Magnificent Muscles

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You need to read this.

While Enjoyable Exercise and Passionate Partaking are important, what I’m about to share with you is the secret weapon of WEMPS.

This is the silver bullet, the holy grail, the magic wand, the miracle worker. This is the KEY to get THREE:

1. Lose weight
2. Get in shape
3. Feel great.

It is…. Strength Training!

Now LADIES, do not forsake me on this – you GUYS, either! Just hear me out. I’m not talking about getting big and musclebound (ladies: your hormones won’t allow it anyway – you’d have to shoot up steroids like the majority of professional baseball players to’become that freak of nature you’re so fearful of becoming. Also, I’m not talking about lifting huge amounts of weights either – remember, this is a WEMPS program).

Your Body’s Engine

Let me start by saying that the best thing you have in your body for burning fat – are your muscles. Think of it like a car. If you have an economy car, it’s engine is small and doesn’t have much power, right? Consequently, it doesn’t burn much fuel. But, if your car is a Ferarri, then your engine has a lot of power – and can burn a lot of fuel – even when it’s just sitting idle.

That’s how the muscles work in your body. If your muscles are more flab than muscle, then you’ve got the engine of an economy car. It doesn’t have much power and it doesn’t burn much fuel (calories). If, however, your muscles are lean and hard (strong), then you’ve got the engine of a high performance sports car – lots a power and it will burn lots of calories.

For years, everybody always assumed  that to lose weight it was all about Cardio! Cardio! Cardio!

Well, as the Spanish say, “Stupido! Stupido! Stupido!”

With cardio, you burn calories while you’re doing cardio, but there’s not much of a residual effect. But with strength training it’s very different. You not only burn calories while you workout, but strength training burns calories AFTER you’re done working out. Strength training raises your body’s metabolic rate. In essence, it builds you a stronger, more powerful engine that will burn calories – even when your engine’s just idling.

The Miracle of Muscles

But Magnificent Muscles don’t stop there. In addition to giving you a better fat-burning engine, strength training provides a host of other wonderful benefits that you simply CAN’T pass up! Look at all these:

1) Magnificent Muscles give you a better shape.

Even though we say we want to lose weight – what we really want is to look good. And while they may seem similar, they are not one and the same. Believe me, you can lose weight and still look pretty grim. Your body and skin can still experience a good amount of sagging. And it DON’T look pretty!

Strength training can fix all that. It can give you the hourglass shape that you truly want. It will give you the tone that you truly desire.

2) Magnificent Muscles give you better posture.

You’re mom got it all wrong. Instead of saying, “Sit up straight!” She should have said, “Go pump some iron!” Strength training helps you sit up straight, throw your shoulders back, and suck in your stomach. That way, you can at least give the appearance of having lost weight. OK, it’s cheating – but a very nice form of cheating!

3) Magnificent Muscles help you live better.

Strength training helps your body to move and function better. You can do more stuff and you can do whatever you do better. You can lift, pull, push, grab, carry, and squeeze better. In short, you can live life – better.

4) Besides all of the above – being strong just ROCKS! Let’s face it, everybody wants to be a strong person. And, when you feel physically strong, you feel mentally strong. You feel good – and you look good, too .

So, what do you do in this phase of the WEMPS program. Well, as promised, you don’t have to do anything extreme. You have 8-10 “Feats of Strength” that work different muscles and it takes 15 minutes just three times a week.

That’s right!

It’s easy. You start small and build strength. It takes no more than 15 minutes to do the Feats of Strength. We have a new 15 minute Workout of the Week (WOW) every two weeks so you don’t get bored doing the same thing over and over again. Do it just 3 times a week – and pretty soon, you’ll love how you look and feel.

Magnificent Muscles!

Photo by: aigarius