Saturday, 26 January 2013
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Saturday, 19 January 2013
Glutamine! Harness The Power...
To most people, glutamine is just one of the 20 amino acids that are used to make protein. It's not even considered to be an essential amino because the body is capable for making it for itself. However, glutamine may be the single most important amino acid in the body for creating anabolic conditions in the muscle and protecting us from the ravages of overtraining.
It seems almost unbelievable that a single, free amino acid could accomplish so many things in the body. The importance of glutamine is underscored by its sheer abundance. Although every bodily tissue contains glutamine, many human tissues contain very high levels, and it is the most abundant amino acid in muscle and plasma. When something is normally found in large amounts in the body, it is an important function, especially in those tissues that contain the most. The question is, what happens when our bodies are put under stress and these levels of glutamine start to fall? This is exactly what is being asked about the effects of exercise, which can quickly reduce the levels of glutamine in the muscles and plasma.
Glutamine is considered to be a nonessential amino acid because it is made by the body and is not absolutely required to be obtained through the diet. Although we do get glutamine in our diets, it is necessary for the body to produce more to meet the vast amounts required.
The major tissue in the body for producing glutamine is muscle. Muscle is capable of combining ammonia and the amino acid glutamate to form glutamine. The production of glutamine in the muscle is so great that it accounts for more than 60% of the free amino acid pool in muscle cells. These large muscle stores also account for most of the body's glutamine reserves, and they can release glutamine into the circulation to maintain plasma levels and provide other tissues with glutamine.
Under normal physiological circumstances the body can produce all the glutamine that it needs. A delicate balance is maintained between tissues that produce and release glutamine and those that depend on it. The reason so many tissues need glutamine is that is had so many functions in the body. It regulates ammonium levels in the tissues, which can be toxic to the body's cells. The ammonium is used to produce glutamine for release into the blood. Here, glutamine is transferred to other tissues to be used for fuel, especially the cells of the immune system. Glutamine is directly involved in the regulation of protein synthesis and breakdown and is a powerful anabolic stimulus. For these reasons, glutamine is perhaps one of the most versatile amino acids in the body.
When the body's physiology is altered by factors, such as stress or disease, its demands for extra glutamine can change drastically. One form of stress that occurs to the body is when a person bodybuild using heavy poundages and intense training. During this training the use of glutamine by other organs of the body increases in response to bodily stress. As a result, plasma gluta mine levels begin to plummet drastically. To replenish these levels, the muscles start to release their glutamine stores into the blood.
Intense exercise also cause the production of lactic acid and ammonium by the muscles. To deal with these toxic products, the production of glutamine from glutamate and ammonia is also increased. this extra glutamine is rapidly transported into the blood to such a degree that plasma glutamine levels begin to rise within five minutes of exercise. As a result, the many tissues that need glutamine, but can't produce it, are provided with ample supplies during the exercise induced stress. The problem is that the muscles are having their intracellular stores depleted in the process.
Intense exercise also cause the release of catabolic hormones, such as corticosteroids. These glucocorticoids also contribute to the depletion of muscle glutamine stores by increasing the release of glutamine from muscle cells. These catabolic steroids can cause glutamine to continue to be release from muscle even after exercise has stopped and the body no longer needs extra supplies. The result is that muscle become severely glutamine depleted.
Glutamine is known to promote anabolic conditions in muscle cells and increase the rate of protein synthesis. It was long thought that glutamine was directly responsible for this anabolic state, but it no seems that glutamine indirectly promotes growth by increasing the hydration state of muscle cells.
The amount of water in cells can change in a matter of minutes, going from being fully hydrated to a state of dehydration. It has been found that the amount of water inside a cell can alter its metabolism, especially protein synthesis and turnover. When cells are swollen with water, this inhibits the breakdown of protein, glycogen and glucose. It also stimulates protein and glycogen synthesis. If a cell becomes dehydrated, it shrinks and immediately goes into a carbolic state that breaks down the muscle's vital proteins.
