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Welcome to newportfit4life.com Blog! My name is Phil Gephart and I am a Certified Personal Trainer in beautiful Newport Beach, Orange County, California. If you’re looking to get healthy and fit, you’re in the right place. I bring over ten years of experience in athletics and personal training to show you how to lose weight and get fit!
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 3d ago

Get Enough Sleep To Get LEAN!

Summer is here and many of you want to get lean bodies that look amazing in your swimsuit. Here is a tip I learned from a Charles Poliquin blog post: Get eight hours of sleep and try to go to bed at the same time every night. This will regulate your hormones and neurotransmitters influencing [...]
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 2W ago

Detox Done Right!

Train hard and make sure you do some serious sweating to detoxify the body and prevent disease. Research shows that people who perform regular intense exercise detoxify more heavy metals through a variety of mechanisms than the less active population, and sweating is one of the best ways to regular
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 3M ago

The Cardio Myth Exposed!

The Cardio Myth EXPOSED! So…this thing called cardio is a MUST. Not necessarily long, slow cardio like the images the word depicts when you hear “cardio” though. But WHY should you not do this? That is the question. Haven’t we in America been duped into believing that jogging for 5 miles several tim
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 3M ago

“Understanding our Food System…From an 11 Year Old”

This kid get it. From the recent “Ted X” conference, Birke Baehr delivers a powerful 5 minute presentation uncovering some of the horrors in our food system. Take note to his best line regarding the price of organic food, “It seems to me that we can either pay the farmer or the hospital”. Check it [
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 4M ago

The Challenge For A Healthy 2012…And Beyond!

Science has taught us that it is not fat that causes us to get fatter. It is carbohydrates. Insulin is the hormone that causes fat to stay on our body. I wish all personal trainers taught this belief. They do not. Many health professionals (personal trainers, strength coaches, nutritionists, dietici
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 11M ago

What is the role of the government in educating its citizens about an unhealthy diet?

The government and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created the Healthy People 2010, which is “a broad collaborative effort that includes scientific expertise from the government, academia, and the private sector” creating a set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives f
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 11M ago

Reawaken Your Rhomboids!

Many many many people have over-developed front deltoid muscles because it is almost always recruited in the majority of chest, triceps, and back exercises. And an over-developed front delt can result in chronic rotator cuff pain and that all-too-common protracted (forward extension), “hunched-over”
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 12M ago

Healthy Fat loss – The Scientific Way

So for the month of June I am choosing to only eat meats, eggs, above ground vegetables, olive oil, coconut oil & avocado. Organic is preferred and HIGHLY recommended. Veggies served raw are also HIGHLY recommended (although I'm sure I'll cook some as well). The results you will experience will be g
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 1Y ago

A Quick Thought About Drinking Water

The magic potion for losing that excess body fat is all around you! If you eat right and exercise at the intensity, frequency and duration proper for you, but still can't get rid of a little paunch here and there, you're probably just not drinking enough water. Also as a general rule of thumb you NE
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NewportFit4Life Blog · 1Y ago

A Really Cool (and difficult) Turkish Get-Up

I thought it would be fun to show all of you a “show-off” move I did a few months back while training with some other personal trainer friends from my old gym. Showing off happens sometimes when we get together and lift weights…and since I LOVE turkish get-ups I figured I’d show them a really [...]
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