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Monday, November 30, 2009

Single Black Lee Male

I'm not too sure what to make of this Courtney Lee character. Last year, with the Magic, she seemed like a nice lady who was down to play some tough defense and maybe make a three-pointer or miss an alley-oop layup on occasion.


But this year, there is something different. For instance, now she plays with the New Jersey Nets. That's not the difference I was talking about, necessarily. Check this out.


I know what you're thinking. No, that isn't Kenyon Martin from 2000 to 2004. It's just a case of one human (Courtney Lee) trying to be another human (Kenyon Martin) who was trying to be another human (Method Man). A real Kirk Lazarus situation.


Feels like an identity crisis starring John Cusack and Ray Liotta. Last season, peeps were like, "check out Courtney Lee, he's pretty legit." And he was sorta legit. He was a down-to-earth tucked-in shirt bro with a lady's name.


Now he is all headbandy and goateed, and I'm kinda thinking maybe he wants to be an enforcer like Kenyon Martin. Or maybe he wants to shoot bad jumpshots like Kenyon Martin. It's possible he wants to reinvent himself as a good defender who thinks he's an elite defender like Kenyon Martin. Maybe he just likes holding backboards like Kenyon Martin.


That's all well and good. Maybe he'll be the number one draft pick some time. I don't know. But I do know that there is one thing that I just can't accept from Courtney Lee, and that is a comically bad tattoo of a rapper's lips on his neck.

Be careful, Courtney Lee.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Get Rid Of Belly Fat: Top 55 Foods To Eat

To get rid of belly fat involves more than just exercise it needs the proper diet as well. A strong diet will enable you to continue to create muscle and keeps the amount of calories consumed down to a minimum. By using the proper food to your advantage you will get rid of belly fat quickly

Remember, if you don't have junk around the house, you're less likely to eat junk. If all you have is healthy food around the house, you're forced to make smart choices. Basically, it all starts with making smart choices and avoiding temptations when you make your grocery store trip. Now these are just some of my personal preferences, but perhaps they will give you some good ideas that you'll enjoy.

Alright, so let's start with the fridge. Each week, I try to make sure I'm loaded up with lots of varieties of fresh vegetables. During the growing season, I only get local produce, but obviously in winter, I have to resort to the produce at the grocery store. Most of the time, I make sure I have plenty of vegetables like onions, zucchini, spinach, fresh mushrooms, red peppers, broccoli, etc. to use in my morning eggs. I also like to dice up some lean chicken or turkey sausage into the eggs, along with some swiss, jack, or goat cheeses (preferably raw grass-fed cheeses when I can find them).

By the way I'm talking about whole eggs, NOT egg whites. Always remember that the yolk is the most nutritious and nutrient dense part of the egg, so only eating egg whites is like throwing away the best part... and no, it's NOT bad for you because of the cholesterol... eggs actually raise your GOOD cholesterol. Try to get free range organic eggs for the best quality. Here's an entire article I did on the topic of whole eggs vs egg whites.

Coconut milk is another staple in my fridge. I like to use it to mix in with smoothies, oatmeal, or yogurt for a rich, creamy taste. Not only does coconut milk add a rich, creamy taste to lots of dishes, but it's also full of healthy saturated fats. Yeah, you heard me...I said healthy saturated fats! Healthy saturated fats like medium chain triglycerides, specifically an MCT called lauric acid. If the idea of healthy saturated fats is foreign to you, check out my healthy fats article

Back to the fridge, some other staples:

* Chopped walnuts, pecans, almonds - delicious and great sources of healthy fats.
* Cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, and yogurt - I like to mix cottage or ricotta cheese and yogurt together with chopped nuts and berries for a great mid-morning or mid-afternoon meal.
* Whole flax seeds or chia seeds - I grind these in a mini coffee grinder and add to yogurt or salads. Always grind them fresh because the omega-3 polyunsaturated fats are highly unstable and prone to oxidation, creating high levels of free radicals in pre-ground flax.
* Whole eggs - one of natures richest sources of nutrients (and remember, they increase your GOOD cholesterol so stop fearing them).
* Salsa - I try to get creative and try some of the exotic varieties of salsas.
* Avocados - love them...plus a great source of healthy fats, fiber, and other nutrients. Try adding them to wraps, salads, or sandwiches.
* Butter - don't believe the naysayers; butter adds great flavor to anything and can be part of a healthy diet (just keep the quantity small because it is calorie dense...and NEVER use margarine, unless you want to assure yourself a heart attack).
* Nut butters - Plain old peanut butter has gotten a little old for me, so I get creative and mix together almond butter with sesame seed butter, or even cashew butter with macadamia butter...delicious and unbeatable nutrition!
* Leaf lettuce and spinach along with shredded carrots - for salads with dinner.
* Home-made salad dressing - using balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, and Udo's Choice oil blend. This is much better than store bought salad dressing which mostly use highly refined soybean oil (full of inflammation-causing free radicals).
* Whole grain wraps and whole grain bread (look for wraps and bread with at least 3-4 grams of fiber per 20 grams of total carbs).
* Rice bran and wheat germ - these may sound way too healthy for some, but they actually add a nice little nutty, crunchy taste to yogurt or smoothies, or can be added when baking muffins or breads to add nutrients and fiber.

Some of the staples in the freezer:

* Frozen berries - during the local growing season, I only get fresh berries, but during the other 10 months of the year, I always keep a supply of frozen blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, etc. to add to high fiber cereal, oatmeal, cottage cheese, yogurt, or smoothies
* Frozen fish - I like to try a couple different kinds of fish each week. There are so many varieties out there, you never have to get bored.
* Frozen chicken breasts - very convenient for a quick addition to wraps or chicken sandwiches for quick meals.
* Grass-fed steaks, burgers, and ground beef - Grassfed meats have been shown to have as high as, or even higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids than salmon (without the mercury). Also, grass-fed meats have much higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) compared to typical grain-fed beef. I recently found an excellent on-line store where I buy all of my grass-fed meats now (they even deliver right to your door in a sealed cooler) - www.healthygrassfed.2ya.com
* Frozen buffalo, ostrich, venison, and other "exotic" lean meats - Yeah, I know...I'm weird, but I can tell you that these are some of the healthiest meats around, and if you're serious about a lean healthy body, these types of meats are much better for you than the mass produced, hormone-pumped beef and pork that's sold at most grocery stores.
* Frozen veggies - again, when the growing season is over and I can no longer get local fresh produce, frozen veggies are the best option, since they often have higher nutrient contents compared to the fresh produce that has been shipped thousands of miles, sitting around for weeks before making it to your dinner table.

Alright, now the staples in my cabinets:

* Various antioxidant rich teas - green, oolong, white, rooibos are some of the best.
* Whole wheat or whole grain spelt pasta - much higher fiber than normal pastas
* Oat bran and steel cut oats - higher fiber than those little packs of instant oats.
* Cans of coconut milk - to be transferred to a container in the fridge after opening.
* Brown rice and other higher fiber rice - NEVER white rice
* Tomato sauces - delicious, and as I'm sure you've heard a million times, they are a great source of lycopene. Just watch out for the brands that are loaded with nasty high fructose corn syrup.
* Stevia - a natural non-caloric sweetener, which is an excellent alternative to the nasty chemical-laden artificial sweeteners like aspartame, saccharine, and sucralose.
* Raw honey - better than processed honey... higher quantities of beneficial nutrients and enzymes. Honey has even been proven in studies to improve glucose metabolism (how you process carbs). I use a teaspoon or so every morning in my teas. Yes, it is pure sugar, but at least it has some nutritional benefits... and let's be real, a teaspoon of healthier raw honey is only 5 grams of carbs... certainly nothing to worry about.
* Organic maple syrup - none of that high fructose corn syrup Aunt Jemima crap...only real maple syrup can be considered real food. The only time I really use this (because of the high sugar load) is added to my post-workout smoothies to sweeten things up and also elicit an insulin surge to push nutrients into your muscles.
* Organic unsweetened cocoa powder - I like to mix this into my smoothies for an extra jolt of antioxidants or make my own low-sugar hot cocoa by mixing cocoa powder into hot milk with stevia and a couple melted dark chocolate chunks.
* Cans of black or kidney beans - I like to add a couple scoops to my Mexican wraps for the fiber and high nutrition content. Also, beans are surprisingly one of the best sources of youth promoting antioxidants!
* Dark chocolate (as dark as possible) - This is one of my treats that satisfies my sweet tooth, plus provides loads of antioxidants at the same time. It's still calorie dense, so I keep it to just a couple squares; but that is enough to do the trick, so I don't feel like I need to go out and get cake and ice cream to satisfy my dessert urges.

Lastly, another thing that's hard to go wrong with is a good variety of fresh fruits and berries. The staples such as bananas, apples, oranges, pears, peaches are good, but I like to also be a little more adventurous and include things like yellow (aka - mexican or champagne) mangoes, pomegranates, kumquats, papaya, star fruit, pineapples, and others. Also, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries are some of the most nutrient and antioxidant-dense fruits you can eat.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this special look into my favorite lean body meals and how I stock my cabinets and fridge. Your tastes are probably quite different than mine, but hopefully this gave you some good ideas you can use next time you're at the grocery store looking to stock up a healthy and delicious pile of groceries.

