Archives for April 2011

Adonis Index Contest Winners Announced!

It’s time to announce the winners of the fourth Adonis Index Transformation contest as the first ever Open contest.

The competition keeps getting tighter each time as the bar just keeps getting set higher and higher.

Contestants were judged on total change in AI, how close they got to their true golden ratio and their final pictures.

Finally, if you want to get a hold of the systems that make all of this possible, here’s where you need to go:

==> Click here to grab your copy of the Adonis Index Systems

Ok lets get to it.

Adonis Index Transformation Contest #4

1st Place: Dan Blunk

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Dan Blunk AT4 Winner

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AT4 Winner Dan Blunk

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2nd Place: Leo Bell

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2nd place Leo Bell

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2nd place Leo Bell

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4th Place: Sean Rafferty

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4th Place: Sean Rafferty

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5th Place: Richard Lane

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5th Place: Richard Lane

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6th Place: Greg Rojem

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6th Place Greg Rojem

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Adonis Index Open Contest:

Senior Division (40+ years old)

1st Place: Mark Levy

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Adonis Index Senior Open Champ Mark Levy

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2nd Place: Joe Weaver

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60 years young and looking great!

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Showing the young guys how it’s done!

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3rd Place: Rich Sigona

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3rd Place Rich Sigona

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Rich has serious muscle mass and a huge back!

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Adonis Index Open:

Middle Division (25 – 40 years old)

1st Place: Allen Elliot

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Adonis Index Open Winner Allen Elliot

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2nd Place: Kidafi Byer

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2nd Place Kidafi Byer

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3rd Place: Andrew Tullio

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3rd Place Andrew Tullio

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Adonis Index Open:

Junior Division (under 25 years old)

1st Place: David Donoghue

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Junior Division 1st Place David Donoghue

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Andrew Irvine 2nd Place

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Congratulations to all, you did a phenomenal job getting into great shape.

I’ll be contacting each of you personally as we owe you money and I’d like to do a podcast interview with each of you to share your training and preparation that you went through over the past 12 weeks.

This just set the bar even higher for our next competition which starts May 11th.

John

p.s. If you want to get a hold of the systems that make all of this possible, here’s where you need to go:

==> Click here to grab your copy of the Adonis Index Systems

Orthorexia and Food Cults

Orthorexia is a term coined by a physician Dr. Steven Bratman. It’s defined as an unhealthy obsession with health food…ironic to say the least.

Food Cults

Some people end up worshiping at the alter of a new food cult without even realizing it.

Many people can fall victim to some degree of orthorexia as they search for the one ‘right’ way to eat, but each of these diets is nothing more than an unscientific fad that is more marketing and fear mongering than it is science.

Diet fads come and go and each one has it’s villian food and it’s hero’s all the way from it’s champion founder to the champion foods.

Low carb diets, blood type diets, raw foodies, macrobiotic, paleo and so on, each one will profess the merits of eating specific foods while removing many other foods from your diet for good. But is there really any proof that these diets can help you live healthier or longer or improve performance or the way you feel…or do anything at all?

In most cases these diets quickly become like a cult with all of the ugly consequences like becoming socially isolated from other people who are not part of the cult, the development of an elitist attitude about the given way of eating above any other form of eating and a general smugness of it’s followers as they assume they have become ‘enlightened’ to the one and only way to eat.

The reality is there is little if any scientific evidence to support any of these restrictive styles of eating. They are usually focused on minor and insignificant points about mixing and matching their ‘correct’ foods and miss the point of getting total calories under control and developing consistent exercise habits.

In todays uncensored podcast we’ll discuss orthorexia and food cults and how many of the diets that people read about and follow start to take over other parts of their lives.

We’ll also discuss how the champions of many of these cults don’t even follow their own recommendations.

John

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Metabolic Flexibility

There are many different diet styles you can read about but most are very restrictive and teach an exclusionary style

Metabolic Flexibility

Metabolic Flexibility is something most of us don’t think about when we’re considering a diet plan of the concept of flexibility in general.

of eating. The typical marketing rhetoric finds one or two food groups or perhaps a macro nutrient (like carbs in the atkins approach) to demonize and lay all of the ills and evils of our western society on these few nutrients.

The dietary advice that follows is to cut all of said nutrient out of your diet forever.

This same tone is taking in blood type diets, or diets that purport the concept that a person has a ‘metabolic type’. These theories are great marketing speak but have no basis in physiology or science.

All humans are highly adaptable and can eat whatever foods happen to be available at a given time.

The concept that there is a right way to eat, or that you have a metabolic type is naive and a convenient argument to make in modern western affluent societies where you can just stroll down to the grocery store and decide on a whim that today you will be a protein eater!

Most people around the world do not have such a luxury and must eat what is available, and most cultures around the world have their fair share of vigorously healthy people as well and this is because of metabolic flexibility and adaptability.

Your body can learn to eat and function on whatever food you can give it. In our societies we have the good fortune to experiment with seemingly limitless food combinations and mix and match just about any degree of foods, meal timing and meal composition we wish.

In todays uncensored podcast we’ll explain how being metabolically flexible and adaptable is the real answer to long term health and part of what makes a diet program successful.

In today’s uncensored podcast, we’ll explain why getting locked into one way of eating can lead to inflexibility if you ever try to change that pattern, indeed it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy if you become too restrictive with your dietary patterns.

We’ll also explain how being metabolically flexible and adaptable is a much better answer for long term health and part of what makes a diet program successful.

John

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Inflammation and Testosterone’s Effects On Depression

The rate of depression is growing and the numbers are likely even higher than we think because many cases go unreported.

depression and inflammation

Can testosterone help with depression?

Common therapy for depression includes things like serotonin specific re-uptake inhibitors, monoamine oxidase inhibitors as well as other drug therapies.

But one link that has yet to be fully explored is that of inflammation and depression, and a therapy that is showing good results is simply low dose testosterone.

In today’s uncensored podcast we discuss the global prevalence of depressive disorders in both men and women and some of the potential causal links.

We’ll also delve into the research on inflammation and depression and the effectiveness of testosterone therapy for depression in both men and women.

Finally we’ll also discuss how bodyfat might be affecting depression and why getting in shape might be even more critical to your mental and emotional health than you ever thought.

John

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Black and Grey Market Drugs

The market for supplements and drugs isn’t as black and white as you might think. There is also a significant ‘grey’

Steroids

At some point these items weren’t on the black market.

market of items that are not yet categorized as legal or illegal. In many cases a new and controversial supplement may technically be part of the grey market until it gains a working legal definition.

If you’ve been actively taking or trying supplements for the past 10 years you may very well have taken something that used to be part of the legitimate market and now exists on the grey market or even the black market now.

Many items go through a life cycle from the legitimate market to the grey market and end up in the black market.

The markets themselves are determined by political ideology and pressure and have little to do with the quality or inherent or perceived danger of the items in question.

We’ll look into the history of the black market for performance enhancing drugs and examine how a drug or supplement can start out as a legitimate market item and end up on the black market.

When you look at it from this standpoint you have to consider that being on an illegal drug is more a matter of a moment in time and a geographical location vs doing something that is universally right or wrong as the media would portray it.

John

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