Experiments have shown that if isolated muscle cells are placed in a solution that contains insulin and amino acids, the insulin drivers the amino acids into the muscle cells and protein synthesis is increase. Protein synthesis can also be increased by placing the cells in pure water, which causes them to swell. Interestingly, when placed in a salt solution, this quickly draws water out of the cells and they rapidly enter a catabolic state. Thus, it appears that cell swelling is necessary for maintaining an anabolic state.
When glutamine levels are high in the muscle cells, this stimulates the entry of other amino acids into the cell. Amino acids cannot directly enter into the muscle cell, but must be carried in by a special transport system. The unique thing about this transport system is that when it allows am amino acid to enter, it also allows sodium to enter A the amino acid and sodium levels increase inside the muscle, this excess sodium causes water to be absorbed across the membrane and the cell swells to an anabolic state.
When glutamine levels are depleted during exercise, this reverses the transport of amino acids and sodium. The cells become dehydrated and enter a catabolic state.
Men and women who are serious athletes and bodybuilder walk a fine line between being undertrained and overtrained.
Overtraining results when increasing volumes and intensity of training become out of balance with recovery time. Once a person crosses over the line and sets foot in the overtraining zone, from there on out all their hard work and effort will only send their performance spiraling downward. The harder they work, the less their gains.
One reason a person experiences the overtraining syndrome is that they may deplete their bodies of glutamine to the point that they can't recover. As explained above, an intense exercise cycle can deplete the muscles of glutamine. Studies have shown that after such a session, glutamine levels in the muscles bottomed out between 4 to 6 hours post-exercise and took more than 24 hours to fully recover to pre-exercise levels.
It is easy to see that if a person trains intensely each day that they will start depleting their muscles glutamine stores before they have fully recovered from the workout. The result is that each day the amount of muscle glutamine gets a little lower.
Eventually, the muscle go below the critical amount of glutamine needed to sustain a anabolic state and they revert into a long term catabolic state. The more a person works out to try and makes their muscles grow, the more glutamine they use and the greater the catabolic response. Some athletes have suffered from the overtraining syndrome for over two years and have been shown to have low plasma glutamine levels for the entire time. This may be due damage to the muscle's glutamine synthesizing system as a result of it being overtaxed from too much training.
Individuals suffering from overtraining also are more susceptible to disease and infections as a result of lowered immunity. This may be due to the role of glutamine as a primary source of fuel for the cells of the immune system, particularly lymphocytes, macrophages and killer cells. In addition, glutamine is used as precursor in the synthesis of nucleic acids, which are necessary for cell division.
It is thought that adequate amounts of metabolic intermediates for building key molecules are needed to allow a rapid response when immune cells are faced with a challenge. During periods of immunological assaults, glutamine metabolism is increased to support the rapid cell division, protein synthesis and the production of antibodies and cytokines. These immune cells rely on the plasma to supple them with adequate supplies of glutamine. If these supplies are not met by the plasma, which is ultimately provided by the muscles, the immune cells cannot mobilize to defend the body against an infection of disease. Thus, low glutamine levels severely impair the immune system.
Because intense exercise can severely deplete the muscles of glutamine and the overtraining syndrome may be the result from the progressive and prolonged loss of glutamine, it is imperative to conserve the muscle's glutamine stores. Previously it has been suggested that glutamine was broken down to glutamate in the stomach and that oral supplementation was of no benefit. Now reports show that oral glutamine is a safe and effective means of providing supplemental free glutamine to the body. Oral glutamine has been shown to reduce the loss of glutamine from muscles and help them maintain their reserves during a variety of catabolic conditions.
For this reasons, it makes sense to take a glutamine supplement that provides the free from of this amino prior to intense exercise. This will raise plasma glutamine levels and prevent the depletion of muscle glutamine stores. After exercise, a high quality protein carbohydrate supplement should be taken within 30 minutes to aid in recovery. The protein will provide amino acids, especially glutamine, and the carbohydrate will boost insulin levels, which will help transport these amino acids to the muscle.