Be sure to pick up a copy of my book The Truth about Six Pack Abs, which introduces you to the entire comprehensive training and nutritional program that will turn your body into a lean, sexy specimen that others will envy! Get Rid Of Belly Fat Today!!

Get Rid Of Belly Fat: Exercises To Do From Home

To get rid of belly fat we need to find an exercise program that will kick our butt and give us the body of our dreams. The cool part of this article is not only will it get rid of your belly fat you can do it in the comfort of your own home.

Warning: this style of workout is WAY different than anything you've ever tried before and may result in a dramatically leaner, stronger body so that your friends no longer recognize you in a matter of weeks!

Alright, I exaggerated about your friends recognizing you, but this workout is still great for busy people that always use the excuse that they don't have time to go to the gym, or even for the normal gym rat to try out for a few weeks to break out of a plateau.

Please keep an open-mind and don't worry so much about what other people think, because this is quite different and you may get some funny looks, but you'll get the last laugh with your new rock hard body! To be honest, most people are too self conscious to try something like this. If that's the case for you, then that's your loss.

Here's how it works (these workouts can be done at home or even in your office):

Instead of doing your traditional workouts of going to the gym 3-4 times a week and doing your normal weight training and cardio routines for 45 miutes to an hour at a shot... with this program, you will be working out for just a couple minutes at a time, several times throughout each day, 5 days/week.

The program will consist of only bodyweight exercises done for about 2-3 minutes, 6-8 times per day, throughout each day. Now obviously if you work a normal office job, you are going to have to not be shy about doing a few exercises in your office and having your cube-mates watch you. Actually, I've found that some people that have tried this have actually gotten their co-workers to join them!

If you have a private office, then you don't have to worry about anybody watching you. If you work from home, or are a stay at home mom, there's no reason you can't fit these in throughout the day while at home. If you end up having a busy day with meetings and so forth, and can only fit a couple of these 2-minute workouts in, then so be it, but try to get as many done each day as you can.

If you're on a normal 9-5 office schedule, I recommend doing your 2-minute workouts every hour, on the hour, with the exception of lunch. For example, you could try 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm.

Some of the bodyweight exercises that are the best to focus on are:

* bodyweight squats (and variations)
* pushups (and variations)
* forward, reverse, or walking lunges
* up & down a staircase if one is available
* floor planks (holding the plank position from forearms and feet)
* floor abs exercises such as lying leg thrusts, ab bicycles, etc.
* one-legged bodyweight Romanian deadlifts

This list is not fully comprehensive, but I wanted to keep it relatively simple. If you know other good bodyweight exercises, you can add those to your routine also. If you want to keep it real simple and don't want to get down on the floor for anything, you can stick to squats, lunges, and pushups and still get great results.

The good thing about these workouts is that you do enough in 2-3 minutes to get your blood pumping, heart rate up a bit, a large portion of your body's muscles worked, and body temperature raised. However, it's usually not enough to break a sweat in only 2 or 3 minutes, so you don't have to worry about sweating in the office or where ever you may be. At most, you might just get a little moist on the skin.

Here's an example workout routine at home or the office (adjust the reps up or down based on your capabilities):

Mon/Wed/Fri
9 am - 10 pushups/15 bodyweight squats, repeat 1X for 2 sets
10 am - plank holds (hold the planks as long as you can taking short rest breaks for a total of 3 minutes)
11 am - 5 pushups/10 bodyweight squats, repeat for 4 sets
1 pm - plank holds (hold as long as possible in 3 minutes)
2 pm - 8 pushups/12 bodyweight squats, repeat for 3 sets
3 pm - plank holds (hold as long as possible in 3 minutes)
4 pm - max pushups/max bodyweight squats in one set (no repeat)

Tues/Thurs
9 am - 6 fwd lunges each leg/6 rev lunges, repeat 1X for 2 sets
10 am - one legged bw Romanian deadlifts (RDL) 6 each leg/floor abs for 20 sec, repeat 1X for 2 sets
11 am - 3 fwd lunges each leg/3 rev lunges, repeat for 4 sets
1 pm - one legged bw RDL 3 each leg/floor abs for 20 sec, repeat for 4 sets
2 pm - 5 fwd lunges each leg/5 rev lunges, repeat for 3 sets
3 pm - one legged bw RDL 10 each leg/floor abs for 30 sec (no repeat)
4 pm - max fwd lunges each leg/max rev lunges in one set (no repeat)

In order to progress on these workouts, you could either add 1 or 2 reps to each set per week, or you could progress to more difficult versions of each exercise each week (for example, close grip pushups, one leg raised pushups, squats with arms raised straight over head, etc.).

The above routines are just a couple examples of how you can use this very unique style of training. Use your creativity and come up with your own. Think about what you've accomplished with these "mini" workouts completed throughout each day... You've increased your heart rate and pumped up your muscles 6-8 different times throughout each day, burning a lot of extra calories and stimulating your metabolism.

Even though each "mini" workout was a very short duration, you've accumulated lots of repetitions for almost every muscle throughout your entire body, and you didn't even have to break a sweat during any of the "mini" workouts. And there's hardly any excuse for not being able to take a 2-minute break once per hour and do a couple of exercises.

Another benefit of this style of training is that now you don't have to devote any time before or after work to going to the gym because you already got your workouts little by little throughout the day. You've now got some extra free time on your hands!

Try this type of time-efficient workout routine out for 3-4 weeks and then go back to your normal gym routines. I think you'll find that it was a great way to break out of a plateau and stimulate new results in your body. You can try mixing in a cycle of these "mini" workouts every couple of months to keep things fresh.

Keep in mind that this is only one method of training and doesn't mean that you should only stick to this method for eternity. You will hit a plateau on any given training method, so I'd recommend just rotating it into your arsenal of various training methods. And by all means, don't worry so much about what other people think...have the courage to try something a little different. In the end, you'll be the one laughing back at all of the "blubber-bellies" at your office that are giving you funny looks while they eat their donuts!

If you liked these training ideas, my internationally best-selling ebook The Truth about Six Pack Abs contains hundreds of more innovative training ideas to get rid of belly fat and carve out a rock hard set of abs and a flat stomach.

Get Rid Of Belly Fat: Top 55 Foods To Eat

To get rid of belly fat involves more than just exercise it needs the proper diet as well. A strong diet will enable you to continue to create muscle and keeps the amount of calories consumed down to a minimum. By using the proper food to your advantage you will get rid of belly fat quickly

Remember, if you don't have junk around the house, you're less likely to eat junk. If all you have is healthy food around the house, you're forced to make smart choices. Basically, it all starts with making smart choices and avoiding temptations when you make your grocery store trip. Now these are just some of my personal preferences, but perhaps they will give you some good ideas that you'll enjoy.

Alright, so let's start with the fridge. Each week, I try to make sure I'm loaded up with lots of varieties of fresh vegetables. During the growing season, I only get local produce, but obviously in winter, I have to resort to the produce at the grocery store. Most of the time, I make sure I have plenty of vegetables like onions, zucchini, spinach, fresh mushrooms, red peppers, broccoli, etc. to use in my morning eggs. I also like to dice up some lean chicken or turkey sausage into the eggs, along with some swiss, jack, or goat cheeses (preferably raw grass-fed cheeses when I can find them).

By the way I'm talking about whole eggs, NOT egg whites. Always remember that the yolk is the most nutritious and nutrient dense part of the egg, so only eating egg whites is like throwing away the best part... and no, it's NOT bad for you because of the cholesterol... eggs actually raise your GOOD cholesterol. Try to get free range organic eggs for the best quality. Here's an entire article I did on the topic of whole eggs vs egg whites.

Coconut milk is another staple in my fridge. I like to use it to mix in with smoothies, oatmeal, or yogurt for a rich, creamy taste. Not only does coconut milk add a rich, creamy taste to lots of dishes, but it's also full of healthy saturated fats. Yeah, you heard me...I said healthy saturated fats! Healthy saturated fats like medium chain triglycerides, specifically an MCT called lauric acid. If the idea of healthy saturated fats is foreign to you, check out my healthy fats article

Back to the fridge, some other staples:

* Chopped walnuts, pecans, almonds - delicious and great sources of healthy fats.
* Cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, and yogurt - I like to mix cottage or ricotta cheese and yogurt together with chopped nuts and berries for a great mid-morning or mid-afternoon meal.
* Whole flax seeds or chia seeds - I grind these in a mini coffee grinder and add to yogurt or salads. Always grind them fresh because the omega-3 polyunsaturated fats are highly unstable and prone to oxidation, creating high levels of free radicals in pre-ground flax.
* Whole eggs - one of natures richest sources of nutrients (and remember, they increase your GOOD cholesterol so stop fearing them).
* Salsa - I try to get creative and try some of the exotic varieties of salsas.
* Avocados - love them...plus a great source of healthy fats, fiber, and other nutrients. Try adding them to wraps, salads, or sandwiches.
* Butter - don't believe the naysayers; butter adds great flavor to anything and can be part of a healthy diet (just keep the quantity small because it is calorie dense...and NEVER use margarine, unless you want to assure yourself a heart attack).
* Nut butters - Plain old peanut butter has gotten a little old for me, so I get creative and mix together almond butter with sesame seed butter, or even cashew butter with macadamia butter...delicious and unbeatable nutrition!
* Leaf lettuce and spinach along with shredded carrots - for salads with dinner.
* Home-made salad dressing - using balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, and Udo's Choice oil blend. This is much better than store bought salad dressing which mostly use highly refined soybean oil (full of inflammation-causing free radicals).
* Whole grain wraps and whole grain bread (look for wraps and bread with at least 3-4 grams of fiber per 20 grams of total carbs).
* Rice bran and wheat germ - these may sound way too healthy for some, but they actually add a nice little nutty, crunchy taste to yogurt or smoothies, or can be added when baking muffins or breads to add nutrients and fiber.

