Fat Loss – Body Transformation – Advanced Nutrition

Saw an awesome “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip today from the paper that was fitness related. Not sure of the little pig’s name in the stip, but he approaches a guy in cycle gear and starts this conversation:

Pig: Hey, Jeff the Cyclist, what are you having for breakfast today?

Jeff The Cyclist: 50 Grams of oatmeal, one cup of berries, and a quarter cup of almonds. It’s a part of my “Fitness Regimen”.

Pig: That’s great. Having a fitness regimen is important.

Jeff: Essential. And what is yours?

Pig: I’ve stopped frying my twinkies…

Silly, funny, but all too common. Like having a Diet Coke with your Big Mac Extra Value meal.

My fitness advice for today? You cannot out-train a bad diet. Real fitness and body transformation takes a complete approach: Nutrition, Training, and Recovery. A “part-way” approach will lead to very disappointing results!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

I know, I know – this is YOUR training time and you’re going to do what you came to do and you could give a little less than a damn with whomever you are annoying. But trust me, if you are doing these things, the rest of the gym congregation thinks you are a douchebag.

1. Curling in the squat rack. Maybe I’m the dumbass for squatting in the “curl rack” but there are literally 50 stations in any gym where you can perform bicep curls. The squat rack is for squatting. Not stretching, not curling. Take that stuff somewhere else and let people who are serious about fitness use the squat rack for the purpose of which it was intended.

2. Occupying every piece of equipment at once for your “circuit”. Sorry, but if you are in the cables, on the pulldown, using 3 benches, the leg press and the squat rack, you need to put a little more effort into fewer exercises, or not be upset when someone else uses one of your 16 stations. Be considerate…

3. Taking pics of your abs or biceps in the mirror makes you a tool.

4. Telling everyone on Facebook and Twitter about how hard your working out? You aren’t working out hard enough.

5. Towels are essential even in the locker room. Nobody wants to see you naked, especially shaving in the mirror or “hanging” around in the sauna.

6. You’re working hard and sweating. We don’t want to share that, so clean up after yourself.

7. There’s a such thing as too much cologne/perfume. We’re trying to breathe here…

8. Having a full conversation DURING a set? You’re not training hard enough, and you’re talking too much.

9. No, she does not need your help, want your advice or need a spot.

10. Allowing cables to “clang” hard doesn’t mean you’re working out harder, it just means you are being unnecessarily noisy and damaging the equipment.

11. Having a workout partner is a great motivator. Having a workout entourage is annoying to everyone else in the gym trying to move around you.

12. I’ve never been in a gym bright enough to wear sunglasses (nor a bar).

13. You probably aren’t a pro MMA fighter, so don’t shadowbox and such in the mirror.

14. You aren’t a pro rapper either, so stop dancing and singing between sets.

15. 1970 running shorts aren’t cool. Put that thing away.

16. Spinning class doesn’t require aerodynamics – your cool cycling gear isn’t cool.

17. There is no way that every day is biceps day.

18. Personal Trainers: people are looking at you. QUIT if you are fat (unless you are prego) and your clients should be the ones doing things properly… Usually, not the case in most gyms.

19. Deodorant is your friend. Always.

20. Guys, be a little more non-chalant about gawking into the aerobics room.

21. If you cannot use a full range of motion, you are using too much weight.

22. That shirt will not disintegrate if you wash it every once in a while.

23. You are at the gym, driving around the parking lot looking for a spot for 45 minutes makes no sense.

24. Grunting while curling 10lbs does not make your muscles grow.

25. If you don’t look like you’ve ever worked out, there’s a good chance nobody wants your unsolicited advice.

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Hey everyone,

I have several irons in the fire at once. I own my personal training studio and train full time. I train several people online and advise athletes and competitors all over the world, so sometimes, my schedule conflicts with others so I have to multi-task often.

I’m also an Agency Director for a mobile marketing company and had an important business call to tend to at 10:30am yesterday with my national director. Only problem with that was that clashed with my workout time. So, I took the call, contributed my information while asked, and manged to stay busy during the call.

While I absolutely hate when people don’t focus in the gym and chat it up on the phone instead of working out, I didn’t have much of a choice but to be on this call.

