IT'S MY SHOUT!

Your next piece of workout gear is on me…

Yes, that’s right!

Simply refer a friend, family member or colleague to training the DPM Performance way and when they sign up for 10 sessions or more of training, I’ll shout you a $50 Rebel gift voucher!

But it gets even better…

If you have a couple of people who are interested, and sign up (maybe even yourself), to start your own small private group training, then I’ll shout you a $75 Rebel voucher!

With the advent of a new year, I now have a couple of extra slots in my schedule and I’m keen to fill them, so I’m offering this as a feeler to see if people actually read these emails!

Training can be done in their home if it’s in the Inner West or CBD, a local park or in some of the beautiful city locations – Observatory Hill or the Botanical Gardens.

This offer also applies to anyone who signs up for 12 months of online training via my Net-Trainer option (www.dpmperformance.com.au/net_trainer.php)

**This offer does not include sessions done at AMP or any large group sessions that I already conduct.

If your referred colleague is an AMP worker, then you are still eligible providing they are keen to train outside of the gym confines.

To take advantage of this limited, time sensitive offer, simply get your friend to email me – Daniel@dpmperformance.com.au or call on 0415 843 675 and make sure they mentioned your name!

No name, no voucher!

This offer will self destruct 2 weeks from today – February 13, 2008, no exceptions.

So, start spreading the news!

What’s your excuse?

Fire UP!

GET MOTIVATED WITH DPM PERFORMANCE blog ed 13

This weekend I've noticed 4 inspiring efforts from the sporting area. I was able to find a take home point out of each effort, although they all summed up something different.

The first one I read about in one of the Sunday papers yesterday. It involved a deaf fencer who was training for a spot in the Olympic Games. Yes, the Olympic Games. He actually believed that his deafness was a benefit as he had to focus more.

How's that for looking at the glass half full!

For some reason, something drew me to read that article. Now, I don't know about you, but I'd rather watch paint dry then watch fencing, but that's not the point of the story. Anyone who rises from their disadvantages to make something of themselves is alright in my book.

Another inspiring effort, was from Roger Federer, who was 2 points away from losing a match deep in the 5th set of the Aussie Open but dug deep and found that little bit extra.

I was half hoping the underdog would win, but you can't knock a champion, and they always show their class when it counts. When the hard was is to be done, you know who you can turn too. Important take home point number 2.

If there's anyone I'd want playing for my life in any sport, Federer would definately make the shortlist.

My number 3 was also from the tennis, and if you've been glued to your tv set like me, can probably imagine I'm talking about Casey Dellacqua. The Aussie underdog stepped up big time on Friday night to beat Mauresmo convincingly and put in a great fight last night against the #3 in the world going to a tie break in the first set. Take home point number 3 - back yourself, even if no one else will.

The final inspiring moment for me was on Saturday (yes i watched a bit of sport this weekend!).

While we were getting pasted by the Indians in the cricket, Mitchell Johnson and Stuart Clark, who if you are not familiar with the game, definately are not recognised batsmen stepped up and had a go and belted the Indians around the park. Not bad when our top order batsmen hardly troubled the scorers.

A comparison, for the North American readers would be John Smoltz hitting 2 grandslams while Chipper Jones goes 0-5 all game. Take home point number 4 - go down fighting. Don't take a backwards step.

I hope you can gain another insight into some great performances. By looking a little deeper at any situation, you can often take a lot more out of it then it would otherwise seem.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

More Flavours, More Protection

By Kelley Herring

The sharp bite of red onion. The finish of your favorite Pinot Noir. The astringency of your cup of green tea. All three have something in common: flavonoids.

The health benefits of this vast group of compounds has been the subject of extensive studies.

The results? Most studies show a significant inverse link between flavonoid consumption and the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

There are many ways in which flavonoids work their tasty magic. They:

· Halt the oxidation of LDL (bad) cholesterol

· Reduce the potential for a dangerous blood clot

· Improve the function of red blood cells

· Help reduce inflammation

So don't shy away from potent flavors. In general, the stronger the flavor, the more flavonoids a food contains... and the more protection it offers.

Remember to stock up on these on your next grocers trip.

Get out and make it a great week!

What's your excuse?

Fire UP!

THE CARDIO MACHINE THAT SUCKS!

Yep, I'll put my hand up. I used to recommend people use this machine in a gym. BUT I used to do a lot of things. This is a point that Fitness Expert Craig Ballantyne recently pointed out to me.

The main take home point is when I find something better or I realise that a habit I USED to do is counter-productive, I STOP it.

How about you?

