Bill Phillips Fitness News

Thank You to EVERYONE who has signed up already for our Workout for Wishes fundraiser!!

We just need 9 more people to sign up for Workout for Wishes to reach our goal of donating $10,000 to Make-A-Wish Foundation! Once we get 9 more sign ups this group will be full-up and closed.

So far this week, 95 generous fitness fans have each pledged $97 to help us reach $9,215 … 9 more pledges and we breakthrough to achieve our fundraising goal of $10,000 in one week!

In return, I am giving a week of LIVE workouts and transformation tips to everyone who donates. Starting Monday August 8 at 7:00 pm MT we will be talking to you LIVE (by Facebook video streaming) from the Transformation Center here in Colorado. For 5 straight days I will be coaching you through the best workouts you can do for fat loss, muscle building, health and longevity. Workout WITH me during the broadcast… all you need is a pair of dumbbells. Before and after the workout I will be teaching you the practical science and explaining why we do what we do and how it differs from the fads and myths that confuse so many people today. (If you can’t watch live, no worries… you can watch the replay ON DEMAND at a time that works for you!)

You can learn more about “Bill Phillips LIVE Workouts for Wishes” and you can sign up at the link below. We need 9 more people to join in and then we will have achieved our ambitious fundraising goal of $10,000 in one week for Make-A-Wish Foundation! (Once you sign up, we will send you a private message with instructions how to enter the closed to the general public LIVE workouts broadcast and community page on Facebook. Just 9 more people and this group is full up! You will get your private information 48 hours before the first broadcast. We are going to have a lot of fun and get some great workouts!)

Click Here to Register: https://eatingright.com/collections/bill-phillips-fitness-camp/products/bill-phillips-live-workouts-only-august-8th-12th-2016

Now You Can Workout with Bill Phillips LIVE On Facebook

Grandmother Transforms from Fat to Fit: Becomes Youthful and Vibrant and Healthy Again!

Incredible transformation! I met this super-fit gal at our last Body of Work Camp. Her name is Terry, and YES that is actually her in both of these photos. These pictures were not taken very far apart either. In a matter of months, Terry totally rebuilt her body, at age 50, and renewed her life by following our program. Here’s where it gets even more cool… Terry is the Mother of Amber Loucks Bullard who has become one of our dear friends over the past couple years. Amber and her husband Rick and their great kids Seth and Madi have all been to our fitness camps on multiple occasion. Amber and Rick are both active duty Air Force (we thank you and respect you both for your Service, we really do!).

Amber and Rick have each made incredible changes in their health since we met. But what surprised me more than anything I have seen in quite a while is the TRANSFORMATION OF AMBER’S MOM!! She lost more than 45 lbs of unhealthy weight and she is building strong and shapely muscles now too! She looks 10 (maybe even 15?) years more youthful!

Terry you are an inspiration and Amber you are the KEY. It is one thing to be able to change yourself (and that’s a good place for us all start). And it is an even more incredible phenomenon when you can inspire others in your own family to transform their health and fitness. Amber, you have the makings of a true grand champion… we’ll see how that progresses over the next year… never know, you might need some new garage space for a Bentley prize one day… anything is possible for you! Terry, Amber, Rick, Seth and Madi… your family is setting an inspiring example of health transformation and you are all making a big difference!!

So proud of you all! Please keep up the Good Work! ~Bill Phillips

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Just received results from my recent medical check up which included an in depth blood test by Boston Heart Diagnostics. (Ask your doctor for that blood work if you are over 45 because it is the best information you can get on your heart health and more.) This chart (which is very personal information by the way…) shows some of my important results.

Folks over 45 (and over 50 like me) are crusin for a brusin if they neglect their health. Over a million people in America will have a heart attack this year. Don’t imagine for a second that you couldn’t be one of them. We ALL have to work to be healthy, myself included.

On my test results, you see information pertaining to 3 of the primary causes of disease and preventable death: 1) Cholesteol and other Blood lipids; 2) Systemic Inflammation (if chronic, inflammation is probably the number one cause of early death; and 3) Blood Sugar/Insulin (I eat carbohydrates with every meal and my blood sugar readings are spot on optimal–don’t believe the BS that you have to go no carb or even low carb to have insulin and glucose balance).

In all 3 of these areas shown in the chart, the results are optimal. Further artery tests indicate no aging the last 4 years; in fact, with my consistent workouts and supplements and eating right most of the time (not all the time) my cardiovascular system has literally become renewed and ‘younger.’ I am ‘younger’ at 51 than I was at 47 believe it or not. (My wife Maria is very much a force in me transforming my health after hitting a very low point some years ago.Thank you Maria!!)

My Dad used to say don’t take advice from someone who isn’t doing well in the arena they are teaching. For example, don’t take wealth building advice from a person in poverty. Don’t take mental health advice from someone who is crazy.

For health advice, find someone who is getting the results you want and do what they are doing… that might be a smart approach. (Its weird because many doctors are overweight and unhealthy as are many personal trainers).

Anyways… if you’ve been to my Transformation Camp, you know exactly what I am doing because I go over and over it and then it is what I ask you to do. Those who follow through and also FTDI (Follow The Darn Instructions) are often stunned by the results not just in their body change but in their HEALTH TRANSFORMATION.

Back in the Body-for-LIFE days the focus really was on building a better BODY. Today, what I teach is focused on your HEALTH. The good news is, if you do what you need to do to make a sustainable Health Transformation, you get a better body in the process. I used to say transformation can change your body and life. Today I say it can change your health and SAVE YOUR LIFE.

