Tru Body Fat Calculator

So it was interesting I was talking with my neighbor about weight lifting and bodybuilding (as he was the one who originally got me into weight lifting). As most of you already know, Body Fat scales and Calipers can be wildly inaccurate and hydrostatic weighing tanks are not readily available. So the Navy did some research a while back and found that if you have your height, weight, and measure the circumference of your waist and neck there is an equation to give you your body fat level to the accuracy of +/- 1%. I got my personal training license a while back and I learned to use the caliper for measuring a clients body fat. It was annoying because it took a lot of time and wasn't that accurate.

I also didn't carry a calculator, pen, and a pad to figure out the formula every time a client needed the body fat found out. So I was talking with my neighbor and he brought this up and how he had a calculator made specifically with the formula and a prompt to enter each calculation in. It got better because he also had a tape measure that snaps to your body and a nice little carrying bag. He gave one to me and said try it out. So I did for a few days, and all I can say is I love it! It makes measuring easy!

When me and my friends go to the gym and brag about this and that I say hold on a minute lets see if you really are 8% body fat.....turns out most people aren't what they say they are. For $20 its a must have as a gym essential. If you like to see how much progress you have been making, if you are a competitive body builder, or a personal trainer this $20 item will go along way.

Its also well built in a convent travel case, easy to follow steps, and an all in one package! I am going to get bodybuilding to try and carry these...I think it would sell well, please guys let me know what you think!

Body Fat Calculator

Practical Guide to Improving your Business

You may have read my other practical guides I have been writing, but here is one that fits extremely well with this forum!

Other Practical Guides
SEO Guide

Practical Guide To Improving your Product/Service:

Problem 1: The Same Service/Product
I watch new people all the time thinking they have some great product or some amazing new service. The problem is in this day and age it has already been done. You may think your idea is special or unique, but chances are there’s a replica of it out there somewhere.  Don’t take the above statement the wrong way you can very easily succeed doing the same old stuff that everyone else has done.

Answer 1: Making yourself different
You are going to be offering your product or service very soon and you are extremely excited about it. You launch your product and a month rolls around and it seems it hasn’t any traction. Here is the breaking point for most people, they had that stellar idea and now it seems to be dead. It’s time to breathe new life into your beast. The first step is to make yourself different and special. It’s a tough question but take my industry/service (SEO/Web Design/Advertising) I need to make myself stand out.

So what do I do you may ask? Well the answer is simple I find a niche within my industry to separate myself from the pack. I am willing to work with almost any budget and I don’t turn people away because they don’t offer me enough money. You would be amazed at how many web designers demand incomprehensible rates, refuse to work with small clients, and are very robotic/automated responses. I like to help the small guys (we are small ourselves) but I don’t turn anyone away, I am willing to work with the clients to devise methods of attack. So right here is my niche within the industry, it makes a somewhat differentiated approach to the common thought.

Problem 2: No one knows about my idea!
The biggest reason your idea is not catching on or has run into a dry spell is people do not know about it. You have tried talking about it, you’ve tried some SEO service, and you’ve tried some advertising campaign but nothing seems to be the gas on the fire.

Answer 2: Simple Marketing Goes A Long Way 
The easiest way to light the fuse to your business is simple marketing techniques. You don’t need the expensive services, you don’t need some huge firm behind you, you need creativity. We talked about building your special niche before now with that do a small marketing campaign. The first thing I do is always talk about what I do with other people. I don’t force it down their throats but I do know the right time just to mention it. It is not always what you know…but who you know. Word of mouth is more powerful than anything else in the marketing world.

Test the waters with your ideas, logos, marketing spin. For instance I made up postcards with a neat marketing twist on it. Got 500 printed and so far after work I road my bike around a few local neighborhoods and dropped them off in mailboxes. I dropped 125 off so far and already got one phone call a day after, and a few people that have run into me telling them to give me a call. It cost $60-80 for post cards to be printed.

SEO is another key aspect if you read my practical guide to SEO than you will know that picking the right niche/keywords can make all the difference. Don’t go after the big fish, go after the pond that has tons of small fish in it. You can do the majority of the work yourself or hire someone who can do it for a minor cost and really start to see leads pouring in.

Problem 3: I have my idea/marketing but just can’t seem to push it over the edge!


You’ve created you product and service. You’ve differentiated yourselves but still nothing is happening. You are ready to give up and find something else, but wait.