As the amino acids are transported into muscle, they will also promote water uptake to keep the muscles hydrated. This superhydrated state will prevent the muscles from entering into a catabolic state and promote anabolic growth. Because glutamine stores are not depleted, recovery time will be shorted and there is less chance that one will become the victim of the overtraining syndrome due to progressive loss of glutamine stores.
Glutamine may be considered to be a nonessential amino acid for the normal individual because the body has the ability to make it, this there is not a great a need to acquire it in the diet. However, for the elite centurions of the bodybuilding community who use iron to forge a better body, glutamine can be considered to be a "conditionally essential" amino acid. It is conditional essential because intense weight training pushes the body to use glutamine in such vast amounts that it cannot be produced fast enough and thus causes temporary and eventually long term deficiencies.
Therefore, keep in mind that glutamine is one of the most important amino acids in the body and may be the single most important amino acid supplement for the bodybuilder.
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Friday, 11 January 2013
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Friday, 4 January 2013
How YOU Can Start Earning Cash from Your Passion for Bodybuilding and Fitness!
By Skip LaCour
Do you have a passion for bodybuilding and fitness? Can you see yourself making a huge impact in our industry someday? Do people say you have the right stuff to become successful in our sport?
Do you have a dream? If you couldn't fail, what would you ultimately want to accomplish with your love for training, bodybuilding, health, and fitness? Would you like to start earning extra cash from your passion and knowledge? Would you like to generate enough money to slash your food budget or ease the financial burden as the result of buying expensive supplements every month? Maybe some of your goals are to be sponsored and paid by a national supplement company and featured in one of their magazine advertisements?
The "American Dream" is getting paid while doing what you love to do most in life. Do you ever fantasize about quitting your daytime job and make a living helping others achieve their health and fitness goals? How does that sound? How would you feel about yourself if you earned the opportunity to make money doing what you really enjoy doing? You'd be able to enhance the quality of your own life-as well as the lives of others at the very same time.
Having ambitious dreams and setting lofty goals is a great start to getting where you ultimately want to be. Simply wishing for events to happen, however, will never turn your dreams into reality. You must have specific plans, effective strategies, and take considerable and consistent action. The purpose of this article is offer you some of the best strategies that have led to some of the success I've experienced in this extremely challenging business of bodybuilding and fitness.
My journey has not been an easy one. I have face rejection many times along the way. I've made a lot of mistakes. I've had to battle my way through many bouts of self-doubt. I've wasted a lot of time and effort as well. Fortunately, I have persevered. This article is your opportunity to "leap frog" or skip over many of the challenges and obstacles I had to overcome. This piece of writing is my attempt to help you succeed sooner rather than later.
Do I think I've achieved a certain level of success in this business because I am smarter or more talented than you are? No way. The difference may be that that I quit my full-time job years ago and have been determined to find a way to make it. It's been a daunting task, to say the least, especially when everyone tells you it can be done. I had no role models to follow and make my undertaking easier.
If you read the advice I present to you carefully, you won't have to endure the learning curve or take the risks I was for to take. I hope to give you better insight into how the business really operates. I want to supply you with creative ideas and make you aware of the opportunities available that can help you start earning money right now from your knowledge and experience. I want to help eliminate your confusion, avoid frustration, and steer you clear of the common pitfalls many people experience. I want to provide you with optimism and help you achieve success in the shortest period of time.
There are outrageously differing opinions as to the value bodybuilders and fitness competitors think they offer the supplement companies and what those companies actually feel they are worth.
"Expect nothing!" One giant supplement company executive said to me. "Bodybuilders come to me all the time expecting to get paid a lot of money without doing anything for it. When a bodybuilder joins a supplement company, they should expect nothing!" These are very powerful words, aren't they?
