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Crock Pot Chicken Recipe for Gains

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This crock pot chicken recipe is going to help you get the gains you want while enabling you to eat a tasty meal. It is easy to prepare and takes 3 to 4 hours to cook.

Ingredients for Chicken Recipe

The Make-It Bacon Paleo Chicken Classic

  • 1 lb. cubed chicken breasts
  • 1/3 lb chopped bacon.
  • 1 small white onion thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 2 tbsp chipotle sauce

Directions for Chicken Recipe

  1. Place uncooked bacon pieces in the crock pot. Stir bacon in among the cubed chicken, onion and seasonings
  2. If you like, give it a light olive oil glaze. It will taste good and help keep your chicken from sticking to the pot
  3. Cook on high for 3 to 4 hours
  4. Top with your chipotle sauce upon serving

Nutrition Facts

Calories 594
Total Fat 37.7 g
Total Carbs 1.8 g
Protein 56.2 g

Enjoy this tasty meal!

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Monday Madness: Maniacal Chest Workout

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Today I want to show you a chest workout that is pretty insane. I will first show you the workout and then I will explain why it is so important.

How to Execute the Workout

For this workout you are going to use heavy weight but slow cadence on the repetitions. This is a 3 x 3 cadence. That means you take 3 seconds to raise the weight and 3 seconds to lower it. This is going to tire your muscles out a great deal so be ready to adjust accordingly.

The Workout

Exercise Sets x Repetitions
Decline BB Bench Press 4 x 6-8
Incline DB Bench Press 3 x 8-10
Seated Machine Press 4 x 6-8
Pec Dec Flye 4 x 12-15
Flat DB Flye 4 x 10-12
Flat DB Pullover 5 x 6-8
Dips 3 x 15

Make sure you are controlling the weight. Use a weight that is heavy enough that you can just barely hit the repetition ranges, but make sure you can do the 3 second up and 3 second down cadence. The idea is to put some serious pressure on your chest muscles today.

The Workout Explained

Many of the old time bodybuilders believed in starting their chest workout with a few sets of Decline BB Bench Press and I am no different. I think that declines do a great job of warming up the entire chest. You hit areas that are normally neglected. I then switch to Incline DB Bench Press because my upper chest is one of my weakest areas. When doing the Seated Machine Press make sure to use one arm at a time, alternating. Squeeze hard at the top of the movement so that you tire out your chest. After the machine press has worn you out, switch to the Pec Dec Flye. Be sure your elbows are up and out and that you keep the tension on the muscle. Switch over to the Flat DB Flye. Keep your elbows positioned correctly during the movement. Squeeze at the top of the motion. As you go into the Flat DB Pullover make sure you are emphasizing the chest muscles. Make the movement long by stretching your arms all the way out. Finish off with dips. Make sure you lean forward just a little so that your chest is emphasized.

The slow cadence of this chest workout increases the intensity of the workout. Making sure you squeeze at the top of every repetition, even acting as though you are pushing your hands together (when you really are not) is going to improve your pecs dramatically.

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Saturday Sharing: Complainers Go to the Back of the Line

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Everyone can come up with excuses if they want, but complainers are the masters at finding excuses for everything. It is far too easy to come up with an excuse that will derail you from your exercise and nutrition goals, but why would you want to do that? I wonder sometimes if these heavy complainers understand the ramifications of their own actions. My opinion is that complainers can go to the back of the line. I have no time for that.

Complainers sap your energy

When you are attempting to help people, the complainers will remove all energy from you and your efforts. You find yourself working to convince them of the erroneous statements they are making. It takes your focus away from more important things. You have no way to convince them because they are going to believe whatever they believe. It is a complete waste of your time and it just takes energy away from your other tasks.

Complainers bring you down

You do what you do because it is something that you need or want. If you are like me, you have a passion for health and fitness. Listening to complainers just brings me down. It makes me wonder why I do what I do at all.

Complainers Go to the Back of the Line

When I help people and I discover that they are a complainer I instantly move them to the end of the line in the future. I don't like to waste my time on people who are not going to listen to anything I say and complainers have shown me this is them.

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Saturday Sharing: Fat Loss Resources Revealed

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There are lots of wonderful fat loss resources available on the web. Today we would like to present our approved list of fat loss resources.

  • Burn the Fat Blog – Tom Venuto is probably the best person on the internet today to get advice on fat loss. Much of what I know I learned from Tom and his many wonderful resources.
  • Fat Loss Revealed – Will Brink has some amazing scientific methods for burning the fat. Like Tom Venuto, Will puts his name behind every single thing he publishes. This means he checks it 5 times before he will allow it to go out.
  • Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle – Tom Venuto's amazing book about how to lose fat and build muscle.
  • BFFM Inner Circle – Tom Venuto's inner circle. He participates in answering the questions.
  • Bodybuiling.com – A massive resource for fat loss tips.

This is just the start of a longer list.

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What to Do When You Lack Motivation

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A lack of motivation is something we all face at some point. How you handle it is going to determine how far you can take things with your fitness pursuits. Because we all face periods where our motivation is down, how we handle it is going to determine how well we do at things.

Music for Motivation

As for me, I like to use music to motivate myself. For instance, I set a goal to get my one mile run to under 8 minutes. I have never really been a great runner, but in high school I could run 6 miles in less than 40 minutes.  I have an “Indoor Running” Spotify playlist that looks like this:

Music just gives me the motivation I need to get things done. It works for me at work or just in life in general. There is just something that keeps me moving forward when I have music.

Pictures for Motivation

I have found the picture of how I would like to look and I use it as a motivator.

flex-lewisFlex Lewis has an amazing body and one I would love to emulate. While I may never look exactly like this, it motivates me to hit the gym every single morning. I want this body and I know how hard I have to work to get even close.

My advice is to find the picture that you feel is most like what you want to look like and save it to your phone. Look at it before every workout. Compare yourself to that picture constantly. Work on the things that must change in order for you to look like that picture. I need to build my shoulders, lats and arms to better resemble this picture. Of course, my entire body needs work, but when being specific, those are the areas that need the most help.

If you do this and use visualization you will likely overcome any lack of motivation you might experience. It is not something that I would say is really easy, but it is something you can and should do.

Accountability as Motivation

I recently started working with someone to keep me accountable. Knowing I have to send pictures and check in keeps me motivated as well. I have heard my alarm in the morning and sincerely wanted to turn it off, but the thought of not making good enough progress got my ass out of bed. It really works.

Conclusion

Use whatever it takes to motivate yourself. it really doesn't matter. Just get the job done!

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