I want to say this again because it is so important: More than a million people in America will have a heart attack this year, don’t be one of them. Every 39 seconds on average, an unsuspecting man or woman in our country dies of heart disease–that’s 2,200 deaths just today! Most of the time it is preventable.

FREE ADVICE TODAY: If you’re not exercising consistently, START today. Walking and weights are a good place to begin. See your doctor for a check up if you haven’t been this year. Work your way up to doing intense interval aerobics and intense free-weight exercise, about a half hour a day, 5 or 6 days a week. That is what I do. Lifting (and lowering) free weights is safe, effective, efficient… we go for low impact and high intensity. Intensity in lifting is more important than variety.

With nutrition, you don’t have to eat right all the time… get it right MOST of the time and you’ll lose fat and get more fit. I eat a balance of healthy protein and carbs frequently throughout the day and I don’t eat at night… I give 10 to 12 hours between my last meal (dinner) and my first meal (breakfast) of the next day. Get all the essential vitamins and minerals everyday. If you are lifting weights for your workouts, take in extra protein. Don’t diet! Don’t over do it with exercise (4 hours a week is plenty if you do it in intense intervals).

It also helps to be a part of a healthy, supportive group like the teams that come together for our LIVE video workouts and workshops program, “BPLIVE”. You can find out more about the next session, and how you can get involved, at the following link: https://eatingright.com/products/billphillipslive

Focus your mind by having a long-term vision for your health and then set short and mid-term goals for your health and fitness. Your goals only have meaning and are only motivating if they are aligned with your long-term vision and values.

If you won’t get healthy for YOU, do it for your FAMILY.

And of course…

Once you get started, don’t stop! Keep Going Strong, even on days you are ‘too busy’ or ‘too tired.’ Forget perfect and focus on progress. NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER QUIT ON YOURSELF!

Health-for-LIFE is the direction things are going. Don’t miss out! ~Bill

I only use Isolate and it works incredibly well for me and my clients at Transformation Center. Why not use whey concentrate? I get that question all the time and at my 3-Day Camp I explain my reasons in depth. Because so many people are confused about this topic, I am going to post a 4-part article in my blog at BillPhillipsNews.com — this is the first part.

I have been researching and using protein supplements for nearly three decades. In 1991 I introduced the fitness world to a product developed for clinical nutrition called MET-Rx and it became the number one selling protein of that time. Then I designed a protein supplement and meal replacement shake called EAS Myoplex which has been used by millions of athletes over the years. Now I make and use a new and improved, protein rich, high quality version of Myoplex called RIGHT Nutrition which is not sold in stores and is made in small batches just for me and my clients. (MET-Rx and Myoplex are now owned and distributed by other companies and they do not contain the quality ingredients they originally did.)

Even though there is a legitimate science of nutritional supplements which has advanced over the years, the facts are sometimes hard to find because the fiction (and nonsense) is so pervasive. Supplement consumers have been fed a steady stream of half truths and lies about whey protein by the bodybuilding, and nutritional supplement industry. Over time, you notice that this deception permeates the field of nutrition so fully, that even some intelligent, and well meaning fitness pros and even some from the medical field unknowingly recommend low quality, and even potentially harmful, whey proteins to their clients and patients. You see there is a BIG DIFFERENCE between the low quality whey concentrate and the high quality whey protein isolates.

Look closer at whey protein concentrate and you’ll see a number of problems. For example, notice there is cholesterol in many inferior protein supplements which are produced with whey concentrate.

Research indicates that the cholesterol found in powdered products like whey protein concentrate has a tendency to go rancid or oxidize in this form. That is bad news especially for us over age 40 fitness buffs because oxidized cholesterol in particular can be responsible for the start of arterial plaque build–up in heart disease, as well as many other degenerative effects of aging.

The scientific literature clearly shows that powdered cholesterol is prone to oxidize, and that oxidized cholesterol is decidedly harmful. But this information is covered up and withheld from the users of supplements which contain whey protein concentrate. Concentrate is a much less expensive ingredient compared to the superior whey protein isolates which are free of cholesterol. Isolate, unlike concentrate, is also lactose free, fat free, and sugar free. Isolate is flat out better but is rarely used as the main source of protein in supplements because it costs so much that it cuts into the profit margin most companies try to make. I don’t use concentrate because being healthy is the main reason I workout and eat right today. At age 51 the fact that exercise and good supplements help the body look better is kind of a secondary benefit; avoiding heart disease and living longer is what matters most to me.

Unfortunately, many of the companies which have profited greatly by selling whey protein concentrate have done such an effective job of marketing over the years that most of the information you’ll receive on whey protein from fitness magazines, online ‘experts’ and supplement stores will usually fail to include even a passing mention of the harmful effects of oxidized cholesterol. And when it comes to the problems of whey protein concentrate, oxidized cholesterol is just the tip of the iceberg. I’ll continue this discussion soon in part 2 where you’ll learn that whey concentrate is up to 53% ‘dead’ protein (denatured) and does not have the unique and powerful health enhancing effects of bioactive, pure, un-denatured whey made with the proper, state-of-the-art isolation methods and technology.

George Umbreit attended one of my 3-Day Transformation Camps at my Center in Colorado. Incredibly, he went on to become 150 lbs lighter (385 lbs to 235 lbs — he’s 6’4″) by following my 25-minute workouts five days a week and eating 6 times a day (smaller healthy meals, and some nutrition shakes as meals). The keys for George’s success were CONSISTENCY and SIMPLICITY. He did the work I asked him to do–he followed the instructions. He didn’t do more exercise than I asked; he didn’t eat less than I asked. He took it one day at a time and he didn’t try to measure his success with a scale. He did the work and he let the results happen. Each month he made more progress. In about a year, his transformation looked like what you see in these photos.