Some of the staples in the freezer:

* Frozen berries - during the local growing season, I only get fresh berries, but during the other 10 months of the year, I always keep a supply of frozen blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, etc. to add to high fiber cereal, oatmeal, cottage cheese, yogurt, or smoothies
* Frozen fish - I like to try a couple different kinds of fish each week. There are so many varieties out there, you never have to get bored.
* Frozen chicken breasts - very convenient for a quick addition to wraps or chicken sandwiches for quick meals.
* Grass-fed steaks, burgers, and ground beef - Grassfed meats have been shown to have as high as, or even higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids than salmon (without the mercury). Also, grass-fed meats have much higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) compared to typical grain-fed beef. I recently found an excellent on-line store where I buy all of my grass-fed meats now (they even deliver right to your door in a sealed cooler) - www.healthygrassfed.2ya.com
* Frozen buffalo, ostrich, venison, and other "exotic" lean meats - Yeah, I know...I'm weird, but I can tell you that these are some of the healthiest meats around, and if you're serious about a lean healthy body, these types of meats are much better for you than the mass produced, hormone-pumped beef and pork that's sold at most grocery stores.
* Frozen veggies - again, when the growing season is over and I can no longer get local fresh produce, frozen veggies are the best option, since they often have higher nutrient contents compared to the fresh produce that has been shipped thousands of miles, sitting around for weeks before making it to your dinner table.

Alright, now the staples in my cabinets:

* Various antioxidant rich teas - green, oolong, white, rooibos are some of the best.
* Whole wheat or whole grain spelt pasta - much higher fiber than normal pastas
* Oat bran and steel cut oats - higher fiber than those little packs of instant oats.
* Cans of coconut milk - to be transferred to a container in the fridge after opening.
* Brown rice and other higher fiber rice - NEVER white rice
* Tomato sauces - delicious, and as I'm sure you've heard a million times, they are a great source of lycopene. Just watch out for the brands that are loaded with nasty high fructose corn syrup.
* Stevia - a natural non-caloric sweetener, which is an excellent alternative to the nasty chemical-laden artificial sweeteners like aspartame, saccharine, and sucralose.
* Raw honey - better than processed honey... higher quantities of beneficial nutrients and enzymes. Honey has even been proven in studies to improve glucose metabolism (how you process carbs). I use a teaspoon or so every morning in my teas. Yes, it is pure sugar, but at least it has some nutritional benefits... and let's be real, a teaspoon of healthier raw honey is only 5 grams of carbs... certainly nothing to worry about.
* Organic maple syrup - none of that high fructose corn syrup Aunt Jemima crap...only real maple syrup can be considered real food. The only time I really use this (because of the high sugar load) is added to my post-workout smoothies to sweeten things up and also elicit an insulin surge to push nutrients into your muscles.
* Organic unsweetened cocoa powder - I like to mix this into my smoothies for an extra jolt of antioxidants or make my own low-sugar hot cocoa by mixing cocoa powder into hot milk with stevia and a couple melted dark chocolate chunks.
* Cans of black or kidney beans - I like to add a couple scoops to my Mexican wraps for the fiber and high nutrition content. Also, beans are surprisingly one of the best sources of youth promoting antioxidants!
* Dark chocolate (as dark as possible) - This is one of my treats that satisfies my sweet tooth, plus provides loads of antioxidants at the same time. It's still calorie dense, so I keep it to just a couple squares; but that is enough to do the trick, so I don't feel like I need to go out and get cake and ice cream to satisfy my dessert urges.

Lastly, another thing that's hard to go wrong with is a good variety of fresh fruits and berries. The staples such as bananas, apples, oranges, pears, peaches are good, but I like to also be a little more adventurous and include things like yellow (aka - mexican or champagne) mangoes, pomegranates, kumquats, papaya, star fruit, pineapples, and others. Also, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries are some of the most nutrient and antioxidant-dense fruits you can eat.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this special look into my favorite lean body meals and how I stock my cabinets and fridge. Your tastes are probably quite different than mine, but hopefully this gave you some good ideas you can use next time you're at the grocery store looking to stock up a healthy and delicious pile of groceries.

Be sure to pick up a copy of my book The Truth about Six Pack Abs, which introduces you to the entire comprehensive training and nutritional program that will turn your body into a lean, sexy specimen that others will envy! Get Rid Of Belly Fat Today!!

Get Rid Of Belly Fat: Exercises To Do From Home

To get rid of belly fat we need to find an exercise program that will kick our butt and give us the body of our dreams. The cool part of this article is not only will it get rid of your belly fat you can do it in the comfort of your own home.

Warning: this style of workout is WAY different than anything you've ever tried before and may result in a dramatically leaner, stronger body so that your friends no longer recognize you in a matter of weeks!

Alright, I exaggerated about your friends recognizing you, but this workout is still great for busy people that always use the excuse that they don't have time to go to the gym, or even for the normal gym rat to try out for a few weeks to break out of a plateau.

Please keep an open-mind and don't worry so much about what other people think, because this is quite different and you may get some funny looks, but you'll get the last laugh with your new rock hard body! To be honest, most people are too self conscious to try something like this. If that's the case for you, then that's your loss.

Here's how it works (these workouts can be done at home or even in your office):

Instead of doing your traditional workouts of going to the gym 3-4 times a week and doing your normal weight training and cardio routines for 45 miutes to an hour at a shot... with this program, you will be working out for just a couple minutes at a time, several times throughout each day, 5 days/week.

The program will consist of only bodyweight exercises done for about 2-3 minutes, 6-8 times per day, throughout each day. Now obviously if you work a normal office job, you are going to have to not be shy about doing a few exercises in your office and having your cube-mates watch you. Actually, I've found that some people that have tried this have actually gotten their co-workers to join them!

If you have a private office, then you don't have to worry about anybody watching you. If you work from home, or are a stay at home mom, there's no reason you can't fit these in throughout the day while at home. If you end up having a busy day with meetings and so forth, and can only fit a couple of these 2-minute workouts in, then so be it, but try to get as many done each day as you can.

If you're on a normal 9-5 office schedule, I recommend doing your 2-minute workouts every hour, on the hour, with the exception of lunch. For example, you could try 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm.

Some of the bodyweight exercises that are the best to focus on are:

* bodyweight squats (and variations)
* pushups (and variations)
* forward, reverse, or walking lunges
* up & down a staircase if one is available
* floor planks (holding the plank position from forearms and feet)
* floor abs exercises such as lying leg thrusts, ab bicycles, etc.
* one-legged bodyweight Romanian deadlifts

This list is not fully comprehensive, but I wanted to keep it relatively simple. If you know other good bodyweight exercises, you can add those to your routine also. If you want to keep it real simple and don't want to get down on the floor for anything, you can stick to squats, lunges, and pushups and still get great results.

The good thing about these workouts is that you do enough in 2-3 minutes to get your blood pumping, heart rate up a bit, a large portion of your body's muscles worked, and body temperature raised. However, it's usually not enough to break a sweat in only 2 or 3 minutes, so you don't have to worry about sweating in the office or where ever you may be. At most, you might just get a little moist on the skin.

Here's an example workout routine at home or the office (adjust the reps up or down based on your capabilities):

Mon/Wed/Fri
9 am - 10 pushups/15 bodyweight squats, repeat 1X for 2 sets
10 am - plank holds (hold the planks as long as you can taking short rest breaks for a total of 3 minutes)
11 am - 5 pushups/10 bodyweight squats, repeat for 4 sets
1 pm - plank holds (hold as long as possible in 3 minutes)
2 pm - 8 pushups/12 bodyweight squats, repeat for 3 sets
3 pm - plank holds (hold as long as possible in 3 minutes)
4 pm - max pushups/max bodyweight squats in one set (no repeat)

Tues/Thurs
9 am - 6 fwd lunges each leg/6 rev lunges, repeat 1X for 2 sets
10 am - one legged bw Romanian deadlifts (RDL) 6 each leg/floor abs for 20 sec, repeat 1X for 2 sets
11 am - 3 fwd lunges each leg/3 rev lunges, repeat for 4 sets
1 pm - one legged bw RDL 3 each leg/floor abs for 20 sec, repeat for 4 sets
2 pm - 5 fwd lunges each leg/5 rev lunges, repeat for 3 sets
3 pm - one legged bw RDL 10 each leg/floor abs for 30 sec (no repeat)
4 pm - max fwd lunges each leg/max rev lunges in one set (no repeat)

In order to progress on these workouts, you could either add 1 or 2 reps to each set per week, or you could progress to more difficult versions of each exercise each week (for example, close grip pushups, one leg raised pushups, squats with arms raised straight over head, etc.).