Another supplement company president shared basically the same point-of-view with me a couple of years later. "Bodybuilders and fitness competitors are not like professional athletes and will never get paid like they are! Skip, that's just not the way the business works," he said.
My guess is that the majority of bodybuilding and fitness competitors have no idea they are viewed this way.
The illusion many bodybuilders and fitness competitors have is, when they become good enough, the supplement companies will rush to sign them to endorsement contracts. For some of them, becoming good enough means winning a major contest, turning professional, or simply developing an outstanding physique. Heck, some people believe they already have the "right look" and it's only a matter of time before the companies fight for the privilege to use their image to endorse the company's products.
If you win a national championship or have your picture featured in an international bodybuilding and fitness magazine, you will be among a select few who have been talented enough to do so. Although becoming one-out-of-a-million to make it big in this industry is quite an accomplishment, it means very little to a supplement company.
Most bodybuilders mistakenly see the endorsement business just like an athlete climbing the difficult ladder to professional status. To illustrate how the endorsement business really works, let's use the analogy of a professional NBA basketball player. When you consider the fact that there are thousands upon thousands of young boys who start playing basketball on the elementary school playgrounds with the dream of making it to the NBA, hope to progress to the high school level, are considered talented enough to play for a college team, and finally drafted into the pro ranks, those who progress that far are very special individuals.
Even if a pro basketball player is the very worst player on an NBA team, he can still expect to be paid a lot of money! He certainly deserves it, doesn't he? Although he may not be a superstar, he is probably a one-out-of-a-million exception out of the boys who have ever played basketball.
"Darn right, La Cour!" you may be saying to yourself. "Do you know how many guys have tried to build the physique like the I've got-but couldn't do it because they don't have my genetics, discipline, or perseverance?"
That may be true. In the supplement business, however, those qualities simply don't mean much. I guarantee you every supplement company in the United States has a garbage can full of letters requesting sponsorship from guys just as good as you and even better.
The real game is about how much money you can generate for a supplement company. Supplement companies are not in business of financially rewarding you for your hard work, discipline, and perseverance throughout the years. And don't think your outstanding physique alone is a good enough to sell lots of supplements. In order to be influenced to purchase a bottle of protein powder, the potential buyer really only cares that the model in the ad has a body better than he or she does. There are literally thousands of bodybuilders for the supplement companies to choose from who can meet the requirement of having a better body than the average customer buying protein powder.
Continuing with the NBA basketball player analogy, just because they've become one-out-of-a-million and made into the league, he doesn't automatically become highly paid endorsement material. Only players like Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and maybe Kevin Garnett and Gary Payton are considered worthy to pitch products. When you recalculate the odds from that perspective, the chances of a young boy growing up and being paid an outrageous sum of money because he has the ability generate massive revenue are really about a trillion-to-one!
That's just about how difficult it is for a bodybuilder or fitness competitor to earn a paid endorsement contract. In fact, the odds are probably even worse. At least in professional basketball, every team needs a person to play the "center" or point-guard" position. Regardless of their level of skill, the team must have someone in those positions just to play a game. In the nutritional supplement industry, many companies are doing extremely well without anyone featured in their ads at all!
I know I'm sounding pessimistic, but that's the reality of the situation. Accepting reality will give you better understanding, prevent you from wasting time, and get you to take control of your own future.
You know what? Even if you were to get on with a major supplement company, you'll be a long way from easy street. Regardless of the way things may appear, we as bodybuilders make very little money from endorsement contracts. Whether you are the very best, worst, or somewhere in between, it doesn't matter when it comes to earning money from your accomplishments with supplement, exercise equipment, or workout clothing companies. In fact, many of the bodybuilders and fitness competitors glamorized in the magazine ads don't even get paid cash. Those select few only get free supplements for their outstanding achievements!