The Cardio Machine that Sucks

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TTworkouts.com

Recently, I was in Tampa, Florida, at a seminar. Between sessions, a physician from Georgia stopped me in the hall and said, "Hey Craig, you were right about those crosstrainer machines. I've had your program for a few months now and I'm getting better results with the bodyweight circuits."
It's always great to meet clients, and I was curious to find out how he heard of me. Turns out, he found me through Google, landing on an article I wrote about "how elliptical machines (crosstrainers) suck for fat loss".
That's right, I think those machines are almost a complete waste of time.
"I was using one of those machines for a long time and was wondering why I wasn't getting any results," the physician continued, "I'm so glad I found your program and now I'm using the bodyweight circuits from the Dumbell-Bodyweight Fusion Workout", he added.
I told him how I wasn't surprised. In fact, I've never personally known anyone to get great results with one of those crosstrainer machines. Now I've watched really lean people use them, but they didn't get lean with those machines.
I know some people will be angry with what I have to say because they like exercising on the crosstrainer, but the truth is that they just don't work as well as harder forms of interval training.
And hey, any time you are traveling or want a break from regular interval training workouts, you can use one of the 4 bodyweight circuits from the TT DB-BW Fusion Fat Loss program that you get as a bonus when you order the Turbulence Training fat burning workout routine.
Click here to get your own Turbulence Training Workouts

==> http://www.ttworkouts.com
Let me know how it goes for you,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MSAuthor, Turbulence Training
About the Author:

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines.

His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week.

For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.ttworkouts.com

So, are you still using the Cross Trainer?

HAVE YOU MADE YOUR DEPOSIT YET?

THE BODY BANK

Every training session you do, every time you eat some healthy food, and the incidental exercise you do each day is putting money in your own personal body bank. Some deposits are small, such as eating an apple, while some are much bigger like an intense workout.

When you eat something that isn’t ideal, when you miss that training session that you were supposed to do, that is making a withdrawal. We need to ensure that our bodies are a savings account where there is plenty of money saved and not the credit card that is maxed to the limit!

You will not lose the weight if you are constantly withdrawing from an account with non existent funds. You need to earn these saving points for your treat.

Your 10 minute walk to the bus stop each day is 50 minutes a week. When you also do it on the way home, it becomes 100 minutes of walking a week. What about when you get off a stop earlier?

That extra 5 minutes walk becomes and extra 50 minutes when you do it at the start and end of your day. You now have 2½ hours of incidental exercise every week! Even if you drive to work, the same can apply.

Swap the walk each side of your working day for a walk up the stairs at work, or walk to the coffee shop up the road. You can even park your car further from your office. It all adds up.

When you combine this with a regular exercise routine, you are now on your way to achieving your goals! Stay focused on how you want to feel in the coming months. Nothing tastes as good as the feeling you get when you achieve something great! Get to it Today NOT Tomorrow!

HIS AND HERS TRAINING

This training program is without doubt, the best program on the market for mums looking to lose their baby fat. Fit Yummy Mummy Holly Rigsby has transformed her body and her life with these methods.

Now let Holly transform your body with the Fit Yummy Mummy Workouts

http://www.fitmummy.com/

Holly has got some awesome bonus products, including nutrition guides that are essential for your success and even giving you access to her VIP coaching program! That alone is worth your investment.

As of this writing, you have exactly 25 hrs left to take advantage of her 5 bonuses before they are taken off forever!

once again, that site is:
http://www.fitmummy.com/

Now for the blokes, this is the workout that will back on some bulk and allow you to exchange your BB Guns for Uzis.

Former self confessed skinny guy Vince Delmonte is now a ripped fitness model - how's that for a transformation? Vince has released what will soon be the # 1 Muscle Gain product online The No Nonsense Guide to gaining muscle.

http://www.getvinced.com/

Like Holly, Vince is also running a promo which finishes @ 12 midnight TONIGHT. Vince is even throwing in a DVD, 3 months membership to his site and audio downloads for nix if you sign up today AND he has slashed his price!

I strongly recommend that if you want to gain any muscle mass in 2008 then this is your muscle gain bible.

Vince calls it as he sees it, and pulls no punches. Get Vinced and find out what supplements are
not worth the money you are paying, what training methods completely suck and are seeing you waste your valuable training time and many others.

Go and Get Vinced!

http://www.getvinced.com/

You know that I wouldn't recommend anything that I haven't or wouldn't use myself. These products are in my arsenal. Are they in yours?

What's your excuse?

Fire UP!

GET MOTIVATED WITH DPM PERFORMANCE blog ed. 12

If you haven't checked back here since last Monday, be sure to check out the video footage in the previous posting.

This is an awesome Nike commercial, that hopefully we will be seeing more of here soon. It only takes a minute but it is great timing considering the goals everyone sets at this time of year and the excuses that normally stop people from doing so.

