Chad Martin’s Fit for Workouts

Chad Martin has an outstanding career as a bodybuilder, and is one of the most renowned figures in the world when it comes to his line of work. Over the years he has won a large number of prizes, including seven Heavyweight Class Natural Bodybuilding Championships and three Mr. Natural Olympia’s. Not only that, but he can pride himself with his Bachelor’s degree from Eastern Washington University and Master’s degree from Gonzaga University. That being said, I think everybody is very anxious to find out an expert’s opinion on diet and exercise. So keep reading and Chad Martin will tell you all you have to do to get as fit as you can possibly get!

Portion Control Tips

Today we would like to share with you some information from Chad Martin on how a little knowledge about portion size can help us control our calorie intake. The fewer calories you add to your daily diet, the fewer you will have to try to burn off every day. Here are some useful diet tips – use a smaller plate, get rid of all large plates, they are not needed in a house, except for maybe the china hutch. Always eat a lot of salad, just don’t drench the salad in liquid fat, defeating the purpose; same with a sandwich.

Foods are not created equal, an ounce of lean chicken is not the same as an ounce of butter. Stick to healthier foods, longer/darker foods, such as complex carbs, like rice and vegetables, which are much better choices for a low carb diet. Try to increase the number of meals in a day to six, but much smaller meals – almost consider them snacks. Replace one snack with a salad (no dressing).

Also, on top of the diet plans, use your feet as much as you can, use the stairs instead of an elevator and if you go close by, walk or use a bike, save your gas money for a special treat. Plus, using your feet a lot is one of the fastest ways to lose weight.

Working out on the road
Traveling always presents challenges to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. With the erratic schedule, restaurant fare and staying at different hotels, it’s hard to eat right and maintain our workouts. If experience has thought Chad Martin anything, is how to be practical and inventive. With that in mind, Chad has come up with an easy theory that can have you ready for workout anytime, anyplace, and turn anything into exercise equipment.

The Three P’s

Tip #1- Plan- “Those who fail to prepare, prepare to fail”. Always plan your trip including what you will do for cardio or workout. Call ahead or check online. Most hotel web sites have virtual tours or at least have pictures of their facilities; if all else fails give them a call.
Tip #2- Pack- Always pack necessities- Vitamins, workout clothes, swim trunks, shoes, jump rope, bands, etc.. Save room in the bag for workout equipment or what I typically do is pack an entirely different bag that has all the workout items in it.
Tip #3- ImProvise-(chairs, bags, push-ups, crunches, leg lifts, lunges, stairs, jog). The goal here is to use anything you can that is safe and can effectively give you resistance or increase the intensity of your workout like normal exercise machines would.

Obviously, the easy ones are body weight type exercises, such as push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, lying leg lifts, lunges, squats. Add a chair and you can do incline push-ups with your feet on the chair and hands on the ground and if you still are unable to do a regular push-ups switching your hands to chair and feet on the ground. Also, chair dips will help develop thickness in the triceps.

Start by sitting on the chair then stretch your legs out on the floor, even though another chair or bed is much better, then lift your glutes off the chair, straightening out your arms and then lower and stretch down as far you can go then push up as high as you can and repeat.

For lower abs, sit again at the edge of the chair hold your upper body off the back of the chair. Extend your legs straight out then pull your knees into your chest without leaning back into the chair. The bottom line is get creative and you can still get a good, quality workout in anytime, anywhere.

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Mike Alexander does it again! Being himself very well known, Mike is a celebrity among the celebrities he helped train, for his amazing results. Just recently, Jessica Simpson was helped by him with an amazing body makeover using a program he conceived Celebrity. To find out the tips and secret he used to transform Jessica into a perfect shape, keep reading below.

Who is Mike Alexander?

Mike Alexander, owner of MADfit training studio in Beverly Hills, has worked with some of Hollywood’s hottest celebrities, including Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Kristin Chenoweth and Amanda Bynes.

Mike Alexander holds a B.A. in Health/Fitness Management from Baylor University in Waco, TX. He attended post-graduate studies at the prestigious Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas, where he received several certifications.

Mike has been recognized at the Hollywood Life Style Awards as the “Star Body Sculptor of the Year” and is routinely featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, ET/Insider and People, Fitness RX, Elle, Self, US Weekly and InTouch magazines with tips from his great weight loss ideas.

Mike is responsible for helping Jessica Simpson with all the weight loss solutions that helped her get fit again!

Jessica does not like it!

Jessica does not always enjoy working out,  just like the rest of us. On her way to work out with her trainer last month she wrote on her twitter page:

Every time we have to do squats, and he yells at me, ‘Get lower like you’re in the club!’

Simpson, 27, then adds:

I don’t squat in the club unless I am peeing!

Well clearly she worked hard because looking at her pictures she looks like she did an awful lot of squats!

Mike’s Training Secrets:

Mike proclaims:


“I can’t promote squats and lunges and step-ups enough, because those are all exercises that you can do with your own body weight and you can do them anywhere with very little or no exercise equipment.”

When Mike was asked by Shape magazine in an interview about his advice to his clients who want to slim down for an event in a short period of time, he said:

“Diet is very important for quick weight loss. You have to eat really clean because every calorie counts at that point. At the same time, you don’t want to cut out too much because you want to lose weight healthy. It’s important to eat because if you don’t your body’s going to hang on to the calories it does get and go into starvation mode. Those are the diet tips. For exercise, I’d recommend doing two-a-day workouts: In the morning do cardio (treadmill exercise is good) and in the afternoon do a quick weight workout with high reps. That will burn fat and create muscle tone.”

No news lately on whether Jessica is still on Stampede Lite or not. As fermentarium.com puts it, this is her Vitamin beer! Stampede Light is a pilsner containing vitamin B1 (Thiamine), vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), vitamin B3 (Niacin), vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid), vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine), vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) and Folate.  With 115 calories, this brew averages for a light beer but more interestingly is that the (horribly designed) website for Stampede Light claims to add Vitamin Water to the beer after the brewing process.  We are not sure what the actual amounts of vitamins are in each beer. I wonder if there are supplement facts on each bottle of beer… Cheers Jessica!

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