Here I am, fielding a question on my business call:

Life doesn’t wait, and weights don’t wait. I could’ve found an excuse, but it is up to me to take care of my body and my responsibilities.

Efficiency is key! ;) Make your life work around YOU!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454
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Don’t look at a workout as something you have to do. It has to become something you do.

It’s not a curse. It’s not punishment.

It’s not supposed to be easy. But the responds to a new stimulus by CHANGING.

When someone asks why you’re eating the same thing over and over and asks if you “wish you could have THIS?” Tell them no – you’d rather not look like they look. Trust me, they’re only doing that out of jealousy of your willpower.

Gym or happy hour? Choose the gym – the people are better looking anyway. Even without being dressed up and dolled up.

Don’t be sidetracked. Don’t be lured. You can and will conquer it. You will conquer your worst enemy: YOU.

Set the standard. Be what everyone else wishes they could be. That choice starts within.

Kill it. Crush it. Change your body/Change your life.

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Hey San Antonio,

Big recovery day for me. I’m training a few clients this morning and then I’m quickly off to a couple of hours worth of brutality (AKA Active Release Therapy massage).

The Twitter suggestions for upcoming articles were phenomenal, and I want to thank everyone who gave me an idea. There were suggestions for articles on Yo-Yo Dieting, Healthy Fats, Different Modifications for Women and Men, and several others that I want to write in the upcoming days. I’m always open for suggestions on what you’d like to read, so feel free to send me any ideas you may have. I’m here to help, and even if it is helping one person, it’s worth it.

Oh, and I received a nice comment this morning from a mouth-breather defending P90X against my P90X Sucks post from several months ago. I have no problem with people disagreeing with my point of view, but if a comment is poorly written with lack of support for your argument, I’m probably not going to respond – especially if you only respond with their infomercial and advertisement propaganda as your supporting evidence as to why the program is great. In short, it was basically a poorly written comment from someone who read something and inferred only what they wanted to, and actually argued my point well – its results/progress are short lived (anything will work for a short amount of time), and explained to me that it does exactly “what you need when working out” and that my philosophies are nonsense, etc, etc. It was just the laugh I needed first thing this morning!

Truth? I do find entertainment in the P90X and CrossFit Cults that go around searching the internet for defaming articles about their narrow-minded approaches to training (and I think that is a huge part of what they do) and how their programs are the best – I do not have a “program” that I follow – I take the best possible approach for each specific client based on their fitness levels and their goals, and that may be a variety of several different types of training, from cross-training, power movements, high intensity training, etc – there’s nothing canned or “one size fits all” about anything I do (unlike P90X or CrossFit).

In short:

P90X and CrossFit Suck – I’ve explained this in-depth, and will gladly do it again – sorry to call your baby ugly, but wake up! It is human nature to be protective of what you feel safest with.

Okay all, no more being divisive and pissing people off today, we have the government to do that! ;) Decimate this day and let nothing stand in your way. No matter your goals or the methods you use to attack them, doing anything is better than nothing at all!!!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Another great weekend is coming to an end. This weekend, I was able to spend some amazing Father/Son time with my 6 year old, Peyton. Yesterday, we spent about an hour working on martial arts. I am actually a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. While TKD isn’t as glorious as some other arts made popular by Mixed Martial Arts, I think it’s an excellent activity to get kids involved in. While my son is not yet the most graceful individual in the world, what little boy doesn’t have fun learning how to kick and punch? Of course, the kicking and punching are just the fun parts. The reinforced discipline and self-esteem improvements that children often receive as a nice side effect of martial arts training is a huge bonus. And, of course, it gives him a chance to burn off a lot of that energy that 6 year old are capable of building up!

Of course, his gnat like attention span quickly transferred from side kicks and back fists to “I want to do like they do on UFC, Daddy”. So, I decided to work on his “ground game” and teach him a few simple chokes arm bars. Here is a video of him making me “tap out” :)

In reality, yesterday’s “Karate Practice” (as Peyton calls it) had nothing to do with kicks, chokes, punches, jumps, rolls, take downs, self defense or anything else. It was all about me not being a personal trainer, but being daddy, and spending quality time with that amazing little boy that is the reason I do absolutely everything I do in this world.