It's all comes down to the simple laws of economics. The "supply" is outrageously disproportionate to the "demand." Too many bodybuilders with pretty darn good physiques would jump at the chance to appear in a magazine ad-absolutely free! Remember, those garbage cans at the supplement companies are full of letters from aspiring bodybuilders and fitness competitors.
The bad news is that you must make things happen for yourself if you are going to make in the bodybuilding and fitness industry. The good news is that you already have what it takes to create your own destiny!
If you ever expect to become outstanding at anything you do in life, you must absolutely love what you do. You can't simply "really like" what you do and still expect to be extraordinary. You are going to have a lot more going for you than a "keen interest" to achieve greatness and all the rewards that come with it. You must be passionate about what you do if you plan on being exceptional.
Passion is a lot more important than merely working hard. Hard work is not enough. Many bodybuilders and fitness competitors are working hard but have to quit long before they reach their full potential simply because continuing to give there all doesn't make sense financially. Pursuing their dreams and doing what they were put on this earth to do no longer seem practical. Personally, I think that's a real shame.
Passion for what you do drives you to raise your standards, makes the long hours required to achieve outstanding results seem like minutes, and motivates you to continue working hard when times get tough. Almost everyone can continue to work hard when things run smoothly and your efforts are being handsomely rewarded. However, your journey will never be easy. Every path you take in business (and in life, for that matter) will have its inevitable highs-and-lows, ups-and-downs; and trials-and-tribulations. What will give you the fortitude to keep pushing forward during those challenging times? Passion!
You must also have a sincere desire to help others achieve their training and fitness goals. If you do not have a sincere desire to help others, I suggest you stop reading this article immediately and find another way to earn cash. People will always figure out who is sincere and who is not. Don't mistakenly believe you can fool them. Even if you do fool them for a little while, you won't do so for very long.
You Don't Need to Be A Champion Bodybuilder or Fitness Competitor In Order To Be Effective Or Successful
I'm willing to bet you have people coming up to you all the time asking for training and nutrition advice. Am I right? Because of the way you've sculpted and maintained your physique, I'm sure people want to know how you train, eat, and stay disciplined.
Right now, your level of passion and knowledge probably exceeds that of 95 percent of the people in the general public-and more than likely a whopping 100 percent of the people who are coming up to you for information.
Unfortunately, we as bodybuilders and fitness competitors don't always appreciate our expertise. "I'm not big enough for anyone to care about what I have to say. I'll wait until I win my upcoming show to earn more credibility. I'm not as popular as so-and-so is and I don't know as much as that other guy," are a few of the excuses I hear from those who are a little tentative about chasing their dream of consulting others for pay. That type of thinking discourages many people from going after what they are really capable of achieving.
We all have a certain level of passion and knowledge for bodybuilding and fitness. That passion and knowledge can provide an outstanding value to others-but not until you appreciate the gifts you have to offer them.
Yes, we can always learn more and know more. And yes, we should continually strive for more knowledge. The fact of the matter is, however, we already have plenty of power within us to change other people's lives for the better-at this very moment. Our problem is not that we don't have enough knowledge. Our challenge is acknowledging and appreciating the true value of our ability to help others.
I know what you might be saying to yourself right now. "But Skip, I'm no expert! I need a master's degree or some kind of special certification before I can get started. I don't have a clue about a lot of things in bodybuilding and fitness that other people in the industry already know. Besides, the things I know are so simple to me. I've been doing them for quite awhile. How can anything that comes so easily to me be valuable to others?"
Here's a regular life situation to illustrate what I'm trying to explain:
If your computer "crashed" and an enormous amount of information, hard work, and time invested were seriously threatened to be lost forever, how much money would it be worth for someone to retrieve the data for you? $100.00? $500.00? $1,000.00? Maybe more?
I don't know about you, but if my computer went out of commission today, I would gladly pay-and even expect to pay-a hefty fee for an "expert" to recover my information, hard work, and time invested!
