How to Build Your Best Body-for-LIFE

December 28, 1999

How to Build YOUR Best Body-for-LIFE and Make the Year 2000 Your Most Rewarding Year Ever!

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BodyforLife: Welcome to Bill Phillips' first ever LIVE online seminar! Tonight's topic is, "How to Build YOUR Best Body-for-LIFE and Make the Year 2000 Your Most Rewarding Year Ever!" The 90-minute seminar is about to begin. Please send your questions now, then sit back, and get ready to experience an uplifting, informative, and inspiring live online event, brought to you by EAS and BodyforLIFE.com.

Bill Phillips: Welcome friends, and Body-For-Lifers! I'm really excited that you've joined me tonight, and I think that we're going to have a lot of fun, and I think we'll learn a lot of things about how to start off the year 2000 on the right path. We've got a full house tonight, and we're being joined by Muscle Media subscribers, and Body-For-Life readers from around the world. We've got a lot of topics to cover, and the audience members have already submitted literally thousands of questions, many of which I would like to clarify the answer to right away so, let's get started!

Flyboy: Is there a different work(out) for men than for women?

Bill Phillips: I'm often asked that question. The fact is, the physiology at the muscle cell level for men and women is not different. Men have more anabolic hormones, primarily testosterone, so they develop muscle faster in response to strength training exercise and proper nutrition. But I have never been convinced, and I do not believe that the scientific literature supports the myth that men and women should follow different types of training programs. Over 25,000 women and 52,000 men have successfully transformed their bodies, using the Body-For-LIFE training program. If you follow it, virtually every healthy adult male and female will achieve results.

Kbabe: What supplements do you suggest to someone who is trying to lose at least 20% body fat?

Bill Phillips: The first supplement that I would suggest to anyone who was interested in losing body fat is a meal replacement powder like Myoplex. In last year's Challenge, over 90 percent of the competitors used Myoplex as the foundation of their nutrition program. I am using Myoplex Deluxe in my supplement program right now, along with Betagen, and Cytovol. My goal for the first 12 weeks of the year 2000 is to gain 7 pounds of muscle while losing 8 pounds of body fat. Now, for someone who is interested in losing more body fat, I highly recommend three servings of Myoplex Lite each day along with two to three servings of Betagen.

Ironbear: how do you know when to increase poundage on the body for life program?

Bill Phillips: On the Body-For-LIFE program we use the 12-10-8-6-12-12 rep pattern of course. The objective is to increase your intensity index with each progressive set. Culminating with a high point set at the end. When the number of repetitions you can perform in PROPER form exceeds 12 on the last set, you should make a comment at the bottom of your plan to actual journal page and the next workout you should increase the weight so that you "max out" by rep 12.

Tammy: I would like to know in your book you show 3-4 different exercises for the same muscle should I do all in one night or just one?

Bill Phillips: For each muscle group that we train on our 3 weight training exercise per week, we perform only 2 exercises. For example, if I'm working my deltoids or shoulder muscles, I would select two of the four exercises shown in the book. After four weeks of performing those two exercises, I suggest alternating exercises to help continue stimulating the muscles.

Jeff: when doing ab work do you do all three exercises ? or just pick two?

Bill Phillips: I treat the abdominal muscles like I do all other muscle groups.

Barb124: any suggestions for emotional eating?

Bill Phillips: Eating for comfort or to relieve anxiety is one of the biggest challenges facing America today. I often call food, specifically carbohydrates, "America's most popular and widely abused anti-anxiety medication". When you think of it this way, you can understand more accurately the extremely detrimental effects eating for the wrong reasons has on our bodies and lives. I believe that eating for emotional reasons is a pattern that needs to be transformed before anyone can achieve the success they are looking for on the Body-For-LIFE program. Remember the key to transforming patterns is not to just focus on eliminating the "bad ones" but to incorporate new ones -- new patterns of action into our daily habits. For example, people who often eat late at night, especially carbohydrates, need to commit themselves to transforming that pattern of action. One of the things that I've found works for me (yes, I love to eat for comfort too!) is whenever I feel like heading for the kitchen (the refrigerator), I stop and ask myself if I'm eating to fuel my body or feed my emotions. And, I write the answer to that question down on a notepad, which I keep next to the refrigerator. If I find what I was about to do was to eat for comfort, I immediately go to another room (my home office) and I just write. I write about how I feel, what I'm hoping to achieve the next day, and I just keep writing (sometimes I even write cards to my mom or a friend) until I feel that I've released the negative energy that was trying to "come out" by eating.

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