Make time for those kiddos – there’s nothing in the world quite like them!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

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There’s a difference between being a member of a health club or a gym and actually going to the gym. I cannot workout in my personal training studio. It is my office. It’s where I work. It is where my computer is, my phone is, my clients are, my employees are, where prospects come to ask me about training, and where I make my money. I personally need separation! So I workout at a fairly well known health club here in San Antonio. A club that has a lot of members, but also a club where few people actually GO to the gym.

Clubs like Planet Fitness (which is NOT where I workout at) are designed to have as many people sign up as possible. They want to have MANY members (at $12 per month, their goal is a ton of people). But these gyms are very small, don’t allow any noise at all, don’t like you to sweat, have VERY small weights, have a pizza party every month and have chocolates at the front desk. These clubs do NOT want people to actually show up to workout – they are 100% against that! Weights are going to “clang” against each other. Some people are overly obnoxious, but weight training is performed in a gym, not a library. Hence, there’s nobody actually going to these gyms that is serious about working out nor making progress. Tank tops are banned. Really?

However, I can’t say that it is any better at Lifetime, Gold’s or Spectrum. There are people that come and spend most of their time naked in the locker room (no kidding). There are a lot of people that “show up”, but few of them are actually productively working out. They’re reading magazines while they train, drinking Starbucks, and enjoying the social aspect of the club. Of course, there are the Abercrombie wannabes that are doing a few sets of curls and crunches, then staring in the mirror for an hour at a time between sets.

Instead of actually pulling up in the parking lot and being seen at the gym, GO to the gym. Go to get your business done. It isn’t a night club. It isn’t a social gathering. It’s a place to go in and make yourself physically and mentally stronger. It’s a place to push your body to new limits and to learn about the satisfaction of reaching goals, realizing that the body is a resilient machine that can achieve whatever the mind tells it to, and that when you put forth the effort to focus on intensity, while combining that effort with discipline when you’re not in the gym, you can make yourself look pretty amazing.

Working out should not be easy. Conversely, you should not be in there to destroy your body. Push hard, focus on your plan, and go home. Stimulate – not annihilate. But remember the task at hand: it’s a fitness club, not a country club. Most of your time should be focused on physical exertion, not flapping your gums.

Change starts within – make it happen!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Hey San Antonio,

I’m asked a lot about organic food. My opinion is simple: the hormones used to get food to production quicker is more damaging to our health than any single factor that we can control. Ever wonder why kids are hitting puberty half a decade quicker now?

In short, I know it’s a bit more costly, but eating organic is infinitely more healthy (and will make a huge difference in fat loss for someone looking to do so, and if you’re reading this blog, I’m assuming that is a goal of yours). Of course, many people are going to dispute this simply due to cost – they’re going to tell you what you want to here. You “can” make okay decisions eating non-organic, but if you want what’s best, then it’s a no-brainer.

Anyway, here’s a nice, short, entertaining video about organic food, special thanks to the Organic Trade Association.

Enjoy, and of course, may the “force” be with you… :)

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Hey San Antonio,

We are now less than a week away from Valentine’s Day, the commercial joke of a holiday where flowers are marked up 1000% of their normal price and average restaurants have 2 hour waits to get a table. Ahhhhhhh, LOVE!

For most people, the pursuit of companionship isn’t doing a whole lot for their physique. Happy hours, dating (which usually equals dinner, maybe drinks), time away from the gym – these are things that will lead to you not looking the way you want to look.

In a new relationship? Forget it. That sense of urgency to look phenomenal often escapes the newly occupied, and on top of that, people tend to pick up all of their partner’s bad habits. Compound those things, and the pounds will add up. How many people have put on the pounds in the first 6 months of a relationship?

Do not use a new relationship as an excuse to become complacent. Dates do NOT have to revolve around dinner and drink, and just because your new found mate likes to order pizza and have a 6 pack every night doesn’t mean you have to join suit.