What if this so-called expert was really no "certified specialist" at all? Instead, he only worked in an entry-level position for a major computer company like Microsoft? What if he told me that, although he worked for Microsoft, he really didn't actually work with computers at all? Instead, he worked in the mailroom.
Would his credentials really matter if he could rescue the mounds of data I was desperate to get back? Heck no! All I want is my information back. I don't care what he doesn't know-as long as he does know how to get the job done!
What if retrieving my important information only took him a few simple steps and a grand total of five minutes? Would I still be willing to dish-out that hefty fee? Well, if I couldn't retrieve the extremely important information myself, you bet I would!
Wouldn't it be ridiculous for the mailroom clerk at Microsoft not to take advantage of the opportunity to help the novice computer users in his city who could really use him? Wouldn't it be a shame if he said, "Well, I just don't think know enough to help you. There are quite a few guys on the tenth floor where I work who are computer programmers and know a hundred-times more than I do. You should go to them for advice and give them your money."
That would be foolish of him to say, wouldn't it? Let me ask you a question. What message do you think you are giving to all of those people you are currently inspiring to get into shape? Whether you realize it or not, you are sending them off to the supplement companies and magazines to buy more information and products that will help them meet their newly established fitness goals. You were the person who influenced those people to improve their bodies-then directed those people to the supplement companies and magazines and watched them hand over their money to them.
I don't care where you live, how many contests you have competed in, or what place you have come in during those contests, there are people who admire and respect what you do know in the same way you respect and admire the computer guy who is really only a mailroom clerk-simply because he knows more than you do and can help you.
If you are good at what you do and can produce results that make differences in people's lives, then there is the potential to earn money doing so. People put a tremendous value on what you know and what your knowledge can do for them. You may take your value for granted because you can always know a little more or what you already do know seems too simple to you. People will pay to get the results they desire.
Getting "certified" by a certain fitness organization is great-if that certification gives you the certainty and confidence to see yourself as a worthwhile commodity. Look, people wouldn't be coming up to you now if they didn't already respect what you've achieved.
At this very moment, you could have the same confidence level that earning a degree or winning a contest would bring. And, until you do, you will never start earning cash from your passion for bodybuilding and fitness the way you want-and deserve.
Who are you? What makes you unique? What gifts do you bring to the bodybuilding and fitness world? Now is the time to discover and appreciate the special gifts you have to offer. Knowing what you are all about in the eyes of other people will be a vital part in successfully marketing yourself and/or your services and products.
"Ink and Paper"
Those three simple words have allowed me to connect with people around the world. They have allowed me to focus my time, energy, and passion in what I love to do in life-instead of working at a job I'm forced to do only because I need the money. Without even being slightly overdramatic, those three words have literally changed the direction of my life.
What Bill Phillips meant by "ink and paper" was to get my theories on the different aspects of physique development down on paper then offer them to those who are interested. With all the experience, knowledge, and passion I had for bodybuilding and training, Phillips convinced me the only way I could use what I had to make an impact on my life and the lives of others was to offer printed information to my fans and fellow bodybuilders.
Since that time, I've created over six different publications-and have loved every challenging minute doing so. I'm proud to say I've help hundreds of bodybuilders around the world with my written work. I feel fortunate to say they've allowed me to earn enough money to concentrate on becoming the very best bodybuilder I can be.
The only way I've been able to survive financially and focus my passion and effort into bodybuilding is because of those three magic words "ink and paper."
Computer technology has made creating and distributing your message even easier than printed books, special reports, and other publications. The personal computer and Internet have spawned more efficient and faster ways to distribute information and market written materials. Downloaded computer files of my written work, or INSTANT BOOKS! as I call them, now generate at least one-third of my business revenue. It's my same high-quality written work that I'm extremely proud of-sold at a reduced price and without all the time delays and printing and shipping costs. An ambitious bodybuilder from the other side of the globe can now read my information and inspiration within minutes after ordering one of my INSTANT BOOKS!
