Part 3 Of The Jimmy Smith Interview
Jimmy Smith: Now you really specialize in fat loss. So what are some of the most common fat loss sins that you see in your clients and how do we avoid them?
Jeremy Reeves: I think probably the BIGGEST sin I see people making is not writing down exactly what they’re eating, at least for a week or 2.
To be honest I’m not sure why I didn’t include this in the book, maybe I’ll add it in there. It didn’t occur to me until a few days ago how incredibly powerful this is.
So when you grab my free report, if you see this section already in there, don’t mind that because I think I’m going to add it in once the interview’s over.
Anyway, here’s what I think you should do.
As soon as you wake up and get dressed in the morning, grab a piece of paper and stick it in your pocket with a pen.
EVERY SINGLE TIME you eat or drink something, write it down. And I mean EVERYTHING. Including tea, coffee, etc.
When you write down what you eat, write it down in detail. For example, if you have milk with your coffee, write that down. If you add even a tiny scoop of butter to your vegetables, write it down.
Trust me, it adds up QUICK.
At the end of the day, go to fitday.com and register for a free account, add in everything you ate, and just guesstimate on the little things like an ounce of milk for coffee, a small dollop of butter, etc. – but base those guesses on a serving of that food , not just a random guess.
I absolutely guarantee you…if you do this you’ll see how easy the calories add up. Then just take out those little stupid things you don’t really need to eat anyway (the dollop of butter, the small handfuls of snacks 2-3x per day, etc.) and the sugary drinks, and you’ll lose weight.
Another big sin I see people doing is taking their diet too seriously.
Unless you’re trying out for a fitness competition, it’s NOT necessary to eat perfectly for every single meal, everyday. I know people who literally get anxious if they miss one of their 6 meals and get all wacky over it.
I mean yea, most of the time you should be strict if you’re serious about losing weight, but allow yourself to have a cheat snack/meal or 2.
Let me give you an example of this.
On the superbowl this year I went to a party where they had all kinds of different food including stromboli, pizza, desserts, chips, etc.
What I did was I got myself a piece of pizza, a few small meatballs, a really small serving of homemade boneless chicken bites, and a big serving of shrimp (notice how I took a lot of shrimp and only a little of the other stuff).
When I was done with that, I tried 2 of the desserts (they were cut into like 1-inch squares), then I absolutely devoured the vegetable plate. I literally ate like ½ pound of vegetables because I was having alcohol too (I had 2 glasses of red wine instead of liquor or beer) and I get really hungry if I have a beer so I made sure to just keep eating vegetables.
Do you see my point though?
Instead of going crazy and not eating ANYTHING bad, I let myself have what I wanted, I just ate smaller portions of it. I kind of “grazed” the bad food, and gorged on the healthy food.
Just figure out what works for you and do that. I know from personal experience that if I try to not eat anything bad at all, I’ll start binge eating and completely ruin my diet, so I do what I just told you.
That’s really the ultimate secret to weight loss. Just figure out what works for YOU, and do it!
Jimmy Smith: Where can we find more info out about you?
Jeremy Reeves: Well I highly recommend you check out the report I wrote called “The 7 Deadly Fat Loss Sins” by going to www.7-deadly-fat-loss-sins.com. I’m also going to stick in that other sin as kind of a bonus I think.
So far the report is getting REALLY good feedback.
In fact, when I put it out there, I got positive feedback from the 3rd person who read it, which is very unusual (but also a great sign)!
Here’s the exact email he wrote me:
“Just wanted to thank you for your report. Also there is so much information about weight loss out there. I liked your report very much.I lost 27 pounds in the last 65 days and still going. Currently I weight 181 pounds, 5′8″ tall. My BMI seems high for my body – 27.6 also my body fat is 13.8%.Maybe the stats are not great, but hey… I am a 43 year old male and the last time I weighted under 180 pounds was well over 20 years ago.I’m still working on loosing weight, don’t really have a set goal… just feeling very well right now and I’ll see how far I can go. Again, thanks for your report Jeremy… I learned a lot.”
The report is kind of like this interview, very laid back and fun instead of “professional” and boring.
I have a very different thinking process than most people, as you’ve probably noticed, and I think people enjoy the change of pace.
I always hear the same thing over and over when it comes to fitness, so I try to be different than everybody else.
Anyway, I’m not really the kind of person to brag about myself or anything like that, I really just think you should check it out.
It’s completely FREE so I mean there’s really no really not to download it. Even if you hate it for some reason, just delete it from your computer.
So go check that out and when you do, please give it a read and write me an email letting me know what you thought of the report. I love getting feedback, it makes me feel like it was worth the time to write the report ya know? I love hearing that I’m helping people out, it makes my day.
So go to www.7-deadly-fat-loss-sins.com and go check it out. You’re going to love it.
