Biggest Loser Fail: Season 8 Contestant Hospitalized
People ask me about The Biggest Loser all the time, but I don’t watch very much TV. Last nite I watched the biggest loser TV show for the first time ever (also the last), just [...]
Bad Science and Bad Journalism: A Book Review And Commentary on Mass Media
Ever since I launched the Burn The Fat blog, I promised that I would write health, fitness and nutrition book reviews. That was three and a half years ago and I haven’t written any yet. [...]
Exercise Won’t Make You Thin? (Why Time Magazine Owes the Fitness Industry a Big Fat Apology)
Does exercise help weight loss? According to Time Magazine, the answer is no. That's why at first I was tempted to title this article, “why John Cloud and the editors of Time magazine are idiots.” But then I thought that might be a bit harsh and decided to simply call for an apology and a correction for all the errors they made in their recent article, "Why exercise won’t make you thin."
Motivation and Training Environment: Does Where You Work Out Matter?
Motivation week continues today at the Burn The Fat Blog with a great excerpt from an interview I recently did with Jim Katsoulis. Jim is a hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner and fitness coach who specializes in [...]
How to Stop Bingeing, Emotional Eating And Diet Relapse: What Research Says
Diet relapse happens the most to emotional eaters who lack skills to respond to and cope with stress and unexpected problems. While almost everyone has stress, there are major differences in the ways successful weight loss maintainers and relapsers coped with their problems.
Visualization: Mental Training Secret of Champion Athletes And Fitness Achievers
This week, I’m running a special series of blog posts about motivation and fitness psychology. No aspect of sports and fitness psychology has gained more attention in the athletic community than mental rehearsal, also known [...]
Burn The Fat Bloginar Starts Today: Operation Motivation!
If you’d like to discover how to get and stay motivated to consistently train like a champion at every workout, stick with your nutrition plan every day without teeth-grinding willpower and learn the real secrets [...]
Low Carb Diets For Weight Loss: Just a Myth After All?
QUESTION: Tom, I've been reading your stuff for years and I also read a lot of other sites and message board, sincluding some of the low carb boards. I have finally come to the conclusion, [...]
Burn The Fat 7th Anniversary Interview!
“Tom Venuto takes a trip down memory lane and shares his personal story (going all the way back to high school and college), pulls out classic bodybuilding pics from his photo album, talks about the [...]
No Pain No Gain: Fitness Myth or Ultimate Fitness Truth?
No Pain, No Gain. Is this aphorism just a fitness myth and downright bad advice? A lot of people seem to think so. As a bodybuilder with 25 years of training experience and more than [...]