You Say You Don't You Have the Skills to Become an Effective Writer, Huh?
So you don't think you can write very well, do you? You say you weren't very good at writing back at school, huh? Remember, passion will help you become as good as you want to be-as long as you are willing to work really hard at becoming a better writer. You are not under the same limiting conditions that you were under back in school. Now, you are writing about things you love to think about-and can potentially earn money writing about them.
What would you tell people who come up to you and complain that they don't have the kind of body they really want right now? Wouldn't you tell them something like, "Do you think I was born with this kind of body? I worked hard, kept learning more about how to take my physique to a higher level, and was patient"? Hmmm, think about those words for a moment.
Here is tip that will fast forward your writing abilities twelve years closer to my current level of experience. Don't even waste your time and effort trying to do all the typing yourself. You simply can't take the chance of letting your creative thoughts get lost between your brain and the keyboard because you type too slowly.
You are already talking to quite a few people about the different aspects of physique development, aren't you? During those fifty or so times a week you are asked what foods are right to eat, carry a tape recorder with you. When you are caught up in the right mood, enjoying a perfect moment of passion, and sounding off in the "heat of the battle" record your helpful advice, thoughts, and opinions. Then, send the audiocassette tape to a professional transcriber.
All you have to do is drop your audiocassette in the mail, have the transcriber type it up, and get a transcribed version of your theories on a computer file, computer disk, and/or paper version in a couple of weeks or less. They can be mailed or even e-mailed to you. Then, you're ready for business!
Because of the tremendous profit margin in "ink and paper," you will probably pay for the cost of the transcriber after selling your first 10 books. The bottom line is, you'll be in the self-publishing game. You'll have a real "product" to offer to those who are interested. I wish I had gotten in "the game" of ink and paper a whole lot sooner!
What if you had a book that had your best strategies for bodybuilding success? You could continue doing your personal training (or working at your job) if you wish while selling books at the same time. You can even sell it to your personal training clients to augment their efforts in the gym. It could be sort of like a "package deal." Although you may have written that book months ago, you could sell it over and over again for many years to come.
Let's say your book sells for $25.00. You wouldn't need to sell a whole bunch of them to significantly cut your food or supplement budget. If you have your own Internet website, you can literally sell books while you are sleeping. You can also sell your book over the Internet while your training someone one-on-one in the gym.
When You Market Your Thoughts Through Your Written Words, You Market Yourself More Effectively.
There is no better way to let people know who you are and what you are really like than through your written words. You already have the knowledge. You've obviously got the passion. Because you've been so willing to share what you know in the past, it's apparent you have the sincere desire to help others achieve their fitness goals. What are you waiting for? Now is the time to let people know the value you have to offer them and start profiting from your hard-earned talents!
Start getting your thoughts down on paper today. Better yet, get your thoughts down into your computer's memory today. That way, you can share your philosophies and, if what you feel a better theory comes along later, you can immediately update your work. You won't waste any money on out-of-date printed material that you can no longer proud to sell. You can create a new version of your work quickly, easily, and inexpensively when it's on a computer files.
If you don't have the expensive, high-quality computer and printing equipment, go down the street to Kinko's, OfficeMax, or Office Depot. They can print them from your transmitted computer file or diskette you bring to them in minimal quantities-with minimal cost. That way, you'll feel a lot more confident with your bodybuilding and training philosophies and jump right in to creating your own literary masterpiece if you know you have the flexibility to build upon, change, or selectively eliminate what you've written later. Whatever you do, start today!
Your road to success will be challenging at times-just as it is for the person sitting at a boring desk job all day long. At least you'll have the advantage of going through your challenges doing what you enjoy doing.
If you are determined to earn extra cash from your passion for bodybuilding and fitness, these are just a few of the very best business strategies I can give you. I sincerely hope you find them helpful in your journey. Good luck-and think BIG!
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