In fact, exercising together is an excellent way to become more familiar with one another. Aside from the natural pheromones that are produced during exercise, there’s something bonding about knowing that your significant other puts forth the effort to stay healthy and work toward looking their best. Even if you decide not to exercise together, the gym is a great way to keep your autonomy and have your own time, which is a certain way to help avoid burnout.

Instead of becoming complacent, use a new relationship to become inspired – if their everything you think they are and you want to be the same, challenge yourself to improve and motivate them to do the same. As a personal trainer, I’ve worked with numerous people who share the same story – they were in excellent shape when they met, but kind of fell off the wagon when they got together. While it is very common, it is also avoidable! Obviously a personal trainer for Valentine’s Day probably isn’t the most romantic of gifts, but an active date of hiking, biking, mountain climbing, training, etc will beat the hell out of standing in line or crowding into a local restaurant on Valentine’s Day.

Always be your best for YOU – if you’re happy with yourself, you can bet that someone else will be as well! Stay active, stay healthy and stay (or get) lean!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Hey San Antonio,

Someone passed this video along to me yesterday, and as silly as it seems, I can guarantee you that anyone that has ever competed in a figure or a bodybuilding competition, it’s not silly at all.

I know that anytime I or one of my clients go through contest prep, we are answering each and every one of these questions every day – “What are you doing with that lunch box?” or “Wanna go out tonight?” and “Do you win money?”

If you don’t get it, you just don’t get it! But you don’t even have to be training for a competition to get these questions: start making all of your food on Sunday and carrying a lunch box. Talk about your workouts with your personal trainer. Start carrying a gallon jug of water around with you. You’ll get so much fitness advice from people that have never worked out in their lives. They’ll tell you “all you need to do is…” or they’ll refer to your new lifestyle as a “health kick”.

Nonetheless, I’d much prefer to be viewed differently, especially because I have chosen to look different: lean, healthy and fit are not very common in today’s society. IMO, it’s ok to stick out!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Hey San Antonio,

There are just a few days left in 2010 as this week comes to an end and we turn our calendars to 2011, many individuals will use the new year as motivation to embark on new fitness goals, fat loss resolutions and body transformation.

One group that I’d like to suggest to practice what you preach is the overwhelming number of chubby personal trainers in San Antonio. I know that many people are going to look at this and think “That’s just plain mean, Boyd” but I’m being dead serious here. I’d have a hard time going to a dentist with bad teeth, having my hair done by a hairdresser with a bad wig (okay, I shave my head but you get the point), so I’m damn sure not going to take fitness advice from someone who doesn’t look the part.

Thing is, it’s more prevalent than not – if we as personal trainers are the ones that are providing guidance, even looking “normal” shouldn’t be acceptable. In my opinion, fitness trainers should be held to an even higher standard and look exceptional – like someone that you see and you have no doubt that they must do something in a fitness related profession. However, many of the male personal trainers I see look as if they’re post-natal (and the last time I checked, guys weren’t having babies) and many of the female trainers at commercial gyms are so young and inexperienced that they cannot possibly understand how to work with the many different situations that a client base can present – fitness, fat loss and body transformation requires so much more than a “one size fits all” approach.

My guess is that an obese personal trainer falls into one of two categories:
1. They don’t have the discipline to follow their own advice. If this is the case, how on earth can they demand accountability and ask you to follow advice that they can’t follow themselves?

2. They don’t know what in the hell they are talking about. Considering the lack of progress that most of their clients make, I’d tend to say that this is the most common reason for out of shape personal trainers. However, rest assured that it’s definitely a combination of the two.

Understand that the certification process to actually become a “CERTIFIED Personal Trainer” is not difficult. You simply need a little more than a pulse and lips. There are VERY few personal trainers that sustain in this business for a very long time, and few have more than a couple of years of training experience and have very little versatility for training different populations, and do not take the time to stay on the cutting edge of nutritional and training science – most do not have much more than a basic understanding of physiology and anatomy. Most certifications do not require you to have more.

I’ve said it all too many times, this career field is littered with sub-par personal trainers and over-hyped salespeople that know very little behind the science of the body. That’s a main reason why I have this blog: to educate. I very often explain why something should be done and how it works from the standpoints of my experience as a trainer (entering into my 15th year and I’ve always been self-employed) and the science to back it up.