The above routines are just a couple examples of how you can use this very unique style of training. Use your creativity and come up with your own. Think about what you've accomplished with these "mini" workouts completed throughout each day... You've increased your heart rate and pumped up your muscles 6-8 different times throughout each day, burning a lot of extra calories and stimulating your metabolism.

Even though each "mini" workout was a very short duration, you've accumulated lots of repetitions for almost every muscle throughout your entire body, and you didn't even have to break a sweat during any of the "mini" workouts. And there's hardly any excuse for not being able to take a 2-minute break once per hour and do a couple of exercises.

Another benefit of this style of training is that now you don't have to devote any time before or after work to going to the gym because you already got your workouts little by little throughout the day. You've now got some extra free time on your hands!

Try this type of time-efficient workout routine out for 3-4 weeks and then go back to your normal gym routines. I think you'll find that it was a great way to break out of a plateau and stimulate new results in your body. You can try mixing in a cycle of these "mini" workouts every couple of months to keep things fresh.

Keep in mind that this is only one method of training and doesn't mean that you should only stick to this method for eternity. You will hit a plateau on any given training method, so I'd recommend just rotating it into your arsenal of various training methods. And by all means, don't worry so much about what other people think...have the courage to try something a little different. In the end, you'll be the one laughing back at all of the "blubber-bellies" at your office that are giving you funny looks while they eat their donuts!

If you liked these training ideas, my internationally best-selling ebook The Truth about Six Pack Abs contains hundreds of more innovative training ideas to get rid of belly fat and carve out a rock hard set of abs and a flat stomach.

Get Rid Of Belly Fat: The Right Type Of Cardio Exercise

For some strange reason people believe the best way to get rid of belly fat is to spend countless hours on a treadmill or a stair climbing device but as they soon find out are not only these types of exercises extremely boring they can take forever to get rid of belly fat. The body is a complex device that is a lot smarter than we give it credit for. See your body can figure out what you are doing every second day for an hour at a time so it presses the right internal button and can program itself to prepare for these cardio workouts that in the long run will give you a nice tone body but only if you want to spend months climbing a treadmill or stair climbing device.

Now the best way to get your cardio exercises and get rid of the belly fat is not to waste countless hours in the gym but to keep your body guessing so it is forced to adapt. The main goal of cardio exercises is to burn off the excess calories we consume each day in order to keep our weight under control. Great theory which works but will take absolutely forever to get rid of the belly fat. So lets switch it up with 20 minute long exercise periods four days a week where we will show our body who is boss and the result will lead to the disappearance of belly fat and lead to those desired six pack abs. Alright on with the exercise

Warm-up for 3-4 minutes at a fast walk or light jog

Interval 1 - run at 8.0 mi/hr for 1 minute

Interval 2 - walk at 4.0 mi/hr for 1.5 minutes

Interval 3 - run at 10.0 mi/hr for 1 minute

Interval 4 - walk at 4.0 mi/hr for 1.5 minutes

Repeat the above scenario four times for a twenty minute workout that will kick your butt but more importantly get rid of belly fat very quickly especially when compared to typical workout routines. If your like me and hate to run you can substitute running for rowing, boxing and basically anything that can push your body to the edge.

To learn the truth behind six pack abs and making all of your belly fat disappear than the Truth About Six Pack Abs is what you have been looking for. Every single aspect of getting your dream body and making your belly fat history is contained in this best selling E-Book.

Get Rid Of Belly Fat: The Right Type Of Cardio Exercise

For some strange reason people believe the best way to get rid of belly fat is to spend countless hours on a treadmill or a stair climbing device but as they soon find out are not only these types of exercises extremely boring they can take forever to get rid of belly fat. The body is a complex device that is a lot smarter than we give it credit for. See your body can figure out what you are doing every second day for an hour at a time so it presses the right internal button and can program itself to prepare for these cardio workouts that in the long run will give you a nice tone body but only if you want to spend months climbing a treadmill or stair climbing device.

Now the best way to get your cardio exercises and get rid of the belly fat is not to waste countless hours in the gym but to keep your body guessing so it is forced to adapt. The main goal of cardio exercises is to burn off the excess calories we consume each day in order to keep our weight under control. Great theory which works but will take absolutely forever to get rid of the belly fat. So lets switch it up with 20 minute long exercise periods four days a week where we will show our body who is boss and the result will lead to the disappearance of belly fat and lead to those desired six pack abs. Alright on with the exercise

Warm-up for 3-4 minutes at a fast walk or light jog

Interval 1 - run at 8.0 mi/hr for 1 minute

Interval 2 - walk at 4.0 mi/hr for 1.5 minutes

Interval 3 - run at 10.0 mi/hr for 1 minute

Interval 4 - walk at 4.0 mi/hr for 1.5 minutes

Repeat the above scenario four times for a twenty minute workout that will kick your butt but more importantly get rid of belly fat very quickly especially when compared to typical workout routines. If your like me and hate to run you can substitute running for rowing, boxing and basically anything that can push your body to the edge.

To learn the truth behind six pack abs and making all of your belly fat disappear than the Truth About Six Pack Abs is what you have been looking for. Every single aspect of getting your dream body and making your belly fat history is contained in this best selling E-Book.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

FarmVille Cheats: FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide

FarmVille Cheats presents FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide. The FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide is the best selling FarmVille strategy guide available through Clickbank. With this particular FarmVille Strategy Guide the author promises the following :

Why 99% of players are using the worst methods to build their farm and how to avoid making the same mistakes!

Essential tips to building the ultimate farm. Extremely effective ways for lower level players to earn money and points fast, even if you're just getting started.

How I was able to get dozens of neighbors to join me in just 2 hours using these secret tactics! (this is so simple once you learn it)

The secrets pros use to track their crops. You can be guaranteed to never have to worry about your crops rotting again. Yes, it's possible!

The story of one beta tester who achieved level 18 in 5 days using only the secret tactics found here, and how you can do the same. These tactics will make your head spin the moment you discover them!

Exactly what you should plant and when to make the biggest profits (this often brings a huge profit in a short period of time)

A Step-by-step guide to show you how to master every level at break neck speed

How to optimize your farm layout to guarantee fast harvesting and eliminating withering of your crops.

How you can double your FarmVille money overnight and completely on autopilot. Be blown away by seeing how easy it is!

How to get items that everyone wants and needs but can't easily get- but you will once you get your hands on this guide!

How to maximize the money earned from growing your crops and avoid wasting your precious time.

The simple way to quickly grow your neighbors without bombarding your friends list with a million invitations - this will blow you away!

With A FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide comes with a 60 day Full Money Back Guarantee.

Check out FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide today and see how you can become the best farmer in all of Facebook.

Mafia Wars Cheats: Dominate Mafia Wars

Mafia War Cheats is a much sought after search term through Google and Bing. With millions of players enjoying this game on FaceBook and MySpace it is no surprise that there are a number of Mafia Wars strategy guides out there and in my opinion the top Mafia Wars Strategy Guide is Dominate Mafia Wars Strategy Guide. Here is what the author of Dominate Mafia Wars Strategy Guide promises:

Why 99% of players are using the worst methods to build their mafias and how to avoid making the same mistakes!

Dominate Mafia Wars Extremely effective ways for lower level players to stockpile Godfather points, even if you're just starting out.

Dominate Mafia Wars How I was able to get dozens of top mafia members to join my mafia in just 2 hours using these secret tactics! (this is so simple once you learn it)

Dominate Mafia Wars How you can be guaranteed to never lose a fight and never get robbed again. Yes, it's possible!

Dominate Mafia Wars The secret tactic I use to get instant revenge on any mafia that messes with my crew. (WARNING: this is not for the faint of heart!)

Dominate Mafia Wars Discover the hidden secrets behind Godfather points and all the secret loopholes and exploits you can employ to use them to your favor.

Dominate Mafia Wars A three-step plan for mastering every level and job at break neck speed

Dominate Mafia Wars How you can literally double your Godfather points overnight completely on autopilot. I felt like an idiot when I discovered this- and once you learn this you'll be blown away!

Dominate Mafia Wars Where to go to find all the weapons and tools that everyone wants and needs but can't easily get - but you can once you get your hands on this guide!

Dominate Mafia Wars The absolute best way to recruit the top mafia members into your mafia. Follow this tactic, and these top players will be begging to join you!

