Sharon Michael

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This is Sharon Michael who we have been tracking her monthly progress from the beginning and it is amazing to see her progress during these past three months. Sharon has lost 24 lbs of body fat, dropped her body fat ranking from 32.5% to 17.7% and has improved her female body fat percentage ranking from 17% to 92% and has lost many inches along the way. Click on all three of her videos as we have documented her progress since the beginning of her time training at RobZFitness.
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Sharon Michael has been training at RobZFitness for the past 2 months and has lost 20 pounds of scale weight and lost 12.5% body fat during this time. Overall her body fat ranking for females at her age increased from 24% to 86%.

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Sharon Michael has been training at RobZFitness for the past one month and has seen dramatic results that are hard to achieve this early. She has lost 13 pounds of actual body fat and increased her lean muscle mass by 7 pounds resulting in 6 pounds lost of scale weigh. We know that scale weight is not a great indication of actual body fat loss, body composition is. Sharon’s effort dropped her body fat percentage ranking by 7.5% and increased her female gender ranking from 17% to 66%. Sharon’s hard efforts are really paying off. She has trained on her own for years without much improvement and now by restructuring her workout routine and nutrition she has seen great results very early training at our faciliey. Congratulations Sharon! We will see you back in another month.

Eating Quality Protein

Did you know that the timing of dietary protein intake affects feelings of fullness throughout the day? People who eat high-quality protein foods for breakfast had a greater sense of sustained fullness throughout the day compared to when more protein was eaten at lunch or dinner. Most Americans typically consume a relatively small amount of protein at breakfast – only about 15 percent of their total daily protein intake.

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Lisa Daniels

Lisa Daniells – RobZFitness – 1 Month Testimonial (In Home Personal Training)

Lisa Daniels has been training with me for the past 12 visits in her home as her goal was to be able to learn to train on her Bow-flex machine after her 12 visits so she could train on her own.  After these 12 visits I am happy to report that Lisa has lost 16lbs of body fat and gained in lean weight.

One of her biggest challenges was to convince her to not think strictly about scale weight.  Body fat should be your primary focus along with getting stronger.  Lisa accomplished this in 12 visits.  Her body fat ranking for her age improved from 47% to 92%.  She is stronger, leaner has really improved her cardiovascular system.

If you are struggling with your workouts call me at (813) 571-3700 to set up your consultation in person or we can set you up with LIVE video on-line training or email me at Rob@RobZFitness.com.  You can also follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RobZulkoski

David Barnes

You will not believe the progress that David has achieved in his first 3 months here at RobZFitness unless you watch his video. http://www.RobZFitness.com. This video is Davids 3 month video progress report as he shares with you his own testimony. David has lost 40 pounds and 10% body fat but better yet he has transformed his body into a slimmer and sculpted new body. http://www.RobZFitness.com (813) 571-3700

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Brown Fat

Thinner people have more ‘brown fat’ than heavier people; may help in weight loss

BY Rosemany Black
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, April 9th 2009

Feeling fat? If yours is brown, chances are you’re not as chubby as you think you are. Scientists have discovered that thinner people have more “brown fat” than heavier people. Unlike regular white fat, brown fat actually burns calories for heat — at least in mice.

Though it was once thought that we shed our brown fat after babyhood, it turns out that nearly all adults possess this brown fat, according to research in The New England Journal of Medicine that was reported in The New York Times on April 8.

In addition to thin grownups having more of it than fatter ones, younger people have more than older people and women have more than men. People taking beta blockers for high blood pressure had less brown fat than those that didn’t.

The research, from the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, involved nearly 2,000 patients. Scientists found that almost all grownups have small brown fat blobs that can burn mega calories when activated by cold – as in, when someone is in a 61-degree room.

“The thing about brown fat is that it takes a very small amount to burn a lot of energy,” Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, head of the section on obesity and hormone action at the Joslin Diabetes Center, told the Times.

