is the maximum amount of fat you should safely lose? If you train really hard while watching calories closely shouldn’t you be able to lose more fat without losing muscle or damaging your health? What if you want to lose Read More...

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   At least 7 scientific studies have provided strong evidence that energy containing beverages (i.e., “liquid calories”) do not properly activate the satiety mechanisms in the body and brain and do not satisfy the appetite as well as food in solid Read More...

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS BurntheFat     High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT for short, has been promoted as one of the most effective training methods ever to come down the pike, both for fat loss and for cardiovascular fitness. One of the most popular claims for HIIT is that it 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...