Dominate Mafia Wars The simple way to quickly grow your mafia without bombarding your friends list with a million invitations - this will blow you away!

With a full 60 day money back Guarantee Dominate Mafia Wars Strategy Guide is the key for you to dominate at Mafia Wars

FarmVille Cheats: FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide

FarmVille Cheats presents FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide. The FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide is the best selling FarmVille strategy guide available through Clickbank. With this particular FarmVille Strategy Guide the author promises the following :

Why 99% of players are using the worst methods to build their farm and how to avoid making the same mistakes!

Essential tips to building the ultimate farm. Extremely effective ways for lower level players to earn money and points fast, even if you're just getting started.

How I was able to get dozens of neighbors to join me in just 2 hours using these secret tactics! (this is so simple once you learn it)

The secrets pros use to track their crops. You can be guaranteed to never have to worry about your crops rotting again. Yes, it's possible!

The story of one beta tester who achieved level 18 in 5 days using only the secret tactics found here, and how you can do the same. These tactics will make your head spin the moment you discover them!

Exactly what you should plant and when to make the biggest profits (this often brings a huge profit in a short period of time)

A Step-by-step guide to show you how to master every level at break neck speed

How to optimize your farm layout to guarantee fast harvesting and eliminating withering of your crops.

How you can double your FarmVille money overnight and completely on autopilot. Be blown away by seeing how easy it is!

How to get items that everyone wants and needs but can't easily get- but you will once you get your hands on this guide!

How to maximize the money earned from growing your crops and avoid wasting your precious time.

The simple way to quickly grow your neighbors without bombarding your friends list with a million invitations - this will blow you away!

With A FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide comes with a 60 day Full Money Back Guarantee.

Check out FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide today and see how you can become the best farmer in all of Facebook.

Mafia Wars Cheats: Dominate Mafia Wars

Mafia War Cheats is a much sought after search term through Google and Bing. With millions of players enjoying this game on FaceBook and MySpace it is no surprise that there are a number of Mafia Wars strategy guides out there and in my opinion the top Mafia Wars Strategy Guide is Dominate Mafia Wars Strategy Guide. Here is what the author of Dominate Mafia Wars Strategy Guide promises:

Why 99% of players are using the worst methods to build their mafias and how to avoid making the same mistakes!

Dominate Mafia Wars Extremely effective ways for lower level players to stockpile Godfather points, even if you're just starting out.

Dominate Mafia Wars How I was able to get dozens of top mafia members to join my mafia in just 2 hours using these secret tactics! (this is so simple once you learn it)

Dominate Mafia Wars How you can be guaranteed to never lose a fight and never get robbed again. Yes, it's possible!

Dominate Mafia Wars The secret tactic I use to get instant revenge on any mafia that messes with my crew. (WARNING: this is not for the faint of heart!)

Dominate Mafia Wars Discover the hidden secrets behind Godfather points and all the secret loopholes and exploits you can employ to use them to your favor.

Dominate Mafia Wars A three-step plan for mastering every level and job at break neck speed

Dominate Mafia Wars How you can literally double your Godfather points overnight completely on autopilot. I felt like an idiot when I discovered this- and once you learn this you'll be blown away!

Dominate Mafia Wars Where to go to find all the weapons and tools that everyone wants and needs but can't easily get - but you can once you get your hands on this guide!

Dominate Mafia Wars The absolute best way to recruit the top mafia members into your mafia. Follow this tactic, and these top players will be begging to join you!

Dominate Mafia Wars The simple way to quickly grow your mafia without bombarding your friends list with a million invitations - this will blow you away!

With a full 60 day money back Guarantee Dominate Mafia Wars Strategy Guide is the key for you to dominate at Mafia Wars

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

FarmVille Cheats How To Level Up Quickly

FarmVille Cheats - How To Level Up Quickly

FarmVille is becoming the most played online game in the world with more and more players joining every day. No one can get enough of this game and there are plenty of reasons why. In FarmVille it is just you and your farm with the thought of work far, far away. Just relax, plant some seeds, harvest some crops – not a bad way to spend an afternoon. And as you do this, you'll naturally advance in levels over time.

There may come a time, though, during your FarmVille experience when you want to get a little more out of the game. Every time you move up a level, you unlock new seeds, decorations, and other discretionary items. This means that in order to get the most out of your FarmVille experience, you'll have to level up quickly to unlock as many items and bonuses as you can.

The Basics

Here are some basic FarmVille strategy when it comes to leveling up. You probably already know that in order to level up, you need to accumulate experience points. For example, each plot of land you plow gets you one experience point. In the early stages of game play, the number of experience points you get by plowing land and planting crops is plenty to allow you to advance at a reasonable pace. Once you get through the initial stages though, you start to need more and more experience points to level up.

Focus on Experience

When you want to build up experience points quickly in FarmVille, you have to supplement what you gain from your normal harvests with other activities. Making improvements to your farm is a good way to gain some quick chunks of experience points. Buildings yield the most, but you can gain experience from putting up just about any decoration or structure. You just have to pay close attention to the amounts of experience points each item will deliver to maximize your FarmVille points.

As a FarmVille farmer you should also take experience points into consideration when deciding which crops to plant. Crops that take less than a day to grow only yield 1 experience point, while crops that take longer yield 2. That doesn't mean you only want to plant crops that offer 2 experience points however. If you can get back and harvest them as soon as they're ready, crops like strawberries will get you more than 2 experience points a day because you can harvest them every 4 hours.

In order to gain the most FarmVille experience points you have to be on top of your harvesting and planting cycles in order to make progress this way though. Putting up buildings on your farm remains the best way to get big boosts in your experience quickly. Save up your cash for those, and you'll be well on your way to unlocking all of the available items in FarmVille.

The above FarmVille cheat or technique is available in the FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide which is available at My Farmville Cheats

FarmVille Cheats How To Level Up Quickly

FarmVille Cheats - How To Level Up Quickly

FarmVille is becoming the most played online game in the world with more and more players joining every day. No one can get enough of this game and there are plenty of reasons why. In FarmVille it is just you and your farm with the thought of work far, far away. Just relax, plant some seeds, harvest some crops – not a bad way to spend an afternoon. And as you do this, you'll naturally advance in levels over time.

There may come a time, though, during your FarmVille experience when you want to get a little more out of the game. Every time you move up a level, you unlock new seeds, decorations, and other discretionary items. This means that in order to get the most out of your FarmVille experience, you'll have to level up quickly to unlock as many items and bonuses as you can.

The Basics

Here are some basic FarmVille strategy when it comes to leveling up. You probably already know that in order to level up, you need to accumulate experience points. For example, each plot of land you plow gets you one experience point. In the early stages of game play, the number of experience points you get by plowing land and planting crops is plenty to allow you to advance at a reasonable pace. Once you get through the initial stages though, you start to need more and more experience points to level up.

Focus on Experience

When you want to build up experience points quickly in FarmVille, you have to supplement what you gain from your normal harvests with other activities. Making improvements to your farm is a good way to gain some quick chunks of experience points. Buildings yield the most, but you can gain experience from putting up just about any decoration or structure. You just have to pay close attention to the amounts of experience points each item will deliver to maximize your FarmVille points.

As a FarmVille farmer you should also take experience points into consideration when deciding which crops to plant. Crops that take less than a day to grow only yield 1 experience point, while crops that take longer yield 2. That doesn't mean you only want to plant crops that offer 2 experience points however. If you can get back and harvest them as soon as they're ready, crops like strawberries will get you more than 2 experience points a day because you can harvest them every 4 hours.

In order to gain the most FarmVille experience points you have to be on top of your harvesting and planting cycles in order to make progress this way though. Putting up buildings on your farm remains the best way to get big boosts in your experience quickly. Save up your cash for those, and you'll be well on your way to unlocking all of the available items in FarmVille.

The above FarmVille cheat or technique is available in the FarmVille Secrets Strategy Guide which is available at My Farmville Cheats

FarmVille Cheats How to Make the Most Money in FarmVille

FarmVille is a great place to go to escape the rigors of everyday life. You can get back to nature and enjoy the peace and tranquility that comes from working on the land. However, not everything in FarmVille is an escape from the ordinary. You still need money for just about everything you do. You have to buy the seeds to plant, and you'll even have to pay a small sum for each plot of land you plow.

These costs are easily managed of course because you're harvesting and selling your crops for more than it cost to plant them. There are a lot of other items you can buy in the FarmVille market to decorate and build up your farm, and you won't be able to get these without some significant sums of cash. Buying these items will also get you some much needed experience points to help you advance to the next level, so you'll have to find a way to make sure you have enough money for all the discretionary items you want to buy.

Earnings Per Hour

Because you'll be needing your coins for so much in FarmVille, you need to maximize the earning potential of your farm. The best way to do this is to figure out which crops pay out the most coins per hour. For example, strawberries sell for 35 coins per plot of land harvested and they take 4 hours to grow. Pumpkins, on the other hand, take 8 hours to grow and sell for 68 coins per plot of land harvested.