After watching that, I hope you are still on track with your goals for 2008.

Too many people get off the wagon even at this early stage.

These words from Muhammed Ali, who was never short of self belief, will help you stay on target:

“I’ve never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself”.

Very powerful words.

At different times of your life there is always going to be someone who will try and drag you down.

It may be a friend, work colleague, family member or even worse, your partner. BUT, the important thing is to remember the words from Ali above.

NEVER let people drag you down to their level. Don't lead a miserable life - let everyone else do that. You've got success to achieve so you gotta believe!

SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENT FOR ALL YOU MUMS OUT THERE!

My friend, and America's # 1 Fat Loss Expert for Mums, Holly Rigsby of fitmummy.com, is having a great 3 day promo to kickstart 2008 with her Fit Yummy Mummy workout program.

This is the real deal for busy mums (or any girl) who doesn't have the time for long workouts and needs her sessions short, sharp BUT guaranteed to work and all it takes is only 3 workouts a week - 90 mins total.

This is the great workout routine that needs limited equipment, so you can do at home, while your kids are sleeping.

The workouts cover everything from 16 weeks of training to Nutritional guidelines and 5 awesome BUT VERY time sensitive bonuses including extra workouts, VIP coaching group membership and online menu planner.

This promo is launched at 4pm Sydney time today (12 midnight EST in the States) and runs for 3 days to Thursday 4pm (Wed 12 midnight EST), so be sure to click on Holly's site after 4pm and get on board

http://www.fitmummy.com

Remember, I wouldn't refer you to someone elses product if it were not the real deal. Holly is. She walks the walk, not just talks the talk.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

If you followed my advice from last week and cut out one of your unhealthy food habits from Monday to Friday, i hope you got the chance to have a little bit of a taste during the weekend just gone - not too much - but just enough to make you feel like a normal person again!

Now, provided we got that task accomplished (and I can happily report that I did!), the challenge for this week is to keep up the 1st weeks challenge but now add in another food or drink choice that is an unhealthy option.

So, your selection this week might be alcohol, soft drinks, unhealthy snack options like chips or cakes etc. You get the picture by now I assume.

What's the point of this challenge?

Well, being able to abstain for 5 days from something that you really enjoy is a lot more realistic and easier than going cold turkey.

Your chances of success are a lot higher if you know you only have to wait 5 days until you can enjoy a drink with dinner again!

Yes, it may take you longer to achieve your results in the long term. But hey, this ain't the Biggest Loser, where you have to lose an unreasonable amount of weight in a week.

I'm in for the long haul here, and you should be too.

MY 2 CENTS WORTH

There has been a lot of publicity here in the media recently on the push for obese teenagers to have lap-band surgery to solve there weight problems.

Now, for my 2 cents worth. This is the biggest load of rubbish that I have ever heard!

The reason teenagers, and kids who are even younger, are obese is because of the crap that their parents allow them to eat.

Surely, changing the behaviours through proper food education (and that includes their dunce parents who allow them to eat this rubbish in the first place) and the removal of junk food from school canteens is a better place to start.

Or is that just the society that we live in? Out for a quick solution, only to realise that if the individuals habbits aren't changed then it's back to square one further on down the track.

Well I feel better about getting that off my chest now.

Let me know what you think in the comments section below.

Now, get out and make it a great week!

What's your excuse?

Fire UP!

WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE?

Awesome video from Nike here.

Ties into the New Year Resolution thing that's for sure.

Enjoy

WELCOME TO 2008! blog ed. 11

I hope you're as excited about 2008 as I am!

The thing I love about the start of a new year is the slate is wiped clean. If last year wasn't one of your best it doesn't matter.

If it was, then like me, I am inspired to make this year even bigger.

What's your goal for this year?

These words from UK Fitness and Motivation Expert, Dax Moy are very timely for this time of year:

"If you can't tell your goals to other people, they won't happen. If you can speak about them comfortably, they will happen"

I have told my goals to family and friends over the break, which is great, because it helps keep me accountable.


FOOD FOR THOUGHT

To start the year off on the right note, I am assuming that most of us need to change a habit or two that we slipped into over the Christmas break.

For some, that challenge may seem more daunting then others. Chances are most people try some crazy diet and last for a week or two before slipping off the bandwagon when it becomes too much and the social life starts calling again.

So, here is my 2008 success plan for us, yes, I include myself in this too.

I want you to focus on one area that you feel you need to concentrate on the most. For me, I enjoyed a few more drinking sessions over the break then I normally would during the year.

For others it may be too much chocolate, too many deserts, too many fast foods etc. I think you get the picture by now.

Now, what's the challenge once you've selected your focus area?

