Jaime Pressly just graced the cover of Shape magazine, where she discussed her workout program to burn fat. She looks good but is the workout good?

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Lauren Conrad looked good on the recent cover of Shape magazine, didn’t she?  Was she photoshopped?  Part of me feels like Lauren Conrad doesn’t have the easiest time getting lean. Rumors from The Hills have it that she easily gains and loses weight. So I think she had to do some work to get that Shape magazine cover. So what was Lauren Conrad’s workout and diet?

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If diet is 90% of the equation but we need to exercise to lose weight then what’s more important? The concept of diet vs exercise has always interested me. What’s more effective?

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After talking to NPC figure competitor Kathy Laucius, I wanted to get her the site to learn how she gets in such fantastic shape.

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There’s always a reason why you’re not getting the results that you want. It’s finding that reason that’s the challenge. After all, there’s no reason why you wouldn’t build lean muscle if you trained a few times a week and watched what you ate.

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In this edition of the Jimmy Smith Training Podcast we sit down with fitness author Jon Benson.

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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing  IFBB figure pro and legend Jenny Lynn for the podcast.After hearing from her about her upcoming DVD, I was excited to see a side of figure and fitness training that I was not aware of.

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To lose fat, you need to eat less and burn more. We all know that. At the end of the day, that’s what it comes down to. Everyone online wants to get fancy and complex. Create a caloric deficit and you’ll lose fat.

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I want to introduce everyone to Lacey Lynn. She’s a trainer, fitness coach, competitor and fitness model. I came across some of her pictures online when I mistaked her for Jamie Eason. So I decided to interview her for an episode of my fitness podcast, which will air next week. After talking to Lacey on the phone a few times I came to the conclusion that she has a lot to offer both men and women. So I asked her if she’s blog her diet and training once per week as she prepares for the Arnold Classic Bikini contest and a national NPC qualifier in figure.

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It can’t be avoided.  You’ve stayed on a strict diet, you’re doing your cardio and you’ve made some great fat loss gains. Then it stops. You can’t lose fat anymore.

So what do you do? Obviously, you can eat less and train more but who wants to do that? It might be time to cheat on your diet.

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