That means, for the same acreage planted, you'll earn 8.75 coins per hour by planting strawberries, while the pumpkins will only get you 8.5 coins per hour. This may seem like a small difference, but these small amounts can add up fast. Of course, you won't be getting your money's worth unless you can harvest the crops as soon as they're ready and immediately replant on that land.

A Quick Turnaround

If you're not going to be able to get back to your farm for 8 hours, you're much better off planting the pumpkins. The longer you leave a crop after it's done maturing, the less you'll be getting per hour once you harvest it. You can only make money fast on crops that mature quickly if you're going to be able to harvest and replant as soon as they're ready for sale. Make sure you take these details into consideration when you're selecting your seeds at the Market, and you'll be seeing your bank account swelling in no time.

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FarmVille Cheats How to Get the Most Ribbons in FarmVille

It's pretty easy to earn a few ribbons in FarmVille. As you just go about your daily tasks, you'll wind up accomplishing at least some of the early ribbon-worthy tasks. You may notice when you do win one though, that the bonuses they pay out are pretty hefty. You can actually earn a lot of money and experience points quickly if you collect as many ribbons as you can. This is relatively easy to do, but you do have to put some effort into it if you want to get as much as you can out of your FarmVille experience.

Know What You Need

You won't be able to focus your energies on earning ribbons unless you know what you need to get them. You can find this information easily enough by clicking on the ribbon icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen. This will bring up a list of all of the possible ribbons and show you how you're progressing in each category.

Pick One

You do have limited resources, particularly when you're just starting out in FarmVille. Because of this, it's a good idea to focus on one type of ribbon at a time. Of course, it's likely that whatever you do to earn those ribbons will help you to earn some other ones as well, but you can focus on those when you get to them.

Which to Pick

Before you decide which set of ribbons to go after first, you should take a few moments to learn what each ribbon category is about. This way, you'll be able to get a good sense of which ribbons to go for first. For example, the Tree Hugger ribbons require that you harvest fruit from a particular number of unique trees, meaning that to get these, you'll have to have a variety of different types of trees on your farm.

The Knock on Wood ribbons can be earned by simply harvesting any type of tree a certain number of times. This means that if you focus on earning the Tree Hugger ribbons, you'll automatically be making progress towards the Knock on Wood ribbons as well. The converse is not necessarily true because you could get the Knock on Wood ribbon for harvesting from only one kind of tree.

Get Some Neighbors

Neighbors help you get ribbons both directly and indirectly. There are ribbons for just having a certain number of neighbors, how many times you help your neighbors out, and how many different types of gifts you receive. All of these categories are easier to progress in the more neighbors you have, so don't hesitate to hit up your friends and earn some ribbons that way too.

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FarmVille Cheats How to Get the Most Ribbons in FarmVille

It's pretty easy to earn a few ribbons in FarmVille. As you just go about your daily tasks, you'll wind up accomplishing at least some of the early ribbon-worthy tasks. You may notice when you do win one though, that the bonuses they pay out are pretty hefty. You can actually earn a lot of money and experience points quickly if you collect as many ribbons as you can. This is relatively easy to do, but you do have to put some effort into it if you want to get as much as you can out of your FarmVille experience.

Know What You Need

You won't be able to focus your energies on earning ribbons unless you know what you need to get them. You can find this information easily enough by clicking on the ribbon icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen. This will bring up a list of all of the possible ribbons and show you how you're progressing in each category.

Pick One

You do have limited resources, particularly when you're just starting out in FarmVille. Because of this, it's a good idea to focus on one type of ribbon at a time. Of course, it's likely that whatever you do to earn those ribbons will help you to earn some other ones as well, but you can focus on those when you get to them.

Which to Pick

Before you decide which set of ribbons to go after first, you should take a few moments to learn what each ribbon category is about. This way, you'll be able to get a good sense of which ribbons to go for first. For example, the Tree Hugger ribbons require that you harvest fruit from a particular number of unique trees, meaning that to get these, you'll have to have a variety of different types of trees on your farm.

The Knock on Wood ribbons can be earned by simply harvesting any type of tree a certain number of times. This means that if you focus on earning the Tree Hugger ribbons, you'll automatically be making progress towards the Knock on Wood ribbons as well. The converse is not necessarily true because you could get the Knock on Wood ribbon for harvesting from only one kind of tree.

Get Some Neighbors

Neighbors help you get ribbons both directly and indirectly. There are ribbons for just having a certain number of neighbors, how many times you help your neighbors out, and how many different types of gifts you receive. All of these categories are easier to progress in the more neighbors you have, so don't hesitate to hit up your friends and earn some ribbons that way too.

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FarmVille Cheats - The FarmVille Hay Bale Cheat

One of my favorite FarmVille cheats is what known around the FarmVille community as the four bale hay cheat. What you do is use four hay bales to form a square where your FarmVille farmer is stuck inside. What this simple cheat does is speed up your game so instead of waiting forever for your character to move from one place to another the game is able to run at full speed.

To pull off this particular FarmVille cheat lay out three hay bales in the very center of your farm and maneuver your Farmville farmer inside of this makeshift trap than once he is in place the fourth bale sealing him in. This FarmVille cheat or technique can be used with a multiple of farm equipment that can form the same box shape. Nice and simple plus a huge time saver so there is the FarmVille hay bale cheat.

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FarmVille Cheats - The FarmVille Hay Bale Cheat

One of my favorite FarmVille cheats is what known around the FarmVille community as the four bale hay cheat. What you do is use four hay bales to form a square where your FarmVille farmer is stuck inside. What this simple cheat does is speed up your game so instead of waiting forever for your character to move from one place to another the game is able to run at full speed.

To pull off this particular FarmVille cheat lay out three hay bales in the very center of your farm and maneuver your Farmville farmer inside of this makeshift trap than once he is in place the fourth bale sealing him in. This FarmVille cheat or technique can be used with a multiple of farm equipment that can form the same box shape. Nice and simple plus a huge time saver so there is the FarmVille hay bale cheat.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

If My Dog Played Basketball

Everybody knows that my dog Yams really likes basketball.


As you can see she clearly 'nose for the ball' and she is pretty aggressive when going for it. I think that means that she'd be a really good rebounder, and would probably get a modest contract from the Houston Rockets because of efficiency. Which is cool since she'd be the first female to play in the NBA.

But sometimes, I wish she was a more skilled basketball player. I wish she could do other things besides just rebounding. I mean, yeah, it's worked out pretty well for Reggie Evans, but I want something better for Yams.

It would be excellent if I could teach her tons of ball-handling moves. Maybe I'd call her God Yammgod.


But I've always been a big guy, so I would have to teach her big guy things. Like how to block a lot of shots, but never really be a good defender. I would call her Yamuel Dalembert.


Maybe after that she would have one good year, get a huge contract, and then never fulfill that contract. I would call her Erick Yampier.


Later on we'd work on her 18-footer. It'd really help expand her limited offensive repertoire. Along with the rebounding and shot-blocking, she'd have three valuable skills. I would call her Marcus Yamby.


When her playing career has ended she'll probably have a reputation as a hard-worker who is committed to defense. Hopefully that means she'll be able to coach someday. If so, I'd call her Kurt Yambis.


This is all a dream though. She's only a year old, and even in dog years that's not old enough to enter the Draft. But depending on how you look at it, we have somewhere between 3 and 17 years to get her ready for the NBA. By then the gender/species barrier might have already been broken. But if not, I'm hoping Yams Baldwin Kerby can be the first to do it.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Full Wealthy Affiliate University Review

In this article I am going to provide a full review of Wealthy Affiliate University so chances are it is going to be pretty long. I am a member of Wealthy Affiliate University which is good for this particular review as I can get into all of the places that are not normally seen by the general public. Due to the amount of material and tools offered to members of Wealthy Affiliate University this article is going to be broken down into subsections to make sure that I cover everything.

After You Login To Wealthy Affiliate University

As soon as you loging to Wealthy Affiliate University you are greeted by the homepage which contains blocks of information from what is currently hot on Clickbank to jobs being offered on the job board to what is happening on the Wealthy Affiliate University Platinum Forum to what are the hottest trends on Google and Yahoo to how your own affiliate program is going. Along the top of the home page is the different areas of the Wealthy Affiliate University website each containing a list of a number of specialized programs. Well now that we are in the front door lets keep looking around.

Wealthy Affiliate University Training Center

I purposely skipped my own section of Wealthy Affiliate University which is called My WA for it contains my goals, strategies, campaigns and a brief educational brief about PPC, Affiliate Networks and keyword lists which is just a place to keep all of my work together. Once you are in the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center you are greeted by a list of the hottest tutorials at the money, what other WAU members are reading, brand new resources and a history of what tutorials you have already read. The first item of the Wealthy Affiliate University Training Center drop down list is Article Marketing so we will go there first.

(A) Article Marketing - As with every area of the training center it is started off a video about beginning with article marketing which gives you all of the ins and outs on how this form of internet marketing works. Once you finish with the video there are 103 different tutorials covering every possible aspect of article marketing and how you can use it to make money online. Along with the tutorials there are also the related tools that are available and free to Wealthy Affiliate University members which in this case is Rapid Writer - Content Spinner and a long list of keyword one can use to promote Wealthy Affiliate.

