Podcast #18: Mid-Week Update, Extreme Workout Challenges & ThermoFactor

Ben Greenfield (0:00)

October 13th, Mid-Week Update from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

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Hey podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield. I'm in the process of lining up some fantastic interviews for the next few weeks from bengreenfieldfitness.com. But in the meantime, I wanted to give you a mid-week update on some new material that was added just recently to the blog at bengreenfieldfitness.com.

The first is a fantastic way to boost your metabolism, boost your fat burning, and give you some really entertaining and fun workouts to do. And I've put a little challenge up on the web page I'm gonna tell you a little bit more about here in a second. The second announcement is that at the end of this podcast, I'm including a special code for a $10 discount on a supplement that appears at bengreenfieldfitness.com, supplement designed for metabolism and fat loss. I'll also tell you a little bit more about that.

But first, let's talk about the workout challenge.

Extreme workout challenge. As several of the podcast listeners may know, I coach people from all over the world via a website at pacificfit.net. And one of the things that I'll occasionally do is throw a timed workout challenge out to the individuals who I coach. Well, what I've done at the blog is included a link to a few of those extreme workout challenges. And each challenge is a range of different exercises that are designed to give you a very, very intense workout in a very short period of time. For example, the first extreme workout challenge, you perform one set of 10 repetitions of the clean and jerk exercise. And if you click on the extreme workout challenge link that I have there, you get a link to the photos and the videos and the instructions for each workout so that you know exactly what you're supposed to do. You can print them, take them with you to the gym, view the exercise videos before your workouts so that you know what you're supposed to do and you know how to maintain good form. So you do one set of 10 repetitions of a clean and jerk exercise. I give complete instructions on how to choose the weight that you're supposed to do based off of a percentage of your body weight. And then after that set is completed, you do, if your health club has a gym, you do one set of suicide sprints in the gym, or if you don't have a gym or you're trying to be a little bit kinder to the knees, you can do a 60 second sprint on a stationary bicycle. And that's it, that's the whole workout, except for one caveat. You do that seven times through.

Time limit is 20 minutes. So 10 clean and jerks to one set of suicide sprints, or 60 seconds as hard as possible on a bike. Time limit is 20 minutes. And the workouts are very simple, but they're designed just to, boom, give you a very quick, very intense workout in a very short period of time. Now here is the special offer. If you videotape yourself, or have a friend videotape you, completing any of these workouts in the allotted period of time, and don't worry, I'll be able to tell if you've edited the video, so no funny business on these, I will give you a free copy of my 21-day Lean Body Manual Shape 21 You can check out Shape 21 and see more of what it's about at shape21.com. But any of these challenges, doesn't matter which one, you click on one, there are six total, you complete any of those, and you email me a video. You can upload it to YouTube, and you email me the link, however you want to get it to me. And I will basically look at that, review it, and send you the Lean Body Manual if you indeed completed the workout in the allotted period of time.

So, the second announcement for this week, Podcast Discount on a Fat Loss Capsule.

A lot of my clients are having quite a bit of success with a formula called ThermoFactor. It's basically designed to help control your appetite, your blood sugar balance, and improve your metabolism. It has bitter orange extract in it. Doesn't actually taste bitter, it's just a capsule. That will help you suppress the appetite. It also allows athletes to exercise longer without exhaustion or lean tissue loss. It has a green tea extract in it to increase thermogenesis, or your body's natural metabolic rate. It has the amino acid tyrosine in it, which actually enhances the appetite suppressing abilities of that bitter orange extract. It has chromium in it, and that will stabilize your insulin levels, thus helping out with your blood sugar and decreasing your body's potential to store fat. It has vanadium in it, which also will decrease the amount of circulating insulin and, in addition to that, has anti-catabolic properties. That means that it reduces the breakdown of muscle protein per energy, and it prevents the storage of excess carbohydrates as fat. And then the last ingredient in that thermo factor is manganese, which is also a... it's a mineral, and it plays a very important role in carbohydrate metabolism, so it speeds up the rate at which you can burn sugars. So what I'm doing is I am offering a $10 discount, normally a one-month supply of capsules is $39.99. You go to the website, you enter in a special discount code, and I'm going to give it to you right now. It will give you a $10 discount on thermo factor.