Answer 3: Troubleshoot

This is the golden key to make your business idea take that last step to success. You need to sit down analyze your idea/service and find all its weak parts, where it doesn’t perform correctly, what could be better. Talk to your friends/family and say my feeling won’t be hurt, where do you see problems with what I offer. I promise you, you will be told things you’ve never thought of. Its amazing to see through the eyes of others. Most of the time you are so indulged in the product you forget everyone does not have the same knowledge as you.

Also look at your competition; you will always have competition for your product/service. Type into google and find out what other people are doing. I’ve picked up more ideas from others than I have originated my selves. I’ve learned to take others ideas and twist them and warp them into my idea in a unique fashion. Competition is a amazing with how much you can borrow from!

Lastly all ideas are not meant to be, because something appeals to you, does not mean it appeals to everyone. I’ve come up with tons of ideas and you would be surprised how many have failed before I found one that I knew was great…and so did everyone else!

NJ Web Design

SEO Techniques

I wrote this about 3 days ago on a site for people just getting into the SEO game, enjoy!

My practical Guide to SEO, noobs please read.

Alright, I have not been on this forum a long time but like most of you I am building my business. I am 20 years old and started a web design/advertising/SEOcompany. I have been rather successful as of late, and at the game for about 7 years now (started very young). SEO can be a daunting task but no one is going to spoon feed it to you, so I thought I'd give a post about the basics so people will stop asking "How do I get my site on to the top of google" (or something similar). (NJ SEO)


Magic SEO Techniques:
I've talked to experts, I've talked to amateurs, I've tried 100's of different methods. I have a few domains that are set up just to test SEO methods. In the end remember one thing THERE IS NO MAGIC METHOD. There are tons of different strategies that work, some better than others. Don't think there is some specific way to catapult you to the top, and ANYONE WHO PROMISES YOU THEY CAN is a complete LIAR/SCAMMER.


How to get started: (You are not building a site yet)
The first step to becoming successful in the game is coming up with a unique idea or market. You can't win competing for a market or idea that has flooded the market already. You need to differentiate yourself and you need to be special. Once you find that special area or idea, you need to do KEYWORD RESEARCH.


Keyword Research:
There are many tools out there to help you, my favorite is: Keyword Analysis Tool - Market Samurai but also google adwords has a free keyword tool. So lets use a Protein Supplement for weight lifters as an example. I want to sell a protein shake to be used after workouts. So I went to google Adwords Keyword Tool, and types in protein & protein shake… I found out

• Protein: 11,100,000 search and low competition (.26)
• Protein Shake: 450,000 search and medium competition (.43)

One thing to look at though is “protein” may have a low competition but it’s 11,100,000 searchs are going to make it a relatively hard place to compete in. So I google also provides similar keywords and I found one “post workout protein” 18,100 searchs and low competition (.05). So that is the keyword I am going to go for. IT IS MORE COMPLEX than this but this is a simplified way to look at it.


Building A Site:
When building your site now that you know your keyword/keywords you are going to want to place them on each page a few times (depending on how much content is on the page) also making them bolded or strong (html). I would put it at a ration of 1-2 times per 500 words on the page. You are also going to want to maybe put menu items that might be a keyword and aliases as keywords (ie. http://yoursite.com/postworkoutprotein/help) If you use pictures make sure your alt text is part of your keywords.
Again this is a simplified way to do it, but it’s the start of how your website should be developed.


Back-Links: Okay with backlinks you can do this manually or via a program, a lot of people who use programs are BlackHat SEO’ers but blackhatting isn’t always a bad thing if you do it responsibly. How ever you choose to do it, get quality back links with good anchor text. Try and get backlinks on home pages, directories, blogs, really anywhere you can find them, quality over quantity. Use Web2.0’s to help you build up your backlinks, create a blog on a major site and write a 500 word article on it once a week with a few backlinks to your major site. A list of good web2’s can be found here: TargetHut


Important Tools: As always you need a good toolset to be successful, aside from keyword research tools, make sure you use google analytics (to monitor traffic sources, types of traffic, etc) Google Webmasters (to see if google is having trouble crawling your page, etc). Here is a list of some other things:

• Keyword Density Tool
• Keyword density analyzer, and keyword placement & prominence analysis
• Open Site Explorer

I recommend the SEOmoz toolbar as a big help.


Google Necessities : Google likes to see a few things when you are building your site, backlinking, and other things. Make sure you have a proper sitemap.xml, robots.txt, unique content, quality back links, links to other sites (you linking to other people), page load time (this is getting bigger and bigger), and a few other things I’m about to go over.


Social Web: Using social websites like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, etc can be a big help. Use social bookmarks (Digg/Reddit etc) to submit your articles to. Use facebook/twitter to help promote your content, it seems google is now placing more weight on these social aspects than ever before. Next it seems the google +1 services is having a rather large impact as well I recommend using it and telling all your friends to hop on as well.