(B) Email Marketing - Again there is the overview video. In this section there are thirteen tutorials that go through different techniques one can use when using email marketing. Not a whole heck of a lot in this section but email marketing is not the preferred method at Wealthy Affiliate University.

(C) PPC aka Pay Per Click - Of course first there is the overview video. There is a lot of information about PPC and enough tutorials to keep you reading for a couple of hours. The related tools in this section are Pay Per Click Network List and Affiliate Program list.

(D) Research - Everyone who has spent time in affiliate marketing knows that the money starts and ends with proper research. There is the overview video of the proper methods of research and over forty tutorials on all of the secrets, skills and techniques when it comes to proper research. The tools linked to this section are the WA Keyword Research Tool and List Builder, NicheQ Professional Research Tool, and the Clickbank Resource Tool.

(E) Search Engine Optimization aka SEO - SEO is a major part of whether or not your campaign is going to be a success or not even though it is a royal pain in the butt. Again there is an overview video along with 16 tutorials covering Search Engine Optimization. The tool for this section is the Rapid Writer Content Optimizer.

(F) WA System Tutorials - This section is meant to provide instruction on all areas of Wealthy Affiliate University and all of the free tools that come with the membership. I will get to the tools later on in this full Wealthy Affiliate University review.

(G) Web Hosting - Along with your membership to Wealthy Affiliate University they provide free hosting to as many domains as you like. This section of the training center covers the normal procedures associated with web hosting from how to publish your own websites to uploading information to your sites and how to deal with any problem related to web hosting.

(H) Website Development - This section deals with the creation and improvement of your websites. There is a bunch of little things that most people miss when they develop their own websites and this section in the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center makes sure that nothing is missed. With over fifty tutorials just for this one area you have no excuses from developing the perfect website. The tools connected to this section are the Site Rubix Website Builder (which is incredible by the way) and free website templates downloads.

That wraps it up for the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center and as you can see there is a ton of information in every category to make you completely well rounded when it comes to making money online. If they sold each tutorial as a E-Book, most tutorials contain more information than your average E-Book written by a so called guru, they could have sold it for thousands but instead they offer a membership fee that is around the same price of one E-Book.

Wealthy Affiliate University Tools And Research Section

Time to move on to a new section and this time it is the tools and resources that are completely free to Wealthy Affiliate University members. The tools which will cost you a fortune if you had to sign up to each one are easily the top resources available anywhere. Lets get going as this will take a while to cover.

(A) Keyword Research Tool - The Keyword Research Tool section actually contains a number of tools all for finding the best keywords for you to use in article marketing, PPC and of course affiliate marketing. The first tool is the keyword research tool which allows you find words and phrases that are related to the product you are promoting than it sends all of the keywords to the second tool which is the Keyword List Builder tool. The keyword list builder tool allows you to save your keywords in special categories which makes it so much easier in the long run especially the amount of time it takes to do proper keyword research (which is taught in the WAU Training Center). The third tool is Competition Spy Tool which allows you to search Google ads to find out which keywords are converting and which are not. Match Type Tool is very similar to Google Adword keyword tool in which you put in a general word or phrase and it matches up a ton of potential keywords that you can use. The last tool in this one sub section is the Phrase Builder where you can put in a number of keyword selections and the Phrase Builder will create three word phrases that you can focus on to give you the edge.

(B) Site Rubix Website Builder - This award winning website creation program is only available to Wealthy Affiliate University members and it is the most powerful yet incredibly simple website builder I have ever seen. You can literally create an incredible website in five to ten minutes and it has the build in feature to upload it to your hosting account. The first time that you try Site Rubix Website Builder you will refuse to use anything else.

(C) NicheQ - This section works that you pick one topic for the month and Wealthy Affiliate University will provide you with absolutely everything that you need to market this niche. I signed up for a stock related niche last month and it came with 30 PLR articles, a complete marketplace report from who is interested in this niche to which areas of this niche are the top performers along with SEO Keyword Concepts, free PLR Guides to give to your readers, to keyword lists and free website templates that best suit this certain niche. I can not wait to see what is coming next.

(D) Wealthy Affiliate Hosting - As I mentioned before each Wealthy Affiliate University member gets free hosting for as many domains as they like. Website hosting normally goes from $7 to $10 a month for each domain so you are saving a ton of money already by becoming a Wealthy Affiliate University member.

(E) My Linker Cloaking Tool - This gives you the ability to completely follow all of your affiliate links and keeping them safe at the same time. Just insert your affiliate link and you are issued a new link to use which will be followed and secure. With complete stats you will know which product that you should be promoting harder and which link needs some attention.

(F) Clickbank Research Tool - Have you heard about those sites that charge a ton of money so you can get all of the information that you need regarding products at Clickbank well Wealthy Affiliate University gives it to their members for free. Clickbank has their own stats but they are missing a number of the important ones such as the refund rate. Clickbank is the top player in Affiliate marketing and with the stats available in this tool you can figure out the right product to promote which will lead you laughing all of the way to the bank.

(G) Rapid Writer - Basically you write one article and with the tools provided it can turn into five more articles which saves you a ton of time when it comes to article marketing. Software like this normally sells for anywhere between fifty to a hundred bucks but it is free to Wealthy Affiliate University members. Rapid Writer makes sure that all of your keywords are used and that the density of the keywords does not surpass the industry three percent.

(H) Turn Key Feeder Sites - This is for the Wealthy Affiliate University Affiliate program which makes it able for you to quickly create websites that are already built and all you have to do is replace your affiliate link to make sure that you get paid for anything that sells on the site. Very easy and very quick to start making money online.

(I) Templates - A dozen templates for you to use for free to get your making money online career going along with complete instructions on how to edit the templates to suit your needs.

(J) Mystery Marketing Blueprint - There is a very successful affiliate program online right now that I am not going to devulge but if you are a member of Wealthy Affiliate University you have complete aspect to 100% of the marketing program that has made some people very rich. Put it this way it is called the $1,000,000 marketing blueprint for a reason.

WA Spaces

The WA spaces is where you get to know your fellow Wealthy Affiliate University members and make connections. People at WAU are very open and there is a ton of experience. Here you can find your partner for the next big thing or just talk about the weather. Totally up to you.

Wealthy Affiliate University Affiliate Program


The Wealthy Affiliate University Affiliate program pays well and if you make enough referrals they will give you tickets for a trip to Las Vegas. Wealthy Affiliate University provides all of the material that you could possibly need and gives courses on how to conduct a article marketing campaign to promote WAU referrals and the best way to use PPC for getting people to join the number one membership site on the net. The educational material just for the affiliate program took me hours and hours to cover.

Wealthy Affiliate University Platinum Forum

The forum is why Wealthy Affiliate University has members who have been around for ages. Lets say that you were in the training center and something does not click so you go to the forum where another member who has already been through it will help you out. Now lets say that you are in the middle of a campaign to sell Snuggies and for whatever the reasons your sales stop again someone at WAU who has gone through it can help out and get you over the hurdle. From discussing the new SEO techniques to getting honest reviews about new products to private coaching from people with a ton of experience the answers are at the Wealthy Affiliate University Platinum Forum. The problem with most forums on the net that revolve around making money is that no one will tell you the small things that separate the successful from the roadkill but at WAU people honestly want to see everyone succeed so everything is discussed openly.

Full Wealthy Affiliate University Review

As you can see by the amount of information that I have provided about Wealthy Affiliate University is that this is the place that makes successful internet marketers. There is no secret to making money online, no golden key but with the right information, the right support and the internal drive to succeed anything is possible at Wealthy Affiliate University. I use to be on a hundred different mailing lists from all sorts of internet gurus who promised to show me the path to success but they never did. All of these so called experts would tell me everything about the outside and all of the same theories over and over again but none told me how to put those pieces together to make a run at it. Wealthy Affiliate University gives you everything that you could need to succeed all in one place.

Time to make that first step to online success by joining Wealthy Affiliate University Today. For a low monthly fee you can stop spending money on E-Books that tell you nothing at all and programs that just make the guy at the top richer. Join Wealthy Affiliate University today and be our next success story

Full Wealthy Affiliate University Review

In this article I am going to provide a full review of Wealthy Affiliate University so chances are it is going to be pretty long. I am a member of Wealthy Affiliate University which is good for this particular review as I can get into all of the places that are not normally seen by the general public. Due to the amount of material and tools offered to members of Wealthy Affiliate University this article is going to be broken down into subsections to make sure that I cover everything.

After You Login To Wealthy Affiliate University

As soon as you loging to Wealthy Affiliate University you are greeted by the homepage which contains blocks of information from what is currently hot on Clickbank to jobs being offered on the job board to what is happening on the Wealthy Affiliate University Platinum Forum to what are the hottest trends on Google and Yahoo to how your own affiliate program is going. Along the top of the home page is the different areas of the Wealthy Affiliate University website each containing a list of a number of specialized programs. Well now that we are in the front door lets keep looking around.