What makes the fat brown is that it is filled with iron-containing mitochondria, which the Times calls “tiny energy factories of cells,” which impart a brownish-red color to the fat. In grownups, brown fat mostly shows up in the upper back, side of the neck and along the spine, while infants mostly carry brown fat as a sheet of cells on their backs, the Times reported. Mice, which mostly have brown fat between their shoulder blades, lost 14 percent of their weight when they spent a week in a cold room – even though they scarfed down a high-fat diet.

Researchers were able to find the brown fat in humans with PET-CT scans. The PET scans pointed to the areas where cells were burning glucose, and the CT scans showed that it was fat.

Nearly 2,000 people had scans for various reasons, and brown fat showed up in 7.5 percent of women and 3 percent of men. Kahn said that was actually an underestimate because the people who were scanned had not activated their brown fat by getting cold.

Though there’s currently no way you can simply turn on your brown fat-making cells and switch off your white fat-making cells, the study is intriguing because some day, scientists may discover a safe way to switch on people’s brown fat and allow them to shed pounds by burning off more calories. Unfortunately, it’s not known yet whether people would shed pounds as mice do when their brown fat is activated.

But in the meantime, you’ve got the perfect excuse for chilling out this summer by running your AC on high.

Study: Being too thin will age your face

BY Rosemary Black
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

A new study shows being thin can make you look older later in life.

Second helpings on dessert might seem like the sweetest way to celebrate new research that says being thin ages us more than anything else.

Sadly, you can’t have your cake and eat it, too: While the research does note that thinness makes the face appear older, this holds true only for women over 40, says lead study author Dr. Bahman Guyuron.

“For those younger than 40, it’s the other way around,” says Guyuron, chairman of the department of surgery at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland.

“For women under 40, gaining weight obscures the facial definition that is inherent in a younger woman.”

The study, the first of its kind, to be published in the April issue of the Plastic and Reconstructive Journal, focused on a variety of factors that can make people look older.

A thin face is the lead culprit because being slender causes a loss of volume in the face, Guyuron says.

“This loss of volume creates jowls and makes wrinkles develop,” he says. “The older we get, the more the face gets depleted. When you lose weight, this look is enhanced and aging is accelerated.

In older women, having a little weight on board makes the face look a little younger.” Facial shape actually changes with age, says plastic surgeon Dr. Jacob Steiger of Boca Raton, Florida.

In the late 20s and early 30s, a woman’s facial shape is a heart or inverted triangle but with age, it becomes a square or an upright rectangle. To keep that younger looking shape, many women opt for a procedure to fill out the face with injections of Restylane, Juvederm, or a similar product.

“But to tell a patient to gain weight to look younger is silly,” Steiger says. “The study just shows that a full face looks younger than a gaunt face, and it illustrates the importance of volume when women are thinking about facial rejuvenation.”

Being thin isn’t the only factor in whether your face looks aged or not, according to the study, which looked at nearly 200 pairs of identical twins over the course of two years.

Since the twins’ genetic makeup was the same, researchers were able to attribute the differences in how old they looked not to their gene pool, but to external factors. And the researchers found that, in addition to thinness, smoking, heavy drinking, sun exposure, being divorced and being on antidepressants also are to blame.

“We also have discovered that indoor jobs, since your sun exposure is limited, help you look younger,” says Guyuron. “Having an outdoor job makes you look older.” For women who want to look younger but don’t want to shell out money on plastic surgery, there are other things to try.

“From the standpoint of preventive measures, not smoking and staying out of the sun are the two biggest things you can do for yourself,” Steiger says.

“Gaining weight is not advisable. When you gain weight, you gain it everywhere. It’s kind of like hair: as you get older you grow it where you don’t want it and lose it where you don’t want to lose it.”

The main message Guyuron wants people to take away from the study?

“Even though being really thin is perhaps in vogue, we are not advocating that you lose too much weight because even though your body may look thin, your face will look older,” he says.

“Try to keep your weight around the ideal range and if you do that, you’ll look younger than if you lose a lot of weight.”