Time: The age of your domain plays a HUGE roll into how your site is ranked the older the domain the better. This is a factor that you cannot control and something you also need to watch out for. If you go ahead and decide to do some blackhat techniques that gather large amounts of backlinks, Google will see how old your domain is and notice how many backlinks you are getting and throw up redflags. It may not lead to deindexing you but it will land you in the sandbox for a few months time.


Lastly: There is no clear and cut way to make your site #1, its about being patient, trying new things, never giving up, and most of all having a unique/quality site. Please feel free to ask me any questions!

NJ Advertsing 

Perfect Weight Loss Solutions!

Section 1: Beach Body through Meal Replacement Shakes!

Ninety percent of dieters regain the weight they lost within 12 months. Meal replacement beverages might be the key to long-term weight control. More than 10 studies have shown that meal replacements as part of a reduced-calorie diet program are effective for helping people lose weight and keep it off especial for a good beach body.

Spanish researchers studied weight maintenance for six months in people who previously lost at least 5 percent of their bodyweight during a six-month weight reduction diet. Half the people substituted a low-calorie liquid meal at dinnertime, while the other half followed a reduced-calorie diet. In the liquid meal group, 84 percent were able to maintain weight or lose additional weight, compared to 58 percent in the diet group. This was another study showing the value of low-calorie liquid meals for weight maintenance. Substituting a liquid meal only one or two times per week might be enough to promote weight maintenance and prevent overeating. (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 63: 1226-1232, 2009)

Section 2: Beach Body Protein Shake Recipes

Beach Body Morning Shake:
What your going to need.

4 Large Frozen Strawberries
½ Banana (pref. Frozen, but unfrozen works)
½ Cup of Oatmeal
Orange Juice
Light & Fit 80 Calorie Yogurt
Protein Powder (Vanilla or Straw or Banana is preferable)

In a blender add the strawberries, banana, yogurt, and orange juice (just enough to cover the ingredients). Blend nice and smooth, now add in oatmeal and turn up to make sure it pulverizes it (so you don’t taste bits of oatmeal). Now add protein depending on how thick you would like it blend for a short or long amount of time. Enjoy!

Beach Body Post-Workout Shake:

What you will need:
Milk
2 tbps Honey
Ice
Half Banana
Favorite Protein Powder (Mine is Xtreme Formulations 2.0 Cinnamon Roll)

In a blender add ice, banana, and milk. Blend (depending on thickness add more or less milk) while blending add in honey. Lastly again depending on thickness add in your favorite protein powder and bend for a short or long time to get thickness down.

Beach Body Cutter’s Shake

What you will need:

Ice
Water
Half Banana
Favorite Protein Powder (Mine is Xtreme Formulations 2.0 Cinnamon Roll)

In a blender add water, ice, banana (enough water to cover the top of ice). Blend until smooth than add in protein powder.

Section 3: The best tasting Proteins!

You can purchase these all at bodybuilding.com! Use the link at the top of the page to get 10% off your perfect beach body! You can also get a perfect post workout protein!

Trutein: Vanilla, Chocolate, Choc Covered Strawberries

Xtreme Formulations Ultra Peptide 2.0: Cinnamon Roll, Lemon Cream Pie, Cookies & Cream, Chocolate, Strawberry

Gaspari Myofusion: Chocolate, Cookies & Cream

Muscle Pharm Combat Powder: Cookies & Cream, Chocolate

Information on Supplements

So I’ve been watching this company closely as its formulator was LG Sciences original formulator Eric. They started coming out with plenty of interesting products and innovative ideas. Than a sample was sent off and tested to see what was really inside the product (7-KE) and it turned out it may not be what was originally in it. So the results where put on a forum post by another member who supposedly sent Patrick the sample. Now they are coming out with a new anabolic hormone, that doesn’t seem as promising….
This is where the story gets more and more interesting Taurus Nutrition’s 5aOHP a beach body and muscle building agent. So it would seem until it comes down to the science it converts supposedly at an extremely low rate to DHT a not very potent muscle builder and there are better agents out there. So now there seems to be a new Owner of Taurus “Big K” (???). “Big K” has filed a lawsuit vs. Patrick because he does not like what Patrick is saying or rather more inferring. This is not a great way to launch a new brand especially when your products are only well known through the more educated and informed bodybuilding crowd. Which for the most part stand behind Patricks more or less infromation he provides.
If Taurus thinks they can just slam lawsuits on anyone who speaks about their products in a negative light than they are no company I want to deal with. I can only ask that anyone who reads about this, knows PHF forums, will stop conversing and buying or using Taurus products. I would like to see them fail and disappear for handling themselves extremely unprofessional, let alone not letting their products speak for themselves instead letting their lawyer speak for them.
A bad practice and an even worse company. If you wish to survive in this industry you aren’t showing it.
Provide yourself with the tools for the perfect beach body! A great post workout protein and a great place to buy your supplements and gain further advice:

Progenex Part 2

So if you've read the first part of my Progenex review than you'll know there is a second part. To give a quick re-cap of what I talked about was the protein is a high quality, maybe the highest grade hydro-whey you can buy on the market. The idea behind this product is to provide the fastest possible recovery by providing the fastest absorbing whey protein. So now you may be wondering if it is just a marketing ploy or if it is actually the real deal. I've had over a week with this stuff and I will give you my initial reactions + beach body.
Let me first start by recapping some of the flavoring I've gotten to know them quite well over the week. The chocolate is a bit weak for me, if you mix 2 packets (2 scoops) it has a stronger flavor that is much better, but one scoop on its own should not be mixed with much water. The Vanilla on the other hand which is called Tropical Vanilla is stronger. It has almost a pina colada type flavor to it which didn't sit well with me. So I can only recommend the chocolate flavor to people. If you don't mind a tropically vanilla type flavor than you will be good to go with that!
Now to the main part, the recovery aspect. Its been an intense week of lifting and it would seem to me that after starting taking progenex post workout than you will find out your in for a suprise. Who would think that a protein would be able to help so much, especially when using an isolate or blend of some kind. I noticed the next day I was not as sore and I also found out that I felt more refreshed in my next workout. Again you might be thinking I am being paid to say that or am a sponsor of progenex. I am in no way benefiting by lieing to my readers.
The main turn away of this product is the price. It is quite expensive you can find 10% discounts for this post workout protein. Never the less if you have some extra money and want to invest into something that will actually help than go for it. It will help you recover faster, nothing to the point that you will become some super athlete but it will help. It sure beats other "miracle" products that companies claim to be the next breakthrough. This product helps and it does a good job at it. Nothing signifigant but notiecable and its a good place to put some money towards.

Hunterdon

Bleeding in Early Pregnancy

Many women have vaginal spotting or bleeding in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Bleeding of the cervix may occur during sex. An infection of thecervix can also cause bleeding.

If you are bleeding in early pregnancy, your doctor may do a pelvic exam. You will be asked how much blood you have passed and how often bleeding has occurred. Your doctor also will ask whether you have had any pain, and if so, its location and severity. (hunterdon)

A blood test may be done to measure human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). This substance is made by your body during pregnancy. You may have more than one test because hCG levels increase throughout pregnancy. Your blood type also will be checked to see if you need treatment for Rh sensitization. Ultrasound may be used to find the cause of the bleeding. Sometimes the cause is not found.

If you have bleeding while you are pregnant, you may need special care. You have a higher chance of going into labor too early (preterm labor), having an infant who is born too small, or having a miscarriage.

Miscarriage

Miscarriage can be caused by a problem with the pregnancy. Bleeding does not always mean that miscarriage will happen. About one half of pregnant women who bleed do not miscarry.

Miscarriage can occur any time in the first half of pregnancy. Most often it occurs in the first 13 weeks. It happens in about 15–20% of pregnancies.

The following signs and symptoms may indicate a miscarriage:

• Vaginal bleeding
• Cramping pain felt low in the abdomen (often more strong than menstrual cramps)
• Tissue passing from the vagina

Many women who have vaginal bleeding have little or no cramping. Sometimes the bleeding stops and pregnancy goes on. Other times the bleeding and cramping may become stronger, leading to miscarriage.

If you think you have passed fetal tissue, take it to the doctor's office. The doctor may send it to a lab to be examined. (hunterdon)

If some tissue stays in the uterus, bleeding often continues. Your doctor may then recommend one or more treatment options. Medication may be used to help you pass the tissue. The tissue may be removed by dilation and curettage (D&C). It also may be removed by a suctioning device. This is called suction curettage. Sometimes more than one option is needed.

Most miscarriages cannot be prevented. They are often the body's way of dealing with a pregnancy that was not normal. There is no proof that exercise or sex causes them. Also, there is no proof that stress or work causes them. Having a miscarriage does not mean you cannot have more children. It does not always mean something is wrong with your health. If you have two in a row, your doctor may suggest tests to look for a cause.