Wealthy Affiliate University Training Center

I purposely skipped my own section of Wealthy Affiliate University which is called My WA for it contains my goals, strategies, campaigns and a brief educational brief about PPC, Affiliate Networks and keyword lists which is just a place to keep all of my work together. Once you are in the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center you are greeted by a list of the hottest tutorials at the money, what other WAU members are reading, brand new resources and a history of what tutorials you have already read. The first item of the Wealthy Affiliate University Training Center drop down list is Article Marketing so we will go there first.

(A) Article Marketing - As with every area of the training center it is started off a video about beginning with article marketing which gives you all of the ins and outs on how this form of internet marketing works. Once you finish with the video there are 103 different tutorials covering every possible aspect of article marketing and how you can use it to make money online. Along with the tutorials there are also the related tools that are available and free to Wealthy Affiliate University members which in this case is Rapid Writer - Content Spinner and a long list of keyword one can use to promote Wealthy Affiliate.

(B) Email Marketing - Again there is the overview video. In this section there are thirteen tutorials that go through different techniques one can use when using email marketing. Not a whole heck of a lot in this section but email marketing is not the preferred method at Wealthy Affiliate University.

(C) PPC aka Pay Per Click - Of course first there is the overview video. There is a lot of information about PPC and enough tutorials to keep you reading for a couple of hours. The related tools in this section are Pay Per Click Network List and Affiliate Program list.

(D) Research - Everyone who has spent time in affiliate marketing knows that the money starts and ends with proper research. There is the overview video of the proper methods of research and over forty tutorials on all of the secrets, skills and techniques when it comes to proper research. The tools linked to this section are the WA Keyword Research Tool and List Builder, NicheQ Professional Research Tool, and the Clickbank Resource Tool.

(E) Search Engine Optimization aka SEO - SEO is a major part of whether or not your campaign is going to be a success or not even though it is a royal pain in the butt. Again there is an overview video along with 16 tutorials covering Search Engine Optimization. The tool for this section is the Rapid Writer Content Optimizer.

(F) WA System Tutorials - This section is meant to provide instruction on all areas of Wealthy Affiliate University and all of the free tools that come with the membership. I will get to the tools later on in this full Wealthy Affiliate University review.

(G) Web Hosting - Along with your membership to Wealthy Affiliate University they provide free hosting to as many domains as you like. This section of the training center covers the normal procedures associated with web hosting from how to publish your own websites to uploading information to your sites and how to deal with any problem related to web hosting.

(H) Website Development - This section deals with the creation and improvement of your websites. There is a bunch of little things that most people miss when they develop their own websites and this section in the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center makes sure that nothing is missed. With over fifty tutorials just for this one area you have no excuses from developing the perfect website. The tools connected to this section are the Site Rubix Website Builder (which is incredible by the way) and free website templates downloads.

That wraps it up for the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center and as you can see there is a ton of information in every category to make you completely well rounded when it comes to making money online. If they sold each tutorial as a E-Book, most tutorials contain more information than your average E-Book written by a so called guru, they could have sold it for thousands but instead they offer a membership fee that is around the same price of one E-Book.

Wealthy Affiliate University Tools And Research Section

Time to move on to a new section and this time it is the tools and resources that are completely free to Wealthy Affiliate University members. The tools which will cost you a fortune if you had to sign up to each one are easily the top resources available anywhere. Lets get going as this will take a while to cover.

(A) Keyword Research Tool - The Keyword Research Tool section actually contains a number of tools all for finding the best keywords for you to use in article marketing, PPC and of course affiliate marketing. The first tool is the keyword research tool which allows you find words and phrases that are related to the product you are promoting than it sends all of the keywords to the second tool which is the Keyword List Builder tool. The keyword list builder tool allows you to save your keywords in special categories which makes it so much easier in the long run especially the amount of time it takes to do proper keyword research (which is taught in the WAU Training Center). The third tool is Competition Spy Tool which allows you to search Google ads to find out which keywords are converting and which are not. Match Type Tool is very similar to Google Adword keyword tool in which you put in a general word or phrase and it matches up a ton of potential keywords that you can use. The last tool in this one sub section is the Phrase Builder where you can put in a number of keyword selections and the Phrase Builder will create three word phrases that you can focus on to give you the edge.

(B) Site Rubix Website Builder - This award winning website creation program is only available to Wealthy Affiliate University members and it is the most powerful yet incredibly simple website builder I have ever seen. You can literally create an incredible website in five to ten minutes and it has the build in feature to upload it to your hosting account. The first time that you try Site Rubix Website Builder you will refuse to use anything else.

(C) NicheQ - This section works that you pick one topic for the month and Wealthy Affiliate University will provide you with absolutely everything that you need to market this niche. I signed up for a stock related niche last month and it came with 30 PLR articles, a complete marketplace report from who is interested in this niche to which areas of this niche are the top performers along with SEO Keyword Concepts, free PLR Guides to give to your readers, to keyword lists and free website templates that best suit this certain niche. I can not wait to see what is coming next.

(D) Wealthy Affiliate Hosting - As I mentioned before each Wealthy Affiliate University member gets free hosting for as many domains as they like. Website hosting normally goes from $7 to $10 a month for each domain so you are saving a ton of money already by becoming a Wealthy Affiliate University member.

(E) My Linker Cloaking Tool - This gives you the ability to completely follow all of your affiliate links and keeping them safe at the same time. Just insert your affiliate link and you are issued a new link to use which will be followed and secure. With complete stats you will know which product that you should be promoting harder and which link needs some attention.

(F) Clickbank Research Tool - Have you heard about those sites that charge a ton of money so you can get all of the information that you need regarding products at Clickbank well Wealthy Affiliate University gives it to their members for free. Clickbank has their own stats but they are missing a number of the important ones such as the refund rate. Clickbank is the top player in Affiliate marketing and with the stats available in this tool you can figure out the right product to promote which will lead you laughing all of the way to the bank.

(G) Rapid Writer - Basically you write one article and with the tools provided it can turn into five more articles which saves you a ton of time when it comes to article marketing. Software like this normally sells for anywhere between fifty to a hundred bucks but it is free to Wealthy Affiliate University members. Rapid Writer makes sure that all of your keywords are used and that the density of the keywords does not surpass the industry three percent.

(H) Turn Key Feeder Sites - This is for the Wealthy Affiliate University Affiliate program which makes it able for you to quickly create websites that are already built and all you have to do is replace your affiliate link to make sure that you get paid for anything that sells on the site. Very easy and very quick to start making money online.

(I) Templates - A dozen templates for you to use for free to get your making money online career going along with complete instructions on how to edit the templates to suit your needs.

(J) Mystery Marketing Blueprint - There is a very successful affiliate program online right now that I am not going to devulge but if you are a member of Wealthy Affiliate University you have complete aspect to 100% of the marketing program that has made some people very rich. Put it this way it is called the $1,000,000 marketing blueprint for a reason.

WA Spaces

The WA spaces is where you get to know your fellow Wealthy Affiliate University members and make connections. People at WAU are very open and there is a ton of experience. Here you can find your partner for the next big thing or just talk about the weather. Totally up to you.

Wealthy Affiliate University Affiliate Program


The Wealthy Affiliate University Affiliate program pays well and if you make enough referrals they will give you tickets for a trip to Las Vegas. Wealthy Affiliate University provides all of the material that you could possibly need and gives courses on how to conduct a article marketing campaign to promote WAU referrals and the best way to use PPC for getting people to join the number one membership site on the net. The educational material just for the affiliate program took me hours and hours to cover.

Wealthy Affiliate University Platinum Forum

The forum is why Wealthy Affiliate University has members who have been around for ages. Lets say that you were in the training center and something does not click so you go to the forum where another member who has already been through it will help you out. Now lets say that you are in the middle of a campaign to sell Snuggies and for whatever the reasons your sales stop again someone at WAU who has gone through it can help out and get you over the hurdle. From discussing the new SEO techniques to getting honest reviews about new products to private coaching from people with a ton of experience the answers are at the Wealthy Affiliate University Platinum Forum. The problem with most forums on the net that revolve around making money is that no one will tell you the small things that separate the successful from the roadkill but at WAU people honestly want to see everyone succeed so everything is discussed openly.

Full Wealthy Affiliate University Review

As you can see by the amount of information that I have provided about Wealthy Affiliate University is that this is the place that makes successful internet marketers. There is no secret to making money online, no golden key but with the right information, the right support and the internal drive to succeed anything is possible at Wealthy Affiliate University. I use to be on a hundred different mailing lists from all sorts of internet gurus who promised to show me the path to success but they never did. All of these so called experts would tell me everything about the outside and all of the same theories over and over again but none told me how to put those pieces together to make a run at it. Wealthy Affiliate University gives you everything that you could need to succeed all in one place.

Time to make that first step to online success by joining Wealthy Affiliate University Today. For a low monthly fee you can stop spending money on E-Books that tell you nothing at all and programs that just make the guy at the top richer. Join Wealthy Affiliate University today and be our next success story