I'm setting the challenge for you to abstain from that habit from Monday to Friday only. Once again, for me, it means not having a drink from Monday to Friday. If I feel like a quite beer on a Saturday then I can and won't feel guilty about it.

For you, you may have to refrain from those tasty chocolate nuts until the weekend!

So, what do you think? Are you up for the challenge or will you continue 2008 the same way every other year has been for you?

For those of you who are based in Sydney, stay tuned to your inbox around lunch time, as I will be releasing my new group training options for the year.

There are some big changes so stay tuned and be sure to get on board! For those of you not in our beautiful city, feel free to visit http://www.dpmperformance.com.au/ and check out the Net-Trainer online training options that will kickstart your year in a positive way!

Get out and make it a great week!

What's your excuse?

Fire UP!

YOUR NEW YEARS RESOLUTION ANSWERED!

Happy New Year!

I just got back from enjoying a great New Year break up the Hunter Valley, right in the middle of Wine Country, and loved getting into some wine tasting!

Anyway, now I'm back in town, it is time to get to work on my 2008 goals.

I know this is going to be my best year yet. Is it going to be yours?

If you set yourself the task of losing weight this year, then this is the real deal Holyfield.

Craig Ballantyne is a Fat Loss Expert who publishes his fat-burning workouts in national magazines such as Men's Health and Oxygen, along with online newsletters EarlyToRise and Total Health Breakthroughs.

Craig, who just happens to be a top bloke who I had the pleasure of meeting in November, is also creator of Turbulence Training (http://www.ttworkouts.com/).

He is having a New Years blitz that is very time sensitive and you have to check it out, so that is why I am writing to you on New Years Day!

It is the only workout formula I use personally in my workouts and with my clients!

This is the guarenteed fat loss solution you are looking for.

Taking only 3 short workouts a week you can leave your long boring cardio behind and kick a massive goal this year with something that actually works for a change!

How badly do you finally want to succeed this year?

Seriously, it is not rocket science.

Craig has released some very time sensitive bonuses that will end at 12 midnight Wednesday American EST time

So if you go to http://www.ttworkouts.com/ now you'll see that Craig's put together the ultimate Turbulence Training package that contains not only 16-weeks of advanced fat loss workouts and 10 weeks of beginner programs, but he's also added 5 new bonuses that are available only for the next three days.

1) Secrets of the Transformation Masters E-book You'll learn the insider fat burning secrets from 3 of the most experienced Transformation Trainers in North America. We squeezed every last one of their fat burning secrets from them so YOU can achieve your ultimate body transformation. It will help the absolute beginner and even the fitness competitor. The report contains detailed, step-by-step information for every fat loss level. No fat burning stone was left unturned, diet plans were scrutinized and reviewed, and these experts share the exact details for looking your best on the big day (whether it is at a wedding, a physique contest, or simply to be ready for your transformation "after"photos).

2) Fit Yummy Mummy Fit-Fast 4-Week Workout When you are pressed for time and have no access to equipment, the Fit Yummy Mummy Fit-Fast Workout is your rescue routine to keep your metabolism burning strong and fat loss efforts on track. America's #1 Fat Loss Expert for Moms, Holly Rigsby, has designed an exclusive 4-week workout plan you can do in the comfort of your own home.

3) Workouts for Busy Dad's Bonus The World's Busiest Dad and personal trainer, Chris Lopez, shares with you his 20-minute workout secrets to get Dad's back into fighting shape so they can keep up with their kids and outlast their wives.

4) The Revolutionary Eat-Stop-Eat Diet Book from Brad Pilon Brad is a nutrition expert and his controversial fat loss eating guideline is making waves in the dieting community. People are busting through fat loss plateaus and loving the lifestyle that Brad's approach allows. It's a simple, anti-diet approach to fat loss.

5) Mastering the Fat Loss Mindset - A How-to Guide for Fat Loss Goal Setting that is Guaranteed to Help You Get Maximum Results This is the year. How many times have we all said that? Well, this IS the year. Listen to the UK's top fitness and motivational expert Dax Moy and learn how to set goals and live the lifestyle to reach those goals. No more dropping out, this is the year you will go all the way and finally succeed in changing your body!

But this entire package is only available until Wednesday, January 2nd at midnight EST.

At midnight all 5 of these bonuses will disappear from the bonus package and will never, EVER be offered again.

If you don't pick-up this incredible collection of fat loss bonuses today, you WILL kick yourself when you see how everyone else will look.

This is the kind of investment that will see you look back on 2008 as the turning point of your life as you are snapped out of even the deepest, darkest fat loss plateau you've ever experienced!

See. Believe. Achieve.

Simply go right here to get started: http://www.ttworkouts.com/

What's your excuse?