I know it seems like common sense, but before you get into credentials and experience, simply use the “eye” test to assess your personal trainer. If he or she doesn’t look like they know what the hell they’re talking about, more than likely, they do not. If they don’t have the discipline to do what they’re asking you to do and hold themselves accountable, they’re going to let you slide all too often. That path leads to disappointment and the wasting of money. Do not settle for that road, as you’ll only spin your wheels and wish that you had put forth the effort, because you will get out of a program what you put in. If you put forth a half-assed effort, you will only get half-assed results.

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454
boyd@the-personal-trainer.com

Hey San Antonio,

THIS one required some thought. I see a lot of training mistakes at several of the gyms I workout at and on the internet message boards I see. I’ll TRY my best to answer this one!

Heya Boyd: I’m working on becoming a certified personal trainer. My question is broad, and I’ll understand if it is too much so to answer. What is the most common training mistake you see?

Great question, Juan. I’ve written several articles about the most common mistakes, but I’ll list the most common mistakes I see:
-Failure to change the routine regularly. Most people do the same thing over and over.

-Dependency on machines – it’s a comfort thing usually, but most people put themselves at a very high risk by failing to strengthen the stabilizer muscles in many different exercises. Free weights should be the centerpiece of any body transformation/fat loss routine.

-Being busy for the sake of being busy in the gym (to “burn more calories”). Most people think they’re getting a good cardio workout during their weight training, but that’s causing more harm toward fat loss than progress. The best way to burn fat is to increase lean body mass – and weight training should focus on that, period. Typically, females are the most guilty – they think they should be continuously moving, doing lunges, abs, etc between every set. In many cases, you want to perform a set at your strongest point, not worn out by other exercises. Circuit training has a place, but the order of exercises is important, and most of the times, they’re doing the wrong exercises while alternating.

-Too much isolation work. The majority of your work should be compound movements, not isolation work. You cannot spot remove fat – ab work doesn’t flatten or tone the stomach, leg curls don’t make the legs less jiggly, and tricep pressdowns don’t reduce the “loose skin” on the back of the arm. I explain that all here in the blog, so I won’t go in-depth now, but these things are important to understand.

-Too much cardio. Cardio is not the holy grail of fat loss. However, most people think that doing an hour a day is necessary for fat loss when it simply is overkill and is reducing lean body mass – leading to a HIGHER body fat percentage.

-Too much ab work. The abs are worked best in maximal, compound lifts (deads, squats, etc). Do too much? You’re asking for a muscular imbalance that’ll lead to injury. Ab work DOES NOT CREATE A 6 PACK – THAT IS SOLELY FROM THE REDUCTION OF FAT!

-Avoiding things that you aren’t good at. This cannot be overstated: you MUST strengthen weaknesses. To do so, you must be able to identify weaknesses, because as you become stronger, weaknesses change. Do things you are not good at!

-Not understanding the importance of dieting and recovery. Never understood how people can kill themselves in the gym and eat like shit all of the time. If you’re going to put in the work, look like it. Eat properly, recover properly.

-Training everyday. The body changes at rest, during recovery, not while you’re in the gym.

-Failure to force progression. The body responds to a new stimulus. If you aren’t progressing (becoming stronger), you’re not giving your body reason to change. Trust me, no matter how much you “feel the burn” – once your body is accustomed to the stimulus, it will not change.

-Hiring a commercial gym personal trainer. This sounds funny, but most of these trainers are mouth breathers that don’t have a clue. They’re lack of knowledge is scary and dangerous, and they are ripping people off, making the gym money without getting results. They are their to entertain you, not change you.

-Getting too cute with exercises. I see new stuff everyday, 99.95% of it is absolutely worthless. May be fun, but so is Disc Golf – but that isn’t getting anyone in shape.

-Failure to learn proper gym etiquette. Not a training mistake, but damn, use common sense – keep the whole experience enjoyable for everyone!

That’s a short list that comes to mind right off the bat. Search “training mistakes” on the site and you’ll see a few different articles that I’ve written on the topic!

Thanks for the questions! Love having an automatic idea to write about when I check my email!

