Ellington Darden - The Body Fat Breakthrough Tap the Muscle-Building Power of Negative Training and Lose Up to 30 Pounds in 30 days!

BEFORE & AFTER

AGE 48, HEIGHT 5' 8"

BEFORE BODY WEIGHT

281.5

POUNDS

AFTER BODY WEIGHT

POUNDS

AFTER 30 WEEKS

POUNDS OF FAT LOSS

20.125

INCHES OFF WAIST

20.5

POUNDS OF MUSCLE GAIN

WHEN Angel Rodriguez knocked on his mothers back door, she quickly retreated from the entrance and walked into the main part of the house. She didnt recognize her son of 48 years.

Mom, its me, Angel.

Rodriguez hadnt visited his mother, who was living in Miami, in 7 months. In that time, he had lost 121 pounds of fat, taken 20 inches off his waist, and put on 20.5 pounds of solid muscle. He looked nothing like her big-bellied son. She thought he might be an intruder, and a well-muscled one at that. For a moment, she considered calling the cops.

I hesitated for a few seconds, says Rodriguez, then I knocked louder and yelled, Mom, mom!... and grinned at her in my special way.

Then it clicked and she responded in her Cuban accent, Angel, me parece mentira. [I cant believe it.] What have you done to yourself?

What Angel Rodriguez had done is nothing less than remarkable. He had lowered his body fat percentage from nearly 50 percent to just 11 percent in 30 weeks. Check out his before-and-after photos below. He looks like an entirely different mana younger man, a healthier man. Most important, he probably saved his own life by losing the weight.

Rodriguez lost his belly and found muscle.

Rodriguez is one of more than 118 men and women who have achieved body-transforming, life-altering results, some recording up to a pound a day of fat loss, on average, over the course of just 30 to 50 days, on a revolutionary new diet and exercise program that I call the Body Fat Breakthrough. I tested this weight-loss system at one of the largest fitness facilities in the nation, 28,000-member Gainesville Health & Fitness in Florida in 2012.

It took 3 years to put this project together. Throughout this book, youll learn more about the specifics. But for now, let me mention the following men:

Joe Cirulli is the owner Gainesville Health & Fitness. For 30 years, Ive collaborated with Cirulli on numerous fat-loss and muscle-building projects and books involving test subjects from his club. Cirulli is a master at keeping his members motivated, active, and happy.

Mats Thulin is the inventor and owner of X-Force, the new negative-accentuated strength-training equipment that is manufactured in Stockholm, Sweden. When I tried X-Force for the first time in 2008, I knew I had to have a full line of X-Force available to me in Florida. Cirullis Gainesville Health & Fitness was my choice for setting up the equipment. Thulin, Cirulli, and I developed a plan, and the equipment arrived in Gainesville in January 2012.

Roger Schwab is the owner of Main Line Health & Fitness in Philadelphia. Schwab is an experienced practitioner of strength training and bodybuilding, and I encouraged him to import a line of X-Force into his facility for testing and application. He agreed, and his equipment arrived in Philadelphia also in January 2012.

Cirulli, Thulin, Schwab, and others that youll meet throughout this book worked with me tirelessly on the Gainesville project. The book you are holding in your hands and the program within it are the end result.

I have been a fitness researcher and writer for all my adult life. For 20 years, I was director of research at Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries, maker of the famed Nautilus fitness machines. I have a doctorate in exercise science and completed postdoctoral work in food and nutrition. I lecture on strength training and nutrition throughout the world and have been published in more than 75 research journals and magazines and have written 48 books. The Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports elected me as one of the top 10 Healthy American Fitness Leaders in the United States. I list my professional background not to show off but to give you the confidence that the advice and techniques I recommend for you in this book are safe, effective, and based on both scientific research and real-world examples from my experiment at Gainesville Health & Fitness.

In this manual, youll meet 35 of my most successful trainees through dramatic before-and-after photos and measurements. Before you read any further, I want you to thumb through the book and take a close look at those body-transformation photos. Its likely that someone in these pages has a body shape that is similar if not identical to yours. Just like that person, you can lose fat, build muscle, and reshape your body quickly...usually in 50 to 100 days and sometimes in as few as 30 days. Best of all, youll start feeling and seeing it working within the first week. Thats important, because the positive feedback that this program is designed to deliver quickly and often will help you stick to this new way of healthy living for life.