I also would like you to know that I recently created a fantastic book called “Hassle Free Fat Loss” which you can find at http://www.HassleFreeFatLoss.com
The main purpose of this book was really to get people to understand that although a lot of these techniques work incredibly well and help you get in the absolute best shape of your life, there are a lot of things that simply aren’t necessary.
I think that one of the main reasons people give up on losing weight is because it’s too hard and too complicated – and once they start getting frustrated from these things, it just goes on a downward spiral which never really comes back up, and they eventually give up.
So the main purpose of Hassle Free Fat Loss is to simplify the fat loss process and make it very easy for the average person to do. I spent A LOT of time researching various fitness “truths” such as the myth that eating 6 meals per day boosts your metabolism (it absolutely doesn’t and has 0 research to back it up) and pretty much just include the things that DO work in the book.
It’s a pretty unique book, so I highly recommend you go check it out at www.HassleFreeFatLoss.com
Anyway, thanks for the interview and I’ll talk to you soon Jimmy, cya!
End of interview.
I hope you liked that! I know I sure had an awesome time getting interviewed by Jimmy. He’s a cool guy too, go check him out at http://www.jimmysmithtraining.com
If you’d like to re-read any of them, here are Part 1 and Part 2.
Jimmy Smith Interview – Part 2
Jimmy Smith: Let’s switch gears to nutrition. If I’m trying to get a six pack what are the five things that I must be doing with my diet?
Jeremy Reeves: Hmm…
1) Well, first of all, stop drinking sugary liquids. That’s a KILLER when it comes to losing weights. I read somewhere that people consume about 30% of their daily calories in drinks. Isn’t that insane?
But when you think about it, it’s really not hard to do. If you have a 150 calorie drink 4 times per day, which is VERY easy to do….that’s an extra 600 unnecessary calories per day.
If you took that out, you’d lose a pound every 5 days by doing that alone!
2) Another thing is that you need to cheat once in awhile. Now a lot of people say you should do this because it boosts your metabolism, which a lot of evidence is showing really doesn’t happen (but that’s a whole interview in itself)…but I think you need to allow yourself to cheat once in awhile because it will prevent you from going on binges which can make you add a few pounds on in just a few days.
3) The third thing is that you need to constantly evaluate how much weight you’re losing. The reason it becomes harder to lose weight as you lose more weight (i.e. losing the “stubborn fat”) is simply because the less you weight, the lower your metabolism goes. So when you get into that stubborn fat you simply have to be extra careful on what you eat and start adding a little more cardio, whether it’s low or high intensity.
4) The fourth thing you need to do, and I know a lot of people will balk at this, is start doing 24 hour fasts. There is TONS of evidence that doing 24 hour fasts will not only help you lose weight without lowering your metabolism, some evidence is showing it actually temporarily boosts your metabolism just a little.
Now if you’re a competition bodybuilder, maybe fasting wouldn’t be ideal for you. However for the average person out there looking to get in great shape, it’s a REALLY easy way to lose weight without sacrificing muscle loss or any other bad effects.
I can’t get into the details of fasting because it would take all day, but I give a little more detailed information in the free report I mentioned earlier so go check that out.
5) The fifth thing you should do is start adding high intensity into your workouts. There are actually a few reasons for that. First, when you do high intensity exercises, your human growth hormone (HGH) levels jump up, and HGH is absolutely incredible for helping you build muscle and burn fat. That’s actually one of the reasons why fasting doesn’t make you lose muscle, because you HGH levels get up about 5-6x higher during a 24 hour fast so it helps preserve your muscle.
Another reason to do high intensity training is that it’s going to boost your metabolism a little. Now a lot of people think it’s going to have some magical ability to make you shed fat in like 2 days, but the reality is that it only boosts it up a little…it’s just that it also helps you preserve and even build more muscle, something low intensity cardio doesn’t do.
Now there’s one thing that really differentiates me from a lot of fitness professionals out there. And that is that I don’t focus on helping people really get “6 packs”, I try to focus on helping them figure out exactly what is realistic for them and help them to attain that goal.
Let me explain a little.
If someone comes to me asking to help them get a 6 pack, I can help them out. However, the majority of people out there WANT a 6 pack but could never actually get one because they aren’t strict enough.
So what I like to do is really get them thinking about not only what they want, but what’s realistic. If that guy wants a 6 pack but isn’t willing to do what it takes to get the 6 pack, I would try to help him realize that it’s OK not to have a 6 pack, and instead try to focus on him either dropping a certain amount of weight or dropping down to a certain body fat percentage.
Because you can still be defined and lean without having a “true” 6 pack.
To be 100% honest, I don’t have a 6 pack right now, nor do I care about getting one. I could get one if I had to or really wanted to, but it’s simply not a goal for me right now.
I’m getting married in September 2009 so I don’t really have to worry about impressing girls, and plus it’s a fact that the majority of girls out there would rather a guy with lean, defined abs and not 6 packs anyway.
One of her friends saw me last summer and told her I had “really nice abs” – and I didn’t have a 6 pack then..they were just defined enough to notice them ya know?
Plus I’m a young guy and don’t want to have to go out with my fiancée and friends to a bar and say I have to drink water because I want to keep my 6 pack.
My current lifestyle allows me to have the body I want to have while still going out for a beer now and then (obviously not everyday, but occasionally), go to parties, etc.
I just personally hate the feeling of not being able to do something.
I don’t like my life revolving around what I eat, when I eat it, when I workout, how I workout, etc. – and my life revolves around health and fitness!
Anyway to sum my thoughts up on that subject…if you REALLY want a 6 pack, it all comes down to dedication.
The more dedicated you are, the faster you’ll get them. I just want to let people know that it’s OK to simply have defined abs, and if you don’t even care about that, then it’s OK to simply be skinnier than you are and in your ideal weight range!
Jimmy Smith: What are you thoughts about cardio? Are you a fan of low intensity or high intensity? How do you add cardio into your clients workouts?
Jeremy Reeves: Ahh, what a fun subject to talk about. I love getting into debates over this with people, haha.
I have kind of a unique perspective on this that a lot of people don’t even think about. Most people think in black and white, they don’t see the pot of gold lying in the gray area.
All I see in forums and even a lot of professionals who I have a lot of respect for is this: “You HAVE to do “this” type of exercising if you want to lose weight. It’s the only way!”
Listen, that’s an elephant sized crock of bull.
When it comes to cardio, I honestly think that if you find out what you LIKE doing, it’s going to be the best thing for you.
Some people really hate jogging (like myself), so they do more high intensity. Some people hate high intensity, so they do things like walking or jogging.
There are also people who simply CAN’T do certain exercises.
For example, my fiancee has Epilepsy and because of that she goes through dizzy spells if she moves her head around too much, so there are certain exercises and certain areas of cardio that she can’t get into.
My mom has MS and she can’t overtax her nervous system so she has to stick to walking and doing other light exercises.
Me, on the other hand, like I mentioned earlier I get bored a lot so I actually mix them both into my routine.
To be more specific, Wednesday and Sunday are my “days off” so I run for 20 minutes slowly on my treadmill while I watch a DVD. I do this purposely because I’m not really doing it to get my lungs in shape or really even to lose fat, but simply to get some blood flowing through my body which will help me recover.
As a side note, I highly discourage watching TV while working out during your regular workouts. I only watch it on my days off because I’m going so slow that I’m not even out of breath at the end of 20 minutes. For example yesterday I was only running a 10 minute mile for 2 miles – it’s simply a recovery type of workout just to get some blood flowing.
Anyway, I’m rambling so let me get back to the point.
For the average person, I would suggest mixing both high and low intensity exercises. I say this because by doing this you work both types of energy systems (anaerobic and aerobic) and get the benefits of both instead of just one of them.
The whole thing that high intensity burns tons more calories is a myth by the way. It sometimes can burn slightly more over a 24 hour period, but your metabolism only increases a tiny little bit – not nearly as much as people think.
The reason I love high intensity is for 3 reasons:
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It’s fun as hell
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You can burn the same or more calories in a much shorter time period
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It helps build/preserve muscle much better than low intensity
Low intensity is great if you have more time because it’s non-taxing on your body and if you do it long enough, can burn a lot of calories.
And that’s kind of exactly why I like to mix them. Instead of jogging for an hour, I would suggest maybe doing high intensity exercises for 20 minutes, then jogging for 40 minutes.
Of course it would depend on what exercises you were doing, but I bet you could burn double the amount of calories doing it like that.
By the way, go back and ingrain that thought into your mind because you could literally double your fat loss just by doing that if you wanted, so make sure you understand it!
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Awesome Interview By Jimmy Smith – Part 1
A few weeks ago Jimmy Smith from http://www.jimmysmithtraining.com/ contacted me asking to pick my brain and see what was going on inside this head of mine.
Of course I agreed, and now you get to read the entire interview absolutely free 
So here it is:
Jimmy Smith: Tell us about yourself. Who are you? How long have you been training and what are your goals and aspirations in the fitness industry?
Jeremy Reeves: My name is Jeremy Reeves and I’m the owner of the report “The 7 Deadly Fat Loss Sins” which I recently came out with that is making a lot of heat in the fitness world because I debunk one of the biggest myths that most people follow blindly.
I’m a certified personal trainer even though I don’t actively train people in real life. I’ll get into my reasoning on that a little later though.
I’m also kind of “unorthodox” in a lot of different ways. I speak my mind, I’m incredibly “transparent” and show people my TRUE personality, not my online personality. I hate when people act all “business-like” – they’re just too boring for me!
That’s actually one thing I get compliments on the most – the way I’m very personal with people and don’t try to hide behind a curtain or act like I’m better than anyone else, because really, I’m not.
I’ve been into fitness pretty much my whole life, but a lot of times it was kind of “on and off”. Kind of like the yo-yo diet people talk about a lot. I was part of those statistics.
It took a few years for me to really kind of “find myself” and understand what excuses I was making for working out, and I hardly ever miss a workout nowadays because I finally took the time to take a good look at my life, my training, my eating habits, excuses, etc. – which I would highly recommend everybody does because it’s an eye-opening experience.
As for goals, I have a lot of them. I think they’re very important and actually keep a big whiteboard in my house that lists all my weekly, monthly and yearly goals.
Some of them include progressing in pretty much every area of working out, whether it’s lifting more weight, running faster, getting my times down, or whatever workouts I’m focused on at that time.
As for my fitness industry goals, probably in mid-2009 I’m going to be coming out with my own (and first) fitness product that I can guarantee you is going to rattle some cages and open a lot of people’s eyes.
As for right now my goal for that isn’t exactly clear – when the time comes closer I’m going to try and figure out exactly how many people I want to help with the book, which is my main goal in creating the book…to help people who are having a hard time losing weight following the “traditional” methods of weight loss.
Jimmy Smith: How would you describe your training? First, what type of training do you find that works best for your clients? Second, what about yourself? Are you into body part splits or full boy training?
Jeremy Reeves: The best way to describe my training that I do for myself would simply be to say “balls to the wall”.
When I’m done with my workouts I’m usually completely exhausted like I just sprinted 5 miles.
As for my clients, as I hinted to earlier I don’t really take on “clients” per se. Although I got certified as a personal trainer, I like to do things more online than offline because I think it allows me to help a lot of other people that way.
For example like I said I wrote my 7 Deadly Fat Loss Sins Ebook. Instead of working with maybe 5 people per day in a gym, that Ebook allows me to help dozens of people every single day. At the end of the Ebook I even give my contact address so if people have any questions or whatever they can simply email me and ask me whatever they had a question about.
One of the things I mention in the book that could answer your question is that honestly, there is NO “best” way to workout. I think people have this notion that you have to do a certain kind of workout to get the best results, when my philosophy is that if you simply do what you actually enjoy doing, you’re going to get A LOT better results long-term than if you follow some strict, regimented plan that some “expert” told you was the best way to do it.
Now having said that, I definitely think trying to up the intensity of workouts is the best way to get in shape fast, but if you either can’t or really hate doing high intensity workouts it won’t work for you because even though it might work better, you’re not going to have the motivation to actually do the workouts, and you’re going to end up quitting!
As a little side note, that’s the main reason I was on kind of a “yo-yo” diet for so many years. Once I realized that if I just did what I wanted to do and not what everybody else said was the best thing, my motivation to workout has probably increased, not decreased.
As for my workouts, I actually get a little crazy with them.
For example, I workout in my basement which is this dungeon-like, freezing cold place. There’s no carpet, nothing fancy whatsoever..just some hardcore music (I like Breaking Benjamin) and me.
I love to mix up my workouts to keep things interesting…which is why I probably haven’t progressed as much as I want to..but hey, that’s what works for me ya know? I try not to worry about how much I’m lifting, just that I’m having a fun time doing it and that I’m getting in better shape.
Now having said that, I DO keep a workout log of what I’m doing. I don’t mix up my workouts every single workout.
What I do is pick a workout plan and do it until I either start losing my motivation to do the same workout, or I stop progressing. I think that’s a plan that most people should try out because it seems to work pretty good for me and for a lot of other people I know as well.
When I do my workouts though I like to do full-body workouts. I’m not into split training at all.
I think the body is meant to be used as 1 unit instead of separate individual parts, so I train it that way.
I’ve actually kind of made up my own version of full body workouts though which I’m going to reveal in my book that I just started writing and will hopefully be out in June. That’s what I’m shooting for at least.
So I apologize but I don’t want to give away TOO much information on that part of my training, it’s kind of a secret for now
But getting back to the kind of exercises I do…
What really got me excited about working out was not working strictly with weights. I actually combine a lot of different exercising techniques into one.
For example, I work with free weights, my own bodyweight, I have a weighted vest, a sandbag, I kickbox, I do sprints, I have resistance bands, I have a climbing rope attached to an 80 foot tree next to my house (the rope is only 15 feet though), I do various grip training techniques, and I also have a few homemade pieces of equipment.
So there’s always something different for me to do and that’s the way I love doing it. To me, it’s fun doing it like that.
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