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

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What’s the difference between me and the guy you see training clients at Spectrum or Lifetime?

My focus is getting you from point A (where you are today) to point B (where it is you want to be). Why most people think I’m a bit crazy and off my rocker, my client results cannot be debated. When people come to visit my personal training studio, they do so to get in shape. I take total control over your training and nutrition to ensure that you’re doing exactly what you need to do to get where you need to be: I only ask that you provide the discipline to do what I ask.

I won’t have you doing one leg standing db curls or have you performing any calisthenics that make you feel as ridiculous as they look. I’m sure they’ve developed a catchy name for their bogus methods to make it sound important. I have a name for what their doing: a bullshit waste of time. This raping of your wallet that I see these other personal trainers performing makes me want to demonstrate my black belt in Tae Kwon Do and execute a round kick to the head of the trainer (while wearing steal toe combat boots). Okay, maybe not quite that drastic, but all I can do is shake my head and ask myself “Why would anyone pay this trainer?”

If your goal is to be trained, pushed to your upper limits and drastically change your body while becoming more functionally proficient, then I’ve made your decision really easy: I’m your trainer. If you want to practice for a circus audition, then by all means, there are hundreds of those personal trainers in San Antonio that shouldn’t be hard to find.

Never settle – I am a professional fitness trainer, not a babysitter attempting to entertain a child. But no worries, I definitely have a sense of humor ;) – while those other personal trainers are looking to make money by having their clients do ridiculous movements that “feel” like they’re working something (they are working – working on getting you injured), I decided long ago to expand my client base by being that best at transforming bodies.

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

Hey San Antonio,

I’m really focusing on answering most every common question I get, and since a lot of guys tend to ask about man boobs, I think it is time that I address the question head on.

Boyd: Although I once had a very high amount of body fat, I feel that I have lost enough to where I should not have man boobs. I’ve never used anabolic steroids, so it isn’t gynecomastia, just an issue I’ve had since puberty. Is there any hope for me, or is surgery the only way to remove them?

Man boobs (medically termed as gynecomastia, as you mentioned) is typically experienced during puberty and is a problem in which the male body will begin to produce additional estrogen and stop producing as much testosterone that is necessary for a growing male child. This would cause the mammary glands to activate and grow as if they were a girl. All males have the chemical known as estrogen in their body but they have it in much lower quantity than a woman does so it is not abnormal for this to get out of whack in one way or another. If a male is suffering from this type of condition there is little that can be done other than waiting for him to grow out of it. This typically happens within a year or two.

But for the problem to persist is, nine out of ten times, due to zinc deficiency. Actually, most people are deficient in zinc, especially those who train intensely with weights. Zinc supplementation is tricky because most of it is unable to absorb in supplement form, so the key is to increase it via nutritional intake (organic nuts, unrefined grains, quality grass-fed meat, scallops and oysters) or find a high quality, pharmaceutical grade product.

Oh, and by the way guys, want to know what else can give you man boobs? Beer – alcohol is VERY ESTROGENIC. If that isn’t enough to make you cut back, enjoy wearing a bra, guys. That’s very attractive to most women… If you were looking for a reason to reduce alcohol intake, this should be that reason, at least temporarily.

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454

To the personal trainers that I see in gyms all across San Antonio training each and very client the same way, you know: one leg db curls, high “skip” walks into lunges, tornado broom handle twists, 45 Swiss Ball exercises, half rep bench presses and endless ab exercises; instead of wearing the moniker “Certified Personal Fitness Trainer”, you should use the title “Professional Con Artist”. You aren’t doing anything to improve your clients’ fitness levels, transform their physique or helping them perform better. You are putting them at a very high injury risk, wasting their energy and time, and taking their money for nothing in return. Not to mention, you are bringing discredit to your career choice.

I personally don’t even classify myself or my personal trainers in the same group – there is a serious difference between fitness experts and commercial gym novice trainers.

See the difference – my track record speaks for itself.

Boyd Myers
Personal Trainer in San Antonio
Owner, San Antonio’s Top Personal Training Studio
16613 Huebner Rd (corner of Huebner and Bitters)
210.391.1454