Fitness Confidential Quotes

“At this point, you want to pick an amount of weight that you can do for three sets of ten repetitions with some difficulty. Once you can easily do three sets of ten reps, increase the number of reps to eleven each set. Once you can easily do that, increase the number of reps to twelve. And once you can do three sets of twelve reps each, then it’s time to move up in weight. How much more weight? Enough to make three sets of ten reps difficult once again.”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“You don’t need to game the system. We’ve been conditioned to think that diets are supposed to make us suffer, but you don’t need to suffer. As a matter of fact, if you’re suffering, you’re doing something wrong. Look, it’s really this simple: if you’re always hungry you won’t lose weight long term. Forget counting calories, forget watching your portion size, forget trying to eat low fat. Just do these two simple things. STAY AWAY FROM SUGAR and STAY AWAY FROM GRAINS Will”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“According to a new study conducted by The National Institutes of Health and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, people following low-carb diets reduced their LDL (or bad cholesterol) in greater amounts than low-fat dieters. In fact, Dr. Gary Foster, PhD of Temple University’s center for Obesity Research and Education, said that the notion that the low carb approach to weight loss was bad for the heart is “largely unfounded.” Here”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“You know how you’ve been avoiding steak and cheese to try and stay thin? Not any more. Ever pass by someone’s house in the morning, smell bacon cooking and get pissed off because you’ve had Cheerios for a million days in a row? Guess what’s back on your diet? Bacon. What about those egg whites you were cooking in the Teflon pan? Are you crazy? Not only have you been giving up the yolk, the most nutritional part of the egg, you’ve been giving up the best tasting part. What a tragedy! Fish, pork, steak, Italian sausage—all sausage for that matter—eat to your heart’s content. And, from the plant world, what about all the delicious stuff you stayed away from because they were high-fat foods with lots of calories? Olives, avocados, coconuts. Enjoy! You like heavy cream in your coffee? Dump it in! And guess how much you can have of this stuff? As much as you want. When you start eating properly, when you rid yourself of those insulin swings, you’ll lose the feeling of being a bottomless pit that can never be sated. You’ll regulate the amount you eat naturally and you’ll find yourself feeling full much quicker. Don”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“Unfortunately, because everyone gets participation trophies now, trophies don’t mean anything any more. Spoils used to go to the victor. Now they go to everyone. Which causes two problems. First, it teaches the loser that there’s no reason to work harder to win because losing is just as good as winning. Second, it teaches the victor “screw it, why try?” because there’s no benefit to winning.”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“The idea, drummed into us year after year, is that to lose weight you have to burn more calories than you consume. The simplicity of this is part of its appeal. Does it work? Well, it can. If, over time, you take in fewer calories than you expend, you will lose weight as long as your calories come mainly in the form of fat and protein. But if most of your calories come from carbohydrates, you will lose less weight.”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“if fat is used for long-term energy and carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables are used for short-term energy and protein is used to rebuild our cells, what is sugar and grain used for? Getting us fat. If”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“Protein is what we use to rebuild our bodies after normal daily wear and tear breaks us down.”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“You can get all the short-term energy you need from the unprocessed sugar in the fiber of natural fruits and vegetables. The fiber slows down its absorption into your bloodstream, preventing that nasty glucose-insulin spike, giving you all the short-term energy benefits but not the fat-storing downside. And”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL

“So you eat more carbs. Chips, another slice of pizza, one more scoop of ice cream. This triggers another spike, followed by another crash. It’s a vicious cycle, not unlike a cigarette or heroin addiction. And each time this happens, you’re taking your body on an insulin roller coaster and storing more and more fat.”
― Vinnie Tortorich, FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL